Obama Presser: “The American People Are Sold… 80% of Americans Agree With Me” (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:43 AM
Barack Obama addressed the American public this morning for the second time in one week. Talk about sound bites? We may have enough sound bites for the next week!
And, he’s supposed to be so smart?
Obama said that 80% of the American public agree with him and want a balanced appoach. (tax hikes) He said this several times.
The American people are sold… They’re sold… The notion that the American people are not sold is not the problem.”
Really?
Obama also said that, “Most things I’ve proposed are traditionally bi-partisan.”
(Obamacare? Stimulus? EPA regulations?)
“I hope this debate has subjected Congress to scrutiny.”
“Show me a ‘serious plan’. I’m ready to move.”
“I’ve already taken heat from my party for being willing to compromise.”
“Republican plan to cut $2.4 trillion in spending is ‘not a serious plan.”
“We don’t need a balanced budget amendment. We just need to do our job.”
“I hope there may be a movement to get something bare minimum done.”
Karl Rove just came on and said Obama has no plan. “He’s the president. He should have a plan.”
We all know that.
The democrats are just hoping they can use the Republican proposals to beat them with.
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 56 Comments
StrangernFiction commented:
PURE EVIL!
megapotamus commented:
Flailing. Not pretty. But 80%? What has 80% approval ever? Maybe he is reminiscing about the Iraqi elections in the Age of Saddam. There is one thing that gets close to this level though. It’s something like 75% who oppose increasing the debt limit. Now THAT is bipartisan!
Freddy commented:
Useless STAGED made for TV event.
How do they talk about abalanced budget ammendment and NEVER ask even once WHY the Senate has not passed a budget in 2 years?
Obama is now lieing from end to end when he comes on TV.
Presnit Obluff commented:
I wouldn’t lie to your face(without the help of the MBM)!
Ripped commented:
With the nonsense that comes out of 0dramas mouth, he’s starting to make Biden and Pelosi look sane.
befuddled commented:
Most everybody always agrees with him, doctors, economists…. The rest that don’t, we will just line them all up against a wall and shoot them in the head when we feel like it. He won.
Bob Zimmerman commented:
I hope the republicans can hold the line. Now would be a good time to call your congressman
Bill H commented:
B.O.speak: Tough choices = raise taxes.
Ripped commented:
America’s not buying it.
Presnit Obluff commented:
80% of the political prisoners in Venazuela agree that Hugo Chavez is teh bomb!
Rose commented:
Since when did the Chicago Daley Machine become “AMERICA”?
I find that 80% of Americans agree with ME – that it is time to try Obama as in Illegal Alien Foreign Agent Insurgent Mole with false and non-existent documents, and a goal of disrupting and destroying America at the highest levels and deepest damage possible.
He may be a “Manchurian” but he is NOT an American, either in HEART or in CITIZENSHIP.
baseballguy commented:
Lies, lies and more lies. What is his plan exactly? There is no plan, just words. And when agreement is reached, Lucy just pulls the football one more time. Ask Bush I about promises. He agrees to tax hikes for spending cuts – taxes go up, spending goes up and they use his own words to run him out of town.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
What a pathetic a$$wipe.
#1AMERICAN commented:
someone check to see what drugs he is smokin because even a freakin idiot would know better than to sprout THAT big of a lie…what a huge stinkin POS
gary gulrud commented:
More like 80% say GTFO.
Average Joe commented:
“I hope there may be a movement to get something bare minimum done.”
Yes Mr. President it’s called the TEA PARTY!
Obama said that 80% of the American public agree with him and want a balanced appoach. (tax hikes) He said this several times.
What Polls has he been reading, Look at Gallup, Rasmussen, etc. A majority want the spending cuts not the TAX INCREASES. Another lie.
When will it stop! I can’t want till he is out of office!
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Claire McNutskill is on the KMOX website. Her face looks like like a smoked ham before it was sliced.
Primary Boehner commented:
BAIER: Do you trust [0].
BOEHNER: I do.
Wrong answer John.
