(CNN) - Newsweek magazine got some unsolicited PR Wednesday from President Obama, but it wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement of periodical's latest issue.
At a North Carolina town-hall health care event, Obama asked if anyone had seen the latest cover of Newsweek that boldly declares, "The Recession is Over!"
"I don't know whether you've seen the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine on the rack at the grocery store, but the cover says: 'The Recession is Over,'" the president said as part of his prepared remarks at the event.
"I imagine you might have found that news a little startling," Obama continued. "I know I did."
Obama went on to say while certain indicators are improving, like the stock market and home sales, "That's little comfort if you are one of the folks who have lost their job."
The article in question - with the sub-headline of 'Good Luck Surviving the Recovery' - actually says much the same as Obama did Wednesday - that leading indicators appear to suggest the recession is nearing an end, but the recovery is likely to be a slow process.
"When economists proclaim a recession over, they're celebrating a technicality: they mean economic output has stopped contracting," Newsweek's Daniel Gross writes. "And while that is good news, you might wait a while before adding Judy Garland's rendition of 'Happy Days Are Here Again' to your iPod."
UPDATE: Gross has issued a response to the president in a posting on Newsweek.com entitled, "Obama rips Newsweek's cover. We rip back."
"The article notes—as Obama's speech does—that the discussion surrounding the end of the recession is largely a technical discussion ("GDP growth alone can't feed a family, or a pay a mortgage") and that we face tough economic times and a recovery that will feel a lot like a recession," says Gross.
"It's common to hear journalists complain of being overworked. And in this case, it's true. In addition to writing the first draft of history, we seem to be writing the first draft of the president's speeches," he also says.
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Once again, just like with the cop and prof, discussing things that he should not. The entire economy is driven off consumer confidence and he squashed what little the Newsweek cover may have helped. Oh well, what to you expect from an inexperienced community organizer.
The media continues to show their ignorance and their stupidity.
Good. I'm sick to death of the press manipulating the truth. They deserved him slamming them.
Hey CNN – why don't you report about the NEWSWEEK reporter (Daren Briscoe) ... the person assigned to cover Obama's Presidential Campaign.... JUST JOINED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!
Gee – no conflict of interest there!!
Not only did the MSM abdicate it's responsibility in covering Obama... Not only did they VOTE for him.... NOW they're officially working for him!
Oh let's not forget CNN selling T-shirts: "Obama raises hand, lifts nation".
Obama and the liberal press just had their "Mission Accomplished" moment. We'll see where unemployment stops.
Obama hasn't finished wrecking the economy.
Newsweek has the news-reporting integrity of People magazine.
I don't think the President "mocked" the cover of Newsweek. Rather, I think he "cleared the air".
Yes, there have been gains as regards tamping down the recession but the unemployment situation will remain unabated until 2010. Those who are still awaiting a quick fix should bear this time frame in mind.
What is the Population of the USA? How much do they earn on an average. What is the anual cost of Health Care? How much are you already in the RED???
First of all. And let us be clear on this, this is a depression, not a recession.
And folks, it is NOT over.
I guess someone is getting fired from their job again
Tha's not a "mock" that's stating the obvious un-truth. The recession is NOT over and as President, he has as responsibility to set the record straight. Plus, I'm sure that he was being jovial and light and not trying to put Newsweek down. CNN please stop sensationalizing everything. That's not healthy.
The media compounded the decline and are now inflating the recovery. Nothing matters except sales! Disgusting
The Recession can't be over.... Obama has more social-welfare programs to RAM through!!
You know what Obama says, "Never let a good crisis go to waste"
Love my president! So unlike the one we had that went around proclaimining MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Typical Media – short on facts, heavy on hype.
The recession is far from over. With such inept media, it is no wonder we get stock market bubbles, rush into unnecessary wars, and believe all the propaganda spewed out by politicians.
Show some restraint and responsibility Media. Walter Cronkite you are not!
Of course he mocks, he loses all of his power if people are not desperate. He does not want the free market to work. Not surprising. This presidency is getting scarier by the minute.
If Its Over, THEN WHY IS OBAMA STILL RAISING TAXES and WHY ARE PEOPLE STILL OUT OF WORK, big questions to the tax king Obama.
I was at the town hall meeting, and Obama said that Newsweek acted stupidly, even though he didn't know all the facts.
With Obamas policies it will be a very long time before we recover from this recession. He doesn't seem to understand that he needs to become business friendly. All these jobs lost will not come rushing back. We have downsized and will stay there for awhile. No shock considering he has no business/job experience.
As startling as were some of their depictions of Obama!
I'm sure he found the title startling...especially since he's doing his best to keep the recession going!
Wasn't there some big-shot economist who predicted way back in December that the economy would be flourishing by mid-summer, and then collapse again, and to a far worse degree, by November.
I forget who it was that said it, but the gist of what he was saying was that we were in for a very long Depression (not recession) and that we should be cautious not to get over-excited by temporary fluctuations in the marketplace.
If John 'free textbook/gas tax' McCain had been elected President, then the headline would be true.......as true as Palin not being a racist intellectual leper and the Pope not being Catholic.
