Barack Obama Press Conference Sept. 16, 2008 Part 1

[TomCatScat1]

This is one idiot of a president! Obama's own campaign just said the same thing! I guess trckle up poverty is better!!! Obama is an idiot!

[lassiecox]

Like this guy knows what he is talking about, The economy is and will remain strong because of the city, county, state, federal, military,educational, legal and medical communities and their suppliers and customers create the most powerful economy in the world. The welfare group, doubling their population every 20 years, have a problem with education, living conditions, highend supplies, its true the jobless rate is growing because this segement of society do not seek education or jobs. Truth

[TonyaTko]

Nice Video!

I did one too about this whole debacle. I will send it to you. Tell me what you think.

-TonyaTko

[vettegirl333]

Please be more specific. if anything our actions in the past 8 years will go down in middle eastern history as a violent unwarranted aggression that was responsible for the killing and torture of innocent people. The kind of aggression we've displayed has not been in defense. it's been an offensive move. Attack them before they attack us and remove anyone who gets in the way. Unfortunately, this is a drastic turn from the constitutional spirit of American politics. Read the constitution!

[vettegirl333]

How exactly would you define "liberals" anyway? And socialists? could you name any socialist countries off the top of your head without looking it up first? and what exactly in current day context would make them socialist? What would make the US socialist? Democrats in this country have always been more concerned with helping average people rather than major corporations. There's nothing new to that concept. But this is a far cry from any example or accepted definition of "socialist."

[thordoggie]

does it bother any of you that NOBODY who has worked with or for this man is on the news talking about his accomplishments? voting for this guy would be like letting your children run your home.

[thordoggie]

naive, ignorant, uneducated, unaccomplished...the perfect liberal!!!

[vettegirl333]

Sounds like the perfect description of Palin to me. Is that who you'd want one heartbeat away from having to hold talks with Iran?

[thordoggie]

The president of iran daily calls for death to americans. you want to TALK to them? That only plays into their hands my naive friend. the only words i'd have to say to him is " here's where you sign the surrender papers."Obama is the LAST person i want representing this country to the rest of the world, he'll sell this country down the river and claim "peace in our time" like chamberlain did caving in to hitler.

[vettegirl333]

OK. But is that who you'd want talking to anyone? Please watch her interviews with katie couric or ANYONE. I have been concerned about Iran for ages but learned after living in DC for 8 years and attending georgetown university, how the spin machine works. The financial incentive behind trying to make the US public believe that Iran is a threat and that Obama couldn't make the right moves, is worth your paranoia. 10 billion a month is what we spend on war. Not a bad salary for a war monger.

[dougmanjones]

He'll raise my taxes and become a dictator?! Oh no!! Man, I'm glad you told me. Thanks, buddy.

[stuturnerdc]

Outhebest: the CDA was (a) not passed by Clinton - it passed in 1976, so can't be blamed for current troubles, and (b) only applies to 20% of the entities getting bailed out.

The vast majority of the defaulted loans are regular home loans sold to consumers on the free market, which were then packaged into risk-hiding security instruments (which would have been forbidden prior to the deregulation).

Better talking points, please.

[outhebest]

sorry, but deregulation isnt the problem, its your dems and the rules they passed under clinton, making banks and loan companies give loans to the poor, those that could not afford them, it has come home to roost. Life does not guarantee anyone a house of their own, much less a car. The people got greedy, wanted what others had, now here we are. I say, let them lose the homes,go back to renting, make the gov repay them for those forced loans, then eliminate those rules, loans only if you can pay

[dougmanjones]

I love this guy!  Obama '08!

[twinkiefly]

america if you don't elect obama this year i will be extremely disappointed in you

[irondragsportster]

Tell the people what they want to hear and the White House is yours

[SamtheMan0728]

He is a dynamite speaker. He consistantly digs up great shit on McCain and Palin. I have never seen a more honestly run campaign. He can take something McCain says and whips him with it. It is a lolz. Watch how he does this it is great for arguements. Using what your opponents say against them is the best weapon.

