Top Ten Obama Statements on '60 Minutes' Interview
Assuming this entry from Fox Nation is not satirical, and you can check the transcript of the actual interview here, President Obama made some incredible statements on his '60 Minutes' Interview. Just look at the top four, with a comment or two of mine following each:
4. “I don't think I was naïve. I just think that these things are hard to do. You know, this is a big country.”
Translation: "I over-promised and under-performed, but I can't be blamed for either because this is a tough job. Oh, yes, but I take full responsibility, as long as you don't blame me for any of it."
3. “…there are more efficient ways to recirculate dollars out there and get people to spend. I mean unemployment insurance, most economists will tell you, is probably the single most important thing we can do to improve the economy.”
I mentioned this in a column the other day with incredulity: he believes that extending unemployment insurance ad infinitum is not only the moral thing to do (even though it creates a disincentive to work), but is very beneficial for the economy. This guy is an unqualified Keynesian, demand-side zealot. Never mind that you're taking money from other people who won't have it to save, spend or invest to give it to others. Just increase consumption and all will be well. Never has worked, but liberal theory says it does, as well as liberal revisionist history, so it does.
2. “We still we've got a couple of trillion dollars worth of infrastructure improvements that need to be made around the country.”
Putting aside the abject casualness of his contemplation of spending yet a couple more tril, do you remember his recent quest for a new stimulus bill in the amount of $50 billion for infrastructure projects, even though one of the selling points of the first stimulus bill (amounting to about $868 billion) was planned infrastructure improvements and only seven percent ended up going toward infrastructure? $868 billion didn't stimulate the economy, but we're expected to believe approximately one eighteenth of that amount ($50 billion) would? We need a couple of tril for infrastructure but he's asking for $50 billion? Is he so cynical with our money that he'll just say anything whenever it suits him? This is really Monopoly money to him. Worse yet, the expenditure merely causes Monopoly debt. It's as if it's not real to him. You can't tell me he has the slightest concern about increasing this nation-destroying debt -- even now. Even now, after the public spanked him into next week on November 2. He's not serious enough to be president -- intellectually or emotionally. The only other plausible alternative is that he's doing this damage on purpose. Oh boy, let's not go there.
1.“…when you're campaigning, I think you're liberated to say things without thinking about, "Okay, how am I gonna actually practically implement this."
Another example of just how brazenly cynical he is. Can you imagine a Republican president or national political figure making such a statement, revealing that it is liberating to be able to just make things up without fear of accountability. Another damning admission. He obviously has been so coddled during his life, at least his adult life, that he must not even realize how reckless and callous some of these answers make him look. Then again, he is the guy who, during what should have been a solemn moment leading up to the memorial tribute to the Ft. Hood massacre victims, gave a bizarre "shout-out" to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow.
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Jul '10
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It's not "Monopoly money" to him, he's playing Monopoly labor.
Jul '10
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@David Limbaugh: "He obviously has been so coddled during his life, at least his adult life...."
David, I'm gonna dip my toe very carefully here. I've noticed over decades that whenever a minority voices an opinion - whatever its merits - during a meeting or conference, extreme deference is extended. Certainly, no one disagrees or dismisses.
I would imagine this response is greatly magnified in academic and political circles - where a comment that might be greeted with polite nods in the business world would probably garner enthusiastic kudos.
For a malignant narcissist like Obama, this acted like 20 years of ego-boosting steroids.
Jul '10
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By the way, David, I'm really, really glad you decided to stick around.
Sep '10
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@Kenneth - in addition to the deference, he also held jobs that required no heavy lifting but merely required him to take credit for the work of others (Harvard Law Review being the most notorious)
Oct '10
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Quick point. I watched a number of the public appearances of President Obama last week including the press conference regarding the attempted cargo plane bombings and the press conference after the elections. I do not know if it was a teleprompter or if he was advised to present this style, but I found everything as if he were detached, disinterested, "just the facts, ma'am." I was consigned to think that it was just his oratory style running thin on me (or campaign fatigue) until I saw his personal video address to the members of Organizing for America. He was engaged, emotional, and seemed completely different than the president from the press conferences. It is almost as if the duties and issues presented by the presidency are a nuisance, whereas those who really understand his goals and aims are those deserving his consideration. This is not to detract from the pressures and challenges that come with the presidency but a personal impression of the "disconnect" between President Obama and the American public. Arugula anyone?
May '10
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Me, too!
When the question popped up on Ricochet on Election Night as to whether the President would be apologetic, humbled or arrogant, I bet on arrogant. I don't think he even understands the concept of being humble.
Sep '10
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@Casey Way - I think Rob Long made this point back on the State of the Union podcast (along with Peter Robinson and Mark Steyn) that the job of President actually annoys him and he views himself as really cut out for bigger and better things like Secretary General of the UN.
Oct '10
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@Pseudo - I was sure the point had been made before being a greenhorn here. But it was the personal impression I had watching the press conferences back to back over the course of a couple days and the difference was so strikingly sharp that it struck me befuddled.
Sep '10
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@Casey - yes, sorry, didn't mean to imply that your point was redundant, rather that you're spotting a consistent trend that I first heard mentioned by our Rico contributors (and notice how I didn't have to use an emoticon!)
May '10
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All the answers above look like the pathetic mewings of a failed narcissist.
Being a real leader ain't like being at the Havard Law Review, so stop whining.
Perhaps Pres. Obama should have held a real job somewhere outside of community organising. You know the type where one has to take responsibility for P/L, sack underperforming workers, and when the going gets tough be hard as nails to make things really happen.
May '10
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Well whatever you think of his experience, the man is well-educated and bright. (I know, I know not nearly bright enough as many have noted, but still...)
What continues to surprise me is how little credence he seems to give conservative ideas. He is so quick to dismiss the points raised as hypocritical or nonsensical or angry and I understand the politics of that, but I wonder -- has he no more substantive response? Has he read Hayek and Friedman for example and how would he take their points? How would he defend Keynes against a more articulate critic?
I wish an interviewer were brave or thoughtful enough to ask some of these questions and I fervently hope that we can pit against him in 2012 not just a red state populist to tease him, but someone prepared to really clean his clock where he lives -- on the debate stage -- and show the American people that there is another way to see the World.
Jun '10
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Kenneth: @David Limbaugh: "He obviously has been so coddled during his life, at least his adult life...."
David, I'm gonna dip my toe very carefully here. I've noticed over decades that whenever a minority voices an opinion - whatever its merits - during a meeting or conference, extreme deference is extended. Certainly, no one disagrees or dismisses.
Kenneth, you just nailed liberal racism to the floor with a twelve-penny nail and a twenty-pound sledge. No need to apologize or be so circumspect. This is precisely what George Bush meant by the bigotry of low expectations.
Aug '10
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Amen to that.
Sep '10
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There are Ricochetans who have the intellectual heft to do this. But who among the conservative political class???? I liked Paul Ryan on the Sunday shows last weekend.
Sep '10
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Kenneth: David, I'm gonna dip my toe very carefully here. I've noticed over decades that whenever a minority voices an opinion - whatever its merits - during a meeting or conference, extreme deference is extended. Certainly, no one disagrees or dismisses.
Nov 8 at 7:26pm
I'm from the era of the 'first' hiring of women scientists and engineers. OTOH they were treated with the same deference Kenneth ascribes to minorities. And yet they went on to justifiably achieve positions high importance. Even minority women among them have done well. One is forced to ponder the difference.
Oct '10
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This is an excellent application of Occam's Razor, David. No disrespect intented to razor sharp folks like Dinesh D'Souza and others who have spent a lot of time studying President Obama, but the answer is pretty clear to us here in the cheap seats.
This is someone who was just astoundingly unprepared both intellectually and emotionally for this job. It was self-evident to quite a few of us during his campaign for the office, but not enough to prevent the disaster that has been his administration.
I'm not sure why he's a wretched president really matters at this point. The important thing is that he be prevented from doing any further damage until he can be replaced by someone who is actually suited for the role.
Jul '10
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Publius
Seriousness is not something that is rewarded in our celebrity culture. It used to be said that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. Now the pretty empty-headed ones are getting into the act.
Sep '10
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The more I think on it, the more I convince myself that Lt. Colonel Allen West is the right candidate at this time. Forget the talk about him as a Veep candidate, he has the chops to lead our fight on the national stage. Its probably a pipe dream on my part, but there needs to be a serious effort to recruit this man. The country needs someone of his caliber, desperately.
Oct '10
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Mark Belling Fan
The more I think on it, the more I convince myself that Lt. Colonel Allen West is the right candidate at this time.
Absolutely not. There is little evidence that he is ready to lead Western civilization against the current existental threat any more than Sarah Palin is. We just got done electing someone because he talked pretty and sounded impressive and it's been a unmitigated disaster.
There are a bunch of really promising people that are new on the political scene like Christie, West, Haley, Rubio and a whole host of others. Let them develop a bit and gain some much needed experience so that they are well prepared for their next steps.
We don't do people like West any favors by promoting them too quickly to the point where they fail in a situation where they could have succeed with some more time to grow.
For example, McCain picked Palin off the vine too early and now it's unlikely that she'll ever be ready. What if she would have had a couple terms as a successful governor? We'll never know.
Sep '10
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I reject the analogy. Colonel west doesn't just "sound pretty", his rhetoric is grounded in substance. He can articulate the free market cause as well as anyone i've seen on the political landscape. And no one can question his first hand knowledge of the global threats we face.
Your concern here is certainly valid, but who exactly is out there that reaches the seemingly arbirtrary threshold of "needed experience", that you would also trust as an unabashed conservative once elected?
I look at the players expected fill out the 2012 primary roster, and I just don't see a winner there. I like Pawlenty and Daniels, but they are way too soft spoken for the American electorate in a national election (IMHO). The aesthetically pleasing candidates (Romney and Huckabee) have way too much "big gov't solutions" baggage for my taste.
Anyways, there's plenty of time for minds to change I guess.