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Brokaw: ‘Too Soon’ to Write Obama’s Political Obit
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Comments (74)
clockwatcher
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:16amGood riddens to the Black Jimmy Carter. One year and 364 days till we are free of this clueless fool. The Black Jimmy Carter and Chris Mathews can team up and make each other’s legs tingle.
Report Post »luvamerica
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:31pmAwesome. L M A O!!
Report Post »oldsoldier10
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:08amLOL what a question: “If your in the west wing of the White House?” If your in the White House on 2 Nov 2010, praying to Satan, and planning for Sharia law, you should be considering placing your resignation to the United States Citizens in the February / March 2011 time frame.
Report Post »Liberaless in Seattle (I wish)
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:49amomg i really did just laugh out loud here,
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:05amI used to respect Brokaw but his seeming hero worship of Obama has changed my mind. Just another blind liberal now I guess.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:03amYes We Can!
Report Post »sportlock
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:32amHello I’m Tom Brokaw, and here’s your liberal spin
Report Post »Hub City Progressive
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 3:24amEveryone said Reagan was done in November, 1982. As of January of 1983, he had a 37% approval rating, which is significantly less than Obama has right now. But I love your overconfidence! What happened to taking the Senate? How about the fact that the Democrats control the Senate and the White House right now? Guess what that means? The Republicans are going to have to come up with solutions to get Americans out of this economic mess that will jive with the Democratic Senate and the veto pen of one Barack Obama! That’s what that means! So, seriously, people, get over yourselves.
Report Post »Liberaless in Seattle (I wish)
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:19amHUB CITY PROGRESSIVE you look like an over weight union guy and proud picketer that goes on strike often and complains about scabs constantly. your negative outlook makes you a fool. Don’t you see there are three states undecided? All of them are neck in neck. Currently Republicans are minus 4. We can pull some Dem senators to our side and your theory is crap. Keep in mind most of these Dem senators who won tonight because they denounced everything in Obamas agenda. Hopefully they won’t be typical liberal snakes and stick to their campaign promises. If they don’t stick to their word they will be fired next time around. If Obama is as stupid as you say he is he will veto everything, lose the election in 2012 and conservatives will be elected the next 50 years. Tea Party is no longer a joke. It’s a force to be reckoned with. Now hit the picket line you lazy schmuck.
Report Post »Liberaless in Seattle (I wish)
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:22amHUB CITY PROGRESSIVE it’s not 1982 jackass. we live in the NOW, not the past. Obama’s agenda scares the hell out of everyone. He will be gone in 2012
Report Post »justsaying
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:58amAlso, you are not paying attention to the local races. Many states, including mine, have elected Republican governors and replaced many of the Dems in the State seats.
Report Post »Momma M
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:35pmBrokaw has pelosi-disease. Can’t see the truth if it smacked him in the face. Obama is a has-been. He went too far, too fast without OUR consent… Bye-Bye Barry…
Report Post »Silat
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 11:11pm2012 will do it. If not, clinging to our guns and Bibles will!
Report Post »DMD
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:29pmBroke Cow get obamas nut sack off your forehead
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:26pmWhat has Obama done so far?
Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
Launched recovery.gov to track spending from the Recovery Act, providing transparency and allowing the public to report fraud, waste, or abuse
Provided the Department of Veterans Affairs with more than $1.4 billion to improve services to America’s Veterans
Signed the Children’s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, which provides health care to 11 million kids — 4 million of whom were previously uninsured
Repealed Bush era restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
Signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at improving the lives of Americans living with paralysis
Signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop fraud and wasteful spending in the defense procurement and contracting system
Ended Bush administration‘s CIA program of ’enhanced interrogation methods’ by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations
Established Credit Card Bill of Rights, preventing credit card companies from imposing arbitrary rate increases on customers
Health Care Reform Bill, preventing insurance companies from denying insurance because of a pre-existing condition
Health Care Reform Bill, allowing children to remain covered by their parents’ insurance until the age of 26
Tax cuts for up to 3.5 million small businesses to help pay for employee health care coverage
Tax credits for up to 29 million individuals to help pay for health insurance
Expansion of Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level
Require health insurance plans to disclose how much of the premium actually goes to patient care
Added 4.6 billion USD to the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals
Significantly increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act
Lifted restrictions granting Cuban Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send remittances to the island
Eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers
Increased funding for national parks and forests by 10%
Significantly expanded Pell grants, which help low-income students pay for college
Expanded hate crime law in the US to include sexual orientation through the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Provided stimulus funding to boost private sector spaceflight programs
Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans
Signed financial reform law requiring lenders to verify applicants’ credit history, income, and employment status
Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank’s own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers’ interests)
Signed financial reform law allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay
Cut prescription drug cost for medicare recipients by 50%
Provided $12.2 Billion in new funding for Individuals With Disabilities Act
Extended Benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees
Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers
Provided travel expenses to families of fallen soldiers to be on hand when the body arrives at Dover AFB
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:03amOne more for the list….baby killer.
