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By the Numbers: Since Filing to Run for President Again Obama Has…
- Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:09am by
Mike Opelka
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On April 4th, 2011, President Barack Obama filed the required paperwork to run for re-election. So, what has happened since that time?
- Number of Obama campaign fund raising events – 200 (CBS reporter Mark Knoller reported on the milestone this weekend and gave us all a frame of reference using data from George W. Bush’s fund raising numbers during the same period.)

- Rounds of Golf – 45 – There are several sites tracking this number – one of them is ObamaGolfCounter.com

US President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton ride in a golf cart after completing the first hole at the Andrews Air Force Base golf course on September 24, 2011. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
- Months that the unemployment rate has been above 8% – all 16 of the months in question
- Meetings that Obama had with his Jobs Council - 1 - And that meeting was in January of 2012. In July, the Romney campaign claimed that the President has not met with this vital council in the past six months. That claim has been supported by PolitiFact.

The curious thing about President Obama and his Jobs Council, he was told the country how important the unemployment problem is… In fact, the President has made several statements about how focused he will be on this vital issue. Here are a few quotes from Mr. Obama on this vital topic.
“I/we will not rest…
- –until we are succeeding in generating the jobs this economy needs.
- – until businesses are investing again, businesses are hiring again.
- – until we build an economy that‘s ready for America’s future.
- – until every American who is ready and able finds a job.
If you would like to hear the President making these and other statements, watch the video posted below.
(H/T: Weasel Zippers)



















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Comments (118)
MiCurmudgeon
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:14pmHe never intended to lead the Country. He just wants to play president. If he were Division 1 , NFL, MLB,NBA coach or any small business executive his a$$ would have been fired long ago.
Report Post »Goldline_scam
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:28pmMitt will do a much better job … he’s got magic underpants!!
Report Post »Stone Cold Truth
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:41pmAt least Mit Romney hasn’t eaten a dog.
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:36pm“…Barack the magic *****…”
Sorry, “magic underpants” made me think of that parody…
Report Post »winin2012
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:39pmHey Goldline_Scam, Magic Underpants? You Bigot! Once again a Lib that does not have an argument so he goes to smears, insults and shows his ignorance and bigotry.
Report Post »OldDominionBlue
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:43pmGoldline_scam,
If magic underware can get you to Romney’s fortune, where do I sign up?
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:15pmsluggish as that experienced during the President George W. Bush years used in this analysis, even before the recession set in, was Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Note that Mr. Burtless did not compare the growth during the terms of George H.W. Bush or Jimmy Carter as each served but one term.) Each and every one of these two-timers, except Eisenhower, had double digit job growth compared to either 4.5 percent or 7 percent for George W. Bush, depending on which measuring tool you prefer to use.
As Unemployment Predictably Rises, the Solution Couldn’t Be Simpler
James K. Glassman
Contributor
Why Do Companies Hire?
Peter Cohan
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So what does this data tell us?
For starters, given that all of these two-term presidents experienced better job growth without the assistance of the massive tax cuts for the wealthy provided by President George W. Bush, it certainly seems fair to note that a certain amount of job growth would have come during the years George W. was president—whether he had given us the tax cuts or not.
And if one feels the need to argue that tax cuts are the great driver of employment, the comparative numbers presented make it shockingly clear that these tax benefits to the wealthy do little to nothing to even keep up with the employment increases under all of the other two term presidents of the modern era, with the exception of poor old Ike.
Nobody likes to pay taxes. We can—and will—have more endless debates over whether we should r
Report Post »Le Sellers
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:19pmGoldline_Scam:
Report Post »It has been my experience that those who express public infatuation with anyone’s underwear are perverts. I don’t know you. Are you …?
Individualism
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:44pmi hope he doesn’t tithe non believers in taxes.
Report Post »tommytermlimit
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:13pmif he had been a boss of any company, (which by the way, he has never been), his bony ass would of been fired long ago
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:44pmI see from the photo on the golf cart, he’s playing with his white one.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 5:50pmGoldline_scam, anonomouse hey, your back.
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 6:07pmPUBS ARE RIDICULOUS, VENAL HYPOCRITES!!!
