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Meaning of Obama’s WTF Is TBD

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a new slogan in town, and it’s a winner.

At least that’s what President Barack Obama has in mind.

The president unveiled his “Winning the Future” mantra in his State of the Union address, and now the upbeat but amorphous phrase is part of every speech, policy and pronouncement coming out of the administration. It’s also emerged as a fat target for his Republican critics.

What’s next on health care? Where to go on energy and education policy? How to improve the jobs picture? It’s all about winning the future through innovation and determination, Obama and his aides have argued over the past few days.

There’s no room for losers is the implicit flip side of the message.

“We’ve got to up our game,” Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin.

The nation must ensure “America is still on top” in a decade, the president said on YouTube.

The country can’t just lead, adds Vice President Joe Biden; it needs to “dominate.”

It’s a juiced-up way for Obama to frame his initiatives after two years in which even some of the president’s supporters acknowledge that can-do verve sometimes was lacking from the conversation. What it means, though, is still TBD — to be determined.

After the long slog to stabilize the economy over the past two years, “clearly they’ve got polling that Americans are looking for someone that has more lofty goals and aspirations for America,” says GOP strategist Rich Galen.

It seems that just in time for the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, Morning in America has arrived once again.

Just in time for the 2012 presidential race, as well.

“People need some optimism, they need to feel hopeful,” says Democratic strategist Karen Finney.

The “winning the future” construct, she says, couples a much-needed boost of optimism with the reality of the global competition that is afoot.

“It won’t resonate with everyone,” says Professor Wayne Fields, a Washington University expert on presidential rhetoric, “but it has pretty powerful implications in political life. Something has to be done is the view of most people. What this suggests is that he’s at least going to act.”

Republicans found much to mock in the president’s theme, styling it as nothing more than new rhetorical packaging for the same wrong-headed approach to governing.

Newt Gingrich, who wrote a book titled “Winning the Future” back in 2005, found Obama’s interpretation of the same phrase “depressing.”

“Sadly, there is no Obama plan for winning the future,” Gingrich wrote in response to the president’s address. “There is an Obama plan for protecting big government, for pouring more money into broken bureaucracies, for borrowing several trillion more from the Chinese dictatorship. President Obama is on a path to lose the future while pretending to change things.”

Sarah Palin, in a post on Facebook and public comments, seized on the acronym “WTF” to suggest another meaning altogether, and said the White House “still just doesn’t get it.”

Obama’s vision, Palin said, is of a centralized government that declares “we shall be great and innovative and competitive, not by individual initiative, but by government decree.”

All sides agree that the power of Obama’s message will be determined by how he fleshes out what it means.

A big test will be Obama’s release in mid-February of his proposed budget for the accounting year that begins Oct. 1.

“He‘s set a pretty high bar and now he’s got to have something to back it up with,” said the GOP’s Galen. “I don‘t think he’s got very much time to turn the rhetoric into action Finney, the Democratic strategist, said that after the economic turmoil of the past two years, Obama has the opportunity to return the focus to the things he campaigned on.

“We’re finally at the point where we can step back” and take a broader view of where the country is going, she said.

Underlying the back-over-forth over Obama’s latest turn of phrase is a larger and longer-running debate over America’s place in the world.

Palin said Obama’s new pitch “seems to be the Obama administration’s version of American exceptionalism — an ‘exceptionally big government.’” Other Republicans eyeing the 2012 presidential race, too, have accused Obama of lacking a strong vision of America’s rightful place in the world.

Obama, in turn, is offering optimistic talk about the potential of the American people in hopes of overcoming a sense of fatigue that set in over the past two years.

“In the popular mind, he lost them,” says Fields.

Now, with the economy picking up, Fields adds, Obama has an opportunity to revive the public vision of a can-do American public that uses its freedom “to innovate, educate and move forward.”

“To make this work,” says Fields, “he’ll have to bring us along with him not with a single speech but with a regular line of communication.”

Comments (171)

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  • wildwood
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:52pm

    W. F.T =whitehouse tried and failed to fool the american taxpayers!!!!!!!!!and the freedom loving AMERICANS!!!!!!!!

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  • HippoNips
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:48pm

    Obama WTF? 2012
    hehe What an idiot!!

