Obama says he ignored Beck rally
 

Obama says he ignored Beck rally - Aug 2010

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President Obama chuckles when Brian Williams asks him about polls that show may Americans still believe he is a Muslim. He says he doesn't pay much attention to those polls, because "I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead."

"I don't think the American people want me to spend all my time on it," he says.

Obama is clearly intent on casting himself as above the political fray, saying American politics is in its "silly season." For example, he swears he didn't watch any of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall yesterday and says he doesn't find it surprising that "a Glenn Beck can stir up some of the people."

"I'm making decisions that are not necessarily good for the nightly news and not good for the next election, but for the next generations," he says.

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Obama, and millions of other people ignored Beck's god rally.

i think people are going to realize how great obama is when he's is his 4th or 5th term...




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Obama ignored the economy too

your lobbyists ignored the economy too

Most people with IQs with more than 1 digit in them ignore everything Beck does.

good one :)

But one thing is for sure, Obama did not ignore the lobbyist while he was hiring his staff :winkwink:

i don't see this as a problem that is attached to a certain party

i think lobbyists in general and the fact that companies can donate unlimited money to political parties is what is ruining the US. it doesn't matter anymore what the people want, only things happen that someone pays enough for.

Capitalism at it's finest hour.

Only matters what the MSM wants to matter

This is not capitalism it is corporatism. Bush and Obama are exactly in the same party, the corporatist party.

To a point that may be true, but when the very largest corportations decide to throw hundreds of millions of dollars in opposition to Obama's agenda, it is hard to compare his position with the do-nothing Bush administration.

I don't remember Big Oil, Wall Street, and the Health Insurance companies rallying against Bush for example, so I'd say Obama is actually fighting much harder for the real people.

Unfortunately brainwashed idiots don't understand the divisive message being pushed by Fox and the Tea Baggers, is EXACTLY what the corporations that control washington actually want you to believe, to divide us against ourselves. They OWN that station and they now OWN that movement!

Once we see the corporations are too powerful, and we notice the middle class is under attack, the powers that be offer up distraction after distraction. Obama is a Muslim, Obama is a Socialist, Obama is a Communist, be afraid of everything! Hey, someone is building a mosque, be afraid! Hey, Iran may be buliding a bomb, be afraid! And on and on.

Why should any member of the right get elected in November? Because they wanted to see Obama's birth certificate more than their competition? They sit back and spit on the President. They offer nothing, and suggest repeating the failed policies of yesterday that got us into this mess to begin with, and for that they should get voted in?! PLEASE!

But hey, you can always save your future by investing in overpriced gold through Glenn Beck, or by stocking up on guns, bibles, and ammunition. That should work out well in the long run for you, no doubt! </sarcasm>

I have to smile on the he doesn't pay much attention to the polls comment.

He doesn't do a thing until the polls direct him what to do.

What new policies has Obama brought that are different than ones tried before and did not fail?

Not true...basically everything that he has done has gone against the polling of the people.

You're going blame the lobbyists?

i did already. no, i actually i blame the companies who pay them.

do you feel your system works well? with companies who pay politicians to influence political decisions?

where someone puts up a law with the best intentions and then all the lobbyists chime in to save the interests of their clients? until a once well intended law is shattered to ruins because of all exceptions that have to be put in?

isn't it like that? or is that just a wrong impression i got?

He is a liar, no politician in his right mind would ignore his enemies, he has to be fucking stupid if he actually did.

He knows he is fucked, you cant say the things he is saying and get away with it. Pissing off the majority of the very people you lead is suicide.

He lies.....imagine that....oh wait, he is a politician, they have no clue except for the one they find in their cookie. . . . . . 2cents

baggers are a far cry from majority.

Thats what you think, and it will be your FATAL mistake. :thumbsup

If I were Prez, this is the first thing I would cut away with a Knife, Hatchet, Scaple! HA

He's a president, not a saint, nor a messiah .....

... and really, why would it matter 1 inch if he were to be Muslim? As long as he protects the US constitution and citizens to his best abilities ...

Spot on - that is EXACTLY what it's like! :thumbsup

If you were the President, you would be facing the same uphill battle against the powers-that-be, as Obama is right now.

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Well kids, you tried and failed.

What did you learn?

Never try. ~ Homer Simpson

they're going to round up amp and lynch him?

the Michigan militia boys are gonna come and scare me with their camo

Ditto. The system fucking sucks. It's the will of the money, not the will of the people. Corporations (and the donations that come with them) have fucked this system to the hilt. They fought like tooth and fucking nail when the bill hit the floor about limiting corporate donations. I bet senators don't believe in half the shit they say and probably 70% of what they vote for, but to appease their "constituents" they continue with the fucking charade.

To call the people who follow Beck stupid, is an insult to stupid people.

So in other words you can't list any?

another gfy political thread, haha

I let Homer Simpson answer your non-specific question. Your question implies that Obama's attempt to fix the problems this country has not been able to solve for years (energy dependence, high health insurance costs, unregulated Wall Street etc.) will fail, as they always have in the past.

In other words, in the past we tried and failed, so the lesson must be to not try at all.

That is negative, and defeatist. I am very happy Obama IS trying to change the status quo. It is why the large corporations are so desperate to make him look bad. THEY ARE SCARED!

Obama may have to accept some of the stupidity that is present in congress, including Dems who have been bought off too, so it is a major uphill battle, but he is not the same corporate shill they are used to. He is progressive, and although you can always sight lobbyist connections and stuff, Big Oil, Wall Street, and the Health Insurance companies HATE him! That should be proof enough, that he is not the same old same old.

The real morons are the people who watch the mainstream media and think they are getting the whole truth.

Oh do tell! What is the "whole truth" I am too stupid to comprehend, oh wise one?

Maybe he is trying to win favour of the fat voter by creating flabs of skin on his right cheek.
I am joking.

I think you are on to something.

Next that sneaky devil will paint his skin black.

I miss Bush - he was a railroad... choo choo!

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You're putting words in my mouth. I want the president/congress BOTH dem and rep to do try to fix things without taking away liberties and freedom. Both Obama and Bush have speed up the decay of liberties and freedoms faster than any other presidents in history. This is nothing new, leaders for 1000s of years have come up with "new ideas" which are really old ideas packaged differently to enslave the people.

How about we try MORE freedom and MORE liberties?