Barack Obama: "They talk about me like a dog." as Obama Panders to Unions on the Economy

'What was he thinking?' is the most common reply to this comment of Obama's:

"Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true," President Obama told an audience in Wisconsin.

That is quickly followed by I love my dogs but I don't like Obama. What a dumb remark for a President to make in any speech. Most Americans treat their dogs like members of their family. We are called racist by this President and now this. Have a hard time believing this came out of anyone elected to be President.

Self-described mutt Barack Obama:
Don't 'talk about me like a dog'

Telegraph [UK], by Toby Harnden

AP

Just when it seemed that Barack Obama couldn’t dig himself any deeper into the political hole he’s in, he does something really stupid. (Snip) “They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true.” The comment makes him look ridiculous. First off, there are inevitable racial overtones to it. To be treated “like a dog” is to be treated as something less than human. In the Muslim world, to call someone a dog is a pretty serious insult (and no, I’m not suggesting Obama is a Muslim).

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Know we have said this many times before but maybe if the media had not covered up his background from what little was released or actually done the investigation of his background, he would not be President. At least we knew Hillary was American, born here, raised here, and went to college in the United States. Like her agenda or not, we knew who she was.

We know little about Obama today as he refuses to this day to release his paperwork. If you think he is not hiding something, watch this entire video. It is shocking what this Court Martial judge had to say about the Obama paperwork requested in a court martial trial by the defendent:





Yesterday in Wisconsin where Sen Russ Feingold (D-WI) is in a fight for his political life, he was no where to be seen around Obama because he had 'scheduling conflicts' just like Alex Sink in Florida when Obama showed up for her and the Dems fundraiser in south Florida. She practically ran off the stage to get out of there before Obama appeared. Why won't they be seen with the person they supported 100% without knowing who he was, but he was their 'savior' for the Democrats? Wonder what goes through their minds now? They supported the voter fraud against Hillary Clinton by the ACORN and SEIU thugs by remaining silent and this is what they gave America -- Obama!

Now comes Obama's pandering on Labor Day to the union construction workers. Don't know about any of you, but around here road construction projects take forever to complete and are backed up like on I-35. By the time they get it completed in the OKC area, it will be time for a redo. How does he think throwing more money is going to create jobs before the election? That's what this is all about -- making people think he is doing something about the economy which he has ignored for over 18 months after passing the stimulus that didn't work.

Some of his ideas come from Republican ideas that he ignored in early 2009 and now he wants to implement them which is way too late to do any good for months or maybe years the shape the economy is in today. The one idea that made us laugh about how dumb he thinks we are was when he wants to give a credit for business with capital investment aka Section 179 which is on the books and needs to stay there.  Guess he considers that a bone since he was planning to do away with all the Bush Tax Cuts starting with the ones for people earning over $250,000 and then it went lower and lower.  Throwing more money after bad and offering a tax break for business that is already there is not going to help the economy but it does show the American people this President and his advisors have no clue!

Obama's 'pivot' to the economy comes far too late
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
September 6, 2010

In early November 2009, as the fight over Obamacare threatened to stretch all the way to New Years, I discussed the battle with a well-connected Democratic strategist. He wanted health care to pass, but he was eager for President Obama to turn his attention to the issues Americans cared about most: the economy and federal spending. "As soon as health care reform is over, he needs to pivot hard to becoming a deficit and spending hawk and a jobs creator," the strategist told me....

But health care dragged on even longer; the bill didn't pass until March 21. Even then, with his No. 1 priority accomplished, Obama did not execute the long-awaited pivot and go full-tilt on the economy. In fact, at times it was hard to tell just what he was doing. "So has he already made the hard pivot to jobs, or are we still waiting for that to happen?" a reporter asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs during that time.

Then came months during which Obama sometimes talked about the economy and sometimes talked about energy and sometimes about immigration and sometimes the Middle East and sometimes about other stuff. Watching the polls, Democrats squirmed, seeing their hopes for November grow dimmer and dimmer. Republicans looked on, bewildered.

"I don't get it," GOP pollster David Winston told me at the time. "I don't understand what he is doing. He's not addressing the No. 1 issue that Americans want him to address."...

Instead, they got policy potpourri and "Recovery Summer."

Now, with unemployment stuck at 9.6 percent, it appears the waiting is over. On his 595th day in office, less than eight weeks before voters go to the polls, Obama is making that now-infamous pivot. In a flurry this week, he's proposing spending $50 billion on the nation's roads and railways. He's proposing a $100 billion research tax credit for businesses. He'll have more proposals in the days ahead.

White House officials insist these are serious policy initiatives that are not being put forth just so Obama can say he's doing something about the economy. But that leads to the question: If these are such great ideas, why wasn't the president pushing them earlier?

"They've had nearly two years to think about it, and they've come up with a Democrat caricature: tax and spend," says one high-ranking GOP Hill aide.

But even if Obama's proposals were good policy, it's not just too late for them to have any significant economic effect by November. It's also too late for them to have any significant political benefit for Democrats. Large segments of the public believe Obama and his party focused on the wrong issue -- health care -- for too long in 2009 and 2010, and when they did pass a big economic measure, the $814 billion stimulus, they got it wrong. That will be a hard perception to change by Nov. 2.

"The die has been cast in many voters' minds," says another Hill Republican deeply involved in the midterm effort. "People believe the stimulus was a failure. By trying to 'pivot,' Democrats can't all of a sudden hide from their signature jobs effort. After all, didn't we just have the recovery summer?"...

Byron York, The Examiner's chief political correspondent, can be contacted at byork@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears on Tuesday and Friday, and his stories and blogposts appear on ExaminerPolitics.com.

Read more at the Washington Examiner

Bottom Line: Obama gave a speech to union members on his plans for the economy while even the Democrats are running away from Obama and his agenda, accused all of us of treating him like a dog, and blamed the economy on everyone but him and his advisors. IOTW typical day for Obama except for going off the teleprompter for his 'dog' comment to chastise us for not liking his agenda and giving him little respect. Don't like his agenda and have ZERO respect for anyone who refuses to release even their birth certificate, but still don't treat him like a dog as I treat my two dogs very well as members of the family.