Why is a private citizen’s private life any cause for comment, BUT A SITTING GOP SENATOR, ADMITTED ADULTERER, WHOREMONGER, BREAKER OF COMMANDMENTS gets NO COMMENT from the entire GOP CAUCUS IN THE CONGRESS.
ANOTHER ADMITTED ADULTERER former senator ensign of nv, resigned last year, little said, tho he and his mother were nearly indicted for paying off his girlfriend.
If you say nothing , all this GOP EVIL WILL JUST GO AWAY???
NO, if you say nothing it makes you a HYPOCRITE and a supporter of whoremongering and breaking commandments and that includes romney, ryan (a catholic llike vitter, both will burn in HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION), mcconnell, boehner and the princes of the church.
We’ve heard no CARDINALS, ARCHBISHOPS, PASTORS AND LEADERS OF THE MORMON CHURCH CONDEMN————-WHOREMONGERING AND BREAKING OF THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENTS???————————–Bill O’Reilly: ‘I Don’t Think Vitter Should Be There. Absolutely Not’
Report Post »————-By Judd Legum on Jun 17, 2011 at 11:10 am
Yesterday, Anthony Weiner resigned a few days ago.Weiner’s announcement came after pressure from Leader Nancy Pelosi, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and President Obama. Nevertheless, top Republicans criticized Democrats for “protecting” Weiner.
————————–1,432 days ago, Sen. David Vitter admitted to being a regular customer of a prostitution service. ——————–(An activity that is, inciden
Steelheadisadouche
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 7:00pmTejasDave
Report Post »Can you stroke out soon and begone? Kiniptions run in the family stalk maybe? Don’t be such a mamby pamby cry baby lib and get it over with already.
HOPEFORCHANGE
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:03pmLook, the amount of time he is away from pretending to be a president the less harm he can do. It is when he is pretending to be our president that he goes around Congress with executive orders, he directs our money to companies the go bankrupt and makes our friends around the world either not trust us or laugh at us. Can we buy him a season pass, maybe send him to Arizona when the weather turns cold, hell I would buy him lunch everyday as long as he played golf and stayed away from making decisions.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:33pmIs that TXDAVE22 talking about obama again? Can’t read his trash talk, so I assume it’s about Obama.
Report Post »Certainperson
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 8:25am@GOLDLINE_SCAM
Report Post »It appears the left‘s fascination with Romney’s underwear is getting a bit kinky, bordering on perverse…
fmadsen
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:13pmVery active White House, but….doing nothing for the American People.
Report Post »Female
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:59pmPush the button?
Seems that little Obamablower has done more work to get Americans working than the Golfer/Vacationer-in-Chief has been accomplishing.
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:36amJust the White House BULLIES thinking of a way to smear Mitt and Paul………….R & R………..Reliable and Resilient.
Report Post »macadoo
Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:43amat least ryan and romney are not communists
Report Post »Atrum Angelis
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:29amWell… at least he’s consistant.
Report Post »Sadly, he’s consistant when it comes to not doing the job.
zoro51
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:25amno amount of cash n BS will ever return this COMMUNIST back to the presidency… for that office alone belongs to a truely american BORN citizen of the USA not some leftist wanna bea whom LIED to the us people about what n WHOM he is yet we found out NOW this nation REJECTS KING SAUL evita obama tax n speech MARXIST LOSER is a moot point
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:23amMy his own admission , quote “ I have a laziness about me ”……..60 minutes interview…….that is one thing he did not lie about………
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:20amHe also said… “Jobs are the first thing he thinks about when he wakes up and the last thing he thinks about before he falls asleep”… do you believe him? Jobs, Jobs, Jobs… focused like a laser on Jobs.. Him and Democrats have said it so many times there’s a YouTube video about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-oqAQl6Ic …the hypocrisy will blow you away! HE’S DONE NOTHING! Romney should use this video against him.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:52pmWow! good utube about jobs from obama. Actually, he pivoted so many times I was getting dizzy keeping up with his promise to pivot on jobs. Where the hel are the jobs? Here it is 2012 and that’s all he talked about during 2009 and 2010. What’s the problem? Still NO JOBS,
Report Post »and some of you want to vote for him again?
