Barack Obama spoke to reporters this morning after the dismal jobs report was released.
The far left president blamed: earthquakes, tornadoes, state budget cuts, gas prices, local budget cuts and Greece for the latest spike in the unemployment rate.
FOX Nation reported:

Via FOX Nation:

A year after the WH proclaimed “recovery summer,: and two years after a trillion dollar “stimulus” program, the President blamed a series of “headwinds” for what he described as a “rocky” “recovery.” Obama said Greece, natural disasters, high gas prices, state budget cuts and uncertainty about the debt ceiling were prohibiting the economy from creating more jobs, which critics called just more finger-pointing from the White House. “Streamlining the patent process” and new infrastructure spending were a few solutions to the jobs crisis offered by the President this morning, leaving many economists scratching their heads. Looking detached, Mr. Obama plodded back into the White House with his head down, without acknowledging any responsibility for the economy for the struggling economy and appearing to some critics extremely out of touch.

Rep. Michele Bachmann disagrees.

 

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  1. #1 July 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    forest commented:

    Coward

  2. #2 July 8, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    Redwine commented:

    Wow. At least he didn’t blame Bush.

  3. #3 July 8, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    Shawnet commented:

    One more time:
    When you point your finger at others there are always three fingers pointing back at you.

  4. #4 July 8, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    jorgen commented:

    The only reason there is no recovery is that Dick Obama still has his job.

  5. #5 July 8, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Finncrisp commented:

    I guess that is one way to try and pass the buck. I thought at least with all those czars on the payroll, some more imagination would be involved. He must truly believe we the people are stupid. Or could it be that he is “acting stupidly” in his assessment of the economy?

    I guess this means (to him) that since what has happened is “beyond” our control, keeping the debt growing and the spending in high gear is still OK. Now, that would be “acting stupidly”.

  6. #6 July 8, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    TXPatriot commented:

    Imagine if Bush had blamed Katrina and Rita for 2008. The left would have gone NUTS!

    Also, it’s curious to me that we apparently have never had earthquakes (wait, did we have an earthquake in the U.S.?), budget cuts or gas prices before.

  7. #7 July 8, 2011 at 12:34 pm

    injunjoe commented:

    what did Bart Simpson say: “not me, I didn’t do it, you can’t prove a thing”!!!

  8. #8 July 8, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    keith commented:

    Seriously does those idiot @$$clown shake a magic 8 ball before he comes out to try and see what bulls**t he can try and blow up the Americans ass? Just picture this….stupid ignorant @$$clown shakes 8 ball…..what appears? “Talk about all your cool ideas”……yeah yeah that’s the ticket….I got cool ideas……..shakes 8 ball again……”talk about how you can get people jobs with rebuilding the infrastructure”…..yeah yeah I’ll look like a ***king genius………@$$clown shakes the 8 ball once more……….”blame it on the previous administration”……winning……….

  9. #9 July 8, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    Vero commented:

    It is worse than what is being told . One of my best friend, his wife is a 20 + year IRS employee and she works in the 941 form department. 941 is a Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return that I and every other business files. She normally gets laid off every year at the end of the year as companies wind down for the year and then rehired 1st quarter as business starts the year off once again – She just got laid off last month, as too many business has closed shop, and the very few 941 forms that was coming in, have the “F” on them, meaning this is the Final 941 for that company as they are going/gone out of business. Which of course means more lost jobs – Went to the Post Office yesterday and seen the Electric Company that probably had 15 or so employees (I am guessing based upon the number of trucks that used to be parked there) had closed up their business – Facts are facts, this “leadership” has totally screwed this country’s business folks, well, right out of business

  10. #11 July 8, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    shibumi commented:

    Coming soon:

    It’s the summer heat wave!

  11. #12 July 8, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    kansas commented:

    Wait, this all sounds familiar.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TuLBa-rgBk

  12. #13 July 8, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    BubbaHotep commented:

    I find it interesting that the WH has (purposely) allowed O’s hair to go gray, such that it has.

    Is that to give the appearance of a concerned elder statesman and the toll he is paying for supposedly working soooooo hard? Where’s my nine iron?

    Now once he begins to court the younger vote during his reelection bid will he once again pull out the Grecian Formula for Men? Stay tuned.

  13. #14 July 8, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    dnb commented:

    Well, you know, it’s always somethin’.

  14. #15 July 8, 2011 at 12:52 pm

    Mike commented:

    That’s RAAACIST

  15. #16 July 8, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Dave-O commented:

    Obama now blames “natural disasters” for continued joblessness – when back in 2006-2008 the Dems attributed Bush’s relatively good jobs number on the fact that Katrina had “created” the “temporary” spike in employment numbers. Which one is it, fellas????