SeniorD commented:
The Inept One has access to alien technology! He is able to poll every citizen and instantly obtain compiled and correlated results! Who are we to ever question this Olympian Intellect, this Light Worker when he makes such concrete pronouncements?
Actually, The Inept Puppet President was elevated beyond his Peter Principle Limit before he returned from Indonesia. He has no clue, no idea, nothing! Kicking a partially open door in the Press Room may make him fell better, but it cements the idea of a spoiled child having a tantrum for not getting his way.
Give him his ‘Wubby’ and put him to bed for a time out.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
“Most Things I’ve Proposed Are Traditionally Bi-Partisan… 80% of Americans Agree With Me”
Ha…haahahaaa….HAAAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAA….HAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!
ClassicFilm commented:
“80% of Americans agree With me” — he left out that it was a Soros/Media Matters poll of San Franciscan liberals, illegal aliens, SEIU members, and welfare recipients.
USMC Thomas commented:
This lying POS needs a “I am Spartacus” response updated to “I am Joe Wilson and YOU LIE!”
Judi in Texas commented:
Whoever is advising him is a crackhead! He’s got the numbers totally backwards! He has surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men/women rather than people who will tell him the truth. I think its time we all bombard the WH with emails that he’s got it all wrong!
mpleemom commented:
Hahahahahaha!!! He should take that comedy routine on the road!!!
Gimme a Break commented:
If 80% of Americans agree with the Prissy Princeling, then the U.S.A.’s legacy as last, best hope on Earth has ceased to exist.
Gimme a Break commented:
#22 July 15, 2011 at 11:13 am
Judi in Texas commented:
Whoever is advising him is a crackhead!
_________
I guess King Putt is his own adviser.
Judi in Texas commented:
Just sent my email- come on everybody-lets overwhelm him with how wrong he is!
sablegsd commented:
DELUSIONAL LUNATIC.
His fugly beard should have him committed on a three day hold. He’s a danger to himself (which I really don’t care about) and a tremendous danger to the entire world.
Chris in N.Va. commented:
….and the sound track heard softly wafting in the background….
The Fool On The Hill
…and Captain Ozone keeps spinning and spinning, along with the MSM who keep propelling the merrygoround faster and faster…. wheeee…. wheeee…. wh–*BARF!*
Mark commented:
Disney made a movie called The Lion King.
Obama is the Lyin’ Klown.
Rock commented:
So what happen last November, sure did not look like 80% agreed with him then, oh I know that was just a bump in the road, lying POS.
Oh wait I forgot he just counting all the illegals here he meant to say, 80% of the soon to be new Americans. Nothing changed still a lying POS.
kansas commented:
Barack Obama- I just make sh*t up and get away with it.
gus commented:
Folks as we laugh at President McSh!tstain, keep in mind he has no problem bringing America to it’s knees. He is a sick disturbed Mutherfu**er.
cutlers bad knee commented:
Hey dickweed if all of us have to cut back what do say you cancel this multi million dollar 50th birthday bash you are gonna have for yourself ? IT is going to be at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago on August 3rd.
Everybody mapquest it and we’ll all show up for cake…….
lizzy84 commented:
Am falling off the chair here. That ‘Richard’… what a nut!!!
{Show us the PLAN,’ Richard’..where is your PLAN?}
Conservative Ken commented:
75% of of the City of St. Louis was with him on the healthcare referendum, some of em even voted twice. They support him that much.
sarcasm intended.
Redwine commented:
Comrade Dear Leader uses the tactics of the tyrannical autocrat (especially as a dyed-in-the-wool Alinskyite Marxist): By repeating lies, people will eventually believe you. With the support of a compliant media, this process to sway ignorant swaths of the public is reinforced and engrained.
Rove’s comments do not add anything to the conversation. We conservatives have to use Alinsky tactics to isolate and freeze RINOs.
Bunni commented:
He’s certifiably INSANE. He should NOT smoke crack before a presser! Barry, put down the pipe, beer and whatever else you’re doing, and WALK…no RUN AWAY!
He’s so delusional, he actually believes his own LIES.
He’s still following his “rules for radicals” playbook, thinking repeating LIES enough times will make them so! What a MORON, EVIL POS. I can’t take much more of this nonsense, he’s really on thin ice now, and into self destruct mode, if you ask me.
GOP, PLEASE don’t cave into this craven imbecile.
Redwine commented:
“The American people are sold… They’re sold… The notion that the American people are not sold is not the problem.” Sold into bondage to the state. Wow.
Don Rodrigo commented:
“80%?”
When I first saw that headline over at “Drudge,” I thought it was a quote from an actual poll, and I’m like, WTF? The Rassmussen poll has a waaayyy different result.
Now I see that it is Obma himself making this s***t up! No surprise there. I don’t like “Hitler” analogies, but this is the kind of “Big Lie” that could gain traction because of Obama’s handlers in the MSM.
I try real, real hard to be kind to all my supposedly intelligent friends who helped put this guy in office, but it’sd getting harder to do so. I want a law passed requiring all those who voted for Obama to be entirely rersponsible for paying down the debt.
AndAynSaid commented:
“It doesn’t seem to work,” he said, pointing to a pile of reports from his public-pulse-takers. “All the press releases about our collaborating with John Galt don’t seem to make any difference. People don’t care. They don’t believe a word of it. Some of them say that he’ll never collaborate with us. Most of them don’t even believe that we’ve got him. I don’t know what’s happened to people. They don’t believe anything any more.”
Rand, Ayn (2005-04-21). Atlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition) (p. 1012). Plume. Kindle Edition.
Amjean commented:
Perhaps it is time for another march on Washington to let the president know that
we will not stand for any tax hikes!!!!
Amjean commented:
Also, call your senators and representatives and tell them to hold strong – we want
spending cuts and no new taxes!
Rock commented:
Just e-mailed Reps again, Do Not Cave!
Tired of the lies commented:
If Obama was a computer and spit out some outrageous statement like that I would be going off-line and running a virus/malware scan until I could diagnose the problem. Seriously, when does this boy open his mouth and crap does NOT come out? Eighty percent of what? The SEIU membership? His homeboys down in the hood? Welfare Momma’s?
Finncrisp commented:
Barry is losing it. He is trying to get the media to “lie big” with him on this one to allow him to run for cover. Having no plan and demanding one from others is the coward’s way out. The man is an unprincipled coward. OBAMA isn’t working…
Starting the cutting process with seniors, veterans, and the disabled says it all. The Democrats keep telling you they are the party of death. Do you believe them yet?
Joey commented:
This was honestly a hysterical display today. I honestly laughed uncontrollably no fewer then 5 times.
One of my favorite (and imo, one which was strangely (for him) honest and telling) rants was:
“If you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit just as if you’re a conservative. And the reason is, because, if the only thing we’re talking about over the next year, two years, five years is debt and deficits then it’s very hard to start talking about how do we make investments in community colleges so our kids are trained, how do we actually rebuild $2 trillion worth of crumbling infrastructure. If you care about making investments in, uh, our kids and making investments in our infrastructure and making investments in basic research then you should want our fiscal house in order so every time we propose a new initiative somebody just doesn’t throw up their hands and say oh, more big spending, more big government.”
See this right here:
If you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit… If you care… then you should want our fiscal house in order
sums it up perfectly! If they did care, then maybe we could get somewhere.
…But alas, they just don’t…
aprilnovember811 commented:
Mark Levin said last night his proposal was $110 Billion in new spending. When the Republicans mentioned cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare, he said only if it’s traded for new taxes.
THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE REMOVED, HE’S A DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY!!!!
BigAlSouth commented:
“The American People are sold”
Yeah. Sold into slavery to the demands of the deficit.
Arch commented:
Again, Obama is lying. 80% of Americans do not want to raise taxes. He needs to show us the numbers.
Yesterday, Scott Rasmussen polled 1,000 likely voters. 55% opposed any agreement on the debt ceiling that included a tax hike. Only 34% want a tax hike. Along party lines those opposed are 42% of democrats, 82% of republicans and 51% of independents. Margin of error is ± 3%. Read the whole thing.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/taxes/july_2011/55
Ipso Facto commented:
80% or the people are with him? Really?