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  • milo
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:48pm

    It‘s a shame we’re the only remaining superpower, isn’t it?
    Remember – Zero thinks it is.

    If you don’t want him winning again in 2012, then you’d better start doing something about it now.
    We have to fight that database of his, with our own. The republicans under Steele did absolutely nothing about building a tea party mailing list, or soliciting donations, other than for his own pocket.
    And ACORN is rearing it’s head again in New York, and probably secretly everywhere else. Identify them and make sure they are de-funded.
    Start working now to identify winning new Senators and Reps.
    We don’t just want a win in 12, we want to dominate in 12.

    And why haven‘t we seen a verbatum translation of Hu’s speech yet. I would think what he told HIS people would have been very important, considering the whole economy thing.

    And those aisle-crossing bunch of Republicans in the House need to grow a pair. We can still lose this.

    Of course you don’t raise the debt limit, you start cutting to stay within it, while it gets lowered. I could do with exactly 50% of government right now.

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  • Reasonabiliy
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:42pm

    Noooooo!!! Not a regular line of communication from Mr. O….I can hardly stand the sound of his voice at this time, and I won’t comment on his EARS and face just to be polite.

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    • parmajohn
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Mr Zero Good one I agree with you He is beyond nausiating and painful to listen to

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    • taebaggranny
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:35pm

      @REASONABILITY I could only stand about 10 seconds at a time of his FIRST speech for 2012 on the house floor…Please, we don’t need any more of the horse apples to pile up this year…

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  • Whostolemypig
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:42pm

    WTF: Organizations in the US started by activists involved with the Muslim Brotherhood include the Muslim Students Association in 1963,[18] North American Islamic Trust in 1971, the Islamic Society of North America in 1981, the American Muslim Council in 1990, the Muslim American Society in 1992, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought

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  • Pray for USA
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:39pm

    You would think it Obama is so brilliant (like we keep hearing) he would have picked up on the WTF acronym and used something else.
    If you want to understand Obama read “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Obama just doesn‘t have it in him to understand America’s exceptionalism.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:35pm

      I think that was intentional — to divert attention from what he’s really up to and to give the hint that people should just assume the attitude of WTF about government.

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  • wethepeople
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:39pm

    I never managed to get through any of his speeches before so many “WTF’S” pile up, I have to stop listening.

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  • Mirimichi
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:39pm

    WTF! WPE! (worst president ever)

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  • Ken
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:38pm

    Barrack “WTF” Hussein “WTF” Obama “WTF” President??? “WTF” How can that be??? The Emperor has no clothes (no birth certificate either).
    IMPEACH OBAMA NOW !!!!!!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:53pm

      You can’t impeach someone who does not legally hold the office. The House of Representatives needs to subpoena his records in an investigation of Lt. Terry Lakin’s court martial.

      THAT will git-er-done!

      And, now that Governor Albercrombie has stated that Hawaii does not have a long form birth certificate for Obama/Soetoro (or whoever he is), that is perfect probable cause for an investigation.

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    • Malachai
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:14pm

      Except that the person that reported that retracted that it Abercrombie ever said it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:13pm

      @Malachai
      Easy enough to prove! The House has subpoena power.

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  • Mirimichi
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:36pm

    I think WTF truly describes the last 2 years and probably the next 2, too. Depends on if the reps can hang onto and retain their cajones. Meaning. pass the 0bamacare Repeal in the House and start cutting spending like a miser.

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  • JoeBtfsplk
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:35pm

    OIO! – Obama is Out!

    Plain and to the point!

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  • Showtime
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:34pm

    Well, we have a pudative president — in other words a WTF Prez.

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  • Malachai
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:30pm

    I love how all the apologists are trying to turn Palin’s major embarrassment and screwup into a new rallying catchphrase. They are desperately trying to paint her as an intelligent (or at least, non-moronic) potential president that they will turn the most indefensibly idiotic things she says into war cries. Leave it blind cheerleaders to turn confusing Sputnik with the arms race into something to be proud of.

    Keep circling those wagons and pretending that people outside it don’t know how clueless she is. Keep parroting the same nonsense like “The media attack her because they are afraid of her!“ or ”She‘s saying this not because she’s a nitwit; it‘s because she’s edgy!” I‘m sure it’s GOT to get tiring defending the non-stop idiocy that streams from her mouth and one of these days maybe even Beck will stop being a hypocrite and start nailing her on it.