Report Post »HimmlersMasterPlan
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:15amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck&feature=related
watch that cockbag
Report Post »Liberaless in Seattle (I wish)
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:01amMost of these listed are why Americans voted Republican even though they favor Democrats. LOL
Report Post »I’m all about taking care of soldiers, most of the other stuff is garbage. I wonder why Dem candidates wanted nothing to do with Obama in this election.
The Third Archon
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:41amHere is an itemized list corresponding to each of the, factually correct, points about which Mr. Obama his accomplished while and office and the implications of your opposition:
You Hate:
1. Compensation for military families to be transported to receive body of the fallen.
2. Government transparency (i.e. publication of expenditures) in National Recovery Act.
3. Improve service in Veteran’s Affairs
4. Healthcare for children
5. Life-saving medical research.
6. Paralyzed people.
7. A cost-efficient defense budget; one that actually applies free market competitive principles to actually get GOOD instruments of death.
8. Refraining from torture.
9. Consumer credit protections. (The financial industry should be turned into public corporations anyway)
10. Insurance companies doing what they’re paid to do.
11. The health of the youth of this nation.
12. Economic stimulus; tax cuts for God’s sakes; how can you accuse Obama of being anything other than a moderate left-centrist in actual policy outcomes?
13. Healthcare
14. Healthcare for old people
15. Insurance Company transparency
16. PTSD Treatment
17. Women (don’t worry ladies; the Left still loves ya ;) )
18. Treating Cubans like people.
19. Not exploiting those seeking an education (a public good).
20. National parks and forests–maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree here.
21. College. Especially for poor people.
22. Homosexuals.
23. Spaceflight–how can you people not see the importance of Marine orbital landers?
24. Consumer Financial Protection (i.e. rules for banks).
25. Rules making banks be responsible (because they can’t be on their own). Apparently the State has to hold the capitalists hand so the don’t burn themselves.
26. Fiscal responsibility and accountability from banks and financial stability.
27. Democracy in the workplace; the free market.
28. Medication for old and disabled people.
29. Disabled people.
30. Treating homosexuals like people and citizens with rights and junk like that.
31. Compensation for one’s work and protection from deprivation of wages.
Report Post »General K
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:54amTo expand on your list
Started the wheels turning to destroy our health care system
Has taken over the car companies, student loans, mandated unrealistic energy regulations, blocked gulf oil drilling to boost his real boss Soros’s oil endeavors profits, made a feathered nest for his union buddies with giving them only the stimulis money with his infrastructure crap, saddled us with a lot of hidden taxes already before he pushes the card check rape, and will find a way to screw us with the biggest rip off cap and trade farce to make Al Gore, the AFLCIO, SEIU, ond other theives rich beyond belief with our money. I could go on and on but you get the idea.
Yeah he is really great huh?
You Moron! Go post on the Huffington Post *******
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:08amYou’re asking me to accept a ridiculously intricate conspiracy to intentionally defraud on the part of Obama with links of tenuous, at best, logical connection. He’s hardly “destroyed” healthcare considering most provisions don’t even start until 2014 and if you look at the provisions of the bill it reeks of the Romney-care in Massachusetts–insurance exchanges, no public option or abolition of the quite unnecessary intermediary of the insurance company.
Student loans shouldn’t be a matter of private profitability when education is so critical to the power of the State.
It’s not enough to simply say that State ownership of a firm is bad–plenty of State-owned firms do just fine. The TVA, the Post Office (you can send a letter ANYWHERE), public utility companies (governments allow a private owner but confine charter of economic activity to within a certain set of guidelines). In all honesty, I don‘t know why we presuppose the people we don’t elect (heads of private firms) have the public interest at heart more than the people we do elect. The only unrealistic thing about Obama‘s energy plan is that it doesn’t include more infrastructure spending on nuclear power plants. I want to see a generation of Americans employed in building a fleet of modern power plants to give rise to the glory of America’s industrial capacity in the coming century. It is imperative to conserve strategic supplies of petroleum as they form a critical and irreplaceable ingredient in aircraft fuel and (maybe replacable, maybe) tank fuel. Think of how many people we could employ building reactors, plant, laying cable, monitoring and maintaining the reactor, preparing and mining fuel; put all of Detroit’s machinists back to work that way.
