AP Touts President Obama's Openness to Compromise, Ignores Campaign Obama's Contradiction and New Tattletale Site
Darlene Superville's Associated Press report earlier this evening on President Obama's visit to North Carolina ("Obama touts jobs bill benefits for small business") had an interesting final paragraph.
Concerning Obama's openness to compromise on his "jobs plan" (otherwise known as "spend now, pay for with taxes later"), she wrote: "President Obama has made clear he'd sign a portion of the legislation if that's all Congress could agree on, although he's said he would continue to fight to pass the whole thing."
Someone forgot to tell that to David Axelrod this morning, as Meghashyam Mali at the Hill reported (video is at link):
Story Continues Below Ad ↓Axelrod: 'We're not in a negotiation' on Obama $447B jobs package
Obama's top political adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday that the administration was unwilling to break up the president’s $447 billion jobs plan if Republicans were only receptive to passing certain elements.
"We're not in a negotiation to break up the package. It's not an à la carte menu. It's a strategy to get this country moving,” Axelrod said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"The president has a package; the package works together. We need to do many things to get this economy moving," Axelrod said.
Oh wait, I get it.
Superville was reporting on President Obama, not Campaign Obama.
President Obama is open to compromise, while Campaign Obama, represented by campaign bigwig Axelrod, isn't.
So Superville can totally ignore what Axelrod said because she was only covering President Obama. Campaign Obama is a totally different and separate thing.
She (and the rest of AP, as shown in the following searches, all not in quotes, at the wire service's main site which failed to find anything relevant: here on "attackwatch.com"; here on "Attack Watch"; here on "Obama campaign"; and here on "Obama for America") can also totally ignore the odious Attackwatch.com site, where Obama supporters are supposed to go to inform on their fellow citizens who are supposedly twisting the facts and lying about Obama's record.
Rush's thoughts today on attackwatch.com were succinctly sarcastic:
Now you've got the regime announcing yesterday this thing called Attack Watch. Obama has now...? The regime has a website? This is straight out of the... I saw a funny tweet. Some babe calls herself Virginia Gal has a tweet on this new Attack Watch website, the White House, "Are we gonna be able to read this in the original German?" ...
...Now, this Attack Watch thing (sigh), they're very proud of this. They're very excited. They've got this new tattletale site. And imagine, if it only had gone online sooner, then Obama would have won back Weiner's seat! Yeah. Nobody was available to stop all the false attacks on the regime, like the "lies" about 9.1% unemployment, Depression era unemployment for blacks and young people, Obama's tax increases during a recession. All those lies that we've been telling! His attempt to lessen the charitable donations deduction.
The lies about Fast and Furious, the attempt to undermine the Second Amendment in this country, the lies about Solyndra, the record levels of poverty and food stamp distribution, the home mortgage crisis. All those lies that have been told about Obama, if only Attack Watch had been up, all of those lies could have been stopped.
At some point, someone ought to break it to Darlene Superville and the AP that Campaign Obama and President Obama are really the same person -- and that if they contradict each other, or if either one engages in authoritarian behavior, it's news.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Who is surprised?
Submitted by Marcus Porcius on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 8:42pm.
This is the same administration that said Republicans can sit at the back of the bus and told Republicans at their first meeting with Obama basically to shut up and go along because "I won."
Now after a month of "Republicans won't compromise" regarding the debt ceiling fight, here comes the Anti-President telling them again to just shut up and go along.
And of course it won't be Obama's fault for not compromising, it will be Republicans "holding the jobs bill hostage."
Same sh*t, different day.
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
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Compromise
Submitted by CobraMan on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:24pm.
To a liberal, compromise never means having to say "you win."
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.
Obama by the Dashboard lights
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:48pm.
Anybody else get creeped out when Obama said today "If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill. ”
The Wehrmacht Oath of Loyalty to Adolf Hitler
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:08pm.
Yeah when I heard that I went ".....huh?.... What!?"
I don't think it was a mere casual statement by obama. The results of obama's policies cannot be defended so now he is trying to make this a personal loyalty issue. It's the old cult of personality propaganda all despots use to diffuse the discontent of their citizeny from their misery. obama is asking citizens "Don't think about your life. Think about mine".
The Nazis fought for Hitler not Germany. When Hitler gained power he had each man in the military swear a personal oath of loyalty to him not Germany.
OH sh!t. I'd forgotten!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:12pm.
Thanks for the reminder.
Attack page is now attacking.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:53pm.
http://www.attackwatch.com/news-feed-entry/rick-perrys-massive-jobs-lie
http://www.attackwatch.com/tag/israel/
http://www.attackwatch.com/attack-files-entry/obama-regulations/
Crossed another line, that's what they do.
You Didn't Build That.
Circular Reference Commitee
Submitted by kata on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:04pm.
I love it when they reference each other! It's a YATRS. (Yet another trollish reference site). Media Matters, Think Progress, Ministry of Truth... oh wait, my mistake on that last one! They all have too much name recognition. But oh how this last one backfired. So over the top...
