At the opening of the fiscal responsibility summit, Feb. 23, 2009, Obama said: Today I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office."....good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBOn May 1, 2003, George W. Bush gave his infamous "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" speech on the flight deck of the Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln.GW left office 5 1/2 years later after having spent $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars and 4500+ Americans lost their lives......good times.....good times.
In a speech on January 28, 2009 Obama said: "We will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov."....good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBIn a speech, George W. Bush said: "Saddam would not let the inspectors in." Bush has now made this claim twice. It came as quite a surprise to the hundreds of U.N. inspectors that were in Iraq in 2003 and were told by the U.S. to get out or get bombed.....good times.....good times.
Obama made the following statement in one of his speeches:"This month we're announcing the 2012 launch of African-Americans for Obama. I don't think there's a better time than African American history month to consider the tremendous progress we've made through the sacrifices of so many or a better time to commit to meeting the very real challenges we face right now".,,,good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBDick Cheney made the following statement in on of his speeches: "We believe that, in fact, Saddam Hussein has reconstituted nuclear weapons." Dick Cheney said this on Meet the Press in 2003. Even as Bush and others were careful of going overboard, Dick "Goebbels" Cheney kept going for not just the Big Lie, but the Grandaddy of them all.....good times.....good times.
Obama funded the expansion of Petrobras, a Brazilian Oil company to drill for Brazilian oil off its coast. This was billions of dollars of funding. Petrobras will be selling the new oil to China, not the United States....good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBThe George W. Bush Administration made the following statement: “[Iraq] has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of Al Qaeda.” .....good times....good times.
Obama funded the expansion of Petrobras, a Brazilian Oil company to drill for Brazilian oil off its coast. This was billions of dollars of funding. Petrobras will be selling the new oil to China, not the United States....good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBClassic thread....good times....good times
Obama said in a interview that surfaced from a Chicago radio station. In it Obama lamented that the Supreme Court had "never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society." He said it was "one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement" that it lost track "of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change."....good times....good times. Originally Posted by IIFFOFRDBDuring the build up to the ill fated and ill advised spring of 2003 invasion of Iraq, VP Dick Cheney made the following statement on Meet the Press:"We believe that, in fact, Saddam Hussein has reconstituted nuclear weapons." .....good times.....good times.