Obama Says Stimulus Data Errors 'Side Issue'
President Obama on FNC (Full Interview), Part 2:
President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy around. He said job growth is his No.1 responsibility.
The president was responding to criticism from Republicans, as well as Democratic Rep. David Obey, who drew attention to embarrassing errors on the Recovery.gov Web site that tracks stimulus funding. The site is under fire for claiming a number of jobs were created from the stimulus in congressional districts that don't exist and accepting unrealistic and inflated jobs data from various sources. Obama said he understood the "frustration" but said his focus has to be on accelerating job growth. Read more here.
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donottreadonme
More of the Demoncrats attacking or deflecting instead of providing substance in their answers. To me it means Obama is lying about the stimulus working and is probably trying to cover up governmental fraud. It the WH is saying the money went to fake congressional districts, where did the money go? This Chicago accounting may fly in Illinois, but not in the rest of the world.
Authentic Conservative
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catnip
Side issues? or lies...side issues? or lies....
my view
Let me get this straight....LIES are just a side issue??? Tells us about all we need to know about this so called potus.
therepublicrevealed
For a guy who is supposed to be new and refreshing, its good to see he is consistent track record.
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pseudoscience
The primary strategy for getting caught red-handed for Obama and his crew seems to be:
1. make believe it doesn't exist and
2. Bring up another synthesized issue to deflect attention from the real one
He did it here, he did it on the Ft. Hood terrrorist attack, watch him do it on the new evidence that climate change scientists have been falsifying data and manipulating the quality control safeguards to support the political agenda.
exiled conservative
Side issue? Jobs created in districts that doesn't even exist is a side issue? Where did the money go? It obviously went somewhere. Maybe in some donors coffer? So they donate money to get obama elected. He then gives it back to them with the tax payers money by sending it to some district that doesn't exist. Hmmmmmm. Fact or fiction?
Mom in NV
What happened? I thought Uncle Joe was suposed to be watching the cookie jar.
becauseIcare
Obama lies so much, he cannot find the TRUTH. He and his CZARS must lie to keep Americans off kilter. They are busy moving their EVIL agenda through, don't you know. They hope we are just too dumb to notice! If a Republican Prez did that, there would be a call to" hang him from the nearest yard arm!" Obama is a LIAR!
Richard - Richardson TX
A side-issue? The administration's recovery.gov website shows hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars were spent in nonexistent congressional districts.
Is this incompetence or blatant lying?
Either way alarm bells should be ringing in every American’s head. These incompetents or liars are trying to completely control our health care.
Woody B
In our local paper this morning, there was an article on the local "stimulus results". One city received over $12 mil, and they have ZERO, NADA, ZIP jobs as a result. Where in the world has the money gone, JOE?
Woody B
In our local paper this morning, there was an article on the local "stimulus results". One city received over $12 mil, and they have ZERO, NADA, ZIP jobs as a result. Where in the world has the money gone, JOE?
Recon
mmm here's a side issue, you think he was referencing this? mmm Exurban League: SNL takes down Obama. Hard. - http://shar.es/ailUe
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Billy Ed
I agree, the main issue is the so-called stimulus bill was a $900 billion rip-off of the American people that did absolutely no good. The fact that it was just a political payback to the unions and other Dimocrat thugs is the real issue. The significant fudging on the numbers is just a side issue.
Recon
What's happening today may not be a conspiracy
but it is most certainly collusion.
SW
I Know and have ambitious and hardworking friends that are out of work , hours cut,and in danger of losing homes because they can't pay the Mortgage. If the Jobs aren't there; How can they Work Mr. President!!!
George F
Why doesn't the big O know that telling the truth is always a big issue?
SW
The Stimulus was supposed to Create Jobs...Not ..!!! ..it is wasteful spending at the Top! I Still say the Money should have been given to Americas Citizens, who better to stimulate than the ones that need it and would spend it on what their needs are.,NOT WASHINGTON'S...Now they're going to do it again????
Gerardi
Obama's presidency is a failure at best. His actions and inactions and his policies have taken the country into a deeper recession and maybe even a depression real soon.
The deficit will drag the US economy down, as well as the unemployment lines at over 10-20%, no matter how much money obama prints and spends. Obama admits himself and says that there will be a double digit recession and even a depression. Wow, I wonder why. He is apparently clueless in his uncaring chevalier attitude of the US economy.
The world economic forum has already begun to warn Obama of his dangerous economic and fiscal policies.
Now next year, the Republicans will take over control of congress, because the people have all but abandoned Obama. He only has the support of his base democrats. Almost all of the Independents and all of the Republicans and especially the Conservatives, have all but written Obama off as DOA., and this will leave Obama as a 2 year lame duck failed president.
jrpftx
Can this adminstation produce one person with permanate real job that came from the stimulus?
tarp
NO, this is the adminstation beening transparent isnt that what obama promise if they said a million jobs has been cheated&saved you just have to believe them they wouldnt lie to us,just like this obamacare,cap&trade &card check, this isnt going to cost us the tax payer a dine, ha$ ha$ its what some voted for.
stoptheinsanity
FAILED to the detriment of America and waste of taxpayer money is more like it
Lourdes
RECOVERY.ORG is complete fiction. It is a coverup for the billions of $$ the OBAMA administration has secretly given to ACORN, SEIU, and only God knows who else to pay for past and future support and votes. Until we get an INDEPENDENT accounting of the stimulus monies, we can assume the OBAMA administration has STOLEN the money.
