You know things are rough for the incumbent...

[eyer]

...when his advisers won't even fluff for the guy in public anymore:

Obama adviser treads carefully when asked whether Americans are better off

By Sean Sullivan , Updated: September 2, 2012

Asked repeatedly on Sunday whether the country is better off than it was four years ago, David Plouffe, a top adviser to President Obama, would not provide a direct yes or no answer. He responded that the nation has improved from the “depths of the recession” because of Obama’s leadership, but would not flatly say whether the country is better off or not.

Plouffe said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that, “I think the American people understand that we got into a terrible economic situation,” and “they know we had a deep hole.”

“Yes or no? Are Americans better off today then they were four years ago?” asked Stephanopoulos later in the interview.

“I think everybody understands we were this close to a great depression. Because of the leadership of this president, we staved that off. We are beginning to recover. We have a lot more work to do,” responded Plouffe.

“We have clearly improved form the depths of the recession,” Plouffe also said. “The question for the American people is which path are we going to take,” he added.

Other prominent Democrats were posed with the same question on Sunday.

“Can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?” CBS’s Bob Schieffer asked Democratic Governors Association Chairman Martin O’Malley on “Face The Nation.”

“No, but that’s not the question of this election,” O’Malley said. “The question, without a doubt, we are not as well as we were off before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits.”

Full piece @

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ked-whether-americans-are-better-off/?print=1

 

[phrodeau]

Yeah, he's so panicked he decided to share his personal beer recipe.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

 

[Busybody]

“No, but that’s not the question of this election,” O’Malley said. “The question, without a doubt, we are not as well as we were off before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits.”


LOSERS, all DUMZ are LOSERS

 

[phrodeau]

White House beer. What could be more American?

Elect a Mormon, and it goes away.

 

[CHNOPS]

If Americans are out of work and not flush with cash, no incumbent want to be dumb enough to pull a Papa Bush and insist to them they're doing fine, they just don't know.

Plouffe is loyal; he had to thread the needle. The fault isn't the lack of a yes, it's the unpolished substitute. A smarter answer would have been, 'the American people have these five things that are better, and we're getting the economy there too, but will need some time. Anyone in the office would need time; we're on our way to helping all Americans feel that they are better off, etc.'

I bet you'll hear a version of that next time, though...

 

[Bert Notorius]

most leaky administration evah.

 

[busybody..]

If Americans are out of work and not flush with cash, no incumbent want to be dumb enough to pull a Papa Bush and insist to them they're doing fine, they just don't know.

Plouffe is loyal; he had to thread the needle. The fault isn't the lack of a yes, it's the unpolished substitute. A smarter answer would have been, 'the American people have these five things that are better, and we're getting the economy there too, but will need some time. Anyone in the office would need time; we're on our way to helping all Americans feel that they are better off, etc.'

I bet you'll hear a version of that next time, though...

Dumb ass fuck hole

Did you forget what FUK said a few months ago about how well everyone is doing?

Are you not ashamed to drag a Bush in?


Loser, COON

 

[busybody..]

If Americans are out of work and not flush with cash, no incumbent want to be dumb enough to pull a Papa Bush and insist to them they're doing fine, they just don't know.

Plouffe is loyal; he had to thread the needle. The fault isn't the lack of a yes, it's the unpolished substitute. A smarter answer would have been, 'the American people have these five things that are better, and we're getting the economy there too, but will need some time. Anyone in the office would need time; we're on our way to helping all Americans feel that they are better off, etc.'

I bet you'll hear a version of that next time, though...

And Omally stepped on his dick and blamed Bush

 

[Tryharder62]

Yeah, he's so panicked he decided to share his personal beer recipe.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

Whoever you vote for you have to agree that it is the stupidest time to do something like that. My goodness

 

[phrodeau]

Whoever you vote for you have to agree that it is the stupidest time to do something like that. My goodness

Why do you think so?

I think I can assume with certainty that you are not a Mormon.

 

[Tryharder62]

Please...