[JONNYCABANI]

Why do you like him so much? Because he is able to bullshit and say nothing?

[steminc1]

sounds like Karl Marx

[obamanojfk]

Why don't these liberal zombies see what a fraud this guy is. change change change. jesus christ man listen to this fucken socialist

[vettegirl333]

I'm not defineable as a liberal or a conservative. and i can see why people would have their reservations regarding either candidate. however my friend, it's you who sounds like a zombie. Try backing your fear based opinions with some concrete examples and voicing them in that can be understood. but "liberal zombie" "fuckin socialist" these terms are rather vague and speak more of your fears and lack of knowledge than anything else. they're simply not convincing.

[damageinc55]

Watch Obama piss on free speech:

watch?v=5htmTHaFWEc

[oppesdaman]

I can't wait to see the debates. I think America will finally realize that despite their fears and prejudices, Obama is the right candidate to pull America back to it's former greatness and beyond. Again, Obama's poll numbers are leading and now Palin's numbers are declining. I think after the debates, there will be no doubt who is better capable to represent the American people and this great nation. No more lies, No more Bush, No more Rupublican trash!!!

Save America!!!

Vote

Obama/Biden 08'

[honestlycorrect]

* * * OBAMANOMICS * * * * *

1. Lower taxes for middle class (95% of working families)

2. Reduce dependence on Oil.

3. Promote FAIR international trade.

4. Reform the broken financial system.

5. No more excesive spending in WAR.

A plan for recovery. A smart president for America.

I am a well informed and educated American,

and I support this plan.

[obamanojfk]

it's a lie moron

[jjrglobal]

Obama's agenda

Same agenda as every other president since WWII

Nothing will change except the faces spouting the same old shit

[BestManMe09]

Obama is listening to Brzezinski!

[BestManMe09]

And what that means is Obama is getting very bad advice from Brzezinski as the latter was National Security Advisor under incompetent Jimmy Carter (the book Obama Nation shows this). Carter and Brzezinski both stupidly recognized Khomeini's deadly, highly illegal, Iranian government as legit as the two US men actually thought Khomeini was going to be another Gandhi (books like The Iranian Time Bomb and Party of Defeat show this!). Obama is going down the very wrong path!!!

[vdubs4life1964]

No matter who you vote for, we are going to Iran, N. Korea, and Afganistan. 9-11 was blowback from desert storm.. While other countries burn the American flag, our leaders burn the Constitution. The terrorist won! Look at the PatRIOT act! America droped the ball on Ron Paul. We are screwed. Good luck with that b/s you call voting. I'll stay home and jerk off. They have been feeding this word "change" for 30 years. Nothing gets done. Vote third party! Why the not?

[Cebukini]

Obama will be the next President of the USA. People on the Republican side need thier heads lobotomized. Are they really that mentally retarded to realize that this country is already in a pile of shit?! McCain is NOT the man fit for the presidency (of any country!). He is a bitter, angry, aging fool only to continue Bush's evil doctrine. And that zero brain from Alaska for VP, she's not worth mentioning.

Rush Limbaugh is a brown nosed, ass kissing fat pig. Over and out-

[vdubs4life1964]

This guy is just like Mccain.. They are both all talk. I can say I can fix it also. But it sounds good huh.. I am going to fix the market, fix the war on terror, I"M GOING TO FIX EVERYTHING!!! my ass! Bail outs mean trickle down inflation! America is over! hahahaha we deserve it!

[jjrglobal]

Don't worry, once Obama is elected he'll make sure the government takes care of all our problems. Does Obama not realize that government intervention in the free market created this mess? ie: the federal reserve, Fannie and Freddie. More government is not the answer. We are headed directly towards communism.

[bdr1976]

Silly man. It was DEREGULATION that led to this mess, not excessive Government. Hello? Anyone home? That means the Gov't wasn't being a proper referee and let the players act badly. It was the laissez faire attitude of the Bush Administration, with the full support of McCain that led the market to deregulate and flooded us with all these BS "mortgage backed securities". Obama isn't saying Government will solve your probles, merely that it will not sit idly by or actively abet a rigged system.

