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Subscribe to RSSNBC's Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd and David Gregory discuss President Barack Obama's push for a vote on gun control at the end of his State of the Union address.
President Barack Obama's emotional call for a congressional vote on gun control during Tuesday night's State of the Union address struck many in the House chamber as a powerful moment, including NBC News' top correspondents, who also picked up on significant points in the president's remarks on the economy and North Korea.
Brian Williams
Anchor and managing editor of 'NBC Nightly News' and 'Rock Center with Brian Williams'
This is ... part of the backdrop of gun violence and public violence that kind of formed the backdrop for the president to come into that chamber tonight. Someone mentioned on social media tonight that immediately after the speech, we weren't talking about the economy. We were talking about that last emotional note.
Chuck Todd
NBC News political director and chief White House correspondent
To me, it was a tale of a couple of speeches. You had a very run-of-the-mill State of the Union where he was putting together agenda item after agenda item that sounded like the campaign, that was very well focus-grouped, very well poll-tested — minimum wage, pre-K, things that people care about at home, education and jobs. And then, I have to say, the entire tone of the speech changed there at the end. It was just incredibly emotional. You don't find many State of the Unions that have moments like that. He's had to do a State of the Union right after the Gabby Giffords shooting that had some emotional moments, but that was something else, and, boy, did he put his entire weight behind guns in a way that I don't think a lot of people expected.
Savannah Guthrie
Co-anchor of TODAY and NBC News chief legal correspondent
To be crass about it, he played the best card he had in a very difficult political fight — the emotion card. Here he is in a hall full of people who have been directly affected by gun violence, and yet he faces an uphill battle. He's hoping that the tragedy of Newtown — that still-searing scar that this country has — will change the political calculus. But it's not just Republicans he has to deal with to get a coalition to enact some kind of gun legislation. He's got to get conservative Democrats, conservative members of his own party from red states, many of whom are facing re-election or are advocates of gun rights and gun ownership. ...
It's the calendar that's the enemy right now. The farther away you get from Newtown, the more difficult this task becomes.
David Gregory
Moderator, 'Meet the Press'
How does government work to make the economy better? That's the big challenge of his second term. Boy, there was a shot across the bow of Republicans tonight when, in effect, he said obsessing about the deficit (and) deficit reduction is not a plan for economic growth. ...
He said, the president did, it's not a bigger government we need but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth. And who did he mention quite a lot tonight? Apple. Siemens. CEOs. The business community.
Kelly O'Donnell
NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent
During the emotional part, where the president was referring to potential gun reforms, Gabby Giffords and her family, about 5 to 7 feet behind me, were standing — she was applauding with difficulty with her right hand. ... There was one moment where I just happened to catch it where a woman was shouting the name of a young woman and saying she deserves a vote.
Andrea Mitchell
NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent
There was a clear warning to North Korea, but it was an empty warning. Unless China jumps in with heavy sanctions, which is unlikely, there is no further punishment of North Korea that the Western allies can enact.
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Obama seeks 'smarter government'
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Did the White House write the reactions for NBC "reporters" yet??
hopeis
I don't think so. But I'm sure the gop has for bull@!$%# mountain (fox news). They had their talking points a day before the speech.
hopeis ~ Did the White House write the reactions for NBC "reporters" yet??
LOL! It certainly looks like it!
If you don't like NBC, there are other channels, like Faux News.
I agree with some of the correspondent comments: The statement to North Korea was empty, the President used victims of violence as propaganda (emotional) tools to further his agenda, he played to his voters (no comments on reducing federal spending, controlling federal waste, etc.) by talking about spending more and more for more and more, and the rest was limp spaghetti.
Joe...
I like the limp spaghetti reference! I needed a good laugh this early in the morning.
What do they say about the Rube responce?... Ah no comment..
So, doing the right thing is less important than getting re-elected?
first i, you're right. that is a foreign concept to those guys. against their natures.
Brian Williams is the White House poster boy for Obama worshipping and no doubt the inspiration for Bernie Goldberg's book A Slobbering Love Affair. It's so sickening to watch this circus go on every time Obama opens his mouth. Never in our history has a President been glorified like this, Not FDR, not Reagan, possibly the two greatest leaders in the 20th century. Obama will not come close to being one tenth the leader they were but the press is trying hard to portray him as a Messiah sent to rescue us. God help us all!!!