  16. #17 July 8, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Dave-O commented:

    Hey! Isn’t it about time for another Obama family vacation?

  17. #18 July 8, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Bobbi commented:

    The dog are my homework.
    “streamlining the patent process”????

    B.S.

  18. #19 July 8, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    Moright commented:

    It’s so harrrrrrd being President! I once worked (briefly) for a super liberal CEO of a small company who would regularly whine on any failed benchmark, “If it were easy, it would have been done already.” Whine whine whine.

  19. #20 July 8, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    Greg commented:

    COOKED BOOKS!

    The non-institutionalized population was up 176,000. But, so sayeth the data, the Labor Force dropped. In fact 272,000 workers worth of drop.

    “If the population is up 176K and workers is down 272K then WTF, how does the rate stay at 9.2%?” you wonder.

    Simple! You go to the CES Birth/Death Model and create 131,000 jobs including 21,000 new construction jobs and 76,000 in leisure and hospitality.

    Then, in Table 15 (Alternative measures of Labor Under Utilization), we see the U-6 rate popped from 15.8% in may to 16.2% in June, seasonally adjusted.

    “Still, shouldn’t the rate have gone up?”

    Nope: The icing on this statistical cake is revealed on Line 8, Table A where the Labor Department dropped more than 2-million Americans as not in the labor force, compared with June 2010. Most don’t have jobs, but they don’t count. Capiche? http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm

    http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

  20. #22 July 8, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    Abelard commented:

    Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!

    I keep wondering how long it will be before the Dems realize that they need to cut their losses. There have to be quite a few who realize that Hillary is more manly than this Beta.

  21. #23 July 8, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    big L commented:

    Obama works around his hair color all the time. Part of Ericksen Psychology to confuse and bamboozle people. He is back doing his eye-lid tricks too.Squinting and drooping eyes and raising the eyebrows.
    Why say anything anyway. He could mumble something on theway to the helo and the rotor wash would cover what he said and we wouldn’t have to hear his voice…REminds me of the large screen on the wall In Fahrenheit 451. and the Leader would be on all day and every so often would zoom in and say “What do you think ,Montag?”

  22. #24 July 8, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Liberals SUCK commented:

    It’s never your fault Barry, even when you get booted out of office in another 18 months. That will probably be Bush’s fault.

  23. #25 July 8, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Jim commented:

    “Obama: Don’t Look at Me… It’s the Earthquake, Tornado, State Budget Cuts, Gas Prices, Local Budget Cuts, Greece’s Fault”…and the dog ate my homework, the sun got in my eyes, I had a flat tire, I ran out of gas, been stuck in a long line at the DMV, blah blah blah!!!!

  24. #26 July 8, 2011 at 1:11 pm

    liberals did this!! commented:

    doctor offices & small medical clinics are closing.why? His and Lisa Jacksons new regulations, so many new regulations 42-50new regulations—for each employee that you have,piles and piles of regulations. Prescription are about to triple–due to the new user fees to all drug companies. I just heard that Banger is caving. We have to stand firm…they are nervous but if the republicans fold we are doomed. They lied about the CR. I think Banger is a closet liberal what can we do? He is a traitor. Not sure if its true. dems want to get rid of mortgage interest! Can you imagine all the people who buy homes for right offs? They will have more defaults–again!!!

  25. #27 July 8, 2011 at 1:24 pm

    ohio commented:

    Obama is much worse than idiotic- he’s evil. Making him out to be bumbling or clueless only cuts him slack.

  26. #28 July 8, 2011 at 1:28 pm

    squeaky commented:

    “Hey! Isn’t it about time for another Obama family vacation?” 10 glorious days at martha’s vineyard mid august. i wonder if this guy’s still around? being a great white and all.
    http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/05/great_white_sha_4.html

  27. #29 July 8, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    Rock commented:

    What the he!!, don’t they have any mirrors in the White house? Just look in one D/S you’ll find the problem staring you in the face.

    But then he did have a secret meeting with Pelosi ( http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/07/the-presidential-planner-obama-meets-with-pelosi.html ) Probably got his new talking points from Soros from her.

  28. #30 July 8, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    RS commented:

    One would think that with all those new mirrors Obama has installed in the White House, that he could occasionally catch a glimpse of the problem.

  29. #31 July 8, 2011 at 1:59 pm

    kato commented:

    Blacks and their white Democrat handlers are going to have to step up their efforts at stealing elections by an order of magnitude next year. They’re about the only group left that thinks this clueless blowhard is doing a good job.

