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Thread to report dumb remarks/ lies/oops moments by Candidate: Barack Obama

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Just as promised, I did one for Mitt Romney, now it is time for the same kind of thread for Obama.

Category: LIES!

Obama said in a speech on superbowl Sunday that he hadn't raised taxes once.

Well, Factcheck factchecked that statement and sorry for the Prez, but he was wrong, he did raise taxes.

He signed legislation raising taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products soon after taking office; that money goes to pay for children's health insurance programs.

He also signed the health care law, which includes taxes on indoor tanning that went into effect last year.

Also, his health care law includes new taxes on the wealthy, starting in 2013. Individuals who make more than $200,000 and couples that make more than $250,000 will see additional Medicare taxes of 0.9 percent. They will also, for the first time, have to pay Medicare taxes on their investment income at a 3.8 percent rate.

Now to be fair, he did not raise income tax, but if he meant that, he should have stated that. He should not have stated he didn't raise any tax.


So my opinion on this is that Obama lied when he said he didn't raise taxes.
 
transferred here from the Romney thread

TurtleDude said:
when Obumble claimed

1) that the rich aren't paying their fair share

2) that the rich will sacrifice by paying more taxes and everyone else will sacrifice by getting less government spending

I permanently put him on my "lying douchebag" list
 

duh duh duh duh.....




:lamo The guy that puts the thread up is the one posting the most. Trying to lure those, who won't vote for the president to copy the Libbys who's hatred is tangible, to follow suit. Now that is funny. :lamo
 
One of the worst moments and decisions of the Obama presidency

The Nation: Obama Caves on Tax Cuts : NPR

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama said over and over that he was running to "put an end to the Bush-McCain philosophy." Campaigning in Colorado just days before the election, Obama clearly stated his opposition to Bush-era economic policies and ridiculed the idea that "we should give more and more to millionaires and billionaires and hope that it trickles down on everybody else. It's a philosophy that gives tax breaks to wealthy CEOs and to corporations that ship jobs overseas while hundreds of thousands of jobs are disappearing here at home."

Now Obama, in a blatant reversal, is preparing to do just that, agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, which my colleague Chris Hayes accurately calls the "single defining domestic policy of W."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121606200.html

President Obama signed into law the most significant tax bill in nearly a decade Friday, a day after overcoming liberal resistance in Congress to continue for two more years tax breaks enacted under president George W. Bush and to provide a fresh federal boost for the tepid economic recovery.
Very very sad.
 
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One of the worst moments and decisions of the Obama presidency

The Nation: Obama Caves on Tax Cuts : NPR



Obama signs bill to extend Bush-era tax cuts for two more years


Very very sad.

yeah getting dems reelected was more important than standing by his class warfare nonsense. The bad part of that law was keeping so many people off the tax rolls. Obama's a pimp, we all know that. But the current system encourages pimping since those who don't pay sufficient taxes have more votes than those who do
 
yeah getting dems reelected was more important than standing by his class warfare nonsense. The bad part of that law was keeping so many people off the tax rolls. Obama's a pimp, we all know that. But the current system encourages pimping since those who don't pay sufficient taxes have more votes than those who do

Turtle - my Easter wish for you is that you will realize you could make your point a whole lot better without resorting to offensive language. And I say that in the true spirit of constructive criticism.
 
yeah getting dems reelected was more important than standing by his class warfare nonsense. The bad part of that law was keeping so many people off the tax rolls. Obama's a pimp, we all know that. But the current system encourages pimping since those who don't pay sufficient taxes have more votes than those who do

How do your claims make sense? On the one hand you argue that Dems want to shaft the wealthy to pay for their parasitic existence, and on the other hand you argue that Obama signed the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy to get get Dems reelected?
 
Turtle - my Easter wish for you is that you will realize you could make your point a whole lot better without resorting to offensive language. And I say that in the true spirit of constructive criticism.


Obama is a pimp-sorry but that is the truth. TO those who worship him I suppose that is offensive but his policies are offensive to America's greatness
 
How do your claims make sense? On the one hand you argue that Dems want to shaft the wealthy to pay for their parasitic existence, and on the other hand you argue that Obama signed the extension of tax cuts for the wealthy to get get Dems reelected?

He extended tax cuts for EVERYONE because that was the only choice he had. Believe me if the dems were running congress, the tax cuts would have only been extended for the masses
 
Obama is a pimp-sorry but that is the truth. TO those who worship him I suppose that is offensive but his policies are offensive to America's greatness

Oh, come on TD. They are ALL pimps, and that includes Romney too, who has more than one position on every single issue.
 
Oh, come on TD. They are ALL pimps, and that includes Romney too, who has more than one position on every single issue.


true enough but at least Romney has done something worthwhile outside of politics. And unlike Obumble-he isn't a gaping hypocrite-Obumble has become rich from politics and spews anti rich psychobabble
 
and here I thought the thread was meant for lies Obama said, not what do people not like about TurtleDude's posting style...
 
Justice Alito called him a liar during his State of the Union Speech
 
Here is another good site that won a Pulitzer prize. You can just search the candidates name and they have a meter measuring the statement.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-romney/romney-says-obama-failed-pass-budget/

It would be cool if there was news station that really was fair and balanced and simply reported legislation and the daily work of our elected officials and then any public comments with an objective and fair meter.
 