You sure are lost.
Liberals can only speak of emotions.... it takes character to stand on principle
Doesn't it scare most folks when Obama says "it won't increase it a single dime?" How many times, in his speeches, have we heard this remark only to see major increases.
He can make the most eloquent, inspiring, emotional and promising speeches all day but if he's unable to make things happen, they are worthless, that being the case these past 4 years.
There will be no significant improvements on anything until Obama decides to work with the House and Senate. He now is only concerned with using his power and doing the things his way and it's quite evident they aren't working.
.....blah, blah, blah....the same stale nonsense completely sucked up by the braindead Obamabots who are enthralled with an empty suit and no ideas but they maintain their hatred of anyone who may have a dollar more than they.....this is the saddest time for America....thanks Divider in Chief....
Sad that Obama didn't mention the roots of gun violence: gangs and mental health.
Instead Obama goes directly to changing the gun laws and the media, Brian Williams & the staff at MSNBC, continue to wear blinders and ignores the big elephant in the room.
The teenager Obama mentioned was killed by gang members. The children in Newtown were killed by a mentally ill person.
Obama has done nothing but lied, you can go through all his promises for the past 4 years and actually see what he said and compare it to what hes done? This lovefest these 'reporters' are having with him is both sad and patheic, they are just making themselves look really stupid to people who can think for themselves and know better. Disgusting..........
Hey Grandpa@ #1.10, do you walk around in public with a hanky to wipe the corners of your mouth, or perhaps keep a pad of gauze in your cheek? Someday you'll see, if you're young enough. (Under 50)
Go watch some of Hitlers state of the union speeches and see how emotional he was, especially about the Jews.
Once again the Obama bashers are out in force. And, as usual, have nothing constructive to say. It's always whine, whine whine... everything the President tries to do is wrong... the sky is falling, the sky is falling. I keep waiting for the GOP and Obama bashers to offer one solid honest idea for fixing the ills of this country. Instead of constantly whining and criticizing why don't some of you people DO something? Go volunteer to serve in your community, run for office, anything besides complain endlessly about the people who are out there trying to get something done. As far as the demand for a vote on gun regulation, not once EVER has the President implied let alone asked for, everyone to turn in their guns. This is NRA propaganda of the worst kind. How long will Americans allow their national policy to be controlled by an organization that promotes the interests of gun manufacturers and apparently has no social conscience at all?
@Mountainlady - the same can be said for most of the anti-gun movement. Sen Feinstein has repeatedly stated that her goal is to dry up the access to semi-automatic weapons. That translates into ban, confiscate, or eliminate existence. As long as one semi-automatic weapon is in existence, she will not be satisfied.
You will note that just recently a man drove his car through a storefront in Guam, a US territory, and slashed 11 people with a knife and killed two others with the knife. Where is Obama's outcry about knife violence? It doesn't exist because it happened far, far away, and didn't kill children. Perhaps if it had happened in D.C. it would have been a rallying cry for the anti-knife movement. The U.K. sought to ban knives at one time after realizing that the gun ban didn't stop violence. They, however, had the intelligence to realize that more laws weren't going to stop the violence.
IPOTUS must have handed out the Meth-coated Popsicles to the MSDNC crew.
Because they are slobbering on him like a junkie who hasn't had a fix for a few days.
Did anyone expect anything different from what the speech actually was?
- Tons of talk about "investing" in this and that. All that really means is more spending. Obama loves to point the finger at Bush for running up the debt, which he did. Of course, he doesn't point the finger at himself for not only matching Bush's spending, but he is somehow expanding it even though we've ended 1 of the wars and are winding down the other. Oh, and still no budget. Amazing.
- Surprise, surprise-- more talk about increased revenues and the wealthy needing to do their "share". Of course, the fact that they just raised taxes on the wealthy meant nothing apparently... I guess he'd like even more. Unfortunately for him, he's now a lame duck and can pass nothing except relatively benign executive orders.
- Taking credit for immigration reform when it was the bilateral effort of senators that came up with their own plan. Bringing up the issue is not the same as coming up with the working legislation. Sorry, Mr. President.
- Continuing the pathetic use of victims and emotions to advance his anti-gun agenda was troubling, but expected. Do they deserve a vote? Absolutely. The vote will be no.
