We now have a President that, while campaigning for office less than 7 years ago, stated it was "un-American" that President George W. Bush had allowed the national debt to increase from $4 trillion to $9 trillion in his eight years as President. Here in 2013, President Barack Obama has allowed the national debt to go from $10 trillion to $16 trillion in 4 years.
President Obama had a Democrat-controlled House and Senate the first two years of his presidency. The Senate also passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA but referred to as Obamacare, by many) late at night on a Christmas Eve. Candidate Obama said all legislation would be posted online for Americans to review before passage and signing into law. President Obama's supporters (Specifically, Nancy Pelosi D-CA) said the ACA needed to be passed and signed into law so we would know what was in it.
There are other examples of President Obama's contradicting statements, such as saying his proposals wouldn't add "one dime" to the debt or deficit. But as stated above, that has proven to be a lie.
Until recently, I had always been bothered by the statements some made about Obama criticizers being called racists. I hadn't heard anyone directly state it. Now however, Robert Redford has actually said (during an interview w/CNN) people in Washington DC are purposely working against President Obama because there's a body of people in DC that are intentionally crippling the system because, underneath "there's some racism."
Robert Redford may be a great actor, director and lots of other things, but I'm fed up with these morons who proclaim to be experts in fields they have no education and very little experience. These people completely ignore the contradicting statements the President has made. They can't debate the issues and blame all opposition to the President's policies, on racism.
I am disgusted that Hillary Clinton can scream; "we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration," but when people try debating and disagreeing with the current administration, they are called "racists."
Sadly, people are buying into the President's rhetoric. Strangely, I am wondering if those people who ignore the lies and contradictions of the current President are the ones who are really racists because I can't believe they'd make up the same excuses if President Obama where a white man.
What do you think?
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“There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That’s an entitlement. The government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49…he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. So he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. … My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5–10% in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.” I think he hit the nail on the head. You also have a certain California official which made a statement to the effect that since she has been in office for a good many years she knows what the American people need. Americans do have a clue and she will ignore them and vote her opinion for their benefit.
ReplyDeleteI understand your opinion. This particular post was in reference to the racism claims by many and specifically Robert Redford.
DeleteAs for the 47%, I believe they don't ALL want to continue to be non-taxpaying citizens. I believe there are a great number of Americans who would prefer to be successful to the extent they did pay some taxes.
Your points are good and I appreciate them. I wish you luck in educating the 5-10%. I continue to wonder how anyone can ignore the contradictions of the President.
Thanks!
Lol well that was not a complete thought sorry my computer is apparently being a pain again. Anyway my point was to be that these people don't actually ignore the contradictions they never heard what he stood for or said in the first place because they just vote. Some do vote because they are worried about their benefits being cut.I witness some of this combined with the fact some just vote party lines not having a clue what any candidate stands for. Finally you have 18 year olds and college first time voters asking friends or mom and dad who they should vote for instead of reading the paper or research on the internet etc. I don't think it is racism as much as lack of knowledge in half the people which makes Nancy right to say we have no clue and she knows more than us. Having said that I think the race card is played by people like Redford who to want to side step the issue instead of admitting the candidate they voted for is contradicting himself. Race is used to get us off track from the real issues after all I don't want hear what a racist says because they are politically incorrect. Would Redford call a black person racist when they speak up about the contradictions? Maybe he should talk to a few and see it isn't just white people unhappy. I think if it were a white guy in office he would be racist too. Just at that point he would be racist for holding the minorities back. By the way if a female wins lookout for gender discrimination.
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