Thread: Buyers’ Remorse ?

MARCH 2009

Do you regret voting for Obama ?

Yes 0 - 0%
No 9 - 24.32%
I didn't Vote for Obama 28 - 75.68%
Like it matters anyway .... 0 - 0%
Even if I did I wouldn't tell you because it would make you right 0 - 0%

Voters : 37

March 2010
Do you regret voting for Obama ?

Yes 5 - 6.49%
No 20 - 25.97%
I didn't Vote for Obama 49 - 63.64%
Like it matters anyway .... 3 - 3.90%
Even if I did I wouldn't tell you because it would make you right 0 - 0%

Voters: 77

June 2, 2012
Do you regret voting for Obama ?

Yes 6 - 6.82%
No 21 - 23.86%
I didn't Vote for Obama 57 - 64.77%
Like it matters anyway .... 4 - 4.55%
Even if I did I wouldn't tell you because it would make you right 0 - 0%

Voters 88

“GREEN SCAM: 80% of Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Donors – 19 Companies Went Bust”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012...nt-bust-video/

Go on. Pretend to be shocked and outraged by what is essentially a crony-style kickback / laundering scheme. It’s really all that we have left.


Stephen Haywood ran a piece at Powerline today detailing the Shelloil arctic drilling venture set to begin this summer off Alaska being held up by pack-ice at a 10 year high. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...-too-funny.php

Drudge headlines “Hillary Clinton tours Arctic to see ‘impact of climate change’ “... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/clinton-arc...151737949.html


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Here’s what the Heritage site had to say about Johnson, hf, by way of justification we presume:

President Obama finally found a clean energy success! Well, not exactly.

A new campaign ad from President Obama features a man who claims his job was saved by President Obama’s meddling in the auto industry. The company that the man works for, Johnson Controls, received $299 million in taxpayer-funded subsidies from the stimulus and promised to build two factories in America. They built one in America, and will build the other one in Hungary. Not only that, but Johnson Controls will be laying off workers in the coming months.

Oh yeah, and the company was just fined for using an unreasonable amount of lead. So much for a success. If that’s the best President Obama can do, Americans are in for a dire situation should he be re-elected and allowed to invest more of our money in these companies.

So it looks as though Heritage person counts Johnson in the ‘failing’ category. This sort of stuff reeks of arbitrariness, and to that end has become laced with a kind of “what the heck, go for it” attitude, as that’s what their opponents seem to thrive on. We only have to recall the lying liars of the likes of Jared Bernstein, Mark Zandi, and Austen Goolesby to get that picture, without even stooping to capture idiots like Rex Nutting.

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The commenter Mark W made the observation that none of the 20% that didn’t go to Obama donors went to McCain donors. I think he’s correct as we’d of heard about it loud and clear if any of these green scammers were republican donors. That implies one of two things. Either the Obama crew were very careful not to send any money to Republican backers or Republicans don’t go for running green scams. If the former then I think the Obama crew is regretting their fastidiousness at this point

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0h. but yeah good catch Mr. sdferr

the Heritage Foundation is now nodding approvingly at Chinese environmental fines on American companies? http://junkscience.com/2012/02/28/sh...ad-processing/

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Clash looms between the EccoNoobs and PETA paste eaters

- Rueters, Anchorage Alaska, 05/24/12
“Scientists have discovered that the Caribou of the great Northwest have incorporated rendevous next to the Akaskan pipeline into their dating and reproduction rituals. Researchers say this new behavior is likely a major factor in the eight fold increase in the herd population for the region.

As a result, any preposed reduction in the lines could be devastating to the species survival. Additional studies are planned, but a spokesman for the investigation said “Theres no doubt this conclusion is accurate.”

- Apparently the Caribou have discovered something everyone knows except the elites. Warmth is essential for laying pipe.


http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=40805

Study shows Obama slipping in global esteem, China now seen as top economic power
By Olivier Knox | The Ticket – 3 hrs ago.