Yeah, and he never showed his birth certificate, he never took responsibility for the Hatfield/McCoy Feud, skirted the Valentines Day Massacre and danced all around the Loch Ness Monster!
Character to a man is like Carbon is to steel... I guess the GOP is nothing but puppets and echos then..
The State of the Union Numbers......
In the 59 minutes President Obama spoke:
The national debt went up $123.5 million
The US Government spent $404 million
....of the 6419 words in his speech, he only mentioned debt 2 times, budget 4 times, spending 3 times, sequester 1 time, obamacare 1 time and unemployment......ZERO times!!
hopeis
So what you are saying is, you didn't watch his speech?
Jobs, middle class, and wages 217 times!
Stop counting and actually listen to the speech.
sea2see.....
Jobs - less Americans are working today than when he took office.
Middle class - shrinking
Wages - why does the young kid in school working part time need 9 dollars an hour? Now my dollar menu options are going to be 2 dollar items or more.
Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Three meathead Liberals who'll buy into anything that that pig sells.
He gave a good time speech, and carefully avoided speaking to the problems that still plague this country, and you three idiots are making excuses for him.
The National Debt, the budget, spending, the looming sequester, the financial impact of Obamacare on businesses and on individual pocket books and finally, the lingering effects of unemployment. These are all major national issues that concern the Middle Class working man and woman, and the Bullshiiter-in-Chief paid little attention to them; it's was as if they didn't exist. He spent most of his time asking the GOP to help him destroy the country.
He is, without question, the worst president in American History.
Well said Arkius.
Obama is a splendid orator. I had no doubt that this SOTU would be poignant and focused. Unfortunately it focuses on not necessarily the wrong things, but certainly the lower-priority items.
Rapidly increasing federal debt obligations are our #1 problem. They are exacerbated by the fact that we have more takers than givers - unemployed persons draw benefits while employed persons contribute FICA (and unemployment tax in some states). Unchecked these obligations will increase to the point where the interest alone will cripple our ability to repay them. We are the unemployed college graduate that is making the minimum payment on each of our 5 maxed-out credit cards. Well, technically they aren't maxed-out as we keep increasing the credit limit on them - our President doesn't think it makes sense he even has to ask Congress permission for this increase!
The unemployment and welfare systems are broken. There is currently no incentive or consequence for those enrolled to seek and gain employment. I know (hope) the majority of these folks want to get back to work - the White House and Congress need to focus on how instead of propogating party and class warfare. Our country was a producer once - reforming banks to focus on relationships and helping business owners vs. EPS & share price myopia would be a good start.
Gun violence is a problem, but ignoring our country's financial problems will cause ruination for all. The revolution we need to fear is not that of the peasants taking up torches and pitchforks, but the one where the prime movers realize there is no more incentive to keep the wheels turning.
james
You don't listen either. He said/talking about someone working a full time job.
Nobody:
How stupid are you? Do you mean to say that there are no full time workers at Mickey D's? Are you so dim witted that you can't understand that a $9.00 an hour, across the board increase in hourly wages will make everything the Middle class buys much more expensive?
This idiot president has no idea how an economy works, either that or he thinks that we have no idea how the economy works. He just increased the taxes on what he thinks are wealthy people. How long do you think it will take for that tax increase to come back as a price increase for Middle Class earners?
If this bonehead Kenyan really wants to help the Middle Class, he should move to Nairobi.
Steve:
Obama has not fixed anything; in fact, things are worse now, then when he took office. Personally, I don't know anyone who can say that they are better off today, then when this bum first took office, four years ago.
We can thank a few million, selfish, narrow minded single issue voters for putting this pig back in office. Clint Eastwood's empty chair was a better option.
Nobody: have you had a part-time job recently? The minimum wage is for all employees, not just the full-timers. There very few jobs that are exempt from the minimum wage laws.
AvgJoe
Your right....almost.
It is for employees with NO SKILLS! If you want better wages, then acquire MORE SKILLS!
Arkius,
Why don't you go back to that stone you crawled out from under. Majority of us Americans voted for Obama to be our president- twice. You don't like it? Tough SH*T!
Steepoylad:
Why don't you go back to that visual inspection of your large intestine you were doing before you decided to show the readers what a first class moron you are.
The majority of you dim wits were twice fooled into supporting a pig who has done nothing for this country, but damage it. No Middle Class earner is better off then he or she was four years ago, and if you're too stubborn to admit that you made a mistake by supporting this bum, then that's your problem.