The problem with all of these is that the usual doof that uses these things assumes that they are getting the entire story. I particularly like the one about regulations.
How about the one on Israel?
Submitted by ThisnThat on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:53am.
Here's their quote: Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testified that more has been done to improve the US-Israel security relationship under President Obama than at any time in his 45-year career.
And here's what they left out, of course:
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
And don't forget building in Jerusalem
Submitted by expatriot on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:36pm.
Bambi and his cabinet are great at telling Israel what to do.
- Don't build in Jerusalem or else.
- Puts Israel on list that supports terror and takes off N. Korea.
- Tells Israel to apologize to Turkey, after Turkey backed a blockade run, or else.
We could go on and on.
I just read the three links
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:49am.
I just read the three links you provided re "attackwatch" and it is simply propaganda. For example, in their defense of Obama regime's lie about job creations they state that "three private assessments" show massive job creations and/or jobs saved under the Obama administation yet no details are given on how these assessments were done nor what criteria they looked at. Furthermore, there is no objective method available to determine "jobs saved" and none of the "assessments" given breaks down jobs created and jobs saved but keeps it all bundled together. Also, there is no breakdown whatsoever of the types of jobs allegedly created (long term vs. short term and temporary jobs).Thus it really cannot be relied upon since the "jobs saved" is nothing more that a guesstimate.
I noticed too, that the color
Submitted by kevcad on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:03pm.
I noticed too, that the color scheme of this site is the same as the Gestapo. Unfortunately, so is Glenn Beck's GBTV.com, and I wish that wasn't so.
And the color scheme was also
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:53am.
And the color scheme was also used by a lot of new wave bands in the 80s as well. And the Atlanta Falcons. And U. of GA Bulldogs. And at least one Red Hot Chili Peppers' logo. And a pair of my Nike shoes.
So? What does it all mean?
<*big smile*>
Idiocy
Submitted by GerryC on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:13pm.
At the same time the OhBummer! Administration calls for "Bi-partisanship", "Centrist Debate", "Less divisiveness", and "Compromise" they come out telling us that they will not "negotiate" on anything they propose. When did Americans agree that spending trillions of dollars more than we have is "OK"? There is not a sane nation or people on this earth that talks about trillions, except Democrats in the USA. Every American owes $450,000 each when you add in unfunded obligations. How many Americans have that just sitting around to spend?
This sums up this regime, and the liberal agenda. When they had complete control of everything for 2 years, they still blamed it on Republicans for blocking, while excluding the GOP from any debate or decision. They treated the GOP as the party of "No", yet the GOP had control of nothing. I am so excited on the recent win in # 9 in New York!!!! God Bless the people that can actually "see" the damage done by these buffoons. Gerry
P.S. I took this off my signature, but felt it is worth saying again what my dad told me once: "Son, there are two ways to live life. You can wake up every morning and thank the Lord for everything he gave you and the opportunity at life, or you can be a Democrat and wake up hating the Lord for what he did not give you"
Make sure you report
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 11:47pm.
Make sure you report yourself, help make attackwatch a costly failure. I did and I feel good.
Do what I did
Submitted by Bob K on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:38am.
Use the site to report yourselves for not being worshipful enough of obama. LOL
I did
Submitted by ant on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:03am.
and I asked them how many Hail Mary's it would take to atone for my transgressions against the Won.
And how exactly will throwing
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:54am.
And how exactly will throwing a football help?
<*big smile*>
SnitchWatch.com
Submitted by big.league.slider on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:28am.
The closer these libs get to losing their grip on power, the loonier they get.
Seriously, can any of you imagine an official, federally-sanctioned, snitch website? Paid for with your hard-earned tax dollars?
Obama is way worse than McCarthy.
Self-denouncing
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:06am.
Referencing that vile dictatorship of the Nazis is fun, but for me, this tattle-tale site is MUCH better suited for Commie references. Please remember that in Communist regimes it was acceptable - and demanded - for diehard Communists to not only denounce each other, but to denounce themselves for not believeing in the cause (or the leader) quite enough.
Hence, I think that every single Rightist should hit that website and self-denounce for not loving His Majesty The Shahinshah nearly enough as we should. After all, we ALL need to love Him more deeply, more intensely, and more passionately than we would consider loving our spouses, our families - even God.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I couldn't resist reporting Obama,
Submitted by Order270 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:07am.
knowing full well I am probably being pinned to some List. They might sneakingly attempt to bait Conservatives into "exposing" themselves, while I inversely desire to be that List.
Laughing on the inside
Submitted by Einstein on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:02am.
Tattletale site. Ha ha ho ha. I can only imagine you'd like the president to sit back and ignore the lies being thrown around as truth by GOP candidates.
Hey, did you hear the one about Romney blaming Obama for job losses in 2007 and 2008? Nothing to see here. Just move along, look at the pretty butterflies...
♡ Einstein
Please, laugh among yourself.
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:16am.
