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Video: The economy is “poised to take off,” says Obama
During a Bloomberg News interview this afternoon, President Obama signaled that the American economy was ready to “take off” provided Congress didn’t lead the nation into another fight about the nation’s debt limit.
Obama insisted that his plan to rebuild roads and bridges, combined with the strengthening housing movement, and improving consumer confidence were signs that the economy was about to improve in spite of economic “weaknesses” in Europe and Asia.
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He means it, but not in any traditional understanding of what “economy” and “takes off” means.
tom daschle concerned on December 4, 2012 at 6:27 PM
What ON the moon with zero nothing going on? Not here in US under YOU bho!
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letget on December 4, 2012 at 6:28 PM
Yeah, straight down.
petefrt on December 4, 2012 at 6:29 PM
This is all about framing the narrative that the reason the economy crapped out is due to the Republicans, and the media is working overtime to make it happen.
LincolntheHun on December 4, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Is this an interview from 2009?
Mark1971 on December 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM
Pssst, Barry, “Economy” doesn’t mean the same thing as “Inflation”.
trubble on December 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM
It’s as if the Porkulus didn’t happen… Down the memory hole.
These people really are sick.
visions on December 4, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Which country is he speaking of?
portlandon on December 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM
those words….they don’t mean, what I think that you mean…..
ted c on December 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM
Seven Percent Solution on December 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM
Off the cliff, yes.
rbj on December 4, 2012 at 6:36 PM
What an idiot.
Paul-Cincy on December 4, 2012 at 6:37 PM
How many more roads and bridges while you continue to ignore our crumbly electrical grid?
JPeterman on December 4, 2012 at 6:37 PM
….to the Great White North
Mark1971 on December 4, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Hard when Obama wants to bankrupt any new coal-fired power plant.
Paul-Cincy on December 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM
This is exactly what he is doing, and the GOP will probably be dumb enough to let him get away with it.
Mark1971 on December 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Hey remember when Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling when Bush was president and called driving up the national debt unpatriotic? Those were the days, Baby.
Kataklysmic on December 4, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Read what Pat Caddell had to say as advice to Boehner and McConnell about the outrageous WH plan to blow the debt ceiling:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/03/Obama-Overreaches-Republicans-Underperform
onlineanalyst on December 4, 2012 at 6:47 PM
Did Obysmal give the signal with his middle finger?
onlineanalyst on December 4, 2012 at 6:48 PM
He’s got 4 more years to make it happen, but he hasn’t done anything that could make it more likely. He still thinks that it all comes from the government despite the evidence of his own senses.
Here’s a thought experiment. How about we go back a month and announce that Romney won and see if anything had changed by now?
He’s betting on the Bush Tax Cuts disappearing and the implementation of Obamacare to spark the economy, but his jobs plan seems intended only to create short-term construction jobs. He could have had that by building the Canadian Oil Pipeline and by allowing development of the shale and methane locked in the rocks under federal lands. He’s already shown however that he is more committed to the environmentalists than he is to workers, businesses or the economy.
Call me in 3.5 years. Anybody taking odds?
flataffect on December 4, 2012 at 6:49 PM
I think he means “take off” as in, “I’m about to take off from my job to vacation in Hawaii. Hold my calls.”
sadarj on December 4, 2012 at 6:50 PM
Something is going to take off, all right.
Rebar on December 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Biggest grifter in the history of the world. So far.
Naturally Curly on December 4, 2012 at 7:00 PM
How is transferring money from one pocket into another an improvement in the (same) economy?
OldEnglish on December 4, 2012 at 7:02 PM
WHEN this asinine prediction fails, I wonder who will be blamed for it. /
Kataklysmic on December 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM
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And how, if the media censors the GOP message is the truth supposed to get out to the low info voter?
LincolntheHun on December 4, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Obama’s sole interest in a healthy economy seems to be how much he can take and redistribute to others in a “fair” way. Like a grifter looking for the biggest mark, or Willie Sutton robbing banks because “that’s where the money is”.
Where in Obama’s calculus do people work hard and smart to create wealth, to earn their own money? Obama is the biggest slavemaster the world has ever seen, putting us $6 trillion in debt so far, so that we don’t work for ourselves, but to pay off or service the debt. Not to mention the taxes he levies on people who work. We’ve become slaves.
What’s a slavemaster’s interest in the well-being of his slaves? Certainly not how the slave is able to care for himself. The primary interest must be in how much work the slave can do for the slavemaster. That’s ALL Obama is interested in, regarding the economy. Not that it represents people doing well for themselves, but people working for Obama, and Obama taking the fruits of that work and spreading it around, as he sees fit.
It’s ironic to me that this is the outlook of a black man. Obama is half black, as I understand. He wants to be the biggest slavemaster and then we are all his slaves. Doesn’t he see anything wrong with that?
Paul-Cincy on December 4, 2012 at 7:19 PM
Yeah,
When you jump off a cliff, it seems like you are flying for a little while…until you strike the cold hard ground of reality.
ProfShadow on December 4, 2012 at 7:23 PM
Poised to take off…like a lead zeppelin.
And, yes, that is a blatant reference to Zep hanging with Obama at the WH, TYVM.
Christien on December 4, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Says the economic illiterate.
jawkneemusic on December 4, 2012 at 7:29 PM
fu obama. What happened to the first plan for that in
stimulusporkulus1?I am so mad at him, Romney for not explaining things to the unenlightened, and the moronic voters who gave this dictator fo mo years.
arnold ziffel on December 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Phew. That’s fairly heavy. But not new, for those of us who know The Road to Serfdom.
petefrt on December 4, 2012 at 7:31 PM
The local Hawaiian economy is “poised to take off” when obama, FLOTUS FATASS, some 25 family members and friends and the royal entourage of hundreds arrives in the state on Dec. 17th for their 20 day, mega-million dollar taxpayer-funded. luxury vacation …
Pork-Chop on December 4, 2012 at 7:41 PM
Yes, but will they invite the Bamster’s brother George? Or will they leave him in his hut.
petefrt on December 4, 2012 at 7:50 PM
This is an issue for the United Nations. Let the Security Council take it up.
petefrt on December 4, 2012 at 7:55 PM
… like Concorde Flight 4590
DarkCurrent on December 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM
This video shows how the economy will take off. Wait for the comment at the very end.
Splashman on December 4, 2012 at 8:06 PM
This video shows how the economy will take off. Wait for the comment at the very end.
Splashman on December 4, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Bad driving should be outlawed. Then there would be no more bad driving.
petefrt on December 4, 2012 at 8:20 PM
We’ve heard this before: “Prosperity is just around the corner.”
manwithblackhat on December 4, 2012 at 8:28 PM
Yeah that Recovery Summer will be here any minute now, just you wait. Teh One cannot wait to bask in the glow of “I told you so!” Reason 1,000,000,000,001 why he is a moron.
txmomof6 on December 4, 2012 at 8:52 PM
The economy will grow if and only if people get a payoff for working, which is something Obama doesn’t understand and I don’t think he’ll ever understand. All Obama cares about is that the federal government gets its payoff. He doesn’t care about people working for the fruits of their labors. He doesn’t even believe in it. He’s a socialist.
Paul-Cincy on December 4, 2012 at 8:57 PM
He’s 100% right the economy is poised to take off.
Unfortunately, it will never transition from poised to actual take-off with him still in office.
blink on December 4, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Sorry, but the American people deserve to get an economic depression hammered up their wazoos good and hard. Any populace so stupid and degraded as to vote a lying, ill-willed imbecile like Obama into office not once but twice deserves every catastrophe it gets.
Django on December 4, 2012 at 9:24 PM