Making the same mistake more then once is the hallmark of ignorance. Clearly, you are proud of this accomplishment.
Gabby Giffords doesn't deserve a vote on anything and neither do the families of Newtown. Why? I have seen absolutely nothing in any of the pending legislation that would save us from experiencing Newtown, Giffords, Aurora, VA Tech or Columbine "ever again," the two most over used words in the english language. There is nothing simple about gun control. Government has a long history of slippery slopes - from renditions to torture; and now Obama embracing kill squads and assassination lists, including Americans in clear violation of U.S. Constitution.
Nothing is clear and then everything is clear. Hmm. Get off the pot.
Emotions supposedly deserve a vote. 400,000 people die from tobacco related deaths every year in the US alone. That pretty much over-shadows gun violence, but there's not as much money to be made on that scale (health/taxes). Apparently, the <2% of gun related deaths made by assault rifles are pretty important and make a lot of sense when they really won't be off the streets.....ever.
Let's make sure we get our priorities straight. Go after the small numbers first...right?
Pantload....
But for the Obama supporters who believe he can't do wrong, believe it! If Obama really cared about saving just ONE life from violent deaths then ask congress to raise the age on purchasing alcohol to 40. Even Mothers Against Drunk Driving would back up the fact that would save MANY lives. I believe the children/Moms/Dads that die in alcohol related car accidents is very VIOLENT.
Obama is on this kick about guns for the feel good of it. Wants his followers to believe he really cares.
Obama is a pig.
Emotions are the only stand a liberal can make... substance, fact, character & principle elude them....
Arkius, shame on you. You just offended a lot of pigs.
4.4 / 4.5 / 4.6
You guys act like the three stooges. If Obama were to tell you with 100% accuracy what the weather is like outside, wingnuts would find some fault with it. But can you please make up your minds. First pick one desrciption and stick with it. One minutet he is secretly taking over the country and is looking to destroy America. Then the claim is made that he is the Marxist, socialist, and/or fascist, just to cover all the bases. Then to make life more fun, you spend time and energy calling liberals godless heathens and hedonists, but yet always refer to Obama as our messiah. Your hypocrisy and contradictions would be hilarious, if taken as comedy or satire, but sadly you keep those tinfoil hats firmly attached with a chin strap.
Look, I get it, you don't like Obama. Nothing anyone will ever say will change your position. You lost the last two elections. Get over it. All of the hard work republicans did to make Obama a one term president failed. Time to move on and it might be time to rethink your whole party and to why you keep failing, it might have to do with your party's philosophy. And because I'm feeling so generous today, I'll let you in on another revelation. Tomorrow the sun will rise and the sun will set and Obama wasn't a part of the process.
Azrael, when was the last time you were sheared?
What are you two like 12 years old? I could go to a middle school and get hear the same type of responses. Today you call it socialism, in the past you called it marxism. Is socialism the term you are going to stick with or will that change depending on what talking points you are handed by the RNC. You sometimes might even pull a valid comment from deep inside your ass, but then you lose the argument almost immediately when you use "Blowbama" in any way to describe the president.
Whether the sun comes up or is obscured by a storm, tomorow will bring a new day. And just like the previous days, I will go to work, but wait, from your comments the only people that work are republicans or those from the red states. It must be a miracle, I am the only liberal in the world that goes to work. Do you write for a soap opera, because from your over dramatic use of hysteria you would be a natural. Or you could be a writer for Buckwild, since that is a faux reality show, and you adhere to a failed and outdated overall political philosophy. How many times will you continue to cry wolf and then nothing happens.
Just one more thing, how do you know that I masturbate with only one hand? Sometimes I like to change it up and use two hands or switch off between both. It worries me more than a little that you would even mention it, so you might want to check youself into some gay reversal therapy or go to church and pray for forgiveness. BTW, here's one that ought to make your head just explode. Jesus was a socialist.
Azrael
Do you think this is about the best LIKED or about REAL world . I don't think what the Pres is doing is correct . He is the leader of the free world NOT the leader of his way.. Most of the adults that have worked for a long time don't like him taken away what we WORKED for
"but yet always refer to Obama as our messiah. Your hypocrisy and contradictions would be hilarious, if taken as comedy or satire, but sadly you keep those tinfoil hats firmly attached with a chin strap."
