Obama: People Aren’t Better Off Than 4 Years Ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans aren’t better off than they were four years ago as the struggling economy and high unemployment have taken a toll.
Looking ahead to next year’s election, the incumbent called himself the underdog in the 2012 presidential campaign though he said he doesn’t mind the label. The Democrat said it’s a role that he is used to.
In an interview with ABC News, Obama was asked how he planned to convince people they’re better off now than they were four years ago — the formulation Ronald Reagan famously used to defeat President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
“I don‘t think that they’re better off than they were four years ago,” Obama said. “They‘re not better off than they were before Lehman’s collapse, before the financial crisis, before this extraordinary recession that we’re going through. I think that what we‘ve seen is that we’ve been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy but the unemployment rate is still way too high.”
The president says the next election is going to be about who the public believes shares their vision for the future. He says he believes the American people still back his approach to governing, even if he hasn’t always been able to get his measures passed in Congress.
Recent polls show Obama’s public approval ratings holding steady in the low 40 percent range.
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mrsmileyface
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:22amNovember 2012 cant come soon enough.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:19am………says The Food Stamp President aka The ACORN President…..
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:24amanyone who shares obama’s vision for the future better get ready for a total depression and maybe a civil war.
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:32pmWell, that’s what the organizers of the “Occupy…” pawns are after.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:56am.
Report Post »The sharpest tack in the box……….
Jaycen
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 10:03amHow can the President of the United States of America consider himself “the underdog”? He’s got the entire media complex in his pocket.
Wow. Progressive Socialists will simply say anything at all.
Report Post »DNC TALIBAN
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:13pm(Obama: People Aren’t Better Off Than 4 Years Ago)
Well he at least got one thing right, but he the useful idiot president does not realize it’s his policies that are hurting the USA now.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:55amThe sad part is there are enough fools out there who’ll put this incompetent jerk back into the white house again. If he has 40% and the other side splits the vote (ie Ross Perot) then guess what? Clinton won with 43%
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:16amOne has to laugh. Just like Glenn said, this President needs to debate himself. He waffles and flip-flops every other week and no one in the media calls him out on it. So which is it Odumbo – your policies are working or “people are not better off than they were four years ago”??? Oh, I get it – four years ago was still under the Bush Administration – you have to make sure the mindless people watching reference how you inherited your stupidity from the last guy. Maybe Oblahblah you should have consulted Joe Biteme as the Stimulus worked better than your Administration could have dreamed of – must have been a bad nightmare….
Report Post »mikee1
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:52amLooks like the teleprompter writers are having ODUMBO THROW HIMSELF UNDER THE BUS NOW. LOL.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 6:55pmWouldn’t it be something – that the Manchurian Candidate – would be overthrown – by the guy behind the teleprompter?
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:50amI wonder what his first clue was?
The increase in the unemployed? The devaluation of the dollart and our credit rating?
The money given to “green” companies that were doomed to fail but were big contributors to his election (re-election) campaign, and the DNC.
The refusal to admit that there is racism when a minority attacks a white man or threatens him at a polling place.
DUH
OMG – Psalm 109:8
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 7:26amPray America that we can take back our country in 2012 because the evil doings of men and women in the government are destroying her. Our presidents vision is not our founding fathers vision and would bring us all into a new kind of slavery to the government, blacks included, but they don’t see it ! Our vote is the only way to stop this new form of slavery. wake up America ! The democratic party and rhino republicans are not pro american but pro self and how they can get rich off the backs of the taxpayers. It has been reported that obama made 10 million and soros made billions in this last stock market upheavel. Insider trading ? Noone has the courage to investigate anything this man does for fear of a race war. That which i might add he has very carefully orchastrated. Divide and conquer. What a guy !
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:30amOur Head Lice ‘n Chief has purposely done more to divide the races, destroy the economy and bring the country to its knees. I’ll give him credit–he does follow a plan and a teleprompter very well!
Report Post »Obama Been Lauding
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:14amThere are those that question the experience of Herman Cain, or Michelle Bachman, or any other candidate in the Republican field.
Report Post »I say, What was this guys experience level when he took office? A Community Organizer!!!
What a joke!!! The people behind his campaign are the ones that should have been looked at!!!
It is their ideas that he just relayed to everyone!!! Not that he didn’t agree with them, he just didn’t know how to put it into words, thus the teleprompter.
There are puppeteers behind him, and they speak for him through his teleprompter!!!
Look at the people behind him— they are Socialists, Communists, Thugs, or Jewish Turncoats(Soros)!
