Via Politico:
“We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.”’”
Everyone knows after four years just what a “bullshitter” Obama is:
“As president, Barack Obama will close the detention facility at Guantanamo.”…Broken promise
“He will reject the Military Commissions Act, which allowed the U.S. to circumvent Geneva Conventions in the handling of detainees. He will develop a fair and thorough process based on the Uniform Code of Military Justice to distinguish between those prisoners who should be prosecuted for their crimes, those who can't be prosecuted but who can be held in a manner consistent with the laws of war, and those who should be released or transferred to their home countries.”…Broken promise
“Will use the power of the presidency to fight for an independent watchdog agency to oversee the investigation of congressional ethics violations so that the public can be assured that ethics complaints will be investigated.”…Broken promise
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”…Broken promi
se
Obama in 1996: Answers a questionnaire and says he supports banning assault weapons, handguns.
Obama in 2004: My religious faith dictates marriage is between a man and a woman, gay marriage is not a civil right.
Obama in 2004: We need to end the Cuba embargo.
Obama in 2007: The Bush Administration “hides behind executive privilege.” He later asserted it on Fast and Furious.
Obama in 2008: I oppose an individual mandate.
There's page after page of those broken promises from a true bullshitter here and here.
Last night on Jay Leno he bullshitted his way through an interview with Jay telling the audience that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms..they do not and he was told they do not before. But still, he continues to bullshit.
The ultimate bullshit recently has been his lies regarding the Libya attack. They tried to sell some bullshit that our embassy was attacked because of a freakin video. Bullshit.
The effort they expended to repeat the lie is breathtaking. They lied at a memorial for the four dead Americans, in front of the flag-draped coffins. They lied at the United Nations, and on the Sunday morning talk shows, and, yes, on the David Letterman show as well.
Only when one of their subordinates refused to perjure himself before Congress did they begin to change their story, eventually excluding the video entirely.
But they still could not bring themselves to tell the truth. Obama claimed he had called the attack an act of terror all along, pointing to a statement in the Rose Garden on Sep. 12, but his reference to “acts of terror” did not refer specifically to Benghazi.
The new revelation that he had, in fact, described Benghazi as a premeditated attack that same day in an unaired CBS interview only makes the subsequent lies seem much worse.
Yes Mr. President, we all know a bullshitter when we see him and that man is you.
See author page
But then this happened:
The knowledge, experience, integrity, responsibility, fortitude, and honesty that Barack Hussein Obama possesses in his entire body can fit, believe it or not, into the period at the end of this sentence, with lots of empty space.
Bullshitting is an essential characteristic of the Democrat mindset. Their lack of analytics force them to compensate. They spin results to support theory. As opposed to judging results to weigh theory.
Take for example entitlement spending bankrupting Western Nations. American Dems will sell our bankruptcy as a result of Bush tax cuts and his two wars. While you can finger Greece and say they didn’t suffer Bush tax cuts or his two wars and are still bankrupt – Dems will reply, what’s your point that’s Greece. Or similarly, they will agree a tax on cigarettes is a discentive to smoking while maintaining a tax on the rich is not a discentive to job creation (because you know jobs just pop-up out of nowhere).
Bullshitting allows them to sleep at night. Admittedly, facts can get quit depressing.
Obama came up with a new pile today.
He says he’s going to open up 20 million acres of the Gulf off Texas for oil leases….AFTER the election.
This way, should he win, it can be simply another broken promise!
At the base of 0-blama BS campaign strategy is the effort to distract, distort, deceive, and divert. At the base of Mitt’s strategy is the need to borrow a page from the Democrats when Slick won. “It’s the economy stupid”!!
So……..what else is new?
http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/OBUMMER/93.jpg
GENERAL DEMPSEY IS A DEMOCRAT, he fiercly defended PRESIDENT OBAMA WITH FOX PAN.
HE EVEN CUTTING AND PUSHING,
SO NOW WE KNOW HE WAS WITH PANETTA IN THE DECISION TO NOT GO TO BENGHASI,
WHEN THE READYNESS WAS WAITING FOR THE ORDERS,
what’s the problems, don’t they have drill of scenario to be acting on the second if an emergency happen,
don’t the PRESIDENT’S JOB IS TO BE AVAILABLE NIGHT AND DAY,
TO A CRISIS, SO TO MAKE THE DECISION THEY ARE WAITING FOR?
DON’T THE PENTAGON HAVE A RIGHT OF DECISION PASSING THE PRESIDENT WHICH IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE SECOND, NEEDED?