No asrael, you're confusing the messiah part. That can be directly attributed to Jamie "I'm a complete douschbag" Foxx, who did indeed call Mr. Obama "our Lord and Saviour". Maybe you should take your rose colored blinders off for a while, and try to see the world with your own eyes for a change, instead of msnbc telling you what the weather is outside your door.
I'm sure there are many people working who have a liberal bent to their political philosophy, who actually enjoy the government taking what they earned, to give it to the less fortunate. It might surprise you, but I'm fine with helping people who need it. I'm not fine with generation after generation of inner city denizens who make welfare their primary source of income. Hmm, I wonder who THEY voted for. I'm also not fine with the fact that Mr. Obama granted 800K undocumented illegal immigrants anmesty, immediately prior to the last election. Hmm, I wonder who their (or even they) relatives voted for, as that it's not legal to vote unless you are a citizen of the United States. And for your statement "Jesus was a socialist", that's sacreligious. Jesus was/is/will always be Jesus, no matter what political affiliation you deem fit to label him as being a part of. So you and your ilk keep on bowing to the Almighty BHO, but I see him as what he truly is, a snake-oil salesman, and a piss poor one at that.
Azreal:
What are you going on about? Did your mother drop you on your head as a baby?
Is it possible to be more out of touch than in reality and still function
You're apparently still breathing, so the answer is yes.
Ask Al "I invented the Internet" Gore. I thought he was a wax figure two decades ago...
Amused:
I don't think you've been in touch with reality for four years. You've been too busy being Obama's dog.
How does it feel to be duped, loser?
Loved the cut away when Obama was talking about equal pay for women and there was a shot of some sour faced Republican women not applauding, after all they get equal pay. Why do people think there is a Republican war on women? That would be one reason...equal pay, how can we applaud that?
Actually, I'm surprised those women weren't laughing out loud like I was in light of the fact that women in the Obama campaign made less money than the men did.
Why is the question about gun control? People with serious mental illness are not getting the treatment they need. That is the issue, not guns, video games, or too much sugar.
FactCheck.org took a look at Barack's claims:
FactCheck: Rosy spin and puffery in Obama's State of the Union
The president spins his accomplishments on jobs, health care and deficit reduction in annual address.
President Obama put a rosy spin on several accomplishments of his administration in his 2013 State of the Union address.
~The president claimed that “both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion.” But that’s only an estimate of deficit reduction through fiscal year 2022, and it would be lower if the White House used a different starting point.
~Obama touted the growth of 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the past three years, but there has been a net loss of 600,000 manufacturing jobs since he took office. The recent growth also has stalled since July 2012.
~He claimed that “we have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.” Actual mileage is improving, but Obama’s “doubled” claim refers to a desired miles-per-gallon average for model year 2025.
~Obama said the Affordable Care Act “is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.” It may be helping, but the slower growth for health care spending began in 2009, before the law was enacted, and is due at least partly to the down economy.
~The president claimed that “both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion.” But that’s only an estimate of deficit reduction through fiscal year 2022, and it would be lower if the White House used a different starting point.
~Obama touted the growth of 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the past three years, but there has been a net loss of 600,000 manufacturing jobs since he took office. The recent growth also has stalled since July 2012.
~He claimed that “we have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas.” Actual mileage is improving, but Obama’s “doubled” claim refers to a desired miles-per-gallon average for model year 2025.
~Obama said the Affordable Care Act “is helping to slow the growth of health care costs.” It may be helping, but the slower growth for health care spending began in 2009, before the law was enacted, and is due at least partly to the down economy.
You need a fact check. No references, no facts.
Fact check: tromboner.......Obama asskisser and Liberal sheeple. No backbone, no credibility.
tromboner, you can check out Osama's own white house budget projection figures regarding the supposed deficit reduction being by 2025 and it has nothing to do with his current policies. This projection includes the economy doubling in size and increase in tax revenue...neither of which is cast in stone...
The job figures are published by the BLR, readily available. Increased unemployment and more people falling off the roles...indicative of Osama. Never tell the truth...
Check out Barry's reduction for the Executive Office of the President budget..... a whopping 3.5% for 2012.....
My oh my, how will Michelle cope with missing ONE hair-styling a month.... the horror, the horror....
Probably the worst speech yet by the President.
Excellent speech.
