Not News: Obama Rips Republican Predecessor – News: 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes… President Obama took aim Thursday at one of his Republican predecessors: Rutherford B. Hayes. Speaking about the need to develop new sources of American energy in Largo, MD, Obama used our 19th president as a failure of forward-thinking leadership. “One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: ‘It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’” Obama said. “That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.” “He’s looking backwards, he’s not looking forward. He’s explaining why we can’t do something instead of why we can do something,” Obama said. “The point is there will always be cynics and naysayers.” The best part: Obama got it wrong. Hayes was actually a huge fan of the telephone. Via Politico: New York Magazine’s Daily Intel does the legwork and finds that, contrary to Obama’s assertion that our 19th president dismissed the telephone as useless, Rutherford B. Hayes was quite enthralled by the device. The curator of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center responds to Obama’s quip: She then read aloud a newspaper article from June 29, 1877, which describes Hayes’s delight upon first experiencing the magic of the telephone. The Providence Journal story reported that as Hayes listened on the phone, “a gradually increasing smile wreathe[d] his lips and wonder shone in his eyes more and more.” Hayes took the phone from his ear, “looked at it a moment in surprise and remarked, ‘That is wonderful.’” In fact, Card noted, Hayes was not only the first president to have a telephone in the White House, but he was also the first to use the typewriter, and he had Thomas Edison come to the White House to demonstrate...
He breaks the first rule of sales and does it every time. In order to promote his product, his selling technique is to trash the competition. In his case, he views the competition as virtually every one else who has served as president because he knows that he pales in comparison to all of them. He never touts features and costs savings or ease of use and affordability of whatever he is selling. Negative selling never works, particularly when the "facts" you use to back your product are complete fabrications. This guy is a complete fraud.
Amen, George. I saw it all too often in my career from competitors. It's insulting to the intelligence of your audience. Those who do it do so out of arrogance and are blind to the negative impact in the mind of the prospect. The price to be paid will come later, but it will come.
Sid, in all my years I have never trashed a competitor's reputation or product line to a customer or prospect. And I won't allow my employees to do so either. I was recently put to the test when a large medical account asked me point blank in a meeting what I thought of their current vendor ( who's place I was looking to take ). I said " It doesn't matter what I think of them, only what you think of them". Well, meet the new vendor. In this case, Obama fabricating a story about a President from over 100 years ago is the absolute height of slight of hand.
I fear we are going to have to endure four more years of this fraud. He's successfully turned the Catholic Churches stance on birth control into a political issue on "womens rights", and that will keep many women in his camp. Meanwhile Romney, who is really the only guy with a shot at the Repub nomination, is being peppered right and left by two guys who have no shot. Santorum is out against pornography, sure nothing wrong with that, except he's making it a Republican issue and independents are going to be turned off by it not because they favor porno but because they'll worry that he's just a modern day Cromwell.
Class reply, George. You're a class guy. That's why you are so successful. Sometime, if and when we ever get a chance to visit in person and chat, I'll tell you about how my son is finding success in his profession with the same approach despite internal pressure from a key person to bash the competition. Not coincidentally, that key person is struggling while my son is flourishing.
Saint Patrick’s Day Package From Arizona Contains Tee Shirt For Obama The People’s Cube Among many gifts that President Obama receives on St. Patrick’s Day from grateful American workers and peasants, there was one that he liked the most. It was a T-shirt that said “Kiss me I’m Kenyan,” mailed to him by an unidentified individual from the Sheriff’s office in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Report: Anti-Obama Sentiment Growing Rapidly Among U.S. Marines.. Or as Obama calls them, the Marine Corpse. Via Marine Corps Times: Sgt. Gary Stein might be saying things about President Obama that a lot of Marines think, but some are saying he took it too far. Stein has come under fire for stating on Facebook that he wouldn’t follow certain orders given by his commander in chief. And Marines say Stein’s not alone in his disapproval. More anti-Obama talk is being heard in the workplace and new Military Times poll data shows declining approval among military service members for the president’s job as commander in chief. The Marine Corps depends its chain of command structure, especially in a time of war. Some Marines say Stein and other vocal Marines like him are undermining that system. See this week’s issue for a breakdown on what is happening, what it means for the chain of command and what Marine’s are saying about it.
Obamanomics: Number of People Not In The Labor Force Jumps To Highest Number Ever: 88 Million… What the media doesn’t tell you. Via Zero Hedge: March NFP big miss at just 120K. Unemployment rate declines from 8.3% to 8.2%. Futures slide, for at least a few minutes before the NEW QE TM rumor starts spreading. The household survey actually posted a decline in March from 142,065 to 142,034. Considering Birth Death added 90K to the NSA number, the actual number was almost unchanged. And as always, as we predicted when Goldman hiked its NFP forecast yesterday from 175K to 200K saying “if Goldman’s recent predictive track record is any indication, tomorrow’s NFP will be a disaster”, Goldie once again skewers everyone. Finally, Joe LaVorgna’s +250,000 forecast was just 100% off. . . as usual. The unemployment rate drops to 8.2% for one simple reason: the number of people not in the labor force is back to all time highs: 87,897,000.
Info from your Uncle Sammy http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics.htm
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Ego-Maniac-In-Chief: I Can Do Every Job Better Than Those I Hire to Do It… Delusional with an ego the size of Michael Moore’s ass, not a good combo. Via National Review: It appears one of the great challenges that President Obama has had to overcome in office is that no one around him is as good at his job as he is. From Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas, page 66: Obama had always had a high estimation of his ability to cast and run his operation. When David Plouffe, his campaign manager, first interviewed for a job with him in 2006, the senator gave him a warning: “I think I could probably do every job on the campaign better than the people I’ll hire to do it,” he said. “It’s hard to give up control when that’s all I’ve known.” Obama said nearly the same thing to Patrick Gaspard, whom he hired to be the campaign’s political director. “I think I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Obama told him. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
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Poland’s President writes Obama to personally request apology — Obama: I won This is such a no-brainer that even Al Sharpton knows better. (ABC News) — Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski said Wednesday he had written a personal letter to President Barack Obama urging him to do more to correct the record after Obama referred to “a Polish death camp” in a White House ceremony on Tuesday. “I hope we will jointly act to make up for this unfortunate mistake. I believe that every error, every mistake can be corrected if it is given adequate consideration,” Komorowski said in remarks posted on his official website. Komorowski stopped well short of explicitly demanding an apology from Obama, who used the phrase Tuesday as he honored World War II Polish resistance hero Jan Karski with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian American honor. Poland’s foreign minister had demanded a full apology late Tuesday. But Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made no reference to an apology on Wednesday even as he blasted Obama’s remark. The phrase shocked Polish leaders and echoed across media in Poland, where the remark was seen as suggesting that Poles — not Nazis — carried out the genocidal policies of Adolf Hitler. Obama’s past comments all-but-certainly refute that interpretation, and the White House has said he merely “misspoke.”. . . Asked whether Obama had plans to reach out to Polish leaders, Carney demurred. The Polish president cast the issue in terms of improving relations with the United States. “Every recognized and reconsidered mistake can bring us closer together,” he said, “to prevent recurrence of painful phrases that are divorced from the truth but which influence opinions about Poland’s history and present day.” “We in Poland know well that the phrase ‘Polish death camps’ is not only painful and unfair but simply untrue,” Komorowski said.