7 years ago today, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, setting off the worst financial crisis in decades. Here's how far we've come:
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
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7 years ago today, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, setting off the worst financial crisis in decades. Here's how far we've come:
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
When I took office, 800,000 Americans lost their jobs each month. Our businesses have now added 13.1 million jobs over 66 straight months.
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
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We've cut the unemployment rate in half – from a high of 10% down to 5.1%. And we're not done. http://t.co/uRfaSoiGuA
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
In 2009, our auto industry was flatlining. Now our workers are on pace to sell more American cars and trucks than any year since 2001.
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
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When I took office, 15.4% of our population was uninsured. Today, we’ve cut that by more than a third. http://t.co/3OOqcz8Oxp
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
When I took office, the budget deficit had reached 9.2% of our GDP. We've cut that down to 2.8%. http://t.co/3viaw4b0bB
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
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We've fought back because of you. We shouldn't slip back because of Congress. I urge them to send me a budget that invests in our future.
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President Obama (@POTUS) September 15, 2015
Good evening TOD!
Teach, Teacher!
Congrats LDS on #1!
Thanks Nerdy for front-paging PBO’s excellent Twitter history lesson 🙂
I meant *economic* lesson 🙂
HF, Thank you!
Standing ovation for our PBO.
Every Democrat who claims to be who they say are should be dancing in the street with all of this good news.
If not, as far as I am concerned they can go to hell!
(Except for Cory Booker, you can go climb a tree, save another cat and stay there)
I am going to celebrate all of this good news with a box of my favorite chocolates tonight.
Damn shame how many people did not come out to vote on 9/10 in my district.
This man has worked his ass off to clean up the mess GOP and some traitors who say they are Dems while perpetrating frauds Liberals only when it feels right to bash this Black man(in his face).
I am done with all of them.
I am excited that PBO is moving on to another level of greatness!
Well said!
LDS. Congrats on your Au ⭐
The Truth about our Economy……..as Factually Tweeted by President Barack Obama!
YES!
Thank you, NW!
🙂
Bringing this from the last Thread.
PBO really know how to get his message across, while MSM are busy promoting Trump. Love these tweets.
I knew there was a reason that I like this guy.
Common sense.
In_Deed.
Now if those on the Left could start their own News Media to challenge the Corrupt MSM We have today.
Welcome to the Republican runner up to Trump…
Look Ben Carson was a gifted doctor, but Ben Carson is a dam idiot. This black man have sold his soul to please racists white people. Just read that statement and tell me it make any darn sense.
wow. at least uncle tom keeps his mouth shut.
THAT…IS A RIDICULOUS STATEMENT FROM DR. YES THE REPUGNANTS WILL USE YOU FROM BEN CARSON…THAT IS APPEASEMENT FOR HIS PARTY…MY OH MY SUCH WONDERFUL PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL..BALLS MADE OUT OF MARSHMALLOWS!
So when I was growing up in the south, and called the N word while sitting on the porch by caucasians passing by, they weren’t noticing the color of my skin, according to Carson. What is he thinking? oh, he is not thinking.
I hope that dumb statement from Ben Carson and others are found to dissuade those that might vote for him from doing so due to his soft spoken demeanor and his medical successes as a doctor.
Looking for the “thank you master” – cannot believe anyone would say that. Just too sad.
Ben Carson made that statement merely for effect. Read about his early life and you’ll see that he “clearly” knows about racism because of his mother’s background, rural Georgia. Don’t piss on my shoes and tell me it’s raining, I know better!
Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Sonya (née Copeland) and Robert Solomon Carson, a Seventh-day Adventist minister.[3] Both his parents came from rural Georgia.[3] A DNA test on the television series African American Lives showed that his ancestry is 20% European and 80% African, including ancestors within the Makua people.[4] His parents divorced when he was eight, and he and his ten-year-old brother Curtis were raised by their mother.[5]
When and where did this educated illiterate say this?
Seriously? This man is over 60 yrs old. One would think that he has been living under a rock.
What an ugly person.
This is reprehensible.
Grateful to what We had??????
This man must seriously loathe himself.
This idiot has grown arse children. His mother, I believe is still alive. He has a brother. He has a wife.
