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Obama Sees Malaise: President Says America Has ‘Gotten a Little Soft’
- Posted on September 29, 2011 at 10:56pm by
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President Barack Obama on Thursday said the U.S. has lost some of its competitive edge and gotten a “little soft.”
Mr. Obama, in an interview with WESH-TV in Orlando, said his administration has been tough on the country’s trading partners and tried to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
“This is a great great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades,” Mr. Obama said in response to a question about the country’s economic future. “We need to get back on track.”
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Comments (151)
Blazeanswerman
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:52pmForget about Glenn Beck… Does anyone remember what America was like on 9/12/2001?
On 9/13/2001 we lost our minds. We were the strongest that we have ever been. It only lasted one day. Obama is right we are soft. Not how he describes it but on how our country since then has become. I weep for our future… too many wimps!!!
Anamah
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:10amYes, is true America needs a new good president love this exceptional country and understand and respect our incredible wise Constitution. This president doesn’t help simply because he is unable to appreciate our values.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:14amWhatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis? You must be intoxicated by the stench of your own breath.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:28amNow its blame WE THE PEOPLE. Next step – blame it on our freedom. He’ll fix that too.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:29amAhh… Not so much. He’s weak and wants us and the country to be just as weak. Not all of us have fallen for it. “….back on track….” ? Damn right: starting in November 2012.
Report Post »Marnin
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 1:16amthe only thing soft about this country is our president and representitives. Drop the regulations, drop
Report Post »Obamacare, and stop the class warfare and drop the tax rates, and we will be just as competetive as we always were. Look to Harding, Kennedy, Reagan….
godlovinmom
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 1:38amI have to admit we’ve been kind of asleep…but you woke us up…haven’t ya barry!
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 1:44amThe “decimalization of America” started long before Osama Obama.
Report Post »We have been a nation of girls since WW ll.
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 1:53amEhh we got soft over that b/c of media control to not show the vids & images afterwards. Stern even said around the same time it would all be forgotten! Ill agree with him we have gotten soft… but lets look into why! Glenn touched on part of it yesterday about how the youth have been programmed that they are great, beautiful, winners vs being told they suck! That my friends is b/c of Oprah!! Im dead serious this whole you are beautiful wonderful thing started with her, and as her show grew so did that movement with an entire generation. Then we have around the same time the growth of political correctness, with the onset of the Clinton era is when it went into complete overdrive This country has been systematically softened by progressives IMO like Winfrey, Clintons and of course main stream media and of course DC.
Things that were once acceptable became unacceptable and the media has been ramming it down our throats for years. Proggie Hollywood has done just as much to soften us up from making men look bad and stupid in commercials, tv shows etc to always portraying the US as the bad guy. DC has stuck its nose into every aspect of life from trying to tell us what we can and cant eat, drink, take (as far as meds/ supplements) and the list goes on & on. The country is soft because of those in power making us soft. This is just a game just more of his smoke and mirrors the country is soft b/c he epitomizes all who got us here, progressives! http://SavingtheRepublic.com
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:54amMaybe it’s the persistent whining that is depressing everyone and our expectations.
Obama needs to watch Christie’s speech the other night on American Exceptionalism.
Report Post »SoldierofFortune
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 4:25amBHO has always been soft. Wasn’t it BHO the one that embarked on the Apology Tour? He was out there bowing to other leaders. SOFT? I think he is confused.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:04am… “The Audacity of DOPE!”
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:21amWe ARE weak. The Founding Fathers were strong. They would have removed the “enemy from within” that is sitting in the White House a LONG time ago. They would have focused on saving our nation. We just sit around griping about obama and his other anti-American cohorts while the Founding Fathers would have gotten rid of them either by force or by other methods. We may be limited to impeachment and working to have them put in prison for treason and other charges but we could still be working towards that goal. They would find out that as much as they would like to believe that they are invincible they are not and that they can be charged and even put in prison for treason at any time. After all, even in spite of the anti-American bias of the main stream media, based on events that everyone around this world has seen, it could be proven that everyone that has worked on destroying it Constitution is guilty of treason and should be put in prison for the rest of their lives.
