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  • i know michelle's feet were killing her......u wouldnt dare see me walkin around the white house with those heels

  • they deserve to go on a date evry once an while

  • "The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 57% oppose the plan if it doesn't include a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private insurers."

  • "A new Washington Post-ABC News poll says 57 percent of Americans want a public option, up five points from August. The figure was even higher—62 percent—in June. That means that at the absolute nadir of support, when the public option was pronounced dead, most Americans still wanted it. Hows that for democracy?"

  • Dems SHARE responsibility for creating conditions over the last thirty years that lead to this. But, republican deregulation goes all the way back to 1982. Carter started it to jumpstart the economy in 1980. Reagan/H.W. Bush extended it with a repub congress. Clinton extended it with a repub congress. W. Bush further deregulated with a Rep congress. In fact, regulation on the housing market and predatory lending market didn't get introduced UNTIL 2007 when Dems took over. Pay attention.

  • From Harvard International Review:

    "But a Wall Street Journal article from nearly two years ago has categorically demonstrated that this is not true: in 2005, 55 percent of sub-prime mortgages went to people who could have qualified at that time for a prime mortgage. Indeed, the percentage of sub-prime mortgages under-written for creditworthy borrowers steadily increased between 2000 and 2006, from 41 to 61 percent."

    Just a cursory search of the internet brought this information up.

  • TheY FOUGHT for what they wanted to pass. They were benefiting from subprime just as much as Dems were. The banks that were "investigaged" under the Community Reinvestment Act didn't even start lending until towards the end of the crisis. Most subprime loans were given to middle class people regardless of race who qualified for prime loans. BECAUSE OF DEREGULATION the derivative market, based on these BAD LOANS, caused a GLOBAL financial meltdown. You're very small in your thinking. WAKE UP!

  • Just curious...Why did you bring race into this. I didn't consider race as an issue, since the loans I refered to were given to low income people, race notwithstanding. But for some reason YOU decided that race needed to be brought to the discussion?

  • What are you talking about? Why did I bring race into what? I was stating a fact. I can't mention the race of people now? Nice job evading the real issues.

  • You wrote "Most subprime loans were given to middle class people regardless of race who qualified for prime loans.

    So you brought race into the discussion, yet race is irrelevant to the discussion, yet you saw the need to interject it. Subprims loans were not given to people who could qualify for other loans, they were given to people who could not qualify for other loans, the subprimes expanded the number of loans banks had oustanding and did so in a precarious manner.

  • I didn't 'BRING UP" race. I stated a FACT about subprime. FACTS might be something you're unfamiliar with. Out of ALL the things I typed why did YOU hone in on race? You are really grasping at straws. Read a newspaper, book, or something. MOST subprime loans WERE given to people who could afford regular loans. Where have YOU been? The ONLY thing you're right about is that it expanded subprime loans into a market that is only supposed to consist of 10% in subprime.

  • I "honed in" on race because it was irrelevant to the discussion and I found it curious that you felt the need to interject it, just like I already said, try to keep up.

  • Because it doesn't make any difference to the discussion that I brought up that FACT and why are you still talking about it if you didn't want to?

  • Love that Maggie Norris Couture shirt! Gorgeous on Michelle!

  • CEO of B.O. A,, Ken Lewis met N.Y's attorney general 2-26-09 Mr. Lewis arrived to N.Y. in a private plane. Earlier that week, President Obama / CEO of the U.S.A. said the days of bank executives flying corporate jets "were over." Not for Bank of America. May 2, 2009 Date night - Private Plane, "Air Force one" helicopters, motorcade.. 2 days before G.M. declaring bankruptcy & Obama becomes CEO of GM. New Definition of HYPOCRITICAL !!!

    2010 We "The American People" will "CLEAN HOUSE!! "

  • all of you radical motherfuckers for 8 years we had to put up with the bush shit....................give this man a break .......

  • Is that a leash trailing behind her?

  • no,i think thats her ties from the shirt that came undone..

  • Gotta give both of them credit for having strong stomachs. They are pretty pukey looking. soros is doing a good job with his puppet, ruining America.

  • Berry, there you go again wasting OUR hard earned money!

    Next time go rent a movie like the rest of us!

  • dude< I don't rent movie I take my lady to the movie stop crying please!!!

  • I feel sorry for Michelle, ha ha while Barack decides to go for a stroll Michelle is forced to go along to keep him happy while wearing high heels ouch that must of hurt, Next time Barack let Michelle change into something more comfortable ha ha!

