"They Talk about me like a dog!" - Pres. Barack Obama

[FrenchieCat]

"Not part of my prepared remarks, but it's true." -


Yes, it is true...Mr. President....They certainly do.

[Peacetrain]

1. I am listening right now.. and no truer words were spoken

[flamingdem]

14. He said that? Going to youtube right now nt

[flpoljunkie]

19. You know they actually speak much worse than that about President Obama.

It's who they are. They are lackeys for big business and they will stop at nothing to do their bidding. They do not at all represent small business--real small businesses--all the millions of 'mom and pop' businesses in this country.



Remember it was John Boehner who was passing out tobacco lobbyist checks on the House floor years ago. He's the 'real deal'--poster boy for the GOP.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/09/boehner-western-union/

[HipChick]

2. I love it when he throws the hammer at them

[Phx_Dem]

3. That was a jawdropper!

It is true, and it's time someone said so.

:wow:

:applause:

[donheld]

4. Who is "they?"

[donheld]

6. Yes I know Fox news does

I just wonder why he then gives them a front row seat at the White House.

[wellstone dem]

7. Press corps decides who sits where, not WH

[Phx_Dem]

9. He was talking about "special interests" and the WH doesn't assign

the seats in the briefing room.

[donheld]

17. "special interests"

That's really very helpful :shrug:

[Phx_Dem]

24. Special interests = lobbyists, wall street, large companies that ply

Republicans with money to do their bidding.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

60. You know the old saying . . . keep your enemies even closer.

[geek tragedy]

15. Too numerous to list, but

safe to say they belong to all ideological stripes, although most are of the rightwing corporofascist variety.

[Phx_Dem]

5. He is so fired up! He's got some great one-liners

"They're sittin back suckin on their big Slurpee saying, 'why don't you push harder.'"

LOVE IT!

:rofl:

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

61. Obiwan knows what buttons to push, which is why he's such a great orator.

[truedelphi]

8. Well, Mr President they talk about me like I am a dog as well.

My crime, falling victim to a medical bankruptcy in 2005 and 2006.

So now when apply for a job, given my age, the employer can look into my credit history and decide that I must be a drug using, work hating low life to have such an awful credit score.

And the real reason that employer wants to eliminate me is my age - being over 55, and with the employer now having to pay huge amounts for any one they hire in my age group, they have to eliminate me from the job discussion. The huge premiums people in their fifties and early sixties must pay (or their employers) was not something that the HCR Act reformed at all.

And the employer cannot eliminate me from consideration and say they are doing it due to my age - that would be so age-ist.

But they can cite my credit history.

Mr President, your "historic" Health Care Reform not only leaves me without any decent health care, it also condemns me to the ranks of the unemployed.

Not that you care. You are too busy figuring out your new dynamic speeches, and also the game plan on how you will renege on any promises that those speeches of your might make.

But some of us have you, and your DLC cohorts, figured out!

[backwoodsbob]

20. I got a stress fracture of the wrist at work 6 weeks ago

they pushed me HARD to claim it happened at home so they wouldn't have to do the whole OSHA thing.I just agreed to wear a company supplied brace and go on.

Didn't bother to call OSHA because they wont do shit.

These guys have proven they wont do shit about worker rights.

[truedelphi]

29. Most of our "public servants" in Congress and higher up

Are big, big fans of the bastardized version of Milton Friedman's supply side economics.

Which is all about products being offered at a low wage.

You can read pages of those theories and never encounter the word "jobs" or "worker."

[dionysus]

35. yes, obama hates you and wants you to be miserable. you've got it all figured out.

:eyes:

[Number23]

53. Is that some whacked out isht or what??

I don't even WANT to know what's going on in that post! :scared:

[MadMaddie]

58. I am really sorry about what has happened to you

however; this credit issue and being linked to employers hiring practices has been going on well before President Obama came into office.

There are a few states that have passed laws making it illegal for employers to use Credit History to determine if a person can be hired. Contact your state legislatures and try to get this on their agenda. Yes, eventually a fix should be put in place by the government but it doesn't prevent the states from fixing their law.

I personally think the Credit Rating companies are illegal. They have secret formulas on which they rate our credit worthiness and the keep them secret because they call them propriatary. These 3 Credit Rating companies impact 85% of the population, you know us. Not the top 15% that can pay cash for anything they need.