If a White person had said that, he would be wildly denounced as a Racist.
PBO: “We’ve cut the unemployment rate in half – from a high of 10% down to 5.1%. And we’re not done.”
*AND WE’RE NOT DONE.* Hear that?
HF, I heard that loud and clear!
I truly believe that he has so much more to do once he leaves office.
“And we’re not done” means VP Biden is Ready. Willing. Able.
To shut down, shut up Trump.
The media will not because they think he’s a joke like Chris Christie.
Waiting for them to fit that orange suit for him and let’s keep it moving FOWARD.
via bj poster david koch (whom their fp’er anne laurie falsely accuses of being a rw troll, while giving a total pass to self-declared rw trolls there, so much for her judgment)
In late 2014, GOP leaders in Florida were pretty certain of a couple of things: Marco Rubio would never run for president if his mentor, Jeb Bush, did; and if either ran, he would be a lock to win Florida’s Republican presidential primary.
That’s why, after Bush signaled he was likely to run, Republican legislative leaders set the 2016 Florida primary for March 15 — and made the primary winner-take-all, rather than a primary in which several candidates could divide the state’s 100 or so delegates proportionally. It was a gift to Bush, to ensure he could count on winning a big pile of delegates in case he did not dominate earlier contests.
“Can we get that gift back?” Republican political consultant Ana Navarro, a zealous Bush advocate and ubiquitous TV pundit, quipped Thursday night while speaking at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg.
Contrary to the old conventional wisdom, Rubio did get into the race and another giant force emerged to threaten everybody’s plans. His name is Donald Trump, and Navarro acknowledged her fear that Trump could win Florida’s primary.
Rubio and Bush may well cannibalize one another’s votes, she said, leaving Trump to scoop up a winning plurality of antiestablishment votes.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/winner-take-all-florida-primary-could-hurt-jeb-bush/2245316
karma, bitchez.
They all deserve each other.
GOP keeps fooling around with the election process – US needs UN oversight of their elections.
Two more days of these games.
How could do they do that? Why only two more days?
clock runs out on Sept. 17.
like it or not GOP, the Deal goes into effect.
Congress has 60 days to review and pass the Iran Deal, July 20 – Sept 17. Even though cloture failed, they’re still going through their hideous gyrations.
oh, oookay. So, it’s like the pathetic gop house failing to repeal kenyan kare like gazillion times?
Yes, exactly. Just eating up the clock and then move on to shutting our government down again because they don’t have a budget done.
THIS HAS BEEN A VERY MESSY DAY AND I AM SO MAD I COULD SPIT NAILS…ALL OF MY PAPERWORK AND LEADS FROM MY TRIP WITH MY BROTHER TO THE RESERVATION IS MISSING….+++++LOADS OF RENTAL LEADS NOT FOUND ON THE INTERNET…SO I AM FUMING. MY BROTHER’S EX-WIFE IS A VERY NASTY PERSON…THAT’S MY LEAD…WE CALLED THE POLICE AND FILLED OUT A REPORT BUT CAN’T PROVE ANYTHING…EVERY PIECE OF INFO FROM MY TRIP IS GONE! WE THINK SHE COPIED THE KEY HIS SON HAD!…:(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((!
HAVE BEEN IN TEARS ALL DAY…WORKED HARD ON ALL THAT…AND IT’S GONE!
Oh ((((((Sue))))) I am so sorry for your horrible day, I really hope things can be worked out, wishing you all the best and sending out plenty of positive vibes. Take care.
Come on Sister Sue, you’ve had a cry now you need to pull it together and get to work on recreating what you need. And here’s a BIG {{Hug}} ❤️
{{Sue}}, I’m so sorry about your day. I hope that everything can be worked out. Do you have a name of someone from the Reservation that maybe can help you replace the paperwork you need, or might be able to help you out.
Sue, I’m so very sorry that all your hard work is missing. I can only imagine the frustration and anger you feel. I hope you get some answers.
So very sorry to hear that, Sue! Hope you can get it squared away, right away.
Amb McGurk is just like his boss Sec Kerry – indefatigable!!!
bbl … other updates in the sidebar, btw …
Great News, Doc. Thanks for these Tweets.
