Oh, Good Grief… In Phone Call Obama Lectures Mubarak On Economics
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, January 28, 2011, 7:14 PM
Oh good grief.
Barack Obama tonight lectured Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (photo) on instituting a sound economic policy.
We’ve always been clear that there must be reform: political, social, and economic reforms that meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people. In the absence of these reforms, grievances have built up over time. When President Mubarak addressed the Egyptian people tonight, he pledged a better democracy and greater economic opportunity. I just spoke to him after his speech. And I told him he has a responsibility to give meaning to those words, to take concrete steps and actions that deliver on that promise.
Ar you freaking kidding me?
How nuts was that?
Barack Obama tripled the national deficit in one year. When Speaker Pelosi took over Congress the national deficit was $162 billion. When she exited in 2011 as Speaker it was at $1.29 Trillion dollars.
Obama topped a trillion dollars his second year, too.
(The Captain’s Comments)
Spending was up 84% under Obama.
That’s not all…
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression and possibly the worst jobs president in US history.
It’s really no surprise then that only 42% of Americans want to see Obama reelected.
Of course, the media hid all of this when Obama went in front of the American public and called for more spending on Tuesday.
And, Obama is lecturing Mubarak on economics? That’s crazy!
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StrangernFiction commented:
Very nuts Jim, VERY nuts.
StrangernFiction commented:
Of course no one gives meaning to words like Barky.
P. Aaron commented:
Aw C’mon! Oama’s got a lot on his mind…like fortifying school lunch programs here at home.
succotash commented:
He is so over his paygrade. Just another do as I say not as I do moment u
ar05075 commented:
Can you imagine being Obowma(eeeww) and having to look at yourself everyday in the mirror while you color your hair?
It should be very difficult……for Obowma I mean.
Somewhat Reasonable Voice commented:
Another site asks the question, “Does anyone doubt Obama is behind this?”
I do. If you mean that idiot in the White House, yes, I doubt it. A chess master he is not. Shoot a few hoops, knock the little ball into the hole, then check out the social sites on the Internet to see what’s happening in the world. That’s it, he’s maxed out.
Lecturing Howdy Doody on finance would be arrogant for this guy.
DF commented:
Obama needs to focus on our economy not other economies around the world. He is the last person on the planet that should be lecturing anyone at this point. Especially since all this time he has had a “laser-like” focus on unemployment it has not made one bit of difference.
Typical of the left: lecture others about your “good” ideas but never really look at the results or the effects.
DF
http://www.notadriveby.com
Granny commented:
#6 - “Lecturing Howdy Doody on finance would be arrogant for this guy.”
Yup. Mubarak probably had himself a good laugh the very second he got off the phone.
Redwine commented:
This is the quintessential definition of “chutzpah”. Who the hell is Barry Hussein to lecture anyone on economics, let alone the Egyptian autocrat who has been in power for 31 years? What a disgrace to the presidency.
He asked Mubarak to switch the Internet back on – and Barry the Dunce doesn’t have a clue how the Iran-backed Muslim Brotherhood Islamists communicate. Now, I wonder why would Barry the Dunce want to take control of our own kill switch? Duh.
What a demented loon!
Skandia Recluse commented:
Obama lecturing a world leader on economics while leaking things to the media that undermine the guy he’s talking to. That’s audacity.
greg commented:
All theses calls for the government to listen to the masses troubles me. The population wants change in egypt but I have not heard what specifics are desired. Change without a definition gave us obama, what would a more democratic system in egypt look like. The probably of the muslim nuts taking control is very high and egypt could like iran, pakistan, lebanon, kossovo etc. The people of egypt are poor because there is only one natural resource in abundance and that is sand. the land that is suitable for life is the narrow valley allong the nile. They have an impressive education system yet upon graduation there are no jobs. Religious freedom promote the extermination of the coptic christians and political fredom shoots up buss loads of western tourists several times a year. Westeners telling Mubarak how to respond do not understand the very real potential for total anarchy and mass killings. Advise is best offered when asked for in a helpfull context
MrGoodWench commented:
Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to your new marriage counselor,
Mr Scott Peterson
shibumi commented:
The “Do As I Say and Not As I Do” President.
dunce commented:
Obama has one answer for every thing “socialist economics” if you disagree ,you are a hate filled racist homophobic rightwing extremist that did not have the good professors in college most likely because you did not attend the an ivy league school or are a bitter clinger. It is great to be enlightened and fly around the world in AF1.
