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Here is complete video of President Barack Obama’s Press Conference today where he demanded that Congress give him a blank check to keep up runaway deficit spending by increasing the debt-ceiling. He also threatened he was going to use “Executive Powers” to move against the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans. He indicated there are some steps he can take without legislation, and he intends to take those steps where possible. He did not specify what those steps will be.
President Obama Holds Final Press Conference of His First Term; Demands Debt-Ceiling Increase; Says He Intends to use “Executive Action” to move Against 2nd Amendment Rights – Complete Video 1/14/13
Here is complete video of President Barack Obama’s first White House Press Conference since being re-elected as President. This was Obama’s first formal Press Conference in eight months.
President Barack Obama’s White House Press Conference – Complete Video 11/14/12
Here is video of Charles Krauthammer talking about President Obama’s Press Conference yesterday, with Krauthammer describing Obama as “droning on,” and “dull.”
“It was very odd. Because on one hand, you get the sense that he was droning on, he was speaking in a way I found incredibly dull, almost disinterested. And you get the feeling of a sinking, contracting presidency. The one time he got sort of energetic is when he went into attack mode. . . . It’s as if he hasn’t been president for the three years he’s been president.”
Actually, “droning on” and “dull” is standard fare for Obama.
Charles Krauthammer on Obama Presser: “He was Droning On. . . Speaking in a Way I Found Incredibly Dull” – Video 10/6/11
Here is video of GOP Sen. Marco Rubio speaking on the Floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday where he blasted President Obama’s statements at a recent Press Conference as “disappointing.” In fact, Rubio said Obama’s comments amounted to “class warfare,” and was, “the kind of language that you would expect from the leader of a third world country, not the President of the United States.”
Rubio went on:
“The bigger problem, though, is maybe the President fundamentally doesn’t understand how jobs are created. Politicians don’t create jobs. U.S. Senators don’t create jobs. Sen. Johnson pointed out jobs are created by everyday people from all walks of life that start a business or expand an existing one. And our job here in Government is to make it easier for them to do that – not harder. Threatening to raise taxes, threatening to wage class warfare does not accomplish that purpose.
Here’s what I would suggest to the President. I would suggest that we have done this before as a people in America. Things like a simpler tax code – people around here are in favor of tax reform. A simpler tax code, a manageable and sane regulatory environment, and of course, a Government that doesn’t spend money it doesn’t have. These things have worked before, and they will work again. I urge the President to lead us in that direction.”
Of course, Obama won’t lead us in that direction. It is completely opposite his Leftist, radical philosophy of an ever-larger, ever-more controlling Government. But Rubio hit the nail on the head with his remarks.