SO PANETTA AND WHESLY DECIDED ON THEIR OWN?
NO WAY
THEY HAD OBAMA RESISTING BECAUSE HE WAS WORRY TO OFFEND THE LIBYA, NEVERMIND THE AMERICANS,
NEVERMIND THE MILITARY READYNESS,
OBAMA HAD SWEAR TO THE MUSLIMS HE WOULD BE ON THEIR SIDES IF SOMETING GAVE HIM A CHOICE,
HE MADE HIS UNAMERICAN CHOICE,
TOLERANCE ZERO, FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE UNDER HIS SPELL WHO NEED DEBRIEFING FOR YEARS TO COME,
GET HIM OUT
What an utter and complete contrast with Romney!
After 10,000 people heard Mitt Romney in Colorado he went back stage.
Guess what he did?
I’ll let an eyewitness tell it:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/10/25/white-house-insider-mitt-romneys-quiet-prayer-amidst-the-sound-of-thunder/
Nan G
that is nice of you to show it here at FLOPPING ACES,
IT REALLY HIT THE SOUL, can you believe that AMERICA IS BETWEEN TWO OPPOSITE FORCES,
ONE IS ANTI GOD, AND THE OTHER IS GOD,
MITT ROMNEY WILL WIN, HE IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE
BYE
@Nan G: Thanks for sharing this. It speaks volumes loud and clear and softly and reverently at the same time!!
Nan Believe me The Lord ain’t rooting for Romney anymore than he is the Detoit Tigers.
Now the Fighting Irish over the Sooners???
@Richard Wheeler:
Richard, you have a point.
A prophet once was inspired to write that, ”The nations are like drops in an empty bucket to God.
Like dust on the scales they have been counted as mere nothing.”
However the prayers of a righteous man carry much weight and all Romney asked from God was strength and worthiness.
Nan G
you’re unbeatable, this is a bullseye
Colin Powell apparently knows a bullshitter when he sees one:
BOOM! General Powell lands one dead on target–even though it is constantly moving.
GREG
I think COLIN POWER IS A BULSHITER HIMSELF,
HE WAS NOT VERY WELL LIKE BY PRESIDENT BUSH, AND WAS PUT ON HIS PLACE MANY TIMES BY CHENEY FOR HIS VIEWS,
NOW AS A REPUBLICAN HI SWING TO OBAMA WITH THAT RHETORIC TO JUSTIFY HIS TURNABOUT,
TO THE PARTY, HE REALLY DON’T LOOK TOO DIGNIFIED NOW AS A LOWER THAN A RHINO LOOK,
NO PRESTIGE GAINED, AND LOST OF CREDIBILITY FROM HIS PEERS ON BOTH SIDES,
HE SOLD HIMSELF AND LOOK LIKE THE OTHERS ON THAT SIDE, WHO WON’T TRUST HIM EVER.
Romney is a front, exactly as Bush was a front. Colin Powell sees that. The General is a very smart man and a true blue patriot. At this point in his career, he has no particular concern about his own personal advancement. The words of people like that are worth thinking about very carefully.
@Greg: Greg Greg Greg, are you really that dense?? Powell endorsed 0-blama last time so no surprise this time. News flash, Powell is black and supposedly so is 0-blama. Powell has proven his worthlessness to the Republican Party years ago and he is just proving it again. You can make a big deal about it if you want but it’s just an affirmation of your ignorance.
GREG
he felt he had to justify his jump on the OBAMA SIDE, BY DESCRIBING HIS negative VIEW OF MITT ROMNEY,
THAT DID IT FOR HIS CREDIBILITY AND RESPECT OF ONE CANDIDATE FROM HIS SUPPOSE REPUBLICAN ALLEGIANCE STILL ON AS HE MENTION HIS OWN WORDS,
I say that was dirty from his stature he just lost it.
Isn’t that rich….He now has another name – The “Projector” in Chief…
Pure Liberalism…attack the man…attack – attack – attack!!
ESPECIALLY when you have A PISS POOR FAILED RECORD to run on….
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012!!!!
[ I STILL have my empty chair on my front lawn…]
Nan Right Romney said “Lord IF this is YOUR will”
Romney can stand at ease.
@Richard Wheeler:
Based on what Nan related, if accurate, I read that as a man asking God for the strength to be worthy of the responsibility of being President. I didn’t read anything like you suggest, that Romney prayed to God to make him President.
If you believe that is what Romney was asking God for, what you suggested, then you aren’t nearly as ‘on the fence’ as you’ve intimated before, and your prejudice and bias is showing.
