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- Oz: Raising the debt ceiling has in the past, during the read more
- Jamie MacMaster: Exactly, Ken. Pity that some people can't leave it at read more
- Ken (Kulak): This thread isn't about his skin color; it is about read more
- set you free: All this proves is Obama is an economic illiterate. That read more
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WHAT.A.MORON!!
Certainly not a smart man...
I remember arguing this point with one of the resident trolls only months ago. Said troll chastised my economic illiteracy and scoffed at any connection betwixt debt ceiling and debt. The One makes my case for cause and effect in a sublime fashion as every single time the debt ceiling has been raised the debt has increased to hit the ceiling. Not once, not ever or to rephrase, NEVER has a increase in debt ceiling been followed by a reduction of debt. And I'm the idiot...
The guy's a moron but then everyone who isn't a moron already knew it.
Sure raising the debt ceiling doesn't raise the debt. Raising the debt ceiling is the government giving itself permission to raise the debt. Which they then do. Every time they raise the debt ceiling.
(But I don't think that's what President Obama meant. I think he meant to persuade his low information voter base to believe something that isn't true and that he knows isn't true.)
Maybe I'll try it, go see my banker tomorrow and ask for a five million dollar line of credit but tell them not to worry because having it doesn't mean I'll use it. Do I have to tell them that it's highly unlikely that I'll ever pay the money back?
Exactly, both times.
Definitely Jimmah is the second worst president ever, at least in living memory.
Pimping the mindless into slavery has nothing to do with telling the truth - it's just a job, his first actually. The best part is that his cheerleaders from the institutional left think they are immune from the ultimate consequences - well fattened long pig on the skewers of the starving rabble.
"Equal Opportunity president" elected by the 47% "Equal Opportunity Voters"..Ya gets what yas pays for.Unfortunately the rest of the planet does too.
Long past time for tat Kate - should have been done when he was vetted by the press - oops, forgoth they're complicit in the fraud. Obumbles was never what he was sold as and te evedence (although repressed) was available to a 4t estate investigation.
The only question for Obumbles now (after his two massive votes of non confidence - his ME war and his obamacrutch funding) is when we impeach this constitutionally perverse fraud and indict the presstitututes who conspired to defraud the American voter.
The White House occupant obviously misses the teleprompter. It is well known that he can't leave without it or he talks sheet.
But, Bush!
Obama was a C minus student. At least that's what Harry Reid's friend told me.
And so arrogant in his presentation.
It's Friday, his pals in lamestream media will ignore it, and the LIV will soak it up as Gospel according to Obama...
Then Kerry will yell 'Squirrel'!! on Monday.
Well, to be fair he's technically correct. Which we all know is the best kind of correct.
The college transcripts are in the the hall closest in the same folder with the birth certificate.
Frank, is that the closet were the toilet paper is kept?
Oh snap now he has to prove otherwise!
NME666:
Yes. The folder is under the toilet paper.
That no one - other than the right, has ridiculed this insane statement tell you all you need to know about the Kool-Aid drinking Einsteins on the left.
He is technically incorrect. The Prez says that to not raise the debt ceiling will mean that America will not be able to meet its obligations. There will be "default". To me that means that America will have to "BORROW" to meet its obligations. If not this then why are they going through the process?
Oh my God....
Pop quiz: who is more stupid: President Butt-Hurt-Over-Obamacare-Being-Defunded or those who voted for him?
In a way, there is no wrong answer.
I want Obama to live till he's 120 in the Shame of what he's done to America.
Like Carter slinking about, supporting the worst causes world wide.
The smartest black guy I know, took three years to complete a Masters in Engineering, while all the whites and Asians took one or two years to complete the same program...
Of course he's going to say BS like that -why wouldn't he? He's done it countless times before and not been called on it, why would he think it's be any different now?
Yeah, thanks media party.
Remember in the Exorcist when the young priest asks:
"Who are you?"
"No one"
That for me was one of the scariest moments of that movie...
Is it the mysterious, unknown, "No one" that is sitting in the WH?
Saw on Twitter yesterday
"I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for large fries."
Revnant - you assume a creature like the master fraud artist Obozo is capable of remorese or shame - uh uh, megalomaniac narcissists are incapable of feeling shame or remorse - when things collapse it's always the fault of those who disagree with them - he would live to 120 blaming America every day after his impeachment for his crimes and dysfunctional ethos - it's the genetic mindset of the sociopathic political elite.
"...The smartest black guy I know, took three years to complete a Masters in Engineering, while all the whites and Asians took one or two years to complete the same program..."
Gee, a stupid comment like that makes me wonder if you might be one of those HRC parasites trying to eke out a living.
Now, time for a true story.
A month ago I had my clavicle and scapula put back together with titanium rods, plates, and screws by a young, black doctor whom, despite his relatively tender years, is recognized as one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the country.
Congrats,Jamie. But your ortho isn't running the country down the proveriable toilet,and enjoying doing it.And he isn't pushing credentials he just doesn't have,or can't even prove. Little bit of a diff.
So, who are you talking about? The white masterminds running Greece, Italy and Britain...or their black counterpart in the US?
Seems to me that stupid - like smart - respects no colour barriers. Which is exactly the point I was making with favill.
All this proves is Obama is an economic illiterate.
That does not make him unusual among leftist thinkers, since they can make the rich pay once they get into office.
Keep these idiots (Ontario's premier, for example) in the lunatic fringe, where they belong.
This thread isn't about his skin color; it is about his lack of the ability to do math.
Exactly, Ken. Pity that some people can't leave it at that.
Raising the debt ceiling has in the past, during the first Obama administration, caused a slip in the U.S. government's credit rating.
That means borrowing money to service current ongoing obligations will be at higher interest, which will increase the debt.
Obama knows this at least, even if he can't 'do math'.
Back to the main topic, this is like saying that raising the speed limit will not result in cars going faster on that section of road. Sometimes, if you put things in terms they're more accustomed to, the stupid becomes more obvious.
For the millionth time, a man with a semi-literate wife, unless she's a bimbo 20 years his junior, is highly unlikely to be intelligent.
"By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight." - M.O., smartest, most stylish First Lady eveh!
But I completely agree with you, Jamie. I can think of several black people I would love to have as President. Just not Golfy the Dog-Eater.
I bet Zoolander took note and will want to use this line. But we will have to wait until 2015 when Justin's economic gurus, Freeland and Brison, will have him programmed.