Obama: We’re all going to have to sacrifice for the greater good
posted at 1:07 pm on January 11, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Fair warning from this morning’s long chat with Stephanopoulos; follow the link for fudging about whether he’ll investigate Bush or why it might take more than 100 days to close Gitmo, both of which have the nutroots wringing their hands. When I first saw the headline on this bit, I thought for sure he was hinting at raising taxes. And maybe he is, but that’s not the context in which the exchange occurs. Stephanopoulos’s question, quite explicitly, is about entitlement reform, including — dare I say it? — social security.
Exit question: What does The One have in mind? Click the image to watch.
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Not only that, but we were told there was a spending freeze on basically everything. But guess who refurbished his elaborate conference room with a gazillion inch HDTV and all new china for his luncheon meetings? The president.
scalleywag on January 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Engl>French>English translations: “I thought he was ordinary.” Michelle on Barack, “He liked my sarcastic comments.”
When Michelle and her kids sacrifice everything for the greater good, then Barry-O can spout off as is his habit; but not until HE and his elitists give up “living high on the hog” as HE puts it.
No way is the typical working class American going to put up with higher taxes to make the bureaucrats richer and the illegal aliens better off than the working citizen.
The only way that the Progressive Socialists can enforce their WILL on the masses is coercion, to persist in the ruination of our country to the point that we must either rebel or conform into the prepared mold of slavery that they are enforcing.
And for the RNC to have the nerve to preempt the GOP with RINO is no surprise. This is post-McCain, now post-Bush. There is no naivety; ask Palin or Wurzelbacher. McCain distinguished the differentiation between conservatism and progressivism, dashing any doubts that may have lingered through Bush’s administration.
No need to allow disillusionment to depress you into Socialist conformity. On the contrary. Hold your ground and stick to your guns and demand our Constitutional government.
Deprive Obama having and eating his cake; let him eat crow, his own words. He wants it in French? Let him rue in his own roux.
maverick muse on January 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM
What has that self serving moron obama ever sacraficed???
Just got an email from a friend. He had friends over for dinner. Middle aged, college educated.. They were all drooling over obama… SOmething isn’t making sense..
The problem is in the lamestream media. Unless we move news to the internet REAL FAST, I mean like today, then we lose.
People still thing sycophants like davie shuster, chrissy matthews and keithie olberman are unbiased providers of news.
bullseye on January 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM
From the guy that said “only 18 billion dollars of the budget were earmarks” during a Presidential debate. He personally responsible for 975 million dollars of that over two years.
Hog Wild on January 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Not quite “all,” eh Bambi? Just those who have behaved responsibly and made prudent decisions. We are the ones who have been, and will be, sacrificing so that the lazy, the stupid, the shiftless, the dishonest, the corrupt, the irresponsible, etc., can continue to receive their government checks.
When you reward bad behavior, you guarantee that you will get more bad behavior, not less. Why is this simple, fundamental fact so impossible for Dims to comprehend?
AZCoyote on January 11, 2009 at 2:59 PM
haha, not everyone is so enamored with the One. Some are preparing for the coronation with this:
http://99designs.com/contests/15830
scalleywag on January 11, 2009 at 3:01 PM
I suspect Dims comprehend this all too well.
bluetick on January 11, 2009 at 3:02 PM
We’re all going to have to sacrifice for the greater good…
Isn’t that what Hitler Said before he came up with the Final solution?
unseen on January 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Nothing on specifics – lots on ambivalence
Kini on January 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Middle aged, college educated. They were all drooling over obama…SOmething isn’t making sense.
technopeasant on January 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM
What a loser. Instead of saying suffer, he should use the phrase “buck up,” and “tighten our belts.” No one suffers in America. Americans don’t suffer and whimper because of our misfortune, we pick ourselves up and make things right.
