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Huffington Post Slams Obama’s Jobs Promises With ‘Deja Vu’ Video Montage

Aug. 5, 2011 2:43pm Jonathon M. Seidl

You’re not misreading the headline. Yes, the Huffington Post really did put together a video montage showing how often Barack Obama has promised to focus on jobs, and how that promise has gone unfulfilled.

Here’s how author Ben Craw puts it:

In his very first address to Congress in February of 2009, President Barack Obama promised an agenda focused on job creation. Following every major subsequent event of his presidency — be it a concerted campaign like health care reform or, much more frequently, an unwelcome crisis — he has been forced to reiterate that he will now focus on jobs. Just how many times has he made the jobs promise?

Wow.

Now here’s the telling video:

But not only did Craw post the video, he also linked to another HuffPo article that snuffed out any excitement over today’s supposedly “good” job numbers:

In July, 117,000 jobs were added in the economy, and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.1 percent from 9.2 percent. But the drop in the unemployment rate should not be celebrated as a signal of strong growth: It came almost entirely from Americans dropping out of the labor force.

As more Americans simply give up looking for work, the employment-to-population ratio fell to 63.9 percent in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest snapshot of the U.S. labor market, a new low.

“We’re continuing to see very weak growth,” said Dean Baker, economist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “117,000 new jobs is a really pathetic growth rate. It might be fine if we were at 4.5 percent unemployment, but in the context of 9.1 percent, it’s going to take us more than 20 years to get us back to where we used to be.”

Wow again.

How bad are things for Obama, you ask? Read this article again.

UPDATE:

As some readers have pointed out, earlier today we posted a story on how Press Secretary Jay Carney noted yesterday — and it may have been a first — that the White House doesn’t create jobs. It’s quite different from what you hear the administration trumpeting in the HuffPo montage. You can view that Carney video here.

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mork from ork
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:03pm
People didn’t give up looking for work….They ran out of their tiers of unemployment insurance. They don’t have to check in anymore so they don’t count on the unemployed numbers. They say they gave up looking instead of saying they ran out of insurace is a joke to make them feel better about the economy…….Another misconception I keep hearing and laugh every time is that there is only 99 weeks for people. I know someone who has been on it for 3 years because their benefit year would keep going back and forth. ex: 1rst benefit year then they would slid onto their second year. then their 1rst teir then their 1rst teir on their second year. all the way through 4 teirs. then their EB…..Yup Hannity didn’t even get that one.

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- Jaycen
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:23pm
  I’m just glad the Liberals are telling the truth for a change.
  
  It’s wierd. I’m really not sure what to do with it. Maybe this is what actual shock feels like.
  
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- TheWholeTruth
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:24pm
  117,000 jobs ‘created?’ hmmmm do you THINK it might be because school is starting and teachers are coming off the unemployment roles and going back to their US government Dept. of Education funded jobs????
  
  K.. just askin’
  
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- Restored One
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:37pm
  MORK- I know someone who had the same situation. The EDD would keep submitting the paperwork for the extensions, she never had to do anything. They only required that job search information be provided for 12-16 weeks out of the 99. Once you are on on the extensions, you never have to submit anything. Now after 3 years the skills are gone, the confidence is gone and she is totally unemployable. Do I blame her, yes, but the States and US Govt are to blame too. And now I hear that when Congress comes back in Sept they will discuss more extensions for unemployment. This is nothing but employment killing tactics.
  
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- WD0331
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:37pm
  Go read the replies to the article over at Huffpo. The Libs still blame Bush! It’s really sad actually.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:39pm
  do you think the federal government pays your school teachers? you need to step away from your computer numbskull, before you hurt yourself.
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:45pm
  Jaycen the liberals haven’t given up on Obama. They are paint themselves away from Obamagiving the illusion of not totally 100% behind him. They know that liberals will vote for Obama reguardless now to get more independents they have to give the preception of not supporting Obama.
  It’s politics is a game of chess not checkers.
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:51pm
  Jaycen, the real shock should come from the realization that the cartoon of a world view you hold may not be entirely correct.
  
