Obama: America Has ‘Gotten A Little Soft’

"I mean, there are a lot of things we can do," Obama said. "The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn't have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track."

September 29, 2011 at 8:32 pm - NBC-WESH
Dateline: Florida
Larse1   September 29th, 2011 - 8:35 pm

Beware those, that 'find' a 22 second "clip" out of a very long conversation…

That is a "toy game" Hitler's men used….

BalkanDeputy   September 29th, 2011 - 8:36 pm

More Great insight from President Zero.

Nothing like a Depression to toughen us up.

Librtaren   September 29th, 2011 - 8:37 pm

The best way to get back on track is to send you back to Kenya… or where ever the hell you’re from.

Syrin23   September 29th, 2011 - 8:39 pm

What made them soft?

RELIANCE ON GOV'T FOR EVERYTHING, DUMB ASS !!!!

They have NO work ethic, NO desire to achieve, NO personal responsibility, NO education, NO hope for the American Dream which you piss all over every time you read from the Teleprompter, and they have NO skin in the game! It couldn't turn out ANY OTHER WAY !

Syrin23   September 29th, 2011 - 8:40 pm

I prefer sending him to Gitmo with the rest of the administration

jp2feminist   September 29th, 2011 - 8:42 pm

Gotten a little soft? What on earth does that mean? I don't know about you, but I bust my butt every day to work, care for my family, and take care of my home. Oh! And don't forget, volunteer at my church and our crisis pregnancy center! The nerve of him!!!

MICHAELNOC   September 29th, 2011 - 8:45 pm

America got "soft" when we elected a Marxist for POTUS.

But in 14 months we're gonna correct that mistake, so you might as well tell the wife & kids to "start packing".

NOBAMA 2012

"Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O'Rourke

Scott9424   September 29th, 2011 - 8:46 pm

Obama's malaise speech.

Roger   September 29th, 2011 - 8:46 pm

You typed that in less than 22 seconds, didn't you?

timeguardian   September 29th, 2011 - 8:46 pm

Now, he's blaming the American people instead of himself for this destruction. He just can't stop wagging that finger!

Roger   September 29th, 2011 - 8:47 pm

A good constitutionalist president would toughen me back again really well.

FEDeralUPped   September 29th, 2011 - 8:47 pm

You and your soft buddies will toughen up after a few years in a federal pen! So don't worry!

clarityinla   September 29th, 2011 - 8:48 pm

It's hard to be competitive when you have to worry about your own government coming at you in twelve different ways. Thanks to the statists like Obama, individual initiative has been punished. Government compliancy is what gets rewarded.

USsidearm   September 29th, 2011 - 8:50 pm

Ding Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner. Proverbial hitting of nail on head! You nailed it!

TXTRUTH   September 29th, 2011 - 8:50 pm

Clueless!

Brer_Rabid   September 29th, 2011 - 8:51 pm

America's SOFT?? Soft in the head maybe… look how this buffoon got into office… 53% of the electorate went stupid in 2008. PLEASE get smarter and do go soft to this BS artist in 2012.

USsidearm   September 29th, 2011 - 8:52 pm

Who the f@(K cares what this moron, no-nothing-man-child idiot socialist has to say?

SunshineConnie   September 29th, 2011 - 8:54 pm

What got soft was the Americans who signed onto Obama's HOAX of HOPE & CHANGE. Damned SOCIALIST PROGRESSIVES who just want more free cheese.

yeahyouright   September 29th, 2011 - 8:55 pm

huh?

SunshineConnie   September 29th, 2011 - 8:55 pm

I tend to prefer Leavenwworth for him and his minions.

yeahyouright   September 29th, 2011 - 8:55 pm

this from the first metrosexual president

drdaily   September 29th, 2011 - 8:55 pm

Gee, I'm more inclined to see chiseled out and now hard as rock since you took office. But hey, that's my observation of Americans from the outside looking in.

KindlingMaker   September 29th, 2011 - 8:57 pm

How!? How can ANYbody still support this guy?

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 8:57 pm

What was your first clue? Sitting down in the oval office or being cheered when you said we were going to "lower the oceans."

This experience though has made us much stronger. We kicked you commies out in 2010. Then we will kick you out in 2012.

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 8:58 pm

February 25, 2011

“We the People” and The Will of The People . . .