Report Post »dyaeger92
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:56amIt is all about breaking the people of this country down bit by bit and piece by piece so that we will lose the will to fight back. The problem is that the people that were at one time known as the silent majority have risen up to become known as the TEA Party and we will not back down. The fact is that Glenn Beck made a very good point. Van Jones is also trying to get the right to become radical and become violent. Glenn has said rightly so that we must continue to be non-violent in our descent with the administration.
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:22amObama’s a thief. After you realize that, nothing else the man says matters:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/07/29/mitt-romneys-enduring-problem/
IntransigentMind
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 8:23amSorry, wrong link:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/09/30/youre-being-robbed/
loriann12
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 9:23am@obama-mecca-me-sick
You should read Road to Serfdom. Progressives use the same words we do, but they have different meanings. Conservatives (old time liberals when it meant for liberty) mean freedom as in free from coercion, free to do commerce as you will, etc. Progressives (or liberals of today) mean freedom from want. They want a utopian society that can only be achieved through fascist means.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 1:21pmHe is correct, how else could he have been elected. Nobody knew anything about him then and now you only know what he has done since he has been there. Yes he caught America asleep and complacent and took advantage of it. Now what are you going to do about it?
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:52pmObama allows $313 Million of American military gear to remain in Iraq….
instead of shipping it home….he gives it to those who will use it against us!
Now THAT is not going soft….Would that be anti-American behavior, eh?
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:34amDon’t sell the military short. It‘s aminly junk that would cost more than it’s worth to ship back. And there is also the old saying that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is……. Sure guys go ahead and fire that weapon! Just let me get behind this thick wall first.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:46pmNo Mr Obama Americans have not gotten soft — we have been all but STRANGLED by the non stop anti business, anti job, anti freedom agendas and policies of the Progressives of your administration in the last few years especially…all a part of your stated plan five days before the inaguration…
“In five days we begin the fundamental transformation of the United States of America…”
Get the ever loving govnerment out of our lives and off of our backs, with people who wish to build or make a success of businesses having firm foundations and expectations in policies coming down the line and this economy will take off again for the moon and the stars.
Report Post »SLmanDR
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:28amAmerica has gone soft because the wimps can’t put up with being strangled and still keep pulling on that harness. What you made an extra dollar last week! I’ll have that, now make two more this week and I’ll let you keep one!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 12:37amI am an old worn out paratrooper. But I think I have one last fight left in me. Old? Yes. “Soft?” Nope. Weakness is mostly in the mind. Our POTUS is a prime example!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 7:13amI don’t know about everyone else, but I imagine we are all ready to stand against Obama, Van Jones, the union thugs, radical muslims, and take our country back. We’ve all had enough. I’m so tired of the Marxists/Communists/Progressives that are exposed on The Blaze. I’m tired of their threats and big mouths. You will see Mr. President that we are not soft when push comes to shove. Get ready, for we are now ready, one way or another, its your choice.
Report Post »Dean Toadblatt
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:43pmFor decades Americans have been fed a steady diet of shame and failure from the left wing media and politicians. If this country’s moralle has suffered, it’s because of the constant demoralization drumbeat.
Report Post »Too Treaded Upon
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:40pmQuite honestly, that‘s the most intelligent thing I’ve heard him say. Just the reasoning behind the statement is flawed. We are “soft” because of the abuse we tolerate under this (and past) regimes. No other citizenship in history has taken such a lose of liberty/wealth/well-being without revolt. Time to take a stand or willing go to the “gas chambers” Your children are already slaves. Very little left to fight for.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:47amPretty much my thoughts. Also, about that “getting back on track” — who is Obumbler supporting for Prez in 2012? Cain? Santorum? West? Bachmann?
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:36pmHe must be talking about the bros. He can relate to them. You know the ones who target everyone else. Who become the best athletes drugs can make. Who go about town in gangs robbing and beating up anyone in their path. America is not tough like them.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:34pmbest stuff comes out when this bstard goes off script, he really shows his contempt for America.
Report Post »wouldubelieveit
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:32pmComing for Mister Wimple Ha Ha idiot He said Americans So must not be talking to you Dumbacrats
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:32pmthat vile fuhrer wannabe just spent the last 3 years demoralizing and destroying America, we are STILL opposing his vile agenda, and he calls us SOFT?!