PEBO and his leftist friends are all losers.
mindhacker on January 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM
That’s it. My tax money is already going into the pockets of the pandering plundering Potamicians and I’ve got to have “some skin in the game”? We’re working nearly 200 days for these jokers benefits; when will the next April 15 bring about a Tea Party II?
OkieDoc on January 11, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Don’t know what to say about this. I cannot listen to him speak. He makes me want to barf. I am trying not to be mean now. It isn’t easy knowing nothing about the top Circus Clown. He will screw our Country up so badly. The Liberal’s make me sick. Can’t we create a Island and ship all Liberal bots there? Sweep them under the rug? That would be better.
sheebe on January 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Hey I sacrifice my husband at least 6 months out of every year for the past 4 years I think that we sacrifice more than enough he doesn’t need all of my money either.
Brat4life on January 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM
There isn’t going to be an April 15th tea party II. Like the “earned income tax credit”, Obama plans on burying his new entitlements into the tax code. I actually look for April 15th to become the second largest holiday on the calendar with government playing Santa.
DFCtomm on January 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM
I wonder how much skin in the game will those who do not pay taxes have to give?
Kini on January 11, 2009 at 3:28 PM
Yes Mister $975 million in two years earmark man. Now’s the time to be responsible now that you are no longer in a position to allocate taxpayer funds through earmarks. (Banging head on desk in disbelief and amazement).
Hog Wild on January 11, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Sounds as if many folks need to read Atlas Shrugged.
This whole bail out lingo is new speak/doublespeak
as a cover to sell out the country.Commie/socilism needs to be sent packing in 2010,all of the bums need to be out.
Col.John Wm. Reed on January 11, 2009 at 3:34 PM
I need to correct that. The government has no money to play Santa. The people who actually pay taxes will be playing Santa, and the government will simply be handing out the gifts. Next time you see a drug addict using food stamps give yourself a nice little pat on the back Santa.
DFCtomm on January 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM
So he is going to give back the house that Rezko bought him? Isn’t it really odd how the Communists always talk about the greater good, when it never is about any such thing.
The age of the shuck and jive, hoodwinking and bamboozling hustlers is upon us.
Might I suggest the new Obama administration theme song “Jive Talking” by the BeeGees. Fits to a T.
tarpon on January 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM
“The greater good” is whatever the Democrat party says it is. It didn’t matter what Bill Clinton did, so long as he was devoted to the “greater good”, the “higher morality” (also shifting in nature).
ddrintn on January 11, 2009 at 3:45 PM
I wonder if the election would have come out the same way if the movie version of Atlas Shrugged actually had actually come out in 2008.
Conservative/libertarian version of sacrifice: working hard, putting in long hours, scrimping for an education, so your life will be better later on.
Liberal version of sacrifice: working hard, putting in long hours, so other people can live better in the present.
Roxeanne de Luca on January 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I suggest Osama Obama make the first sacrifice: resign from the office he is in no way qualified for or capable of running, and proceed to apply for a job within his “skill-set.” Like gardening, maybe.
We need a “skin” out of this “game.” Obama’s skin.
MrScribbler on January 11, 2009 at 3:46 PM
When is the idiot messiah going to sacrifice and show us some of his school, travel and birth records? Is that too much sacrifice to ask? … I guess so.
Pray that the SCOTUS gets some balls, someday.
progressoverpeace on January 11, 2009 at 3:51 PM
In socialism the ruling class never sacrifices NEVER. But the labor class will sacrifice until there is nothing left.
allrsn on January 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM
I hope he’s talking about the large portion of people that don’t pay taxes sacrificing. They’re overdue.
blankminde on January 11, 2009 at 4:15 PM
call me what you will,but just looking,hearing or reading at,to or about this fake messiah,gives me the creeps!
spareadime on January 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM
*****There’s nothing to call you. I get the pure evil reaction anytime I see his pic and I cannot listen to him and I dont watch the vids. Oh how I wish I could be Wonder Woman. The “creep shield” would be smokin from overuse!!*****
Coastal Paradise on January 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Jimmy Carter redux.
