Comments on: Video: Gibbs tells MS-NBC that Obama’s ready to take responsibility for economy

By: TRAGEDY » Cold Fury

TRAGEDY » Cold Fury — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:36:08 +0000

[...] you got it: Obama’s economy, and the gratuitous destruction he’s wrought on the greatest wealth-producing engine the [...]

By: ProductionNinja.com » Thurs. Show Prep - Worthless Sheepskin Edition

ProductionNinja.com » Thurs. Show Prep - Worthless Sheepskin Edition — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:18:14 +0000

[...] at the same time pending home sales went up. The good news is that according to Robert Gibbs, President Obama is ready to start taking responsibility for the economy. Truman said “The buck stops here.” Obama says “Wait, I’m not ready… [...]

By: MaiDee

MaiDee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:04:03 +0000

In the land of total idiots the half-idiot is king. Obama’s secret to success.

By: Socratease

Socratease — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:22:20 +0000

If the voters knew Obama would spend his first six months in office blaming everything bad that happened on Bush, I wonder if they would have elected him. Someone should have told Obama that the Office of the President isn’t the right job for someone who is responsibility-averse. But evidently “the buck stops here” stopped being valid for any Democrat except the one who coined the phrase.

By: rob verdi

rob verdi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:59:42 +0000

Perhaps they know what the numbers will look like?

By: xblade

xblade — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:22:23 +0000

And with cap, and trade a possibility, and obama care….watch for those numbers to necessarily sky rocket.

Bingo! We’ll look back at 11% unemployment as the good ol’ days.

By: Pursuing Holiness

Pursuing Holiness — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:20:29 +0000

John Galt Was Unavailable For Comment…

I don’t flatter myself that my Galtness is having a huge impact but, hey, every little bit counts. Whether this phenomenon is more purposeful, as in my case, or simply a bunch of people reacting naturally to bad government policies, federal tax …

By: capejasmine

capejasmine — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:05:28 +0000

And with cap, and trade a possibility, and obama care….watch for those numbers to necessarily sky rocket.

Watch for Obama to lay it at the feet of Congress, in the name of Pelosi, and Reid.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:32:04 +0000

Obama and Gibbs remind me of that bumper sticker….
Free Beer at (whomever) tomorrow

It is always tomorrow, never today.

By: normschaef

normschaef — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:30:04 +0000

Gibbs is setting the stage for another “saved or created moment”…..If unemployment rises to 11%, Mr. Obama is only “responsible” for tiny bump. The rise due to the Bush administration ….5, 6, 7%??

By: Scrappy

Scrappy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:19:28 +0000

If you ask economists, most will say that governmental policies take much longer than six months, and may even take longer than full presidential terms, to manifest.

tneloms on June 30, 2009 at 5:03 PM

And if you asked Obama 6 months ago how fast the stimulus would work it would be a matter of weeks. Heck, it was so fast they didn’t even have time to read it.

By: BetseyRoss

BetseyRoss — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:09 +0000

Gibbs was never knowledgeable, intelligent or articulate. But he does make Obama look that way in the beginning by comparison. Gibbs is still the same stupid person he has always been. It’s Obama that is falling in the eyes of the electorate now making all that surround him look stupid, too. By next week they will all be looking more stupid than they do today. I know it is way too slow for this to be happening, but at least it is happening.

By: WoosterOh

WoosterOh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:03:51 +0000

And when unemployment is in double figures, the last thing people struggling to make ends meet want to hear is that it’s all the fault of the previous Administration which has been out of power nearly 6 months now.
Doughboy on June 30, 2009 at 3:22 PM

Bush was a lame duck president and was out of power for the past year. Dems would pass nothing in hopes their savior would win, and he did, so Dems own the past 12 months.

By: tneloms

tneloms — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:03:42 +0000

Gee, and it only took six months!

If you ask economists, most will say that governmental policies take much longer than six months, and may even take longer than full presidential terms, to manifest.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:41 +0000

Hmm, will it be 9.8% when the numbers are released next week?

By: chipandcharge

chipandcharge — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:07 +0000

The Democrats don’t want economic growth. After all, according to them, economic growth is bad for the environment, and America already consumes way too much of the world’s resources. Sure, the Dems talk about creating jobs all the time, but they really don’t want the American economy to grow–that would be against their global warming religion.

I’m hoping this will be Obama’s downfall. He will not be able to create real jobs (private sector jobs) with economic policies that actually discourage economic growth, such as cap and tax, taxation of the foreign earnings of American corporations, taxation of health insurance benefits, etc., etc. etc.

By: pilamaye

pilamaye — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:45:27 +0000

As the days of Summer 2009 slowly plod along, Robert Gibbs is sounding less and less like a knowledgeable, intelligent, articulate spokesman for the B.O. Administration and instead is sounding more and more like a completely blithering, drooling idiot. He seems to be on a quest to take the concept of stupidity to a level unheard of until now, and at the rate he is going, he may not only achieve that level, but exceed it.

By: BacaDog

BacaDog — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:41:39 +0000

But I think it’s unfair to saddle any President – Obama or Reagan – with an entire economy six months into his first term.

SteveMG on June 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM

As they blame Bush for the last 6 months of his.

Personally, I don’t think blame lies primarily with the President. He doesn’t have the authority to mandate spending or higher taxes. Congress does.

By: cruadin

cruadin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:37:18 +0000

Nice of Obama’s team to finally acknowledge that The One has some responsibility for what’s going on in this country.

Obama was a Senator before he became President. He has been a part of the Federal Government for 4 years and a member of the Legislative ruling majority for 2.

His supporters keep acting as if parachuted in from a foreign country on January 20th — the day history began.

By: UltimateBob

UltimateBob — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:31:56 +0000

I’m not sure who is the bigger idiot…. Obama, or the morons that he surrounds himself with (Bidem, Clinton, Geithner, Gibbs, etc).

It’s a tough call. Gibbs is pretty frigging stupid.

By: aikidoka

aikidoka — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:30:56 +0000

I know myself and 4 others have or will be making new jobless claims. Same for one of our other offices.

By: Caper29

Caper29 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:25:22 +0000

but I think he deserves more time. SteveMG on June 30, 2009 at 3:12 PM

Sorry the limiter has come off the National Station Wagon. We don't have very much time.

By: conservative pilgrim

conservative pilgrim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:24:36 +0000

a) the unemployment numbers for June will somehow, magically show Teh One’s policies are working

b) if not a, there will be an expiration date on this admission by Gibbs and Bush will receive the blame.

c) if not a or b, somebody’s going under the bus!

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:22:09 +0000

Dreadnought223 on June 30, 2009 at 3:25 PM

Wasn’t Obama’s trip out to Las Vegas done on behalf of Reid?

When Gibbs is on the defensive, his voice goes into those huffing-helium ranges between his sighs and uh’s.

By: scalleywag

scalleywag — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:19:25 +0000

Give him more time? I wish we could turn back the time he’s had in office. How much more time do you think we can afford?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/