Obama Arrogance Again on Display: Americans Oppose Debt Ceiling Increase because they are “Not Paying Close Attention” to what is Going On
Brian
Freedom’s Lighthouse
7/11/2011
The arrogance of President Obama was on full display at his Press Conference today.
CBS News’ Chip Reid asked one of the rare pointed questions of Obama at one of these events. He pointed out that a huge majority of Americans disagree with Obama about raising the Debt Ceiling. Reid asked Obama if it was not true that he has failed to convince the American people that we have a crisis on our hands.
Obama’s answer? The general American public “is not paying close attention” to what is going on, as opposed to profesional politicians. In other words – Americans are just too stupid or ignorant to know what’s good for them!
It just couldn’t be that Americans are right, and Obama is out in Left field – could it?
Go to Freedom’s Lighthouse to watch video of the exchange.
Update: Obama says it’s hard “to persuade people to do hard stuff that includes trimming benefits and increasing revenues. . . . Reason we have a problem now is people keep avoiding hard things.” At Gay Patriot there’s a list of the “hard stuff” that the President and those other really smart professional politicians have avoided doing.
Update 2: “Let’s see how bad it would be to live within the current debt ceiling.” Debt Ceiling: Worst-Case Scenario.
Via American Power: From James Pethokoukis, “Goldman Sachs: Debt default is ‘extremely unlikely’.”
From Expose the Media, Media Smears GOP “Hardliners” For Not Embracing Obama’s Spend Your Way To Hell Fiscal Plan and The Republicans Don’t Need To Do Anything;
Obama Has To Learn To Prioritize Spending To Avoid Default
Update 3: Jim Rogers: US to Default ‘One Way or Another’ as Debt Talks a ‘Sham’
The United States is going to “default one way or the other” and talks between Republican and Democratic leaders to lift the debt ceiling are “a sham” that won’t do anything to prevent it, says international investor Jim Rogers.
Lawmakers will probably find a way to lift the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, which the government says has to happen by Aug. 2, but gaping deficits have and will inflict enough damage to the dollar that a default is unavoidable.
Plus the debate will resume shortly after Aug. 2 anyway, as the government will quickly spend beyond its means again.
“It might be good for the world if the United States closed down for a while, but I can’t see that happening,” Rogers tells Fox Business.
“Something will happen, things will look better, but then in six months or a year, things will be worse again.”…