BBL…WHEN I’M IN A BETTER MOOD!
Sorry for what has happened to you
Keep the faith and you will survive this set back.
So, if you can stand a large overdose of adorable: https://www.facebook.com/symbiozoo
Thank you, Nerdy for giving the front page over entirely to POTUS’ tweets. What POTUS has done is in all areas is massive and unprecedented.
LDS up thread said what I think, too.
The reason VP Biden Must run is because there is nobody now running on the astonishing comprehensive success of the past 61/2 years.
Look at what The Obama Administration has done!
If you listen to all the current candidates–(D) (I) and (R) their stances are petulant and complainy about how bad government is and how they will fix everything.
WTF??!!??!!
Obamacare doesn’t need to be redone right now, for instance.
VP Biden has said someone has to run on their great record and he is right.
That is why he must run. Or let the current candidates pretend to re-invent the wheel.
I hope VP Joe is inspired and moved by the Pope in a personal way, to ease his suffering. I say that not as a political wish but as a humane one. He is a devout Catholic and I’m hoping it will be a soothing moment for him and his family.
This will be a very good opportunity to iron out some pressing issues, face to face. Look for the MSM and RWNJs to do everything to undermine the notion of progress.
Move over, Clinton!
hand the keys to the republicans and watch how all this progress disappears.
We need a ticker tape parade!
THIS is how you tout success and give proper honor to your President:
Viewed historically, Obama has set out to correct past foreign policy excesses and disasters, largely the product of imperial overreach, that can be traced to several generations of American leaders bent on the exercise of unilateral power. Within the spectrum of American state power, he has slowly shifted from the coercion of war, occupation, torture, and other forms of unilateral military action toward the more cooperative realm of trade, diplomacy, and mutual security — all in search of a new version of American supremacy.
Excellent Piece…worth reading
Absolutely. Enjoyed reading it.
Looking at CNN’s predebate panel…i am not longer willing to accept an all white panel
is the gop debate on today
The clown bus arrives tomorrow for the debate.
thanks 57
will the panel all be wearing klanhoods?
Yes Donald Trump will be the grand dragon, or is it grand wizard?
LOL.
Congrats on 1st LDS 🙂
Thank you for keeping those lessons, front and center, NW!!
They serve to highlight a simple, glaringly obvious, hideously scary FACT …..
#LetsRollJoe
not sure if I’ll be back before tomorrow …. take care TOD ….
Mr. Bobfr, thank you!
Sleep is not going well so I decided to come here and catch up….again.
Every time I turn around PBO is kicking so much GOP ass, it is making my head explode.
I can only imagine what is is doing to them.
For one thing it is spewing out the ugly pathetic vile hatred souls who they are.
The light has been shown and they are just about ready to devour each other.
All the attempts to discredit this brilliant mind and caring soul of our President has failed them, there is nothing left to do but turn on each other. And turn they will……
I had to go back up thread and reread that our President has reduced the “annual federal budget deficit to 70 percent.”
While our President will “Just Keep On Pushing.”
I firmly believe there is no way PBO will allow the GOP rags to come in and undo all of this hard work.
Something is exciting is about to happen and I AM ALL IN!
OH, MY
AMENNNNNNN…
this is what our press should be saying
Some of the people at the Trumps rally are having an orgasm. You can hear it after every sentence uttered by The Donald. It’s incredible that people can cheer that amount of idiocy this man is spewing.
who were the two that defected from the dark side
Graham (SC), Booker (NJ), Paul (KY), Sullivan (AK) didn’t vote as per C-Span.
Correction: Booker voted NO, very late in the count.
Correction: Sullivan voted Yes 3 minutes later.
wonder why Booker did not vote
He made it just on time to vote and voted with the Democrats.
ok…great ..smilin
Did Trump give a speech tonight on the USS Iowa?.
Yes. And grown men were having an orgasm at the incoherent statements. The speech, dubbed to be one of foreign policy, was the same nonsense that attacked both POTUS and the clowns of the GOP candidate field. But, rest assured, he will make America great again.
What happen to the big policy speech Trump was giving tonight?
Nothing happened to it because it didn’t exist. It was the same verbiage given in front of many angry (mostly white -99%) people who would love to go to war against their party, the US government and the world.
