Arianna Huffington: Nobody Believes Obama's Top Priority Is Jobs - It's Getting Reelected
By Noel Sheppard | August 03, 2011 | 22:08
In the wake of liberal disappointment over December's budget agreement and this week's debt ceiling deal - both not including tax hikes - there's been a lot of squabbling from far-left media members about Barack Obama betraying them.
On Wednesday, AOL Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington told MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell that nobody believes the President's top priority is jobs - it's getting reelected (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL, HOST: Going forward, how does he run, how does he govern and run this reelection campaign at the same time?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, AOL HUFFINGTON POST: Well, as we can see, running the reelection campaign is clearly the highest priority, because he’s already had 37 fundraisers this year, and it’s been a pretty tense year.
O’DONNELL: But that’s, but it’s not an unserious priority. He’s trying to keep Democratic control of Supreme Court nominations, all sorts of important presidential things for the next four years going forward. That is not something people should think, “Oh, you know, why is he spending time on reelection?”
HUFFINGTON: Oh, absolutely not. It’s a very legitimate priority.
O’DONNELL: Yeah.
HUFFINGTON: But the point is that the most important number going into 2012 is going to be the unemployment number. And there is absolutely no prospect at the moment that would make us believe that unemployment number is going to be below nine percent. Now that is really the greatest fear for the White House. And of course Mitt Romney again and again is talking about the failure of the President to produce jobs, and he doesn’t have to tell us how he would have done it. He just has to point out to that failure. And when the President again and again talks about how, I mean, I went through and looked since 2009 how many times he has said, “Jobs priority number one,” “The sustained focus of this administration,” “The relentless focus of this administration,” “We’re pivoting to jobs.” Nobody believes it any more.
Yikes!
And Arianna wasn’t the only one at the Huffington Post coming to this conclusion, as earlier in the day, Alex Wagner was Chris Matthews’ guest on “Hardball” saying equally surprising things:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Did he think that the -- the recovery was under way? Did he just get the numbers wrong? Did he think that thing we were talking about -- Bob Casey was just talking about it, the senator from Pennsylvania, just a couple minutes ago. Look, we keep forgetting. We all have ADD in this country. We forget the beginning of this year looked pretty good, 200,000 jobs a month. It was moving in that first quarter. The second quarter was terrible, at least in terms of jobs. We added 18,000 new jobs last month, nothing. We don’t know what is going to happen this Friday. But did he get the idea we’re already rolling into recovery? Let me go on to -- let me go to Alex for that.
JONATHAN ALTER: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Did he get the idea we’re rolling in the recovery, therefore, he could start to put the brakes on --
ALEX WAGNER, AOL HUFFINGTON POST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: -- safely?
WAGNER: Well, I mean, the -- forget the "car in the ditch" metaphor. You know, at the end of the year, he was saying, the car is level, we’re out of the ditch, you know, the predictions, Christina Romer, et al.
MATTHEWS: The tide has turned.
WAGNER: Yes, exactly. And -- and now unemployment is ticking back up.
And I think, you know, to the earlier points, look, it is about jobs. And vis-a-vis the base? Look at what’s happened with the black community. Look what’s happened with the Hispanic community. Look what’s happened with youth unemployment. It’s edging up 20, 25 percent -- 16.2 percent unemployment among the black community?
I mean, there is a real feeling, if not that he is a tool of the right, people are demoralized. And I think this -- you know, the White House loves talking about inflection points, this was an inflection point for the Obama administration. This war -- I think the debt war changed a lot of people’s perceptions --
MATTHEWS: I agree.
WAGNER: -- about what he is going to be capable of. […]
MATTHEWS: We’re talking about the president who just announced today, the White House did, and we’ve conveyed, Alex and Jon, that he’s going to get in a bus and drive around the Midwest. And he is vulnerable in that bus to -- I would think to picketing, and shouts from the crowd.
WAGNER: Sure.
