Obama said what?

It's kinda scary that B. Hussein Obama could be our next president.

Totally scary!

Do you really want a person who was in the senate for 146 working days and no previous experience to be your President?

As I mentioned, without a teleprompter he looks like an a**......don't forget, if you are in the hospital with an asthma attack you might need a breathalyzer.....lmbo....or even an inhalator............LOL.......

All I can say, who is the "Idiot " now?

Folks.....do you even realize how long a senate hiatus is?

I just can't believe that otherwise intelligent people will seriously stoop to calling him B. Hussein Obama. Seriously...I find it really bizarre. As if someone's name defines them? As if Hussein being his middle name is actually something shameful? It's just a name, whether you like him or not... The incredibly ironic thing is a meaning of the name Hussein apparently is "good".

chelsea_b

I just can't believe that otherwise intelligent people will seriously stoop to calling him B. Hussein Obama

That's his full name. For a while, they were calling the pres. George Herbert Walker Bush. People have had 8 years of slamming on the pres. I think ole B.O. can handle a year of it. So,  tell me you don't like the initials I came up with.

The muslim name has been bothering me only a little bit but that's my own problem, not likely to go away. I knew someone who was at the WTC on 9-11-01. Actually, in a smaller building next to Tower I. I see that event partly through his eyes. How many muslims follow the Koran? "All those not of the nation of Islam are infidels. All infidels must die." That's in the Koran.

As for the sound byte about fuel, it just shows his ignorance and he's a classic politician in some regards, no worse or better.

But you are right, a name is just a name and people are willing to overlook that and other things, including some accidental blundering if the person is from the political party they like best. I don't see it as any better.

We might do well to ignore his name (hard for me to do). Can we ignore an ignorant statement on fuel consumption? If we can, then we must admit that the Pres is just a spokesperson, eye candy, whatever. In which case, it doesn't matter if he is from the Democratic Party or the Keg Party. And the real power goes on behind the scenes. But people believe what they want. Many people prefer to believe a former vice pres speaking about something he has absolutely know scientific knowledge of just because he is from the political party they like and his statements are flatly contradicted by actual evidence and the opinions of qualifed people.

So, our emotions may have more effect than rational thinking at many times, and that goes for many people.

Early on, I gave my impression of Obama and not liking him because he would not honor our flag. And some could consider that emotional on my part.

Lee had pins in his ankles and one hip and a teflon coated stainless steel knee cap on his left knee.

James has a 6 inch scar from a VC ambush. And he has PTSD. The flashbacks.

Gerald was training a new recruit and accidently got pushed off a catwalk in the boiler room and suffered several rib fractures.

Russell had 60 percent hearing loss from close quarter gunfire in combat. And PTSD. Nightmares.

I could go on. Several people, some quite close and important to me, gave a piece or two for themselves, mostly on combat, in honor of the flag.

Obama had better learn to honor the flag or he won't be in my white house, if I can have anything to do with it.

That's why some people, such as myself, prefer to have as president someone who is a military vet. Granted, Pres Bush was only in the National Guard, though guard units get called all the time. But his dad was a fighter pilot in WWII and was shot down in combat. McCain was captured and was a POW. These are guys who know what the flag means and stands for. Semper fidelis.

chelsea_b

I just can't believe that otherwise intelligent people will seriously stoop to calling him B. Hussein Obama. Seriously...I find it really bizarre. As if someone's name defines them? As if Hussein being his middle name is actually something shameful? It's just a name, whether you like him or not... The incredibly ironic thing is a meaning of the name Hussein apparently is "good".

This (and similar juvenile, repugnant tactics) are the reason that I will not consider voting Republican.

I find the entire current bunch of Republicans to be deplorable.  The whole mindset is reprehensible.  And I am far from alone in this belief.

And FWIW, I consider myself a non-partisan moderate and have voted Republican many, many times in the distant past (i.e., in the pre-Newt Gingrich days).

If we want to talk about stupid statements, how about McCain, who is supposedly a foreign policy expert, and yet he apparently doesn't know Czechoslovakia hasn't been a country for over 15 years?  He can't keep Shia and Sunni straight.  And he apparently is under the impression that Iraq and Pakistan share a border.  (FWIW, my 12-year old DS immediately caught onto those gaffs w/o me having to explain.)  What about the fact he can't use a computer?  That means in my state he wouldn't be allowed to go to high school (there is a computer competency test required to pass eighth grade).  Nor would he be qualified for many entry-level jobs.

I will have to hunt up the full text of the Obama comment regarding keeping the tires inflated later today when I have time.  I have this weird thing about wanting to read full quotes and not snippets.  Because I find that things have a strange tendency to be quoted out of context . .  .

I guess I don't get the big deal.  It's true that underinflating tires wastes energy/gas, there are gov't reports about this so there's nothing moronic about that.  I know I've been told this before outside of any political context.  Maybe not AS MUCH as whatever drilling he was talking about, but that was not the point of his message. 