  30. #32 July 8, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Always On Watch commented:

    This man is so out of touch with economic reality that I’m at a loss for words.

    If he isn’t defeated by a landslide in 2012, I’m going to have to go live under a rock!

  31. #33 July 8, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    chuck in st paul commented:

    I’ve got a headwind for ya there Barky… put your head down here and pull my finger.

  32. #34 July 8, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    havok commented:

    Obama… “….oh an I forgot.. it’s the ATMs. too…but mostly, it’s Bush’s Fault”.

  33. #35 July 8, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    L.E. Liesner commented:

    The arrogance of this guy knows no bounds. To stand up before God and country and continually tell these lies shows you what he thinks of the intelligence of the American people. I guess in his mind we are all the “useful idiots”, time to show him the difference.

  34. #36 July 8, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    JD commented:

    2012. GTFO.

  35. #37 July 8, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    john03 commented:

    This is just downright embarassing for the USA.

  36. #38 July 8, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    Patricia commented:

    Surprise, surprise!! HE DID NOT BLAME BUSH!!!

  37. #39 July 8, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    At least Urkel on “Family Matters” had the dignity and strength of character to admit when he screwed up and sheepishly ask, “did I do that?”

    Barry is so narcissistic he truly can’t see he ever makes a mistake. In his world view it truly is someone or something else’s fault he wasn’t able to achieve what his rhetoric says he can do.

    Reality conspires to make Barry look ineffectual.

  38. #40 July 8, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    Trialdog commented:

    The “stimulus” did work. The need for morticians, funeral directors, and grave diggers in Mexico skyrocketed after the “stimulus” funded the Obama Administration’s coordination of weapons tranfers to Mexican drug cartels.

  39. #41 July 8, 2011 at 3:23 pm

    Clinton Lovell commented:

    The real unemployment rate is closer to 11% and if we add in the marginal workers we are at 16% and change. No matter how well the liberalnatzi media dresses this pig up, it is still going to be the millstone that will grind up Obama.

    …unless of course, we get the latest rendition of the McCain 2008 Campaign from the Republican Party which is very likely to say the least…

  40. #42 July 8, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    OT..

    appalled at administration decision
    to bring foreign terrorist to US soil

    ["The Obama administration's decision to bring Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to New York City to be tried in a civilian court defies logic. Warsame is an enemy combatant. He is not a US citizen or even a resident and his illegal activities were perpetrated overseas and were clearly an act of war against the United States. He should not be afforded the legal rights and privileges of citizenship.

    While we applaud the decision to fully interrogate Warsame, the Administration's new cherry picked procedures with captured terrorists abroad is playing a dangerous political game that is unnecessary and belies a total lack of understanding of the war we are in with Islamist radicals. Warsame and all captured terror suspects should be fully interrogated and held for military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.

    This administration needs to fully understand that the US is in a state of war with the ideology of militant Islamism. If we have any hope of defeating this insidious and violent ideology we cannot continue to equivocate on how we handle these terrorists. The enemy has no such dilemma on their side. War cannot be conducted with half measures. Warsame needs to be treated in accordance with his actions."]

    ==

  41. #43 July 8, 2011 at 4:20 pm

    obfuscatenot commented:

    Doesn’t he sound like someone who still orders off the kids menu? Kids that age never ever accept blame for anything they do!

  42. #44 July 8, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    James commented:

    obama should lose his job.

  43. #45 July 8, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Arch commented:

    Obama has our nuclear weapons codes, but he’s only got one oar in the water.

    He wants to spend more and reduce our deficits. [What?]

    At about 3:45 on the video, Obama notes that there are a million people out of work in the construction industry because of the housing decline. He suggests we put them to work building roads and bridges and infrastructure! Picture a stretch of new Interstate with a road grader leveling the ground. Guy with a hammer and a tool belt shows up looking for a job.

    Clueless.

  44. #46 July 8, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Arch #45

    oh don’t be so silly, he’s been there done
    that with his “shovel ready” jobs.. /sarc/

    ==

  45. #47 July 8, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    having to work for the politican is not a good insentive to make people work hard. the socialists will never get that.

  46. #49 July 8, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    He is an audacious liar.

  47. #50 July 8, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    mcc commented:

    Poor Barry. He actually expects us to believe he’s “ready to roll up [his] sleeves over the next several weeks and months”…???

    That would be a first. The only time I’ve ever seen his sleeves rolled up is to swing a golf club or shoot a basket. So this must have hurt:

    He just cancelled the family vacation planned for this weekend in Whitefish, Montana. A good number of golf courses in the area for him – and rafting, etc. for the large entourage they usually take with them. They’re “rescheduling” at the moment, of course. (Link at Drudge, I think.)