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    • highcarry
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:01pm

      c,mon be fair. we only have her. you have a plethora of idiots on your side, from the top down.

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    • Theleftisda
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:31pm

      All you commi libs fear her.
      your president is an idiot thats why your kind always change the subject

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    • Dumbsht
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:09pm

      What is GOT ?

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    • Malachai
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:25pm

      I love how people with no actual point just assume I’m on “The other side.” For the record, I’m not a fan of Obama. He‘s far from the worst president we’ve ever had (and if you think he is, your understanding of history is awful) but I’m not a fan of several of his policies or attitudes, in particular that of illegal immigrants.

      I’m glad a special individual like THELEFTISDA dropped by to prove my point. No, no one fears her (except, ironically, many of the Republican party.) Polls show she has no chance of winning in 2012 so no worries there, though I’d much rather the Republicans put up a GOOD candidate like Ron Paul. And change the subject? What? I’m addressing what she talked about? How is that changing the subject?

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    • Malachai
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:33pm

      @HIGHCARRY: Also, she’s FAR from all you have. Maybe you’ve heard of Michele Bachmann, or Christine O’Donnell? Or Glen Urquhart? Our countless others?

      Trust me, you’ve got plenty. However, those soundbytes mysteriously don’t make it onto Fox.

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  • Ken
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:28pm

    Obama, the WTF President.. Very fitting.
    No birth certificate? WTF
    No experience? WTF
    Liar? WTF
    Yes, Obama is the WTF President!!!

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    • beverly5068
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:54pm

      you got that right! a perfect acronym – on ALL fronts!

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  • Founding Dad
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:27pm

    WTF is so perfect for everything Mr. Obama stands for. How about LMFAO.

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:26pm

    A solar panel company, 1100 Boeing Aircraft jobs,and other jobs moving to China. Borrowing more than we ever should. Economy is not picking up except for those who need special glasses. Not finished with 2 wars and this thinks its a game. Glad I didn’t go to college.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:18pm

      I keep hearing newscasters say we’ve just come out of the “worst recession since the great depression”, reading headlines on how the economic recovery is slower than expected, and listening to the figures revised downward with an excuse each week and I keep thinking I was “born too soon”.
      Just one generation sooner and I could truthfully say, “Everything I need to know I learned as a Pre-schooler; just read “Charlotte’s Web” as a political allegory, (The Clinton Whitehouse even admitted they ‘spun’ the news.) The story of the___ (sorry I forgot the number) Sillies as a national agenda,(Think, what if something terrible would happen and kill our children, {so let’s abort them to keep them safe}) and remember the man who traveled the world over looking for people as foolish as the farmers family so he’d have an excuse to marry their daughter……… Then last but not least, it’s a cold rainy (or snowy) day, we‘re not able to go out and play while our mother’s away, so let’s open the door (to the White House) and let the cat in the hat in to entertain us with all his friends. But watch out because our mother, (interpret that one according to your own belief’ system) will return and not like that at all! Will it be in time, and can we depend on the cat and his friends to clean up the mess they’ve made? >>>>>>

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  • Founding Dad
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:25pm

    After 2 years of Obama bashing every segment of the business community on a daily basis, championing bigger government as the answer, spending money like he has an unlimited supply, and telling us that we are no more exceptional than the people of every other country in the world…… now we‘re supposed to do an about face and believe he’s for the entrepreneur, the small business owner, American innovation, and spending reduction??????? How about “I have some ocean front property in Arizona I’d like to sell you real cheap.” He must really think we’re stupid. Can you believe this guy. Just tune him out.

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    • Kaparth
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:03pm

      It is obvious to those of us who are awake, but too many people are not awake, don’t want to be awake or are too afraid to be awake. I am amazed at the responses I get from intelligent people when I try to talk about what is happening to our country. So many people honestly believe that American life will go on forever and no one is a threat. They choose not to see that freedom only exists when people are involved and educated. Too many today are neither (no matter how many years they spent in college). Pray for us.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:21pm

      @KAPARTH – Right on! You tell them what’s going on, and they give you the deer-in-the-headlights gaze and say, “Well, I haven’t seen any of that on TV!” Makes me want to beat my head against a wall! OF COURSE they haven’t seen it on TV! When they’re on an antenna, they can’t get Fox News! When they don’t have a computer, they can’t get the Internet, either. They’re simply fed gubment propaganda! GEEZ!!!

