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Obama Calls on Nation to ‘Invent Stuff’
- Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:01pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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As the president gears up for the 2012 campaign, he may need to brush up on his stump speeches. Sure, he’s canned the teleprompters recently, but telling America we need to “build stuff and invent stuff” isn’t really the epitome of eloquence:
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just the facts
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:17pmWe need to invent a way to rid the progressives and their agenda from our republic. Voting them out is one way, conservatism another. The other ways are not desirable and the last means of keeping our country. Whatever the case, we need to reclaim the United States as it was meant to be, not as the progressive agenda wants it to be.
Report Post »thefisherman
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:38pmI have been recommending for the past two years that we literally have an amicable divorce, dividing the nation into two new ones. Progressives deserve to have everything exactly as they desire. What better way than to provide them half of the nation’s lands? They can develop their own government. They won’t need and army. They can tax and spend to their heart’s content. They won’t have to deal with our archaic Constitution. Best of all, they can regulate every aspect of life cradle to grave. Why doesn’t this idea gain better traction?
Report Post »maryslittlelamb
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:55pm@fisherman Good idea. Let‘s give ’m California. Two problems solved!
Report Post »2Smart2BaLib
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:46am@fisherman I agree good idea. in addition to CA give them Massachusetts and the Detroit area
Report Post »vic138
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pmThen get out of the way. Less regulation, less unions, less taxes, more incentives, repeal the healthcare bill and most of all, tell the banks to start making loans.
Either that, or just try to force people to invent (alot) of “stuff”.
Report Post »truthncharity
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:14pmOf course he doesn’t sound eloquent, he‘s saying stuff he doesn’t believe in.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:12pmYeah, we need to invent more stuff than you can shake a stick at!
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:11pmYou can tell this guy has not worked an honest (note I said honest) job or day in his life.
Report Post »Obama. How about if you stuff it?
lecar
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:10pmI was recently in Taiwan. They have a ton of infrastructure construction going on. It makes the little bit of infrastructure upgrade in the US seem small.
Report Post »BlazingInSC
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:10pmCan this yutz maybe consider going back a few more years and start understanding and living by the principles of the founders instead of worrying about inventing something that he’ll work hard at banning anyhow (Still CFL free!)
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pmHe was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. I do believe the man knows more about the constitution than you’ll ever know,
Report Post »booger71
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:33pmmiddleclassprophet
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pm
He was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. I do believe the man knows more about the constitution than you’ll ever know,
The Constitution is 8 pages long. It was written to be understood by the farmer, craftsman, and the lawyer, but it is the lawyers who have the most trouble understanding it.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:39pm@middleassprostate
Report Post »The first black president of Harvard Law Review explains his ties to Progressives – it doesn’t elevate him!
steverocknroll
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:13pmmiddleclassprophet, I believe he studied the Constitution in order to be able to exploit its weaknesses when the time was right. By his own admission he hung out with the anarchists and socialists in college.
I’ve seen his version of Constitutional scholarship, and I ain‘t buyin’ it.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:17pm-steverocknroll-
Of course you’re not. You think he’s Kenyan. lol
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:42pm@middleclassprophet
He was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
That may be true but has anyone to date ever read anything he had written in the Harvard Law Review? Has anyone seen his college transcripts? Both answers would be NO!!!!
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:48pmToooooooooooooooo Funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny.
Report Post »“Invent Stuff”… like he’s trying command there to be light, and then there was light…!
does anybody see this… it’s so freaking funny.
Slobaphobe
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:22pm@middleclassprophet; And, yet, President Obama did not publish one article in two years. The expectation of the president of any Law Review is to publish. Had he written case reviews perhaps we could study them. Alas, we cannot.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:09pmWell, I see he hasn’t canned that teleprompter yet.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:09pmWe better start manufacturing more in the US or we are going to be in worse trouble than we are already in.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:14pmThat’s going to happen as soon as Americans start working for less than two bucks an hour.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:09pmThe fourth branch of government (the bureaucracy) makes rules and regulations that maintain the status quo in favor of established industries than make it difficult, if not impossible to create and expolite a new invention. Mr. Obama controls the bureaucracy. Just another “head fake” by the tyrant. Watch what the President Obama does, not what he says! http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »lecar
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:08pmI don’t think invednting is the issue. We need to build up a manufacturing base to make the stuff we invent!
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:08pmHuh? Edison’s principals? Wasn’t he the guy who invented the light bulb your party has banned? For no good reason?
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pmEdison DID NOT invent the light bulb!!! The light bulb was around for quite a while. At that time they had very short life span. His workers made it better but Edison him self did not. That would be like saying he invented electricity. He had nothing to do with that except by stock in DC generators.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:08pmHow about we start building stuff than we’ve already invented? Stuff like all the products that are now being made overseas.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:44pmExcellent idea!
Report Post »Texas woman56
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmHasn’t Beck been saying that?
Report Post »Maybe he is watching the show.
Lucy Larue
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:42pmYep Texas Woman 56, you’re correct!