It's not just how it's playing in Peoria: President Barack Obama's standing overseas has eroded sharply since he took office three and a half years ago, even as many of America's closest friends increasingly say that China is now the world's dominant economic power, according to a report out Wednesday.

Solid majorities in Britain, France, Germany and Spain say China—not the United States—is the globe's most potent economy. That perception has changed markedly in the past four years. In Britain, for example, the margin in 2012 is 58-28 percent in China's favor, compared with 44-29 percent for the United States in 2008.

Those are some of the stark findings of Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project, which also found that approval of Obama's handling of world affairs has plummeted 30 points in China, from 57 percent to just 27 percent. That may not matter at the polls in November, but it could complicate Obama's efforts to hold together international coalitions on issues like Iran's nuclear program or forge a consensus to bring an end to bloody violence in Syria.

Obama campaigned in 2008 on a promise to restore America's world standing after the George W. Bush era, which saw widespread global opposition to the war in Iraq and anger at war-on-terrorism policies, such as use of secret prisons and the Guantanamo Bay facility to hold suspected terrorists. The Pew study suggests that Obama can claim "Mission Accomplished" on that front: Only a handful of countries hold a less sunny opinion of the United States now than in 2008. In Pakistan, for example, 12 percent of respondents expressed positive views of America, down from 19 percent four years ago. At the same time, 60 percent of Britons report warm feelings for America, up from 53 percent in 2008. Approval of America jumped from 53 percent to 74 percent in Japan, and even in China the number has ticked up from 41 percent to 43 percent.

And Obama's approval ratings in 14 countries surveyed remain better than Bush's in 2008—his worst showing on that score is in Pakistan, where he ties his predecessor's score with just 7 percent saying they have at least some confidence in his foreign policy leadership. But Obama has seen an overall steady erosion of his own numbers. Take Japan, where approval of his foreign policy fell from 77 to 58 percent from 2009 to 2012. In Russia, it sagged from 40 to 22 percent. And many express disappointment with what they had hoped would be a new American commitment to multilateralism. In 2009, 69 percent of Germans predicted that he would consider their country's interests in making foreign policy. In 2012, just 45 percent say he has done so.

People outside the United States are similarly disillusioned with Obama on issues like the Middle East peace process and efforts to combat climate change. Seventy-nine percent of Britons predicted in 2009 that Obama would be fair with Israelis and Palestinians. Just 47 percent now say he has been. In France, 81 percent of respondents predicted in 2009 that the president would take steps to address global warming. Just 27 percent now say he has done so.

The Pew study also highlights global opposition to the drone strikes that Obama has boasted are a major weapon against suspected terrorists. While 62 percent of Americans (including 58 percent of Democrats) approve of such operations, they are broadly unpopular almost everywhere else. Britons are divided, with 44 percent in favor and 47 percent against, while Indians split 32 to 21 percent against. But 90 percent of Greeks, 89 percent of Egyptians, 85 percent of Jordanians, 81 percent of Turks, 76 percent of Spaniards, 76 percent of Brazilians and 75 percent of Japanese disapprove. Results for Pakistan, where the government has loudly denounced drone strikes inside its territory, were not available but are expected in a subsequent survey.

That suggests an uphill fight for the president to fulfill his re-election campaign promise to "remind the world just why it is the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/s...171232998.html

A new poll shows Americans are unenthusiastic about Obama campaign priorities. http://badblue.bitnamiapp.com/source...0K?sid=2769208

Unenthusiastic? They should be more than “unenthusiastic”. Obama’s goals should he win a second term should have middle class Americans hyperventilating in terror.

Ron Radosh, PJ Media: The Book to Defeat Obama: Stanley Kurtz’s Spreading the Wealth: http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/07...ng-the-wealth/

What Stanley Kurtz has accomplished in his new book Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, to be published on August 2, is nothing less than the complete exposure of President Barack Obama’s secret plans for his second term in office — plans that in reality amount to an assault on the values, well-being ,and quality of life of the very middle-class voters he claims to represent.

The unfortunate title — not an attention-grabber in bookstores —does not covey the breadth of his research, the scholarly yet readable and comprehensive analysis of where the president is coming from, and the nature of the social policy Obama will put into practice if he wins a second term. They amount to an entire gamut of initiatives, some well underway, to redistribute wealth not from the fabled 1% — who really do not have enough to save us from fiscal Armageddon even if the government took 80% of their profits — but from the average, middle-class, hardworking citizens who sought better lives and realized the American dream by moving to the suburbs, where the air is cleaner, the schools are decent, and life is peaceful and integrated.

These citizens are the very swing voters Obama is now courting; his many TV commercials about helping the middle class target them. What Kurtz reveals in chilling detail is that the group of radicals surrounding the president — names most of us (including me) are not familiar with — are nevertheless as dangerous and extreme in their goals as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. While those three are persona non grata in the White House, these unknown radicals are just as important, and they are planning social policy with Obama’s approval.

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If Obama were honest, Kurtz says, he would say the following to the American people:

My fellow Americans, to be honest, I have some serious reservations about the way this country is structured. In America we have this strong bias toward individual action. … But individual actions, individual dreams are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations. Locally those collective actions… have got to be pushed at the regional level in such a way as to unite small towns and suburbs with nearby cities.The whole federalist system, as the founders created it, is too geared toward John Wayne-style individualism. You pick up and move to a suburb in search of your American dream. But this leaves less well-off folks behind, so classic federalism extracts a price this country can no longer afford to pay. The only way to make certain this nation’s wealth gets more equally divided among all Americans is to run our country more centrally. That way no one can pick up and take his tax money to another town, suburb, or state without sharing it with someone less fortunate. That’s why I plan to do everything in my power to advance federal and regional control of America’s tax money and especially of America’s system of education, so as to eliminate the local differences upon which our long but troubled tradition of John Wayne-style individualism rests.

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Obama, Kurtz shows, is running an active Alinskyite program in the present, not simply in the 1980s. It is a radicalism of a hidden, regionalist agenda, carefully kept below the radar, something that its exponents actually brag about. The programs waiting to be implemented actually are “nothing less,” Kurtz writes, “than a direct attack on large sections of his own middle-class supporters.”

Read the whole disturbing thing. Kurtz is definitely on to something…

Flash back to March 30, 2012, March 30, 2008, December 1995: The Collectivist Makes His Case: “You’re On Your Own” Economics Doesn’t Work: http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/03...s-doesnt-work/

Via RCP, here’s Obama speaking at a fund-raiser at one of his favorite types of venues; a college in Vermont: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...esnt_work.html

“You know, each of us is only here because somebody somewhere felt responsibility, yes to their families, but also to their fellow citizens. Also to our country’s future. That’s the American story. The American story is not just about what we do on our own. Yes, we’re rugged individualists, we expect personally responsibility and everybody out there has got to work hard and carry their weight,” President Obama said at a fundraiser with college students at the University of Vermont.

“We also have always understood that we wouldn’t win the race for new jobs and businesses, and middle class security if we were just applying some ‘you’re on your own economics,’” Obama said.

“It’s been tried in our history and it hasn’t worked,” Obama said. “It didn’t work when we tried it in the decade before the Great Depression. It didn’t work when we tried it in the last decade. We just tried this. What they’re peddling has been tried — it did not work!”

Back in 2008, I directed attention to this December 1995 Chicago Reader interview of then candidate for IL State Senate, Barack Obama. http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2008/03...ck-obama-1995/ I found his attack on individualism to be quite alarming. Sadly, when you read his words from 1995 and compare them to what he is saying, today, you find that his collectivist philosophy has remained remarkably consistent over the years.

“In America,” Obama says, “we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.”

Out of appreciation for the fact the most Americans have this “bias” for rugged individualism, Obama still pays lip service to it, today, to even left-wing college crowds. But the song remains the same - individual actions are not sufficient.