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  • mjgma
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:25pm

    WTF… yeah most people won’t think of winning the future unless Obama and his cronies are defeated and out of office, which means the WTF reverts back to the original meaning…oh well

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  • parmajohn
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:24pm

    Fired Up- Ready To Go {I hated That} Change the history of the last 2 years and get into re-election mode Only Problem We‘re awake this go round and we won’t go away but they will Tired of it- They gotta Go

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  • Crewbot
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Watch what he does, not what he says.

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:26pm

      AMEN to that! He’s a snake oil salesman, for sure. :)

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    • Pray for USA
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:34pm

      Exactly.

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    • IronSights
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Isn’t there a saying ” what you say conceals, what you do reveals”? I’d say the president has revealed a lot.

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    • highcarry
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:04pm

      now, what was that? ummm, oh yeah. you can put lipstick on a pig………..

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  • davecoolworld
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:22pm

    The only good thing about the recent world events is that Obama is in over his head so obviously that even his most staunch followers are beginning to see it.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:50pm

      Our President has to look up to see the bottom of the hole!!

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:56pm

      WALKWITHME1966…..Then you MUST be more stupid than the rest of the “minions”.

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:05pm

      I have respect for the office, but I have the same respect for the man as he has for the Office…Zero.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:11pm

      @WalkWithMe1966 –
      Well, there’s one thing for sure: You are NOT smarter than a fifth grader!

      “Walk,” I voted the Democratic ticket for 50 years. T%he Democratic Party is not the one it used to be. There are Progressives in it now, those who would bankrupt our great country and overturn it.

      As Glenn Beck likes to say, “Set Reason in her seat.”

      Now, think about some things.
      # Why would Obama/Soetoro issue an Executive Order to seal every record of his past? Could it BE that he has something he wants to hide, or could it be that he’s “open and transparent?”

      # If he is not a socialist, why is he following Saul Alinlky’s “Rules for Radicals” in his role as POTUS?

      # If he is not a Communist, why did he join the New Party, a Communist party?

      # If he is a “natural-born” citizen, how can he state that his father was a British subject?

      # When his mother did not meet age AND residency requirements of Hawaii in effect at the time he was born, in order to pass her citizenship to her son, how can he even claim that he is an American?

      # It does not matter WHERE he was born. AT BEST, Obama Jr. has dual citizenship, and it’s not American/Kenyan. It’s Indonesian/Kenyan. No one has released any documentation of Obama Jr.’s citizenship, but he certainly traveled around in Indonesia during a period when Americans were not allowed there. How do you explain that?

      # Do you understand WHY American businesses went overseas from America? They left because of the high tax rates here. If Obama REALLY wanted to boost the economy, he would NOT have signed the Stimulus packages THAT DID NOT WORK; he would NOT have increased the size of the government (government cannot produce jobs because the government produces no PRODUCT); and he would not have told so many bold-faced LIES. Nothing that he has promised has grown to fruition. He is working to bankrupt America, and I PRAY that you read what I‘m saying with the understanding that I’m not being snotty. I am just trying to get you to THINK.

      Just ask yourself, “Well, JUST suppose Obama IS what she says. What else would he have done that would have been negative?” You will get your own answers, if you are honest with yourself.

      As I said, I voted the Democratic ticket for fifty years. The Communists have infiltrated it. It’s not what it used to be, and I can assure you that ANY decision towards the left is forcing America to walk on thin ice. This nation is not as strong as it used to be, and it has boiled down to the damage that Obama has heaped upon us in only two years. It was getting bad before Obama, but honey, it’s gotten dangerous now.