I think they must be made non-profit or eliminated. The big banks and other businesses that screwed this country got a start over chip why the heck shouldn't the individuals in this country?

[FrenchieCat]

10. Some talk about him like a dog, and some also act like in 20 months,

this one man should have made it so that everyone's personal problems should have been
solved by now......Like he was gonna be some kind of magician and a winning lotto ticket
all in one!

These are same folks who claim to be sooo disappointed that the President hasn't transformed
each and every one of their lives yet.....by simply getting to the White House in order to
start unravelling this mess.

The unfortunate unrealistic expectations is what they themselves set themselves up for,
and because in their eyes he fell short, than instead of lifting him up in order for him
to be strengthen to do more......they kick him like he's their dog.

Folks didn't vote for a daddy, and leading is much harder than snapping one's fingers and
barking! so they may treat him like one, and talk about him like one, and he probably is the
bestest friend that they could have in that White House....but the man ain't no dog, or anything close to it!

[Champion Jack]

13. +100

[CountAllVotes]

22. +1000

much damage has been done and it didn't happen overnight. It cannot be all fixed up overnight either. Twenty months ... not very long IMO.



:kick:

[txlibdem]

16. There is truth to the part about unrealistic expectations, but

we have some very reasonable expectations. The President, a Democratic President, should not be talking about cutting Social Security. He should not be focusing on how to help businesses only while allowing millions of middle class families to lose their homes or go into bankruptcy. He ought not to be silent on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, as he has mostly been, he should be shouting it from the rooftops: we had tax cuts for the wealthy for 10 years and where are the jobs that was supposed to create?!?

We elected him based on his campaign promises. We voted for a champion of the poor and middle class, someone who will end the business-as-usual pandering to corporations and to the rich. We voted for a person who made us believe they were going to undo some of the damage done by the RW hit squad. We elected him to fight back against the psychopaths of the RW, not include their "good ideas" in each and every piece of legislation he signs.

We got none of that, just another politician.

[suzie]

47. Where exactly is he talking about cutting Social Security?

I didn't hear the speech yesterday. Was that in it?

[txlibdem]

51. google cat food commission ... ... ... n/t

[suzie]

54. Was it in the speech? I don't care about terms dreamed up to drive traffic to some blog.

[txlibdem]

55. Cad food commission is a blogger's dreamed up term?

May I recommend a site to help you in your research.

www.democraticunderground.com

:hi:

[suzie]

56. Really? If you google "cat food commission", the first 10 hits in the list are from here,

http://firedoglake.com/.

[progdog]

27. Thanks Frenchie Cat

:loveya:

[bkozumplik]

52. oh right, its our expectations that are the problem. not his actions.

roll over!

[Fire1]

11. He speaks best without a teleprompter. n/t

[impik]

12. Yes, Mr. president. Those worthless jerks, who don't deserve to stand near you

talk about you like a dog.

I was actually about to shed a tear when he said that.

[YvonneCa]

21. Same here. n/t

[alphafemale]

18. Mr president to that repug Rush listening percent of the country you're nothing more than a Nig

If Hillary had won she'd be nothing more than a c-word right now.

If John had won...oh for gad sakes can we even vanquish that possibility from our brains???!

[VMI Dem]

23. Yes they do. Please remember that feeling the next time you are asked to comment on gay marriage.

:thumbsup:

[Bluenorthwest]

43. Yes, yes, yes!

And please remember that feeling next time you want to employ invective spewing anti-gay 'ministers'.

[firedupdem]

25. Loved that! So true....let it roll off your back and keep on keeping on. n/t

[jenmito]

26. Dan Lothian, CNN, played that clip, then said, "Now, John McCain was more respectful than THAT,

criticizing Obama this weekend by saying, paraphrasing, (video clip): "Deathbed conversions are great but he should've done this several months ago" regarding Obama's proposed tax cuts for small businesses. They're flailing around right now trying anything..." Right-OBAMA was disrespectful for saying how Repubs. disrespect HIM, and McCain was MORE respectful by calling Obama's tax cut proposal a "deathbed conversion" and accusing him of "flailing around." :eyes:

[MrsCorleone]

28. YouTube video speech links inside:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_lKbrF50zU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA4q03qH_4Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1MfzjoyE4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[depakid]

30. Gee, that's news...

:eyes:

(actually, these people generally say far more favorable things about dogs).

