In Speech On Tough Times For Americans, Obama Brags 'I Have Better Plane' And 'Bigger Entourage' Than Three Years Ago
Imagine a Republican president giving a speech on tough economic times in which he claimed that the plight of Americans who are hurting is what is on his mind every day as he walks to the Oval Office. Imagine that same Republican president, in that same speech, bragging that he has "a better plane" and "a bigger entourage" than when he was a candidate. Now imagine the howls from the MSM about such president's vainglory and insensitivity.
President Obama gave just such a speech today. Speaking at a plant in North Carolina about the tough economic times, PBO claimed that "what drives me every day as I walk down to the Oval Office" is the need to provide jobs and economic security for Americans.
But Obama opened his speech by bragging that "I have a better plane" than when he visited the same plant three years ago as a presidential candidate. Later, in explaining that he had brought the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness with him to North Carolina, Obama boasted "I travel with a bigger entourage" than he did as a candidate.
View video after the jump.
So, will we see the MSM jump on PBO's callous braggadocio? Come on. We all know that the liberal media is part of the president's entourage.
P.S., Mr. President. You don't "have" a better plane. You fly in one. The American people put Air Force One at your disposal of the president--for so long as you occupy the office.
BARACK OBAMA: I actually visited this plant about three years ago. I was still running for office. Somebody in the plant showed me a picture of the two of us together. And I looked so much younger then. But, ah, so it's true I've got a lot more gray hair now than I did the last time I visited, but, I have a better plane, so it's a fair trade . . . I will not be satisfied till everyone who wants a good job that offers security has a good job that offers security. I won't be satisfied till the empty storefronts in town are open for business again. I won't be satisfied till working families feel like they're moving forward again, that they're progressing again. That's what drives me every day as I walk down to the Oval Office . . . We got everything we need to help our workers adapt, and to help our fellow Americans through this tough period. But it's going to take all of us working together. The private sector, government, not-for-profits, academia. And that's what I came back to talk about today. I brought some folks with me. You know, I travel with a bigger entourage these days than I did three years ago. So the group I brought today is called the Council on Jobs and Economic Competitiveness.
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It's not YOUR plane......
Submitted by notinstl on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:11pm.
and you make richard nixon sound downright empathetic.....
It's not YOUR plane......
Submitted by notinstl on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:10pm.
and you make richard nixon sound downright empathetic.....
shakes head in wonde
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:12pm.
I will never...never understand why anyone, regardless of political views, thinks this is in any way a pleasant man. He has also called the White House "my house." He cannot be above average in intelligence because he cannot even see that his slick arrogance, copied from his buds who are thugs and rappers, is unbecoming and frankly annoying in an elected leader. To put it bluntly: What a creep!
Never gonna be.
Submitted by Hermano on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:11pm.
"I will not be satisfied till everyone who wants a good job that offers security has a good job that offers security. I won't be satisfied till the empty storefronts in town are open for business again. I won't be satisfied till working families feel like they're moving forward again, that they're progressing again."
I guess he will never be satisfied until he is out of office, then.
Hermano is Saving the Environment - One Ribeye at a Time! h/t Dr_Liberty
From the Let 'em Eat Cake Dept.
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:13pm.
How arrogant can you get? Mr. and Mrs. Ears are are the modern-day Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, living high off the hog while millions of average citizens struggle to make ends meet. And, of course, the make believe media pay full obeisance to him. Ugh! 2012 can't come soon enough...
all apologies
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:14pm.
Sorry. Make that "wonder" (or disgust)
Moving Forward?
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:15pm.
As in "Lean Forward"?
Yeah, how nice, it's still all about him, him, him. It's not about jobs, or people, or the country, it's about Obama.
Yeah when you lean forward it
Submitted by tcm14 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:53pm.
Yeah when you lean forward it is easier for them to swipe your wallet.
We're well beyond wallet theft now...
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:15pm.
the country's in full BOHICA ("Bend Over, Here It Comes Again") mode.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
But the Make Believe Media
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:16pm.
But the Make Believe Media tells us that Sarah Palin is the ego-maniac ?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Funny
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:19pm.
Appears his jokes are only funny to him and his entourage. Maybe they could be fill-ins for Corbet and the Daily Show with their tremendous sense of humor. Rush refers to him as a "man-child" and he proves Rush correct each and everytime he opens his mouth.
Funny
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:19pm.
Appears his jokes are only funny to him and his entourage. Maybe they could be fill-ins for Corbet and the Daily Show with their tremendous sense of humor. Rush refers to him as a "man-child" and he proves Rush correct each and everytime he opens his mouth.
Hey, voting public, how about
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:23pm.
Hey, voting public, how about we help this guy downsize next year?
6 feet under
Submitted by jkwtrading on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:32pm.
6 feet under
I vote
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:17pm.
we put him on a bus back to Chicago/Hawaii/Kenya.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
DON'T send him back here to
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:58pm.
DON'T send him back here to Hawaii!!! Jeez, we allready got his old buddy and mentor, Cretin UberCommie, as our governor...............so if this state can go MORE socialist, it WILL!!!
Boy O'Blunder has got to be the most self-absorbed, narcissic, delusional piece of Kenyan Kow Krap ever imagined................just read all of the I's, and me's and my's and mine's in this dumb-ass speech, and the attitude behind the whole thing..........
And, for some reason, I SERIOUSLY doubt that the first thing that he thinks about as he's walking to 'work' (does this muvah falkah even KNOW what 'work' means???) is how to create jobs and improve the economy................because his whole agenda and mindset is to do just the OPPOSITE!!!
I'm all for re-instating the guillotine!!! Soros first, however...............
Sho do know work, Killa!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:07am.
The old Clydesdale was quoted in the press today saying how Barack never takes a day off! He's just working hisself to death!
I guess when you were a community organizer and a "visiting lecturer," having to show up everyday for work comes as quite a shock to you.
Since when did playing 5,000 rounds of gold get classified as work? Is his game THAT bad?
Please take his ass back to Hawaii! Please!!!!
Showboat
Submitted by paragrouper on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:23pm.
"So the group I brought today is called the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness."
I guess we couldn't get engaged on jobs before now, with so many other important issues to tackle
sounds like a Soviet Narcom
Submitted by Paarl on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:47pm.
I come from a family with a deep communist history.. We have a picture of my Grandfather sitting with Lenin in 1905 at the First Dumas of the Russian monarchy. I read the history of the Bolshevik revolution both pro and con.
Probably the best critical histories of the Soviet era were written by Robert Conquest....he wrote many books and a very fascinating underlying theme of all his histories was the incessant need for the top Soviet leaders to travel all about the USSR to consistently sell their failing policies and their
(meaning the soviets) great plans for the great prolatarian future.
This reminds me so much of Obama as he flits about the country trying to sell a failed policy. Like with the Soviets of old....the grand future is just over the next rise...just after the next 5 year plan.
Obama is very much the same !!!!
Paarl of Rhodesia....not a red but a wearer of Rhodesian Hunter Green !!!
Yo, yo, bro! You gots a betta ride?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 5:56pm.
You mother frocking, cork socker! I hope you trip over dat Clydesdale you be living wid and break yo flocking neck, yo.
God, I am sick of this fool. You 50%+ that voted for him, I'm also sick of you.
Stay Put
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:02pm.
""what drives me every day as I walk down to the Oval Office" is the need to provide jobs and economic security for Americans.
Well, you're just making it worse. Better that you stay up on the third floor and the hell out of the Oval Office.
None
Submitted by Kansasgirl on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:09pm.
This man has never worked a day in his life. Pffft.
President Fraud seems to think the jobs situation is a hoot, too
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:17pm.
...and apparently so does Herr Fritz Todt, oops, I meant Jeffy Immelt, who reportedly busted a gut over it.
This "president" is a total sham, and he is playing the American people for fools.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Punchlines
Submitted by Gat New York on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:33pm.
This guy thinks that unemployment is a friggin joke.
I bet tonight his bad sense of humor becomes fodder for the GOP debate.
Enjoy your entourage, you bigger plane, and your bad attempt at humor, Obama
Recovery summer take three?
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:34pm.
This just in, the plant he was at today shipped a great deal of their jobs overseas.
Just like that place last week announcing they were going out of business after 70 years or so, the place that Obambi used as a prop afew LIES back.
He cares about only two jobs, HIS and Moooochelles job.
Damn straight homey, Golfing and vacationing on the mans dime, what a country.
The nerve
Submitted by buzzerdbait on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 6:39pm.
It sorta sounds like he said." Let them eat cake"
How does this man have approval in the high 40s again?
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:10pm.
It blows me away.
It helps when you have 95% of
Submitted by NC Cop on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:15pm.
