Obama in campaign mode: 'Delivered on change that we can believe in'

[The Northerner]

President Obama boldly proclaimed on Wednesday that he had fulfilled his most daring but abstract 2008 campaign pledge: "Change we can believe in."

Obama told a gathering of top donors and Democratic officials that, while his work is not finished, "we have made extraordinary progress over these last two years."

"When you look back at the track record of work that we've done over the last two years, I think it's fair to say the promise we made to the American people has been kept, that we have delivered in change that we can believe in," Obama said.

The president's remarks to about 500 members of the Democratic National Committee's Finance Committee and National Advisory Board were some of the strongest he has made yet in warming up for his re-election effort.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/150361-obama-in-campaign-mode-we-have-delivered-on-change-that-we-can-believe-in

[jannyk]

1. The only change we got was short-change! nt

[Poboy]

9. I was going to go with 'chump-change', but I like yours better.

[joeunderdog]

70. Yeah, we went from bad to worse.

Who could have imagined that things could ever be worse than when Chimp was in charge.


But they are. MUCH worse.

[gkhouston]

2. Mission accomplished. n/t

[Courtesy Flush]

40. +1

[Jmaxfie1]

3. Obama might not have done everything I hoped for.

But I'd give him higher marks than any Democratic president since LBJ. (Clinton, Carter) Of course this is not all that hard.

[donheld]

4. He's been all Wall-Street little mainstreet

that is NOT what he promised

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Exactly, my dear donheld.

[ClarkUSA]

12. Yeah, that's why Wall $treet & The Chamber of Commerce $pent billion$ to defeat his initiatives

HCR and Wall Street reform in particular.

They lost.

[Avant Guardian]

18. Thus it defies logic

...why he keeps kissing up to them.

[ClarkUSA]

20. What defies logic is the amount of demonizing bullshit that his opponents make up everyday.

I can prove it, too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x499861

Check with the Pulitzer-Prize winning website Politifact.com, too.

Repealing DOMA is coming up next, btw. :D

[notesdev]

29. This is my favorite

What the fuck has Obama done so far?
Issued executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/guantanamo.order/index.html
Big fucking deal. What else?

Check out the date on it too

[ClarkUSA]

33. Then you should really like that Congress prevented him from closing Gitmo by their votes.

You know that Congress is a co-equal branch of government, right? Check Politifact.com on this issue. You'll see that I'm right.

[notesdev]

35. Talk is cheap

It's been over two years now, I'm tired of half-efforts, non-efforts, and excuses. And I know for a fact I ain't the only one.

[RandomKoolzip]

51. One thing I've noticed about the rhetoric defending Obama on this board

is that it tends to simultaneously claim that Obama is a great president who's been getting lotsa things done and has a solid progressive agenda - while also claiming that Obama is hamstrung by the other branches of government and thus the reason why things are so fucked up is because he CAN'T get anything done; his hands are tied by congress. It's like he's both a superhero and a beleaguered martyr.

[BobbyBoring]

54. Yeah

Funny how that works. having it both ways~

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[ClarkUSA]

26. Presently, they are, for the purposes of their opposition to Pres. Obama's policy aims.

<< Do you deny that Obama got major funding from Wall Street during his last campaign? >>

Gimme a break. Those working at the U. of CA gave more to Candidate Obama than employees of Wall Street firms.

And even their combined donations were dwarfed by the vast majority of his donations, which were contributions of < $200 by regular folks like me.

[Marr]

28. Give you a break?

You just got finished saying that, because some business interests spent money opposing Obama, it proves he's some kind of Wall Street reform crusader. But you completely dismiss Wall Street's spending during the last Presidential campaign.

Do you see the inconsistency there?

[ClarkUSA]

32. Yes.

Apples and oranges.

Employees of Wall Street firms donated about $800K to the Obama campaign in 2008, about $200,000 less than the employees of the University of CA.

Meanwhile, Wall Street and The Chamber of Commerce spent BILLIONS in lobbying expressly to defeat HCR and Wall Street reform. And lost.

No inconsistency, unless you want to accuse the employees of the University of California of having undue influence over WH policy, too?

:sarcasm:

[Marr]

58. Major inconsistency.

You do understand that most liberals would *want* teachers to have influence on the politicians they helped elect, correct?

[JDPriestly]

34. I think we can do a lot better than Obama.

I wouldn't feel that way if he and his cabinet had really tried to do some of the most important things like prosecute criminals on Wall Street or in the Bush administration, like ending the Bush tax cuts for the rich. But no. He caves on everything without a fight.

He seems to think that if he sits at a table with Republicans in Congress and compromises, he is changing something.

No, President Obama, the least you could do is get out here and talk to the American people about what needs to be done. Go to Republican areas and speak to the Democrats who live there. Get them fired up so that some of the Republican members of Congress will be replaced.

Of course, were you to do that, you would have to say negative things about Republicans. You seem to be incapable of saying anything really sharply, effectively critical about those who thwart liberal policies at every turn.

And what's with the appointment of Bernanke to the Fed? That sort of gave you away. Bad move. Bernanke is no Democrat, no matter what he claims to the contrary.

I also do not understand why you appointed Summers or Geithner. What do they have to do with liberal, progressive or Democratic stands on economic issues. The financial sector reform is pitifully weak. The Wall Streeters continue to gamble on derivatives and commodities. You have done nothing to stop them.

And your drug war, you need to take that to Wall Street. Maybe if the traders sobered up, our economy would be healthier.

[uponit7771]

36. Good try, major fail

[Marr]

56. Well argued.

[mmonk]

39. You need to watch this:

Obama and Wall Street.

[xphile]

55. No they didn't. They just want more and more and more and they know

that they can get it if they keep complaining that Obama is too anti-Wall Street. His initiatives hasn't done a damn thing to keep another Wall Street disaster from taking down this country.