For the record, If I heard the same about Obama, in a similar situation, I’d hope that I would think similarly(as I do about Romney). Maybe I wouldn’t, though, as I am heavily biased against Obama and that would color my viewpoint on him, to some degree.
@Greg:
I notice that you didn’t actually address the message within the posting.
Do you think that what Curt listed, about Obama, were promises that weren’t broken?
Or is it because you don’t care that those promises were broken?
J.G. He said “If this is your will” I suggest that’s presumptious. I did not say he was asking God to make him POTUS.
I said in coming days I will be listening to Mitt VERY closely and make a decision election eve.
@johngalt, #22:
From A scorecard on President Obama’s campaign promises, as compiled by PolitiFacts:
I’ll interpret that as a 26 percent outright failure rate, consisting of 16 percent broken and 10 percent stalled. Considering there have been 508 campaign promises tracked, I consider what has been accomplished to be a fairly reasonable record over the course of a 4-year term—particularly considering that efforts during 2 of those years have been frustrated by one of the most openly hostile House majorities in living memory.
I’m willing to give him another 4 years to have at the remaining balance.
The broken promise about not raising taxes on anyone with earnings below $250,000 doesn’t especially bother me, given what is being considered as having broken it: An increase in cigarette taxes to help pay for healthcare for needy children, and a tax on tanning parlors, which may reduce future skin cancer costs and also be partially responsible for turning Jon Boehner back to a far more normal color. (Although it’s a shame this has happened before Halloween.)
@Greg: Your not serious are you?? It’s the economy stupid and your black messiah has failed. Is unemployment at or below 6% or our deficit cut in half?? Reality is that our national debt is nearly equal to our GDP vs cut in half and unemployment over 8%. This is a failed President on the what matters most to America. I don’t expect you to tell me 0-blama’s excuse for blaming a video with less evidence than terrorism. You have never proven your point and all you do is place blame elsewhere than on our failed President.
@Greg:
Who cares what Colin Powell thinks? Perhaps he should have taken the opportunity, when given, to ask Obama why four Americans died in Benghazi while at least much of the Administration staff watched. And Powel had plenty of opportunity to ask that question on September 14, 2012.
Powel lost all honor when he allowed his boss to be accused of things he knew his boss was not guilty of. Basically, Powell’s endorsement of Obama is meaningless and only important to other dishonorable people, like you, Greg. Powell is just like Obama; the only thing either one cares about is themselves.
Common Sense From your other posts I know you to be a fair person but Is it racist to continually refer to BHO as “your black messiah”?
Exit Question Was Jesus ( the true Messiah) dark skinned and dark eyed?
Powell is not respected by the military. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time and likely of the right race to get promoted above others. It was his decision and advice to POTUS that made the 2003 trip to Iraq necessary.
@Randy, #28:
Actually, I suspect that a significant portion of the military respects the judgement of a retired 4-star general with over 35 years of active military service, 3 wars, and combat infantry experience to his credit a hell of a lot more than that of a multi-millionaire financial speculator, who avoided Vietnam service first with a college deferment, and then by exposing himself for 2 years to the perils of missionary work in Paris, France.
Of course, I could be wrong.
@Randy:
Back when a POTUS wasn’t responsible for anything that went wrong on his watch you mean? Those were the days.
So
classycrassy. I wonder if President Obama would agree that this kid has “good instincts” for supporting Romney.Well, at least he can be proud that Honey Boo Boo’s got his back.
@Greg: No Greg, The enlisted and junior officers see when the system promotes people with out merit. It is the actions they respect, not the rank. Only those seeped in lefty idealism think like you do. The military folks cut through the BS and get to the real person.
@Richard Wheeler:
And what, precisely, do you mean by that statement?
What, precisely, is presumptuous about it?
I suggest that you’re on the edge of a precipice with this line of discussion.
@Richard Wheeler:
I pray to God when I need strength. I pray that he gives me the strength to get through the trying times. I don’t ask him to fix the challenge for me. A God fearing man in the WH sounds good to me,
@Richard Wheeler:
Rich, ‘presumptuous’ would be if he started by assuming that it is God’s will. He did not, since he started using “If”.
As I see it, you are simply reading something into his words that are not there. Reading something into it by your predisposed bias.
But, by all means, continue on with this train of thought. You are showing your knickers under your dress by doing so.
@Greg:
Greg, Obama blew away one of his biggest “promises” from the get-go by championing nearly $900 Billion in stimulus funds. Cut the deficit in half? He tripled it right from the start. And this, at a time when the rest of the world concerned itself with their own massive deficits and debts.