I don't see how telling a joke about Romney blaming Obama for job losses would be funny, but having witnessed this president laughing, with Jeff Immelt about how they bilked Americans out of nearly a $Trillion (weren't quite as shovel-ready as we thought), I'm not much of a fan of Liberal humor.
I'll assume "Einstein" refers to an injury you suffered because its literal translation is "one stone".
Ah, a battle of wits
Submitted by Einstein on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:36am.
No, it's not a liberal joke. It was published by Romney himself.
♡ Einstein
→ Romney told a joke?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:41am.
OK, I haven't "heard the one" Romney told.
Do tell.
I guess he was joking
Submitted by Einstein on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:55am.
Because he sure couldn't have been serious.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/06/312792/romney-chart-falsely...
♡ Einstein
Idiot!!!
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:43am.
It's pretty obvious that the chart does not blame president dowgrade for the job losses in 2007-08. It only references 2007-09 as the recession years.
Pretty convenient that you missed the fact that this is the most anemic "recovery" from a recession in history.
Self reflecting?
Submitted by Einstein on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 9:05am.
Obviously he wasn't referring to the Obama recovery from 2007 - 2009 when he noted "Obama recovery 2007 - 2009."
♡ Einstein
No, just calling it like I see it.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sat, 09/17/2011 - 11:46pm.
Obviously referring to the "recovery" from the recession of 2007-09, under president downgrade's watch. It's pretty pathetic. You can see how pathetic right there in chart.
You know, foods with Omega 3's may be able to help with your comprehension problems. Can't hurt.
RESTLESS...Dr. Einstein has been dispatched
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 12:55am.
to another dimension. Somewhere in time...somewhere in space.
Jer
Well, huh.
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 12:58am.
I was about to have some real fun with him. I guess I'll have to wait for the reincarnation.
Your teams do well today?
The unstoppable
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 09/18/2011 - 2:23pm.
powerhouse, Vanderbilt Commodores, rolled to their third straight victory vanquishing Ole Miss. Blonde's cheating Gators hung on to beat TN Vols.
Jer
Anyone beating Ole Miss in
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 11:12am.
Anyone beating Ole Miss in football is always a good thing in my MSU household.
Beuke...
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 6:11pm.
Vandy beating anyone in football is always a good thing in our household.
Jer
1/4 wit in your case Einstein
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:45am.
So, you spend the whole school day in the Jr.High computer lab?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
~What is the job of the press?
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:22am.
.
Is it not obvious?
Submitted by Einstein on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:35am.
Trash the GOP, make Obama look good. Every now and then they miss something.
♡ Einstein
~So making your own site
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:09am.
for people to use to report fellow Americans when the press doesn't carry the water fast enough makes you look (fill in the blank).
Yeah, I'm sure if
Submitted by ant on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 12:32pm.
Yeah, I'm sure if Buuuusssshhh had a few tattletale sites, you would have had no problem with it. Reporting on citizens is fair if it defends the Won, tracking the finances of terrorists is a big No-no for the libtard sect, however.
Therefore...
Submitted by Unsane on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:19pm.
So you admit that the "media" is a mouthpiece and that you are 100% comfortable with that?
I knew you were aching painfully to surrender every last one of your political and economic freedoms to the government because they are too burdensome to you, but sheesh...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Ain't that the truth
Submitted by ant on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 1:42pm.
The battlecry of the liberal activist/politician, "We need our 'Federal Family' to provide for our every need and guide us in all things, because freedom demands too much responsibility."
Where was Obama in 2007-2008?
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:43am.
Where was Obama in 2007-2008? Oh, that's right, he was a US Senator who voted on bills which negatively affected our economy. But, hay, don't let that inconvenient fact get in the way of a good Romney bashing, ok?
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.
Cobraman - well, he also took a litle trip
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:18pm.
. . to Kenya where he campaigned for he dear friend (fellow tribesman) Raila Odinga, presidential candidate and leader of the "Orange Democratic Movement," (gee - I wonder if that's where Obama got the idea - LOL).
Following the election loss, Odinga's followers, more than a wee bit upset of his disputed election loss, began a mini genocide against the forces of the victor, Kibaki. Included in the violence perpetrated by Obama's side were the usual hacking to death by machete, mob beatings, and the occasional locking all the local women and children up in the church, barricading the doors and burning them all to death (wonder if he'd passed along a copy of Mel Gibson's "The Patriot?")
Two memories haunt me from those days of old; 1.) I don't recall then candidate and Senator Obama calling out for calm, and 2.) I don't recall that our national MSM had any interest in either asking him about what he was doing there and the horror that was taking place, or, in broadly simply reporting the news of the events. There were some straight news accounts of the events - but I doubt very much Obama's name was mentioned.
Where was Obama?" Where was his heart? Where was his concern?
(;~/ gary
Although I have no documented
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:03am.
Although I have no documented evidence, based upon the known facts that Obama has very thin skin, does not take criticism well, has had multiple "snitch" websites and other known facts regarding the Obama regime, it would be reasonable to assume he has an enemies list similar if not more extensive than Richard Nixon.