Dear President Obama,

A liberals greatest fear is not a Republican president. It is President that has both “We the People” and the will of the people on their side. We’ve had a few like that in history. George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt during World War 2, Ronald Reagan and a few others. That is your greatest fear. I was watching the Communist News Network prattling on about the military using psychological operations against Senators and I could barely stop laughing at such nonsense. Obamacare the most unpopular piece of legislation this side of prohibition passes, and they think the military can put the whammy on them? Do they not think we on the Constitutional side of the aisle might of tried a little hocus pokus if we thought it would do some good?

So this gets me thinking. I think that you think you can’t win nor can you keep control of the Senate in 2012 and I think you and your minions are going to use your respective offices to do everything you can, but your jobs, to wreck this country. Why you think that this is a good strategy is beyond me. If I were the first black President I would want to be remembered as the President that did something good. Not just kept Blagojevich out of prison with the hope of a pardon to keep his mouth shut. I would want to transcend that. Not you brother, you’ve got the weed whacker out and any vestige of what is right and holy about this nation you are not only using the whacker, but you are spraying herbicide on it just for good measure. Defense of Marriage Act? Can’t have that! Just take a whack at it. States rights? Can’t have those! They might actually do something good. Like actually solve some of the problems that we face. Whack those too. And we thought you would listen to something as quaint as the will of the people. What were we thinking?

Thats the whole rub isn’t it? Our Constitutional Republic was set up so that for two years we get to see and experience what you do. In 2010 we took a vote and decided that not only do we not like what you are doing we don’t even want a democrat licensing our dog tags, as he might give us a disease called socialism. Now we’ve got these new politicians in the game and they are fighting for us; the governor of Wisconsin is one of them. Mr. Walker has the will of the people on his side. What do you have Mr. Obama? You’ve got an office with a microphone. In time you may even pull a Jimmy Carter in a sweater by a fireplace and castigate America for not agreeing that our standard of living is something we should all feel guilty about. Screw that. Like Paul Simon said in that wonderful song “Have a good time,” it goes like this “God bless the USA and God bless our standard of living, Let’s keep it that way and we will all have a good time . . . “ The American people instinctively know that you, and your feckless policies, are a threat to it.

On November 6, 2012 I’m going to have a real good time voting for the other guy, or gal.

Respectfully,

Joe Doakes

Obama Nobel Failure   September 29th, 2011 - 8:59 pm

This is coming from a man caught wearing women's jeans, riding a women's bicycle, and wearing a girly helmet.

wilmac   September 29th, 2011 - 9:00 pm

Woow! this guy is a real piece of work.,,
he is mad casue no one luvs him anymore.,,,LOL>>>

yeahyouright   September 29th, 2011 - 9:00 pm

and he rides a maw-maw bike on which most men wouldn't be caught dead.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=...

Obama Nobel Failure   September 29th, 2011 - 9:00 pm

So how much is Campaign Obama paying you to troll this site?

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 9:03 pm

You are an angel . . .

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 9:04 pm

Going to the bathroom will be easier too!
:)

Bullonay   September 29th, 2011 - 9:04 pm

The first step to "getting back on track" will be throwing his sorry butt OUT of the oval office…the sooner the better…

snakeriver   September 29th, 2011 - 9:07 pm

Trust me Mr. Leftard as soon as we get you out of office American exceptionalism will get into gear. You can take your socialist/Marxist agenda and shove it.

aRunOfBadLuck   September 29th, 2011 - 9:07 pm

That almost angers me enough to take off my bedroom slippers and do somethin'.

Bullonay   September 29th, 2011 - 9:08 pm

I expected to see a basket on the handle bars of the first picture…a little white one with flowers…

houster   September 29th, 2011 - 9:09 pm

Look in the mirror, BHO. The reason we have to "get back on track" is because you are the motorman that caused the derailment!

ChadGS13   September 29th, 2011 - 9:10 pm

This really ticks me off. We didn't get soft. We got over-regulated by those who believe governments job is to control every aspect of everything. No one I know stopped working hard, taking risk on new businesses, or challenging themselves as well as the status quo. Man, stuff like this just burns me. He got one thing right, We Are & Continue To Be A GREAT Country! YOU are President, Mr. Obama because we are a GREAT NATION. Stop blaming and START LEADING! Quit blaming everyone else because you and the rest of the folk's in both parties in DC can't truly look past The Beltway and or Wall Street! Quit burying America and start Praising it again! We, The People, have NEVER Quit, NEVER GOT OFF TRACK!