      I‘ve been researching Obama’s ideology for over two years. I know what I’m talking about.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:43pm

      Dave, talk to Walk about what the unions are doing to our country and how their pensions are destroying not only our schools but bankrupting cities as well. But Obama is all for the unions!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:07pm

      @WALK –
      From Dick Morris:
      “A president’s major power is his ability to set the national agenda. But Obama’s State of the Union agenda was so boring, mundane, conventional and recycled that it will not capture either the national imagination or even center stage. It cannot drown out the drama of Republican efforts to slash spending, repeal ObamaCare, roll back federal regulations, block carbon taxes, kill union card-check and free community banks from regulatory paralysis. The ball is now in the Republicans’ court.”

      Obama is all about CONTROL. Entitlements make people dependent. Regulations, carbon taxes, etc., stunts growth and prosperity, making us more dependent upon government–at the expense of those who still have a bit of money or income. Those entitlements began as a measure of compassion, but they each cost us a bit of our freedom.

      What the government giveth, the government can taketh away, leaving the dependents penniless, homeless, and hopeless. Get it? Republicans are trying hard to preserve our freedom and liberty, protect the dollar, and provide an environment for small businesses to create jobs in order to protect Americans from the tyranny of an overreaching and unconstitutional agenda.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:11pm

      @WALKWITHME –

      What in the world ever gave you the idea that Obama even knows what he is doing, if what you think he’s doing is true? He’s never owned a business. He’s never held a governing position. He’s not an economist. He’s an empty suit with George Soros behind him.

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    • davecoolworld
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:26pm

      SHOWTIME…WALK may be a lost cause until “it” happens.

      The unions have been obsolete since Federal Laws have been established to protect the workers. Unions have become special interest groups that are making our cars crappy, our kids worthless, our cities broke, our states broke, our manufacturing disappear, and our politicians corrupt (not that they needed much help).

      Have you spoken with anyone under 25 lately? They can’t speak English. They can’t do math. They have no vision except to claim the fame and fortune they have been promised by the Public School System, of course, they have no idea how to accomplish that except for appearing on a “reality” show. Entitlement mentality is what has been created over the last 40 years and has only accelerated over the last 20.

      Public schools push kids on to the next grade without making sure they are able to handle the next grade. Teachers are corrupt because of unions. When I was a younger man I dated a girl who was a student teacher. She told me that in the 2nd grade, kids in the school where she worked couldn’t read. When she asked what would happen to them, she was told they would catch up in the 3rd grade. Really, how?

      Manufacturing jobs have been driven out of America because the unions are corrupt. No pride for an honest days work for an honest days pay. Retire at 55, live to 85…going back to the math problem, they don’t get it that is unsustainable. The union mentality is that “someone” will take care of that problem. Really, who?

      Since WALK seems to imply he/she was born in 1966, they should have the benefit of seeing the transformation of OUR country for the worse not the better. I would expect someone who has lived long enough to “get it” after all this time. Limited mind power is not a crime, but the fact that WALK is able to form proper sentences, leads me to believe that WALK is not of sub-standard intelligence, just woefully mis-guided.

      We will have our reset and America will regain it’s rightful place as the king of the hill. I just fear that it will get much, much worse before it gets better. How long it will “suck” is the issue. People like WALK will not like the America they are trying to create. They will long for the times of “baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet”.

      Sadly, they think they want borsht until they realize it’s just beet soup.

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    • azjoannie
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:42pm

      Showtime – well said and documented!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:53pm

      Thank you! Dave, you are smarter than a 5th grader!

      I appreciate the time and thought you put into your comment. At least I know now I’m talking to someone with intelligence, understanding, and shared disgust!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:57pm

      You know something, Dave? I think Obama’s cooking his own goose. Even his base is turning from him, and enough so that they put Republicans back in power in the House and gave them a few more Senate seats. I really believe that America is smelling the coffee now! (All but Rep. Susan Collins, that is!)

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  • KWH
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:20pm

    WTF?? Even Gerald Ford could come up with something better, like “Whip Inflation Now” or “WIN” … and the best Obama can do is “WTF” ?? well,,, WTF !!! ??

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    • Old Truckers
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:00pm

      Winning the Future?
      It is better to say Losing the Future (LTF)

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  • Showtime
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:19pm

    Winninbg the Future? I doubt that. Our Founders won the future for us.
    TBD = To Be Destroyed.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Red (Communism) is now “Green” as in environment, which will turn Red.

