Rocket- I spent 12 years of my life working with the disabled. I'd still be there if I could pay the rent on my salary doing so. I still vounteer. Trust me I'd have championed him if he had said something positive or done something for that population.
2009-03-19T23:47:23Z
oops that is volunteer!!
2009-03-19T23:53:00Z
Armed -we are focused on all that stuff ..unfortunately our President is not.
2009-03-20T00:11:09Z
Armed-..and for those of us that have been fiscally living within our means ? I am not resp. for the tdown either and the reason you got them was for your non sequitur comments.
KiminFL2009-03-19T23:38:14Z
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It was highly inappropriate for him to make a comment like that.
President Barack Obama dropped the ball with saying that statement! Perhaps people will eventually find out this man is not what he has made people to perceive him to be and is not seriously as sensitive as he wants to come across to gain admiration and votes! It was a cruel thing to make fun of the "Special Olympic's" and for the President of the United States to do so on National TV....is not good to say the least...not good at all! Making jokes at the expense of those less fortunate is no laughing matter and President Barack Obama should be ashamed he did it and apologize for the off-the-cuff remark!
I'm sure everyone on here has never, ever, ever made a stereotypical comment in their life.
Please, almost every head of state makes stereotypical jokes from time to time. I will guarantee you that.
The hypocrisy is surely abound.
People should focus more so on their over-spending, mortgages, and budgets than a comment Obama made in a 20 minute interview.
If people focused more on the important things than trivial political/celebrity gossip, maybe the U.S wouldn't be having such financial problems.'
'EDIT to CAE: First off, I'm not a Democrat. Secondly, how can a few trillion dollars in consumer debt along with Americans buying houses that they can't afford reflect that they do focus on their finances? It reflects that they don't.
Average American savings have increased from 0.8% in August to 3.5% now. That's a sad savings percentage. Now while there are those who can't do that, most Americans can save more IF they didn't spend so much.
I don't think Obama knows all the details of this financial mess, but he is doing things about it, albeit they might not work, so you can't necessarily say he isn't doing anything about them.
Edit #2: One more thing, my mother was disabled all my life, and she died a few years ago. I can remember being 8 and feeding my own mother because she couldn't do so herself. Yet I didn't feel offended by the comments of Obama. I take words with a grain of salt. I never let them harm me.
lol my comments surely followed the premises, so they were indeed not non sequitur. I used the comments about Obama that were posed and then followed about how those comments are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Good job on living within your means. However, the financial incompetency of the majority will bring us all down. No bailout can save us from what we have created. The market must fix itself, and that will take time.
Hmmmm..... It seems that Obama is also responsible for billions of dollars going towards special education programs. I think that slightly trumps his comment that made you and your Republican friends so angry. I wonder why you guys have made such a big deal out of it. Is it because your party is completely divided, you have no leadership, and you have absolutely no solutions for any of our problems right now and the only thing you can do is try to slow down progress and make big deals out of stupid crap?