Glenn has been saying that. I doubt that President Barry Dunham watches Glenn’s show. I would venture that he has a special “Czar” that does.
Our President does know how to invent stuff though. He does it every time he speaks to us. Repect for office inhibits me from giving what he does it’s proper name.
And to give credit where credit is due…,his financial team did INVENT a new United States currency called “Phony Dough”.
His foreign policy wizards did INVENT a whole new approach to the Palestinian problem called,“Blame Israel”.
His United Nations team did INVENT a whole new concept of this nation as one with myriad Human Rights abuses so that we could be taken to task by the likes of Saudi Arabia.
And please…, let us not forget that while we are engaged in a two front war against Islamofascism his crack Joint Chiefs appointees ALL were willing to INVENT a kinder, gentler, military by repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”…, with the added bonus of WOMEN serving in combat! WOW!
Report Post »Now our Special Forces first order of duty when they go on missions in Afghanistan will be to gather up the plentiful rocks among the dust so they can build a “PRIVACY” wall between the two latrine holes they dug in the dirt for “PRIVACY” purposes. Not to worry though. I am sure that some military genius at the Quartermaster Corps will INVENT tasteful(in proper camo, of course) signs reading, “LADIES”, “GENTS”. No problem!
With an Administration who leads the way on “INVENTING STUFF”….,the least we can do as American Citizens is heed the call of our President. We need to start inventing stuff.
My contribution? I am working on a way to dispose of my Al Gore, twisty, G.E., Immelt, mercury laden lightbulbs safely. As soon as I do I will contact the E.P.A. which as I write is “INVENTING” ways to tax us for carbon dioxide abuses.
Shucks! Who ARE these naysayers that doubt our President has moved to the middle? A pox on them I say!
Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmInnovation has ceased because of government intervention / regulation/ excessive taxation.
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Old Truckers
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:15pmThat’s right. Why on earth would anybody feel confident to go into business under the present “big brother” environment?
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:24pmMabey sombody will invent The Way Back Machine and send Obama back to Illinois to do community organizing .
Report Post »OmegaMan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmI’ve been here twiddling my thumbs and thinking to myself “Man, if only someone would give me the green light to invent something . . .”.
What a waste of air. I can’t believe that the president just to me to “invent stuff.” Can you imagine if George W. had said those same words? They’d be the lead, snarky story on NBC, CBS and ABC.
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmEdison is a bad example of an inventor. Tesla on the other hand was a great inventor. Tesla was a cut throat business man, and had a lot of money and influence. A very poor sport and a ruthless person. But hey a little bit of money will make the history books say anything you want.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:21pmEdison was the cut throat and used his political freinds to supress Tesla A/C power grid.
Report Post »smokie
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:28pmI found it peculiar, too, that he brought up Edison, the man that invented the style of lightbulb now deemed evil.
Report Post »Also, there is an unsavory side to Edison, that I‘m sure the Obomb wasn’t aware of.
Edison also invented movies, a means for meatheads to be famous so they can vomit their dim philosophies at us via psas.
BLEMON01
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:30pmHe doesn’t put any thought into what he says. He just blurts things out like a 4th grader trying to win the position of class president.
Report Post »It’s alarming.
And why are we called “Folks” now instead of “Americans.”
Ugh…I can’t stand to listen to him.
jacobstroubles
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmCan it get any funnier?
Report Post »handsoffmystuff
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:08pmyes…. i just invented a birth certificate generation machine… putting it in the mail to the gov of hawaii right now.
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:11pmThis kind of talk seems kind of hypocritical to me.
Report Post »Since when is he interested in stopping the borrowing? 14 trillion dollars in debt!
S_Malc13
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:22pmMore center-right smoke & mirror rhetoric throwing conservatives a bone. The campaign is on.
Report Post »patriot1770
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmAhhhh….what would the boob in chief want us to invent? He would just let the chinese steal it and then sell it back to us any way. I used to think this guy was at least intelligent eventhough a crappy socialist, but I ain’t sure anymore.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:42pmOh, you can be sure Obama is a buffoon, alright. He is Soros’ mouthpiece and is too coward to do the right thing by the American people. 2012 cannot come soon enough for me. Personally, I will be physically going from door to door campaigning for the Conservative base, something I never would have dreamed of doing ever. I want to know after the next Presidential election, that I did everything I could to prevent this man from staying in the White House. 1-term President. He should have NEVER gotten this far. HE WILL NOT BE RE-ELECTED.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:07pmMaybe if there were fewer federal agencies policing every move we make and telling us how much we are not allowed to do there would be more inventiveness in this country. Inventors have been regulated out of business.