Multitude commented:
I think we’re finally getting the answer behind the question “Is Obama a radical, super-clever Marxist or is he an incompetent idiot poseur?”
Back in college, we had this guy David who probably many of the rest of you had in your schools. David was a lousy kid in high school, but you’d never know that from his attitude in school. “I could have taught all those stupid teachers” was a recurring comment of his.
In college, David had this problem with showing up for class. He’d attend the first week or so, but then skip for a couple of weeks and then show up the class before the final. He’d drive the class and instructor insane because he’d latch onto the most insane conspiratorial explanations to answer the obvious. For instance, David quickly bloomed as a Marxist, even wearing a beret for awhile with his Che t-shirt and grew the almost beard. In macro-economics, basic questions of supply and demand (which assumed you read the intro level book chapters) always got an outlandish, bizarre and conspiratorial answer from David. Apparently when you don’t actually DO homework, Marxism is there to allow you to explain anything. Curiously, we see this same practice employed daily with Krugman and other faux-economists (who probably didn’t show up for class nor actually learning anything real in college either).
David usually ended up flunking out of the classes and blamed the idiot professors for not being worldly with access to his amazing conspiratorial knowledge. Eventually we stopped seeing him on campus and I encountered him driving a gas station sandwich delivery truck years later, stocking cooler shelves with plastic-wrapped capitalist excesses.
I’m increasingly convinced our “President” is a David. He’s never once shown competence and cognitive comprehension of anything meaningful — and I’m rather tolerant there, as I’d accept anything from business school 101 to Marxist or post-structural theory, Hayek or Friedman to Badiou, Zizek or Agamben. Everything this poor fellow utters is “almost freshman” — undeveloped, unsophisticated, naive and C- work at best. Mix in the extreme overconfidence and you’ve got a classic loser narcissist running the country.
Hint for the political strategists: mockery is something these extreme poseurs cannot handle. Bring your A game now and keep him and drunkard Biden playing political defense.
Alana commented:
More and more, I think he (Obama) is just loony.
Sandy commented:
There is one consistant theme in Obama’s presidency and that is to lecture everyone else about the very thing he’s doing. When he made racists comments about his White Grandma he lectured the rest of us about our racism. Obama is responsible for the largest deficit in history and he lectures Republicans and blames Bush. Then there was that civility thing which gave him the opportunity to blame the rest of us for being uncivil.
Tom Tuttle commented:
Odumbo lecture on economics?!?!?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Joanne commented:
America has a nutjob in Office…..bring out the men in white coats…..Obama needs to be put away.
OC Rick commented:
Bush/Dick U trickle down Regan crap got us into this mess. Get real. I guess alot of Americans have 1.5 year memories. BTW, fiscal 09 was Bushes last budget.
Troy Flowers commented:
I’ll second what OC Rick said. Fiscal year 2009 began in October 2008, when Bush was still in office, and much of the budget for that year had already been approved before Obama was even sworn in.
woofguy commented:
I think both OC Rick and Troy are as loony as Obama.
∅ commented:
Yeah, you notice that they never made that distinction when President Bush took office. You always hear that the economy took a crap immendiately in 2001 before President Bush’s first budget. What say you OC
RDick? Doesn’t fit “teh Narrative™”, does it?pamlinson commented:
It’s no big deal, nobody listens to the little man anyway. He’s just some irrelevant mouthpiece trying to fit in with the big boys and they just swat him away every time like a nat.
DomesticGoddess commented:
OZ HAS SPOKEN………………….
KC commented:
“We want less government. The prices are to high. I want a future for my kids and their families”.
Egyptian Protester
Sounds eerily familiar!
Liberty60 commented:
One small point of order- the 2009 deficit, which was about $1.4 Trillion, a massive increase over the 2008 deficit, was created by the budget submitted by Pres. George Bush in October of 2008.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june09/deficit_01-07.html
Obama’s first budget was the FY 2010, which actually came in a bit smaller, around $1.29 Trillion, and this year’s expanded again, to $1.5 Trillion- due in part to the unfunded tax cut extension.