Tell me, please, that the economy is more important, as well as the state of healthcare, than if one candidate drinks or not. I think it is safe that people who want to drink will still get their booze whether Romney believes it should be consumed or not. Outlawing it has been tried and it failed.

I will conceed your point though. A person who just cares about his brew and not the state of the country will vote for Obama.

 

[phrodeau]

Tell me, please, that the economy is more important, as well as the state of healthcare, than if one candidate drinks or not. I think it is safe that people who want to drink will still get their booze whether Romney believes it should be consumed or not. Outlawing it has been tried and it failed.

I will conceed your point though. A person who just cares about his brew and not the state of the country will vote for Obama.

Who was making that point?

I had a point somewhere. It was that Obama doesn't seem too bothered by supposed incumbent roughness.

 

[CHNOPS]

Dumb ass fuck hole

Did you forget what FUK said a few months ago about how well everyone is doing?

Are you not ashamed to drag a Bush in?


Loser, COON

Papa Bush is one of the few incumbents in history not to be reelected. He left office just as the economy was improving, but before the improvement had made an impact with the population at large. He tanked his reelection bid by seeming not to know that people were still hurting.

There are lessons in that for Obama--one that Plouffe was obviously heeding.

 

[Tryharder62]

Who was making that point?

I had a point somewhere. It was that Obama doesn't seem too bothered by supposed incumbent roughness.

I thought since you were assuming I wasn't Mormon this had to do with the contrast between the two men on the subject of alcohol. My bad!

I tend to think that Obama is in la la land half the time. He is very arrogant and Self - Centered. He is able to speak well and use charm tactics that got him to the White House. He thinks he can just do it again. Make me look like the guy you could have a drink with and maybe you'll forget that the kids are starving and we have no place to live. Oh by the way I wasn't just spending my time having a brew while you were starving. I have my own recipe. Yikes. He did the beer thing early in the presidency having I think the cop that he said offensive things to over for a beer. Nothing new here. Not going to help this time.

 

[phrodeau]

I thought since you were assuming I wasn't Mormon this had to do with the contrast between the two men on the subject of alcohol. My bad!

I tend to think that Obama is in la la land half the time. He is very arrogant and Self - Centered. He is able to speak well and use charm tactics that got him to the White House. He thinks he can just do it again. Make me look like the guy you could have a drink with and maybe you'll forget that the kids are starving and we have no place to live. Oh by the way I wasn't just spending my time having a brew while you were starving. I have my own recipe. Yikes. He did the beer thing early in the presidency having I think the cop that he said offensive things to over for a beer. Nothing new here. Not going to help this time.

If American kids are starving, the parents get arrested.

You aren't thinking that Obama is President of Kenya, are you?

 

[KingOrfeo]

White House beer. What could be more American?

Elect a Mormon, and it goes away.

Four More Beers!

 

[FloridaSmoothie]

White House beer. What could be more American?

Elect a Mormon, and it goes away.

That is not my experience with Mormans, and I have been with them often. One even tried to make me coffee, once.

 

[eyer]

...when he's currently trailing a prototypical crony capitalist - whose never spent a cent of anything but other people's money - by 4 percentage points:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

 

[phrodeau]

...when he's currently trailing a prototypical crony capitalist - whose never spent a cent of anything but other people's money - by 4 percentage points:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ministration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

http://electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/rasmussen.html

 

[doubleover]

Who was making that point?

I had a point somewhere. It was that Obama doesn't seem too bothered by supposed incumbent roughness.

Obama should have no worries as long as the slackers outnumber the workers.

 

[eyer]

...when a possible 2016 Democrat presidential contender has to admit publicly that America isn't better off today than 4 years ago:

Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, who is considered a possible contender for president in 2016, bucked other Obama surrogates on Sunday, saying that the country was not better off now than it was four years ago.

On CBS's Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked: “Can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?”

(RELATED: Axelrod Calls GOP Convention a Bust)

Responded O’Malley: “No, but that's not the question of this election. The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars -- charged for the first time to credit cards, the national credit card.”

Quipped Schieffer: “George Bush is not on the ballots.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/o-malley-we-re-not-better-off-now-20120902