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- Mtroom
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:53pm
  WDO…well, it was Bush…he personally came to my small town and fired everyone, closed down the plants with his regulations, and took all our money and gave it to those evil jet owning, oil producing, billionaire buddies of his
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:57pm
  Well, well, well. It looks like even the drooling sycophant Obamabot Liberal whack jobs are starting to realize what a cancerous, lying sack of monkey shiite Obama is.
  
  About frakkin’ time.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:57pm
  Love it when PO-HUFF eats CROW!!!
  
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- HKS
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:12pm
  I must say he has worked as hard on jobs as anyone I have ever seen. Every day, night and day, even weekends he is pleading for his job. I am quite frankly sick of looking at his mug on TV telling folks how much he is doing to save his job. So yes he is working endlessly to save his job, screw yours.
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:14pm
  Guess my previous comment didn’t make the cut. I should drink more TEA!
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:17pm
  I’m pretty sure it is shocking, as it is to HKS, to learn how much the president is on tv considering that they’ve never paid attention until the guy was black.
  
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- John 1776
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:21pm
  Huff-Po could help the economy by installing a server that can actually distribute their videos at a reasonable enough bandwidth where we could actually see them!
  
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- Seasoldier
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:41pm
  The Socialist Culture of Death President still doesn’t get it. The federal government does not “create jobs”. People operating in a free economy create jobs. Ronald Reagan was correct when he said, “Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem.” We are all at fault for electing this man. Elections have consequences and, sometimes, those consequences are deadly for our economy, our Constitution, the unborn, the elderly, the infirm and national future. Work to remove the Socialist Culture of Death Elitists from every local, state and federal position of political, judicial and bureaucratic authority.
  
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- Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:51pm
  Obama is a socialist muslim. Praise Jesus.
- Al J Zira
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:59pm
  @TheWholeTruth: No I don’t think the market reacts that quickly. When you see a drop in unemployment numbers in November that will be the teachers coming off the government dole. Who knows what these numbers represent. I don;t think there’s an honest number of unemployed out there that’s reliable. Numbers lie and liars play with numbers.
  
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- getalong
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 11:30pm
  On top of the jobless situation, the government is imposing 600 additional regulations on businesses that go in affect this year. Now that is what I call helping out businesses. Progressives = EPA = death to more businesses. George Soro’s must be smiling today after the stock markets crashed.
  
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- vdh fan
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 1:37am
  hey Clive get YOUR facts straight! http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/10/0726/2106/
  
  “New Jersey’s public schools were able to save or create nearly 16,000 jobs with federal stimulus funds last year, according to new state data. ”
  
  So yes the feds do pay for teachers-
  
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- cherigc
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 8:16am
  Actually Clive the Stimulus money that was given to the states went toward education and teachers…NICE TRY!!!!!
  
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- HairOfTheDogSob
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 3:21pm
  Hopocrite huff..nuf said
  
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4kidsandacat
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:02pm
Ooh! They are eating their own!!! What’s next, apocalypse?

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:31pm
  Crissie Mathews will be calling HuffPo, Terrorist.
  Pig Ed Shultz will be calling them Slu**…..
  Funny, they are beginnig to emplode….
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:02pm
  I thought Tea Partiers were the canabals?
  
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- tifosa
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 2:21am
  and this a.m. on HuffPo: “S&P DOWNGRADE: TEA PARTY WINS BATTLE, LOSES WAR The Republicans, led by the Tea Party, have finally succeeded in another step in their quest to wreck the US economy, oddly believing that it will help them win the 2012 election…”
  All fair and balanced-like :^)
  
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Hiswill
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:01pm
Watching this video makes me feel like I’m stuck in a time loop. Maybe if Obama didn’t focus on jobs there would be more of them. WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

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- hauschild
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:12pm
  Three words: Drill, baby, drill.
  
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- Professional Infidel
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:24pm
  yea like his sports pics, and the olympic thing. typical Jive from a important Hawaiian Zebra!
  
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- Right_on_the_Left_Coast
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:36pm
  *with sarcasm* Didn’t you hear, they’ve been waiting to raise taxes. Because once they finally take more money out of the private sector, then they’ll be able to spend that money on a stimulus that will jump start the private sector and make it grow!
  
  If you take money away and then send it back, the private sector grows and produces jobs like magic! It’s amazing all the magic things that liberals can do. They defy logic and reason every day without even breaking a sweat!
  