AnthemOfTheMind   September 29th, 2011 - 9:11 pm

Why compete when the game is fixed? When it doesn't matter what you do? When your hard fought wealth, creativity, ingenuity, strength, vision etc is redistributed? Where is the reward?

It's hard to compete when the ball is flat, you shoes have holes, it's dark and the field lights are unfortunately solar powered and it's been cloudy and raining for years.

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 9:11 pm

The mold in my bathroom seem's to want to vote for him . . .

bossmechanic1   September 29th, 2011 - 9:13 pm

So now he blames 330 some odd million Americans for HIS miserable economy.
Guess we need to follow Biden's advice and "gird our loins" – in essense put up with this administration's
complete incompetence for another 16 months.

The Great Nodhimmi   September 29th, 2011 - 9:14 pm

The groupies do it for free.

TippingPoint   September 29th, 2011 - 9:16 pm

Political Correctness is a problem. Supporting Cain is the latest manifestation. No thanks!

George_Sore_Arse   September 29th, 2011 - 9:17 pm

okay. LOWER corporate taxes and get rid of all your regulations you added in the last three years AND GET RID OF OBAMACARE

Addie   September 29th, 2011 - 9:17 pm

It's really pathetic that the "president" can't speak for 22 seconds without stammering over and over! Seriously, can he even speak one sentence without Ummm or Ahhh every other word? If you libtards think he's smart, it's no wonder you are a bunch of uneducated welfare rats!

Larse1   September 29th, 2011 - 9:19 pm

Absolute zero…

I just do it for the super lulz!!! :D

Libtard   September 29th, 2011 - 9:19 pm

Simple minds are easily amused.

Libtard   September 29th, 2011 - 9:21 pm

And insiders… you know, the ones who give generously to the DNC.

Dirtt   September 29th, 2011 - 9:23 pm

What a *DICK!

JamestheFin   September 29th, 2011 - 9:24 pm

It's called Jimmy Carter's 'Malaise Speech' 2.0.

All that's left is the Killer Rabbit and a hostage crisis for this Carter 2.0 to fulfill itself.

worknmal   September 29th, 2011 - 9:24 pm

I agree. Had to be gone soft in the head to elect a novice neighborhood shet stirrer like you. My bet we harden up and kick you back to your neighborHood, goober.

Libtard   September 29th, 2011 - 9:24 pm

After this idiot and the DNC loses (Whitehouse and Senate) and the economy starts to recover, wait for them to take credit for getting it started…

There is no shame, these Marxists will look you in the eye at noon and tell you it's dark outside.

Tokyomatt   September 29th, 2011 - 9:25 pm

America has gone limp under Obama's rule. I rather deal with the Carter soft anyday!

1389AD   September 29th, 2011 - 9:28 pm

This dude insults EVERYBODY. See: [LINK]

eukodol   September 29th, 2011 - 9:30 pm

This from a man who kicked off his presidency by going on an international grovelling tour.

vinosaur   September 29th, 2011 - 9:34 pm

This from our "rock" of a leader who sat in a racist church for 20 years.

The only thing hard about him is the way he makes my ears bleed.

Larse1   September 29th, 2011 - 9:36 pm

LOL!!!

You dumbs**t

Get a grip…

youtube.com/watch?v=vjjCbiY80hE

vinosaur   September 29th, 2011 - 9:37 pm

or dumb like a fox?

ArchonPrime   September 29th, 2011 - 9:39 pm

DESTROYING AMERICA IS ZERO'S ONLY RECORDED ACCOMPLISHMENT.

ArchonPrime   September 29th, 2011 - 9:40 pm

WELL, IF YOU'RE BLACK….

BlueCollarTodd   September 29th, 2011 - 9:40 pm

The teleprompter made him do it.

di_da_is_alpha   September 29th, 2011 - 9:46 pm

I think you've been gripping yourself a little too tightly, cutting off the blood flow to your brain. All 350 cc's of it. Check this out …
http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oGdSF2SIVOuRsAas...

That's 17 minutes to say something like, "Yes, I, as a far left tax and spend progressive, I believe that we need to tax the people fortunate enough to be in the position to create jobs, and let the government dole that money out."

That's about 10 seconds, tops. Not 22, not 15, but 10. Now tell me where Addie was wrong, insect.