Is this how a leader leads?
diogenes on January 11, 2009 at 4:29 PM
What are we going to have to sacrifice?
Our guns
Our Money
Our Freedoms
Our Rights
Our Sovereignty
Our Independence
Our Standards
Our Morality
Our God
Our Family Structures
Our Security
Other than that…not that much…
sabbott on January 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM
My wife and I have already sacrificed our jobs. Our savings exhausted, we’re getting ready to sell our furniture & antiques. We’ll likely have to sacrifice our home in a month or two.
On top of all this ‘Hope and Change’, Congress is about to steal the future from my children and grandchildren.
I’ve had enough sacrificing. What I want to see is:
Obama sacrifice his salary, his Chicago and Hawai’i mansions and put his children in public school.
I want to see Congress give back all 22 pay raises they have granted themselves since this country began.
I want to see Federal and State politicians sacrifice their spending of other people’s money and use their own for a change.
I want to see permanent tax cuts setting the tax rate at no more than 5% then see if Congress can keep the lights on.
SeniorD on January 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM
What sacrifices will Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and all the other senators that turned a blind eye to the Community Reinvestment Act.
Why should I have to pay for the mistakes and criminal activity?
Kini on January 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Come on this is about getting re-elected, being a two termer, not about silly questions like will this work.
Gilligan here doesn’t really want to get off the Island, he just wants us to think he does.
Angry Dumbo on January 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM
The only thing O’Bama claims to know a lot about is Abraham Lincoln. Well, he should adopt Lincoln’s money policies. The ‘Greenback’.
Instead, O’Bama will plunge the country into relentless borrowing and printing of money. Now the interesting thing about this is Bernake claims to have studiously learned from the ’30’s not to contract money, but to expand the money supply to counteract a crash and depression. However, what has actually happened is the opposite. He has dramatically expanded the money supply to the banks, while they have severely ‘contracted the money supply’ to anyone else. Hmmmmmm…………..
So it would appear the Fed, (which is privately owned), has taken care of its own with no disclosure, no accountability, and no regard for the people. No surprise there. At minimum this completely disproves McFadden, (who blamed constricted money supply in ’30’s on the Fed), and surplus money supplied by Bernake, (who thinks he is an expert on the ’30’s). The dirty little secret as we know now is banks would not have loaned money if they had it in the 30’s, and will not loan money now, when they do have it now.
The central reason is the opportunity for wealth transfer is too great. Banks in the 30’s that survived, and banks flush with cash now, can simply constrict loans and acquire billions upon billions in property and real estate simply by constricting the money supply and forcing forclosures for pennies on the dollar. All with the support of the taxpayer money given to the Fed.
They were not happy until they squeezed every last dime out of the country from ‘29-’41 and I would anticipate this would go longer.
Starlink on January 11, 2009 at 4:59 PM
But…But…I thought since Obummer was elected I won’t have to worry about gas in my car or paying my mortgage.
Guardian on January 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Expensive vacation in Hawaii.
Luxurious suites at Hays-Adams Hotel.
Daughters to attend Sidwell-Friends.
Lavish inauguration.
No let up in greedy requests for donations at this website.
I guess he’s giving up arugula.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM
That is a very interesting twist on this crisis, and one I hadn’t thought about. The banks assume that for the time being things will be tight, but when things recover they will make a killing on the property they have seized, and the government has subsidized this behavior with our money.
DFCtomm on January 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM
“Everyone will have some skin in this game”?
Need a little skin there berry? This typical white guy is extending the middle finger to you right now!
try again later on January 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM
During the campaign, Obama constantly talked about building a “bottom up” economy. Give me a break. Is there any better example of a “top down” economic program than what Obama is proposing? Giving almost a trillion dollars to a few government czars and letting them distribute it where they see fit. Because of course they know how to spend it better than we do because they are so wise and virtuous. And they always have the “public good” in mind when they distribute the money. So, rather than let market forces guide the capital to where it is most valued and most efficiently utilized we have a few of our government overlords dispersing huge amounts of money according to their own priorities and agendas.