      Don’t get sucked into anything environmental or energy. Put your congressmen on notice!!!

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  • MotherRedDog
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:18pm

    Funny, I thought Oybummer would be remembered at TOTUS, but it looks like WTF will define his presidency and he did it to himself. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy (as the CBS/ABC/NBC )polls would have you believe.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:25pm

      What ? The hope and change isn’t working ?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Oh we got the change alright…… That’s what almost killed hope!!!

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    • John 1776
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Must admit, he has had me thinking WTF for two years now. It only makes sense that this is now the official line from the administration. My health care rates went up about $2,000 this year, I thought WTF. Gas prices are “necessarily skyrocketing, I thought WTF. We are closing down mining and oil drilling while “green” energy is only providing 0.7% of our energy, WTF. We have added over 700 new departments to the government, I think WTF. I would imagine that considering his new adoration for Reagan , probably has Ronald spinning in his grave, and thinking WTF?

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    • godlovinmom
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:48pm

      if anyone…anywhere…believes what comes out of obama’s mouth…are asking for it…

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    • azmomof6
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:55pm

      @ John1776 Well said! That made me laugh (and cry too).

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:23pm

      yeah WTF is more of the same old B/S. investment is more spending of money we dont have. i stood real close to my tv so he could blow smoke up my ass. we didnt vote you out so you could work together. if thats what you got out of the november elections your a bigger idiot than i originally thought! WTF ARE YOU THINKIG?

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    • Hefsmaster
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 2:35pm

      john, You pointed out the reagan connection. I like how they used rules for radicals and attempted to model obama after the number one conservative of the century. That his connection to him by spirit will somehow transform all the conservatives into thinking that obama is a-okay. Makes me want to throw up and say WTF…

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    • taebaggranny
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:20pm

      @ GONESURFING There ain’t no hope and we have very little change left…

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:18pm

      @John 1776,

      Reagan was a liberal during his early years as a politician in California, he then found Jesus and decided that the liberal philosophy did not sit side by side with Faith in a God that loves all. He switched to conservative values as a politician and gained in favor with the early conservative movement of William F. Buckley.

      And for Mr. O to think that he could even wear the Reagan mantle is a bit of a stretch since he could never support his own positions in the Illinois state legislature except for the Motor-Voter Registration laws which gave easy access to Acorn to register Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to vote in the Chicago Mayoral Elections. And he only held strong positions on Home Ownership by strong arming or extorting banks into giving loans to (Poor) people without the ability to pay for a mortgage that would get them out of the rundown neighborhoods they lived in. Laudable goals but wrong in implementation.

      But Mr. O is going in the direction that his (Father) dreamed of going, Communist, to take over the lives of the public in that if you give them some sort of safety then the Gov‘t can take all that you make in exchange if that is what the Gov’t wants. Right now they only want to do that to the Ultra Rich but they are not the end of it since he believes like his father, Communism, is the way to prosperity.

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 9:11am

      Read between the lines folks. “Win the Future” (WTF) is is a subliminal message to his progressive base. It’s not “win the future” as he described, and it’s not about “winning” the next election.

      Oblahma’s message was to win against capitalism, against freedom and liberty, to establish HIS idea of a totalitarian socialist society, or even communism.

      He has used this form of speech MANY times, all you need to do is realize WHO and WHAT he is to understand the true meaning of his words.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 1:16pm

    WTF is appropriate for just about everything he says.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:44pm

      “It won’t resonate with everyone,” says Professor Wayne Fields,

      That’s the understatement of the year since “WTF” comes from Obama. (aka Lier in Chief)
      Anybody have memory of the last two years?
      It’s not hard to see more of the same in his SOTU speech.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:45pm

      “It won’t resonate with everyone,” says Professor Wayne Fields,

      That’s the understatement of the year since “WTF” comes from Obama.
      Anybody have memory of the last two years?
      It’s not hard to see more of the same in his SOTU speech.

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    • Jimtt500
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 3:45pm

      WTF!

      - High unemployment rate;
      - Uncontrolled debt;
      - Growing budget deficit;
      - Corruption and incompetence among Obama cronies;
      - High food prices and growing inflation;
      - Decline housing prices;

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:05pm

      Can He lie that much….and keep getting away with it? Seems like it would mess your head up after awhile.