MATTHEWS: We don’t want you on the bus here. We want construction jobs. We want the roads fixed and the bridges fixed and brought up to code. We don’t want you riding around here campaigning this August.
WAGNER: Yes, and there’s a bit of hucksterism to it. It’s like recovery summer of last year. It’s like of sort of White House that was so good with messaging back in the day.
What has happened?
And I think, you know, to Jonathan’s earlier point, look, green jobs? I mean, these are --
MATTHEWS: What does it mean to you, that phrase?
WAGNER: Renewables. Battery plans. If we see Obama in another battery plant in the next three weeks, I think everybody is ready to give up on wind, solar and hydro. I mean, the idea that that’s going to pull us out of the ditch that we are remain in.
I mean, you know, I was talking with Emanuel Cleaver earlier this week, and he was saying, look, you know, to a certain degree, there’s bound to be disappointment, people pin hopes on Barack Obama. But, at the end of the day, people don’t understand what these green jobs are, you know? And if that’s the only plan he has, I think the White House is in serious trouble.
Wow. Two HuffPosters in one day saying negative things about Obama on MSNBC.
Was that a pig I just saw flying by my window?
Of course, this by no means is an indication the President has lost the Huffington Post. Arianna, Alex, and everyone at this liberal abomination will be campaigning for the former junior senator from Illinois next year as if he's a close relative.
But the disappointment on the left is palpable, and if the economy really is double-dipping, it will be interesting to see whether the rats leave the ship or figure out a way to blame it on Republicans.
As NewsBusters previously reported, there already is an effort underway to use the debt ceiling agreement as the culprit for any downturn.
Whether or not the American people will buy it is another thing altogether.
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Comments
Wow.....she really said
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:20pm.
Wow.....she really said that??? And I'm hearing it coming out more and more lately from the people who supposedly 'had Obama's back'.........but they still find a way to rationalize what he's doing, and what he's trying to do. These people have a lot of their own fingerprints on Boy Barry's incarnation........so they are going to be loathe to bail out on him too soon...........but I've said all along, if the MSM finally owns up to their own One Big Ass Mistake America, Soros-Toro is going to really be exposed for the fraud and phony that he has been all along.
But I won't be holding my breath.........................
do not overlook
Submitted by no you cant on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:06am.
she also said that obama being reelected, keeping dem control over the white house, protecting dem court judges, was more important than jobs. her problem was that if does not focus on jobs all that other stuff is in trouble. these progressives hate america.
Like Cronkite
Submitted by adamsmith on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:00am.
a generation ago. "When you lose Cronkite, you've lost the Country."
Now it's, "When you've lost Huffington, you've lost all the Moonbats."
NEVER TRUST A COMMIE!!!!!!!!!
What a Coincidence!
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:25pm.
"nobody believes the President's top priority is jobs - it's getting reelected"
It's the media's top priority too.
.
Deflecting
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:24pm.
If they are admitting his faults on the jobs numbers than they must be trying to deflect to some other future praise of HIM. As to what those are, i do not know yet.
unfortunately the GOP leadership let Obama have the upper hand
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:53pm.
on the deal "deal" with the national debt ceiling. Obama is already using that event to instigate class warfare on the nation.
"Compromise" helped the street organizer and hurt the chances of GOP candidates in 2012.
The GOP compromised on principle and let the big spender get his way with spending all that he wants; buying the votes he needs with government programs. The GOP "negotiated" a deal for the middle class to carry more debt far into the future by agreeing to push the spending curve down a smidgeon. How nice of them.
The Obamanator comes out smelling like a rose. Will it be a replay of 8 bad years under Bush's spenging era? Will the voters take it out on Republicans and give the House back to the Dems?
That's what happens with RINO leadership.
The party leadership needs to be replaced.
Submitted by NL207 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:54pm.
Primary the bastards.
Both major parties need to be scrapped
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:56am.
They are corrupted beyond repair.
We need new parties that attract decent Americans to them, and those parties must rise from the grass roots upward. The Tea Parties may or may not have longevity, but they appear to be the contemporary model for getting it done.
