Obama on Oprah - Denounces Carnival Barkers (ie. Trump)

[tomm2thumbs]

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President Obama addresses birth certificate on 'Oprah'. (Show to air in early May) After the White House released his birth certificate from Hawaii earlier today, Obama spoke his piece during a taping of the show on once again having to confirm his citizenship.

When Oprah asked him if he had any doubts when the issue initially came up, Obama comically noted, "Can I just say? I was there, so I knew that I had been born there... I rememember it"

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Even with all the stupidity in the world around him, he can still make light of the issue that has been rehashed to death in the media. His reiteration of 'Carnival Barkers going around trying to get attention...' (obviously directed at Ronald McDonald Trump) shows he can jab back without being dragged into the gutter with the hair-challenged reality TV flunkie.

[dotymed]

1. Yes, He is an eloquent spokesperson who can remain above

"the fray."
What I want to hear specifically is how his administration, since his inauguration, has been more "right" than "common sensical."
I want to hear how that is going to change. How President Obama is going to morph in to the Candidate Obama that we voted for in '08.
I want to hear (and see) some Progressive solutions to our dilemmas, along the lines of FDR not Reagan. I want to a real Progressive in the W.H.
I am sick of the idiocy and corporate protectionism.
IMO. We need a Labor Candidate.

[dennis4868]

2. wait a minute....

are you saying Reagan would have supported these solutions --------> www.whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com

I think Obama would have gone further than FDR if he had the congress that FDR was priviledged to have... A SUPERMAJORITY WITH NO 24/7 FILLUBSTER.....why is it people here think a president can do whatever they want without congress' approval?

[dotymed]

4. You think so? Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I couldn't see FDR "caving", often before the negotiations even began, on a whole host of Progressive measures. Also, If President Obama had led by example and gone to the public often (as FDR did, in order to get his Congress) with populist solutions, he too would have (if that was his desire) gotten a lot of very popular and corporate restrictive regulations enacted. Remember the military coup that the wealthy attempted against FDR?
I see NO proof that Obama ever wanted to go even close to where FDR went, and certainly not farther.
If the Democrats would have taken advantage of the obvious messaging points that the rethugs have and are still giving them, they never would have lost their "super-majority." Sadly, when they did have the super-majority, they still acted like the rethugs had the Congress....
I worked for Obama in '08 and have been very disappointed and further economically devastated.
If, which it seems likely, there is no viable Progressive choice, I will "hold my nose" and vote Obama again, in the (vain) hope that he actually does pass some Progressive and poverty-ending legislation.

One way to be successful even if faced with a Senate and House rethug majority (which is not the case), would be for the President to instruct HIS FCC chairman to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Then go directly to the people with populist legislation aimed at redistributing the wealth (taxes for the wealthy), Universal health care, and a host of changes that the majority of Americans want, including an end to "Citizens United" and financial regulations....etc...

[dennis4868]

7. Again, FDR....

had SUPER MAJORITIES IN CONGRESS....THEREFORE HE DID NOT HAVE TO NEGOTIATE....HE BASICALY GOT WHAT HE WANTED AND EVEN THEN MANY LIBERALS COMPLAINED THAT HE DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH ON MANY FRONTS.

Obama on the other hand had to deal with a 24/7 fillubuster from repubs and many DINOs.....please do not compare Obama to FDR....what Obama has done with the circumstances he's had to deal with is incredible and historical!

[dotymed]

8. I have to call Bullshit Dennis.

President Obama had a "super majority" just like FDR, for (at least) his first hundred days in office.
When was President Obama ever filibustered? "24/7 filibusters???" bullshit, he may have been threatened with one filibuster.

From Wikipedia:

Starting in his "first hundred days" in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt launched major legislation and a profusion of executive orders that gave form to the New Deal—a complex, interlocking set of programs designed to produce relief (especially government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (of the economy), and reform (through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation). The economy improved rapidly from 1933 to 1937, but then went into a deep recession. The bipartisan Conservative Coalition that formed in 1937 prevented his packing the Supreme Court or passing much new legislation; it abolished many of the relief programs when unemployment practically ended during World War II. Most of the regulations on business were ended about 1975–85, except for the regulation of Wall Street by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which still exists. Along with several smaller programs, major surviving programs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which was created in 1933, and Social Security, which Congress passed in 1935.

If there is not a viable alternative,and there needs to be, I will "hold my nose" and vote to re-elect President Obama.

In 2008, I worked my ass off to help get him elected.

on edit:

President Obama lost the house because of apathy from the majority of voters. He caved on most of what the American people wanted before it was even "negotiated."

[dotymed]

9. Dennis, i am not trying to be a smart-ass.

I am trying to bring some facts into our debate.
Candidate Obama was a man that I pinned my hopes to. Admittedly, I would have been (if possible) even more devoted to a Kucinich run, had he been nominated. The MSM, Repugs and even the Democrats, made sure that he did not stand a chance.
Unfortunately, President Obama did not face the (open) political challenges that you thought he did. Too bad, he would have been given a "pass" by a lot more Americans if he actually had.
Americans political (especially) memories are very short. That is one fault that "they" use against us very successfully....

[neoralme]

5. I'm glad you haven't lost the plot, or absence thereof, however

one thinks of it. Myself, I don't particularly care whether Obama is a US citizen or not. What I am most concerned with is how he will move forward helping to create jobs and also prevent the age and infirmed from losing entitlements they've already paid for, the Lily Ledbetter accomplishment nothwithstanding. Also, this thing yesterday where the Democratic Party refused to back the police and firemen union in Massachusetts, and the union response was to say they will stop donating to the Democratic Party. This is happening in other States also. This is huge! We are in collapse mode, and I see no light or even any tunnel.

[patricia92243]

3. Ronald McDonald Trump - priceless. Hope it sticks! n/t

[ecstatic]

6. Carnival barker-- I love that term

I don't recall seeing it before, but it's so fitting for Trump.

* A barker is a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events, such as a circus or funfair, by exhorting passing public, describing attractions of show and emphasizing variety, novelty, beauty, or some other feature believed to incite listeners to attend entertainment. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_barker