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- Countrygirl1362
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:39pm
  Oh, but he is focused on jobs and the economy, focused on destroying both.
  
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- Captain Crunch
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 1:06am
  He has had laser like focus on jobs. Job destruction. That has always been his plan. To destroy America by destroying the job creators. It’s time to IMPEACH this President even if it’s for nothing more than INCOMPETENCE. Shouldn’t be too difficult to prove. Look at the people he surrounds himself with. Everyone of them is a socialists/communist sympathizer. Everyone of them!
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 8:24am
  Yep! He focused on jobs alright. This video proves it’s all he talked about. One big problem: IT’S ALL
  he talked about. He did nothing but spend billions on a stimulus that had no effect on jobs except a few government workers. All Obama cares about are government workers and the Unions, to hell with the American people and our needs. Fire his backside next year, we’ve had enough pretty talk from him. It isn’t even pretty anymore. He needs to focus, but can’t see past his own nose.
  
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danenut6
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:01pm
Never in my life . . . might want to look for other signs of the end of the world. . .

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MartinLutherBling
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:01pm
hoe!

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13th Imam
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:01pm
Y’all member, Barry has a lazer like focus on JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. Shovel Ready JOBS, FAA JOBS, CZAR JOBS< Lemonade Stand Permit and Anti-Salmonella Safety Enforcement Officers, Carbon Dioxide Exhilation Enforcement Officers, Excessive Caloric Intake Enforcement Officers.

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- 4kidsandacat
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:11pm
  And the Amish raw milk busters!
  
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on August 6, 2011 at 7:17am
  and the road-n-roof painter jobs (paint em white to solve global schmobal warming
  
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Clive
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:00pm
it would be nice to see some criticism of palin, bachmann, etc on this site once in a while. even the huffpo shows some objectivity once in a while.

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:16pm
  Then go there, but they don’t allow opposing opinions for long
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:25pm
  Just for chuckles, I’ll bite
  
  I don’t see enough of Sarah Palin. One of the most attractive Women I have seen. An honest woman. The only reason I could hold my nose last Pres. election and vote for Bob Dole Jr. Ms. Bachman is also attractive both visually and politicly, honest and straight to the point. Unlike Shelia J Lee, Hillary, Botox Pelousy and that paragon of Womanhood, Helen Thomas
  
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- Hiswill
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:27pm
  They aren’t the president of the United States. He promises jobs that never materialize, spends billions to CREATE jobs with no results. You find negative press on Palin and Bachmann and post it yourself.
  
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- Professional Infidel
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:30pm
  Criticism about what?? they look pretty good next to the likes of Pelosi, schultz, Hillary, on and on. you can see through there ears also.
  
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I.Gaspar
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:00pm
Could it actually be starting???
Are we going to see a lot more hillary Clinton soon?
Is the media honeymoon starting to sour??
Ahhhh…change we can hope for.
Let them eat each other alive.

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- godlovinmom
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:35pm
  don’t you remember, hillary’s retiring after this gig!
  
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- Restored One
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:40pm
  There has been talk about a possible Democrat primary against Obama. Many think that this would guarantee Obama another term. I heard it might be Kucinch.
  
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- I.Gaspar
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:30pm
  RESTORED ONE:
  We may be heading into an Alice and Wonderland campaign if that happens…curious and curiouser?
  It makes sense; he has f’d up everything so bad that they may be sensing defeat already.
  Let’s hope.
  
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teapartyconservatism
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:00pm
Obama and his ilk are sabotaging the economy by interfering with the private sector, raising taxes, and incurring unprecedented insurmountable debt.

Obama must be removed and the damage undone pursuant to Article 2, Section 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible…”

Exempting a citizen from being a natural born citizen, proves they’re not equal. Natural born exceeds minimal citizenship requirements at the time, of birth in the U.S. of a U.S. citizen father, leaving just one possibility, which was later confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court, Minor v. Happersett, 1874. “The Court held that Minor was a member of the “class” of persons who were natural born citizens. They defined this class as those born in the US to “parents” (plural) who were citizens.” This is “binding precedent as to the Constitutional definition of a natural born citizen.”[1]

Obama’s Kenyan father precluded his being a natural born citizen!