Report Post »Hatchman
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:28pmI disagree with the President’s assessment completely. I do not think that Obama is any different than his wife in their contempt for America and all things American. She had never been proud of this country up until her husbands election so why would he be any different. His statment and of course his Worldwide Apology Tour stand in evidence to the fact that he does not like America and what it stands for. That is why his entire presidency has been devoted to destroying America as we know it and ignoring the Constitution. We need to elect politicians that value this nation and hold them to ALL of the limitations on government that The Constitution demands.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:22pmYeah, America has gotten soft…Automated society, electronic banking, drive-thru service, fat pensions, excessive leisure time, vacationing in Spain, and Martha’s Vinyard, golf – OH, WAIT! That was our President!
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:38pmIt’s the Sugar Blues, the downfall of society.
Report Post »GunnyB
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:21pmNo one is ever going to convince me that this president has an education beyond 8th grade! I would suffer through one more “let me be clear” line from him if he would use that to lead into, “I am not up to this job and I have brought ruin to our once exceptional country. I will therefore depart and do no more harm.”
Report Post »Alucard
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:13pmThats right, its not his fault people its YOUR fault. Its George Bush, the earthquake in Japan, the Arab Spring, Joplin Tornado, the floods, the fires in TX, Big Oil, the oil spill in the gulf, the TEA party, Congress, Wall Street, Greece, Euro, the dollar. Damit people don’t you get it? Its everybodies fault, well except his I mean. /sarcasm off
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:23pmThis arrogant little B tard really doesn’t have a clue … we are not “soft” … WE are the TEA Party and you dismiss and call us names … WE ARE AMERICA … Obama is NOT!
TEA!
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:12pmBO is stealing Carter’s lines now.
Report Post »majorsco
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:12pmThis is the first thing he has right. Americans have gotton soft. The only thing he has very, very wrong is the cause. The entitlement mentality of the progressives is the direct cause of Americans getting soft. Self reliance is a virtue. Obama thinks its a sin. Obama wants everyone dependent on the government dole to survive. Before the progressives got ahold of the country, Americans were self reliant, strong and more resilient than any other nationality.
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:11pmOne might call this the comedy hour except it is sad to see what this worst president in American history has done to our nation.
Report Post »jmgair
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:10pmThe only way we will get back on the right track is when this guy is gone from Washington for good. This coming from one of the softest men ever to occupy the white house and he still blames the past 2 decades which is of course Bush & Clintons fault but not his ??
Report Post »matinva
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:09pmI’m sorry, this guy is pathetic. America needs to throw his sorry ass out the door next year and let that be the end of Socialism in America.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:26pmActually with all the illegal activities in the White House … Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Lightsomething … so many it is hard to keep up … he needs to be perp walked out of the White House NOW!
TEA!
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:07pmDon’t kick a man when his down.
Obama is so far down he thinks he is up.
Obama will make a great ex-president.
be smart
Report Post »kraphtsman
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:20pmSounds like our Loser-in-Chief is STARTING to lose faith in himself and his supporters. The “softness” he speaks of is inside the skulls of those who voted for this incompetent fraud, and the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
When an organism becomes infected, it’s NORMAL to exhibit symptoms… if it still has the strength to fight the disease off. Coming from the titular “head” of progressive America’s body-politic, Obama recognizing the signs of “malaise” is a GOOD thing ….. what’s BAD for these malignant invaders is GOOD for the rest of America !
Report Post »chicago76
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:39pmAfter he is kicked out of office he will become more popular than Clinton. They’ll have his face on mt Rushmore in twenty years. If there still is a country in twenty years.
Report Post »Nick_A
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:07pmObama says we’ve gotten soft. Well how many responsible people are having erections in such a depressing economy normal for a governing secular progressive mentality?
We need an erection czar.
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:07pmMore like stupid they voted for you!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:07pmMr potus….YOUR THE REASON!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:05pmLiar Liar Pants on Fire!
Report Post »Barack Oburgundy
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:03pmSomebody give this guy a shovel cause he is digging a huge hole for himself and we want him to succeed! This idiot is obviously off TelePrompTer again!!!
Report Post »Dalady
Posted on September 30, 2011 at 2:15amHe is definitely a shovel ready job!
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on September 29, 2011 at 11:03pmWorst president EVER.
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