  • Yeah other people are suffering, but do you really think that just because everyone is miserable he is suppose to be to? That just goes to show how people think in the world. I say let him do what ever makes him feel happy in regards to his breaks, because in the world you are always going to be criticized even not being the president so you mine as well do what makes you happy. GO OBAMA!!!

  • Thank you!!! Well said!

  • obama is the president and basically he can go wherever he pleases .. i think michelle looks hot here ......obama is a man of the people just like moses was to the jews in egypt

  • That woman is about as hot as a poodle....

  • I didn't vote for the guy, but seriously folks, he is allowed to do stuff at night with his wife and family. I do agree that there is a double standard with the coverage of President Obama, but there will be other things you can complain about. Let him be human once in a while, he's bound to mess up on something important sooner than later. When he does, then rant, afterall thats what liberals did to President Bush.

    If going out with his wife is wrong... then you're crazy.

  • Here's the problem with last night's "date night" with his wife.... first, it has nothing to do with the Obama's going out... it has everything to do with the tax money spent on a trip to NYC to dine at the exclusive Green Hill Restaurant and a big night out on the town to a Broadway Play after being flown in to NYC... for a "Campaign Promise" to his wife.... for "date night" wife his wife. Wasted money on a GM bailout that "Bankruptcy was not an option" in his own words....

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  • then... Tomorrow morning, GM will file Ch.11 in Federal Court... lots of people will lose their jobs and their pensions.... despite what The White House will tell us. That's how reorganization works after a Chapter 11. ALOT of people would like to have a "date night" with their wife... but barely have enough cash to go to a movie and McDonalds afterwards. But, since it's OUR MONEY that pays for Obambie's "night out"... you'd think that he would be more responsible, but since it's OUR dime....

  • Every president uses tax money for their own use during their time as president. Regan, Carter, Bush Sr., Clinton, W. Bush, and now Obama.

    This is nothing new. Complain about his policies, not his free time. There is PLENTY to talk about there.

  • I don't recall Bush and his wife running to NY to eat at the Green Hill and Broadway shows.... look, his free time is on our dime! Tomorrow... 200,000 people will lose their jobs because of the GM Chapter 11.... keep in mind it's not just within GM itself but also within the suppliers and other industries that will suffer also! NO NO... I'm not condoning Bush... but I AM going to bitch about Obama's waste of our tax dollars! In "dates" and in GM's bailout... it's our dime, guy!

  • Not to worry... I DO plenty of complaining about his policies also!

    Of course, Socialism is at the top of the list.... and the RACIST La Raza member pick for the supreme court..... those are hot complaints... but so is wasteful spending... and "date night" in NYC at an expensive restaurant after being flown in along with "The Beast" being driven down to NY and Broadway shows is also a bit pathetic! I do hope his wife made it worth it for him (if you know what i mean) on OUR dime!

  • Your really making a mountain out of a mole on the date issue. How else do you expect them to get to New York, coach on United Airlines?

    And the President uses his own credit card on "personal" purchases like tickets to broadway shows (although I have feeling Presidents get a lot of stuff free). The Presidents are also responsible for buying their own food in the White House.

  • Why is it that all the minorities make a big deal of Obama being black--I thought everyone wanted a color-blind society. Let's get off color and see what the man is made of--beyond his skin.

    "I have a dream where a man will be judged by the content of his character, NOT the color of his skin. . . ."

  • Coolmom9 there you go stereotyping; you use this quote from Martin Luther King Jr. " I Have a Dream" speech, but you say all minorities make a big deal of him being black. Now do you see the contradictions in that? I mean have you really met all minorities? Just asking!

  • she looks so uncomfortable in those shoes..aww she's just like us...

  • Not jealous and certainly don't have any hate towards anyone. I'm not sure where you are coming from.

  • Leave the race card where it belongs at the bottom of the deck. You fools pull it out every time you lose an argument. Besides I'm a black man you ignorant, white guilt fed reverse racist. Obama gets out of the Whitehouse plenty. He's off bowing to oil sheiks and shaking hands with socialists who came to power through real torture not just hair washing.

    If you think he should be spending your tax money giving his wife a date why not just send him a big check so he doesn't use mine?

  • Nice try D-Bag. The Pres paid for the meal with his own $. Money he most likely earned from writing two best selling books. Now go busy yourself trying to figure out what a book is, you ignorant clown.