Expose Obama: Video: Obama:People Shouldn’t Be Able ‘To Own Guns’: http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/07/2...e-to-own-guns/

Something to keep in mind the next time you hear Obama says he believes in the right to bear arms. He doesn’t. In a second Obama term the “under the radar” efforts to curb gun rights will likely intensify.

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2012/07...s-second-term/

Wow just wow. The elite really get me angry. As a staunch Republican I don't trust intellectuals like this Ivy League educated constitutional law college professor to understand our government. And I certainly don’t trust a guy who became a community organizer…they’re a bad lot. I prefer to go with my gut and prayer and listen to people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ted Nugent. I fear those intellectual types, especially those in the scientific community. Science scares and confuses me and therefore often angers me. Even though my life has improved every single instance that I have taken time to figure out something that confuses me, I just think it’s easier to get angry and form ideas about public policy while in that state. Science often goes against my religious beliefs. I want to cut funding for education and I would rather teach my children at home with a strong biblical curriculum; because I know I would be a better teacher than a so-called “trained professional” with their thuggish tendencies. My biggest issues are stopping the secret Muslim in the White house who was born in Kenya. I want his birth certificate…again. I think we should eliminate welfare all together. I have read those statistics that the over-whelming majority of people use welfare as a bridge between jobs and never go on it again but I just don’t believe those so-called “facts”. I go by what I see on TV, and I see lazy people taking my money. They are not at all like the people that Jesus preached about helping. As far as so-called abortion “rights”, I see no contradiction with me being pro-war, pro-guns, anti-universal health care, pro-death penalty and my being pro-life. I also want to stop gay marriage, because it really scares me and other people’s marriages can have a huge impact on my life. I also realize the world is out to get us and we need to constantly beef up our military because we're in danger. I just can’t figure out why the elite think it’s better to educate and help our own citizens get back on their feet when we can be using tax dollars on killing people who may threaten us. We spend 800 billion on our military's annual budget and that China is second with only 80 billion in expenditures.....I say we cut funding for education and welfare and spend more on the military. I think that's the best way to make America the world leader.

Originally Posted by justice250

Wow just wow. The elite really get me angry. As a staunch Republican I don't trust intellectuals like this Ivy League educated constitutional law college professor to understand our government. And I certainly don’t trust a guy who became a community organizer…they’re a bad lot. I prefer to go with my gut and prayer and listen to people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ted Nugent. I fear those intellectual types, especially those in the scientific community. Science scares and confuses me and therefore often angers me. Even though my life has improved every single instance that I have taken time to figure out something that confuses me, I just think it’s easier to get angry and form ideas about public policy while in that state. Science often goes against my religious beliefs. I want to cut funding for education and I would rather teach my children at home with a strong biblical curriculum; because I know I would be a better teacher than a so-called “trained professional” with their thuggish tendencies. My biggest issues are stopping the secret Muslim in the White house who was born in Kenya. I want his birth certificate…again. I think we should eliminate welfare all together. I have read those statistics that the over-whelming majority of people use welfare as a bridge between jobs and never go on it again but I just don’t believe those so-called “facts”. I go by what I see on TV, and I see lazy people taking my money. They are not at all like the people that Jesus preached about helping. As far as so-called abortion “rights”, I see no contradiction with me being pro-war, pro-guns, anti-universal health care, pro-death penalty and my being pro-life. I also want to stop gay marriage, because it really scares me and other people’s marriages can have a huge impact on my life. I also realize the world is out to get us and we need to constantly beef up our military because we're in danger. I just can’t figure out why the elite think it’s better to educate and help our own citizens get back on their feet when we can be using tax dollars on killing people who may threaten us. We spend 800 billion on our military's annual budget and that China is second with only 80 billion in expenditures.....I say we cut funding for education and welfare and spend more on the military. I think that's the best way to make America the world leader.

I can't quite figure out if you are making a joke... or if you are really just that ....

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

I can't quite figure out if you are making a joke... or if you are really just that ....

It may be neither.

This person only posts once every few months ... and since the article above is rather rambling and not quite "on topic" ... I am not sure if it is sincere or bogus ... hence my remarks.