Jack27
Obama's plan is to build the biggest government ever like the soviet union had but larger,everyone will work for the bureaucracy one way or another, and destroying us in the process. this isn't change!! it's copying from the failed past.
moesite
ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING THAT THIS IDIOT DOESNT LIKE HE SIMPLY DISMISSES!
He has no idea that being HONEST would do him a world of good as far as his "approval" goes. Normal people LIKE someone who can ADMIT A MISTAKE.
What a bad joke he is.
American Lady
The American people are becoming the "side issue" by the man with a driven and hidden agenda.
American Lady
The American people are becoming the "side issue" by the man with a driven and hidden agenda.
Always-Right
Obama is an idoit.
TxGold
obama is more of a 'side issue' everyday. There is going to be an uprising in America!!
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NSA
IT'S NOT SIDE ISSUE.... it's deception, lies, criminal practices Mr. President!!!!
Johannes
And he has such a straight face when he lies through his teeth!
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therepublicrevealed
How much is he spending??????? Will it ever stop?????????
Grab hold of your heart, take one aspirin and check the clock
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Recon
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shipley130
I wonder if the checks for the fake districts are made out to "Side Issues"? Probably made out to Barney Frank"furter", Chris Dodd"oo", Fancy Pelosi and Scary Reid.
amielou
this whole presidency is one big " side issue".
roguetea
rogue, Touring Excitement Again
2 of 3
Yes, it was crowded, but more stayed away, thankfully, than came. We exceeded the new, spacious, well designed area. Lots of locals came (The Villages folk), but I think most of us were not the typical local residences. It really is not that hard to tell the dif if you live in the area. It was a rally, yet a turning point, a time to start new focus. We put a little skin in the game, we came and Beck saw our faces. A rally, a tea party, is just a little skin, indispensable, needful, but only a start. It can never be the finish.
*
As I said, most stayed away. Do they still sleep? Do they trust the energized? Did life have too tight of a grip? Beck has a lot of skin in the game. He puts a lot more in the game. He declared a run for office not, thankfully. He remains a Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, he is uniquely Glenn, just what we need. Not surprisingly, education is his primary concern and Orlando in March gets to be the start. I think seriously about scheduling. Oh, I too plan no run, but I need more skin in the game. What will I do? Nov. 2 is terribly far, far away. What will I do?
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Oh by the way, surrounded by corruption will crush Obama.
tea party, Corruption 2009, ROGUE ON
roguetea
rogue, Touring Excitement Again
1 of 3
Just returned from the GB rally, The Villages, FL, Sumpter Landing precisely. What can I say, it was a Saturday, too much to do. Inbound lanes of snail paced traffic frustrate a half-hour. A good hike away breezed at my pace, an abundance of parking failed. Stealthy, I slipped in to catch glimpses of stage at the far end of the inner courtyard. On the closed off road, big overhead screens served thousands who lugged in private sitting gear. We in the square, well it was nothing but sardines. During the wait, in fall Florida heat, some tempers flared but nothing disgraceful. As it turned out, Beck entered right past me. I could have swiped skin of a reached out arm. I passed, giving others a chance, I wanted mostly to look, listen and learn. You wanted faces Glenn, FL delivered. Maybe I will be on the show. Look for me. I wear a favorite shirt, no letters or icons. Publically, I use few words, often none.
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It was a warm mid Nov day, but thankfully we did not bake. Tons showed up and I wonder how many got discouraged and just diverted to other Saturday chores. For residents of The Villages (never me) golf carts serve readily. I could not help but noticing some fleeing the area as I snailed in. I'd swear one couple grimaced at us idiots, 'Hell, how can there be so many of them. We move tomorrow.'
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Oh by the way, corruption is always Obama's side issue. He is a badly wounded Pres.
tea party, Corruption 2009, ROGUE ON
roguetea
rogue, Touring Excitement Again
1 of 3
Just returned from the GB rally, The Villages, FL, Sumpter Landing precisely. What can I say, it was a Saturday, too much to do. Inbound lanes of snail paced traffic frustrate a half-hour. A good hike away breezed at my pace, an abundance of parking failed. Stealthy, I slipped in to catch glimpses of stage at the far end of the inner courtyard. On the closed off road, big overhead screens served thousands who lugged in private sitting gear. We in the square, well it was nothing but sardines. During the wait, in fall Florida heat, some tempers flared but nothing disgraceful. As it turned out, Beck entered right past me. I could have swiped skin of a reached out arm. I passed, giving others a chance, I wanted mostly to look, listen and learn. You wanted faces Glenn, FL delivered. Maybe I will be on the show. Look for me. I wear a favorite shirt, no letters or icons. Publically, I use few words, often none.
*
It was a warm mid Nov day, but thankfully we did not bake. Tons showed up and I wonder how many got discouraged and just diverted to other Saturday chores. For residents of The Villages (never me) golf carts serve readily. I could not help but noticing some fleeing the area as I snailed in. I'd swear one couple grimaced at us idiots, 'Hell, how can there be so many of them. We move tomorrow.'
*
Oh by the way, corruption is always Obama's side issue. He is a badly wounded Pres.
tea party, Corruption 2009, ROGUE ON
Capitalism4Ever
Give a jackasss 800 billon dollars and all you have is a jackass with 800 billon dollars.
JBM
@ Montanaborn
Would He dare to lie to his wife? She looks like she can hold her own on a stand-up match!
NANA3
HE DOESN'T CARE, IT'S ONLY THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY!
HG
Obongo=POS.......................Lets impeach this POS before he completely destroys America.