Justice Alito called him a liar during his State of the Union Speech


Right on Obama! Citizens v. United ... the day the conservative members of our supreme court sold out our country. What Obama said in this speech was not a lie. In fact, he was remiss to not make more efforts to mitigate this ruling.

Just because Alito did not like hearing the truth and yelled out does not make it so ... in fact most Americans of all parties were in utter dismay when we were sold out as the was the day We the people ceased to exist. In fact, most do not understand how this impacts local elections of judges and such not just elections for congress or POTUS.
 
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Here is another good site that won a Pulitzer prize. You can just search the candidates name and they have a meter measuring the statement.

PolitiFact | Romney says Obama failed to pass a budget

It would be cool if there was news station that really was fair and balanced and simply reported legislation and the daily work of our elected officials and then any public comments with an objective and fair meter.
Again this is off topic... I'd have to ask the mods to be respectful of the thread's topic here, and stop allowing crap posted here which doesn't concern

The more I see from that site the more i think they're worthless. They go through the article stating just how badly the President's budgets were shot down, but then tried to say Romney is wrong about it... It was the President's budget... the Democrats in Congress didn't submit one, the one being voted on was the President's... Romney is right to call them both out for their callousness...

Back to the topic at hand; Thread to report dumb remarks/ lies/oops moments by Candidate: Barack Obama
 
Again this is off topic... I'd have to ask the mods to be respectful of the thread's topic here, and stop allowing crap posted here which doesn't concern

The more I see from that site the more i think they're worthless. They go through the article stating just how badly the President's budgets were shot down, but then tried to say Romney is wrong about it... It was the President's budget... the Democrats in Congress didn't submit one, the one being voted on was the President's... Romney is right to call them both out for their callousness...

Back to the topic at hand; Thread to report dumb remarks/ lies/oops moments by Candidate: Barack Obama

What they said, correctly, is that Congress doesn't vote on the President's proposed budget. You're just repeating Mitt's lies.
 
Right on Obama! Citizens v. United ... the day the conservative members of our supreme court sold out our country. What Obama said in this speech was not a lie. In fact, he was remiss to not make more efforts to mitigate this ruling.

Just because Alito did not like hearing the truth and yelled out does not make it so ... in fact most Americans of all parties were in utter dismay when we were sold out as the was the day We the people ceased to exist. In fact, most do not understand how this impacts local elections of judges and such not just elections for congress or POTUS.
LMFAO... First off, there were two lies prior to even discussing the court ruling, regarding posting ALL of its visitors online, and not appointing anybody to positions who have worked for lobbyists, as MANY of the the Presidents hires have ties to lobbyists...

Regarding the court case, I think you meant Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission...

The president was wrong when he said they reverses a century of law... since they were overruling a decision made in 1990 (austin v michigan chamber of commerce), and an act (McCain-Feingold) which was made in 2003... This isn't a century worth of law, it was a few controversial decisions from a decade and two decades ago...

The president was also wrong to call out the Supreme Court like that, regardless of this comment "with due defference to separation of powers"... yes with due defference would mean its their decision to make, not yours... The Supreme Court justices have always sat there during the State of the Union speech and witnessed it without bias. They sit there expressionless while each party does their bit to stand and applaud or to sit in defiance, but the Justices don't participate. Instead, the president decides to grandstand and drum up the power hungry liberal lead congress to admonish the impartial justices... THAT WAS OUT OF LINE... AND ALITO WAS RIGHT TO CALL HIM OUT ON IT!

Lastly, Citizen's United were denied by the Supreme Court injuction from preventing advertising for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 from being aired within the time frame of the election, on the same grounds that they were then denied from showing their anti-Hillary video during the 2008 election. That's not egalitarian.

The grounds that the cases were overturned was that it was a volation of the first and fourth amendment rights. It was a decision based on a protection of the freedom of speech. So if the president wants to politicize this that's his folly. I think everyone agrees the situation with campaign financing needs to be investigated. However, this president went so hard against SuperPAC spending, and yet has the richest SuperPAC of them all... and made it a big stink issue when he was running against Hillary that he wasnt goin to take govt contributions for the SuperPAC then recently reversed his position on that same issue.

So this is just another example of an Obama flip-flop
Obama
Obama Changes Tune, Urges Fundraisers To Back Super PAC | Fox News

So he was against it when it was advantage Hillary, but now he's okay with it when it's to his advantage?

or does he just like trying to tell the courts what to do?
Annoyed Judge Wants DOJ to Refute Obama - 'Unelected judges' comment seen as challenge to authority
 
Good reply Independent Centrist and I stand corrected on my quick reference title of the SCOTUS ruling. I respectfully disagree however on the Fox link.

He does mean what he says and says what he means however he was referencing having that as a rule of law.

Clearly once the rule of law (McCain/Feingold Act) was broken down by that SCOTUS ruling Obama cannot go to machine gunfight with a penknife and therefore will have to be on a level playing field with a campaign. The truth will come out in the a second term.

http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml



I do appreciate your posts and time however and want to come back to this when i am not on my iphone.
 
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