I thought Jim Jones was the one who fed his people tainted kool-aid.
LovinUSA
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:19amPlease, rest, then we can say you did something we asked.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:19amIf you look up what we know of obama’s life (that which he has not hidden) you will see he has played and taken drugs through the whole thing; and he is playing on our dime right now. He is not working…he is playing and spending while “Rome burns”.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:11pmActually, I think he’s fiddling while Rome burns. That didn’t turn out very good either, did it?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:15amThe most abysmal presidency of my lifetime.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:45amIn the history of the nation, he makes Lincoln look like a great leader.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:44pm@ Swampy. Agreed. he also makes carter look smart and clinton decent
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:18pmGonzo,
I didn’t know you were 200 years old!
Report Post »tommytermlimit
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 3:19pmi agree
Report Post »hotsypotsy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:12amThis sounds so familiar,,,,,no wonder he needs so many vacations, he must be really tired. Is there anyone out there who can tell me ONE thing this man has done since taking office that has benefitted the economy, raised the standard of living for the average American or anything else? Certainly he hasn’t improved our image around the world. And, please, don’t say Obamacare. If you believe that, you are either under the impression it will be free (if you are eligible for it to be free, then most likely you already have free health care), have little knowledge of what the provisions are, haven’t a clue as to will be taking on the cost for the millions who are getting for free, don’t understand that your choices will be few……the treatment you receive will be decided by those “who know best”…..the board……men, who with no medical background, who will make this decision for you. You should try talking to a few doctors. Many are planning on quitting their practice. If you had just finished paying off hundreds of thousands in school loans, would you accept the goverment mandating all doctors were to be paid the same, regardless of their specialty. Our elected officials may not have read the health care bill, but your probably has.
Report Post »Carol1955
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:54amThere are three basic reactions to Obama’s ease with lying. 1) People who are angry at the disregard for any trace of honesty. 2) People who know he’s lying but believe that you need to lie to get what you want. 3) People who are clueless to what he is saying and belief everything that comes out of his mouth not matter how ridiculous. I know we can go head to head with the second group but the sheeple are sheeple and I doubt anything can turn them from their path. The only hope there is that some shiney thing will come along and distract them from voting that day.
Report Post »txdave22
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:18amAnd down in Florida, a state where the senior citizen vote is crucial, vulnerable Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson could barely contain his glee at the opportunity to attack the Ryan budget.
Report Post »The reality is that Ryan is now every Republicans’ running mate whether they like it or not, forcing GOP candidates who would just as soon run from the debate over senior citizen entitlements to embrace the third rail of American politics like never before.
One GOP insider lamented that party leaders “have spent the last year” trying to take Medicare off the political front burner, but the Ryan pick “puts it all back out there now.”
Cry_Havoc
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:28pmObama is great. He’s da best everz. He’s gonna gimme money fo my rent from his stash. He’s gonna..SQUIRREL!
Report Post »ahull15
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 1:49pmTXdave
First of all, take the TX out of your name. If you want to be a hippy liberal then move to California. Second, didn’t the libs take 700 billion dollars out of Medicare to support obamacare? Nice try though
Report Post »vpeva1
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:23pmLOL….Love it!
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:38pmTotally Xenophobic dave. You have fallen for another progressive lie. Read the Ryan budget. Thus far is is THE ONLY budget that saves Medicare and Social Security for years to come. Four more years of progressives and all will be bankrupt.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:52amOne could only LOGICALLY conclude 2 THINGS, from every time Obama said:
“ We need to get the Economy Growing and Generate Jobs”.
1) HE DOESN‘T KNOW WHAT THE HECK HE’S DOING.
OR
2) HE’S LIEING, AS USUAL….AGAIN.
This CLAIM of working on improving the Economy and generating Jobs FOR 4 YEARS
PROVES HE IS INCAPABLE OF DOING THE JOB
AND/OR
BOTH HE AND HIS COUNCIL ARE INCOMPETENT.
There is NO EXCUSE OR REASON for a RE-election for him.
And, HOW some people DON’T SEE THIS…IS AMAZING!
And, this is just 2 AREAS of FAILURES IN HIS HIDDEN AGENDA.