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:48pmI am happy to see the real you back on the Blaze again! I agree with you, maybe if the government encouraged small business and entrepreneurs there would be avenues for new innovative products to reach the market. As it stands now inventors have a million barriers to their pay day.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:06pmWhen the bank is ready to cut him off. Isn‘t it amazing he says this right after the China President’s visit.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:06pmMaybe we would if he didn’t remove the incentive to do it. Just look at the Pharma companies. They have removed the profit from that industry. It takes over 800 million dollars to bring 1 product to market because of all the gov regulation, and it just keeps getting worse. The pharma companies aren’t allowed to make a profit so the have stopped much of their R&D. No new meds will becoming because of Obamacare.
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RightUnite
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:10pmDo you blame big Pharma? I don’t.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:27pmNO, absolutely not. Pharmaceutical companies are the innovators. They have been attacked by being over-regulated. I don‘t work for free and I don’t expect them to either. If the financial incentive has been removed I can only expect that they will stop producing new compounds. Take a look. They have slashed R&D dramatically and it is the Obama Administrations fault.
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Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:32pmBy the way. There is currently an attack on the Pharma companies that has been going on unreported. The FDA has been shutting down manufacturing facillities under the guise of safety. The reality is that if the man ufacturing of drugs is slowed down, their use will be slowed and consequenly Medicare/Medicaid payments will be slowed. The attack is unprecedented. Call you local HOSPITAL pharmacy and ask if there is a shortage of any drugs. The list is long.
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Docrow
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:32pmA 20 year patent to reclaim 800 million (and that might be a low number) in cost with most of that time developing and testing the drug. No I don’t blame them. I wonder how much of that 800 million is spent on litigation and government red tape “for the good of the people”? Some protection is needed but how far have we gone?
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:38pmI don’t blame ANY business for NOT using their R&D. We are supposed to be living in a capitalistic country, but more and more, this administration is NUDGING companies towards socialism, SO WHAT’S THE POINT in investing money for NEW STUFF? THERE IS NO POINT, except 120% of their profits will be taken away from them.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:47pmIronmaan..NOT true.. Big Pharm is doing quite well.. THEY didn’t get regulated they are one of the money cows for Obama.. With all the money Big Pharm gets from silly people walking for money etc they should have cured just about EVERYTHING.. but there’s more money in TREATMENT than there is a cure therefore they have CURED nothing..
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:32pm@ DEMOCRATGIRL
If you are truly a democrat, then you are the first one since the time of JFK that I have known to understand that businesses have to be profitable to survive. Be careful. Your fellow democrats may want to try you for treason!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:05pmJust wave your magic wand — we’ll invent stuff and you can redistribute the profits.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:18pmExactly : WE THE PEOPLE invent & WE THE GOVERNMENT spread the wealth .
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:11pmWE THE PEOLE invented the freedom to have a black liberal president………….hope its not a patent
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:12pmEven if I did “invent” something .. I wouldn’t try to market it until the Marxists are out of Washington.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:03pmDoes this mean you got an agreement from China’s Pres Hu to STOP STEALING our intellectual property and pay back royalties for the last 10 years? (Hint: this might fix our debt problems with China if they paid us what they owed.)
Report Post »handsoffmystuff
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:05pm…. by banning the light bulb
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:18pmGeneral Electric has been making compact fluorescents for 20 years. Now the company admits that the little bit of mercury in each bulbs could become a real problem if sales balloon as expected.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198
Report Post »Grady Curve
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:24pmNow the head of a Privately held company ( GE) is setting at the head of the government policy making decisions on US business…. can you say Monopoly or Conflict of INterest?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:07pmBUT GE/JEFFY-E has a “clean up the mercury bulb” program
Does BHO think we are that stupid?
Geeze guess I should have gone to Harvard to understand all this moonbat crap…
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:29pmThis moron invokes the name of Edison for us to “build stuff” and “invent stuff” while simultaneously banning Edison’s light bulb and closing American factories producing it…the irony!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:59pm@GRADY CURVE -
Report Post »Are you from Atlanta? That‘s the only place I’ve heard of “Grady (Hospital) Curve” (of I-75).
PlanetXenu
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:02pmedison was a fink. the Alturnating Current was of Tesla fame (AC/DC). Edison was a facist!!!
Report Post »cheezwizshabaz
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:05pmIf someone tried to invent something, they would be slapped down for violating some ordinance or regulation.
Report Post »mara123
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:12pmYea invent new stuff so he can ban it.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:12pmBuy American. Encourage US manufacturing.
Report Post »RobertCA
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:15pmHow about “ START DRILLING ”
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pmGotta give Obama credit for this one, he.s right about this. Buy American, if you can.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:16pmWhat?
You mean like Constitutional justifications for government takeover of private industry?
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:17pmWorse, Obama views the innovative and productive as chumps. They are his captive sheep, to be shorn of the fruits of their labor in order to buy the votes of the parasitic class that comprises his base.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:17pmBan the light bulb, ban drilling, tax the “rich”, collectivist social policies, regulate, regulate, regulate. Oh, and by the way, go invent something. Is there any oxygen on this guys planet?