As Milton Friedman put it, “Tell me where you intend to find these angels who are going to organize society for you”. Bingo.
JohnInCA on January 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM
What Does Skin In The Game Mean?
A term coined by renowned investor Warren Buffett referring to a situation in which high-ranking insiders use their own money to buy stock in the company they are running.
You first Barry!
Buy Danish on January 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM
No kidding. Whatever happened to “leading by example” Bambi? As our soon-to-be First Family, shouldn’t you and your Bitter Half be making the first sacrifices, to show the rest of America how committed you are, and how serious the situation is?
And speaking of hypocrisy, what happened to all those Dims who were complaining about the Bush inaugural parties in 2004? The people who said we’re at war, and it’s inappropriate to be spending millions of dollars on lavish parties at such a time. Guess what people, we’re still at war, and we’re also now facing a financial crisis of unprecedented proportions. So why aren’t you Dims outraged by Obama’s lavish inaugural spending? Especially when it comes at a time when he’s telling us that “everybody” is going to have to be making sacrifices “for the greater good.” Why aren’t you putting your money where your mouth is, Bambi, and leading the way?
AZCoyote on January 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Government workers do not pay social security, they have their own system, so they do not care as they will not be affected. Means test government workers before you means test the rest of us. They never give up anything for the greater good.
tessa on January 11, 2009 at 5:35 PM
American Revolution II
Coming to a neighborhood near you…better than the first!
Let’s roll…..NObama!
ex-Democrat on January 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Another example of skin in the game is putting a down payment down on your house before you buy it.Gosh, just who was it who decided to throw that model out the window?
If we’re to involuntarily play the skin game, then Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, Jim Johnson and others should be first in line donating every freaking
dimemillion they made while steering this country on the road to bankruptcy (with Dodd, Meeks, Franks, Waters and the rest next in line).Buy Danish on January 11, 2009 at 5:46 PM
To a liberal social security “reform” means one and only one thing: increase the taxes paid into the ponzi scheme by high income earners. Good bye SS cap, that’s what Obama means. And as a double bonus, there will be means testing as well. Meaning someone making $150K will pay $20K a year into the system for 30 years and get $0 upon retirement.
But Obama is a centrist and we should all embrace his holiness.
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 5:53 PM
If you are serious, and not simply being facetious, may I ask why you aren’t getting govt assistance? If you are in that dire straits, you can back up the truck to the government office and lead full of cash.
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Why should I have to sacrifice?? I didn’t do anything wrong. The morons on Wall Street and the idiots who bought expensive houses using subprime loans are the ones who should bear the entire amount of sacrifice. I should just be allowed to keep my money and be left alone.
Illinidiva on January 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM
The symbol of the next American Revolution? All it needs is a little red, white and blue and a handy, dandy slogan. Something like Take this change and shove it only better.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Is that tag line straight from Karl Marx, or did Mein Fuhrer really say that?
madmonkphotog on January 11, 2009 at 6:07 PM
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/pensions.asp
Itchee Dryback on January 11, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Go to hell, Barry.
I paid over $75,000 in federal income taxes last year and gave another $30,000 to charity. If you idiots can’t figure out how to make this work with my money and the money of all my fellow taxpayers, perhaps you should go back to community organizing.
D2Boston on January 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs”.
That about cover it?
irongrampa on January 11, 2009 at 6:16 PM
So what you;re saying is you’re rich. In which case you can afford to contribute more since you have so much and other have so little. I mean come on, if you can afford $75,000 in taxes, surely you can afford $85,000 or $95,000.
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Does your name give an indication of your political pesuasion?
Johan Klaus on January 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM
1) So when does Bambi put on a sweater and go on TV to tell the American People to turn down their thermostats?