Do you imagine ....
Submitted by NL207 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:59pm.
those drawn to power in the present major parties will somehow magically disappear if those are dissolved and new parties formed? NO! They will join and perhaps even found these new parties.
There is no time left for third parties. The last time a third party became a major force in America was 1860 and it took 8 years for that party to coalesce into an effective electoral force. We do not have 8 years.
It is far more efficient for Conservatives to simply takeover an existing party from within. It is simpler to primary out the bad leadership in the more conservative of the major parties : takeover the Republican Party.
No sh*t, you turncoat commie tw*t fron Hell
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:59pm.
And not only that, the Boy King (or his groomer/handlers) along with a lot of help from Boehner and McConnell, just landed a really spiffy $2.2 trillion to his (comparatively) underfunded reelection stash.
That was all he was looking for.
And come this fall, he will be angling for even more, and I'll bet you will be right there helping him to get it, too.
-Dave
IF? Double Dip?
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:05pm.
There are no ifs, ands, nor buts about it....we are in a double dip.
I believe we never actually got out of the first recession, but it's just been extended by the idiocy of this administration, throwing good money after bad.
This piece, though, was just absolutely hilarious, these liberal apologists trying to wrap their sorry little heads around JUST HOW BAD IT IS FOR OBAMA!
As Little Debs says, "Obama Owns the Economy".
Never forget. Never surrender.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 109 (and Counting)
A double dip is an ice cream cone.
Submitted by NL207 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:30pm.
We are in a depression.
It's nice to hear
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:33am.
someone else say it. There will be no jobs, no investment and no economic growth until Obamao leaves office.
Maybe it's time for some real suffering
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:04am.
Libtards have come to know others wealth. Maybe it's time to let these cretins have their way, until they suffer under the restrictions they have bought upon themselves.
Why must we try to save them? Face it, killing the golden goose, is their objective.
Obama?
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:00am.
Why do you place the blame on Obama? All of these morons are to blame. It's time to forget political parties and accept the fact that America is being run by idiots. Political party is irrelevant. This manufactured crisis is incredible. The politicians from both parties forced this double dip. They physically crashed the market.
If you blame Obama and the Democrats, you're just drinking kool aid. Not a useful stance. Everyone must go. I suggest our congress critters google "Depression" & "austerity".
*
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:37pm.
I see you edited out your blaming the Republicans even more than the Dims. I wonder why?
Sorry Capt. Conspiracy, but I
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:22pm.
Sorry Capt. Conspiracy, but I didn't edit anything. I'm not even sure what you're talking about.
Scuba, in your haste to stalk
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:24pm.
Scuba, in your haste to stalk me, you've confused threads. I think you were referring to this post from the thread about Movies and Heroes.
If you have any money
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:51am.
If you have any money invested in the market at all, you would realize that our government as a whole is trying to destroy the American people. Republicans are just as guilty (if not more guilty in the most recent manufactured crisis). Party politics are blinding otherwise intelligent people to the reality of our current situation. Politicians are stupid and they don't care about any of us. The only way you could possibly choose sides in the debt debacle is if you don't have any money at stake
Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/erin-r-brown/2011/08/04/why-media-anti-...
At six days and some hours on board, PaleHorse---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:56pm.
you aren't important enough to be stalked.
While most politicians appear to be morons, and all are indeed involved in chicanery, if you continue to maintain that Obama and his administration are not more culpable than the Republicans for the current mess, you will not only be stalked, you will be ridiculed.
Justifiably.
MD
Matthew, explain how you can
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:00pm.
Matthew, explain how you can really believe that the national debt is more important than the economy or jobs. Fact is, it's not. Was Social Security going to go broke immediately? How about medicare? Nope and nope. Who cares about the national debt when our economy is in the dumps. You know who? Politicians trying to get re-elected. Hence, the crisis was totally manufactured. Republicans are more culpable in this regard. If you don't see this, then I can only guess that you don't have any money at stake. I'm not interested in cheering for one party or another. I'm interested in my wallet and this week has been nothing short of a disaster.