Upon what does he base such an absurd statement?
JimmyT commented:
I would ask that Rasmussen, and other polling services, better screen their “likely voters” when asking about tax increases in any form. The first questions should be, “do you pay federal income tax”? If not, drop the call. Ya know, like most pollsters do when you tell them your conservative. IMHO, if you ain’t paying, you ain’t playing. Then, let’s see what the REAL number is as to who agrees bambi should raise taxes.
Nell commented:
And God said, “80% of the American people want a balanced plan that includes tax increases. ” And there was consensus.
Ooops. No, didn’t happen. Turns out it was only Obama who said it.
saveus commented:
who is writing his baloney?
bill ayers and pravda?
Doug commented:
“80% or the people are with him? Really?
Upon what does he base such an absurd statement?”
He took a poll of the news reporters prior to the press conference. A couple of them were late, or the results would have been higher!
owl commented:
I have been watching the DEM playbook for many years. It followed a pattern that has one MSM write up a so called fact, then another MSM quoted them. That established it as a ‘fact’ that they all quoted as a fact. I watch people like O’Reilly buy into these established facts occasionally (the SPIT, O’s so SMART). Never any proof, or some absurb thing thrown up as proof such as, a Rep would not lie or he was Harvard prof. MSM fact power is so strong that it elected this imposter.
The President of the United States just stood in front of the camera and lied about that 80%. Is that a fact or a lie because he said it? Thank you, Rep Walsh.
Arch commented:
JimmyT
Look at the link. It also breaks down income above and below $75,000.
Bottom line. If we ever hope to climb out of this recession, we cannot increase taxes. We must cut spending.
Primary Boehner commented:
…But alas, they just don’t…
Barry being one of them.
big L commented:
The GOP seem useless. What would it have hurt if
Boehner had said “Well..trust him? Actually no, I don’t, Obama is really focussed on his re-election and it is all about him. But that is ok. We know where he stands.”
That would have been a much better answer.
Plus Obama doesn’t give a rip about Boehner or the Gop or We, the Peasants. His feelings CAN’T be hurt. So say it like it is…
Anyway this is Obama ‘s plan to drag this out all summer so no one pays any attention to the crises in gas,jobs ,Dodd Frank and Iran-with-nukes and bad treatment of allies. Keep all that off the front pages and off the breakfast table. This is controlling the newscycle from Obama axel, Jarrett and Plouffe.
Don’t fall for it.The gOP should say here is our plan.we are not signing to raise taxes or raise in debt cieling. Reveal your budget and the plan, obama.
Concerned commented:
Can’t believe you’d quote that old “RINO Karl Rove…
Multitude commented:
The left used to fret about Bush falling off the wagon and picking the bottle back up. Regardless of whether that ever happened, we now have clear, incontrovertible proof that Barry’s back on crack.
Either that, or D.C. seceded from the Union and that’s where Barry’s strange numbers are coming from.
Joey commented:
the Hill:
Obama: Public is ‘sold’ on tax increases in a debt-ceiling deal
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/171743-obama-public-sold-on-tax-increases-in-debt-ceiling-deal
Interestingly, they never mention the Rasmussen poll…
Militant Conservative commented:
If white America isracist the number can’t be that
High. Hmmmmmmmm!
Powder is dry, Obama lies.
bg commented:
++
re: Karl Rove just came on and said Obama has no
plan. “He’s the president. He should have a plan.”
oh yes, Dhimmis R US..
just as it has come to pass with everything else during the most
TRANSPARENT presidency since the most ETHICAL congress in all
of history before it..