The Second Carter Presidency, as was prophesied.
2) Liberals are always going on about “sacrifice,” as long as it’s someone else’s stuff, and spent on what liberals want, and the recipient of the sacrifice is the all-high tribal god of the left known as “The State.”
A certain percentage of the modern left are basically ascetics – they just want people to do with less (i.e. suffer need), pretty much regardless of the issue at hand (global warming, high gas prices, the war, corn shortages, etc.).
Always beware someone whose answer to every ill is the same medicine – the one they call for even when you’re not sick.
Merovign on January 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
One way to cheat obama out of his revolution, is not pay your taxes. Hard to do, though. Or quit your job. That will deprive him of revenue. It will deprive you of revenue too, but it will be for a greater good. Or become self-employed and don’t declare. Or get into the underground economy and do everything in cash.
Too many payroll employees in America. Too easy to fleece the population. America needs to reduce its payroll labor force to the point where income taxes just don’t add up to much. That was how it used to be when America was being created, 1776-1946. No income tax, and even if there was an income tax, it would not have been collectible because people lived off the land, dealt in cash, and there was no means of recording income.
The beast must not be fed and it is incumbent upon every patriotic American to provide as little food as possible to the beast.
keep the change on January 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Is that sarcasm? Just in case it isn’t, I hope it has occurred to you that if it’s necessary to pay more to satisfy The One’s shopping list, the charity will get less.
Buy Danish on January 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM
In addition, a few years ago Michelle talked to a group of women (whose yearly income averaged around 32,000!), and said that she knew things were difficult. Why, she said, the extracurricular activities alone for her girls cost $10,000 a year!
Yes indeed. The day when we could afford 10k a year for extracurricular goodies for our two kids would be the day I consider myself quite well-to-do.
Alana on January 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Barry’s anticipating a $1trillion deficit next year, but I haven’t heard him say anything about the imperial federal government sacrificing. Maybe he could cut the deficit to $500billion?
The chickens will definitely come home to roost and the idiots who elected him, and the liberals and RINOs in Congress, expecting hand-outs will soon learn how painful socialism can be.
Our kids and grandkids will inherit this mess so that the Washington elites can keep their power.
orlandocajun on January 11, 2009 at 6:40 PM
One was a communist, the other was a socialist.
Johan Klaus on January 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM
I’m becoming more and more convinced that Obama is simply clueless and doesn’t have the foggiest notion what he’s talking about or what he wants to do. He’ll spend the next several years basking in media adulation and trying hard to look presidential while relying on those around him to make the decisions and take the heat.
ddrintn on January 11, 2009 at 6:47 PM
I don’t have anything to give. The government took it all.
ScoopPC11 on January 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Ah but you see, the whole point of Bambi’s “community organizing” was to organize the community to demand and take more of other people’s money. Bambi grew dissatisfied with community organizing when he realized that he could demand and take more of other people’s money by becoming a politician. (Lucky for us, eh?)
AZCoyote on January 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM
But some will be more equal in their giving than others.
Tzetzes on January 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM
People like you should be forced to live in communism/socialism, for at least 3 years, without the knowledge that you could ever return. It w/b the only way to get your Utopian nonsense out of your sick, and clueless, heads.
Entelechy on January 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Also, and very important, the disinsentive for D2Boston to work hard. In similar positions the producers are going to go underground, or take it easy. Fark the redistribution. Why work harder is the efforts are redistributed to those who don’t.
Sad, but so true. Fiction became reality. If Ayn woulb be alive she’d eat little characters like angryed.
Entelechy on January 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM
The Greater Good
Dumbledore saw the error in that. Grindelwald did not. Will Obama? :)
hadsil on January 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Skin in the game.
Is this any way for a President-elect to talk! Will somebody get mean Obama dictionary so I can understand him.Bushisms I got and they were funny!