PaleHorse
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 5:57pm.
This is what really gets me - it's ALL connected! Without such a HUGE debt, plus all the over weaning administration rules/regs that are strangling jobs, we *would* have job growth!
What's the phrase "Hate the game, not the player" Well, in this case, we have ground rules that create such a dysfunctional playing field, they hurt more than they help no matter WHAT crisis is du jour! At least now they are actually talking about it!
Speaking of a manufactured crisis, what do you think 2008 was?
Ronald Reagan
Exactly how, PaleHorse---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:04pm.
would you have me explain something I neither implied, stated as an aside, typed in a post, nor shouted from the rooftops - ??
At what point, and based upon what information, did you arbitrarily decide that I, matthewdean, "--can really believe that the national debt is more important than the economy or jobs." ?
Are you a licensed psychic, or do you just dabble in that type of phenomena as a hobby?
MD
MD, Same thing was done to me
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:10pm.
MD,
Same thing was done to me by this person.
That seems to be she/he/it's (pronounced as it is spelled) modus operandi. Say posters believe in something when no where in the posters comments is a crumb of evidence to support PH's post.
Could PH be projecting? Hmmmmmmm.
Scoob---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:23pm.
the PaleHorse trots onto these threads brandishing brass balls and then considers a test kick to his scrotal sac as tantamount to being stalked.
I see fun ahead.
MD
Well MD, I trust you and the
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:33pm.
Well MD, I trust you and the other good posters on NB will keep -PH honest.
Starting tomorrow night I will not be accessing NB much over the next 2 weeks or so.
Hope you have a great time,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:32pm.
And all is well.
Scuba
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:35pm.
Are you sure you can't take a certain someone with you back to his roots and leave him there?
As I said before Rad,
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 7:38am.
As I said before Rad, NO!!!!!!
I am not bringing my golf clubs so I do not have to pay extra for baggage, why would I want to incur it for someone who I loathe? LOL
Scoob, Have a great trip
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 9:37pm.
LOL - And be sure not to do anything I wouldn't do. :-^)
-Dave
Scoob---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:26pm.
have a safe, and very enjoyable time.
MD
See ya, Scoob...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:40pm.
Are you taking your sticks? If so, long and straight.
Jer
Sadly I am not Jer. I am
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 7:44am.
Sadly I am not Jer. I am traveling to Ireland for about 10 days then spending 3 days in London. I did not want to lug my clubs around, especially in London and did not want to pay the extra baggage fees for them. My clubs however are traveling to Hawaii. One of my brothers is borrowing them while he and the family vacation there.
So I am bringing my golf shoes ( had a funny experiance over there the last time when I played in sneakers) and a couple of gloves. I will either borrow a set from one of my cousins or rent at the course.
Holy cow
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 7:53am.
Your subject line says you wish you were Jer? You need therapy, lots of it.
Have a nice trip
LMAO!!! Uh oh, the secrets
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 9:24am.
LMAO!!! Uh oh, the secrets out. ;-)
My therapy will be pints of Guinness every day for the next 2 weeks. :-D
Correct you are, MD.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:03pm.
Stalkees must first make their bones around here, and this guy hasn't even gotten his uniform yet.
So you acknowledge that I
Submitted by PaleHorse on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:08pm.
So you acknowledge that I didn't edit my post? Good.
SoL acknowledged nothing of the sort, PaleHorse,---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:08pm.
but then it is likely that you have confused him with Scuba Dude.
MD
Can't you just do a straight exchange?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:22pm.
I didn't say jack about your editing. I was commenting on your lowly status here.
But now that you mention it, I did in fact catch that sneaky edit. I even screenshotted it.
So angry. What a bizarre
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:26am.
