Obama campaigning on our dime...

again.

While perusing yet another debt ceiling article, this one at Fox News,  the following sentence jumped out at me:  Emphasis mine...

The kind of grand bargain that sends thrills up Washington legs was just never going to happen with a deadline eight days away and the most consequential presidential election in a generation already underway. source

My question is this:  Why in hell are these feckless morons in Washington, with Obama being the most feckless of them all, campaigning for an election taking place more than a year in the future?  They are not receiving a rather hefty salary to campaign but to do the job we sent them to do.

Obama took time off today from the ongoing Kubuki theater called negotiating to speak to La Raza, one of the most racist and subversive organizations in the country.  It is this sort of shenanigans that make people so angry.  Listen to this excerpt from his speech:

But we can’t just close our deficits by cutting spending . . .

And that’s why people from both parties have said that the best way to take on our deficit is with a balanced approach –- one where the wealthiest Americans and big corporations pay their fair share, too. (Applause.) Before we stop funding energy research, we should ask oil companies and corporate jet owners to give up special tax breaks that other folks don’t get. (Applause.) Before we ask college students to pay more to go to college, we should ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes that are lower in terms of rates than their secretaries. Before we ask seniors to pay more for Medicare — (applause) — before we ask seniors to pay more for Medicare, we should ask people like me to give up tax breaks that we don’t need and weren’t even asking for. (Applause.)

So, NCLR, that’s at the heart of this debate. Are we a nation that asks only the middle class and the poor to bear the burden? After they’ve seen their jobs disappear and their incomes decline over a decade? Are we a people who break the promises we’ve made to seniors, or the disabled, and leave them to fend for themselves?

Exactly what burden are the middle class and poor bearing?  They don't pay taxes and, in fact, in most cases get money back from the government.  Your money and my money.  And exactly who is suggesting we go after the seniors or the disabled?  Not only do we fund his campaigning but he manages to insult us while doing it. 

As Keith Koffler of White House Dossier said in a recent article about Obama's speech to La Raza:

The frightening thing here is not that Obama has gone into a political mode similar to that which we saw just before Election Day 2010, when he resorted to calling Republicans enemies, suggested without proof that foreign money was funding the Chamber of Commerce’s political work, said Republicans don’t want black people to vote and that they had a master plan to keep the economy from improving in order to seize power, and so on.

The frightening thing is that he believes this, in the idea that people with different philosophies than his are evil and un-American. It’s wrong when anyone – liberal or conservative – takes such a position. It’s scary when the president of all of us does.  read it all

Frightening indeed!!