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oldguy49
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:17pmlets see, he gets the ceo of G.E. to help…….isn’t he in on the cap and trade thing with obama…..doesn’t his company also profit from the ban of incandesent light bulbs so his company can sell us the mercury filled ones, that by the way he has made in china and shiped to us while we subsidize it to the tune of almos$ 500,000,000 …….this is the guy that going to look after american business interest
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:21pmHere is a guy that hasn’t produced anything of value his entire life telling other to “GO INVENT SOMETHING”. What an incredible piece of unmittigated GALL. I can’t even believe someone put that on his teleprompter.
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hkyfan36
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:23pmHow about this lets go through the archives and reestablish a lot of the patents that the government bought and burried. There have been great ideas that have been patented that never saw the light of day because of our government trying to help out what ever special interest at the time happy or for national security.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:24pmOldguy – don’t forget the $4 Billion the auto workers union made off of the bailout deal. We just got another pro-union businessman (oxymoron, I know,) to help lead us to job creation.. yeah, that’s gonna end well.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:28pmMr. Obama – you want to see America manufacture and invent again? Time to disband the unions, then. You can’t snap your fingers and make the USA competitive at manufacturing again. This President is pro-business to some extent: pro BIG business. It’s the small companies that produce “things” economically and competitively, invent new “things”, and hire people. You have spent two years strangling the life out of small business and propping up big businesses that are “too big to fail”, and yet you have no clue why the economy is still stagnant.
2012 can’t get here soon enough – hopefully there is something left of the American spirit in two years time.
Mister President
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:29pmExactly. You do not call upon the nation to start inventing stuff, Mr. Obama. You put in place policies that allow people the freedom to actually do so. Central planning has been unequivocally disproved. Maybe this guy thinks he can order people to invent things as easily as he can order a Predator Drone strike. He’s the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces, not of the American People. I don’t think he realizes that. Mr. Obama, we are your boss; you work for us – for about two more years.
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:30pmDoes this joke understand all this big govt he is instituting is why so many jobs have left the country! You cant invent anything here, b/c you get regulated out the wazoo when you try to bring it to market not to mention all the taxes! Then you have big companies breathing down your neck and either try to buy you out never bringing the product to market, as your mousetrap would make their obsolete or claim you stole their crap and crush you in court!
Either way I find what BHO saying hypocritical! If he felt this way he would have govt reduce regs and taxes and do everything possible to stimulate the market… stimulate capitalism. Something we all know he is not for!
56 men, our Founding Fathers, had the courage to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for freedom, prosperity and the pursuit of happiness. What are you prepared to do? http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:31pmI’ve got a patent on a “garden tool” that would expedite planting, and also help a handicapped person garden, if only I could get Obama to buy it. Paid a marketing company big bucks for, so far, no return. Maybe GE wants to get into small handtools for gardening and will share some of the money my tax dollars gave them.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:31pmI am going to take his advice and start a business selling Hawaiian birth certificates. I think I know who my first client will be!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:36pmyou mean like Inventing NEWS ?
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:43pmWhen Obama said “buy American”, what he meant was “buy American debt, please”.
He wasn’t addressing the American people with that comment.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:44pmbut telling America we need to “build stuff and invent stuff” isn’t really the epitome of eloquence:
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He is speaking to his target audience and they only have IQs in single digits
DrewA72
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:45pm@Cheez: So true man I have cpl ideas on the back burner but cant get any breaks to get them built. One is truly revolutionary idea of a new fuel system (no Im not crazy its legit and could change everything!) based off of already existing proven technology. These guys do everything possible to squash the inventor of today where a 100yrs ago they were embracing them. It sucks there are so many like myself with true potential who cant get a shot at a job or bringing something truly innovative to the market!
@Grandma: you got taken. Sorry but I must tell you the truth those new product companies rip ppl off. You have to do the footwork yourself. I got taken when I was 19 by an invention company on one of my designs. They never marketed it to the right ppl, instead of actual gadget mfgs, they mkt’d to plumbing business etc.
If you are looking for an innovative, entrepreneurial out of the box thinker that can use my unique skill-set in business development, operations/ administration and/ or new product development in So CA (I know I know whats a conservative patriot doing in the land of fruits and nuts) drop me a line.
A.Avilla@yahoo.com LinkedIn profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewavilla
Thanks!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:47pm@ grandmaof5
Didn’t congress passed a law this past summer that makes it illegal to grow your own food in your backyard?
God forbid they see you planting a flower with that tool…..I mean, they might establish intent to commit a crime….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:48pmAbsolutely .. … you want people to “invent things”? get the H *ll out of the way . What a dope … or does he REALLY think we are.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:52pm“If someone tried to invent something, they would be slapped down for violating some ordinance or regulation.”
Most people, especially people on Obama’s “side”, don’t grasp that the age of invention occurred because we lived in an age of extremely abundant liberty. There’s a reason why, for 2000+ years, humanity was pretty much “stuck” at the same level of technology, and only came un-stuck after the age of Reason dawned.