So angry. What a bizarre response. Anyway, did you happen to catch CNBC's three hours of emergency programming last night? Well, I hope you did. If so, you would have heard the truth. Congress manufactured the crisis and screwed us all. Cramer nailed it and anyone who missed it would be wise to Youtube it.
Stalk you? LOL, that is
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 6:15pm.
Stalk you? LOL, that is truly laughable. Yes I erred in linking the wrong comment. The one that was soooooo similar to the one I meant to link.
I will say this again and again, not that I expect it to sink into your brain, the term "manufactured crisis" is a libturd talking point and you just love repeating it like one.
Blonde
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 5:49pm.
"I believe we never actually got out of the first recession, but it's just been extended by the idiocy of this administration, throwing good money after bad." That's what I've been saying {OK - yelling at the TV} whenever I hear the "reasoning" of the left.
Just like I knew we were in one before they made it official - I think reality on the ground WILL matter more than what the msm tells people to think this time.
After years of "It would have been worse if I didn't *save* us" followed by "I didn't know how bad it REALLY was/is" followed by BOTH sides now saying "It can't/won't happen overnight" people are fed up, scared, and are going to make 2010 look like a walk in the park!!!
Ronald Reagan
Oh how I hope you are right, Amy
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 8:40am.
About the walk in the park.
Utterly predictable the lies they tell.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 109 (and Counting)
2012
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:27pm.
can not come soon enough.
Well, duh! For this insightful commentary she gets...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:51pm.
to sell her web site for beaucoup bucks?
Really!
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:02am.
Maybe I ought to turn my site into a libtard cesspool, allow all kinds of lunatics to post there, and then sell it for millions.
I could talk like a marble-mouthed foreigner for a while, no worries.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 109 (and Counting)
The only jobs that Oblamer is concerned about...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:58pm.
...are those in his administration...
Sometimes I wonder if he realizes that he's in . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:27pm.
. . .way over his head, and that losing in 2012 would be a blessing.
He could retire on $400,000 a year with free Secret Service protection, publish another ghostwritten book or two, and he could travel the globe to blame Bush before adoring crowds for $150K a pop while caressing his Nobel Peace Prize.
ADP Jobs Report for July
Submitted by ckc1227 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:50am.
Added 114,000 jobs. That's 43,000 less than June, when the government numbers showed only 18,000. What are the chances we go negative for July when the government numbers come out? That could be why Obama is now getting serious(snicker) about job creation....he knows the number is going to be bad, and he wants folks to know he's really really serious about jobs now. No, really.....he's serious this time.
O/T: Conservativism Thrives in North Carolina
Submitted by jdhawk on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 1:56am.
This is off-topic and is about the terrific strides that North Carolinians have made in turning back the liberal jugernaut following the elections, November 2010. One of the "stars" of campaigns to overrise the vetoes of our liberal dimocrat governor, Bev Perdue, have been carried out in no small part by the state chapter of Americans for Prosperity.
Here are the highlighs of legislative action on the part of the Republican state house and senate of North Carolina (dimocrats heald sway for over 100 years until last November):
Medical Malpractice Reform expands access to care and will attract scores of new medical jobs. Under the current system, North Carolina doctors are forced to administer expensive and unnecessary tests and procedures. The high cost of that defensive medicine is then passed on to consumers in the form of higher insurance costs and to taxpayers in the form of costlier taxpayer-funded medical programs for the poor.
Regulatory Reform clarifies and simplifies some of North Carolina’s confusing and outdated regulations, making it easier for citizens and businesses to attain permits and rely on more predictable guidelines. State agencies have added or changed more than 15,000 rules over the past decade, many of which create uncertainty in the private sector and impede job creation.
Medicaid and Health Choice Provider Requirements clarifies and strengthens requirements of Medicaid and Health Choice providers. This will save money for taxpayers.
Employment Security Commissions/Jobs Reform makes changes to one of the state’s most dysfunctional agencies.
Became law earlier this session:
Budget with ZERO tax increases allowing the temporary sales and income taxes to sunset as planned. A budget with zero tax increases was not only passed, but historically vetoed by the Governor and historically overridden by the House and Senate. By reducing spending by more than $1.4 billion, it’s finally making North Carolina’s government live within its means.