Barry most certainly does have a plan, i mean, everyone is too busy
works every
keeping their eyes on the butterflies vs what the UNACORN is up to,
who’s going to notice what’s hidden in plain sight??
time, as in there’s one born every second sucker!! /s/
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owl commented:
He said it. All the MSM will quote it. It is now established fact. Our side has voted to give MSM special status on several occasions.
bg commented:
++
oh crapola..
re: link re: #66
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Trialdog commented:
I’m sick of this guy defiling the office of the presidency. He has rendered it almost meaningless. I have to tell my kids when we watch this stuff that their president is lying and manipulative, just like a street agitator. That hurts. The office, even under Clinton, always had class. Now it is nothing.
owl commented:
I am so darn sick of that the big fact. The one that Dems and Repubs both quote. Repubs make me ill when I hear them say it. Bush started this so therefore he caused this to happen. Someone needs to study the chart that above this post. Looked like things were moving along okay until DEMS took the House and the cowards on our side sat there and hoped they could push off all the stink unto Bush.
Joey commented:
“We’re not Greece, we’re not Portugal. Problem is we…”
Instead of just quoting the rest of the presidents sentence though, lets help him out and instead correct it for him:
“had terrorists fly planes into buildings without their paying for it. We forced banks to give loans to minorities who didn’t have jobs and couldn’t pay for them. We paid 278,000 per job, and it turns out that might not have been very efficient. Mrs Speaker had a private jet stocked with expensive wines and champagne that we just couldn’t pay for. We tried to force everyone to stop using oil, and well, it turns out, 170 years of Solar Panels and they still aren’t efficient or cost effective…”
kato commented:
This is reminiscent of the laughably outrageous lies that used to emanate from the Kremlin, where, as with Blowhard, politcal hacks tried fruitlessly to prop up their failed policies.
Similarly, we can expect NPR, the Times, and the networks to act like Pravda and pass off Blowhard’s lies as if they were statements of fact. “All the jive that’s fit to print” is the motto of our liberal asskissers.
Chris in N.Va. commented:
The American people are “sold”????
Ahhhh, now I get it. Reparation/Revenge.
He wants to “sell” the American people into economic slavery, which will be maintained by the Barry Brigade’s NBPP enforcers who will now make sure the “rest” of the country (e.g., NOT Eric the Billyclub-Holder’s “people”) will recognize and accept their rightful “place” in the New Order and submissively stay on the Gummint Plantation, taking every insult and painful bludgeoning with a cheery, “Thank y’, Massa, may I please has ‘nother one?”
It becomes more and more clear every day.
Jean commented:
#41 Don Rodrigo
I agree make all of Obama’s supporters pay down the debt.
decentAmerican commented:
you guys are just plain ignorant, he is referring to the 80% of folks in those 7 extra states.
you silly!
exceller commented:
when this dick is kicked out of office next year there is going to be the biggeest collective sigh of relief that you have ever heard in this country. he has put the country in a headlock and there is no hope for us until he is shown the door.
Guy in Ohio commented:
We’ve been sold alright … right down the river!
Dave616 commented:
I think its like that commercial currently running on TV – I think it is for Telephone Company Service? – where the actor says: “If it comes out of my mouth it therefore is true.” (or something like that!!! My point is – Obama knows that the MSM Press will never PRESS (pun) him on that delusional statistic. So if enough people hear this grandious statistic (80%) over and over again (on all the MSM Networks and even Conservative Networks) It in itself becomes TRUE -[ lie or not ]- think I’m wrong? Look at the headline of this article. Most Americans will never read the full article – Just the Headlines [ SO WHAT the O pulled some statastic out of his a$$] Americans hear “That the President said 80% of Americans agree with him” Lie or Not
Hope I am very wrong
tommy mc donnell commented:
the last thing we need in the united states is more money in the hands of the politicans. if the politicans in washington want more money to spend stop foreign aid to the 17 countries that we are borrowing from and consider it a tax increase. short of that raise taxes only on those people that voted for obama. the frequent voter should have to pay the increase according to the number of times they voted. what they are going to do with the dead and imaginary voters is beyond me.
Dave-O commented:
The Emperor has no grip on reality
The Emperor has no credibility.
The Emperor has no plan.
The Emperor has no clothes.
The Emperor has no clue.
valerie commented:
Americans very rarely agree on anything at a rate of 80%. For us, a consensus is over 70%.