Solzhenitsin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:37pmCain has run a business and worked in government (rather than simply voting ‘present’). Michelle Bachman has been a tax attorney and has been in Congress, voting on hard issues, taking a stand (rather than simply voting ‘present’). Those who say they don’t have any more experience than Obama did are either blinded by their own preferences or are outright liars.
Report Post »SICKANTIRED
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:06amThe Government does not create jobs…They do not get it !!!
Report Post »resme
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:12amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmPWcLQ1Mk&feature=channel_video_title
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:56amWhat a moron. No we are definitely worse off.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:08am… a stupid understatement like none I have ever heard. Unbelievable … time to resign, OBAMMY THE TURD! And take that horse’s azz, BITEME, with ya … God help America …
Report Post »Rached Madcow SHOW
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:12amI can give Obama credit for being the best damn wake up call this Country has ever had. When it comes to everything that’s wrong with America, He’s the “total package”.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 6:08amLets hope America can survive this insidious Soros/Obama plan and never gets suckered again by progressive ideology.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:07amNo we aren’t better off since you were elected “Dear Leader”. You have us right where you want us. In the crapper. Thank you very much. Go back on vacation until election day. Leave us alone with your hideous policies.
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:02amThank you Obama for enhancing black unemployment.
That one act may drive up productivity and save the economy of this country. We must, for this one act, bow to your wisdom and, along with you, mighty one, show a** to brain-washed, bed-room-slippered-America, President Mocha.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 5:02amBarack HUSSEIN Obama is an ABSOLUTE DISGRACE. He is a disgusting MARXIST- expecting everyone to give up what we have built as a country – for his sick ideology.
Obama refuses to accept America’s exceptionalism – and we refuse to accept him as president.
He should be prosecuted as a Usurper – and for this thuggery..
Report Post »LafayetteAngel
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 4:44amThe title of this article makes me want say to Obama “Duh! What gave you your first clue.” Did he just figure this out recently?
Report Post »bmason71
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 4:38amCan’t get things passed in Congress? Bull crap! He had two full years of Democratic rule in Congress to get things done but all Congress could do is get all the things passed on old agenda’s before the American public find out that it was a big robbery! Pres. Obama needed this economy to last four years so he can plead with the American people to re-elect him for another four more years and by the end of it, American that we knew from years past will be no more and him with his family will be living in a European paradise with a big fat bank account padded by Tax payer dollars for the rest of his life.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 5:56pmObama and the radicals have had a lifetime mission for dumbed-down society – to the point of sheer ignorance – with their lies and deceit – they truly believe no one knows – they are LYING.
That is why VOTERS gave his a$$ a good vote-whipping in the midterms – and will get an even BIGGER vote-whipping in 2012 -
even if his ACORN, SEIU, NAACP vote multiple times for non-existent people.
Report Post »KZnextzone
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:26amVacation in Bali coming up.
Report Post »Vacation in Bali coming up.
Vacation in Bali coming up.
Vacation in Bali coming up.
fatjack
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:26pmNot really, he will continue running his mouth like carter, clinton, jackson, sharpton. His goals have not been met when he gets kicked out of office.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:20amO b administration in intense talks with congress trying to get them to stop blocking 200 million in aid to the P.A yep like we got the money .call your rep. article .israeli national news.
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:21amObama supports Terrorism – and wants to use US taxpayer money to finance it – under the guise of “humanitarian aid”.
The PLO has gottne enough US taxpayer money = $900 MILLION – during the “peace talks” – and refused to co-operate to attend ANY conferences.
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:19amHad enough yet? Wouldn’t it be great to void the laws Obama passed and undo the huge debt he caused? You can!
Constitution, Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”
Exempting a “citizen” from being a “natural born citizen” proves they aren’t equal, or no exemption was needed. Being not less than nor equal, a NBC must be more than the minimum requisite for citizenship then, which was US birth to a US citizen parent. Only US birth to US citizen parents (plural) is greater, thus defining a natural born citizen.[1]
The Supreme Court agreed in Minor v. Happersett, 1874. “The Court held that Minor was a member of the “class” of persons who were natural born citizens. They defined this class as those born in the US to “parents” (plural) who were citizens.” – Leo Donofrio, JD.
Even if born in HI, Obama is not a natural born citizen! His Kenyan father precludes eligibility.
Usurpers are arrested, not impeached. Obama must be prosecuted for using an alleged fraudulent social security number and birth certificate in usurping the Presidency! Then every law, executive order and appointment Obama inflicted on us is invalidated.
