Obama disses GOP: “They have invented this new reality where everything was terrific back in 2008"

[kpete]

“They have invented this new reality where everything was terrific back in 2008, when the unemployment and uninsured rates were rising and DREAMers lived in fear of deportation and Osama bin Laden was still at large,”
Obama said.

“That was the golden era apparently, the good ole days. Then I came and messed it all up.”

He accused the GOP of wanting to turn the clock back furthest on immigration, noting that his predecessor, President George W. Bush, made immigration reform a top priority.

And he implicitly chided Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a Republican presidential candidate, for abandoning immigration reform despite sponsoring the 2013 comprehensive reform bill in the Senate.

”Some of the very same Republican politicians who championed immigration reform in the past, some of whom sponsored these efforts, suddenly they want nothing to do with it,” he said.

“That’s not leadership, turning against what’s right the moment the politics of your base gets tough.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/256473-obama-gop-trying-to-turn-back-the-clock

[mcar]

1. K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. "...turning against what’s right the moment the politics of your base gets tough."....

So he's saying the Beltway needs to add "Kick the Teabager" to the already popular game of "Kick the Hippie"?

[lunasun]

3. That was the golden era apparently, the good ole days. Then I came and messed it all up.”

[Faux pas]

4. K N R

[Hydra]

5. The dirty secret of the GOP is that they don't want what their base does

So they just lie most of the time to get votes. The sad thing is, it works.

[Zoonart]

8. Absolutely

What the blinkered rubes do not realize if that the donkey is NEVER gettin' that carrot.

[Helen Borg]

6. I had a pony then...

[ancianita]

7. Obliterating intergenerational memory is how Republicans wipe away their past failures, evils --

through their media propaganda bombardment, textbook distribution from the largest distributor in the South.

This is intentional and systematic.

Even if the president reminds the public that Repubs were for immigration before they were against it, he himself still fails to say why both parties were for it.

[90-percent]

9. Minor example of GOP misinformed-ness

On tv while flipping channels somebody was interviewing a focus group about Trump. One of his fans was talking about how wonderful he was, BEING A SELF MADE MAN and all that good businessmanning, etc.

Well, if you let me start my working life with a $220,000,000 INHERITANCE FROM A WEALTHY FATHER, and I bet most of us would be successfully "self made" too!


Just one of many examples about how awash in misinformation all us Americans are.

-90% Jimmy

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. LOL ... I over heard a similiar conversation ... Trump the self-made man ...

when someone sitting at another table leaned in and said, "What is self made about inheriting a couple hundred million dollars?"

[AlbertCat]

14. Don't forget

Bankruptcy .... 4 times was it?

"all that good businessmanning"

[Fred Sanders]

10. When Obama and Clinton x2 are fully unleashed on the dysfunctional GOP and media....who

really thinks the fascist putsch stands a chance?

[Johnny2X2X]

12. People don't know what's coming

The GOP is going to be running against Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and 2008.

Bernie has done a great service in forcing Hilary to the left to be more populist. No one has a clue which wingnut the GOP will eventually nominate, but they will be taking on the greatest 3 political machines in US history at the same time as well as the reality of 2008 which their party owns.

[Fred Sanders]

15. The GOP and their slavishly obedient corporate media are deploying the well-worn Amnesia strategy.

[AlbertCat]

11. where everything was terrific back in 2008"

and in 1958


and in 1908



and in 1798

[mmonk]

16. In those days, all you needed was to put together, a noun, a verb, and 9/11.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. I called that one.

[ffr]

18. They're great at repeating lies. I'm great at remembering truths.

Brought to you by people who vote for Republis or who don't vote for Democrats.

That's 2,600,000 JOBS LOST in one year alone. The year was 2008.






"It was the worst year for jobs since 1945." -CNN Money.

[hibbing]

19. Don't forget that he kept us safe!

I remember the economy shredding 800,000 jobs a month.

Peace

[Enthusiast]

20. Republicans have certainly invented a new reality. Their new reality started long before 2008.

The real problem is a corrupt media has reinforced this alternate reality. THE. ENTIRE. MEDIA.

We can arbitrarily start with the fiction that Dubya Bush won the presidential election of 2000. A responsible media would have kept that wound open and festering. Then there is the fiction of 9/11. A responsible media would have repeatedly questioned why Bush was allowed to testify together with Cheney but not under oath. They also would have questioned why building 7 dropped in its tracks when it was never hit by an aircraft. Next on the list is the Iraq War. We can go on and on.

The media has failed us, utterly.

[ThoughtCriminal]

21. Here in my alternate reality

In 2008, the media was discussing whether voters are suffering from "Gore Fatigue" after suffering through another eight years of boring peace and prosperity.

Wait... WTF happened in your universe?!!!

[Skittles]

22. PREACH IT, OBAMA

it's another way of saying they are all BATSHIT INSANE