  • Nice try moron. Who paid for the secret security, extra police overtime, shutting the down the resturant and park, 5 miles per gallon Pres mobile, etc? My tax dollar did. Clearly you didn't, my bet is you are on social assistance and I'm paying for you to be on youtube too... Freaking stupid loser.

  • Don'e even try, RonFella. you cannot get thru to Obamaniacs, not until they lose their welfare checks because he has run the country dry will they see him for the shyster he is.

  • ok, seriously? its not obamas fault that the secret service and extra security have to follow him around, and he shouldnt have to tip toe around that and not do things he can afford to do in his freetime because "its our tax dollars"

    i wouldnt even deny bush that. although i would deny sarah palin but thats bc she claims to be a down to earth soccer mom who shops at walmart (says this while wearing her burberry scarf)

  • Why don't you stop paying taxes. Instead of bellyaching on an anonymous blog and making yourself look like an idiot, do something about what you're angry about. Obviously, all you are is a full of hot air, a talker.

  • I have stopped paying taxes. That occured when Obamas policies and BS Obamanomics, caused my company to layoff nearly half it's workforce. I won't be going back to work for at least the next three years.

  • Obama's economic policies didn't cause you to lay off half your workforce. Any taxes you were suppose to pay this year were under Bush tax code. You have the AUDACITY to blame your business struggles on Obama? Taxes codes will be reverted back to 2002 percentages for those making over $200,000 NEXT YEAR. Most people and businesses got a tax cut this year. Tell that crap to someone that was born yesterday. I really don't give a damn if you pay your taxes or not. Do whatever you want.

  • You guys are a real hoot. According to liberals, Clinton left Bush a "surplus" even though the economy was tanking as Clinton left, and now nearly a year after Bush leaves office, you blame him for the economy tanking? I said that I have stopped paying, I did not say that I was recouping what I had already paid, try to keep up. My company was doing fine until Obama took over and now it's failing. As for your desires...you obviously have msitaken me for someone who cares.

  • You must be a COMPLETE idiot. That's why your business is failing. There is NOTHING that Obama has done in LESS THAN A YEAR that has caused your business to fail. Clinton DID leave Bush a budget surplus. The economy was tanking because the IPO bubble burst and republican deregulation. It didn't have anything to do with Clinton's budget, you ninny. You actually RUN A COMPANY (this I HAVE to see) and think 2008 economic policies have NOTHING to do with your business' current condition?

  • As I figured you would run off on a tangent without any facts.

    At no time did I make any statement that I ran a company, I said that it was "My Company" as in the company I work for.

    Unlike a liberal I actually have allegiance to something, namely the company I worked for and that paid me for my work, this is a concept that you seem incapable of grasping.

  • When have YOU in this brief interaction stated a fact? You have allegiance to your own ass. For somebody to come on a comment page and say they're not going to work or pay taxes for three years and claim that they have some type of patriotism or loyalty to anything is a complete joke.

  • I am not going to pay taxes.  But then I seriously doubt that you will grasp how that can happen since you seem more of a reactionary than an intellectual.

    I am a 100% disabled veteran with 22 years of military service, so my pension is 100% tax free, I worked for 10 years after retiring from the military during that time I paid taxes, then Obama came along and my company laid me off, now I am not returning to work, since to do so would support this idiot and his lackeys, like you.

  • WHO CARES????!!!!!  I don't care if you pay taxes. You served in the military. Great! So did every male and some female members of my family. Your company laid you off because we're in a recession and we've been in a recession since December 2007. That didn't have anything to do with Obama. YOUR reactions are emotional. You're reacting emotionally to getting fired. Join the club. You're not special. Did you think you were immune from the problems that MILLIONS of other Americans face?

  • My military service is not relevant, the fact that I will not be paying taxes is, since according to your commentary, not paying taxes is in some twisted manner is unpatriotic (nice nod you gave to Biden). And once again you ASSUME, (I say "assume" since you do not know any of the circumstances) that I was laid off due to recession, I am not emotional about this at all I m very pragmatic about it. And it was due to Obamas policies that the layoff occurred.

  • Do you even read what you write. You said "people like me" don't know anything about "allegiance" and then said that you weren't going to work or pay taxes for three because you don't like the elected President that didn't have anything to do with your current condition. Pick another scapegoat.

  • Hey, you can believe in Santa Clause, too. It doesn't matter to me. Just don't think that you're going to lay down bullcrap and nobody's going to smell it.

  • Last but not least you really should grab your head and pull your head out of its current rectal defilade position.

    This conversation is done, you are getting boring with your twisted logic and warped reality.