Pucker-up, comrade.
I am beginnining to think tromboner has a white stain on the front of his blue jacket....
ROTFLMAO @ us & them
"Deficits aren't the only thing" You are right Mr. President -- That national debt is also important! As soon as interest rates go back to a normal level, we will see the interest payments on our debt climb to 15% to 20% of our spending!
I anxiously look forward to your proposed budget, and how you explain the deficit increasing -- again!
The video tape of this speech can be shown next year!
Classic.....! Scary thing is next years could be very similiar.
I wonder how many orgasms those 6 clowns had during the speech. I'm sure Chris Matthews had multiples.
More than just a funny feeling going up his leg for sure!
NBC has become America's answer to Pravda.
Those 6 clowns ARE walking orgasms.
More lies from the King. Kiss my Ass Dbag
Did Chris Matthews feel that warm wet feeling running down his leg again?
Of course he pi$$ed all over himself. What a pathetic waste of a 'career?' Journalist? What a joke
The liberal media journalists are such a pathetic waste. Fawning all over their Golden-Boy. More like a fan club of pubescent pre-teen girls than real journalists. George Orwell's book 1984 looks more and more like a comic book compared to the liberal Gub-mint media and the current State of the Union. And the Lib-tards suck it up like toilet paper. That is why he is known as THE LORD OF THE FLIES
The only noises I hear from the NBC toadies is the sound of furious ass-kissing.
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More change.
Sequestration went from being an incentive to a bad idea.
Illegal immigrants became undocumented residents.
Tax reform, after raising taxes through Obamacare and the fiscal cliff deal, becomes higher taxes in sheep's clothing.
Fiscal responsiblity became a threat to our economy.
Cap & trade will have a "market" element to it.
The bottom line is we will all LOOSE...... and it's Bush's fault
M.J. - CT,
Semi - auto rifles have become "weapons of war".
You pay into SS insurance all your working life and it becomes an" entitlement".
Gun control becomes "gun violence control".
DID any of the NBC correspondents wet their pants????
Something warm running down their legs....a la Chris Matthews....
Of course he pi$$ed all over himself. What a pathetic waste of a 'career?' Journalist? What a joke
If your better off now then you were before your probably happy with the President. If not then you will never be. I don't know about any body else but he certainly has not helped my family or anyone I know one iota. Change has not been for the better. Just look at everyone on here fighting amongst each other. Both sides are further apart then they ever have been. He has chided everyone that did not vote for him. He is for himself and his party and NO ONE else, period!
And the Republicans have cooperated, not obstructed virtually everything he has tried to do? Are you that fricking thick that you want to blame him for all that is going on. No wonder thinking people just ignore the mouth breathing trolls that constitute the Republican party. The posts on this blog right now are an excellent demonstration of the inability of Republicans to actually think and not just go with their gut feelings. That isn't logic people, that's gas.
Amused:
Are you so stupid that you can't understand that the GOP isn't obstructing anything? The obstructionist label is a propaganda tool used by Obama's PR team to influence weak minded sheep, like you.
The GOP has an obligation to represent the American voters who oppose Obama's policies. They have backbone and courage in the face of the lies and other propaganda that the Democratic machine publishes for you to slurp down at the trough of ignorance.
If it wasn't for the Republicans in congress opposing Obama's more over-the-top policies, the United States would have gone bankrupt.
Wise up pork chop. You don't have a clue about politics, but you're a hell of a sheep herder.
Did anyone not expect NBC to gush over obama. Even obama has remarked how Brain Williams is "in bed with him" Like we were expecting unbiased reporting and analysis from NBC..........ROTFLMAO
Brian Williams? Just another pubescent teenager fawning all over their Golden Boy. What a pathetic waste of a 'Career?'. Obviously he would prefer being an ATTABOY clown than being a serious journalist, presenting unbiased expose's of what is actually happening behind the 'spin' of politics, for the American people to evaluate with journalism of integrity...No, he obviously prefers to be an ATTABOY clown.
My paycheck took a hit starting in January, and I do NOT make 250k. My Health Insurance went up to over $1,000 per month after NoBamaCare was shoved down our throats, or up or a$$. NoBama is an excellent LIAR, with nothing but communist ideals based on his formative days, hanging with Bill Ayers and the other Saul Alensky protege's. And the Libearl Gub-mint Media fawn all over him, and the Lib-tards suck it up like toilet paper.