Kevin in Southern Illinois on January 11, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Get off that communist crap. Whatever people have earned through their personal diligence and hard work they deserve to keep. They owe you nothing and they owe me nothing. If you want more then go earn more but don’t try to take it from others.
rplat on January 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM
What do you mean “we”, white man?
(pun intended.)
I did not vote for this jerk, and I have absolutely no intention of giving up one red cent, one chocolate calorie, one minor gas-guzzling car, one blue swimming pool, nor anything else to make life better for his black and Latino constituency, and the rest of the unemployed liberals who voted for him.
NahnCee on January 11, 2009 at 7:33 PM
No, no, no. He very much needs it. He is married to Michelle afterall so he needs a whole lot of arugula.
“arugula: it is used as a leaf vegetable, which looks like a longer leaved and open lettuce. It is rich in vitamin C and potassium. It is frequently cultivated, although domestication cannot be considered complete. It has been grown in the Mediterranean area since Roman times, and was considered an aphrodisiac“.
Tuco on January 11, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I think he was illustrating absurdity by being absurd. lighten up.
Just like earlier in the thread when I called those who disagreed with THE ONE racist…
right4life on January 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-blog/
reshas1 on January 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM
For
Entelechy on January 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM
&
rplat on January 11, 2009 at 7:29 PM
sar·casm
1. a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2. : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b: the use or language of sarcasm
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM
oh and
Entelechy on January 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM
too
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM
I guarantee you Obama didn’t remember one thing he said after that interview…He just chameleoned along. You could probably get him to say anything under the right circumstances.
tomas on January 11, 2009 at 7:51 PM
“For the uninitiated, the moral of the story is simply this: Politicians invariably respond to crises — that in most cases they themselves created — by spawning new government programs, laws and regulations. These, in turn, generate more havoc and poverty, which inspires the politicians to create more programs . . . and the downward spiral repeats itself until the productive sectors of the economy collapse under the collective weight of taxes and other burdens imposed in the name of fairness, equality and do-goodism.”
Goucho had that covered too.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and misapplying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx
MB4 on January 11, 2009 at 7:59 PM
I read…”You’re all going to have to sacrifice, for my agenda.”
Atlas shrugged should be required reading in our schools. Kinda late now though. Our children have already been indoctrinated in Obamaspeak. The fight is all uphill now to get people to wake the hell up.
We’re gonna get an education here shortly. Either the vast majority of Americans are stupid, and will let Obama flush us down the drain, or they will finally see him for what he is and stop him. Will they open their eyes in time? Will they see the train comin’?
The Obots see the light at the end of the tunnel and think it’s daylight. I look at the light and wonder how fast that train is coming at me.
Do I sound pessimistic? A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.
Army Brat on January 11, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Whatever Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SWT)(SAW) has in mind, it certainly includes the destruction of both the United States and Israel, of that there is no doubt…
Dale in Atlanta on January 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM
PS:……
does anyone else find it ironic, if not downright contemptible and sad, that the ass-clown..Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SAW)(SWT), who has ONLY gotten to where he is in life, due to Affirmitive Action and having been literally handed EVERY so-called “accomplish” in his life, by his White Grandmother and the American Taxpayer, is telling other people that THEY have to “sacrifice”…
Nuance…..
Dale in Atlanta on January 11, 2009 at 8:10 PM
He’s going to try, and with it plunge this nation into a fight that wont end before blood is spilled. Foolish foolish man..
Viper1 on January 11, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Why sure I’ll lighten up if I see a tongue-in-cheek remark . . . but I didn’t detect that in this case.
Peace.
rplat on January 11, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I’ve been sacrificing for 5 years to pay off debt that was mostly due to someone who lied to me. I’ll be finished in June without having declared bankruptcy. My credit score is pretty good, I’m getting married this year and will finally be able to start saving up for a down payment on a house. Why should I sacrifice more??
aikidoka on January 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Taking the message from the old racist, black liberation theologian Rev. Wright, Obama wants the gov. to own the banks and when the masses of white folk foreclose in record numbers, he’ll find a way to get the oppressed minorities into these homes and it will all look squeaky clean and legal.