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:57pmI wished that I could invent a device which would only be visible to the speaker but remain invisible to the audience. That way the speaker could make fantastic, stirring, and highly emotional speeches to the public without having to look down at his notes. As a matter of fact, the speaker would not have to write the speeches himself. He could have a trained staff who are artists when it comes to rhetoric. The speaker could esentially be a stuffed-suit who simply recited the propoganda that magically appears on the invisible screens in front of him. If he had some style or charisma, he could sell the people anything or demonize anyone who publicly opposed the agenda behind the speeh-writers. Nah……too diabolical. I have a conscience, you know! I suppose that I will just keep trying to perfect my new airport security device….you don’t even need to take your clothes off! Such convenience!
Report Post »mill
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 2:58pminvent..yet do away with the light bulb as we know it and give us something inferior.. He still thinks he lives in Kenya.
invent..like you wake up and bang..invent!!
Report Post »Obama, aka dim bulb, is a laugh a minute
grandmaof5
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:01pmDREWA72, thanks, will drop you a line over the weekend.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:01pmAt least he said the right words.
Report Post »JohnK144
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:07pmIronmaan:
“He’s hilarious. He says “start inventing” as though just saying that is all that needs to be done.”
Yeah, just like in the old days. You know, like when he said “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Report Post »101
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:09pm.
Report Post »Deregulate to entice companies to invest & move back to the United States!
7.62AirMailComeGetIt
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:12pmi have an Invention patent pending for cordless tools. I also have a new vehicle COMPLETELY GREEN CAR. Trying to find investors is CRAZY they all want to try and steal it. try to submit something to ford and they wanna do it NO DISCLOSURE to say no thanks and then make their own version… try being an INVENTOR i am.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:14pmMr. President, have you ever read Atlas Shrugged?…Because you sound just like the elitist and brain dead looters!
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:35pmHEY OBAMA,
WHY should we be taxes to death and over-regulated so you can line your pockets with million dollar vacations? I will wait until 2013 before I start inventing STUFF! Thanks, but no thanks!
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:53pmAnd the voice from the heavens spoke “Start Inventing”, and men prospered, and it was good.
Gospel according to Obama, 1:21:12
Man started inventing and the evil profits then follow, Obama said, “There are too many evil profits, we must redistribute them to cleanse and make good” Thus Cass the Regulator spread forth his arm and issued regulations to stop all inventions. Thou shalt jump through hoops and stick beans in ones nose before any invention shall be blessed, sayeth Obama.
Report Post »Man was sad and did not want beans up their noses, thus evil profits ceased, inventions went away, and all was equal, in squalor, in misery, and in ingnorance….Sayeth Obama.
highcarry
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:56pmhe meant reinvent himself so he looks better
Report Post »JesusChrist
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:56pmLOL you people are quite funny……i don‘t think there would be a tea party if you didn’t have your retarded slippery slope arguments……healthcare…..guns……gay marriage….regulations…….soooo funny….Grow up you idiots, you have no idea what you’re talking about…
tommee
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:57pmHey GHOSTOFREASON
You forgot to mention another very important reason why “humanity was stuck at the same level of technology” for so long: Religion!. Science has been in a battle with the church from day one. Copernicus, Galileo and countless other men of science, were persecuted, even killed by the church.
The wisdom of the ages was almost wiped out by the religious book burning of the dark ages. If it wasn’t for Arab translations of the classics in Iraqi libraries – out of reach of the Christian church – most of literature and documents would have been lost.
Even today the tentacles of religion have a large percentage of Americans believing that Darwin’s scientific theory of evolution – the basis of all biology and modern medicine – is a hoax.
Never mind Obama’s followers, because of religion, the age of reason has yet to take hold of much of America!
Report Post »BLANKETASS
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:57pmim 67 and rember cars weighing 3s times todays cars
Report Post »and basic mecanics that if you didnt get 20mpg or better
you had a lemon
thank you for the epa i now get 6/15mpg on my gm tk
you could also buy it for under 3000 trucks 1500 now the same tk is 25000/58000
thank
pajamash
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 3:58pmThis man has the nerve to talk about Americans borrowing too much when under his watch, the American Government, has increased the countries debt to the largest in history?! We need to invent something alright Mr. President…a way to elect you out of office!!!
Report Post »DonoRomantico
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:08pmGo invent something so that the Government can take it over.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:20pmthis is becoming vaudeville…invent how to rig elections…how to make more $$$ for GE…too fkng much…
Report Post »Noonien_Soong
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:23pmThe only invention that needs to be is a permanent incandescent light bulb over Obama’s head, hoping for a burnout.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:24pmmara123
LOL!!! But sadly it’s true… but LOL!!!
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:28pmSure Massa Obama…anything you say!
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:30pmWell, I have to say this is one area where the Progressives/Leftists/Statists have a massive advantage.
They’ve been inventing things like facts & history for ~100 years!
Speaking of altered facts and history…Dear Rep. Cohen…Goebbels & the Nazis learned to use propaganda from a *Progressive* in FDR’s administration!! “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
Too bad for the Progressives that people aren‘t as ignorant of history as they’d like to believe.