  • Whatever. You're ignorant and proud of it I guess.

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  • Like a true loony lib, you try to distance yourself from anything that a lib politician does when it fails, such as Clintons taking of the dot-com bubble and his actions that burst it. Clintons alleged "surplus" was a projection based on distorted budget numbers that any sane person knew were unsustainable. Deregulation had nothing to do with it.

  • Deregulation had EVERYTHING to do with the market failings. COMMON SENSE tells you that Clinton had REPUBLICAN CONGRESS for 6 of the eight years that he was President. The S&L scandal, Enron scandal, this years housing collapse have EVERYTHING to do with deregulation. Are you completely blind? Clinton had part responsiblity, but so did the Congress. If you want to talk about onus, why don't you blame Bush for not vetoing the first TARP? You know what my leanings are politically?

  • Deregulation had nothing to do with it, and while you mention it, Bush's economy was doing very good (market over 10,000) until the DNC took over Congress. The housing collapse was the direct result of Dodd, Frank, Ried, and the rest of the sweetheart deal takers threatening banks with ceaseless Federal investigation if they didn't take out the high risk loans, not deregulation. I couldn't care less what you leaning are, your comments are liberal.

  • Your comments are conservative and sound like Fox talking points. The NASDAQ was over 10,000 like it is right now? The housing collapse was based on the deregulation of banks, insurance underwriters, and financial institutions (Gramm-Leach-Bliley). Most of the housing loans that were taken out were not CRA Banks. Those banks didn't start lending until 2008. Those "investigations" that you're talking are goofy conservative talking points that blame the VICTIMS of predatory lending.

  • The FBI's FRAUD DIVISION blame 80% of the housing crisis on banks and say that 10% had to do with minority and/or poor homeowners. So, why don't you pull your head out of whatever conservative pundit's ass you have it up?

  • The Repub, under Bush. threatened to END the right to filibuster by using a "nuclear option" in regards to judicial appointments. So, the Dems were forced to compromise and agree to allow for seven appointments they didn't necessarily agree with. But, when it came to the bill that republicans introduced to regulate Fannie and Freddie, all of a sudden, there hands were tied. They had a majority in House, Senate, and a repub President. They let regulation die in the Senate Housing committe.

  • "threatened to END the right to filibuster"

    Just like Scary Harry Reid and Ms Skeletor Pelosi are doing now!

  • The fact that Republicans FAILED to do ANYTHING to reign in Freddie and Fannie and Republicans and Alan Greenspan berated and ignored Brooksly Born, the head of the CFTC, for saying that the derivative markets needed regulating back in 1996 is no big deal. Your response to Repubs NOT DOING ANYTHING to prevent this mess from occuring, although they were warned at least 15 times before 2008, is moral equivalence? The majority of Americans want a public option. Ending that filibuster makes sense.

  • Considering that the downturn occurred when the Dems had control of Congress, the Repubs did not have the power to do anything. I had to laugh when I read your stupoid comments regarding Freddie and Fannie since the Dems in Congress, Dodd, Frank, and Jackson Lee went before the public and stated repeatedly that there was no problem with either of these groups...just before they fell apart. Now jumping from mortgage regulation to the public option?? Do you ever stay on topic?

  • I don't blame you for being stupid. It's the media's fault. It doesn't make a damn bit of difference what Dodd, Franks, and Lee did. Repubs had the majority in the House, the Senate, a majority Republican Senate Housing Committee and, obviously, since the threat was used in the case of judicial appointments, the power to use a "nuclear option" in regards to housing regulations. You give NO RESPONSIBILITY to the people that were in control. Keep up kid. I know you're kinda slow.

  • So in your warped world, Congress gets a free ride for the first year that they control both houses, and the decline MUST be blamed on the Repubs. So no matter what Obama does, Bush and the DNC congress is responsible up to the 2010 elections?

    Now you accuse me of smoking something which again shows rampant assumption. Must be nice to be live in your own reality.

    You need to take remedial reading courses. I did not say that Reid and Pelosi were going to filibuster health care.

  • Actually, it takes several quarters of trends in economic indicators to even call an economic condition a recession and the conditions that led to the recession starting in December of 2007 were DIRECTLY related to the housing and banking meltdowns. Those meltdowns were caused by REPUBLICAN DEREGULATION and lack of oversight. See, if you're ignorant about a subject, that's okay. But, when you claim to know something and you CLEARLY don't, it's really pathetic on your part to assert that you do.

