POTUS at the All Star Game: No Bailout for the National League? "No, We're Out of Money"

Still very popular - especially given the normal fall off after the 'honeymoon' and especially given the global economic crises the countries of the world are dealing with.

"Less popular every passing day..."

Approval rating in the high 50's is still pretty popular.

I knows its hard to understand given that is twice as popular as any Republican figure but it is what it is.

"It must really eat at you inside that Obama is popular while the right wing's heroes are reviled."

Less popular every passing day...

This is as flimsy a response as you have ever constructed.

"But, the "O" lapdogs and digital brown shirts just think he is swell and really believe He sees them more than just another vote to be pandered."

ROFLMAO!

Poor little right winger feels neglected.

It must really eat at you inside that Obama is popular while the right wing's heroes are reviled.

"But to joke like this at the end just shows this guy doesn't get it. This is not funny! The fact that he has spent us to the breaking point is not funny. It's tragic in ways most of us don't yet understand! Why would you joke about this?"

Do you believe The One actually cares? He's gonna get his and is set for life (and his children and grandchildren are most likely set for life as well). Book deals, speaking fees, taxpayer paid fringe benefits...he's going to get all of it and will not be impacted in the least by his unprecedented spending. Hypocrisy and blatant lies as usual. But, the "O" lapdogs and digital brown shirts just think he is swell and really believe He sees them more than just another vote to be pandered.

"Tax cuts? As if that would even help now."

Yes, freeing up income to pay down debt or spend on goods and services would help the economy.

Obama scheduled a presser at the exact same time as Clinton's speech... The guy loves being the center of attention.

Tax cuts? As if that would even help now.

Posted by: lucydog33 | Jul 15, 2009 11:18:33 AM
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Ummm .... that's exactly what would work right now!!! Raising taxes, especially on the rich, does not work, in fact, it reduced the amount to the treasury as people (especially those w/ money) tend to produce/spend less to save paying the taxes. You lower taxes to create an incentive to do business/spend money! You'll understand in a few years when all this Obama damage is reversed w/ lower taxes, incentives, just the way Reagan got us out of the Jimmy Carter mess.

"So there's no bailout plan for the National League?" one of the sportscasters asked, laughing.

"No," said the president, "we're out of money."
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Honestly, I have no issue w/ the President doing this first-pitch thing, and conversing w/ Tim and Buck - he's the President and, even though I don't like him, that demands some level of respect, etc.

But to joke like this at the end just shows this guy doesn't get it. This is not funny! The fact that he has spent us to the breaking point is not funny. It's tragic in ways most of us don't yet understand! Why would you joke about this? Instead of what he said, if he wants to make a joke, how about, "no amount of money would help them" or something! This is not funny! Just like when GWB joked about not finding the WMDs in the oval office during that press dinner that one year. Yes, Mr. President, we are out of money. Wow, how funny!!!! The only joke, though, is you!

The president looked great (aside from the Dad jeans) and the players after the game were ga-ga over meeting him...nothing like W at all.

He's our president and I support him. Those haters out there don't even realize how much worst things would be if McCain actually managed to win. Tax cuts? As if that would even help now.

This guy is overexposed...which is fine with me...when 2012 rolls around the country will not just be tired of his failed economic policies, foreign apology tours, blatant hypocrisy, incompetence, and Chicago Way thug politics, we'll vote him out just so we don't have to see his smug mug on TV every day and night.

Seriously, did Obama practice his "pitching" or didn't he? ABC, your two reports conflict.

In Karen Travers earlier report, she says:

"Obama did not do any practice pitching at the White House but plans to warm up in St. Louis tonight with some throws to Cardinals All-Star First Baseman Albert Pujols."

And Jake reports:

"But 'when you're a senator they show you no respect,' he joked, and he didn't get to warm up four years ago. This time he did, and 'we did a little practicing in the Rose Garden.'"

There seems to be a discrepancy here. The Rose Garden is at the White House, right?

Can we remember that we are "out of money" when Obamacare (costing around 1 trillion over 10 years) comes up for a vote? If we are "out of money" does that mean Obama will stop appointing Czars?

Will we, as a country, cut out the "wants" and get back to "needs", try to live within our means like most American families are doing?

So in other words, Obama quadrupled the deficit - with massive payoffs to his political constituency groups, unions and activist organizations - because "Bush" and "the GOP" made him do it and call it a "stimulus."

That's rich.

You know, Obama was in Congress during Bush's tenure. Spending originates in Congress, not in the WH. Obama could have voted against a lot of reckless spending during the Bush years. He didn't. Stop blaming Obama's evident economic illiteracy on George Bush. The stimulus, which has utterly failed because it wasn't actually a stimulus, was Democrat-designed, Democrat-passed and Democrat-owned. The GOP didn't vote for it, save three reliably liberal Republican senators (one of whom is now a Democrat). The democrats own this and they know it.

What's the O-bot response thus far?
Waaah! the Republicans did it even though none of them voted for it and Obama signed the Democrat-engineered stimulus Waaah! Make the eeevil GOP stop being meanies! Waaah! Bush Cheney Iraq war! Waaaah!

It's time for the Democrats to step up to the plate, admit that their plans are not working, and alter course. Instead, they are doubling down on failed fiscal policy that is destroying the country from the inside out.

Remember the words of Obama's Chicagoland political adviser Rahm Emmanuel - "Never let a crisis go to waste."

See you in 2010.

President Obama is right we are out of money. I say thanks to Bush and the Republican congress during the Bush years 2 wars and Bushes bailouts to Wall ST Were mighty Expensive!

it's incredible that he's so lax and has so much free time that he can sit in the broadcasters booth giving himself free publicity while the we're burning through what seems like $1 trillion every few months, iran is on fire, honduras is being bullied by dictators and tyrants who flaunt the rule of law, north korea is constantly threatening war, etc. etc. ... but that's ok, he needs time off, because being president is hard!!!!!

imagine if Bush spent time in a broadcasters booth during a baseball game while the world was falling apart, he would have been skewered for weeks/months

>Sure Bush threw a better opening pitch. He had more than enough practice throwing empty liquor bottles into the trash can.

Was that before or after Obama was selling blow and marijuana in college and smoking up every day? Check his own books.

What a wimpy throw. Bush was a lot better!

THE PREZ LOOKED GOOD.

HIS WIND UP AND DELIVERY WERE GOOD, RIGHT OVER THE PLATE.

REMEMBER, HE WAS AN ACTUAL JOCK, NOT A COLLEGE 'GIRLY-MAN' CHEERLEADER LIKE BUSH 43 WAS.

moo.. As opposed to Obama throwing away our hard earned tax dollars in that same trash can...

A very warm reception from what I hear on the video . ..

Obama spent a lotta taxpayers' dough
to make sure that his "pet" backers
in Goldman Sachs, AIG etc wouldn't
really be hurt in the downturn. In
fact, most idiots think he brought
Wall Street down. No, he only rearranged
the chairs to suit him and his party.
Obamaschlubs will never get this
point....they're too busy listening
to LaToya, and hoping to help her find
the "true" murderer. The family
should be ashamed of Michael, but no
where near as ashamed as having
Sharpton speak again in public.