[jjrglobal]

Don't know much about monetary policy, huh? It was the Federal Reserve's negative interest rate at the discount window that created the housing bubble, not lack of regulation. Too bad the majority of people in this country don't understand economics well enough to elect a leader that is ready to address our real problem, the Federal Reserve.

[SpitfireOFatj]

I swear, you people blame the government for everything. It can't possibly be that greed was a factor, or that lying was a factor, or that stealing was a factor. Corporations are all honest citizens and "good" while government is always "evil",....unless it's the military,....then yer a Traitor to claim the government has done something "evil".

[jjrglobal]

It was Fannie and Freddie running around giving everyone with a heartbeat and a pen a mortgage

[SpitfireOFatj]

"jjrglobal: It was Fannie and Freddie running around giving everyone with a heartbeat and a pen a mortgage"

Actually that's not the worse of it, it was when they treated debt like it was cash and then did a money laundering scheme only the "money" was debt. They assigned bad paper a face value and then traded it back and forth like it was gold collecting fees as they did it.

[jjrglobal]

It's kinda comical, if it weren't so damn sad. What did everyone have there head in their ass except JP Morgan Chase?

[bdr1976]

Please. Mortgage backed securities are BS. Bets they knew they wouldn't have to pay off. Now the system is collapsing because ultimately someone got stuck holding the bag. Absolutely we need to address the Federal Reserve, but we need to deal with a system that doesn't punish risk taking, as a free market should. I don't know enough about monetary policy to argue with you on that particulars, but I know enough to see a system rigged against average people.

[SpitfireOFatj]

Hey Moran, despite what Caribou Barbie said fanny and Freddy were NOT a part of the "government".

.......sheeze.......

These people hear "government" and their first reaction is to hate it and they vote for people who hate it too. Then when government fails they feel it's proof that their hate is justified and re-elect the people who share that hate rather then vote for someone who could fix things. They don't WANT government "fixed" they want it beaten up in an alley and it's wallet lifted.

[jjrglobal]

Sure they were. There mortgage securities were backed 100% by the Federal Government and sold as to investors as such, equating them to T-bills. Thats why the gov't was obligated to stand behind their word and make good on the MBS. Learn economics before you talk anymore shit idiot.

[jjrglobal]

Just so everyone knows, I think McCain sucks just as bad or worse than Obama.

[bdr1976]

That's fine. But trying to bring this to a level of an Economics course isn't addressing the "fundamentals". A system that bails out AIG to the tune of $85 billion but can't deliver food and water to people washed out of their homes by Hurrican Ike. Our priorities are messed up.

[jjrglobal]

I agree. These bailouts for the rich are nothing more than socialism for the rich. Unfortunately Obama will implement even more, taking this country in the wrong direction.

[Monso]

Taxing the rich and easing off the poor is the wrong direction?

[jjrglobal]

Taxing anyone will not help in any way. Since when did our government spend money wisely?

[Monso]

That's true, but still, I don't see how giving tax breaks to the people that need them the least (seriously) is not the right direction.

[jjrglobal]

I don't want anyone taxed, except enough to defend this country. Here, not all around the world starting shit, but here in the US. Think how strong we'd be!

[Monso]

Not taxing people isn't going to fix your multi-trillion dollar debt.

Money really doesn't grow on trees =\

[jjrglobal]

You just don't get it! We need less government, period.

[goldenverra]

but first off is it in the right direction?

[slimdaddy68]

Hey knuckleheads! Don't you realize what implications to people's pensions would be if AIG failed? You would be screaming at your 401k devaluation! The bailout of AIG was necessary.

Do you even realize that Phil Gramm is responsible for this? He's the one who has turned over the Glass-Steagl Act that was passed after the Depression to keep it from happening again. Well, guess what? That's EXACTLY what happened! Fortunately, we have recourse to head it off this time. REPS ARE AT FAULT FOR THIS!

[JONNYCABANI]

Slimdaddy68 you dont know what you are talking about you just hear what you want to hear. One of these days you will wake up from your slumber and see that the world is not as it seems. You dont even know what caused this meltdown. You just want to lay the blame.