Ron, I think a LOT of people knew people involved in 9-11.  Everyone lost something or someone that day.  Not only that, but it was my birthday and I went there with the Red Cross a few weeks later.  The sights and sounds were terrible enough but what I will never forget is the smell....Still, not enough to make presumptions about someone who did not choose his own name and is not a Muslim anyway.  I don't think that feeling passionately about 9-11 and instantly suspecting all people with a Muslim/East African/Middle Eastern name have to go hand in hand.  Now I'm sure my patriotism and compassion for what happened on 9-11 will be called into question but whatever, I don't feel like ripping open old wounds every time a thread that so much as mentions Obama comes around.

Statements like those made in the original post make it SO EASY for me to vote for Obama.  Actually, at this point I'd vote for pretty much anyone the Democrats put up for President, just to make sure that another Republican doesn't make it into office.

Seriously, why are the vast majority of Republicans so stinking close minded, juvenile and naive?  I think it's because they listen to too much Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and don't pay enough attention to the real world.

FWIW, the statement apparently quoted from Obama in the OP is not a bunch of hooey.  Properly maintaining your car adds A LOT to your fuel efficiency and it's immediate.  Even if we started drilling today, we wouldn't see any benefit for at least 10 years.

To me, his statement means this: "We (Washington) aren't going to do anything at all to lower gas prices, so you (the public) have to do it yourselves."  Well, we already are...gas consumption is way down nationwide, but Washington has placed restrictions on domestic drilling and only they can remove those restrictions.  Individual Americans can only do so much before running into a government-implemented road block (hey, look, a pun!).  Typical politician, and especially typical Democrat politician, to simply wave a hand at an important issue and sit on their butt doing nothing.  Because, hey!  If the government can keep controlling these aspects of Americans' lives, then to them they've done their job.  Makes me sick.

And no one can say Republicans are the only ones "name calling."  I've never heard so much hate-filled derogatory comments as I have heard coming from Democrats about our current president.  Both sides of the aisle are guilty of name-calling and childish commentary, but if I had to say one was worse than the other, in my personal experience, Democrats win that award hands down.

I don't listen to the ads, they are all taken out of context and spun to be against whatever the spinner is for. All parties are at fault for this.

His name is his, he did not ask for it, it was given to him just like yours was. Using it to scare people is akin to saying "look it's the boogie man!". I thought, mistakenly it seems, that adults were beyond picking on someone for their name. If you want to attack his policies, fine, but people who play on the names, well, tells me you really don't have anything meaty to argue against.

FWIW, Ron, I also thought of why the media has not spun something out of the B.O. initials.

 And, I vote for the person I think is going to do the best job. My first presidential vote at 18 was Ron Reagan's second term. 10 years later I voted for Clinton.

My biggest and most troubling con for both candidates is their AGE and EXPERIENCE, I give a rats behind what party they belong to. McCain is to old, im sorry but I want someone who has more in common with the working force and upcoming leaders of America. I don't discount his wisdom, his service, his experience, I just have doubts he is what the America of today needs.

With Obama, well he is just a few years older than I am, but he lacks experience, can I, or more importantly, can America, live with and prosper under a president that is going to make some risky calls?

Our choices are limited, you have 2, this one or that one. Make your decision on what matters to you as an American, not what nightly news says.

aerial1313

To me, his statement means this: "We (Washington) aren't going to do anything at all to lower gas prices, so you (the public) have to do it yourselves."  Well, we already are...gas consumption is way down nationwide, but Washington has placed restrictions on domestic drilling and only they can remove those restrictions.
 

True, but a lot of people don't have a problem with that.  I'd rather see long-term solutions like OTHER sources of energy be developed than more drilling (which like Karissa said will take YEARS before we even see the benefits and lower prices from that).  I don't really care what the price of petrol is at the pump, I care about energy sources in general and how we will sustain ourselves longterm.  And no, I'm not an environmentalist.  I just see other energy sources as more practical and more efficient, cheaper and more sustainable in the long run.  In the meantime, yes, proper maintenance of vehicle DOES cut back on wasted gas/energy.  A lot of people don't realize this.

snownose

Ok, the senate will be in hiatus without an energy bill and B.Hussein Obama suggests the following....."Keep your tires inflated and get regular tune-ups, that will the same as drilling and adding new oil sources?.......HAHAHAHAHA......omg....

Without a teleprompter he dies very fast.........lol

As far as noticeable impact on the consumer, Obama is right. For the person filling up their car at the gas pump, offshore drilling would make only a negligible difference in the reasonable future. There are problems with other suggested energy sources as well... not to say they shouldn't be pursued, but cost-effective mass-produced alternative energy is years away. The most effective things a consumer can do in the short-term are things like maintaining their cars properly and limiting fuel use.

Reality Check on Offshore Drilling

Most of the U.S. offshore oil, almost 10 billion barrels, lie off the coast of California. But at the current rate of U.S. consumption - about 20.7 million barrels a day - that would be burned up in 16 months.

"It would have a pretty modest effect even when it did start flowing," said U.C. Berkeley energy researcher Severin Borenstein.

Borenstein says it might drop pump prices as much as 25 cents a gallon in 10 years or more

This is the only reference I could quickly find.

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807310392In

In the context this article shares, his comment made perfect sense. 

Not liking a canidate because of his name is shortsighted. 

I think the entire country needs a change in leadership.

I do think the position of President is somewhat that of a figurehead. 

I want Bush and his buddies gone.......