When Trump said that he would build the wall on the Mexican border the first day, you could hear people enjoying sexual pleasure and groaning. It’s becoming scary… for the simple reason that there is only one THE DONALD but thousands if not millions or these deranged, angry, racist people walking all over in this country. It’s a reality show you could label WALKING DANGEROUS.
Trump suckered the media again, and they fell for it.
SNORT….Sure, that’s why he’s polling at 17% among Dems…
Sanders sounding like a republican ?? Doesn’t make sense.
{Snip}
It’s not particularly noteworthy that a presidential candidate should go to Liberty University, a conservative evangelical college, and deliver a tough critique of President Barack Obama’s record. It is unusual when the critique is delivered by a Democratic candidate who’s challenging Hillary Clinton from the left. Yet that’s what Senator Bernie Sanders did on Monday.
Sanders didn’t mention Obama by name. But he sketched a bleak picture of the country at the tail end of his two terms in the White House. “In my view there is no justice in our country when youth unemployment exists at tragically high levels,” he said. A fifth of children live in poverty, he noted, and the U.S. jails more people than any other country on earth. We have “a rigged economy, designed by the wealthiest people in this country to benefit the wealthiest people in this country at the expense of everybody else,” he said.
🙄 😆 🙄 😆
Oh, oh! Now waiting for Gov. Christie to tell us the reason his campaign isn’t going too well.
evening folks…
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/15/3701606/second-gop-debate-lies/
Then right after this, less than an hour later, Trump’s diatribe was LIVE again on MSNBC. Shame!
Now yet again……a guy who called Pres Obama a racist and with a seeded hatred for White people in July 2009 on Fox is now calling His Teabaggers Racists?
Karma is awesome!
//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8nZgPHb5A8E
Speaking of economic lessons… this is excellent:) remind all your friends! And Republicans you know…it’ll drive them crazy. The truth always does!
http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-obama-accomplishments-and-successes-republicans-have-to-pretend-never-happened/
VP Biden Speaks Out on Donald Trump ‘ Xenophobia ‘ – ‘ This Will Pass ‘ – 9/15/15
Love him. Leadership. He has it too. In spades. Please Joe…
Good evening, TODville!
Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers for my son … he had his surgery today and is doing very well. The surgeon said it went great. Within a few hours after the operation, my son was sending out a photo of himself sitting up in bed, big happy smile on his face, finger at the ready to push, with the caption, “Pain med button” !!! Of course, he’s still numb in some areas surrounding the procedure, so when that wears off, he’ll be in a bunch more discomfort (hence, the button!), but he’ll get through that, too, I’m sure. We were even laughing tonight about some of the stuff he mentioned.
Laughter truly is the best medicine, in case any of you were still wondering!
And now to catch up on what I missed. Thanks for this post, NW!
#RunJoeRun
I share your relief and happiness, Jackie O.
Thanks so much! My son appreciates everybody’s good wishes, which I’ve passed on to him.
Fantastic news J’OB. You know he stays in my thoughts and prayers. Continued good recovery for him!
Love ya, Baby O’Donna. And thanks.
Wow, your son is really something. What a guy! Continued wishes for progress and healing. And keep smiling!
Honey bunch, except for the weird 1970s clothes in this and most of the actual lyrics, this is how I feel tonight, so kindly indulge me, world!
Go on, JO’B!!
Don’t much comment these days, lurk often, and did say a prayer for your son, as well as for others here with various hardships. Good night, be blessed.
Means a lot. Thank you!
That’s fab news. Just yesterday, my daughter unit was telling me how thrilled her team were to see a young man diagnosed with cancer last year, got treated in her hospital, got completely cured and was on a thank you visit to her hospital yesterday. Best wishes to your son and may his sense of well being match his sense of humor.
Tears just squirted out of my eyes! Thanks, sugar. (May I call you sugar? Ha. Just did!)
Thank God, Jackie O. We’re with ya! Give our love to your son.
Thanks so much – I will!
I am happy for you all.
May the good news continue.
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/2ec365e019180133f945005056a9545d,jpg
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/09/15/the-president-and-first-ladys-day-21/
ut, my reply to job got spammed. could you please ….. danke.