Either Obama’s completely making up stuff now or we all missed some horrible devastating earthquake in Hawaii…
President Obama said tonight that he agreed with “The Louisiana Purchase” in Obamacare because it also covered the earthquake in Hawaii:
FOX News posted the exchange:
BAIER: Do you know which specific deals are in or out, as of today?
OBAMA: I am certain that we’ve made sure, for example, that any burdens on states are alleviated, when it comes to what they’re going to have to chip in to make sure that we’re giving subsidies to small businesses, and subsidies to individuals, for example.
BAIER: So the Connecticut deal is still in?
OBAMA: So that’s not — that’s not going to be something that is going to be in this final package. I think the same is true on all of these provisions. I’ll give you some exceptions though.
Something that was called a special deal was for Louisiana. It was said that there were billions — millions of dollars going to Louisiana, this was a special deal. Well, in fact, that provision, which I think should remain in, said that if a state has been affected by a natural catastrophe, that has created a special health care emergency in that state, they should get help. Louisiana, obviously, went through Katrina, and they’re still trying to deal with the enormous challenges that were faced because of that.
(CROSS TALK)
OBAMA: That also — I’m giving you an example of one that I consider important. It also affects Hawaii, which went through an earthquake. So that’s not just a Louisiana provision. That is a provision that affects every state that is going through a natural catastrophe.
Now I have said that there are certain provisions, like this Nebraska one, that don’t make sense. And they needed to be out. And we have removed those. So, at the end of the day, what people are going to be able to say is that this legislation is going to be providing help to small businesses and individuals, across the board, in an even handed way, and providing people relief from a status quo that’s just not working.
In 1868 there was a major earthquake in Hawaii that killed 77 people. In 1975 an earthquake in Hawaii killed 2 people.
Hat Tip Mr. Goodwrench
UPDATE: Obama lied. The language on page 432 of the Senate Bill applies to exactly one state: Louisiana.
ABC reported
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
The bill did not cover the hurricane damage in Texas or Mississippi. The senate bill will not cover any state that has been “affected by a natural catastrophe” despite what Obama said.
UPDATE: Now you can contribute to the Hawaii earthquake fund.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:00 pm | #1
He’s insane. This is worse than the 57 states thing. What up Bam-Bam?
March 17th, 2010 | 7:00 pm | #2
Hawai’i. one of our 57 states…
March 17th, 2010 | 7:01 pm | #3
damn, Liz :-)
March 17th, 2010 | 7:04 pm | #4
Hurricane Ike slammed South Texas; destroyed Billions of dollars of property….and that happened AFTER Katrina. So where’s OUR money dip wad?
March 17th, 2010 | 7:06 pm | #5
Who is this guy, where is his mind? I’d love to see this guys college records. He sounds like his brain is fried.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:07 pm | #6
If Obama said there was an Earthquake, then, by God, THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE. It all depends on how you define “Earthquake”.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:07 pm | #7
This guy is dumb, dumber and weird!! What’s he been smoking? Where was I when Hawaii had an earthquake? Help me out here.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:08 pm | #8
My guess is they shouldn’t let the guy go out without his teleprompter buddy.
It’s just really unseemly for a president to lie in your face. At least Clinton tried to make lies sound plausible.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:08 pm | #9
Seriously though, I think he’s back on the crack.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:09 pm | #10
If Bush said earthquake in Hawaii front page and lead story.
Since Obama said it, no story.
How many stupid things can Obama say before it becomes a story. At least 3000 percent less.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:11 pm | #11
Earthquake . . .that’s it . .. right. . .the earth shook in Hawaii and swallowed up all the birth records.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:12 pm | #12
if this crap passes we should not give up .we should fight even harder to throw these bums out and repeal this crap .lets go and fight.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:13 pm | #13
Too much blow Barry?
March 17th, 2010 | 7:15 pm | #14
Yeah he’s definitely on crack. I love it that Bret said “so you think this crap will pass?”
great job Bret
March 17th, 2010 | 7:15 pm | #15
Lets’see now.. this earthquake ranks right up there with Obama mispronouncing his own daughters name.
Orrrrrrr..Obama had a vision of a coming quake and thought we all saw it too.
God Help US!!
March 17th, 2010 | 7:16 pm | #16
Come on, give the pres a break…
Hawaii – Hati what’s the diff???? They both start with that “H” letter don’t they??
March 17th, 2010 | 7:17 pm | #17
The Tenth Amendment makes it Clear that Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the Yeas on Heatlth Care are all criminals. I say death sentance to all of them, and do now!
March 17th, 2010 | 7:25 pm | #18
Just a simple mistake. He meant the earthquake in Chile, one of the 57 states in the great nation of Detroit.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:34 pm | #19
Hawaii DID have an earthquake; the fact that you all haven’t heard of it shows just how small it was. The only reason I know is because we have friends who winter over there.