Taxpayer1234   September 29th, 2011 - 9:48 pm

"We've gotten soft"–says he who rides the girl's bike w/geeky helmet and pleated pants.

amanuensis   September 29th, 2011 - 9:48 pm

Yes, we have gotten soft – and it come from the top down.

Soft on terror, terrorism, terrorists.
Soft on perversity, morality, crime, drugs.
Soft on illegals breaking into the country.
Soft in allowing unprecedented levels of corruption in government. High crimes and treason are an everyday thing.

Our softness can be fixed by an immediate head transplant.

RandyL2   September 29th, 2011 - 9:50 pm

… and bows so gracefully.

Dannawally   September 29th, 2011 - 9:55 pm

Jimmy Carter's second term continues.

JoeDoakes101   September 29th, 2011 - 9:56 pm

AMERICA IS NOT SOFT – NOT BY A LONG SHOT!!!

June 3, 2011

Dear President Obama,

Last week we remembered those lost in the service of the United States of America. Every year I spend one of those weekend days at an the Bethpage Federal Credit Union Air Show that takes place at Jones Beach. And every year, as I engage various frustrations of being a father, and a husband, I say I’m never doing this again. But I do it. I do it because it is one of the only ways I have to teach my family what risks, and competence, we have in the men and woman that serve in this nations military.

I also do it because, like you Mr. Obama, I failed to serve this nation in uniform. But unlike you, I have significant guilt and regret from that poor decision on my part. Life is not something one can pause and hit the rewind button on though. We must decide what to do in order to make a poor choice right and ensure a better future for our children. Provide money to charities that help the troops, advocate for civilian leadership that will not abuse that trust and lives of those service members, honor them through the passing days of freedom my family and I get to experience because they decided to give that up. In some cases forever by continuing their service to this nation as a name carved in granite or bronze to remind future generations that freedom is not free.

A few days from now will mark the 67th anniversary of D-Day. On that day those men who decided that Europe should be free decided to do something about it. They were led by brave leaders who knew that failure was not an option, they knew that to not meet evil with violence and death only meant that one day evil would find its way to their families and homesteads. So they acted with resolve. My Grandfather was one of these men in a B-24 over France on D-Day, and if the weather was better his bombing group could have saved a lot of allied lives. Because of that bad weather so many of those men had to hit beaches chock full of death and destruction.

But, even in the face of this certain death, they did not give up.

As I watched those pilots fly those planes and marveled at the Golden Knights parachute team hit their marks on the beach I know that the sacrifice of those men so many years ago did not occur in vein. Their heroism, and desire to sacrifice, for something bigger than themselves, is alive and well in this nation, and instead of squandering it, we should foster it. I also witnessed something else, thirty or so new recruits into the United States Air Force, raise their hands to take an oath. I think it is an oath that you took Mr. Obama, but these men, and women, may be called upon to keep it with their lives.

They deserve better civilian leadership than what we have given them and on November 6, 2012 we will be doing our part to bring that about.

Respectfully,

Joe Doakes

mr-spike007   September 29th, 2011 - 9:57 pm

The Enemy Alien Devout Mohammeden Dictator, discribes his alien infidel American subjects as "soft" he has nothing but loathing
contempt for his soft american subjects, for they Fear Him….."Fear my swift Merciless Sword of Mohammed the same Sword that
Struck down Seal Team 6……Americans are Soft……Soft….they Fear my Glow…of Power…..Soft…Dirt beneath my Feat"….

Inthiscorner   September 29th, 2011 - 10:07 pm

The first thing you can do to get us back on track is for you to resign immediately and for us to cancel everything you have done since 2008. You call us soft? You sir, by far, are the softest most mealy mouthed lying SOB that has ever been President. We aren't the ones who go on vacation every time the Sh!t hits the fan. You are softer than diarrhea when it comes to threats by Islamists and our traditional enemies. You shirk your responsibilities when you defer to NATO. You blame others instead of take the blame for the things you do. You lash out with screams of Racism when you are criticized (even though those words do not come from you but your Comrades). Resign now and we can begin to fix the damage you have done!

cdu4   September 29th, 2011 - 10:08 pm

Is there anybody this guy has forgotten to lecture ? What an arrogant douchebag!
Americans are tough as nails, he just doesn't care to know any of us.

Ivan_in_Phoenix   September 29th, 2011 - 10:09 pm

Everybody's fault except his. Never Odumbo's fault. Never. Now the moron is running his reelection campaign against the citizens of the country he is trying to govern.