As far as 2010… forget about that… It’s fixed as we speak. The Dem’s own the election process from this point forward.]
In 2 years your average hard working Joe won’t have a pot to piss in as far as contributing to any campaign. This is why Obama is still soliciting contributions while there is still money to be had.
katy on January 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM
an
angryed on January 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM
You are forgiven. Please forgive my lack of analysis, observation, attention and concentration,
Entelechy on January 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM
People how long must I SCREAM for a march on the white house and then on to the capitol? I’m talking massive sit in!!
I am a foot soldier, so I will follow. We need leaders people!
Mercy4Me on January 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I’ll sacrifice right after I see Obama and the entire House and Senate Democratic delegations sacrificing. Crickets chirping ….
JeffB. on January 11, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Like someone already said, in Socialism, otherwise known as sharing the wealth, the workers suffer. The people pulling the strings , i.e. the gubmit, get richer. Like in the great movie, “Patton” where the soldier says, “Our blood, his guts”. This time it’s “Our sacrifice, his brilliant plan”.
kingsjester on January 11, 2009 at 9:03 PM
This is why I say Liberty is dead.
We have no leaders willing to sacrifice as our Founding Fathers did. They put it all on the line. Some, even in the eventual victory, lost everything and had miserable lives as a result.
I don’t see Gingrich willing to lose any weight in sacrifice. Nor Gush Limbo either. These men – intellectuals in Gingrich’s corner, Reagan-Cons in Gush’s – have not true conception of what is necessary here, nor would they be willing to sacrifice if they did.
Any of the, including Romney or anyone else, could call for a nation strike on the 20th to demonstrate the AP’s One and Only, along with his coherts Pelosi or Reid, will NOT be allowed a dictatorship in this country.
And as far as I’m concerned, any “leader” drinking the global warming Kool-Aid (Gingrch!) is not a conservative and should be denied a role in the part.
Liberty is dead, fella’s, roll over and play dead already.
klickink.wordpress.com on January 11, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Not sure if it’s dead just yet. When Americans begin to feel the pain and fear in larger numbers, the roar will get louder. The roar will intersect with the attempt to silence us. That is when things will get real.
We’re not there yet.
As far as leaders… I’m not looking to Newt’s and Rush’s do this. I’m looking to us…. remember…. we the people. We actually need to do this. We need a new party. The party is dead, not liberty.
We are the party. A leader will emerge but not from anything presently residing in DC!
katy on January 11, 2009 at 9:19 PM
A complete national shut down to close off DC might be a good plan .Jam the phone lines,faxes,email.Sit in traffic and drive real slow.
Block the capitol and WH streets..Just simple tourists with clunky cars.
Pick a day.
Col.John Wm. Reed on January 11, 2009 at 9:23 PM
The leader we need comes via Alaska (Sarah) and small town Ohio (Joe the Plumber), common citizens who care about their country. The elites have already raided the retirement funds of most Americans and means testing of social security will surely follow.
Skin in the game for responsible citizens who saved for retirement by following the rules (401K’s and IRA’s) and not living above their means, only to have the rules changed by the rule makers to grab even more of our retirement and make us all equally poor and beholden to big governemnt eilites.
Its’ tea party time but the American people must wake up, get pissed and throw the bums out! Do we have the brains or will?
dhunter on January 11, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I don’t think that everyone should suffer the consequences of the actions of some. Let those who are the cause suffer the consequence.
OldEnglish on January 11, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I told my daughter not to vote for a Marxist socialist. She said he wasn’t, and did.
I am older, so I may pay less of a price for this bullshit that passes for intellect. My kids will be the ones who are really screwed, and I am sorry for them, and their kids.