Obama IS a moron, don’t get me wrong however :D
March 17th, 2010 | 7:36 pm | #20
That’s awesome. He sounded so professorial when he made that “fact” up out of whole cloth. What a fricking fraud.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:37 pm | #21
Did I miss something? When did Hawaii have an earthquake?
March 17th, 2010 | 7:40 pm | #22
As a Hawai’i resident, I can say that there has been a fairly recent quake, which hit Hawai’i in October 2006. Epicenter was about 12 miles off the Big Island.
There were actually two near-simultaneous quakes of roughly about 6 on the Richter Scale. It made quite a mess at my house and did some damage to bridges and highways, but not a horrendous amount.
Maybe he was thinking about the huge quake in Chile and the false tsunami alarm we got in Hawai’i.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:40 pm | #23
Like the most of us knew before he went into office, when he is off script, O is a major train wreck.
Here is the official fawning O-fan’s response: “But he articulated the earthquake soooooooooo well!!!!”
March 17th, 2010 | 7:41 pm | #24
What a piece of meat.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:45 pm | #25
There was a little tremor on 3/9/10 but even the Hawiians did’nt know it, so the lil’ Bamster mentioned it as a prelude to something he’s got up his crooked little sleeve.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:46 pm | #26
Brett Bair really did say “this crap”???? I thought GP was live blogging and paraphrasing.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:48 pm | #27
What we see here is Odumbo becoming completely unglued when put in a corner. You can see his cognitive process go into meltdown as soon as he’s challenged and doesn’t have the answer.
This is the guy who has his finger on the nation’s button. This is the guy who makes the decisions in the Situation Room. And leftoids say Sarah Palin is inexperienced. God, I know whom I’d rather have in the Sit Room at 3am.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:01 pm | #28
Hawaii has experienced recent mild earthquakes, as referenced by others in this thread. This includes one on March 8 in which an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 hit Hawaii:
http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/Quakes/quakes0.html
Nonetheless, I don’t think any of the recent earthquakes on that list could be considered a “natural catastrophe” that “created a special health care emergency” so why would they receive any federal money? What an idiotic example for him to use. After all, how can you compare the problems caused by any recent Hawaiian earthquakes with those caused by Katrina? It looks to me like Obama was grasping for a response after being called out for ridiculously supporting the special deal for Louisiana, which, as we all know, was included in the Senate’s version of the health care bill in order to get Mary Landrieu’s vote.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:04 pm | #29
After viewing this interview, it is now confirmed – Mr. Obama just isn’t as brilliant as hyped. Just like the revelation the Clintons were unethical, corrupt, incompetents, we are stuck with another lackluster Democrat making a mess of everything.
It is a big joke on the USA.
After all the years of the ugly slander against the Republicans in Print, TV, Film, Music, etc., they reveal again they really have no clue.
Obama was selected because he was unknown, and fit an image they desired.
He has proven to be a disaster.
DNC Titanic sinking us all.
One can only hope the foolish Democrats in the House are not foolish enough to go through with this monstrous socialized effort.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:15 pm | #30
I was wrong when I said in a posted comment earlier today that Obamao and Fox News are now BFF. Baier didn’t give Obamao the MSNBC treatment as I was sure he would. So, my prediction that this would be only the first of many Fox interviews with Obamao was surely wrong, too. Axelrod is probably putting together the smear campaign against Fox News as we speak.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:15 pm | #31
What about Hurricane Ismarelda, that devasted Lincoln, NE?
March 17th, 2010 | 8:15 pm | #32
I think our special needs president meant to say that earthquakes in Hawaii would decrease by 3000%.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:21 pm | #33
This just off the wire: Localized earth quake destroys birth records from 1958 through 1968 in Hawaii. Reporters on the ground say the are amazed that only these records were destroyed as all records were in the same place. Obama declares an emergency and sends FEMA, updates at eleven.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:22 pm | #34
Lisa T.
March 17th, 2010 | 7:16 pm | #16
Come on, give the pres a break…
Hawaii – Hati what’s the diff???? They both start with that “H” letter don’t they??
Omg, Lisa, you’re probably right. And being a “citizen of the world,” as well as a complete idiot, it probably doesn’t even cross his mind that Haiti isn’t one of the United States and/or that the taxes paid by US taxpayers aren’t global taxes collected to be used globally.
If Lisa’s right, Obamao gave more away with that mistake than the slip that he’s no genius. He’s a citizen of the NWO.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:24 pm | #35
This guy is just a disaster — that interview was so painful to watch.
What’s truly unnerving is how many people still think this guy’s a genius — when he’s challenged and pressed, he’s reduced to another thin-skinned politician.
Nice change and hope.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:25 pm | #36
He just MAKES STUFF UP.
Bret just asked about procedure. But I wanted him to answer on substance. Obama sells his bill as if it is the ONLY SOLUTION to the problems with the current system. Bret did not challenge him on this. There are better ways to shore up the problems without a government takeover.
About 85% of people are reasonably happy with their health care. And we have some of the highest cancer survial rates in the world. And we don’t have long wait times for treatment.
We are reasonably afraid that overall costs will increase while care will decline. To dismiss these concerns as unreasonable fear is wrong.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:30 pm | #37
I know what he was talking about. He just broke tradition and didn’t mention that he got a letter from a resident in HI just the other day, talking about the earthquake there, and how because of the earthquake, she felt a tingle up her leg.
I don’t know if it is legit or not, but it was signed Christy Matthews.
Special needs president is right. Why does he think that talking like a drunk, washed up comedian in a local bar at these staged town hall meetings makes him look like a leader??
Seriously, I think what we are seeing is a man with a serious drinking problem.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:38 pm | #38
Other than the fact that he was right, and President Bush declared it a ‘major disaster’ in October 2006, you are right, Mr. Hoft.
Have you all heard of ‘the google’? It would help to make it look like you all are not just mindless lemmings. Key word being look, you are all mindless lemmings.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:39 pm | #39
brooklyn, I think you hit the nail right on the head with your comments in #29.
The irony is that the 52% that voted for this guy voted for supposed “change” and instead they (and the rest of us) got a POTUS who is an arrogant, immature, inexperienced jerk with no leadership ability and no previous experience of value, and who, on a daily basis, behaves much like the most corrupt politicians this country has ever seen. The guy’s law education is also lacking, as evidenced by his inability to understand Supreme Court decisions or to see the potential legal problems he and Pelosi are going to cause the country if they try to push through a health care bill that may be unconstitutional. You’d think that he would at least try to explain to the country why he thinks the entire bill and the “Slaughter Rule” are constitutional considering many Americans are concerned about these aspects of the bill and process, among many others.
The man is a joke and really would be better suited as a backbencher in the Illinois state legislature, not POTUS. But many of our fellow Americans fell not only for the line of crap he was giving them during the 2008 campaign, but also wanted to be able to say that they voted for the first minority POTUS. I’m sad to say that this horrible decision by the 52% crowd is likely to cause this country long-lasting or even permanent damage.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:39 pm | #40
How’s that for justifying the unjustifiable. Hurricane Katrina caused special health care, maybe for the homes, they were pretty sick after it went through.
Remember all the doom and gloom predictions about all the toxic chemicals in the water?
That turned out to be a wild exaggeration just like all the rapes in the Superdome, and on and on.
I am so sick of being lied to for political gain….I can’t wait for November. It will be a good warm up for November of 2011, I just pray that the Republicans will give us a strong Conservative candidate.
You know like McCain ;-).
March 17th, 2010 | 8:41 pm | #41
When I heard him say this, I thought he was referring to the Chileian tsunami that was projected to hit Hawaii. But that feared tsunami wave never hit Hawaii. It never happened.
There was an earthquake in Chile, not Hawaii.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:42 pm | #42
Somewhere there are lawyers who sat in class and learned from this guy. When they meet a new client most of them say “You want fries with that?”
March 17th, 2010 | 8:43 pm | #43
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March 17th, 2010 | 8:47 pm | #44
When is Ashton Kutscher going to announce, “America, you’ve been punked!” ?
March 17th, 2010 | 8:48 pm | #45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hawaii_earthquake
You are all retarded. (No worries, it is just satire).
March 17th, 2010 | 8:49 pm | #46
If the US did not offer all this ‘FREESTUFF’ the nation would not be inundated with people clamoring to get here and take advantage of these free things.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:50 pm | #47
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March 17th, 2010 | 8:50 pm | #48
The Bush Whitehouse issued a press release on October 17, 2006 declaring that a major disaster existed in Hawaii as a result of an earthquake on October 15, 2006.
You people don’t even rise to the level of morons.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:51 pm | #49
Its just his way of letting us all know Hawii got a “deal”
March 17th, 2010 | 8:53 pm | #50
Brett Baier should have stopped the interview right there and said to his face: “What the fcuk are you talking about?”
March 17th, 2010 | 8:54 pm | #51
Obama was thinking of Haiti… but he forgot it isn’t part of the US… then he remembered everything important is ultimately about Himself… and then he remembered he was from Hawaii… so the earthquake was in Hawaii!
I swear to God, that’s what went through his head.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:56 pm | #52
@Kenneth
The earthquake was in Hawaii you knob.
The google is your friend. Try using it before you open your piehole and prove to the world that you’re the idiot they already thought you were.
March 17th, 2010 | 8:58 pm | #53
Silly people….it was the earthquake recorded in November 1961 when the GREAT MESSIAH was born in Hawaii.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:01 pm | #54
Anyone notice the obama trying to make himself look like Whitie for Fox News??
ROFL…he couldn’t be more of a loser.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:06 pm | #55
Obama is a fraud. He’s not smart, he’s not post-partisan, he’s not a uniter. He is a fraud.
Even worse, he is a mediocrity.
He is a mediocre fraud.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:07 pm | #56
As someone who experienced Katrina first hand, saw dead people stuck in the top of trees on the Mississippi Gulf coast several miles inland….I just had to pull the info on this Hawaii earthquake in 2006.
Here is the headline from
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15278030/from/ET/
Hawaii governor issues disaster declaration
Landslides, power outages but no reports of deaths
Hmmm…..yeah….similar. Obama can kiss my a$$.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:08 pm | #57
vargas #53
ROFL!
March 17th, 2010 | 9:10 pm | #58
Dear Penny… I did check. There are small tremors in Hawaii everyday. The last significant eathquake in Hawaii was in 2006.
But you go ahead and open your pie hole, ok?
What you’re saying is Obama justified his actions because that’s what Bush did? Ok, I’ll accept that. I guess it’s better than always blaming Bush which is his usual habit. After campaigning against Bush, he has now co-opted so many of Bush’s policies it’s hard to keep count.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:11 pm | #59
Colorado had a big freaking snowstorm a couple of years ago.
Can we have a bunch of money from the other states too?
March 17th, 2010 | 9:16 pm | #60
It’s BUSH’s fault!
March 17th, 2010 | 9:21 pm | #61
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March 17th, 2010 | 9:23 pm | #62
He’s a loon.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:27 pm | #63
March 17, 2010
Obama’s Capoeira (a poem)
Peter Olsson
He struts to the lecturn, lifts his chin skyward, points.
The sparkling grin a politician’s wordless preamble.
A nimble new dance of empathy and political power.
Baritone voice claims cadence in America’s heartbeat.
Haunting intonations of Martin, Franklin, and John.
His smile foisting nobility upon scared collective souls.
Audacity and Hope find morphing transparent forms,
Acorns and green science are smarmy political disguises.
The emperor and his czars wear dazzling new straw suits.
His highness a genius at strawman crafting and creating,
Seeming so in love with his endlessly ever-exposed TV image.
Oh so defensive when his judgment is seriously questioned.
Obama would best be mindful of an Eden’s shadow side,
Symbolized in thirty inflated or deflated pieces of silver.
The inevitable need and danger, for a Jesus to find a Judas.
So sad, the anointed one confuses cogent critics with enemies,
And forgets the important ritual of washing his disciples feet.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:28 pm | #64
Honest St. Louisian
March 17th, 2010 | 8:38 pm | #38
Other than the fact that he was right, and President Bush declared it a ‘major disaster’ in October 2006, you are right, Mr. Hoft.
Have you all heard of ‘the google’? It would help to make it look like you all are not just mindless lemmings. Key word being look, you are all mindless lemmings.
So this earthquake in Hawaii in 2006 was a “major disaster” that “created a special health care emergency” that still exists 3-1/2 years later to the degree that it will receive money from the health care bill that’s currently being debated, after (if) it’s passed? And how much will other states like Hawaii receive compared to Mary Landrieu’s state of Louisiana anyway? Talk about intellectually dishonest.
Obama at least could have mentioned those Kansas tornadoes that he said killed 10,000 people (actually 12 people) in 2007.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270852,00.html
I think everyone here can determine who’s the “mindless lemming” based on the fact that you are defending Obama’s transparent comment meant to justify the payoff to Landrieu’s state, which “ironically” didn’t exist in the Senate’s health care bill until they needed Landrieu’s support to break the GOP’s filibuster attempt in the Senate. This is the exact type of political payoff that Mr. Hope and Change claimed he was going to put a stop to, but instead he resorts to disingenuous excuses and explanations.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:28 pm | #65
Before Obamaniacs indulge in their natural habit of ad hominem attacks, let’s ask ourselves you read the entire Wiki reference.
I couldn’t find any reports of Hawaii’s earthquake resulting any deaths or damage to hospitals.
Excusing the Louisiana Purchase because of Katrina was Landrieu’s lame excuse to begin with, only offered after she accepted the bribe during her absurd, tearful meltdown on the floor of the Senate!
It was not a smart move for Obama to have reminded us. In fact, it strikes me that the person y’all want to call stupid is Obama. Lemmings? You’re projecting – Congressman who vote yes are the ones who’ll be following Obama off the cliff.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:34 pm | #66
Hope you guys like being played by both sides.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:36 pm | #67
give the guy a break – he just forgot to put in his teleprompter contact lenses.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:37 pm | #68
The teleprompter is to keep him in touch with reality.
With the current stress he is drifting in and out of his fantasy world.
I believe Frank Marshall Davis messed him up as a young teen.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/obama_is_a_stranger_in_a_stran.html
March 17th, 2010 | 9:42 pm | #69
Penny Dreadful
March 17th, 2010 | 8:50 pm | #48
The Bush Whitehouse issued a press release on October 17, 2006 declaring that a major disaster existed in Hawaii as a result of an earthquake on October 15, 2006.
You people don’t even rise to the level of morons.
Rise to the level of morons, huh? Anyone who thinks that that Obama should have cited an earthquake 3-1/2 years ago that resulted in minor damage and no apparent loss of life while discussing Katrina is the real moron. He’s trying to (badly) justify to a skeptical public why Louisiana received a payoff so that Landrieu would vote for the health care bill. Think of all the money that has already been sent to Louisiana to rebuild and help people since Katrina occurred 4-1/2 years ago and will continue to be sent through already approved funding. But we have to continue to send hundreds of millions more as part of an already bloated health care bill? I guess it was just a coincidence that these monies were not allocated to Louisiana in the health care bill until Obama & Co. needed Landrieu’s vote.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:44 pm | #70
He needed his teleprompter, clearly.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:45 pm | #71
Guys, I grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii, and let me tell ya, there are dozens of earthquakes everyday. So technically, he’s right! Problem is, they are so small you only actually feel one every few years, and the ones that actually cause you to flee your house happen only once every 10 years or so. Even then, most structures on the big island are made of wood and are quite resilient to earthquakes. Which leads to minimal damage. Certainly not to the point where we need a Fed. Gov bailout.
If we was smart, he would have stuck to a more realistic but equally relevent example: Hurricanes. Historically, they have caused billions of dollars more than any earthquake there. And required aid from the feds. Even then, the last major hit was in 1992.
This was just a bizarre choice of example. I think he was just trying to underline his “hawaiian” street cred, or something. Maybe overcompensation for what he knows that we don’t…about his BC. Lol.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:47 pm | #72
Baier got the interview. Oreilly did not. That must be humiliating to lil Billy. Lil Billy spent 14 months taking lil Barry’s side in every aurgument hoping to get the big interview. HAHAHAHAHAHA. LOL! “Hey Billy, your a red face jerk tonight”.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:48 pm | #73
BHG
March 17th, 2010 | 9:28 pm | #65
Excusing the Louisiana Purchase because of Katrina was Landrieu’s lame excuse to begin with, only offered after she accepted the bribe during her absurd, tearful meltdown on the floor of the Senate!
Exactly. Obama is trying to cover up for this fact and is doing it poorly. Oh, Obama & Co. may have rewritten the bill so that other states can get funding for any “major disaster” that “create(s) a special health care emergency”. This way, it doesn’t look like a payoff and they can keep it in the bill, but we all know the whole reason it was originally added to the bill.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:52 pm | #74
Slappy #29
What 52%? I keep seeing this percentage.
69,000,000 voted for BHO out of approx
300,000,000 American citizens
this is only around 22%
I say: lets keep rallying the other 78%! :)
(& give ‘em all pitchforks)
March 17th, 2010 | 9:52 pm | #75
The real truth of the matter is that you all are mostly angry because its a black family in the White House…Lets get pass the foolishness and the racist, give the man a chance you all voted for Clown Bush twice or did he steal it two times. No one said anything to Bush when 911 was going on hitting N.Y. Towers while his sorry ass sat in a class room reading books to kids. bush stopped all air flights and your 911 bombers family was the only one in the air making it back to their homeland
March 17th, 2010 | 9:53 pm | #76
What he meant to say was that “All 57 states will have a 3,000% increase in the number of corpsemen”.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:55 pm | #77
lame attempt, jake… go tell mom you need a pizza
March 17th, 2010 | 9:55 pm | #78
Jake #75 – is your post supposed to be satire?
March 17th, 2010 | 9:55 pm | #79
I just saw the update at the top of the page from ABC. Apparently us quibbling about the relevance or severity of the 2006 Hawaii earthquake was a complete waste of time anyway since the relevant section in the Senate bill that increases federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster” only references Louisiana. Surprise, surprise.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:57 pm | #80
LisaGinNZ, you are correct. It’s pretty sad when we see the overall percentage of Americans (not voters) that actually elect the POTUS, isn’t it?
March 17th, 2010 | 9:58 pm | #81
that was #39 with the 52% figure…. still find it curious… nowhere NEAR the ‘majority’ of people voted this montrosity in… would it all be better under McCain… maybe not, but the march to communism is quite obvious now isn’t it….
Watching American politics this year is like waving to a bus full of people heading off the cliff – they wave back thinking you’re being nice.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:58 pm | #82
That’s right Jake – we’d love this socialist stuff if some old white guy was dishing it out to us.
Yum Yum.
March 17th, 2010 | 9:59 pm | #83
The real truth of the matter is that you all are mostly angry because its a black family in the White House…Lets get pass the foolishness and the racist,give the man a chance. You all voted for Clown Bush twice or did he steal it two times. No one said anything to Bush when the 911 planes where hitting our N.Y. Towers. Bush with his sorry ass sat in a class room reading books to kids. Bush stopped all air flights and your 911 bombers family was the only one in the air making it back to their homeland. By the way, while President Obama is speaking on New Orleans, I didn’t hear none of you all speak on what Bush was doing around that time… I’ll tell you, Bush said he was busy on his vacations and in so many words he’ll deal with it when he returned.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:00 pm | #84
damn numbers, eh Slappy?
eh… process, shmocess
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
March 17th, 2010 | 10:01 pm | #85
[ note to wee wittle Jake-y: pssssst
Bush isn't president any more ]
BED time for you, mister!
March 17th, 2010 | 10:04 pm | #86
You’re good, Lily…
yum yum cocoa-choco-social-o cake?
March 17th, 2010 | 10:05 pm | #87
Idaho first to sue: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0LSHNfmnWDnZ_JylqiFxeT5GKEQD9EGLNDO0
Virginia suit a comin’ next…
March 17th, 2010 | 10:05 pm | #88
++
oh brother, he certainly has Hawaii on the mind,
i hear it’s pretty expensive to rent a safe there..
==
March 17th, 2010 | 10:07 pm | #89
Bush wasn’t suppose to be president neither time he stole both of them at least Obama won it fair and square… By the way I’m grown little boy so we go to bed around here when we’re ready.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:10 pm | #90
Drugs are powerful things!
March 17th, 2010 | 10:10 pm | #91
Posts #75 and #89 can not be real. It reads like the ranting of an uneducated moron. But if it is, I would like to tell Jake to come back when he grows up, learns proper grammar and syntax, and can post something of value that’s not taken from Fahrenheit 9/11.
BTW, conservatives are all racist because we don’t support liberal Obama? So, you’re saying that if it were a white guy trying to pass Left-wing policies, we’d support it? I don’t remember that happening when white Bill Clinton attempted to have the government take over health care in 1993. But you keep sticking with those idiotic talking points, junior.
Jake, if your goal was to put Obama supporters in a bad light, you’ve definitely succeeded with your performance in this thread. You come across like an angry child trying to dish out tired insults that were relevant back in 2006.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:12 pm | #92
Jake, you’re right!!!!!!
I’m mad that a white man calling himself a black man is in the white house still lying.
If he was all white or all black, I’d still be pissed at his lying and destroying the country.
So take your irrelevant racist pigsheet and leave. The racehorse is dead.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:15 pm | #93
“The real truth of the matter is that you all are mostly angry because its a black family in the White House…”
That dog won’t hunt any longer, jerk, I mean jake.
I’m very angry with what Madame Pelosi and Prince Harry are doing to us in Congress. Unless there has been a radical revelation, neither of those two are black. Does that still make me a racist, though?
March 17th, 2010 | 10:19 pm | #94
I’m not trying to sound angry or nothing like that. I just feel like we all are in this world together. I haven’t heard or saw anybody say or post, lets pray for our world and our president. I just want whats fair to all of us. I don’t care of the skin color especially being all of our blood is red. Just uplift our nation and our president. He has big shoes to fill. We don’t have to sit here and bash him or our nation ever chance we get…Good night and I truly apologize if I came off wrong or offended anyone.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:26 pm | #95
We have a middle aged, bi-racial, guest lecturer, no business experience, Chicago union thug politician in the whitehouse. End of story.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:32 pm | #96
Jake, I have actually been praying for our President and our Country. I have been praying that God opens his eyes and he sees the truth – and moves away from these ruinous ideas.
Government controlling all aspects of our lives, both large and small, will not make our world fairer – it will lead to tyranny. People will lose their freedom and liberty.
So, yes, I pray about this. A lot.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:41 pm | #97
Jake,
God is moving souls:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/03/17/a-very-personal-plea-for-our-nation/
March 17th, 2010 | 10:41 pm | #98
There’s a very fine book “At Any Cost” written by Bill Sammon on the 2000 election. Jake you aught to read it and then tell me who tried to steal the election, or weren’t you old enough back then to read.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:44 pm | #99
Well, there was a 4.4 just 20 miles west northwest of Hilo last week. Was he saying that just about anything counts?
March 17th, 2010 | 10:46 pm | #100
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you can’t go wrong noting an “earthquake” re: Hawaii..
hmmm, not that these have anything to do with the LP either.. wonder why
he didn’t mention any of the other much more devastating earthquakes ie: California.. or the Storm of the Century for that matter..
but what do any of them have to do with the Louisiana Purchase??
hmmm hmmm hmmm
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March 17th, 2010 | 10:48 pm | #101
Man, are you exhausting, Jake. Talk about a split personality.
First of all, lose your assumptions, insults, and Bush bashing that was tedious while he was in office and is especially meaningless in the year 2010. It also didn’t exactly ingratiate yourself to many of us here to start out by calling us racist. That tactic is not only old but completely false considering that you don’t even know how many of us are minorities and/or have significant others that are minorities.
Second, regarding your comments about “pray(ing) for our world and our president,” it would be nice if said president listened to the American people, didn’t govern against our will, and actually governed like he implied he would during the 2008 campaign (i.e., as a moderate). He’s done none of that and has instead insulted the intelligence of many voters, especially Republicans and Independents, with his far Left policies and his “politics as usual” garbage (i.e., backroom deals, payoffs, etc.). He has only himself to blame for this approach, though if he had dropped the ego and arrogance for a second several years ago, he might have known that he wasn’t up to the challenge of serving as POTUS before he even decided to run. Too many people that surround the guy haven’t been honest and told him that he simply doesn’t have the skill set or experience to serve as POTUS (Chippy’s comments in post #95 described the current POTUS perfectly). It was obvious to me and many others during the 2008 campaign that this was true, while others that voted for him are starting to see this for themselves now.
Overall, many of us truly believe that “giving him a chance” will devastate the country for generations. It will certainly weaken this country and turn it into one that we will no longer recognize. Millions of us don’t want to live in a European-like state and economy that is primarily focused on the collective and not individual freedom and liberty, which has made this the greatest country in the history of mankind. If we go down this path toward some version of socialism that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are pushing us, the country that has been the envy of the world will cease to exist. That’s a heck of a lot to give up in order to “give Obama a chance.”
March 17th, 2010 | 10:48 pm | #102
Absolutely nothing bg. Just an ignorant man spouting ignorant things.
March 17th, 2010 | 10:55 pm | #103
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but, but, but!!
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March 17th, 2010 | 11:00 pm | #104
I didn’t notice, did any of that happen? Maybe I was sleeping when all that took place.
March 17th, 2010 | 11:02 pm | #105
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Jake @ 9:59 pm #83
re: [The real truth of the matter is that you all are mostly
angry because its a black family in the White House…]
ROTFLMBO!!
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March 17th, 2010 | 11:04 pm | #106
Maybe the President was having a flashback to 1975.
March 17th, 2010 | 11:06 pm | #107
Verily, there were Hawaian earthquakes during the Obama interview. Hawaii has had 37 quakes in the last 17 days. The largest was 4.5 which is a barely felt by folks familiar with quakes.
March 17th, 2010 | 11:08 pm | #108
Jake, I couldn’t care less if the president was purple with pink polka dots and for you to call people racists with no basis in fact is ludricrous.
Whether or not Bush said that he would get to the Katrina disaster in NO until after his vacation, I happen to doubt very much. The mess in Katrina happened because they did not ask for federal aid and the federal government, by law, cannot go in until asked by the state. In Florida we also had Katrina in addition to other hurricanes and we were ready because our Governor asked the federal govt. for assistance. The year before we had four hurricanes hit Florida and during one of them we actually had Pres. Bush handing out water to people that had gone topick up water that was available. It came out in the news and the people in their car were surprised to see the President handing out water.
So, I would suggest that you educate yourself and before calling others “morons” look in the mirror.
March 17th, 2010 | 11:18 pm | #109
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jainphx @ 11:00 pm #104
sarc on/
oh yeah, through Obama’s looking glass..
/sarc off
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March 17th, 2010 | 11:21 pm | #110
An earthquake in Hawaii, eh? George Bush must’ve caused it.
March 17th, 2010 | 11:36 pm | #111
What the h*ll is barry talking about…an earthquake in Hawaii? What the…..? Any-who, good job Bret @ Fox News, we need to hear more from
Mr. Unicorn…
March 17th, 2010 | 11:37 pm | #112
Forget Obama, Biden is back baby! It sure didn’t take him long to fire off a new “Bidenism”:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/03/18/fail-biden-god-rest-her-soul-speaking-about-irish-leaders-mother-who-is-very-much-alive/
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
March 17th, 2010 | 11:42 pm | #113
Who is this guy?
March 18th, 2010 | 12:07 am | #114
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Nathan R. Jessup @ 11:37 pm #112
the village idiot
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March 18th, 2010 | 12:13 am | #115
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Chippy @ 10:26 pm #95
and he’s not a muslim, no, no, no..
Slappy #101 & AJ #108
thank you & thumbsup..
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March 18th, 2010 | 12:20 am | #116
Leftists are all over the Internet blasting conservatives for supposedly being wrong about questioning this “earthquake in Hawaii” remark by Obama because of the 2006 earthquake towards which some of the “Louisiana Purchase” money will supposedly be allocated. Well, by doing this they only highlight the stupidity of the Democrats including a provision in the health care bill in which natural disasters going back up to 7 years will receive money. Also, just to be clear, the death toll from the 2006 earthquake in Hawaii was zero, so to mention it in the same breath as Katrina is asinine.
As I and others mentioned earlier in this thread, this provision was only added after the uproar over the original payoff to Mary Landrieu. Thus, this attempt to make it appear like it wasn’t a payoff is transparent. So, in a 2010 health care bill we’re going to cover the cost of injuries and and other health issues from a relatively minor earthquake (in terms of human injuries) four years prior? What health care costs related to that earthquake still need to be covered anyway? How much will really find its way from Louisiana to Hawaii for this purpose anyway? Nonetheless, is that supposed to make us all feel better about the $1 trillion in new spending in this bill? Unbelievable.
The Leftists are too blinded by their need to attack conservatives with their “conservatives are stupid” insults that they’re inadvertently highlighting another ridiculous detail of the health care bill. See, Leftists, the reason many are incredulous about the inclusion of the 2006 earthquake in the health care bill is: (1) it wasn’t a memorable or devastating incident (which is why it wasn’t remembered by most, unlike a significant natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina); (2) it has no business being in this health care bill; and (3) we can see through the true motivation of why Obama mentioned it (i.e., obscure the true intent of the “Louisiana Purchase”). The federal government already finances assistance for natural disasters so including extra funding in the 2010 health care bill primarily for Louisiana in order to convince Mary Landrieu to support the bill is ludicrous and highlights the corrupt behavior of the congressional Democrats.
March 18th, 2010 | 12:22 am | #117
You think this is bad? Look at Drudge report’s headline. Two Dems in California are trading “yes” votes for more water in the Central Valley. The same water the fed are denying the farmers.
Here’s my post.
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/18/in-california-two-democrats-trade-healthcare-vote-for-water-the-feds-control-anyone-see-a-problem-yet/
Guys, where is the tipping point? I don’t know, but I do know it is a lot closer than it was thirty days ago.
March 18th, 2010 | 12:31 am | #118
Honest St. Louisian
March 17th, 2010 | 8:48 pm | #45
Have you got a bug in your ass or something?
Yes. There was an earthquake.
No. There were no deaths and not many injuries.
What does it have to do with the Louisianna Purchase in the “healthcare reform” bill?
The “emergency” money will only go to La., now and forever – according to the bill.
Hawai’i's reps should have thought of that when the bribes were being handed out. It’s too late now.
March 18th, 2010 | 12:34 am | #119
Penny Dreadful
March 17th, 2010 | 8:50 pm | #48
Go pound sand up your butt, troll.
March 18th, 2010 | 12:39 am | #120
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don’t forget the take-over of student loans tied to the health care bills hip.. :(
Americans are still reacting like deer caught in
the headlight of an oncoming bullet train, gah!!
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March 18th, 2010 | 12:47 am | #121
I think he truly meant Haiti. Which raises all sorts of questions about what funding stream is he thinking of? He acted like there was no government in Haiti when he backed the national tractor trailer up to Port au Prince and offloaded too much too fast.
Obama thinks “etadnini” is Creole when it’s a mistranscription of the French “Etats Unis.”
(ay-ta-zu-nee)
Never heard such a clunk with languages, ESPECIALLY from a guy who lived overseas. He’s got an incredible tin ear for foreign accents. His elite high school and university education not require he study ANYTHING in languages?
Guess there’s no way to know since we aren’t going to see his transcripts. Must be worse GPA than Al Gore’s, which is a defination of mediocre.
But he sure can deliver a lie as gravely convincing as 1/2 man 1/2 bear 1/2 pig.
March 18th, 2010 | 12:48 am | #122
Jake
March 17th, 2010 | 9:52 pm | #75
Oooh. And I’ll bet lil jake’s a “truther, aren’t you, cupcake?
And, jakey, I don’t dislike d’ohbama’s black 6% a bit more than I dislike his white 50% – but a good bit less than I dislike his arab 44%.
I don’t like anything about the clown. And it doesn’t matter if he’s black, white or striped. He’s a communist and an idiot (or is that redundant?) – and he’s bad for America. Especially so, since he seems to be dead set on the destruction of America.
Now, why don’t you haul your racist ass back to dkos and cry on your fellow leftists’ shoulders? You’d be so much more at home in that cesspool.
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March 18th, 2010 | 12:53 am | #123
Jake
March 17th, 2010 | 9:59 pm | #83
You were “socially promoted” all through school, weren’t you?
What is a nasty little racist like you doing in a nice place like this. You’d be more at home on dkos with the other racists.
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.The only good communist is a dead communist.