More are awakening and becoming enlightened & empowered every day, and taking up the challenge to inform & enlighten others. The signal of reawakening & enlightenment has been sent, and the Progressives cannot stop it any more than they can suck a radio wave back into its‘ antenna once it’s sent.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:31pmSure…Invent new stuff so THEY can GIVE it away to China…China is a P E R F E C T example as to why Communism doesn’t work…they can only steal, copy and swindle to advance…Obama should move there and take Mooch-elle with him!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:32pmHey Obama, go PRODUCE something!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 4:37pmI will invent a car that runs on windmill power…You just have to have a big hill to push it down, but it gets a BILLION MPG!!!
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:03pmLet’s see, hmm, I got it.
We find a way to slice up motgages in tiny pieces
then we mix them all together so the bad ones are all mixed in with good ones
We cram as many bad slices as we can but not too many we still want a AAA rating
then we create a big box full of these mortgages as investments to pension funds and foreign countries, we give the brokers huge commissions for dumping them, i mean selling them.
then to get those pesky liabilities off bank books we create an insurance program so that we can move the products off the banks books in exchange for an insurance policy
now the banks can do keep creating more mortgages keep hiding those ridicously bad ones
and now we have a great system to get every american a house.
How’s that for something new? I hope no body did that yet!!
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:11pm@darmok
Report Post »You just found your invention- the Obiblema – Please write and have it published- I’ll buy it , your really funny!
GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:36pm@TOMEE
I know that’s the standard Leftist dogma. Ironically, the Catholic Church was quite pro-science, but you have to read books about it by actual historians instead of political screeds by people inspired by Mark. That said, yes, religion did help keep things regressed, but religion had NO power without the various states backing them up. The Pope could decree all the live long day, but as England proved (and later, Martin Luther) if the state says “nope” then the Church was impotent.
It was, in fact, the Protestant birth that gave rise to individual literacy across Europe, which gave rise to the Renaissance. Protestants, last check, were religious. And lest we forget, up until oh, forty years ago, the vast majority of Americans and Europeans were quite religious.
So clearly, if it were religion doing it, then we’d still be living in the dark ages technologically.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:43pmOr taxed out of his rosterium!!!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:50pmOH!!! Or maybe so another UNION can be formed!
Report Post »fivebyfive
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 5:59pmI’m working on a Mercury light bulb disposal container.(curly bulbs)
mandate EVERY household have one,viola problem solved
or I could just steal Tweaks underware- make profitl
Report Post »fivebyfive
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:18pmI just invented a B.S. detector, played this clip on it and it BLEW UP
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:19pm@heezwizshabaz
Why do you think he’s saying it. He probably figures that anyone that invents “stuff” is an entrepreneur and thereby a conservative. That way he can get them for “violating some ordinance or regulation” and get rid of them.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:23pmIt‘s not the government’s job to shape the economy. It‘s the government’s job to make it easier for the private sector to pursue the kind of economy that THEY want it to look like.
On a related note, there is no global economy. We should be worried about our own economy, not the economies of other sovereign countries.
Report Post »Ryan Beaulieu
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 6:42pmWe just got finished inventing the Tea Party…
Report Post »UMMAH GUMMAH
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:01pm.
Obama is the master of inventions. He LIES all the time. As in he makes stuff up, he invents things..
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Report Post »click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:31pmOk, I’m on top of this one. I’m trying to invent a machine that will make Obama disappear. I’m taking orders…
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 7:46pm… you just can’t “invent” this stuff up…..
HIGHLARIOUS !!!!
Report Post »wfnc2377
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:08pmThey need to invent new tolient paper, mine keeps ripping
Report Post »tommee
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 8:15pmHey A DOCTORS LABOR IS NOT MY RIGHT
You say, “On a related note, there is no global economy. We should be worried about our own economy, not the economies of other sovereign countries.”
You are missing something very important about business. Most large companies are no longer American companies, Yes, they may have office headquarters in the U.S. but they are really huge multinational, global corporations. They operate outside of national boundaries. Hence the constant push for free trade with other countries.
Multinationals have no loyalty to the good old U.S.of A. – only to profits. They think nothing of closing down American shops to relocate where labor and production costs are cheaper. As a result, unemployment goes up here. Business then ships their products back to the U.S. and other countries to sell, but people here either aren’t working or are earning less, so they can’t afford to buy the goods. The economy stalls and more jobs are lost, The process repeats on and on.
The only way to fix today’s American economy is to see the problem as a global problem, not to wear blinders to shut out the rest of the world.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:07pmWe came out winners in WWII because we out invented, out produced and outsmarted our enemies. If another world war were to erupt now, we would be in serious trouble. Government taxing policies and excessive regulation have caused the problems causing loss of manufacturing capability and the jobs that went with it. As long as we have excessive corporate taxation, greedy and unreasonable unions, the EPA, OSHA and investors that insist on outlandish twenty percent plus returns on their investments, we will continue to lose the industrial base that made America the industrial giant of the twentieth century. We need less government and a flat tax for individuals and businesses now!!!