Please petition your Sheriff and others to investigate Obama now!
1. TPC, “Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com (8/18/2011).
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 4:17pmTeapartyConman, why are you fibbing to the people? You know perfectly well that in Minor v Happersett the Supreme Court specifically stated that the full definition of a natural born citizen was not a settled issue and that they were not ruling on it because it had nothing to do with the case at hand.
“Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.”
And you also know that they did finally rule on it in US v Wong Kim Ark (1898). That’s the binding precedent that has been the law of our land ever since, and it says you just have to be born here, it doesn’t matter who your parents were. The only other kind of citizen is a naturalized citizen, someone who was born in another country and became a citizen after they moved here. They aren’t allowed to run for President, anyone who was born a citizen is.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:26amYou know barry, the American people are so tired of you spewing your rhetoric, can you ever give it a rest?
Report Post »Actually, keep doing what you do so well, more uninformed people are waking up.
I cant wait to wake up on Nov. 5th, 2012.
Don’t keep pushing your class warfare, there are a lot more of us than you, you kick a sleeping dog long enough, and he will bite.
thewoodsfamily
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:43amSleeping dog is an outstanding self description! Do you know what happens to dogs that bite they are put to sleep permanently. BO has hurt our country more than any other president in history! So no mo BO understand?
NO BO IN 2012
BO HAS GOT TO GO
Report Post »thewoodsfamily
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:50amYea I can’t wait for you to wake up on Nov. 5th 2012 either because the election is on the 6th
Report Post »jack@#&.
netmail
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:51amAnd BO, you’re stating the obvious and pandering again. How can you be the most boring and dangerous man in the world at the same time?? That’s quite a feat I must admit.
Report Post »EC_Tune
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:19amAnd TOTUS… You had no part in the failure to recover right? Bush’s fault right? Yeah, thought so…
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:13amThis guy is so full of himself even when he wrecks rthe country he thinks we all approve of his policies. I am sorry Dear Leader but the only people that approve of you are the Marxists and Communists , and those ignorant people hanging out on Wall Street protesting the very people that financed your campaign in 2008.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:27ami kinda feel like he’s basically begging to be slapped across the face…
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:28amLets drive that point home from 2008 individuals comments.
One interesting point is the speech by Quaddafi of Libya in July, 2008, during which he referred to the “citizen of Kenya” and muslim whom all islamic states are supporting. Now, with their intelligence agencies, would not the leader of a muslim nation not know the origins of Obama? When Obama was 21, he traveled to Pakistan on a Kenyan passport that showed his citizenship as Kenyan. The left has worked so hard to cover any tracks from this Manchurian Candidate, but hopefully the truth will come out.
continued next post.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:29amOur nation’s salvation relies on his defeat and that of the Cloward-Piven strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis, which is exactly what the Demoncrats have produced with their wholesale theft at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as Countrywide, the main pusher of the toxic mortgages to the former Demoncrats running F. & F. Obama was the number 1 recipient of political donations (bribes) from Countrywide, even while they destroyed the mortgage industry. Not based on stupidity, but on calculated actions, as taught to ACORN foot soldiers by Obama, who then moved up to counsel for ACORN with his legal training finished. We need to send Obama, Geo. Wiley, Wade Rathke, Wm. Ayers, Carl Davidson, the last three the founders of SDS, Bernadine Dohrn, and Geo. Soros to share the hut with Obama’s extremely poor brother, whom Obama cares not a wit for. Our country would be markedly improved with these forced banishments.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:26amNot to mention the useful idiots on Wall Street also parroting and drooling over the Limousine Liberals that come to town and visit. Funny how people like Michael Moore and other obscenely rich idiots show up and get worshiped when these are the people the protesters say they hate. Why has Michael Moore not shared the wealth or paid his fair share??? Liberals truly do have a mental disorder
Report Post »Midwest Blonde
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 2:01amYeah unemployment is high and I just joined the ranks a few days ago. :(
Report Post »Solzhenitsin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 3:38pmI’m sorry to hear that!
Report Post »ThankBabyJesus
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 1:52am“…the next election is going to be about who the public believes shares their vision for the future.” YUP! 4 more years of this I‘m headin’ for the mountains.
Report Post »Ben__Franklin
Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:19am“…the next election is going to be about who the public believes shares their vision for the future.”
LoL, in his statement he meant “public” = Union Buddies. Odumbo only represents a small percentage of Americans – the rest can go to hell. Remember this President said he will punish his enemies and reward his friends – he was not joking. Unions first – The rest of us never….
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