Removed cap on the number of charter schools and raised the enrollment cap for existing charter schools from 10% to 20%.
Tax credit for Special Needs Students will allow parents to choose which public or private school is correct for their special needs.
Amend Environmental Laws will simplify outdated rules and regulations.
Tort Reform for Businesses and Citizens will help protect North Carolina business from worthless junk lawsuits.
Annexation Laws Reform The long-overdue, comprehensive annexation reform the legislature passed will keep municipalities from forcibly annexing private property and saddling residents with the high costs of hooking up to municipal services. This is the first time North Carolina’s annexation laws have been reformed in more than 50 years.
Repeal Land Transfer Tax This unpopular tax will no longer be an option for counties.
Promoted Level Playing Field/Government Competition legislation which protects private jobs and investment by regulating local government competition with private businesses in the communications industry.
Business exemption allowed for the first $50,000 in business income for those businessmen who file individual income tax form.
Workers Comp Reform clarified and strengthened workmens comp rules and regulations.
High School Accreditation Bill prohibits state-run colleges from considering whether a student came from an accredited school (except for state agency accreditation). Aimed at accrediting agencies that bully school boards on basis of political disagreement.
The General Assembly will return to Raleigh in September. We will be supporting the eminent domain constitutional amendment, override of the governor’s veto of the energy jobs act along with a cut or cap of the state tax on gasoline, and an override of Governor Perdue’s veto of the NCAE dues check-off bill. This bill would no longer require taxpayers and the state of North Carolina to collect dues on behalf of unions.
To all AFP Members and Activists: We did it! Thank you for all your hard work and congratulations on being a part of free market history being made in Raleigh!
Read more: http://americansforprosperity.org/080111-we-did-it-together-afp-members-...
We are affecting change in North Carolina. It can be done!
Ahhhhhh...Come on Honey
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:20am.
OK so he is focused like a lazer on His JOB..... so he's only gonna need another 2 million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand Saved or created job to keep a promise... my gawd woman ...what do ya want .........ya gotta leave room for Golf and Vacations
roflmao
incompetent boob
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:37am.
"O’DONNELL: But that’s, but it’s not an unserious priority. He’s trying to keep Democratic control of Supreme Court nominations, all sorts of important presidential things for the next four years going forward."
Is there some law that says you must run an incompetent boob just because the incompetent boob is currently the POTUS?
Do these morons think the rest of the country hasn't noticed the fact that Obama is an incompetent boob?
Do they really think the Independents won't question “Hey Democrats, why are you running an incompetent boob”
Considering we all agree, Obama is an incompetent boob, why would you support him? Do you hate America?
1st quarter GDP only 0.4%
Submitted by Injest on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:57am.
We all have ADD in this country. We forget the beginning of this year looked pretty good, 200,000 jobs a month. It was moving in that first quarter.
The 1st quarter GDP was revised 5 days ago, it showed real growth at 0.4%!
WTF is this drunk twit talking about?
The second quarter was terrible, at least in terms of jobs. We added 18,000 new jobs last month, nothing.
True! And the 2nd quarter GDP looks to be worse than the 1st quarter GDP that was 0.4%!
How effing stupid is this twit!
Remember the days. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:21am.
. . .unemployment was around 5% and the economy was growing at about 4%. Algore and Bubba railed about how terrible the economy was and they both enshrined James Carvell's immortal words, "It's the economy, Stupid!"
BTW
Submitted by compguytracy on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:12pm.
In my glorious, Superbowl Champion State of Wisconsin, we added 12,000 jobs alone of that 18000! suck it democraps!
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" Orwell, 1984
Ceteris paribus
C'mon, she said it so
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 5:30am.
someone, anyone would pay attention to her!
Of course, this by no means
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 6:05am.