EOD   September 29th, 2011 - 10:14 pm

Conservatives merely need to Deport all Liberals to get back on track… that included Deporting Obama.

garytheferry   September 29th, 2011 - 10:16 pm

This guy has never had a job other than working in an ice cream shop when he was a teenager.

No_teaparty   September 29th, 2011 - 10:18 pm

Don't worry ,he doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the nomination.

LarryHH   September 29th, 2011 - 10:25 pm

Our President sounds like a baritone Porky Pig closing out the cartoon show:
"Thee ah, thee ah, thee ah, thee ah, that's all folks."

Taxpayer1234   September 29th, 2011 - 10:26 pm

*urp* Don't remind me.

Pass the Pepto–nah, just pass me a hammer so I can knock myself unconscious.

Taxpayer1234   September 29th, 2011 - 10:28 pm

Well, he hasn't lectured my daughter yet. That's something I wouldn't advise, as he'll get a bloody nose for his trouble. We raised her not to suffer fools gladly.

Unkledon   September 29th, 2011 - 10:44 pm

Americans rejoice! Obama has reached his ultimate Carter-moment. Remember Carter's "American malaise" pronouncement? His re-election campaign was over then, This has to be it for the lecturer-in-chief. The people aren't soft. But so much of the government is.

jimgur   September 29th, 2011 - 10:51 pm

The only thing soft in america is your head o jackas#

Centurion37   September 29th, 2011 - 10:59 pm

Jimmy Carter's back.

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:05 pm

But he is learning a new skill–golf. I always admire people who try to learn new things. (sarc)

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:06 pm

Maybe soft has been on his mind, lately.

Centurion37   September 29th, 2011 - 11:06 pm

Maybe his motivational mentor, Jimmy Carter, can get him a plumber's gig with Habitat for Humanity in South Chicago, or as a peanut plucker in Plains, Georgia.

After he gets out of the slammer for the Solyndra impeachment.

Can anyone say "high crimes and …."?

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:09 pm

The 53% had never worked and were experimenting with various substances.

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:09 pm

Do you think he gets a mani/pedi?

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:12 pm

I see them every day at my university. They still wear the 2008 Hope & change tee-shirts. They might as well be wearing Stalin and Ché tee shirts. Please, God, guide someone into raising the voting age.

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:12 pm

Send those letters!

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:14 pm

As yeahyouright said earlier, he's a metro-sexual. But I thought they had stylists to help them get dressed.

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:15 pm

I'm not counting my chickens, but if he is removed, who do you think he will pardon?

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:17 pm

A bobbing 95 degree bow.

winstonlabrador   September 29th, 2011 - 11:19 pm

Don't give him anything to do. He will screw it up. Send him out of the country with his BFFs Ayers and Dohrn.

itsjustmeLLFMC   September 30th, 2011 - 12:01 am

LMAO! Soooo true

itsjustmeLLFMC   September 30th, 2011 - 12:02 am

BRAVO! Very well put!

anthony3741   September 30th, 2011 - 12:15 am

Obama .. I know Michelle would say the same about you .. but it wouldnt be a little soft .. but completely soft .. Stop projecting your own paranoia unto good decent Americans and realize that it is what YOU AND YOUR CRONIES ARE DOING .. STEALING AND LYING AND LEGISLATING FAILURE into the destruction of our nation .. ZIP IT .. !! America . fight this Joker!

jaegov   September 30th, 2011 - 1:03 am

Yes, obama, and his shadow accomplices' plan is working just as designed.

KraZedSeXpooDle   September 30th, 2011 - 1:26 am

Thats a common theme with him like his sputnik comment. In his mind the Soviet communist came along and started the cold war and shook us out of our complacency. I think it goes back to a anti-American Rev Wright philosophy, these guys are looking forward to a national tragedy as if the enemies of this country are doing us some kind of favor.

WorldclaZZ   September 30th, 2011 - 1:47 am

Speaking of going soft, isn't the Whiner in Chief wearing purple eye shadow and mascara in this interview?

wohlfguy   September 30th, 2011 - 1:55 am

Are you denying what he said troll?

wohlfguy   September 30th, 2011 - 1:57 am

Neither does Obama

claspur   September 30th, 2011 - 1:57 am

Better than you driving us into ineffectuality, Dopey.

claspur   September 30th, 2011 - 2:00 am

Wasn't going to watch this, until reading your post, Wc. *sigh Thanks a lot. :o I

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