It helps when you have 95% of the news media spinning for you.
You'd think these people would eventually realize 2+2=4
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:52pm.
At some point it seems like these people would wake up and realize that more people are out of work for a longer period of time than in the past 70 years. At some point they'd realize that gas costs $4/gallon, food prices are sky-high, energy costs are soaring, and there's no relief around the corner as long as Obama is sitting in the Oval Office. The media can spin many things, but they can't spin the pain of everyday life that people feel. I just don't get how this many people can't connect the dots after 2 1/2 years of this.
In liberal math....
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:57pm.
...2 + 2 = 7. You have "4" already, and you can just borrow the "3" through the US Treasury.
At near 0% interest from the
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:49pm.
At near 0% interest from the Fed, too. :)
Mr.President
Submitted by palmaceiahome on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:09pm.
Your speech today was packed with lie after lie. 2 million jobs added? etc,etc, And of course the Media doesn't call you out on it.They are to busy reading Sarah Palin's e-mails? The HUBRIS is now dripping down your ''creased pant's'' You have added new meaning to the phrase ''Limousine Liberals''
Council on Jobs and Economic Competitiveness?
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:14pm.
WTF is that?!!!
How about you just get out of the way and let the private sector do what it does best , i.e. create jobs, and let government do what it does best -- NOTHING!
Now run along and play with your new toys while you can, Mr. President.
Someone ask Obama if he knows what a gal of milk costs
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 7:22pm.
Someone ask Obama if he knows what a gal of milk costs.
(;~> gary
What a surprise
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:02pm.
The Cameras from M.S.S.R. (MSNBC) are right up in his face. I swear I can see boogers in his nose. I bet Junk Anger and Crazy Larry would pick his nose if they could.
I will not be satisfied
Submitted by dmaley1714 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:11am.
I guess I will not be satisfied has replaced, I will not rest. He must have bought a new teleprompter with new phrases.
What anyone sees in this
Submitted by sablegsd on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 8:47pm.
jug eared, purple lipped egomaniac is beyond me.
He is not and never has been the "great orator."
You could give him a profit making lemonade stand and he would frak it up in a week.
"Smartest guy in the room my rump roast." He's a blithering idiot and frankly, I think he is clinically insane.
His fugly beard with the sour attitude isn't too bright either.
Why doesn't the media get off Palin's rear and find out why both those grifting cons lost their law licenses?
sablegsd---
Submitted by matthewdean on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:01am.
"His fugly beard with the sour attitude isn't too bright either."
Most descriptive; I like it.
"--grifting cons--"
Though that phrase fits so many politicos, it is especially accurate when describing these two chuck-a-luck ninnies.
The plpos and Ms. Naztyass Dillpickle chucked their lot into Affirmative Action, got lucky, and won the big prize.
Their win was America's loss.
MD
Obysmal has no
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 9:21pm.
awareness whatsoever of history, current events, or simple human decency.
I can't wait to vote his sorry axe so far out of the White House he'll be counting penguins.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
What a Freudian would make of his remarks....
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 10:17pm.
....I can only imagine.
I thought this was an interesting observation about Michelle Antoinette's "charities" : http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/06/13/michelle-obama-hold-californ...
Mooschelle
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:58pm.
can spin all she wants, hardly anyone is buying her sudden interest in military families, and their welfare. And, let the DNC pay for her flight, it's political, she's not elected to anything, so we shouldn't have to foot the bill for ANY of her jaunts.
Enjoy It While You Can
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 11:13pm.
Bedtime for Obonzo is fast approaching.
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Barack Mugabe, he 100%
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 7:09am.
Barack Mugabe, he 100% african thug. Spouting orderd and huffing jenkem. We are stumbling toward Zimbabwe.
And there are
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 10:52am.
plenty of people in this country right today that will knock down somebody to get in line to vote for this... this... Sorry, no good adjective comes to mind.
Smarter than us all?
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 11:40am.
Soooo.......this is that blinding intelligence we all hear about? Really? No, really?
No, no, no, no, no, not God Bless America,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:33pm.
God DAMN Obama, not God Bless America, God DAMN Obama,! Let us eat cake, huh, King Louis the Last! Barack the Chicken-hearted? AND he JOKES about it, to boot! Nero aint got nuttin on this turkey-my mans still fiddling while our Romes burning! Nov 6th 2012 cant come soon enough!