The president’s blame and spin extravaganza was expected at 10:15 a.m. EDT today. He showed up for the news briefing at 10:39 a.m.
Obama broke through the #headwinds and made it to his presser 25 minutes late. #winningthefuture #orsomething
— Brittany (@bccover) June 8, 2012
Obama: 20+ minutes late to his presser, 3+ years late to the economy.
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 8, 2012
If you show up a half-hour late for your own press conference on why the economy sucks, #YouMightBeObama.
— China is lying (@jtLOL) June 8, 2012
Obama’s attempt to spin last week’s dismal economic news began immediately.
Obama keeps spinning like that he's gonna puke.
— Eric H. (@ericinva) June 8, 2012
"The fact is job growth in this recovery has been stronger than it was in the last recession." — President Obama
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2012
"The solutions to these problems are hard. But there are solutions." — Obama
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2012
Obama saying his jobs plan from last year would have added 1M jobs. Remember when his stimulus kept unemployment under 8%?
— Brittany (@bccover) June 8, 2012
"The housing market is stabilizing & begining to come back in many parts of the country." @BarackObama
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) June 8, 2012
Obama blaming congress for not passing jobs bill
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) June 8, 2012
Shorter POTUS: If the legislative branch didn't exist, everyone in America would have a job.
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 8, 2012
"Spain and Italy have embarked on smart structural reforms" – President Obama
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) June 8, 2012
https://twitter.com/BrentTeichman/statuses/211106581641834496
"If Republicans want to be helpful…what they should be thinking about is how do we help state and local governments." — Obama
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2012
Obama: "The private sector is doing fine. Where we're seeing weaknesses in our economy is in state and local government."
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) June 8, 2012
Obama: Republicans are promoting policies that "would add weakness to the economy."
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) June 8, 2012
Pot meet kettle: Obama says Greece needs to stop spending more than it takes in. #headwinds
— American Action Network (@AAN) June 8, 2012
Obama: "The private sector is doing fine." Are you kidding me? Those #headwinds are making Team Obama mighty delusional.
— Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell (@LtGovPinnell) June 8, 2012
Too early for drinking games?
HEADWINDS!
— Joe Pounder (@PounderFile) June 8, 2012
https://twitter.com/jmsummers/statuses/211106527011020800
Too early? Clearly she’s not our kind of people. Oh “headwinds,” what would we do without you?
Obama should ask Congress to ban headwinds.
— jon gabriel (@exjon) June 8, 2012
the biggest headwinds are the ones in his own head.
— sarah (@sarahbellumd) June 8, 2012
Obama talks about #headwinds, but all I can do is #headdesk.
— big tuna (@keder) June 8, 2012
https://twitter.com/ElChaddoLoco/status/211114997273739265
Say cheese!
The view http://t.co/V6lElWW1
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 8, 2012
And everything old is new again:
Obama gave this same statement months ago when he introduced jobs plan. Or at least VERY similar.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2012
This Obama presser on the economy is the same one he's given for 4 yrs. Wash, rinse, repeat.
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) June 8, 2012
The president took questions from reporters after his statement, carefully not releasing any actual news at the “news” briefing.
What's odd about this presser is that it seems clearly aimed at changing the conversation on economy but there's no news made.
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 8, 2012
Oh, Obama must really support women — he's calling on the female reporters first. Where do I get my bumper sticker?
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) June 8, 2012
What's the objective behind this presser? Elaborate way to say a warm goodbye to @carenbohan?
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) June 8, 2012
In between blaming Republicans and those sinister headwinds, Obama offered empty platitudes on the economy:
Obama: "people in this town should be focused on doing everything we can to keep our economy growing & our country strong"
— WH Live (Archived) (@WHLive44) June 8, 2012
Obama: "the most important thing we can do is to make sure that we have a strong, robust economy"
— WH Live (Archived) (@WHLive44) June 8, 2012
He also slammed those evil austerity measures, or as we like to call them, fiscal sanity:
Obama: Engaging in excess austerity too quickly can make it harder to pay debts
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) June 8, 2012
Obama took one question on the leaking of classified information by his administration.
"The writers have stated that (these leaks) didn't come from the White House" – President Obama
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) June 8, 2012
#Obama: "We don't play with that…That's not how we operate" #leaks
— WLS-AM 890 (@wlsam890) June 8, 2012
"Zero tolerance for classified leaks (we) will conduct a through investigation into allegations of purposeful releases" – President Obama
— Anthony DeRosa ? (@Anthony) June 8, 2012
Pres Obama calls it "offensive" & "wrong" for anyone to speculate that WH would deliberately leak classified material for political gain.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 8, 2012
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/211113781948977154
He declined to comment on the Wisconsin recall election.
https://twitter.com/PaulNBlake/status/211112277414391809
Heh.
Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor will deliver a response this afternoon.
Boehner and Cantor will have an avail at 12:30 to respond to Obama.
— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) June 8, 2012
Update:
Twitter immediately weighs in to school Obama on his absurd “private sector is doing fine” claim.
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