Tin-pot dictators can be detected by their overly-high poll numbers. That’s how we knew that Saddam Hussein’s election results were fraudulent.
Molon Labe commented:
Its going to be fun to see his 80% turn out in November 2012.
Once a crack head always a crack head.
Chisum commented:
Oopsie!
55% Oppose Tax Hike In Debt Ceiling Deal
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/taxes/july_2011/55_oppose_tax_hike_in_debt_ceiling_deal
Taqiyyotomist commented:
I wonder, if The Won and Co. eventually begin filling mass graves and setting up detention, labor, and concentration camps…will people who THEN compare him and his fellows to Adolph Hitler be told that they have “lost the argument due to Godwin’s Law”?
I’m betting yes. Even then.
Like Alcoa in the 80′s….Commies Can’t Wait.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#76 exceller
When this dick is kicked out of office next year there is going to be the biggeest collective sigh of relief that you have ever heard in this country.
Well, that and the biggest collective mass riots, looting, killing, stealing, raping, burning, beating, robbing, and destroying that you have ever heard in this country.
That “sigh of relief” will last about 10 seconds.
Then, Hell on Earth, brought to you by the Lucifer/Alinsky coalition of Unions, ACORN “Community-organized” (i.e. brainwashed and conditioned blacks), MS-13 illegal aliens from South of the border, and black-masked bone-breaking statist brownshirts who call themselves “Anarchists”.
Mark my words. They will take an Obama defeat like the tantrum-throwing babies and immature thugs that they all are.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
If Obama wins, he and his Communist friends destroy the country.
If Obama loses, his army of idiots destroy the country.
Either way, it’ll be a really fun (sarc) 2013.
donh commented:
We are being sold into slavery by the first black President.
Little David Puddy commented:
The scariest thing of all is that this raving lunatic has the keys to our Nuclear Arsenal.
That’s as insane as sending your kid to the Casey Anthony Child Day Care Center.
Leatherhelmet commented:
The teleprompter said 8%. Obama just read it wrong.
Militant Conservative commented:
#88 DonH
I said this over a year ago. I find it ironic that white man freed the slaves,
who in turn give us a black man to enslave us all.
our founders knew man is not to be trusted.
powder is dry
Militant Conservative commented:
#77 July 15, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Guy in Ohio commented:
That phrase came from the slavery days here in America. “sold down the river”
The plantations down the river were the hotest and most humid and worst of
places to go to. No a/c no releif from the heat.
hope that helps some.
Walknot commented:
It’s simple, they use a vague term like “balanced” in a poll question in order to generate a large positive response then later define the word “balanced” to best suit their needs.
In this case they needed “balanced” to mean, both tax cuts AND tax increases. It’s bogus data good for nothing but snowing the public.
bg commented:
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re: #80
true, but what does that say about US.. *sigh*
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Deborah commented:
Can we really take much more from this man. There is a diagnosis of “shared psychosis”, which finds that if you have to live with a crazy person you too will eventually become psychotic.
I work with senior citizens and I have spent this week trying to calm them down and prevent them from being hospitalized because they are scared that they will not have the money to eat next month.
This man is a sociopathic monster.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#94 bg
Indeed.
Kissmygrits commented:
Shame on him for scaring seniors and shame on the msm for not exposing his lies. 80% of us wouldn’t agree with him if he said it was raining in a hurricane.
Guy in Ohio commented:
#92 July 15, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Militant Conservative commented:
“That phrase came from the slavery days here in America. “sold down the river” ”
I didn’t know that M/C. You learn something new every day. Anyway, I’m certainly not sold on the criminal-in-chief’s plan to “increase revenues”. If the GOP caves on this, they can kiss the Republican Party goodbye …
Hebrew commented:
He is absolutely correct. Americans are sold. I would bet we are all sold but he didn’t want to scare the shoeple. ( Thanks you William Cooper for that word, RIP.) We are all collateral on the national debt as joint and several liabilty on the national debt. We are going to be taken into National Captivity for the Breaking of the Law of God as penned by Moses and others.