Bama is a liar out of the gate, when he says “we all have to sacrifice”. He isn’t going to, or his mother in law would go live with her son. Congress would refuse its raises. Dodd and Frank would resign for their signal inability to see the financial system train wreck coming, chairmen of committees, decades of “experience”. And they blame it on Bush, but they were running the committees from 06 on, members for decades before. Sgt. Schultz was more honest in “knowing nothing”.
The political class of this country has come to think of itself as better than those paying their bills. A recent expose here in CA about the Avocado commission is instructive. Down to the municipal level, the system has rotted to a great degree.
I suggest that DC is out of control and beyond redemption at this point, save for a few brave souls. I think the rebellion should start at the city, county and state level, wherever you can reach out and touch someone with a napalm enema. Each of us has their reach…so use it.
Go to a mindless city council meeting and ask the kind of questions the dolts cannot answer without acute embarassment. The point is not to get an intelligble answer, you likely won’t, but the question will scare somebody. Write to dullard editors of newspapers. As asinine as Los Angeles Times is, I got three letters published in 08. Go to places like the Comment Factory and hammer the young and dull writers there.
Thomas Paine did a lot of work writing stuff and getting thumped for it. That is going to be the path at least some of us have to take to challenge the mindset of so many who “learned” how to “think” in college.
Bill Ayers is smiling a lot these days. He infected the education system with a virus. We have to fight that virus. Not just at PTA meetings, but in the acolytes of Ayers walking among us.
Where and when you get the chance, push the peanut forward. This is a battle which will be decided by the weight of many small engagements, not one election or some great event. We are here because we lost a lot of small engagements (back to Ayers, for example). We have to change that win/loss ratio.
What will you do tomorrow to engage someone and change the trend of things? I know where I am going.
Harry Schell on January 11, 2009 at 9:51 PM
So,does this mean,that Hopey won’t have another
$3 Million dollar Roman Temple Pillar platform
built for the Inauguration
Will Changey piss away another,er I mean throw the
American Flags in the dumpster,again!
And,at Hopeys Inauguration will he introduce his new
secruity detail,in the form of,
‘Civilian National Secruity Force’,that is,
just as Powerful,
just as Strong,
just as well Funded!
And out of curiosity,where oh where, will that cash,er,
I mean American taxpayer money come from!!
And,I constantly hear the same montra on the top of the
hour radio news spots,as in,
the great Hopey,is now saying that,he doesn’t think he’ll
git er done,and now is the time of action,time is done
slowly slipping away to get a grip of this neverending
impending catastrophic doomsville crisis,that need a
Liberal blank-check miricle to stop this,
mess that the Liberal Democratic Party are fully responsible
for,
lock,stock,and barrel,and Change,but no HOPE!!!!
Hey,LIBERALS,Hopey has done SUCKERED you real good!!!
canopfor on January 11, 2009 at 9:51 PM
Define “greater good,” Mr. O.
PattyJ on January 11, 2009 at 10:10 PM
He also sold the sweet bullshit of “Pay and Go”. Every new spending program will be balanced by spending cuts elsewhere. Think anyone will remind him of that?..maybe play a clip of him saying that? Pop it on him during an interview?…No? Why not?
Itchee Dryback on January 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM
That is correct, Sir.
Itchee Dryback on January 11, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Mr.Obama,
After loyally and faithfully supporting my husband’s 23 years and counting, in the U.S. Army, I can honestly say in regards to your lament of “We’re all going to have to sacrifice for the greater good”.—-YOU FIRST.
canditaylor68 on January 11, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Checked out the Comment Factory…sorry, those freaks are a waste of time. You can’t reason a person out of a position that wasn’t reasoned into in the first place.
Thankfully people in that advanced stage of mental illness are just a noisy minority. I’ll work on the ones who are not quite that crippled and triage the rest.
Itchee Dryback on January 11, 2009 at 10:22 PM
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