Report Post »CKByrne
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:18pmI have notebooks of inventions… all extensively patent searched… but I can‘t persue because I don’t have the money for a patent attorney. It’s more difficult than ever for an individual inventor to get a patent! If the government would get the heck outta’ the way, we’d have a boom in productivity and innovation!
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:31pmyes master!
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:44pm@oldguy49 .. Yep.. I am not sure if it’s the same guy but GE is the HEAD of the CLIMATE BILL scam.. and I ONLY heard one person on FOX make a reference to it today.. LOOKS like they are asleep too..
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 9:56pm“We‘re going back to Thomas Edison’s principles.”
- but of course first we’re going to ban the light bulb Edison invented and you can use these ChiCom squiggly bulbs
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:05pm@Rogue.. INDUSTRIAL UNIONS are NOT the problem the UNION BOSSES are.. MOST union members are hard workers.. ( not like those on the lines at the car companies).. Many have to have degrees (again NOT the ones on the line at car companies) just to get a job.. and certain ones have to keep going to school.. (wouldn’t want someone bring a electric wire from the pole to your home WITHOUT some kind of knowledge of electric would you?).. HOWEVER when they bailed out the car companies instead of allowing them to fail it was wrong.. I know a few union workers who DO NOT get a lifetime pension at 50 or 55.. nor will they be getting lifetime healthcare.. they DO pay SS and they DO have a 401K.. just like the private sector.. However.. Most INDUSTRIAL unions now have a small pension plan for their employees, a one time payout for healthcare when you retire..and your on your own with SS (if it’s still around) and their 401K.. The ONLY unions who have the OLD type UNION benefits are GOVERNMENT controlled.. either FEDERAL, LOCAL or STATE.. and to get a job with one of them you have to KNOW someone.. and the taxpayers get to pay these huge pensions unlike what goes on in industrial unions..
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on January 21, 2011 at 10:09pmWay ahead of ya Mr. Prez !
We are inventing methods to get OFF your healthcare, and OFF your smaht Grid
so we can become INDEPENDENT !
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Contrarian51
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 12:22amcheezwizshabaz
“If someone tried to invent something, they would be slapped down for violating some ordinance or regulation.”
I’d be more inclined to anticipate a variation on this theme. A new invention would be incentive for liberals to craft a whole bunch of new ordinances and regulations. They don‘t like enforcing most of the laws on the books now because it’s just so much more fun to keep dreaming up new ones with all the new regulatory bodies to oversee them.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 12:50amThe Gospel According to Obama
Chapter 1
And Oprah shall say, “Let there be the ONE”, and it was done.
The one sayeth, “Yes WE can” and it was done, with lots of undocumented money.
After the one sayeth, “We need more TARP”, the serpent, from the Bay, sayeth, we have a TARP. The one signeth the TARP and deemed “Life is Good, let there be Health Care”
But the One did not listen to the people, and the people did protest. “Tea is what we need” cried the people. Alas, the One did not heed the people and insisted the Healthcare is what the people needed. The serpent from the bay wielded the mighty hammer and cried “Racism” and wielded the mighty hammer with might. The people did protest, but was smited by the Serpent from the Bay.
The people were then perceived as simple and dismissed, thus the peoples, people, rejoiced and partied with the serpent from the Bay. Alas, the people were dismayed and refudieated the peoples People, and cast them into civilionship, and thus vacated their offices. The serpent from the Bay was furious and admonished the people as stupid and racist. The chosen One flew off to The Island and muttered, “I was born upon these Islands, so sayeth the Governor”. The Oberman, spouted one, with venom.
Report Post »After the Midterm, the Chosen One returned to the city by the Potomic, and pronounced, “I have returned to center”, the Oberman rejoiced but declared, “the right is still racist and the Worlds worst person.” The ratings dropped and neilson cried.
After the midterm massacre, the left screamed, “Oh chosen One, did thou forsaken us”, the Chosen One simply laughed and said, “What did the Rahm say, never waste a crisis”. The left was then smited and sent to the common places.
The Boehner then rose to where the serpent from the Bay was and said, “We shall cut these prices.” Walmart smiled and said, “Life is good.” At which there was a march on Washington to protest these low prices. The Boehener then submitted, “We must repeal this “Healthcare”, but the former serpent from the Bay, screamed, “Racist”, (the only word she knows). And the Obermans from the media parroted the same. Thus, Racist was the word heard throughout the land on the big three to the simpletons of the land. The Keith thus quit his towncrier post and returned to the bus stop restrooms, crying for the obligatory $5 a cry. The Chris with a tingle remained to champion the One with a tingle and tout “Healthcare for all and for all a good tax raise”.