And when the Republicans wanted to help him towards keeping that promise? By actually, you know, discussing the debt and deficits and what can/should be done to curtail government spending, what did Obama do? Demonize the right for wanting to “push granny off the cliff”, and continue pushing TRILLION dollar deficits, even as credit ratings agencies discussed, and some of them did, downgrade the US’s own credit rating.
If that is merely “breaking a promise”, I’d hate to see Obama double down on that one. It’s quite likely our deficits will hit the $2 Trillion mark, and all credit agencies will downgrade the ratings for the US. Not to mention the hole he’s actively digging for the country, in trying to climb out of a recession/stagnation that has gone on far too long. And much of it due to his insistence on applying “fairness” to the country.
No, it’s time for him and his kind to go. Far away. They’ve done too much damage, economically, in Obama’s four short years.
132 (38%) Promise Kept
77 (15%) Compromise
86 (17%) Promise Broken
45 (9%) Stalled
106 (21%) In the Works
2 (0%) Not yet rated
http://www.politifact.com/
I would place this record against any presidential record in recent history—especially with such an antagonistic congress.
@Greg:
And about Obama’s most famous “kept promise”, Obamacare. Half the country didn’t want it in the first place. And more wanted longer discussions and talks about what should be done about healthcare.
Obamacare is nothing more than the liberal/progressives within the democrat party inflicting their viewpoints and opinions on the rest of the country. And they did so by coercion and badgering to get the required votes in order for it to pass. And when someone said “Whoa! Wait a minute here. Let’s actually, you know, discuss this thing before we pawn it off on the public”, it was the queen liberal/progressive herself who suggested that it must be passed BEFORE we, the people, could find out what was in the bill. Opposition hit a high mark after that one, and yet, they rammed it down our throats anyways.
And we found out about it, didn’t we? We found out that Obama and his congress tried pulling a fast one, regarding Medicare funding, in order to inflate the numbers in their favor. We found out that Obama’s promise, a different one, about who he was going to raise taxes on, was pure BS. We found out that we would be paying for it, up front, for years before the entirety of the law was put into effect. We found out that if you were politically connected to whoever is in power, you could parlay that association into a complete waiver from any of the law’s regulations. We found out that women’s “freebies” are more important than in upholding the 1st Amendment. We found out that Congress exempted themselves, and other top government officials, from ever having to participate in the law, suggesting they would rather fiddle while the country burns, economically, to the ground. We found out that lies and deceit were used to influence public opinion in favor of the law, and even with that, the law itself enjoyed no favorable polling. We found out that Obama lied about the individual mandate, only suggesting it was a “tax” in court in order to secure the “win”. We found out that the suggested numbers of employers who would drop employee coverage was not even close to the actual numbers of those who most likely will, leading to inaccurate numbers being used for the funding of the law. We found out that it is most likely the prelude, if liberal/progressives have their way, of a true “one-payer” system, being purposely written to lead to that inevitability, just so people in the future can actually have healthcare. We found out that the “death panels” Palin and other conservatives talked about, and were mocked and derided for, is true, and that people in the later years of their life will have to negotiate a path of pitfalls in order to obtain the healthcare they want, if they can. We found out that the law allows for unelected government officials to make and write the regulations, in effect, make law, which is entirely inconsistent with the procedures the Constitution lays down for law to be written and passed.
And lately, we are finding out that the law will end up costing the American taxpayers far above and beyond what most of us were told it would cost, leading to ever greater deficits in the future, even well after Obama is gone, if the law is allowed to stand.
No, Greg, thank you very little for supporting Obama on Obamacare. I was better off before Obamacare was passed, and it’s likely that when the full effect of the law is applied, that I will be even worse off than now, when all the changes are considered.
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
Rewriting history? That is willful delusion on your part, Lib1. For the first two years of his presidency, he owned both houses of Congress. And even now, when the House is in GOP control, he owns the Senate.
@Greg:
Colin Powell just endorsed an Administration that chose to stand aside and DO NOTHING as four Americans were murdered in Libya:
That tells me everything I need to know about him and his character.
Aye and J.G. ” If it be YOUR will” suggests the Lord MAY care who wins. “Stand at ease” means I don’t think Romney, or for that matter BHO, need believe their victory MAY be God’s will. Just my opinion.
@Richard Wheeler:
You are really stretching here, Rich, to defend your putdown of Romney.
