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The stupid statement thread

Obama still thinks that the voters are stupid:

Even though Gruber’s comments surfaced on the internet over a year ago, they’ve gotten another wave of attention this month — especially from activists against Obamacare and President Obama’s healthcare policies. According to the Washington Post, Obama addressed the recent criticism of Obamacare at a press conference held on Sunday after the Group of 20 summit. You can watch Obama answer a pointed question about Gruber’s remarks in the video above. When a journalist asks the president about the nature of Obamacare’s passing based on Gruber’s remarks, Obama responds with the following statement.

“I just heard about this. The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with, in terms of the voters, is no reflection on the actual process that was run.”

Other claims have emerged in an effort to prove that Jonathan Gruber did, indeed, serve on the staff drafting Obamacare, including a report that he was paid $400,000 for his work on the bill. Since Jonathan Gruber’s remarks, he has been largely absent from public appearances.
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Read more at Obama Claims Jonathan Gruber Didn't Work On Obamacare Staff

Note the very careful limitation of "in terms of the voters", meaning that that Obama does not disagree with anything else Gruber said (or did?) on behalf of getting PPACA passed or scored favorably by the CBO. Obama indeed thinks that the voters are stupid enough to take this super limited response as Obama not backing anythiing else that Gruber said (or did).

Of course, the statement also said that Gruber "never worked on our staff", which means nothing because while Obama has many "staffs", since he is in charge of the entire federal executive, he simply does not choose to say that he is part of any of them. As usual, the buck stops somewhere else.
 
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I would also like to add that whether a statement is stupid depends on how far it missed the target. So some of us do not live in USA and do not know how things stand and how much a politician's comment goes astray from reality.

So unless it is obvious, please also mention how things really are. That way a foreigner may also join in to the joke.
 
OMG this thread delivers!! And it's buried...

This is hilarious idiotic stuff from both sides. Love it!

My turn since 29A just did an R (Akin - what a ****tard!). Has Guam capsized yet?

 
Now for an R:

I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman

Governor/Terminator/Cheater Arnold Schwarzenneger to Sean Hannity, 2002.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Obama still thinks that the voters are stupid:




Read more at Obama Claims Jonathan Gruber Didn't Work On Obamacare Staff

Note the very careful limitation of "in terms of the voters", meaning that that Obama does not disagree with anything else Gruber said (or did?) on behalf of getting PPACA passed or scored favorably by the CBO. Obama indeed thinks that the voters are stupid enough to take this super limited response as Obama not backing anythiing else that Gruber said (or did).

Of course, the statement also said that Gruber "never worked on our staff", which means nothing because while Obama has many "staffs", since he is in charge of the entire federal executive, he simply does not choose to say that he is part of any of them. As usual, the buck stops somewhere else.
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I don't believe this falls into the spirit of the thread.
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The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.

Joe Biden
 
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney January 2012

:shock:
Mitt was trying sooo hard to be wise, and be relevant.
 
RogueWarrior said:
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney January 2012

:shock:
Mitt was trying sooo hard to be wise, and be relevant.
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That gave me a headache. You owe me an aspirin.
 
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker says that denying people health care helps them live the American Dream.

"Beyond that, I just ask the basic question: 'Why is more people on Medicaid a good thing?' I’d rather find a way, particularly for able-bodied adults without children, I'd like to find a way to get them into the workforce. I think ideologically, that’s a better approach, not just as a conservative, but as an American. Have more people live the American dream if they’re not dependent on the American government."
-- from an interview on MSNBC

(Never mind that plenty of people on Medicaid already are in the workforce!)
 
DifferentDrummr said:
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker says that denying people health care helps them live the American Dream.

"Beyond that, I just ask the basic question: 'Why is more people on Medicaid a good thing?' I’d rather find a way, particularly for able-bodied adults without children, I'd like to find a way to get them into the workforce. I think ideologically, that’s a better approach, not just as a conservative, but as an American. Have more people live the American dream if they’re not dependent on the American government."
-- from an interview on MSNBC

(Never mind that plenty of people on Medicaid already are in the workforce!)
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...you may disagree with it... but the idea that not depending on the government is part of the American dream of self-improvement and self-sufficiency isn't dumb. Don't wreck a good thread idea with banality.


“Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.” – Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on geography
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now that's dumb.
 
cpwill said:
...you may disagree with it... but the idea that not depending on the government is part of the American dream of self-improvement and self-sufficiency isn't dumb. Don't wreck a good thread idea with banality.
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It just has nothing to do with Medicaid.
 
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
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-Dan Quayle

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
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-Dan Quayle

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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-Dan Quayle
 
DifferentDrummr said:
It just has nothing to do with Medicaid.
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Not going down the rabbit hole with you, but the idea that Medicaid has nothing to do with depending on the government is a statement so stupid that, if you were a politician, it'd be on this thread.
 
Rick Perry from the Rochester, MI GOP Presidential debates:

Rickytherat said:
“It’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone – Commerce, Education and the um, what’s the third one there? Let’s see. Oh five – Commerce, Education and the um, um,”
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Seniors love getting junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world. -- Harry Reid
 
Oh. This is a good one.


Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them. -- Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights


Reminds me of the Black Panther controversy from 2009, when we found out that intimidating white voters was okay.
 
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