But for all the One called for, the Tucson called out the Hypocrisy and the One called for a reason and civil debate. But the Hairy one from the desert and the serpent from the Bay said “Nay, we shant cease with the foul hatred or vitriol, we shall spite forward with vile breath”. The nation was sad and soiled. The Tea stained people rose above the vitriol and smote the vile rhetoric at the polls, the serpent and the toad from the desert shrank back to the desolate decadence from which they came, they hissed, “We shall be back through the EPA and FCC, regulations shall strangle you and the One shall retain his power.” The Governator said in his goodbye address, “I shall be back”. The Golden State then threw the noose around our neck.
The abyss rose on the horizon, the sun shone on our backs, Beck said, “I Can”, and the left beacons, “No you can’t”. Now is the time for man to choose, “Can you or can’t you?” If you can’t, vote for the serpent from the Bay, if you can, vote for the man from the Mount.
Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:02amcome one people he needs people to invent stuff because hes running low on our money and no businesses want to expand so we need to make something cool that he can redistribute. plus like he said he wants to sell china alot of stuff.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:06amI guess he thinks ‘inventing stuff’ is as easy as all the ‘stuff’ they invented while trying to fool Americans into to accepting their ‘health care’ bill.
Obama: invented by the far left to take America to ruin.
Report Post »Sondergard
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:41ambut on a serious note, i ask all of you to hold off on inventing, hold off on buying american made for now. I am tired of what our country is turning into. Im tired of all this PC and redistribution. The only way we MIGHT get our country back is a real civil war, I hate to say it but hope van jones and that fox piven scum get the chaos they are calling for. Not because I want the change they are calling for, its because I feel our country will never get its head out of its ass and will never be the great nation it once was unless we are hit with a great depression/civil war. They think we will run to the government in the midst of it all, but they are wrong. they would fall hard if they tried going toe to toe with true americans. That is the only way we will ever get rid of these unions, food stamps, welfare, redistribution and other BS waste. That is the only way we will have a respectable defense budget and regain our proper place as the worlds super power. till then fight them with your words and stand against them peacefully because that alone is driving them crazy.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:20amInstead of giving back the bust of Winston Churchill – it would be more honest if Obama just gave back the Statute of Liberty.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 6:34amWhen I saw this clip I immediately thought that we are inventing things every day, then giving them to other countries to build and sell back to us. They get the money and we get the shaft. That is one reason why we are broke. I can’t believe that anyone but a juvenile would say such nonsense… certainly not a President.
Report Post »UPSETVET
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 6:53amI agree with Barry O, that we should “ build and invent stuff ” for our country’s well being, like an honest to goodness real president in 2012. What has Barry O done to build and invent something good for the USA ? HIs community organizer skills haven’t been too useful to his presidency the past two years and will be less useful the next and last two years. BARRY O HAS GOT TO GO. That’s my contribution for the well being of the USA. Let‘s build our country’s future without the Obamas, Let Barry and Michelle go on to bigger and better achievements, like getting a real job for the firts time in their lives.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:39amYes, invent something; get rich, so he can redistribute your wealth.
Report Post »WOG-NY
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 9:52amThey already invented a Ballot Box Stuffer
Report Post »EP46
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:03amokey dokey
I just INVENTED an Obama Birth Certificate……let’s start the bidding now….how much will you offer ??
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:00pmYeah, give us the incentive and freedom to invent stuff… Yah boob! Making unions more powerful won’t help. Quit paying for college tuitions that aren’t worth the paper the diplomas are printed on. Boy, did Obama get ripped off by Harvard. He honestly doesn’t have a clue.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 1:15pmIf Palin had said “stuff”, it would be getting around here!!!.
Obama invented “stuff”. He invented himself in the image that everyone wants him to be. He is all things to all people. If you want a Socialist, he can talk Socialist. If you want Progressive, he can talk Progressive. If you want Hope, you can project your own hope onto him.
He is alot like that paint color they put on the Maxima’s a few years ago. If you looked at it one way, it was green. If you looked another way it was Purple. Just like Obama. “Green” for the eco-terrorists and Purple for his SEIU Buddies. Perfect.
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 10:17pmif they get past the regulations, there profit would be stolen from them, or they would be demonized, or accused of killing some bird that is about to die anyways.
Report Post »robespierre
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 11:56pmMaybe we can reinvent the ‘Cloaking Device’ and make him go away.
Report Post »Tucsonan
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 4:11amHe wants us to invent stuff that can be made in China. DO you really think they would allow us to continue the free market here?
Report Post »Tucsonan
Posted on January 23, 2011 at 4:14amHe really should take his own advice and to quit “borrowing”
Report Post »New White Tiger Party
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 8:39amWhat he forgot to say is: don‘t bother if the invention isn’t done by GM or GE, financed by Goldman Sachs, assembled and shipped by union folks with a government mandated demographic, certified by climate pimps to be “green”, and subsidized with tax dollars.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on January 24, 2011 at 9:02amInvent something that will take years to get through govt regulation, EPA sanctions,and taxed to death??? How about we invent a smaller, less intrusive government, that lets a man keep more of what he earned than the government can steal. Oh wait… they did. You commies are trying as hard as you can to destroy that.
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