President arrives in Bay Area on fundraising trip

Ah, so good to see out fundraiser in chief doing what he does best: giving meaningless speeches to his elite comrades. Rome burns while Nero fiddles.

… And no I am not a republican. I have voted for candidates from both parties and have vowed to never vote for either party again – two sides of the same coin.

Until the American people wake up and realize that they are being played by a political elite, nothing will change.

Now back to, sports, reality television, and a corrupt media – nothing to see here

Do people really know how much it costs, your tax dollars, to operate Air Force One? Why is our President using our money to collect party money all the while spending time away from duties which at this time should include all the real problems confronting the United States. Please, I would love to hear some responses from people who voted for this man to be our President so I can make at least a little sense of what is going on here.

I guess no event planned in East Palo Alto and Oakland. I think his predecessor is a far better President on ethics and everything else than this crook.

Goota be kidding me, you’ve got to be kidding. Tell me about GWBush’s trips to East Palo Alto and Oakland, and tell me about Bush’s exceptional ethics. And tell me what exactly our current president has done that makes him a crook in the judgment of a rational person.

Some of you posters seem very out of touch with campaign financing. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Supreme Court? Hey California ATM Machine: Misspelling common English words and using bad grammar makes you seem uninformed.

I don’t care about what those thieving politicians do with their campaigning, but what really annoys me is that when they’re in town, flights are diverted, roads are closed, all so that the emperor doesn’t have to share the roads and the air with the rabble. This is the politicians’ country, and we get to live here by their grace, just like under feudalism.

Really CHERYIP, with all due respect you’re out of touch. $10,000.00 to 32,000.00 for this fundraiser in Los Altos Hills for a lame duck. How can you be anything but outraged with all that’s going on? His lack of leadership, our boarders, Gaza, our veterans, IRS, Benghazi, Malaysia’s Airlines, Tahmooressi, obamacare and he’s released 5 terrorists! Fundraising and golfing hardly seems like a top priority right now. And as for you, Andrew, this is the internet, typos aren’t a reflection of how informed you are, in fact, they might be a testament of ones passion, it’s hard to care about where you put an apostrophe here, or abbreviated a word when you’re outraged. It takes guts to even post your true views, pay attention to the content, it’s hard to trust that you’re informed when you’re easily distracted by ones grammar.

This guy is totally incompetent. He has to raise money for the midterm elections so the equally incompetent Nancy Pelosi, et.al. can stay elected and “serve us” with their wealth distribution policies. Oops, this is California, the majority likes to give away their hard earned dollars to everyone on the public dole.

I heard that there are serious issues in the Ukraine and the Middle East that could use immediate American leadership, but I guess the USA shouldn’t exert influence and get involved, that’s what I get from Mr. Incompetent.

I dint lik der obummer cause he crushed ekonomy. Need gerorge w back in White House after he cures Aids in afrika. Derp!

Obama is to national public office as Jackie Robinson is to MLB via the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947; that is, they are each the first of their race to aspire to and achieve success in each arena.

And like Robinson, Obama is treated to the “YOU DON’T BELONG HERE, N-word!” mentality and verbal assaults. Though today’s hate-filled bigots use subtler, PC-influenced words, and sideways attacks, still that central message is loud and clear in the subtexts of their stances.

The rest of the world has noted how arcane and primitive and embarrassing too many USA people’s behaviors have been toward Obama. In many eyes, we’ve disgraced ourselves.

If you need to refresh your memory about the attacks on Robinson in 1947 just view the excellent film “42”. Wherever you are on the spectrum of behaviors you will see yourself.

Come on people, how can anyone disparage this regime, as Obie said himself, he is one of the top four presidents of alltime!

No, Jimmuh is not one of the others…

Whenever racism is brought into a subject that has no place being there I see the racist hatred that is brought into play not by whites but by Afro-Americans. The race card is continually played by a portion of society that is their own worst enemy in any attempt to improve their situation in society. Just go back in time to the jubilant and joyous faces of Afro-Americans when O J Simpson was acquitted. You’ll find your answer there.

The stock market has almost doubled in value since President Obama took office. If things were worse under his leadership, the market would be down, not up. Both republicans and democrats think America is doing well or they wouldn’t be buying up American stock.

Now, if you hear people who constantly bash him and deny this truth, then it is fair to question their motive. The facts are against their conclusion that he is the worst president, so it must be something else about him they don’t like. Hmmm…I wonder what it could be….?

the sick part is that they would have voted “W” in for a third term if they could. sure, even the republitards thought he was a bad president, but would make a third mistake before voting in a president like obama.

Heard not all the donors came out of the woodwork for him on this trip. maybe they are growing a bit weary of him.

