Tag: Pres. Obama
Obama Signs Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
We can only hope paramedics are standing by John McCain.
New Poll Refudiates Palin’s Boast About Beating Obama
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Number of points by which Pres. Obama would lead Sarah Palin were the 2012 election held today, according to a new NBC/Wall St. Journal poll. Despite the reality star’s recent boast that she could beat Obama, 55 percent of those surveyed said they would support the president, while only 33 percent would vote for Palin. The number refudiates Palin’s claim, and represents a surge toward Obama, since a poll earlier this month gave him only 8 points over the former partial-term governor.
Verbatim
I think that over the course of two years, we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that we stopped paying
attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation.
— Pres. Obama, in an interview with 60 Minutes, stating the obvious and possibly signaling a new direction for his administration with a Republican-controlled House.
T-Shirt: “Thanks for Blaming the Black Guy”
Wow, these great t-shirts, which sum up the Republican view of just about everything, are on sale CHEAP and just in time to wear to the polls on Nov. 2!
Of course, they’d work equally well this weekend, at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. Stock up today!
Verbatim
He should wake up and look at what’s going on in our backyard.
— Tiffany Hartley, who was jet-skiing with her husband, David, in Mexico when, according to her story, pirates attacked them and killed David. Hartley is referring to Pres. Obama, but it’s unclear who should do the waking up, although Americans who illegally cross borders into murderous drug gang territory do come to mind. Nor is it clear what exactly the American president could or should do in Mexico to protect such folks.
It’s Not Easy Being Obama
Cute video in The Capitol Steps genre. Now can everyone just get off his back?
Obama Has Created 863K Jobs in 2010, More Than Double Average Annual Creation under Bush
One of the most galling examples of Republican double-speak this year is their assertion on one hand that the government cannot create jobs — which is demonstrably false; states and cities hire private contractors to build and repair roads all the time, just as one example — and then on the other hand their habit of blaming Pres. Obama for the high unemployment and excoriating the government for not creating more jobs. Which is it?
“Bush … shows the worst track record for job creation since the government began keeping records.”
-Wall St. Journal
-Wall St. Journal
The GOP will keep making these mutually exclusive arguments until a) the corporate media catches on (so don’t hold your breath) or b) they take control of Congress in three weeks, at which point their corporate masters had better start hiring or Speaker Wanna-Be Boehner will find himself with an approval rating even lower than his current rating of 22 percent — a full 11 points lower than Speaker Pelosi’s.
Despite the high unemployment rate caused by the Bush Recession — and Republicans’ refusal to invest in state and local budgets to prevent teachers, police officers and other public sector employees from being laid off — Pres. Obama is doing a better job at job creation than Republicans and the corporate media will acknowledge, especially when compared with his predecessor, George Bush.
As of the end of September, Obama had created 863,000 private sector jobs this year:
Private-sector payroll employment increased in September for the ninth straight month (every month this year). The increase of 64,000 jobs last month brings the total number of private-sector jobs added this year to 863,000, which is the largest 9-month gain in private payroll employment since the summer of 2007 (see top chart above).
Obama’s record so far is more than double the 375,000 jobs created by Bush on average each year during his eight years in office. Here’s how the ultra-right wing Wall St. Journal described Bush’s record in job-creation:
