Obama: Sure, We Screwed This Up, But MAN! Am I Ever Working Hard!
Today’s epic speechifying on health care was remarkable on several levels. But I think the most sickening part was listening to this clown talking about how hard he works:
And in terms of the impact on me — I think to some extent I addressed it when I talked to Julie (sp) — you know, there are going to be ups and downs during the course of my presidency. And, you know, I think I said early on when I was running, I am not a perfect man and I will not be a perfect president, but I’ll wake up every single day working as hard as I can on behalf of Americans out there from every walk of life who are working hard, meeting their responsibilities but sometimes are struggling because the way the system works isn’t giving them a fair shot.
And — and that pledge I haven’t broken. That commitment, that promise continues to be — continues to hold; the promise that I wouldn’t be perfect, number one, but also the promise that as long as I’ve got the honor of having this office, I’m just going to work as hard as I can to make things better for folks.
Permit me, if you will, a rare profanity.
Bullshit.
Here, for your reference, is Obama’s interview with Chuck Todd.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
At 10:45, we hear more about the HARD WORK he is doing: “We are working every single day, 24/7, to improve it.”
24/7! You hear me? He is working 24/7!
Now here is the good part. Here is a transcript. Watch at 18:49:
Just because this was important and I was saying this was my top priority. And I was meeting with folks once a month telling ‘em, ‘Make sure this works.’
Wow! He was meeting with “folks” once a month! HE IS WORKING AS HARD AS HE CAN!!!!!
Obama has now played 150 rounds of golf. He has been President since January 20, 2009. That’s about 62 months. That’s more than two rounds of golf every month.
So he’s meeting with “folks” about the health care Web site once a month, and playing golf more than twice a month.
It gets worse. His rounds of golf last six hours. Do you figure the health care meetings lasted six hours every month? I’ll bet my house they didn’t.
I have said this before: I work harder than this guy does. My colleagues work harder than this guy does. The folks who clean our building work harder than this guy does. No joke. And we all get paid less. And we don’t have even the tiniest fraction of responsibility that he has.
Mr. Obama, you get to live in a fancy house. People wait on you hand and foot. You owe us hard work in return. We’re not getting it. Don’t try to tell us we are.
You know, Mr. President, it’s bad enough that you screwed this up, and real people are suffering as a result. We really don’t need to hear about how hard you’re working on it . . . when you can manage to squeeze in the time between rounds of golf. We really don’t.
Ding.
Patterico (9c670f) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:18 pmDon’t you trust him to fix his screw up?
AZ Bob (ade845) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:25 pmAnd I was meeting with folks once a month telling ‘em, ‘Make sure this works.’
Telling people what to do is hard work, ‘specially since Obama can’t write code and do it himself, because then everything would’ve worked out great or something.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:26 pmOn the other hand, if he really did work hard and had a brain just imagine how much more damage he’d be doing to our nation and its future…
in_awe (7c859a) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:31 pmIt’s all about him. It’s always all about him.
Peeuu.
I’d be disgusted by the guy even if I liked his politics.
Mark (58ea35) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:39 pmHe said, “work as hard as I can” and “working as hard as I can”. Maybe this is as hard as he can work. Not everybody is an 80-pound lifter.
I intended to point out, sarcastically, the weaselry in “as I can” when I started the comment. But now I’m afraid that it is a true confession. He is lazy and interested only in eating his waffle.
nk (dbc370) — 11/14/2013 @ 10:44 pmRemember how he was going to calm the oceans, heal the planet, get everyone to hold hands and sing Kumbaya and give everyone a Skittle pooping Unicorn because he was the LightWorker? Or how he was focused “laser-like” on creating jobs and getting the economy going again? Any other job, and this clown, and his entire staff and cabinet, would have been pink-slipped and escorted out of the building. But, since he’s a product of “affirmative action”, we have to give him a second, third or fourth chance to get it right (which will NEVER happen).
Preezy Narcissus is trying to polish a turd and sell it to the American people… and we see it as being a turd. The 2014 midterms should be interesting… and for King Putt I’d be praying that the GOP doesn’t get a majority in the House and Senate.
Teh Infidel Mataween (ff5655) — 11/14/2013 @ 11:40 pmBurn.
Former Conservative (6e026c) — 11/15/2013 @ 12:11 amFolk you obama.
mg (31009b) — 11/15/2013 @ 2:10 amThe Cubs pitching staff works harder than this guy does.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/15/2013 @ 2:16 amFrankly, I wish he’d work less. Or retire.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/15/2013 @ 2:18 amAnd I was meeting with folks once a month telling ‘em, ‘Make sure this works.’
This guy is straight out of Dilbert. The contractors were thinking “I sure hope we cash all the checks before they find out.”
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 11/15/2013 @ 2:20 amIs it true 70% of the people signed up are porn stars?
mg (31009b) — 11/15/2013 @ 2:28 amworking as hard as I can
This language, or this concept, that how good a job you do depends on how hard you work, which Barack Obama uses in other contexts too, comes straight from Bill Clinton.
But Bill Clinton knows it is a lie.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:20 amBy the way, Barack Obama didn’t claim to be working hard on the website, or Obamacare, but, as you can see:
on behalf of Americans
to make things better for folks.
He’s referring to his presidency in general.
More specifically, he said, his work is to:
identify the problems that we’ve got, make sure that we’re fixing them
around the priorities that the American people care about.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:32 amHe’s not the only person who works hard
The military personnel and USAID team do this better than anybody in the world
And why are they better?
they’ve been already on the ground working tirelessly
Hard and long.
organizations are also working.
“We”, meaning other people * , are working 24/7 to get the website working.
* Here is proof Obama does not include himself in “we”:
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:34 amWorking in a coal mine, going down, down, down…
Colonel Haiku (425909) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:47 amPresident Maynard G. Krebs. Period.
Colonel Haiku (425909) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:48 amand teh harder He works, teh luckier He gets!
Colonel Haiku (425909) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:54 amI’ll never be your beast of burden
pdbuttons (3f6db1) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:55 amI think Sarah Palin, the Imbecile, will make hay in the 2014 cycle simply by pointing out that the people who told us Sarah Palin was an imbecile are the very same clowns who swore Barack Obama was a lightwkrker.
Brendon Carr (8b49e0) — 11/15/2013 @ 4:20 amBarack Hussein Obama is the chief executive officer of the federal government; I don’t expect him to write code or do the detailed work. But I do expect him to lead and manage his
minionssubordinates. When he tells us that he was meeting, once a month, with his minions, telling them that this was his top priority, and to make sure this was going to work properly, that’s actually what a chief executive officer would be doing, though one could quibble about the frequency of the meetings.But if the President was telling the truth — nk, stop laughing! — then there are only three possibilities:
Am I the only one who thinks that if he had kept Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, this never would have happened?
The businessman Dana (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 4:53 amMr Finkelman pointed out:
And so, in business, what do we do with someone who really is working as hard as he can at his assigned tasks, but still can’t get the job done right?
The businessman Dana (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 4:58 amBarack’s working hard even now
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 5:03 amWith sweat dripping off of his brow
But his luck ran out
With the roll out
Fix this? He’s still wondering how!
teh president sez that he’s tryin’
Colonel Haiku (1cfc51) — 11/15/2013 @ 5:48 ambut peeps without docs, they ain’t buyin’
cuz if He calls this “work”
He is one clueless jerk
and on this, screwed teh pooch, left it cryin’
This is about the Obamacare website. Didn’t President Jerkoff say the very same things about jobs?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/24/president-obama-is-on-his-19th-jobs-pivot/
I think to square the circle Tiger Beat needs to fly off on a vay-cay/fundraiser/golf outing and make a speech in which he b****es about how the folks in Washington need to get to work.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/15/2013 @ 5:57 amin the past He was called Teh ChoomMaster
Colonel Haiku (879b60) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:05 ambut as Prez He’s a fu*king disaster
amotivational syndrome has He
on display for all world to see
throw bum out, would they please do it faster?!?!
How can the Colonel write ’bout tryin’
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:08 amOur Prez is, even if we ain’t buyin’
‘Twas a good start
Of his rhyming art
But he should have used the word lyin’.
Trucks are coming back
The Senryu Avenger (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:10 amAnd I have concrete to load
Must stop surfin’ net.
teh idiots that support Him, what do they seek?
Colonel Haiku (cd8c27) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:17 amcuz This Fuggin’ Guy’s left us up Sh*t Creek
and we don’t have a paddle
let’s give Him a saddle
schlep his donkey outta town, he’s got one week
One cup of coffee don’t do it
Colonel Haiku (7865e7) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:23 amif I had coca leaf I would chew it
Avenger had me sighin’
so obvious was “lyin’ ”
must now fall on sword cuz I blew it
I’m glad to see him admit that promise number one is he won’t be perfect. I’s say he’s kept that promise a thousand times over.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:26 amI’m glad to see him admit that promise number one is he won’t be perfect.
2008 Barack Obama would like to have a word with 2013 Barack Obama.
JVW (7af523) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:39 amNew york times editorial today:
Obama’s repeated assertions were “wrong” It also says his statements were “erroneous” and quotes Obama’s claim that “the way I put that forward unequivocably ended up not being accurate”
The editorial says this is a “modest fix which is “far preferable to a destructive Republican bill” and to a Senate bill “sponsored by some Democrats.”
“But it raises a few troubling questions”
“most of which cannot be answered quickly”
The editorial never explains the questions, but goes on to note the limitations and notes the distinctions between that and the Upton and Landrieu bills.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:53 amOne of these days — when the website is STILL breaking down left & right — don’t be surprised if he gets angry and actually says “I didn’t build that!”
Icy (226c06) — 11/15/2013 @ 6:55 amYesterday Crack Whore offered as proof that ‘He didn’t know’ the subjective palliative that “A week before the Oct. 1 launch he was talking up how wonderful it will be for Americans to shop for Healthcare”.
The he tosses out a plan to fix without any indemnification whatsoever for anyone to evade the consequences of the law.
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/obama-threatens-to-veto-house-keep-your-health-plan-act/
The WH knew in 2010 “93 Million” would lose their Health Insurance.
What incompetence?
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:08 am36. Like Kirsten Powers and Ace said yesterday, he’s simply endorsing chaos.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:10 amPresident Chauncey Armslegth Blameshifter says he’s trying 24/7. If I were a cartoonist, he’d be a jug-eared empty suit in a pair of golf shoes.
Colonel Haiku (eb4f5f) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:10 amI, I, I, I, ME, ME, ME, ME, I. I, I, I, I, ME, ME, ME, ME, I. I, I, I, I, ME, ME, ME, ME, I. Barry truly is the King. He’s the king of the Boomers.
glenn (647d76) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:11 amFug me running in all 57 states!
Colonel Haiku (eb4f5f) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:13 amThe President is willing to make a compromise with reality, and political necessity, but not surrender to it yet, and the Upton bill would amount to a surrender.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:15 am11. I’m rolling over in my head a new electoral litmus test.
If a candidate comes out for having the antikChrist stand in court for his crimes tried by a jury of his peers and serve a term in a minimum security prison at a total cost of some hundreds of millions of dollars…
then I’m not voting for them.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:19 amYet it’s the Rethuglicans who are unreasonable. You know, in their ability to acknowledge reality.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:20 am“The president is willing…” sheesh, He should resign, that’s the reality.
And speaking of “reality”, Nanski Pelosi needs Thorazine and a straightjacket.
Colonel Haiku (90595d) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:21 amGlenn Reynolds calls it as he sees it…
“Frankly, he [Obama] doesn’t deserve to recover. He not only committed — as Marcus terms it — “political malpractice,” he also lied and then apparently sent a trillion-dollar project off to be managed without keeping tabs on it, so that it blew up in his face. At some level, I suppose, it’s not his fault that he’s utterly unqualified for the job he holds. But it is his fault that he sought it out twice, and lied to get it.”
Colonel Haiku (90595d) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:28 amSo far this is my favorite line if the day. But the day is young.
Has this leftist Tomasky guy never heard of the joke line, “The beatings will continue until morale improves?”
Seriously?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/the-democrats-need-to-stop-freaking-out-about-obamacare-and-take-charge.html
elissa (6d358f) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:35 amit’s more believable if you have valerie jarrett cracking the whip
“whip-crackin with foodstamp” is kinda like “crossfittin with candy crowley”
happyfeet (8ce051) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:41 amI’m thinking about that ex-Secret Service agent who talked about how bad things really are–that the President treats his job like some shiny new toy–that things are much worse than we know.
It’s hard to imagine things getting much worse, until you get up each day and read what other travesty Obama has engaged in.
rochf (f3fbb0) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:41 amelissa, this is the administration that talked about putting its boot on the neck of business. Which had a regional director of the EPA talk about perpetrating random crucifixictions as a measure to gain industry obedience.
It’s how they roll.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:00 am*crucifixions*
What can I say. Jet lag.
Steve57 (338553) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:03 amThe Colonel quoted Glenn Reynolds:
Uhhh, how ’bout some blame for the utter fools who voted for him?
The voting Dana (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:12 amAin’t enuf rope, Dana…
Colonel Haiku (86ce72) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:19 amEvery time he says he is working hard, I almost expect the next line to be…I was a school nurse and I know
(obscure reference to Lois Capps)
Angelo (e4d31e) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:24 amCrack that whip
Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your momma’s back
When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sets out too long
You must whip it
When something’s goin’ wrong
You must whip it
Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Try to detect it
It’s not too late
To whip it
Whip it good
– DEVO
felipe (70ff7e) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:26 amIn that vein, felipe…
Colonel Haiku (61a8ce) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:49 amslap obammy down
slap obammy down again
Look, he’s working hard at improving his golf game, you racists.
Dirty Old Man (354f80) — 11/15/2013 @ 10:37 amWorking hard isn’t enough. You have to work smart.
Amphipolis (d3e04f) — 11/15/2013 @ 10:47 amI don’t want Obama to work hard. If he worked harder, he would be putting more effort into enacting laws and policies which presumably would be bad for the country. If Obama stopped trying to push the agenda we don’t like, wouldn’t we prefer that?
It’s like the movie “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Michael Moore didn’t think Bush had been validly elected in the first place. He didn’t approve of anything Bush did as president. Yet he was complaining that Bush was spending too much time on vacation. If that had been true, shouldn’t Moore have been happy that Bush was not working hard at doing things that Moore wouldn’t have liked anyway?
Joshua (9ede0e) — 11/15/2013 @ 10:53 amWhy do we hear from Democrat Presidents, now and 20-years ago, about how they’re either working as hard as they can, or working harder than they’ve ever worked before?
askeptic (b8ab92) — 11/15/2013 @ 12:16 pmWhat did they do before becoming President, just sit on their a$$ when they weren’t otherwise occupied playing golf?
Its a way of saying they are not better skilled than others – just working harder.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 12:46 pmComment by The businessman Dana (3e4784) — 11/15/2013 @ 4:53 am
But if the President was telling the truth… then there are only three possibilities:
1 – He was really not very interested in what his subordinates were telling him;
2 – He was interested, but his subordinates were hiding the fact that the roll out was FUBAR; or
3 – He was interested, and his subordinates were telling him that this was fouled up, but he was going to lie through his scummy teeth anyway until after the Republicans were beaten on the defunding.
As Obama argues, he’d have to be really stupid if choice 3 was true.
Obama seems to indicate choice 2 is closest to the truth.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/11/14/full-text-of-obamas-remarks-on-health-care-change/
But that doesn’t actually mean that anyone was lying.
It’s the well established
http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-themocline-of-truth/
Actually, it’s more like an incremental process, where each layer, each person, up the chain of command adds a little bit of fudge, but Bruce F. Webster justified calling it a thermocline, because, he said, while news is fudged just a little bit between different layers of management, there is a very narrow band or point where you go from this is going to work to this is not going to work.
A distinct layer “where the troubled/not troubled flip occurs.”
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 1:01 pmMeanwhile medical inflation continues.
I found out that someone’s Aetna Medicare CVS prescription drug plan is going up Jan 1 from a premium of $0.00 to $24.20 a month. Other plans still offer a zero premium.
Sammy Finkelman (d7b491) — 11/15/2013 @ 1:04 pmNow is a good time to go back and watch the youtube clip of the late, great Phil Hartman doing President Reagan, working as hard as he can.
http://screen.yahoo.com/president-reagan-mastermind-000000075.html
luagha (5cbe06) — 11/15/2013 @ 3:58 pmThanks, luagha.
nk (dbc370) — 11/15/2013 @ 5:20 pm61. “As Obama argues, he’d have to be really stupid if choice 3 was true.”
Argues? Please, even for a shameless liar like Crack Whore, his riposte was polished, without a trace of embarrassment.
They ran this project out of the WH not CMS. That’s why they hired Canadians on a no-bid contract, its a black box.
The contractor, days in said the software “was working as designed”.
Embarrassed? Sorry? His aim is to destroy Healthcare, to be the only resort. What does he care if dead Kennedy’s ‘effed it up. The fact that it’s an abomination is icing on the cake.
‘Eff you America, sideways.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 7:59 pm62. “Medical inflation continues”
No sh*t Sherlock. Gas, food, rent, no basic necessities are used to compute the CPI.
More than 90% of all loans are now student loans and car loans, sub-prime the lot.
Student loans amount to over $1 Trillion outstanding and that level has only increased for 20 years every quarter. Education is rising at twice the rate of Healthcare.
We are looking at huge cuts to Medicare and Medicaid after the 1st of the year. The house of cards is coming down as we speak.
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:08 pmHere’s accelerant on the fire:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/11/potus-was-right-about-one-thing.html
gary gulrud (dd7d4e) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:19 pmI don’t know where to put this but I want it to be remembered, because it proves how callously partisan the Obama Administration and the Democrats actually are about what this is doing to Americans. This is what Denis McDonough, the President’s Chief of Staff, told Democrats on Thursday, November 14, 2013, after Obama gave his speech saying he wanted people to be able to keep their insurance:
They know they can’t help people who are losing their insurance, but all they care about is Tea Party Republicans and being able to blame someone else for letting it happen.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:23 pmAnd they admit it.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:24 pmRon Brownstein has an article in National Journal with some interesting insights on OCare. He`says the Dem party’s strategists thought the program would show white voters that government programs can help them,too. It’s not going so well.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/political-connections/obamacare-s-problems-could-haunt-democrats-for-years-20131115
elissa (6d358f) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:45 pmHence Oprah’s statement that America is full of racists. I’s the only explanation people who make everything about race can imagine.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 11/15/2013 @ 8:50 pmApparently for years Oprah did a good job of masking her own racism and got very rich in the process. For a long time during the height of her daily show everybody thought Oprah was about as close to colorblind as a person could be. Because she is a hard worker and a businesswoman herself it saddens me that she cannot see people are disappointed in the president for reasons of competency and character rather than his race.
elissa (6d358f) — 11/15/2013 @ 9:04 pmIf a tea party Republican contends that someone lost his or her insurance because of the law, McDonough said “that is absolutely untrue.”
DRJ – I see nothing in Thursday’s bogus political fix to a policy problem which suddenly made the claim untrue.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 11/15/2013 @ 9:27 pmthanks, laugha
mg (31009b) — 11/15/2013 @ 10:39 pmHartman is missed.