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  • Quite the contrary they are threatening the Nuclear Option that you mentioned earlier, in order to force the U.S. citizenry to accept a health care fiasco that 56% of American have denounced. A health care debacle that is so bad that the Congress refuses to foist it on themselves, but they have no plan for others to opt out of that same mess.

  • What???????????? That the COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF THE TRUTH!!, As of August 20 ,2009:

    "A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in June."

  • Again you are deranged since at no time did I say that I dislike Obama, in fact I have not stated any opinion of the man one way or the other, I have observed that he is incompetent. In closing I find it laughable that you want to assign blame to those who are not guilty of wrongdoing, yet you want to hold blameless, those who are responsible. You should run (not walk) to the nearest library, do some research on where fiscal actions begin...HINT: It isn't the White House.

  • Oh because you blaming Obama for everything that's wrong in your life although he's only been President for 10 months means you have a positive opinion of him.

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  • The only one I feel sorry for is your supposed "employees."

  • Obama looks great couple.. but I wish the meida leave them alone! They need some private, That's why Obama looked so annoy at Media!

  • Is she wearing the $540.00 sneakers?

    Classy people. I'm sure they're really in Love. Honest I am.....

  • I think it is great that the Obama's are still in love and take the time to keep their relationship close. It is so important to keep some normalcy when you're in any position of power.

    By no means should having dinner be looked down upon because there is a war or people in need. There will always be wars, hunger, or other political issues, by the last 2 comments, you must think he should be working 24/7. So unrealistic.

    Go Obama, maybe theirs will be a good role model for other marriages.

  • let me guess, you don't have a women!

  • Wrong. Let me guess, you don't have a brain.

  • Good God man, you've let partisanship addle your brain. A President isn't supposed to spend time with his family, is that what you suggest? All people need a balanced life to function properly. Seriously.

    If you want to be critical of Obama for something legit, go for it. This criticism of yours is stunningly stupid.

  • stalkers.

  • They look so cute together.

  • It's always nice to take some time out to walk the invisible dog.

  • obama you have a beautiful grace and loverly wife god bless you both

  • it's so killer to see these racist, nazi-loving, ayrian-nation, genetic-rejects (that's you guypro30) hiding & hunkered in their tool-sheds, longing for the days of jim-crow and hitler, anonymously & cowardly spewing hate on youtube, while they roil & stew in their own putrid, stench-filled, moron juices.

    yo guypro30, u can't meet out in the open anymore huh? can't round-up a bunch of nazi good-ole boys for an ole-fashioned lynching or cross-burning anymore huh?

    enjoy the new america, lmao.

  • Right on!

  • Who the hell raised you to talk like that, what a s hit mother you must of had, I feel sorry for you.

  • Yeah? What town is that? Buttfuc k, Alabama?

  • hey, i really like obama, i like what he's doing, i like how he leads the country...but seriously, this tendency to film him at everything he's doing is too much...that's not professional, associated press, no one wants to see a two-minute-video of him and his wife taking a walk, it's ridiculous....

  • she needs to tie her strings in the back

  • Is anyone forcing you to watch this?

  • but he was "wealthy" before becoming presadent so its not out of the question that hes going to eat at a nice place. For comparison the Bush's spent $60,000 on a set of China. Fucking plates and saucers.. I think our pres should at least get to eat out nice.

  • agreed. notice how you got a thumbs down? same with the guy who replied to you? well they are giving thumbs down because they know its true. media loves democrats, yet hates republicans... wonder why.

  • I did but I'm not bothered by this. I didn't post with the thought of my comment hiting +5, It's not surprising that I received the -4 given that I'm pointing out the double standards of the Obamaniacs and they cringe at such. Think about it, the cabinet picks the defense policy, it hardly change, yet O's fans don't seem to mind at all, but if O were a "rethuglican" they would holding protests.

  • Dude, nobody is forcing you to take any flu shot. I've never taken one myself

  • It's kind of sad that the Obamas can't even have a quiet walk around the White House lawn without photographers following them like they were Hollywood celebs.

  • That's why it seems we have a market economy

  • Well said

  • All politics aside it must be bad ass living in the white house.

  • samething i was thinking ,i would go outside get fresh air and say DAMN ...IM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STAES OF AMERICA.

  • DONT BE MAD THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD IS A BLACK PRESIDENT. YOU MUT BE A T-BAGGER oUo <----- t-bag that

  • lol ^5!

    I think the Prez is saying, "These old boys work for ME!"

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