Demand your elected officials remove Obama now, in accordance with their sworn oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

1. Leo Donofrio, JD., “Minor v. Happersett Is Binding Precedent…,” http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/minor-v-happersett-is-binding-precedent-as-to-the-constitutional-definition-of-a-natural-born-citizen/ (6/24/2011).

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- flagbearer
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 5:53pm
  I know I shouldn’t, but I keep wanting Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Geitner to all go out in shame. Obama does not deserve to go down in the history books as anything but a Chicago thug. He is the most embarassing president we’ve ever had, as well as an illegal one.
  
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mork from ork
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:57pm
It isn’t people giving up looking for work. It’s people not having to check in for unemployment claims who ran out of their tiers and extended benefits. They say these are the people that gave up to some how blame them for not counting towards the unemployment numbers.

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southernORcobra
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:57pm
they probably know he is toast in 2012 and are tryign to look like the good guys

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Zer0
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:57pm
Finally!!!

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- AvengerK
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 4:12pm
  The revolution is starting to eat it’s young?
  
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I_Hate_Libs
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:56pm
We told you people Obama had no experience and couldn’t run a lemonade stand but you didn’t believe us. Now look were falling apart and he is out gathering money for his soon to be failed relection.

The horror of the Democrat mind.

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- Clive
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:09pm
  1. money wins elections. in the last 3 months, obama collected $86 million. all the republican candidates have collected $35 million COMBINED. Thats pretty sad.
  
  2. the general public isn’t exactly thrilled with the GOP pool of candidates.
  
  i’m with you… but dont count your eggs yet, it will be a battle to beat him.
  
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- gotta light
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:18pm
  GOD I LOVE WHEN “THEY” EAT THERE OWN!!! ROTFLOL OVER AND OVER AND OVER
  
  Where’s the jobs?
  Why is da man keeping me down?
  I don’t want a government check!!!!
  I wanna job damn it!
  Just as long as it aint no government job!
  Government Jobs are, have been, and will ALWAYS been the purist form of WELFARE!
  Overpaid and underworked, the longer you been there, the more you make, the less you do!
  
  Honestly I just want a honest days pay for a honest days work!
  Pay me $12 bucks an hour and give me 40 hours a week and in return I will work as if I made $18 an hour and give you 42 hrs worth of work & effort!
  
  I KNOW THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE LIKE ME… Be strong and don’t give up!
  
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pap pap
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:56pm
Maybe there will be a primary with Obama vs Rosanne Barr

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smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:55pm
The Huffington Post much like most supposed media outlet sold any crediability it had long ago….

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jmbogstad
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:55pm
Wow, no wonder Obama can’t create any jobs, he never gets any rest. To him the definition of rest, must be, acting like the President, and his definition of working, is playing golf.

Check out this job creator instead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhDPHb2RXI4

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:00pm
  It’s about time that some of the Left have decided to apply what we used to call “critical analysis”.
  
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NOBALONEY
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:55pm
HHHHEEERRRRREEESSSSS Hillary!

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- NOBALONEY
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:56pm
  one progressive for another
  
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- OUTRIDER WRITER
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 3:06pm
  @NoBaloney
  You got that right.
  
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atechgeek
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:55pm
Treason !!!!

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smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:54pm
The rats are jumping ship.

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pap pap
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:54pm
Even the screaming libs have had enough of his BS.

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I SPY
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:54pm
This is clearly, without question, the worst president that this country has ever been cursed with.

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michaelmoron
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:53pm
WOW !!! huffpo slams Obama ??? there is hope !!!

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vennoye
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:52pm
As many pivots as he has made to JOBS, that explains why he looks like he is going in circles…going nowhere!!

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IAMMADDOG
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:51pm
Uh oh…..cats and dogs are starting to live together.

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jtm
Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:51pm
I think hell just froze over.

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- Whostolemypig
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:54pm
  The rapture happened on May 21, this is hell.
  
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- 8jrts
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:55pm
  I did feel a chill go up my spine!!
  
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- Zer0
  Posted on August 5, 2011 at 2:58pm
  @WhoStoleMyPig,
  
  LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!!
  
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