Comments on: Obama really does believe ‘the private sector is doing fine’

By: Delbert Lohmeyer

Delbert Lohmeyer — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:23:25 +0000

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By: bs61

bs61 — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:08:48 +0000

This former Chicago Dem finally woke up!

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:42:16 +0000

And then absolute DNC talking points on another diary, go away DKos troll.

By: tnfriendofcoal101368

tnfriendofcoal101368 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:41:42 +0000

We have a DKos troll, who is not even bothering to hide it….

By: txdave

txdave — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:39:19 +0000

?So the fact that we were able to get prominent Republicans and businesspeople, some of whom were involved before but others who are new, helped in the effort both financially and politically.?

This is on top of a network of wealthy gay men and women who have a history of giving money to philanthropic causes and in recent years have shifted much of their effort to same-sex marriage.

Tim Gill, a billionaire software developer from Colorado, who is gay, has assembled a network that has been likened to a gay version of Emily?s List, which supports female candidates. Mr. Gill?s foundations have distributed over $235 million to gay-related causes, with much going to promote same-sex marriage, his advisers said.

?My husband and I are legally married in some states but obviously not married in others, so that?s a pretty big focus,? Mr. Gill said.

David Bohnett, a co-founder of GeoCities and a gay philanthropist here, has donated more than $4 million over the past 10 years to candidates and organizations supporting same-sex marriage, his advisers said.

And this week, Freedom to Marry, a group that advocates same-sex marriage, announced on Thursday a $3 million fund-raising campaign aimed at winning the five ballot initiatives and pushing the New Jersey Legislature to override the veto by Gov. Chris Christie of a same-sex bill, said Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry.

The first $250,000 is coming from Chris Hughes, a founder of Facebook, and his fianc?, Sean Eldridge. ?Chris and I certainly prioritize in our contributing,? Mr. Eldridge said. ?Marriage is a top priority.?

Mr. Brown said the same-sex-marriage cause had been greatly helped by people like Mr. Hughes. ?A couple of billionaires go a long way,? he said. But Mr. Wolfson said the ?vast majority? of donations came from small donors.

By: txdave

txdave — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:38:33 +0000

Pretty easy: how is the stock market doing? DJIA up over 50% since Obama came to power bit over 3 years ago. Compare that with the bush years: bush started, DJIA 11000, ended 8000, considerable depletion of wealth and NOT a good economy. Whereas the market has gone from 8000 to 12500 under Obama, a great success for the over 100 million Americans in stocks, funds, 401k, annuities, etc. No GOP admin can match that historic success. Republicans stand in the way in the congress of passing Obama's jobs bill, which is why about 12 million still unemployed. But, the private economy doing far better than under bush or reagan/bush.

By: ihateliberals

ihateliberals — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:26:19 +0000

He does understand all too well. what people don’t understand is that he is right on target for his goals to be reached and that is the total breakdown of the free market system and a move to socialism. By destroying the private sector the door is open for more government programs that lead to the eventual move to total socialism. A strong private sector means his defeat. By stating that the private sector is doing just fine in his mind he is right. It is doing just fine it is collapsing. With it’s collapse he can take over the public sector at the state level and basically do away withthe states altogether or at least control their every move.

By: docfreeman

docfreeman — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:40:30 +0000

Obama blames anyone but himself and his administration. He blames Congress, but it is not Congress that is the problem, it is the Democrat Senate that is ruled by Harry Reid. Reid will not allow over 30 bills that have already passed the House of Representatives for job creation, just because the Republicans came up with the idea. Reid knows they would pass and he cannot allow the Republicans to take credit for helping our country in its time of need. This is pure political theater and I sincerely hope that the State of Nevada will watch this closely and realize that Reid is out for his party not his country or his fellow Americans.

By: hart65

hart65 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:56:02 +0000

Thoreau introduced his Walden with a statement of faith:
“I do not propose to write an Ode to Dejection,
but to brag as lustily as Chanticleer in the morning,
standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”

Here’s to the power of relentless GOP cock-a-doodle-dos

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:28:17 +0000

Because it doesn’t fit your meme.

If it was a gaffe he would have a dozen people out defending it. Hell, he wouldn’t be defending it.

garfield, one day in the distant future when you finally get out of diapers maybe you’ll learn a thing or two. There’s a real, live reason why you’re on the losing end of every discussion.

Actually, there are several:

You’re ignorant.
You make no effort to relate to the real world.
You also make no effort to learn from your betters.

Go to the beach. Get a sunburn. Do anything but continue to make a damn fool of yourself here.

By: mbecker908

mbecker908 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:23:52 +0000

He’s an infantile idiot with no relation to the real world.

By: Freedoms Truth

Freedoms Truth — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:50:09 +0000

“so we can switch candidates at the convention”

Garfield, behind the times, eh? welcome to June … Romney won it a month ago. wake up sleepyhead!

By: cactusjack

cactusjack — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:54:48 +0000

team? And brining Newt into his campaign in whatever capacity he is, was a good idea. Did you think Axelrod’s falling on his face before a mixed party crowd in Boston, was an accident? Before mass media completely dominated politics, they used to call that “good ground work.”

By: garfieldjl

garfieldjl — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:19:34 +0000

I’m saying it is a gaffe because it wrecks Obama’s carefully crafted image and reveals the real Obama. It is a gaffe from that standpoint, because it reveals what Obama doesn’t want revealed.

By: APA Guy

APA Guy — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:10:15 +0000

This isn’t a misstatement in the tradition of a misunderstanding or bout of disinformation. It’s a man telling the country that paltry private-sector job growth is “just fine”.

When hell freezes over will we allow this to pass into oblivion when far too much of the country still seems to like this guy. That will change when they have a full understanding of his beliefs..starting with this one.

By: APA Guy

APA Guy — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:03:32 +0000

…a noticeable mistake. This was no “mistake”…it was a statement revealing his core beliefs…nothing more, nothing less.

By: garfieldjl

garfieldjl — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:57:42 +0000

So yeah it was actually a gaffe.

By: gekster

gekster — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:57:12 +0000

Grab an oar and help.
Or get out of the way.

By: APA Guy

APA Guy — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:55:18 +0000

Obama honestly believes that a shrinking private sector is best for America. That way, he can put the tens of millions of unemployed/underemployed to work for the government…thus enslaving them to him and his party.

These creeps are no mystery to me or any other conservative, but they get away with their destructive ideology when we dismiss them revealing their secrets as “gaffes”.

By: garfieldjl

garfieldjl — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:53:14 +0000

I considered Bain Capital the reason that Romney could not win the General, I never expected Obama to pull such an incompetitent attack that it has effectively immunized Romney.

I had run across youtube interviews of people that lost their jobs due to Bain Capital, I’m quite frankly surprised Obama didn’t simply go use those (I think one of my diary entries from a few monthes ago has a link to one).

Other problems for Romney had to do with some things that were funded when he was Governor, but it was pointed out by another individual here that many of those programs were leftovers from the previous governor.

I still don’t like how Romney won’t renounce Romneycare, and I don’t like what all he pulled in the primaries though.

Seriously, anyone that lives near Chicago knows how dirty their politics is. They are normally very good at smearing opponents, the fact he has been this incompetitent in his attacks on Romney is something I never expected.