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    • 101
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:08pm

      WTF! The Obama administration doesn’t even know the meaning of WTF! LMFAO

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 4:54pm

      Too bad it wasn’t even original. All of Obama’s palatable ideas (or at least the cover names for his terrible ideas) are stolen from conservatives. “Winning the Future” is a book by Newt Gingrich.

      The only way we can wtf “win the future” is if Obama decides to gtfo.

       
    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:25pm

      @NancyBee

      When someone lies as much as the POTUS does, the word to insert before it is called Pathological as in “Pathological liar.”

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    • truthwinz
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 5:47pm

      Figures: He read a book about Reagan in Hawaii – He‘s now a Reagan protege’ and borrowing (?) Gingrich’s “winning the future’ phrase. What next? WTF? Do they REALLY think the voter is this stupid? …….well I guess some of them are.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:02pm

      My next sign .. (WTF highlighted) What
      The
      F___

      Can’t hardly wait! Thanks OBAMA!

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    • Cuba
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:14pm

      Here’s one Stop The Foolishness Under Obama or STFU Obama…?

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:14pm

      This just in: Many still confused by Reagan’s “Morning in America”

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    • Indie
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:15pm

      Wasted
      Trillions
      Forecasted

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 6:16pm

      More breaking news: “A Thousand Points of Light” still indeterminate.

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    • suttonea76
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:32pm

      Ahh yes, Obama still likes to talk AT us and not TO us with rhetoric and rehearsed jargon. I guess clear and concise points are assumed to be too poignant for us Americans. Damn shame that this President sleeps with his teleprompter and then wakes up to print money and then go golfing. All in a day’s work….

      2012 yet?

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Read “Radical-In-Chief” and you will NOT want Obama to wtf of America.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 10:42pm

      Obama needs to write another book. This one should be about “1,001 Ways to Say Absolutely Nothing in an Intelligent and Thought Provoking Manner With The Aid of Teleprompters.” If they print it on soft paper I’ll buy a copy to keep in the outhouse.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:49pm

      Obama Winning the Future?

      WTF.

      As Yogi Berra said: “The fiuture ain’t what it used to be”.

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    • *************************
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:04am

      Obama’s WTF. What does it mean? Everyone here … give it a try!

      WTF – Where’s The Future?

      “What in the wide wide world of sports is a-goin’ on here?” -boos Taggart, Blazing Saddles

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    • valarie
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:29am

      Truth, absolutely. And how come he’s looking more and more like Richard Pryor (no offense to Richard Pryor, R.I.P.)

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    • nuptual
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 2:00am

      Why can’t this administration be removed?
      Why pay the bankers debt?….
      Why does Glenn Beck and Olberman have the same boss?
      Why does News Corp rent from Rockefeller

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    • Jackers
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 8:29am

      I am sick to death of Barack Obama and his never-ending quest for power… All of his fake slogans of “Hope and Change,“ ”Change You Can Believe In,“ ”Together We Thrive,“ and now ”Winning the Future” is nothing but a bunch of spectacular hype… Empty talk from an empty suit…

      The only thing this man can do is campaign, and the only job this man cares about is his own. Obama desperately wants to “recapture” his message of “hope” for the future as he needs the future, another four years, to finish off America…

      If only half our voting population had done their homework before falling for this Pied Piper, we wouldn’t be nearly as bad off as we are today… But still, except for a handful of American patriots, we need to clean out all of Capitol Hill.

      Out with International Globalists and in with American Patriots who will honor their oaths to the Constitution and put America’s best interests first.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 8:43am

      I was wondering why everything obama does seems contrary to common sense. i could list examples, but that would take up all my precious time.
      i believe that he is working against this country’s greatness and wholesomeness.
      I have come to the conclusion that what he wants is to bring the country down, to cause us to be desperate so we will come to see him as the savior that he sees himself to be. This IS devious and demonic in origin. He is trying to set the stage for our loss of sovereignty, as the new world order is installed. The man is a globalist and will do whatever it takes to get it done….including the desruction of the American way of life. Lord help us.

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    • Lt_Taz
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 10:38am

      THRUTHTALKER, I whole heartedly agree with you however The original meaning of WTF is more appropo.

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