Of course, this by no means is an indication the President has lost the Huffington Post. Arianna, Alex, and everyone at this liberal abomination will be campaigning for the former junior senator from Illinois next year as if he's a close relative.
And that's the one strength of the Democrati Party.
In spite of the howling the HuffPosters won't stay home. Even the KosKids will be there for him.
When the time comes, if Satan himself were on the ticket, they would all bite the bullet and support him. Because their hatred of any Republican is blind.
It's only Republicans who stay home or protest by voting write-in, or third party, out of principle.
Democrats operate on the principle that Winning isn't everything; it's the ONLY thing.
Obama's top job is getting re-elected. And they're happy to help him do it.
What double-dip recession?
Submitted by Lgbpop on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:32am.
Can someone please tell me when we came out of the "last" one? I thought this was just one long, excruciating one.
Whoops
Submitted by compguytracy on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:06pm.
looks like ugliana let the truth slip, off with her head!
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" Orwell, 1984
Ceteris paribus
Arianna really should have
Submitted by Barack Must Go on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 2:53pm.
Arianna really should have persued becoming a brain surgeon as her chosen profession instead of a left wing activist.
It shouldn't be a priority
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:21pm.
"But that’s, but it’s not an unserious priority. "
Reelection shouldn't even be a priority for Obama. After all, he DID say that he'd rather be a one term President who accomplished things, than a two-term President who did not, correct? Well, when it comes to the vast majority of his policies, especially his economic policies, he didn't accomplish anything at all, other than making things worse. So, Obama, follow your own advice, live up to your own expectations, and remove yourself from the campaign trail. In the short time you have left, ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING other than your own re-election! Your own sense of honor depends upon it!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
A prime example of Beltway navel-gazing
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:41pm.
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, AOL HUFFINGTON POST: Well, as we can see, running the reelection campaign is clearly the highest priority, . . .
Good observation.
O’DONNELL: But that’s, but it’s not an unserious priority.
Perhaps not. But it is the wrong priority.
O'DONNELL: He’s trying to keep Democratic control of Supreme Court nominations, all sorts of important presidential things for the next four years going forward. That is not something people should think, “Oh, you know, why is he spending time on reelection?”
Ahem. Allow me to disagree, Ms. O'Donnell.
A President's top priority should be the well-being of the United States. If taking the measures necessary to achieve that costs him/her re-election, so be it.
The top priority should never be preservation of one's office. Re-election ought to be based on performance, and not campaign BS.
Because from our vantage point, four more years of Obama will only deepen our pain. To paraphrase the old fighter pilot's line, he's outta bullets, outta speed, outta altitude, and outta ideas. His answer is to get on a bus, campaign, and hope the whole thing somehow blows over.
And perhaps if Ms. O'Donnell got outside the Beltway more, she'd better understand what's at stake.
Obama's laser-focus
Submitted by sherlock1 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:21pm.
Obama really is laser-focused on jobs!! He's just using a the brilliant strategy of focusing on one job in particular first.
Obama's laser-focus
Submitted by sherlock1 on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:20pm.
Obama really is laser-focused on jobs!! He's just using a the brilliant strategy of focusing on one job in particular first.
"Wow. Two HuffPosters in one
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 7:51pm.
"Wow. Two HuffPosters in one day saying negative things about Obama on MSNBC.
Was that a pig I just saw flying by my window?"
No. You were just looking at an equally accurate broken clock.
Pigs have been flying in massive squadrons at HuffPo
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:20pm.
for quite some time now. The criticism of Obama has been frequent and intense. That's not to say he doesn't continue to enjoy a good bit of support there. However, not only do the many conservative commenters flog him relentlessly, but so do a sizable and growing number of progressives who feel increasingly betrayed and ignored by this President.
Jer
Those guys must be awfuly boring.
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:56pm.
For you spend so much time here, instead of with all those fine folks at Huff-stuff?
I wonder if Obama getting heat from---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 8:40pm.
so many points of the compass is merely underlining the obvious - he really is a worthless pos.
MD