Obama: 'Think We're Stupid'

We didn't know much about Obama when he was elected president.

We've learned a lot about the man since then.

We've witnessed the way he governs and we're living with the results.

We've seen how he handles crises. We've watched the tactics he employs compared to the rhetoric he uses.

Of course, prior to Obama's election, some of us had major concerns that Obama was not the figure he and the media built him up to be. The myth didn't match the reality.

There were moments that revealed the truth. His own words exposed the real Obama.

We heard his condescension.

"It's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

We caught a glimpse of his economic philosophy.

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."

We viewed his racial attitudes and willingness to throw even his own grandmother under the bus.

"[My grandmother] is a typical white person."

Since assuming office, Obama has amassed a pile of embarrassments, unbefitting the leader of the Free World. Again and again, we've witnessed his poor judgment, his bad decisions, his penchant for leading poorly as well as his failure to lead at all.

He's not at all a great intellect. He's not the post-partisan, post-racial, transcendental figure he claims to be.

Not even close.

Yesterday, while fundraising in Chicago, Obama had an alleged "open mic" incident.

He supposedly didn't know that his comments were being heard by the press. I'm not so sure about that. I think it all may have been a ruse.

From CBS News:

In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.

CBS Radio News White House correspondent Mark Knoller listened in to an audio feed of Mr. Obama's conversation with donors after other reporters traveling with the president had left the room.

In the candid remarks, Mr. Obama complains of Republican attempts to attach measures to the budget bill which would have effectively killed parts of his hard-won health care reform program.

"I said, 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'" recalled the president of his closed-door negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government until September.

...Mr. Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner and members of his staff that he'd spent a year and a half getting the sweeping health care legislation passed -- paying "significant political costs" along the way -- and wouldn't let them undo it in a six-month spending bill.

...Speaking into a microphone which he may not have realized was still relaying his remarks to the White House press room -- where Knoller had been listening to earlier remarks that were open to the press -- Mr. Obama bemoaned GOP leaders' attempts to attach a measure to the budget bill which would have cut funding for Planned Parenthood.

"Put it in a separate bill," the president said he told Boehner and his staff. "We'll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don't try to sneak this through."

..."When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he's just being America's accountant ... This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill -- but wasn't paid for," Mr. Obama told his supporters. "So it's not on the level."

Audio of Obama's remarks.



Obama is a very small man. He sounds angry and bitter. And he despises Paul Ryan.

Ryan gets under his skin.

Why?

Because Paul Ryan reveals Obama to be a demagogue. And, I say this with all due respect, stupid.

The truth has always been Obama's enemy.