@facts:

The value of the stock market has little to do with economic prosperity. Inflation makes markets go up, while people’s quality of life goes down. Zimbabwe had the best performing stock market on the planet during the bout of hyperinflation which destroyed its economy.

What’s happening in the US is that the 0.1% (we have lots here) are reaping the rewards of asset inflation, while the rest of the population is seeing costs, mainly housing, food, and energy, increase. They’re having a harder time getting by. This isn’t all on Obama, of course, but he is complicit in that his economic policies help support this system. He’s signed bills to help giant banks, he’s appointed Janet Yellen to head the Fed, he’s refused to prosecute outright fraud in the banking sector, he played a part, as did most presidents before him. They’re all stooges of the biggest lobbies.

So, don’t start assuming that if people don’t like Obama, there must be racist motivations. That’s disingenuous. He’s not the worst overall, since he’s not done as much damage as some of his predecessors, but he’s pretty bad, not to mention among the most two faced presidents that I can think of.

I’m not blaming the president, I’m saying he’s complicit, I’m blaming the entire top of the political/corporate pyramid that rules this country. They rule it for themselves and their friends, at the cost of everyone else. Obama, just like the Bushes, Clinton, Reagan, all fit into that system, the only difference is which giant government and industrial sectors benefit.

Our economic policies, passed by congress, signed by the president, benefit the wealthiest element of the country while harming everyone else. The official inflation number doesn’t track the cost of energy, houses, or food, which are primary costs for most people in this country. Sure, TV’s are getting cheaper, and so are cell phones, but you can’t live in them or eat them. Before you accuse someone of ignorance, please read up on how the CPI is computed, read up about “hedonic adjustment”, and “owner’s equivalent rent.” These are recent changes to how CPI is measured, and it’s not a secret, it’s policy. Inflation isn’t like a tide that raises all boats at once. Since the dollar is credit backed, new money is spent into existence through the activities of the Fed and the treasury together. The places where newly created money is spent benefit from it, since they get to use full value dollars, but as this money spreads into the economy over years and even decades, the cost of basic goods go up. Wages don’t keep up, because businesses experience a margin squeeze, as their costs go up more than they can pass onto already cash strapped consumers, it’s a vicious cycle.

The minimum wage is actually pretty irrelevant to this process, since the problems are the lack of jobs, not necessarily the cost of the labor. When the government spends money into existence, as I mentioned, there are easy returns on investment by doing things encouraged by the spending, and today, that’s building and flipping houses and speculating in stocks. Why work your butt off building out a business for measly profit margins when you can make more being a flipper or an investor? That’s how these policies distort markets. All the minimum wage does is outlaw some jobs (namely, those worth less than minimum wage).

I think Obama is awful because of drone attacks, misguided economic policies, secretive government, sealed executive orders, pandering lies to get elected, not prosecuting serious financial fraud, while having his AG’s prosecute petty criminals for victimless crimes, etc. This doesn’t make him much different than his predecessor, of course, but his predecessor was a Republican, so he could be freely criticized among silicon valley progressives, who will overlook anything because it’s their guy at the helm.

As for the racism statement, you implied it with your “hmmm” comment, feel free to deny it, I can’t prove it, but given the discussion you were responding to, it’s a reasonable assumption. You’re a shifty weasel, Facts.

I originally said that I really don’t care what these emperor presidents do with their own time, but objected to them inconveniencing an entire area when they visit with their ostentatious displays of superiority, and insistence of locking down shared resources like roads for their sole use, here’s a fine example from Obama’s visit – some poor woman had to sit on the street in labor, while waiting for his motorcade to pass, so that she could cross the street to the delivery room (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Woman-in-Labor-Unable-to-Cross-Los-Angeles-Street-to-Hospital-Because-of-President-Obama-Motorcade-268427662.html). Shame on him, and his whole entourage.

Someone who disagrees with you must be a “republitard”, I see how this works. I’m not a republitard, or a democrat, I’m just someone completely jaded with the lunacy that’s our political process. It’s all fighting over power, image, and money, everything else be damned. We’ll bomb people all over the world to further our energy interests and support our defense contractors, we’ll destroy the economy to help the largest banks and industries, we’ll make the little guy’s life increasingly more difficult so that biggest economic players don’t have to take losses. It’s all BS. Politicians are crooks, their industrt buddies are crooks, and the ones who make it to president are the biggest crooks. If this is racist, so be it.

I find it amazing that people can support these megalomaniacs at all. It’s like the animals on a farm begging for more gruel from the farmer, not knowing what awaits them in the end.

Each time I try to discuss something on the internet, I’m reminded why I generally stop for a long time afterwards. Trying to discuss anything where the response is “republitard” or racist, or any other ad-hominem is just pointless. Notice I never accused anyone of being any kind of “-ist”, I just disagreed with your statements.