When emotion equates to jobs and an improved economy, let me know.
The emotion generated by pi$$ing down your leg while pi$$ing on the American people, expecting them to believe the Gub-mint Media hype propaganda. No...actually KNOWING that at least 51% of the American people will suck it up without question.
The opposite emotion is experienced by anyone that recognizes this pathetic State of the Union, and realizes they are being subjected to the Lib-tard's assinine stupidity and naivete.
Curious? If you don't like the reporting on NBC and you don't like the stories here then why bother to come here everyday and comment? Seems to me your time could be better spent elsewhere doing positive things and allowing yourself to become a better person in the process.
Soooooooooooo only leftists are allowed at MSNBC?
I just pop in here every now & then, and I am always amazed by the blatant propaganda hype of the Liberal Gub-mint Media, and even more by the blind sheep gullability of at least 51% of the American people. The current State of the Union does make George Orwell's book 1984 look like a comic strip.
We seek to dispel the lies in hope that maybe, just maybe, there are still some rational thinkers on the left. We know that Democrats will not suddenly become Republicans, but at the very least we might be able to pull the Democratic party back from the extreme liberal views demanded by it's leadership.
In the past, Republican or Democrat, American politics remained pretty close to the center. But as the left has become more radical in it's beliefs, it has pulled the Democratic party along with it. The time has come for the American people to speak out against this increasingly radical spin on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Democrat or Republican, what is best for America, regardless of the author should be the mantra.
Clean up your own house first. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll have some credibility. Right now, no one is listening to any Republicans. You've become the party of Stupid.
Steve, the Democratic party in the U.S. would be called a center-right party anywhere else in the world, and it has been moving to the right at least since Clinton was president.
Perhaps you just like to say things and don't care about your credibility, but to suggest that the Democratic party has been moving to the left in recent decades reveals a stunning willingness to ignore facts.
Some of us come in here and try to convince the naive left through intelligent and open-minded discourse that they are being mislead. Unfortunately that's like trying to teach a pig to sing.
Which only frustrates the teacher, and makes the pig mad...
Those two phrases should never be used in the same sentence by a conservative.
Will dear leader ever deliver a speech grounded in fact and reality? This fantastic idea of tax and spend is why we are where we are today. I turned the sound off during the speech and could still tell he was lying.
Correction...... SPEND, SPEND, SPEND...... tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax..........
Two wars, unfunded tax cuts, bribes to big pharma, no rules for wall street. That's what got us in this mess and your party was driving the boat when it happened. No wonder you're the party of Stupid. You lie to yourselves.
Amused:
None of your musings are true. You gobble down the Obama propaganda, and then vomit up the party line. Your apparatchik must be proud of you.
Try citing some sources, comrade.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, 'merely a fool'. It is far less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.
Very well stated, and acutely accurate. 'Prince of the Fools', I can relate to that as well as another appropriate tilte of his, The Lord of the Flies.
Best piece of writing on this entire site! Well done my friend.
Couldn't agree more, and I would add that the news media has abdicated it's vital role in informing the citizenry of facts. Were it not for alternative media sources, there would be no way to fight Mr. Obama's lies at all.
Gringo
GREAT POST
Unlike the first "lady" that was never proud to be an American until he was elected
I never felt as dissapointed in the American people.
Couldn't have said it better myself! Thanks.
Step up step up. Look at the silly mouth breathers slapping each other on the back all proud of their lies. The people who gave us 8 years of the most ignorant person to ever occupy the white house, GWB, want us to buy their fears about Obama. Please. Crawl back under your rock. Your angry old white guy world is going bye bye and deservedly so.
Amused
I will admit
You are amusing, and a racist bigot.
Hightidetim,
It is a great post and you can quote Gringo if you want, but why not quote the original author?
It apparently was translated from an article published in the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung last April. And it read as follows:
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
From an article written by Laurie B. Regan ? The American Thinker. (January 13, 2013)
April 6, 2011 and Titled:
Will Ignorance Lead to an Obama Second Term?
Apparently so.
Correction for my prior comment.
This was for Mack (below) not Hightidetim (above) and the date April 6, 2011 was the date of the quote. not the date the article by LBR was written.
Not quite, but you exhibit all of the qualities of a mouth breathing moron incapable of thought or reason.