Obama will spend the next several months doing everything he can to keep the economy down. The public will be too scared to fight his takeovers, and it will keep the "blame Bush" mantra going to limit Republicans' influence in 2010. 

But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.

-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823

It's February in New York; still winter folks!  But down at the NASDAQ today was Bertha Coombs of CNBC in her SLEEVELESS dress.  Do you suppose that anyone, much less some sort of TV or Wall Street type, would be wearing summer duds in February if it wasn't for the shining example set by the First Goddess Tuesday night?

Is Bertha just a Michelle wannabe?  Was she hoping BHO was watching her report?  Does she have those same fantasies expressed by many women (and some men too) about our great leader?

It depends on what the definition of is is.

Democrats always paint a bleak picture.  At their convention, everyone who got up to make a speech that wasn't a politician had a doom and gloom story. 

I believe he is painting a darker scenario than what the true story is.  He wants to create havoc so he can expand his power.

I wish that the MSM wouldn't play along.  Even Bill O'Reilly last night was questioning what would happen if the US went bankrupt.

This is not the worst crisis since the Depression, but it will be if the GOP doesn't get their act together and take back power in 2010.

It's said, though I'm not sure the attribution is correct, Abe Lincoln said a man is about as happy as he decides to be.

The economy is about as weak as Obama can convince America it is.

Democrats always have to make things worse than they actually are. They prey on making people worry. I believe BO, congressional democrats, and the MSM are complicit in portraying the economic situation as worse than it is just for the purpose of advancing their socialist agenda. 

Obama: 'I screwed up'--We're going to be seeing this a lot.

Obama has been lying about just about everything since before he was sworn-in.

During the campaign, he said he would have a "transparent" administration...Yeah, right...What's one of the first things he does? He says that he won't hire lobbyists for administrative posts, and virtually the next day he does exactly that, but then tells us that this is an "exception" and doesn't count. Obama has also told us that he'll post all new legislation online for 48 hours before final voting on it, then immediately broke that pledge (and has continued to). He has said that he will make it impossible for congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects into legislation, but the stimulus bill and now the omnibus bill are both loaded with pork. Obama said that he would make meetings where laws are written more open to the public, then he and the Dems held closed door meetings about the stimulus bill, where they wouldn't even let their Republican colleagues take part. On Tuesday night during his congressional address, Obama essentially defined "rich" as anyone making  $250,000 and up, saying those making less than that would be safe from a tax increase. Then yesterday, we find that the omnibus bill states that those making less than $209,000 would be safe from a tax increase...Which is it, Mr. President? In less than 2 days, the number has changed? The list goes on and on...All this man has done since taking the oath is lie and spout a lot of half-truths and misdirections. I'm at the point now, where I don't believe anything that comes out of his mouth...Obama could say the grass is green, and I'd go outside to look, just to make sure.

Obama is actually beginning to make Bill Clinton look honest and truthful...  

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981

In office a little over a month and this guy has set in motion policies which will have to be reversed after much suffering. No, the economy is not as bad as he and his propganda outlet, the MSM, are reporting. Ironically, that is the only thing that is stopping an all-out revolution among the citizenry. But every day this mendacious political thug does something to anger at least half the population. As he keeps it up, and he will, more Americans will see their freedoms lost through high taxation, high inflation, and a weak, traitorous foreign policy. Barry Obama is the worst thing that has ever happened to the United States of America. Ignorance and apathy have lead to the fox being in the henhouse. Only two questions remain: How bad will it get? and Will we survive?

P.S. I see where Barry has capped salary raises for government workers and the military. Considering he was able to more than double his America hating wife's salary by giving our tax money to a hospital where she worked, this seems hypocritical. Is Barry a hypocrite as well as a liar? Is the Pope a Catholic?.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Here's more examples of Obammy doubletalk:

The Two Faces of Barack Obama: http://www.reason.com/news/show/131863.html

There are quotes out there by Rahmbo to the effect that they want to use the opportunity of this crisis to pass their pet programs, and remake our society and economy. I have seen similar quotes from Obammy. Anyone have those links handy?

I posted this late yesterday in the OT, but just in case you missed it:

Meet Michelle Lee Muccio, my new favorite economist babe.

Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com is hanging out at the big CPAC shindig, and managed to snag a short interview with her yesterday.

Oh, what a lucky man, he was....

http://hotair.com/ar...

:-)

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

...thus all the gloom and doom and Great Depression talk by him and his lackies in the media. 

The economy is going to turn around regardless of what The Exalted One does.  But he MUST be sure that 1) We all "know" we're about to enter the 2nd Great Depression 2) that the state senator from IL - someone with no background in business or economics - saved us from it.

The class warfare language that permeates every speech is especially gauling.

Buffet's a genius.

He sold a considerable share of his interest in a major pharma company a couple of weeks before Obama released his budget.  A budget on which he advised. 

Obimbo just said he was going to open up a dialogue with Iran.

I know he can't be as stupid as he sounds.

This is all intentional. 

Well more like it's the Bankers.

  http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/tgif-circu...

Laura Ingrahm did her show from the Greenville Convention Center the AM. I went to have my truck serviced so I was late getting there. I couldn't find a parking place. They said it was SRO in the place. I could have got to Havelock and maybe have gotten a chance to see Dear Leader. I think I did the right thing. They had been advertising that Clarke Howard was going to do his show from there too. I thought he was sick.

By the way Laura did lay it on that stupid Jeane Galafalo. She did say that she better not go there when talking about Rush's appearance

Any word on the 'Tea Party' events today?

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

AP:  ...the national debt would more than double by the end of the upcoming decade

USA:  Even under rosier numbers federal debt that would reach $23 trillion in a decade

WSJ:  Rosy assumptions hold down deficit

WT:  Deficit decline based on rosy scenario

JDW

DAILY WAVE

Whatever else you think, your mother and my mother are both mothers

When he gets your IRA down far enough, he'll offer to take it off of your hands and give you 3% from the "new and improved" Social Security. That is as long as the money lasts! On 9/11 we witnessed the symbol of our capitalizm crumble to the ground. Terrorists from a far away land did this. What is happening now is from much closer....Washington!

Seattle: Soft TP is worse than driving a Hummer 

JDW

DAILY WAVE

Whatever else you think, your mother and my mother are both mothers

I just got in and got to watch the local news. Dear Leader got his loudest applause, by the Marines and sailors,  when he mentioned a raise for the military. Does anybody know how much it is? Is it in the latest spending bill?

Our local news only had 2 soundbites from the Marines about Obama's speech. Both of those were black. So either they didn't interview any whites or chose not to show what they said because it would have dampened the day. They talked to one moonbat civilian who said that she didn't vote for Dear Leader but wished she would have. The local station give about 7 minutes to this visit. I had the news TIVOed so I fast forwarded through most of it.

I talked to several Marines at the resturant where we ate tonight. They were not thrilled at all about Dear Leader's visit. I got the soundbites out of those guys.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. RWR

Don't know if you folks are tracking it, but sales of Atlas Shrugged have been climbing steadily for the last year or so. A minute ago it was #46 on Amazon. For the last few days it has ranged between 40 and 50. That's pretty stunning for a fifty year old book.

Interesting story just breaking: Obama's chief vetter has his own tax problem:

http://gawker.com/5161837/obamas-chief-vetter-has-his-own-tax-problem

Radio chip coming soon to your driver's license?

Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies simply by walking through the assembly.

The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."

"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.

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"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason