The Demonization of Barack Obama

Sheldon Filger | Even before the historic election that placed Barack Obama in the White House, crowds at several of John McCain's rallies openly called for Barack Obama to be "killed." Since Obama's inauguration, the rhetoric has far from dissipated. If anything, the vitriolic contempt stemming from right wing extremists in America has grown more strident. There are the "birthers," who are convinced that Barack Obama is not a native-born American citizen, and therefore believe his presidency is inherently illegitimate. Far more ominously, there are those who are not content with just denouncing the "foreign occupier," as some extremists refer to Obama; at rallies and on talk radio, a noisy contingent has talked about Obama representing tyranny, and have engaged in language that approaches the level of incitement towards violence.

[The laughing liberal]

Excuses for Poor Performance will be Obama's Legacy Jan 21, 2013.

[The laughing liberal]

FACT CHECK: Part X - Obama's Blame Game


July 22, 2009

WASHINGTON - A look at some of Obama's claims in his prime-time news conference:

Not Blaming Republicans?

OBAMA: "You haven't seen me out there blaming the Republicans."

THE FACTS: Obama did so in his opening statement, saying, "I've heard that one Republican strategist told his party that even though they may want to compromise, it's better politics to 'go for the kill.'

Another Republican senator said that defeating health reform is about 'breaking' me."

Obama has repeatedly blamed Bush or republicans when told by his pollsters to do so even when he was part of Congress approving the Bills.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32092339/ns/polit...

Obama = Passes the Buck like a child passes blame

[The laughing liberal]

The Health bill says 'tax' when President Obama said 'not'

Obama LIED!

By CHRIS FRATES & MIKE ALLEN | 9/21/09 9:06 AM EDT
Updated: 9/21/09

In the most contentious exchange of President Barack Obama’s marathon of five Sunday shows, he said it is “not true” that a requirement for individuals to get health insurance under a key reform plan now being debated amounts to a tax increase.

But he could look it up — in the bill.

Page 29, sentence one of the bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) says:“The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax.” And the rest of the bill is clear that the Finance Committee does, in fact, consider it a tax:“The excise tax would be assessed through the tax code and applied as an additional amount of Federal tax owed.”

The bill requires every American, with few exceptions, to carry health insurance. To enforce this individual mandate, the Senate Finance Committee created the excise tax as a penalty for people who don’t have insurance – and it can run as much as $3,800 a year per family.

The House bill also refers to the penalties for not carrying insurance as a tax. It calls for a “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage” and amends the tax code to implement it.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/273...

Obama LIED!

- BUSTED - by george stephanopoulos!

[The laughing liberal]

After Obama admins 'Inappropriate' NEA Conference Call, White House Pushes New Guidelines

September 22, 2009

An August 10, 2009 National Endowment for the Arts conference call in which artists were asked to help support President Obama's agenda -- a call that at least one good government group called "inappropriate" -- has prompted the White House to issue new guidelines to prevent such a call from ever happening again.

"The point of the call was to encourage voluntary participation in a national service initiative by the arts community," White House spokesman Bill Burton told ABC News.

"To the extent there was any misunderstanding about what the NEA may do to support the national service initiative, we will correct it.

We regret any comments on the call that may have been misunderstood or troubled other participants. We are fully committed to the NEA's historic mission, and we will take all steps necessary to ensure that there is no further cause for questions or concerns about that commitment."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/...

SUCKS GETTING CAUGHT AGAIN, eh Obama?

[The laughing liberal]

The Rabbit Ragu Democrats

By FRANK RICH
Published: October 3, 2009

...You have to wonder what some of the Obama era’s most moneyed and White House-connected lobbyists were thinking as they preened before a Washington Post reporter recently for two lengthy articles...

One of the articles focused on Heather Podesta —“The It Girl of a New Generation of Lobbyists”— who lobbies for health care players like Eli Lilly, HealthSouth and Cigna. Podesta is half of what The Post has called a “mega-lobbying” couple.

When we first meet Heather Podesta in The Post, she is being bussed on the cheek by Charles Rangel at his August birthday party at New York’s Tavern on the Green. In keeping with the usual pattern of blowback, it took only one day after the article appeared for The Times to report that Rangel, the ethically challenged chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was guilty of yet another lapse: He’d neglected to list at least $500,000 in assets on his 2007 Congressional disclosure form...

The second Post article, on the front page two weeks ago, described the scene, as well as the rabbit ragu, at Ristorante Tosca, the lobbyists’ hangout on F Street in downtown Washington...

The stars of Tosca’s “Power Section,” we learned, include the Podestas, Tom Daschle (“not technically a registered lobbyist” but, as The Post put it,“a ‘special policy adviser’— wink wink”) and Steve Elmendorf (who “eats lunch out only at Tosca”).

Elmendorf was chief of staff to the former Democratic House leader Dick Gephardt. A quick visit to opensecrets.org reveals that Elmendorf Strategies’ client list includes Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, among other players in the coming battle over financial regulation reform.

Then again, as The Nation details in its current issue, Gephardt has also lobbied for Goldman, among many other corporate clients in opposition to the populist policies he once championed.

Barack Obama promised a change from this revolving-door, behind-closed-doors collaboration between special interests and government.

He vowed to “do our business in the light of day”— with health care negotiations broadcast on C-Span — and to “restore the vital trust between people and their government.”

He said,“I intend to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” That those lobbyists would so extravagantly flaunt their undiminished role shows just how little they believe that a new sheriff has arrived in Dodge.

