While speaking at his lavish 50th birthday party that doubled as a fundraiser on Wednesday, President Obama blamed former President George W. Bush and a "messy, tough democracy" for his own failures.
"It's been a long, tough journey. But we have made some incredible strides together. Yes, we have," he said, playing off his 2008 campaign slogan.
"But the thing that we all ought to remember is that as much as good as we have done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we we were inheriting so many challenges, that we're not even halfway there yet," he added, taking the obligatory swipe at George Bush.
Those who listen carefully to the President's words may also wonder just what the President means by being only "halfway there?" Does that mean an unemployment rate of 18.4 percent instead of 'just' 9.2? Does it mean a national debt at over $28 trillion instead of $14 trillion?
"When I said 'change we can believe in' I didn't say 'change we can believe in tomorrow.' Not change we can believe in next week. We knew this was going to take time because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy," Obama said.
One might wonder if the President has a problem with American democracy.
The observant reader may recall that he recently told a group of La Raza activists he wished he could change laws on his own:
On Monday, he told the National Council of La Raza that if he had his way, he would “bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.”
“Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you,” the President said, according to a report by the National Journal.The remark drew applause from the group, as well as chants of "Yes, you can," a spinoff of his 2008 campaign slogan.
“We know we’ve still got a lot of work to do on the economy," he said. "Now, I hope we can avoid another self-inflicted wound like we just saw over the last couple of weeks because we don’t have time to play these partisan games. We’ve got too much work to do. Over the next several months, I hope Congress is focused on what the American people are focused on, making sure that the economy is growing.”
Sporting a brand new unemployment rate of just under 5%, the current Mexican economy is humming, people are buying homes and people are working. In fact, the small business community of Mexico is creating jobs and a need for workers so fast that from only California nearly 300,000 illegals have repatriated themselves to Mexico, just to do those jobs "that Americans never would."
Later this month, the President plans a taxpayer-funded bus tour to push jobs. The tour, coincidentally, just happens to include several Midwest battleground states the President desperately needs to win in 2012.
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit adds:
The Obama supporters waited for hours in a Chicago hot box to listen to this? They should have asked for their money back.
-----------------------------------------------------------
If you like this article, you can follow Joe on Twitter @jnewby1956, visit his Facebook page, or click the Subscribe button to receive email updates when a new article is published.
Comments