    Yep. Along with the suddenly grey hair, we have a cancelled vacation. My guess is he’ll be off the golf course for a few days — several weeks or months? — not a chance.

  48. #52 July 8, 2011 at 5:57 pm

    dunce commented:

    For once said something he believed to be true. He is so stupid (as opposed to ignorant) he does not realize that his socialism that he was taught all his life is the cause of the stalled economy, his whole life and hence his identity is chained to an economic/political system that always fails but usually the decent is gradual unless the country has little wealth to waste on nonproductive schemes. Our constitution and freedom loving people prohibit the bleeding of wealth from productive operations to social injustice programs. The left is always moaning about “fairness” but there is nothing fair about taking money from peter to pay paul who did not earn it and paul never stole the money or cheated anyone but earned it so i call them injustice programs.

  49. #53 July 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    mg4us commented:

    People. .Obama never ran ANYTHING prior to being president except his BIG MOUTH (yep as a Community Agitator) so Incompetent is he that he is even screwing up his screwing of America. . .

    Just go to any mall and see how deserted the stores are. .lot’s of inventory sitting idly by. . .why?

    Less people working, more unemployed, lower home values, higher gas prices, higher food prices, lower greenback value. . . yep he screwed AMERICA big time. . forgot sky high Government Debt. . .

    Michelle Bachmann link was spot on. . Obama IS a Failure. . . as Ronald Reagan would say, Government isn’t the solution to our Problem, Government IS our Problem. . and that was before he knew OBAMA. . . OBAMA made it worse.

    So what is another 5 letter world for Loser? OBAMA

  50. #54 July 8, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Rock commented:

    Its not if he is foolish, clueless, or out of his element, he is nothing but a tool being handled by people who are cleaver, devious, and who’s end game is the destruction of our country. And I hate to say have been pretty effective. Until these anti-American operatives are identified we are fighting the wind. People like Soros and his friends are not Americas friends and should be considered an enemy as dangerous as any we have ever spilled blood defeating. It really matters little who is in the White House he is nothing but a front, I mean Biden as your back up if the first seat becomes vacant, really? Someone with brains is running the show, we are only seeing the spokesperson.

  51. #56 July 8, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Obama worked very hard at figuring out ways to bring America to
    her knees via fooling all of the people all of the time no matter how
    cognizant of being played they are..

    one obvious component of Obama’s transparent reign of impunity is just
    that.. no one is doing anything to stop him, slow him down, maybe.. but
    stop him.. as far as i can tell.. no way, not even close..

    wake up, Obama is not “fundamentally
    transforming” US all by his loathsome..

    ==

  52. #57 July 8, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    wanumba commented:

    Yahoo headlines help out … the “Bubble” destroyed the US middle class.

  53. #58 July 8, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    L.E. Liesner commented:

    It can’t be my fault, when I’m not campaigning I’m either playing golf or on vacation. So don’t point any fingers at me!

  54. #61 July 9, 2011 at 1:08 am

    jorgen commented:

    Obama said Greece, natural disasters, high gas prices, state budget cuts and uncertainty about the debt ceiling were prohibiting the economy from creating more jobs

    We are one job loss away from recovery. Obama just needs to lose his job.

  55. #62 July 9, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Zilla commented:

    Allah forbid that he should ever take responsibility for anything ever.

    Linked here:
    Weekend Link-Around – Iron Butterfly Edition

  56. #63 July 9, 2011 at 10:17 am

    Kissmygrits commented:

    Last month he included the Japanese tsunami in his little blame anything or anyone for our woes but me game. He’s now back to blaming Bush policies of the last decade. He cuts such a wide swath of destruction, it’s beyond comprehension that almost half the country still like him on a personal basis.

  57. #65 July 9, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Molon Labe commented:

    Obama=SNAFU.

    But we can always replace him with Romney, Pawlenty or Perry or some other Obama Lite substitute. And things will change like they did under Bush.

  58. #66 July 10, 2011 at 12:21 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Molon Labe #65

    they obviously changed more than you’ll ever appreciate..

    ==

  59. #67 July 10, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    cirrection re: #66

    they = Bush

    ==

  60. #70 July 18, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    Melvin commented:

    I think it is the U.S. control, and maybe the tornadoes, and all of the earthquakes may be hurricanes, earthquakes, or tornadoes of mega-disasters.

  61. #71 July 18, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Melvin commented:

    It’s the global control of our worldwide. Alas!

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