Quote: Cedric wrote in post #1

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For those of you who thought the other guys wouldn't counter-attack:

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Zitat

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This is just the beginning, my friends.

Just the beginning.

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The beginning? What are you, in third grade? This is business as usual. Zero spent a press conference this week slamming the GOP while people were being shot to death at the Navy Yard. This isn't new.

Quote: Cedric wrote in post #3

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You obviously have no clue what lies ahead.

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I would also like anyone on this thread to go to the HuffPo piece and watch this vid of the speech. They claim he gave this diatribe to a cheering crowd. The people behind him are barely animated. They can hardly muster a chuckle for his BS. Also remember this is an audience of his base. Union Ford workers. The same union upset now that Zerocare is ruining their business model. The real story here is that Zero met with luke warm praise for slamming the GOP.

So let's just give Zero everything he wants. I mean, that's what it's come to, right?

Look at all the sacrifice over the years. Blood, sweat, tears. Wars. And it's all been to give Zero everything he wants.

Sounds like a good plan to me. And hey - you know what? If we're all nice, just roll over, give Him everything he wants, and don't piss Him off TOO bad, you know what?

Well, if he's in a good mood, he might - now, just might, mind you - allow us to elect more "Rs".

No promises, after all - we've been bad. Real bad.

But out of the goodness of His heart, he just might.

Now, won't that be cool?

Quote: Cedric wrote in post #7

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You'd better look at the end of that video again, Frank.

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President Obama often refers to former President Clinton as his “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” for his ability to

break down complex economic issues, such as Obamacare, for average voters.

Perhaps Mr. Obama could have used Mr. Clinton’s help Friday when he gave a somewhat long and halting explanation of his confrontation with House Republicans over raising the nation’s borrowing limit.

Speaking at a Ford auto plant in Missouri, the president compared the debt-ceiling debate to a consumer loan on a new Ford F150 truck.

“This is important,” Mr. Obama said. “Raising the debt ceiling is not the same as approving more spending, any more than making your monthly payments adds to the total cost of your truck.”

Plowing ahead, Mr. Obama said, “I — you don’t say, well, I’m not going — I’m not going to pay my — my — my bill, my note for my truck because I’m going to save money. No, you’re not saving money. You already bought the truck, right? You have to pay the bills. You — you are not — you’re not saving money.”

Then the president seemed to give an argument supporting Republicans’ call for lower spending and less borrowing.

“You — you might have decided at the front end not to buy the truck,” Mr. Obama said. “But once you bought the truck, you can’t say you’re saving money just by not paying the bills. Does that make sense?”

The audience of unionized auto workers cheered and applauded.

“So raising the debt ceiling — it doesn’t cost a dime,” Mr. Obama continued. “It does not add a penny to our deficits.”

A few moments later, as if realizing that his explanation of the debt ceiling was getting lost in translation, the president tried his truck analogy again.

“So — so I — I just want to break this down one more time,” he said. “I go into a Ford dealership, drive off with a new F-150. Unless I paid cash, I’ve still got to pay for it each month. I can’t just say, you know, I’m not going to make my car payment this month. That’s what Congress is threatening to do, just saying, ‘I’m not going to pay the bills.’”

He warned, “There are consequences to that. The bill collector starts calling you, right? Your credit goes south, and you got all kinds of problems. Same is true for a country. So if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, we’re deadbeats.”

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I'll have to take your word about the video, Frank.

I literally cannot watch the man without becoming physically ill.

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