[jjrglobal]

Now you can bitch about your dollar! It will be worthless along with your 401K. Your 401K may be worth a million dollars, but a million dollars won't be able to buy anything. Before WW1 Germans could buy shoes for 12reichmarks, after the Treaty of Versailles, shoes cost 12 trillion reichmarks. This is what we will see due to all these bailouts

[SpitfireOFatj]

No Moran. They were Mortgage Securities. As in "backed by MORTGAGES". Got that? The government wasn't even involved.

It is NOW thanks to the bailout with your tax dollars which have just gotten sucked into a void with no return to you.

But don't feel bad, the Investor Class can read your post and rejoice that you will be one of those folks who will fight for their right to rip you off.

[jjrglobal]

The MBS were guaranteed by the United States Government and had the obligation to stand behind them

[SpitfireOFatj]

Who told you that MBS were backed by the US Govt.? Fox Business "News"?

[jjrglobal]

The mortgages written by Fannie and Freddie were backed by the US government

[writemrbond]

McPain will just bring us more economic disaster. Obama is a brilliant guy who understands complex ideas and systems, while the two headed McPain monster is just a revolving door into our economy for the conartists and thieves to continue raping this country. It's just more big lies to say that McPain will set up effective regulation. They have consistently torn down regulations and allowed this to occur. The record is clear. Obama has consistently promoted smart regulation to prevent abuses.

[tidusquall10x]

Fuck McCain

[checkurself]

Not true. Republicans are for less regulation. That's their party policy. Less regulation = less government involvement. But some Democrats also favor less regulations as well. Depends on how pro-corporation they are. Bush's family was a banking family when Precott Bush was an owner of a bank. That's were his family became wealthy in the first place which helped them to buy into the oil industry.

[AllAmericanboyUSA]

Fuck you and Obama. You and Obama are homosexuals.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Republican Epic Fail. You assholes OWN failure.

[sean21122112]

Because he was a POW he can't be a whore? Stop playing that card on things that have nothing to do with it.

[underweightHater]

when obama speaks on any issue you know that at least he understands the problem. that isnt in itself a solution but its a pretty good start.

it seems like republicans just change the topic, misplace blame, or pander when something needs to be done. obamas been letting suckas have it lately. its good to see.

[WadeBlazingame34]

Fault Senator McCain DAMMIT! Fault him for being buttbuddies with Phil Gramm. Phil Gramm is 90% responsible for creating this fiasco.

PS - THIS IS THE FIERY OBAMA WE NEED!! KEEP PUNCHING MCCAIN IN THE FACE!!

[Somazx]

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think he should be careful about not rubbing McCain's nose in this too much. I know he probably deserves it, and we all want to ensure maximum gains here for Obama, but if Obama appears more focused on hurting McCain then that could look bad.

[trytomakeitreal]

I understand what you're saying. Unforunately, that's not the world we live in. We're in the fourth quarter. We don't have to win Democrats; we have to win independents. Different game. Like it or not, it's a dirty game.

Republicans make it that way. They know what win that last 10%. We either play that UGLY game to WIN, or we hit the locker room, shower off, and let McCain finish off the nation. IF he lives through a first term. -- God...I can't even THINK of it....

[bobhardball]

let be honest: there´s still some racism in my homestate ohio. many working-class families are suffering BUT still don´t want to vote for Obama based upon the color of his skin. if you want to make these people vote for Obama, you´ll have to them this: Obama has to come around as often as possible with Joe Biden. that´ll reassure many voters here who aren´t color-blind. I hope somebody will read this comment and inform the obama staff. thanks.

[obamayomama709]

The only racism we look at is white ppl not

voting for Obama because of race. Do you think that 90%+ of black voters (according to Rassmussen) expected to vote for him could be called racism? How about the fact that Obama

himself is a blatant racist? That doesn't count, though. I will be called a racist

simply because I do not like his racist and

anti-American views.