In his scathing Wall Street Journal column on The Post articles last week, Thomas Frank crystallized the gap between Obama’s pledge and this reality.

“There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists.” That’s no joke: It was donated by Tony and Heather Podesta...

At the first anniversary of the TARP bailout of the banks, we can see how far he has to go.

Americans’ continued suspicion that Washington is in cahoots with powerful interests in joints like Tosca is contributing to their confusion and skepticism about what’s happening out of view in the battle over health care reform.

The public is not wrong.

The administration’s legislative deals with the pharmaceutical companies were made in back rooms...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/opinion/04r...

[The laughing liberal]

Obama under fire over falling dollar

By Edward Luce and Krishna Guha in Washington
Published: October 7 2009 19:37 | Last updated: October 8 2009 00:30

The falling US dollar is giving ammunition to the critics of the Obama administration and fueling broader concerns about the potential erosion of America’s reserve currency status.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08ca4832-b36a-11de-...

Didn't Obama claim he was for a strong dollar during the campaign?

[mike_lee]

I tend to overlook what I don't like about him just to counter the hate, the 'Teflon' effect. It's all good. He will triumph because he's a genuine leader and his ideas are long range. Unlike presidents of the recent past who just pass problems on to the next administration, he's fixing them.

[Really]

oh my, he is just so innocent... riiiiiight?

He has lied and lied and then lied some more.

[Shady Lady]

For 8 years Democrats, and Liberals vilified President Bush from the moment he was "selected" until this very day. He was likened to Hitler, and threatened with Impeachment, and he was man enough to consider the source, and lead the country. Now, because this President is totally inept, and a bit of a man-child, we are not supposed to say anything negative about this pitiful little man. Tough. We will call him a liar when he is a liar. We will call him a Marxist when he is a Marxist, and we will exercise Freedom of Speech. He is not perfect, and he is not the Messiah. He better start being President, and stop being the Neighborhood rabble rouser. No on wants to harm a hair on his head. He is surrounded by security. There is nothing for him to be frightened of, he just wants to change the conversation from his incompetence

[The Scooter]

racism and fear, a deadly, violent mix.

[The laughing liberal]

mike_lee wrote:

I tend to overlook what I don't like about him just to counter the hate, the 'Teflon' effect. It's all good. He will triumph because he's a genuine leader and his ideas are long range. Unlike presidents of the recent past who just pass problems on to the next administration, he's fixing them.

Obama 1st 60 days: "I will cut the debt in Half by end of my 1st term"

Obama a few months after releases updated estimates showing he will INCREASE the Debt by $9 Trillion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...

Obama is not a leader at all but simply a sock puppet that can read a telepromter. He screwed us all with more debt & he's not done yet.

[Richard]

It's the sequel to "The Demonization of Bush". Get used to it, it won't get any better from here.

[Jessica A]

The Scooter wrote:

racism and fear, a deadly, violent mix.

A lying idiot for a president is worse!

[x-nutmegger]

The Scooter wrote:

racism and fear, a deadly, violent mix.

The RACE card is over played waaaaaaay toooo much !

I didn't like Bush making a deal with the drug companies on no reimports and I was called an anti-business populist.

When I also don't like Obama making the same basic deal I'm called a RACIST.....forqdalotovu.

I was really pissed off for the extravagant massive give away in the 2006 budget that Bush didn't veto. My party loyalty was questioned. But when Obama pushes an extremely extravagant budget which he also won't veto and I disapprove I'm called a RACIST. FORQU all !

[Shady Lady]

Sorry. Calling one a racist, because they won't bow down to the Muslim President is not really a valid opinion. In fact the Racist label is like crying wolf, no one pays any attention to it any more.

[Azjaeger]

No matter how much propaganda is pumped out by the left, I'll never buy that all dislike of BO is based on his skin color or fear of him personally. You might just as well claim that the left hated Bush because he was a white guy from Texas who affected a certain redneck air. Oh wait, that IS why they hated him...:)

[Azjaeger]

And isn't it getting pretty obvious that all this heavy, meaningful talk of possible "violence" towards BO by the left is simply an attempt to set the stage and sound out public support for some sort of heavy-handed crackdown on BO's political opposition? It's pretty clear that the leftists, who enjoy the support of traditional media sources and Hollywood celebrities, are annoyed at the rise of New Media and its ability to rally the half or better of America that doesn't agree with the leftist agenda, and would truly love to shut it up. BO is in no more physical danger than any other president was. People took shots at Ford, hit Reagan...and there was more unhinged personal anger towards Bush from the left than anything I've seen aimed at BO so far.

[GunnyRed]

Why is it that former ambassador/twice-former presidential candidate/editorialist & former talkshow host Alan Keyes' courtcase in pursuit of discovery of the Obama's pertinent documents is not in the news? If it was some miniscule nonsense about Dan Quayle or W's Nat'l Guard service or Palin's daughter it would be frontpage. But here we are with a possibly fraudulent president & even the National Enquirer is muzzled.

[Azjaeger]

Shady Lady wrote:

Sorry. Calling one a racist, because they won't bow down to the Muslim President is not really a valid opinion. In fact the Racist label is like crying wolf, no one pays any attention to it any more.

Personally, I'm going to start calling everyone who makes a statement disagreeing with Sarah Palin a "sexist". Hey, if disagreeing with BO makes you a racist, why not? Lol.

[Curtis Lowe]

This article is not about racism. It is another subtle attempt by a left-wing loon to incite African Americans to violence against their countrymen. The left loves class-warfare. The only trouble is that most blacks are no longer associating themselves with Obama policies because most are Christian and hate socialism.