Obama '08?

The problem isent the president. The problem is a congress whose only interest is in getting reelected to office starting on thier first elected day in office. None of them do what is best for the entire country but only for their narrow interest group.

UPDATE 1-Obama to Republicans: 'You think we're stupid?'

* Candid remarks were supposed to be private

* Obama says he challenged Republicans on healthcare

* Says Republicans will use same strategy on debt ceiling (Recasts lead, adds details)

By Steve Holland

CHICAGO, April 15 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he challenged Republicans to try to repeal his landmark healthcare reform in private budget talks last week, taunting his opponents with a question: "You think we're stupid?"

In one of three political fund-raisers for his re-election campaign on Thursday night, Obama spoke candidly to supporters about the closed-door White House conversations that led to a deal that barely avoided a shutdown of the U.S. government.

He said he warned Republicans he would veto any legislation passed by Congress that sought to defund his 2010 healthcare overhaul. Republicans, who took control of the U.S. House of Representatives later that year, had vowed to kill the law.

A two-thirds majority of Congress is required to override a presidential veto.

"If you think you can overturn my veto, try it,'" Obama said in describing an exchange with Republicans. He said he was told by a staffer for House Speaker John Boehner that Republicans wanted a concession on the healthcare issue in the budget talks.

Obama said he firmly rejected the attempts to repeal parts of the healthcare law, his signature domestic accomplishment, in the budget bill.

"And I said to them, let me tell you something: 'I spent a year and a half getting healthcare passed. I had to take that issue across the country and I paid significant political costs to get it done," he said.

"The notion that I'm going to let you guys undo that in a six-month spending bill?' I said, 'You want to repeal healthcare? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'"

His remarks in Chicago came after the White House press pool had been escorted from the room. Unbeknownst to Obama, the comments were accidentally piped back to the White House and recorded by CBS News and ABC News.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was "not at all" embarrassed that the remarks were made public.

"OVERTURN MY VETO"

Obama predicted the same strategy from Republicans would reappear in negotiations over raising the U.S. debt limit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/15/usa-budget-obama-idUSN1527591520110415

He'll give away the store, to buy candy.

I agree; he has a tendency at too much intellectualizing events.

Obama .... He is NOT the guy you want to have with you in a fire fight...

hawkeye10 wrote:

Obama .... He is NOT the guy you want to have with you in a fire fight...

agreed.

H2O MAN wrote:

hawkeye10 wrote:

Obama .... He is NOT the guy you want to have with you in a fire fight...

agreed.

A great many stanch liberals have come to the same conclusion, which might be a
problem for Obama if someone comes up with the balls to challenge him in the primaries.

I think a few big balled someones are going to emerge as we get closer to 2012 and the current herd is thinned out.

It is true that Barry has paid off so many with so much cash, but you have to HOPE some of these
entities and individuals will see the light and CHANGE before it's too late, too late to make the change.

The cost of winning an election has also risen this year, along with the global cost food and gas prices. President Obama’s team has rounded up a group of 450 Democratic donors and asked them each to raise $350,000 this year for the re-election campaign. If all goes according to plan, his campaign could take $157 million to the bank just for 2011 alone. That would double what that same group of people generated four years ago, Politics Daily reports.

H2O MAN wrote:

It is true that Barry has paid off so many with so much cash, but you have to HOPE some of these
entities and individuals will see the light and CHANGE before it's too late, too late to make the change.

Obama certainly is talking like he thinks he has bought the right people who will carry him through....which is ironic because he is now in exactly the same position that Hillary was in this time last cycle, and look where she ended up...But Obama is clearly egotistical enough to think that he is different..Obama thinks he can flip a switch, turn on the charm, and then the magic will work. We shall see.

Quote:

The cost of winning an election has also risen this year, along with the global cost food and gas prices. President Obama’s team has rounded up a group of 450 Democratic donors and asked them each to raise $350,000 this year for the re-election campaign. If all goes according to plan, his campaign could take $157 million to the bank just for 2011 alone. That would double what that same group of people generated four years ago, Politics Daily reports.

http://atlantapost.com/2011/03/18/fundraising-begins-for-president-obamas-re-election/

Gangster Obama is a pipsqueak compared to GW Bush who killed tens of thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Iraq for no good reason.

Do you know how much sacrifice in lives our military made, and the cost of that war? That's not socialism, but it's murder on the scale of a holocaust.