[alkabeer101]

Black people have been voting for white people their entire history in this land. It is about time they got to vote for one of their own. Question is, will the white make them dance for it?

[dicksinmybutt]

Race shouldn't have anything to do with this.

[artvandelay3911]

Seems you're the only one bringing race into it. He's talking about the economy but all you see is a black man talking. Racist.

[bobhardball]

obamayomama709: racism is on both sides. some whites are racist and some blacks are racist. BUT fact is: my own father (43 yrs old) is not willing to vote for obama, ´cause "this guy is black". that´s shocking to me, ´cause my father lost his job last month and admits that "the black guy is really focused on middle-class families". that´s the point I was trying to make. nothing more, nothing less.

[dicksinmybutt]

Your dad seems like a real fucking idiot. Hopefully his generation will die off soon.

[bobhardball]

dicksinmybutt: I won´t go that far and describe my father "a real fucking racist" as you do. I´d rather keep on doing what I did successfully in the case of my mother who used to hate Obama because of his color: remind my mother that this election is not about race BUT rather about the issues and blacka have always voted for white liberal or conservative candidates although they could have stayed at home and refuse to vote.

[bdr1976]

Did you just respond seriously to someone named "dicksinmybutt"?

[bobhardball]

bdr1976: yes I did respond to someone named "dicksinmybutt", ´cause he couldn´t understand this: all african-american in my hometown (Ohio) are used to voting for presidential candidates without paying any attention to the skin colour. So why can´t these african-americans vote this time for another african-american without being called "racist"? they voted at least twice for Bill Clinton and voted for Kerry in ´04.

[Neuroelectronic]

5/10 troll, try saying nigger more next time.

[zzzxxyy]

How is Obama racist? That play is dead. Try again.

[SpitfireOFatj]

Naw, just tel them Obama's got Clinton's economic team chomping at the bit and ready on day one to fix this mess.

[47f0]

It's about time Obama started naming names and hitting hard. It's not playing dirty to land a few punches when you're in a boxing match. America (sadly) will never vote for a professor - but we love a prize fighter.

[dicksinmybutt]

I'm an AGE Troop 2A6XC for the Air Force and being in the military is hardly anything to brag or gloat about. You sign up and you become the governments whore, big fucking deal McCain.

[artvandelay3911]

You're gonna be on all the blogs tonight. A Youtube liberal called McCain a former POW of five years a whore. Malkin's gonna love you.

[jflam]

You're cute, you're spitting out the "five years as a POW line excuses everything" for the campaign. You're the lowest common denominator that the Republicans rely on to win, congrats.

[pacman5698]

Thanks for posting the video. You may want to call it something other than a "press conference" though. Campaign rally.

And, oh yeah, Go Barack!!

[toyracers]

sept 16, 2008

DOW: -77 pts

sept 15, 2008

DOW:-504

[baronmorris]

LISTEN UP & TAKE HEART! - Obama has the largest donor base in the history of US elections! - Obama set fundraising record for single month AUG08 - 66million. Avg gift <$100. No PAC/Lobbyist money! - Active US troops are donating to Obama 6:1 over McCain. SEE: opensecrets. org/news/2008/08/troops-deploy­ed-abroad-give-61. html - How will the Obama tax plan affect you? (vs McCain's) VISIT: alchemytoday. com/obamataxcut/ oh yeah, & Wasilla: 7000. Alaska: 683000. Chicago: 2.8 million!

[conducta]

Thanks for posting!!

[masterhook]

is it just me but as I was watching MSNBC when I was getting ready for work, I was watching McCain and the DOW was going down big. And not I watch thing and when Obama is up there it DOW is going up. Just a funny thing

[baronmorris]

nice. :-D

[KiwiTwist03]

That is kinda weird?  LOL!

[ralexand56]

If you actually watch the two back to back its easy to see that Obama knows this stuff alot better than McCain thus.

[masterhook]

also love to see him hit McCain about putting out there plan that will really do nothing. Obama knows we need to get back on track, kill loopholes and put more regulation back in place to see that this cant happen anymore. McCain's people look like they want to do more deregulation and you can see how well that worked