[donheld]

69. "They lost" Really?

[msongs]

5. tom tomorrow has a new cartoon perfectly describing the candidate Obama and the president Obama nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

46. Indeed.

[Imagevision]

7. I'm still waiting for all this new transparency in government Obama spewed about...

[Angry Dragon]

8. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If he actually believes that .......... then I do not know what to say

[leftstreet]

10. "My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks"

[Holly_Hobby]

11. Fool me once....n/t

[upi402]

13. I wish

I was fooled the one time

:hurts:

[kenny blankenship]

14. Stand Up Comedy Mode

bathed in flop sweat.

[Newest Reality]

15. Really?

Would it be okay to offer this compendium of candidate versus incumbent as exhibit A? There are other promises that were made and are not covered in it, but that's another issue.

I can't seem to come up with any delivery at all other than our labor and efforts into the hands of the people who created our crises for their own benefit and to our continued and unprecedented loss. Considering just how this failure represents an even more perilous and destructive future for our interests, considering how our causes where not championed in the lest by our chosen one, what in the heck are we supposed to be celebrating right now? Oh, well, yes. I agree he is stil the lessor of two evils and will always be. Yet, we fall in droves into an abyss of failures and loss that no amount of rhetoric or spin will cover or change.

The Obama brand is doing fine an that is incontestable. Those who reap the reality of it don't see anything but Monsanto-like seeds sown. We are drowning in the terminator and find it difficult to live by the Simulation's propaganda alone. Maybe somebody could whisper that to the candidate for his next round and some new and magic words and phrases will emerge to uplift us from the cold, hard realities we face from day to day. Not that we should complain and moan that the last round of really cool and brilliant pitches were not pure genius as our stomach's grumble and our lives ache with insecurity and concern for how to make it to the end of the month without becoming homeless.

Just sayin ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x666730

[ClarkUSA]

16. The facts bear him out. Not that any of his opponents will EVER admit it.

I can prove it, too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x499861

Check with the Pulitzer-Prize winning website Politifact.com, too.

Repealing DOMA is coming up next, btw. :D

[inna]

17. OMG! Lol Lol Is this from the Onion? K&R for comic relief.

"'Delivered on change that we can believe in'".

Did he say it with a straight face?? :wow:

Must've been a bet with one of his banking buddies, I don't see other explanation for this obvious absurdity. It's almost like testing the American people for brain-deadness and seeing how much they can get away with.


""When you look back at the track record of work that we've done over the last two years, I think it's fair to say the promise we made to the American people has been kept, that we have delivered in change that we can believe in," Obama said."

Comic genius, man. :nuke: Hope they got a few good laughs out of that one. :nuke:

[DeSwiss]

19. Horseshit. n/t

[emilyg]

27. +1

[Bluebear]

21. Insert 1950's sitcom laugh-track here. nt

[meow mix]

50. lol nt

[readmoreoften]

22. Totally thought it was an Onion article. Get back to dismantling the NLRB Big O.

[The_Casual_Observer]

24. Considering that bush put us on the brink, I'd say he's doing pretty good.

[Contrary1]

25. Well, there has been change, and I believe it...so I guess he's right. n/t

[PurityOfEssence]

30. Oh, be serious; that's the only mode he's got

He's on one, constant campaign, and the schtick is always the same: be all things to all people and avoid sticking one's neck out.

[Raine]

31. whaaaaaaaaa

:wow: just because he's in denial doesn't mean everyone is! :crazy: :mad:

[Aryo]

37. I will campaign for President Obama

Just as hard as I did in 2008. All you guys that are upset that he isn't getting the change done fast enough are like typical AMericans always wanting things done quickly.

[Bluebear]

43. And who sent you to give this message?

[kristopher]

38. I want some of what he's smoking... nt

[myrna minx]

41. LOL.

[old mark]

42. He always did give a good speech....nt

[Better Believe It]

45. He has a professional team of very skilled speech writers.

[Poboy]

44. kick for absurdity

[Poboy]

62. Quite preposterous, really.

[Autumn]

47. OK Now excuse me while I check my couch for

real change.

[closeupready]

48. No, they haven't.

nt

[meow mix]

49. wow, what a pile of crap.

fuck his change.

[Safetykitten]

52. Amazing.

[RussBLib]

53. Now THAT is audacity!

...and not in a good way.

What change? The US didn't totally implode after Bush? Well, uh, bravo.

[lumberjack_jeff]

61. +1 n/t

[Bluebear]

65. 'Well, uh, bravo.'

:spray:

[truebrit71]

57. Bollocks. The only change we got was 'short'...

Absolutely delusional if he truly believes that..

[jillan]

59. Then why are you meeting with lobbyists across the street of the White House?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50081.html

I could've sworn that you campaigned on NO lobbyists.

[lumberjack_jeff]

60. "change we can believe in" In the sense children believe in the tooth fairy, I suppose so. n/t

[WinkyDink]

63. Continued war; making public schools charters; desperately seeking to reduce SS/Medicare; $$ to

bilionaires; forcing under IRS threat everyone to purchase a product from a for-profit entity.

And being completely TONE-DEAF regarding PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF HIS PRIORITIES (golf; NCAA'S) VS. PRESSING REALITIES (LIBYA; JAPAN; WISCONSIN).

[xchrom]

64. ...

:boring:

[Luciferous]

66. If he actually believes that he must be delusional.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

67. Well, he did deliver chains to Bradley Manning.

While sloganeering about "transparency in government".

[amandabeech]

68. He's off to Rio.

Maybe he'll like it so much that he'll just stay there.

Oh, and Carney says he's going to get jobs for us.

Please.