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Obama now joking about his own giant economic failures

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And the Leftists really think this cat's going to get re-elected? Really?!?

...remember how angry we all were when he admitted that “shovel-ready” public works projects — the ostensible target of the stimulus — um, don’t really exist? The Democrats spent weeks before he was inaugurated selling voters on the concept and did a good enough job that they ended up with a $787 billion check from Congress for their trouble.

Tee hee: Obama now joking about his own giant economic failures « Hot Air
 
Really? You are going to complain about a "I ****ed up" joke?
 
You misunderstand. I'm not complaining. :rofl

You think an "I ****ed up joke" is going to cause him not to get reelected?
 
You think an "I ****ed up joke" is going to cause him not to get reelected?

No, but an admission to outright lieing his ass off will. He new when he said it that there weren't any, "shovel ready projects".

It's not an, "I ****ed up", joke. It's an, "I lied my ass off and you fell for it", joke. Or an, "I spent a trillion dollars of your money on nothing", joke. better yet an, "I totally cocked things up and now I'm willing to do anything to bail my dumbass out, including making a joke about it", joke.
 
No, but an admission to outright lieing his ass off will. He new when he said it that there weren't any, "shovel ready projects".

It's not an, "I ****ed up", joke. It's an, "I lied my ass off and you fell for it", joke. Or an, "I spent a trillion dollars of your money on nothing", joke. better yet an, "I totally cocked things up and now I'm willing to do anything to bail my dumbass out, including making a joke about it", joke.

Congress gave a good portion of that money to the states in order to be used on public works projects. The states didn't use the money on those types of projects. So who really is to blame?
 
Congress gave a good portion of that money to the states in order to be used on public works projects. The states didn't use the money on those types of projects. So who really is to blame?

Who passed the bill? The Democrats? Well, there you go.
 
Oh look, another molehill to turn into a mountain because it feels like a gotcha and gives partisan hacks a reason to gloat through their typical misunderstanding of issues.
 
I don't think injecting humor into the situation, even self-depricating humor, is going to work to his benefit. Some of us are still pretty pissed about him mocking border security needs when he made a stop in El Paso awhile back. When people put faith into him to lead the charge and help get bills through congress that would jump-start the economy, the last thing they want to hear when they're two or three years into unemployment is him joking about how it didn't quite work out. Honesty may be commendable, but it isn't going to make people say, "Hey, he's honest. Even though I'm worse off than I was in 2008 (or no better off), I think I'll give him another four years because he's being so honest right now".
 
Congress gave a good portion of that money to the states in order to be used on public works projects. The states didn't use the money on those types of projects. So who really is to blame?

Read my lips ...... "shovel ready".
 
You think an "I ****ed up joke" is going to cause him not to get reelected?

Well, a two second "Yeaaaaahhhh!!!!" kept Howard Dean out of the White House.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3570845.stm

Friday, 26 March, 2004,
US President George W Bush has sparked a political row by making a joke about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

At a black-tie dinner for journalists, Mr Bush narrated a slide show poking fun at himself and other members of his administration.

One pictured Mr Bush looking under a piece of furniture in the Oval Office, at which the president remarked: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere."

After another one, showing him scouring the corner of a room, Mr Bush said: "No, no weapons over there," he said.

And as a third picture, thistime showing him leaning over, appeared on the screen the president was heard to say: "Maybe under here?"

Obviously one can make jokes about a war that got thousands of soldiers killed and still be elected, but if one dares to say they screwed up on legislation:

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To paraphrase Otter...

'Look, Liberals...you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You ****ed up... you trusted him! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help.'
 
Well, a two second "Yeaaaaahhhh!!!!" kept Howard Dean out of the White House.
Actually, it was Howard Dean BYAH. There is a 'B' at the beginning.
 
When you start with the preconceived idea that liberals/democrats want to control everything, are lying to you, are elitist, want government to do everything, etc, you're going to interpret everything you see in that light. Since your interpretation of events is slanted towards this notion, you perceive events to agree with that notion. The more events that appear to agree with that notion, the stronger the notion becomes.

Hence, "That didn't work how I thought it would" becomes "Muahahaha, I lied to you and you all fell for it, stupid peasants!"
 
I thought being Howard Dean was what kept Howard Dean out of the white house?

The war cry was just the needed excuse. Actually I think Dean got a bad rap for this...it was just a poorly executed pep rally.
 
And the Leftists really think this cat's going to get re-elected? Really?!?

At some point all you can do is laugh a little...

The 'shovel ready' concept was a failure from the get-go, as was the whole stimulus concept. They didnt 'stimulate' growth, they dumped borrowed money into failed and unfunded programs.
 
When you start with the preconceived idea that liberals/democrats want to control everything, are lying to you, are elitist, want government to do everything, etc, you're going to interpret everything you see in that light. Since your interpretation of events is slanted towards this notion, you perceive events to agree with that notion. The more events that appear to agree with that notion, the stronger the notion becomes.

Hence, "That didn't work how I thought it would" becomes "Muahahaha, I lied to you and you all fell for it, stupid peasants!"

Or it's the president soemthing that could be used to mock him with and he was duly mocked for it.
 
There were shovel ready jobs. He just didn't say who was doing the shoveling or WHAT was to be shoveled.
 
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