Plenty of people believe that things happen due to “God’s will”, whether they be good or bad. For someone to suggest, like Romney did, that a win by him in the election might actually be “God’s will” is not presumptuous, except to atheists who don’t believe in God, let alone that God might have a will and input into things happening in the world.
A man asks for strength and worthiness in his endeavour, and you become petty, parsing words and reading something into it that just wasn’t there. I’m sure that Manti Te’o prays to God to give him strength and worthiness before every football game that ND plays. Should I, as a UM fan, disparage him simply because he is “presumptuous” that God would even care about a football game? Or should I be as I am, impressed with a young man who plays well and lives better, who prays to the same God that Romney does?
Pettiness should be beneath you. Somehow it is showing up here in spades.
J.G Im a card carrying Methodist involved in many charitable endeavors,some previously mentioned.
I don’t really care if the POTUS is Hindu, Buddhist,Christian or Atheist.Religion has no bearing on the qualities that define a great leader.Romney can pray all he wants.Personally I don’t care, and have no desire to be informed of it.If that is “pettiness” so be it.
Don’t think The Lord has a favorite in this election. I do hope T’ eo and friends can contain Landry tomorrow. He certainly is a great young man (Mormon)
@Randy, #32:
So Colin Powell, I assume, was eventually promoted to the rank of a 4-star general and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because he is black, just as Barack Obama was elected to be President of the United States because he is black?
Or maybe you’re suggesting there’s some other reason these men were unfairly elevated above the natural stations they’re genuinely suited for, to the highest positions in their respective fields of endeavor.
What, pray tell, would that reason be?
I’m not voting for the white guy. The fact that he’s white has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Oh, btw . . . A chart of the quarterly GDP growth, covering the 4th quarter of 2008 through present. I much prefer the trend under Obama to where we were headed at the end of the prior administration, and would rather not to go back to the policies that put us in that situation.
Romney never saw growth of his own state’s GDP reach 2 percent during the years he was Governor of Massachusetts. For the years from 2002 to 2006, the Massachusetts economy grew 1.49 percent, 1.86 percent, 1.14 percent and 1.43 percent, respectively. Yet he’s slamming Obama today, saying that he would never consider 2 percent growth acceptable.
@Richard Wheeler:
The pettiness is shown by this comment of yours;
I know you are religious, Rich. You didn’t need to clarify that.
As for Te’o, I respect that young man as much as anyone on an opposing team that plays Michigan. Probably more so. And the respect he has for Denard Robinson of UM says alot about him. I’m hoping that the Bears can draft him as a replacement for Urlacher, though I don’t see the Bears being able to draft high enough to get him. Likely a top ten, even top five pick in the draft.
@Greg:
Actually the TREND before Obama was on a much faster recovery trajectory, Greg.
It has flattened out under Obama.
Stalled.
Look at your chart again.
Obama’s earliest policy decisions took effect in the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2009.
OOPS!
@Nan G:
It’s all about perspective, Nan. And Greg’s bias against anything not liberal/progressive leads his viewpoints to predetermined “conclusions”. Or, much the same way the AGW crowd makes a claim and then cherry-picks data, or reads the data incorrectly, in order to “prove” their theory, Greg does the same regarding Obama and economics.
Like when Greg says, “would rather not to go back to the policies that put us in that situation”, you won’t find Greg commenting on the failures of Schumer, Dodd, and Frank in covering up/hiding the problems with Fannie and Freddie. No, you’ll see Greg talk about the tax rates, like they somehow, magically, created the situation that caused the housing bust. Or that they somehow, magically, affected the auto industry negatively, forcing them to continue getting bludgeoned by the UAW. Or that somehow, magically, the tax rates caused the high federal deficits, and not the outrageous spending sprees the government hasn’t cured itself of.
Greg’s perspective is colored by his bias against conservatism, causing him to stretch, twist, and bend the facts in order to show that conservatism is bad, and liberal/progressivism is good. And no amount of actual, objective analysis will deter him from making himself the fool that he is.
@Nan G, #47:
The trend before Obama was a crashing GDP and an unemployment rate that was headed for the stratosphere. The highest single month of job losses–nearly 600,000–came with the final month of the previous administration. We were half-way through Obama’s first year in office before anything like a recovery finally commenced. We haven’t had a single quarter of negative GDP growth or negative job growth since then.
Job loss has been reversed and economy has stabilized and steadily grown stronger on Obama’s watch. I have no desire to change what is clearly working at this point in the recovery.
@Greg:
I think that you have no idea what a ‘trend’ is, Greg. Look at the chart you provided a little longer. Maybe it will come to you.