Originally Posted by jolie rouge

this person only posts once every few months ... And since the article above is rather rambling and not quite "on topic" ... I am not sure if it is sincere or bogus ... Hence my remarks.

ikwym

Originally Posted by justice250

Wow just wow. The elite really get me angry. As a staunch Republican I don't trust intellectuals like this Ivy League educated constitutional law college professor to understand our government. And I certainly don’t trust a guy who became a community organizer…they’re a bad lot. I prefer to go with my gut and prayer and listen to people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ted Nugent. I fear those intellectual types, especially those in the scientific community. Science scares and confuses me and therefore often angers me. Even though my life has improved every single instance that I have taken time to figure out something that confuses me, I just think it’s easier to get angry and form ideas about public policy while in that state. Science often goes against my religious beliefs. I want to cut funding for education and I would rather teach my children at home with a strong biblical curriculum; because I know I would be a better teacher than a so-called “trained professional” with their thuggish tendencies. My biggest issues are stopping the secret Muslim in the White house who was born in Kenya. I want his birth certificate…again. I think we should eliminate welfare all together. I have read those statistics that the over-whelming majority of people use welfare as a bridge between jobs and never go on it again but I just don’t believe those so-called “facts”. I go by what I see on TV, and I see lazy people taking my money. They are not at all like the people that Jesus preached about helping. As far as so-called abortion “rights”, I see no contradiction with me being pro-war, pro-guns, anti-universal health care, pro-death penalty and my being pro-life. I also want to stop gay marriage, because it really scares me and other people’s marriages can have a huge impact on my life. I also realize the world is out to get us and we need to constantly beef up our military because we're in danger. I just can’t figure out why the elite think it’s better to educate and help our own citizens get back on their feet when we can be using tax dollars on killing people who may threaten us. We spend 800 billion on our military's annual budget and that China is second with only 80 billion in expenditures.....I say we cut funding for education and welfare and spend more on the military. I think that's the best way to make America the world leader.

Just found an interesting comment - attached to an article on yahooooo

David Serventi · Top Commenter · Oakland, California


Wow just wow. The elite really get me angry. As a staunch Republican I don't trust intellectuals like this Ivy League educated constitutional law college professor to understand our government. And I certainly don’t trust a guy who became a community organizer…they’re a bad lot. I prefer to go with my gut and prayer and listen to people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Larry the Cable Guy, and Ted Nugent. I fear those intellectual types, especially those in the scientific community. Science scares and confuses me and therefore often angers me. Even though my life has improved every single instance that I have taken time to figure out something that confuses me, I just think it’s easier to get angry and form ideas about public policy while in that state. Science often goes against my religious beliefs. I want to cut funding for education and I would rather teach my children at home with a strong biblical curriculum; because I know I would be a better teacher than a so-called “trained professional” with their thuggish tendencies. My biggest issues are stopping the secret Muslim in the White house who was born in Kenya. I want his birth certificate…again. I think we should eliminate welfare all together. I have read those statistics that the over-whelming majority of people use welfare as a bridge between jobs and never go on it again but I just don’t believe those so-called “facts”. I go by what I see on TV, and I see lazy people taking my money. They are not at all like the people that Jesus preached about helping. As far as so-called abortion “rights”, I see no contradiction with me being pro-war, pro-guns, anti-universal health care, pro-death penalty and my being pro-life. I also want to stop gay marriage, because it really scares me and other people’s marriages can have a huge impact on my life. I also realize the world is out to get us and we need to constantly beef up our military because we're in danger. I just can’t figure out why the elite think it’s better to educate and help our own citizens get back on their feet when we can be using tax dollars on killing people who may threaten us. We spend 800 billion on our military's annual budget and that China is second with only 80 billion in expenditures.....I say we cut funding for education and welfare and spend more on the military. I think that's the best way to make America the world leader. We don't need brilliant minds and an educated public strong in science and math. We just need prayer and a powerful military......Romney 2012...

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