Report Post »The lack of growth/improvement of the Economy & Jobs are the RESULTS
of his STALLS & WITH-HOLDINGS, preventing doing what IS REQUIRED
for improvement & growth.
heyjim55
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:51amObama does know what he is doing he is taking apart our economic system and our constitution. He lie’s all the time on just about everything except his Socialist vision, his biggest challenge is getting reelected and so far he is holding his own in a situation where he should be losing badly which is scary as hell. If he prevails the country will collapse one way or the other and it will not be do to incompetence quite the opposite he is doing this all on purpose. His spending is out of control, he is ignoring job creation and he is expanding food stamp benefits to illegals and Mexican citizens across the boarder (Cloward/ Piven strategy). If you want to change the country to Socialist or a Marxist State you have to tear down the economic system let it all fall. Revolutions always bring sacrifice everyone loses something or everything the leaders of such movements understand this and don’t care. Obama does not care, his cabinet does not care, his party does not care and the MSM does not care or they would not be ignoring all that he has done and not done and the damage and loss of liberty that comes with it. They all know that things will get much worse than they are now but they all foolishly believe that a Utopian Society will rise from their efforts. Unfortunately if they win in November we are all going to see the fall of this great nation and the rise of a dictator.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:29pm@ HEYJIM55
You’re ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!
Yes, I KNOW, Obama knows exactly what he’s doing.
I said ” He doesn‘t know what the heck he’s doiing”, as THE minimum
one could conclude.
YES – IT TAKES QUITE A BIT OF PRECISION & SKILL TO DISMANTLE
OUR ECONOMY AND DO IT IN SUCH A WAY (lie) THAT PEOPLE WOULD
BELIEVE AND GO ALONG WITH IT…which is what he has obviously done.
THOSE PEOPLE are those who believe & want Socialism and/or
those who have NO CLUE OR REFUSE TO SEE WHAT HE’S DOING and
WORSHIPPERS OF OBAMA.
For Obama’s ratings to be as high as they are currently- there HAS TO BE
Report Post »some juggling of Poll Numbers by the Media AND the groups of people described
above – who support anything he does, his Socialist Plan included.
richardlionheart
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:44pmThere is another reason, B.O. wants to destroy this Republic, he thinks that all the problems in the world are because of the U.S.A. not despite it!
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:47amObama plans to -
Redistribute wealth any way he can
He will follow the Cloward Piven strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy
That stragegy in a nutshell is to SPEND us into a crisis — and at that point, Obama can do anything he wants.
Among those things he will do is to OFFER “free stuff” to voters IF they keep him in power.
(And tell voters that they will NOT be getting “free stuff” from the other candidates)
Once that has come full circle – our county will be finished as we know it.
They will HAVE to Tax the rich (and everyone else for that matter) in order to keep up the “free stuff” to the voters.
We will be Greece
We will be France
We will be England
And as Margaret Thacher said – “The only problem with Socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money”
IF WE ARE LUCKY – our currency will hold up. If we are not – we are in for a depression that will make 1929 look like a birthday party.
I agree with Glenn in the fact that in the long run – God will be the way out.
Report Post »In the short run — I am afraid that the lack of God will be what we choose.
vpeva1
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 2:40pmI’m afraid you are right and like you, we must all continue to keep up the fight. Press on, hoping to wake up the half of Americans who continue to sleep through their greed of handouts.
Report Post »thibx
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:44ami don’t know why ole bill clinton wants to be around ole oboma. even ole bill was not that screwed up. bill has to know he is an idiot.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:51amhoping someone will define…is…is…
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:21am@ THIBX
That’s a Double-Edged Sword…
Obama NEEDS to “make nice” with Bill Clinton because HE THINKS Bill is the
ONLY recently LIKED President and maybe that will transfer to VOTES FOR OBAMA-
AND
BILL is staying in Obama’s company to LOOK FOR OPENINGS TO PLUG
HILLARY IN AS VP OR POTUS – in case HE & HILLARY snatch an opportunity
from Obama and be THE FIRST TO ESCORT IN SOCIALISM.
THIS is why THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OBAMA & HILLARY -
Report Post »THEY BOTH WANT SOCIALISM AND THE SAME KIND OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM.
pdw
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:10pmBill just likes the lime light!