Report Post »JesusFreak95
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:12amThird Archon:
Good points, that look good on the surface. Many of your points revolve around Health Care reform. All of these initiatives SOUND great. Who can be against benefit limits, exclusions for preexisting conditions, keeping kids insured until 26, etc.? I mean it all sounds fantastic.
The problem is that Obama and his minions simply MANDATED these things without providing any means of paying for them. Every one of these added benefits COSTS the insurance company money. They are NOT going to give these to you for FREE! Not in a free country anyway. That is the point.
It would be great if Oboma mandated a new car for every American (oh wait, he almost did), but the fact is, if you do not have a means to pay for these “freebies”, you are STEALING from those who provide these goods and services. We NEED TRUE health care reform in the U.S. That is NOT mandating that the insurance companies provide EXPENSIVE new benefits for FREE. It IS finding a way to GENUINELY lower costs. I.e. malpractice reform. More competition. Incentives to not over-use health care benefits. Incentives for people to take better care of themselves. Allowing more competition for pharmaceuticals. Making health care INSURANCE, INSURANCE, not benefits.
What has been put in place is a sham that is intended to DESTROY private insurance companies so that the Govt. can move in later and take control. How would you like it if the Govt. mandated you build my house for free, or fixed my car for free, or provided my Groceries for free? That is what the Govt. has basically told the insurance industry. You would not like it, and you would go bankrupt trying to obey, or you would rebel. That is what B.O. has done for us.
Report Post »benrush
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:35amBarak Obama took over one sixth of the American Economy
“for the good of the people”
Communist Dictator
This is how it always begins
Report Post »benrush
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:41amI notice too, that the dollar is slipping in value. Is Obama presiding over a deliberate decline in the value of the dollar to accomodate the desires of the globalists?
Is Obama acting according to an anti-Colonialist (and anti-American) agenda?
Will our dollar be worth less, now that he permitted yesterday a “stimulus” of 600 billion dollars to be poured into our economy?
I say prepare yourselves for a hyperinflation – get silver and gold – they are going up for a reason. It ain’t because the Federal Reserve monopoly on our money is good for the country.
The last act of a government is to loot the Treasury. Obama aint worried about re-election because he’s about to reboot the system.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:21pmTom Brokaw? Is he still alive? Even his brain?
Report Post »ltb
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:14pmObama who?
Report Post »Soberness&Truth
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:07pmTom Broke-jaw never gets it right, He has a crooked mind, so he can’t think Straight.
Report Post »DHD
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:03pmBrokaw is still around?
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:02pmThats what I thought.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:02pmWishful thinking on Brokaw’s part………….Dream on!
Report Post »SSBN_VET
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:54pmThe obit may not be getting written right now but the headstone has been sent out for engraving. BWWAAHAHAHAHAHA
Report Post »yape
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:52pmRubio/Christe 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:01pmYou should talk to your doctor before you stop taking your meds.
Report Post »dcart888
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:51pmBrokaw There is a reason you are retired. You are clueless go back to Montana Please
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:49pmI wrote him off the day he won the election. Now I’m waiting for his impeachment!
Report Post »luvamerica
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 1:28pmMe too!!!!
Report Post »whybother
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:49pmDear Tom: its OVA! buh-bye Barry….
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:48pmhow wishful, oh to wake up tomorrow and actually read obama’s obit.
Report Post »rtlane28
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:47pmThey just don’t get it…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUuXu9_X_s
Report Post »ltb
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:07pmIt wouldn’t surprise me if Pelosi announces that this election is proof Americans support Democrats, because it shows voters want to reward them with some well deserved time off before they retake Congress in 2012 and tackle Immigration Reform. These people are demented, literally insane.
Report Post »Stu Pedaso
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:27amI like the song. And the video aint bad either.
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:45pmThe patient is still alive, Doctor. It will take two more years of stabbing America in the jugular before Obama will relent and his political obit will be written.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:43pmPossibly, but I hear footsteps coming down the halls of Congress.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:11pmIndeed, and the We the People of America are making the noise loud and clear.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:41pmNo it is not. Obama has damaged the brand beyond repair.
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:46pmWhan Brokaw talks, people listen…lol
Report Post »gopsnativeson
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 9:52pmYes, when Brokaw talks people listen, but there’s only a couple hundred to start with so,,,,,,,,,,,
Report Post »2
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 10:14pmBrok-Jaw, Obama will not move 1 inch to the center. He will piss away as much money as He can for 2 years and then move to another Country, because He will have messed up The USA so much He will be hated.
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