[Top Cat]

31. They talk about the POTUS worst than a dog...

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

32. So then, my question is: What are we going to do to help him? What are we going to do to ensure

that we have a House/Senate that helps him?

P.S. Love your avy. That's my husband in another life, with his FINE self!!! :toast:

[eridani]

33. On the offensive at last, thank heavens.

Keep it up, please!

[mopinko]

34. don't think i know anyone who speaks nearly that ill of dogs.

even those that think they are unclean devils.

[Project Grudge]

36. This would be a suave political move

The president says this without specifically referring to whom. "They." It's a rather generic descriptor. "dog."

It'll get airplay because he made sure to state it is "Not part of my prepared remarks."

Don't think that Rush, Steele, Boehner, or Beck type won't talk about this; especially, those with the shows. And if he can lure one of them into taking the comparison too far, or into saying some typical revolting Repug rhetoric, then they'd have to walk it back or be disowned, which can force disharmony within the party heading into the election.

[cherokeeprogressive]

37. I would prescribe thicker skin. Clinton was called a swindler, a rapist, an adulterer...

an accomplice to murder, and a host of other unsavory things.

President Obama's being called what? Ineffective? Not friendly to the LGBT cause?

Come on, Mr. President... for a finite number of days, you'll hold office no matter how they talk about you. It's also looking like a pretty safe bet that you'll be reelected. So no matter how "they" talk about you, you're going to get your chance at "Change".

Sniping at the your critics and the press seems like so much pig wrestling. And you know what they say happens when you wrestle with a pig.

[impik]

38. Try "Hitler", "Terrorist", "Monkey". Good enough for you, or you want me to continue?

[CakeGrrl]

40. Wow, I think you've overlooked a few invectives

hurled at Obama...just so you can minimize his statement to rag on him some more. Irony.

[flamingdem]

46. Have you taken a peek at comments about his speech

you are missing out on the HUGE amount of disrespect and covert and overt racism against Obama.
That is NOT what happened to Clinton.

[Mimosa]

39. A link to the CNN video is in this post

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/06/obama-they-talk-about-me-like-a-dog/

FrenchieCat, I was with you during the early Obama days. I support the president's policies when I think he's right. I am seeing the man is increasingly under unfair attacks. (Read the comments on the CNN link. Many are appalling and hateful.)

I will never back up anybody who is vicious or unfair to our President. I respect what you've been saying and i admire that you remain steady. You're positive energy and even when you disagree, you're never rude to anybody. *hug*

When it comes to us against the retrogressive Republicans we're all on the same side, I hope. And the November elections are crucial.

[Writer]

41. I honestly have no idea what that meant.

"They talk about me like a dog"... you mean they talk about you like they do Fido? That they expect you to do tricks for them? That they speak ill of you? Why a dog and not a rodent? Or a pig?

It's early and I'm not thinking clearly. I watched the speech last night, though.

What did this mean?

[Empowerer]

42. It's a figure of speech

You never heard it before?

However, to tell the truth, one has to be Southern and/or African American to say it - it just doesn't sound right or have the same implications if, for example, John Kerry were to say it. It must contain a certain drawl for it to make any sense.

[robcon]

44. Stupid thing to say.

n/t

[trayfoot]

45. Good for President Obama!!!!!

[dflprincess]

48. I don't suppose he mentioned

how his buddies Emanuel & Simpson talk about us?

[slackmaster]

49. Who's a good President?

:hide:

[Cha]

50. Worse than that..

They have no respect for themselves so it's impossible for them to be civilized.

[woo me with science]

57. This is true. My dogs are always gossiping. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

59. How's it feel? That's the question.

The President's surrogagtes have called gay people vampires, said we are trying to kill children. It would be better to be talked about like a dog than a monster. And yet, when those hate filled attacks were called out, and the candidate Obama was asked to denounce the hate speaker, instead he promised to always listen to their 'different point of view' and told us dogs that we'd best be ready to welcome them at HIS table. Because he said those who believe such things and say such things are 'good, decent, and moral people'.
So I hope to hell he is having moment in which he learns that slander and disrespect and outright hate speech are not 'different points of view' that should be at the People's table. Hate speech is always wrong. Always. No one should rationalize and employ those who call others murderers. That was wrong. Talking about us like monsters.