Report Post »Listen_then_think
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:39amI can’t stand to listen to the guy or see his face, or even listen to his attack ads. He is such a bald face liar he should make every REAL American sick. Real American does not include the race duped Africans or the LGBTQ or the welfare sucking (who don’t really need it) rats. If you don’t work, you get your fair share of what you worked for, which equals NOTHING.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:38amThing is, while this is old hat to those who oppose Obama, I’d wager most of the country is oblivious to nearly all of this.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:38am“Months that the unemployment rate has been above 8% – all 16 of the months in question”
ATTN BLAZE – Why is 8% unemployment the “magic” number? Under all previous administrations, with the exception of a few DemonicRats in the 20th century, the acceptable number has been around 5-6%.
To the chimp-screaming hysterical Left-wing media, our economy was in a state of catastrophic shambles when the Bush Administration unemployment rate hovered at or slightly above or below 5%…
Why do you, Mike Opelka, write the article as if 8% national unemployment is an acceptable level?
Report Post »prhdr
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:45amWoodyee, 8% was touted by Obama. Just google “Obama 8%”
Report Post »Mike Opelka
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:04amWoodyee… Nowhere do I endorse an 8% unemployment level as acceptable. That was the figure that Obama’s administration pushed as a PEAK if the stimulus was passed. We’ve exceeded the promised peak for over 41 months now… But 16 since he re-filed election papers. M
Report Post »ColoradoDad
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:07amI didn’t read anything in this article that said that 8% was the “magic number”, or that it is acceptacle. In actuallity, 8% is not acceptacle and we have been over that for more like 42 months, not just 16 months. But the reason that everyone, not just Mike Opeda, talks about 8% as though it is a magic number is because Barrack Obama said, at the beginning of his presidency, that if congress would pass the “stimulas package” then the unemployment rate would never go above 8% and he would have saved us from a “depression” in our economy. And as we all know this never happened! Just one of the multiple & continuing lies that would come out of this administration.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:36amShooting .45 rounds means something different to most people.
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:47amhaha true true
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:21amNo, no… it’s 45.0 not 0.45 Just sayin’. :o)
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:34amThe pencil necked geek could never, ever get a job in the private sector. What idiot in their right mind would let this guy near their hard earned dollar, let alone a business model?
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:22amAll I have to do is ask Obama why has it taken him four years to address the unemployment problem. Also ask him will it take another four years to address it?
Report Post »muffythetuffy
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:32amBeing out on the golf course means they cannot be recorded. I hope the GOP has several expert lip readers with binoculars following both of them. There is equipment used by the KGB that can pick up sound 1/2 mile away.
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:37amAsk him where our 800B (1T with interest) is.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:43am@Muffy…The problem is that Leftist lips cannot be read. It is an impossibility. There lips move like they are saying one thing but the words that come out are something else. They double talk, back talk, circle talk and so on. Their lips are controlled by their puppet master, the King of all Liars.
Report Post »Master.Debater
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:19amWe have to vote this fraud out, people.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:18amSomehow, none of this surprises me. Corruption is everywhere in the Obama administration.
Report Post »Landon410
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:16amI wish I could play 45 rounds of golf in a year, must be nice to be that rich!
At my local course that I like to play it cost in the $45 range to play 18 with a cart, take that times 45 rounds, that over $2,000.00
While that might not seem like a lot of money, when the conversation on their side is that “these rich people are out of touch”
guess what, over $2,000 on golf in a couple months, is out of touch for the normal person.
(if someone can afford to play that much golf more power to them, if i could i would, however i am not the president that made a hissy out of Bush playing golf a couple times as president)
Report Post »pdw
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 9:17pmThat’s all right you are most likely picking up the tab anyway, its called therapy!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:12amSo we have further proof of the mess of Mr Obama, what else is really new?
Report Post »oldguy77
Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:26amHere is something new I just learned yesterday.Boot up Secretary of Labor/Hilda Solis.–Did You know she is a latina?She was commenting about the lack of jobs in the construction industry.Want to guess what the majority of workers are by nationality?There not picking produce anymore.Half of mexicos population of 112 million have family in the USA.Last year 23 billion dollars was sent south to help mexico.
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