Palin/OctoMom 2012
I would like to say that, much of the current state of the economy is driven by the media, and it is also a product of the state of mind of the average consumer, while we have 10% unemployment, we have 90% employed. Those 90% need to go out and spend/buy product and sevices in order to re-employ the 10% without a job. We do that by positive re-inforsement in the media. If you read over and over, doom and gloom, you begin to believe it, if you read over and over we are in a recovery, you also will begin to believe that. We need to change hearts and minds that we are recovering and start to install hope, rather then doom. We need more good news and less of the bad.
Recession over.., welcome to the Obama depression.
Another example of how the media tilts EXTREMELY left (NewsWeek), my god, even Obama thought the cover was ridiculous.
Does this guy ever do any real work. Have fun drinking beers tomorrow. lay of the drama for a while and yell at congress for this garbage health care reform.
The fundamentals of our economy are strong says McCain!!
The GOP needs to understand that majority of Americans do not see the welfare of the Insurance industry as having priority over the welfare of the citizens. When people are dying due to lack of health insurance, who cares about the Insurance industry going bankrupt?
wait for the bounce folks, hold your wallets and purses shut. We have not even begun to see the bad from this yet. This is still the outer banks of a very big storm. Remember Jimmy Carter....
WHAT OCTOBAMA MEANS TO SAY: This RECESSION ain't over 'till I SAY IT'S OVER. And it ain't over until I've trotted it out and MILKED IT for every nickel I can squeeze out to pacify my liberal base and set this nation in the correct path to NEO-SOCIALISM.
Maybe we should vote for him like he voted for us. He prides himself on never having voted Republican = well we pride ourselves on never having voted for him.
Interesting that Obama should "mock" a magazine that has been and continues to be one of his leading left-wing media supporters.
Well, everyone knows Newsweek used to be a serious newsmagazine, but it recently changed its format, layout and editorial approach. It is now a frivolous entertainment magazine like Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan. Fortunately, my subscription expired last week and I don't plan to renew it.
You dont really expect the President of the United States of America to actually READ the entire article !!!
All thru his political life he has lived on headlines .. you cant really expect HIM to change now ...
So CNN, what's your point?? Why the sensational headline "Obama mocks Newsweek cover?" Either your webcontent editor needs serious tuition in basic English or someone at the newsdesk requires some head examination. Is today a slow news day???
sub-caption should read: ...whelmingly pervasive and made all the worse by an over-meddling and less than presidential pop star wanna be.
Yes, I'll stop celebrating for the rest of the day at least!
Obama is soooo funny! Yes, the recession is ending but ........ where are those 2 or 3 million jobs he promised with all of his earlier smooth talk? This man could sell healthcare to a dead man for sure just as easily as he sold it to those millions who want it for nothing. I too would love to have it for nothing, but alas, I'm one of those lifetime working fools who has watched this government rip me off for years in order to make some sort of social justice for those who don't want to work.
The recession is not nearly over and will take more time, but I would like to thank our hard working Administration for leading us in that direction. Deregulation and oversight of the important entities of our economy is a must to avoid another disaster. VOTE DEMOCRAT TO ENSURE STABILITY IN ALL OUR LIVES.
Ohhhhhhh, President Teleprompter, there you go again – dead wrong. What the headline means is that now that YOU are soon to be over, the recession is over. With you and the socialist horde in control, we can never be free from economic danger.
HALLELUJAH!!!!
See now Redumbicans?
Obama did it in 6 months..... "The Recession is Over".
THE REDUMBLICAN PARTY OF AMERICA...... GOP
This is The Obama Recession. Hold your ankles.
He must have saw it while he was standing in line at Krogers.
Obama – always the opportunist – to make points for himself.
This unpresidential arrogant fool has just got to go.
I'd hardly call that mocking, CNN...
The guy is running the country into the ground. Would you dems please wake the heck up. He is destroying everything that was america and spending us into the ground to boot.
That qualifies as mocking?
Mocking would be: I only saw Newsweak's cover because CNN showed it to me. Really, it's Newsweak that already over.
Preve ntion is better than cure. Why wait till the balloon goes Pop, on Obama's mis-interpretation of your Total Population..
Notice the astrisk there on the cover also. Notice how they also cut off the rest of the cover. Typical.
Obama continues to show his ignorance and his stupidity whilw driving our country into the toilets......so far how is this different from the past 8 years? Politicians doing what they do best screwing the tax payer
Sounds eerily similar to "mission accomplished".
Seeing how the republicans were responsible for BOTH the iraq war AND the recession/depression, this cant be a good sign.
Newsweek should pull the cover. That's false advertising.
I guess it is easy to read a magazine cover as opposed to a 1000 page piece of legislation. I bet Conyers could even read "Newsweek" without a lawyer.
I agree with the President lets wait a while before we celebrate
Don't scare the Republicans like that......they want the COUNTRY TO FAIL!!
All the leading economists say the same thing. A small recovery...followed by a huge decline. If the Obama policies of cap and trade and healtcare reform pass we will face a huge decline in our economy and inflation not seen since the days of Jimmy Carter. So get your cardboard box green car ready....learn to live without the a/c on....and put some Spam on the table for dinner....Here come the Obama years.
I am convinced that there is a right-wing effort to discredit the President by implying that he is racist, dumb, novice, ...etc. Let's hope that most can realize this.
It's going to take more than six months for the economy to rebound, after eight years of the policies that drove it into the ground. Give it time. The economy is a product of confidence.
It seems that about twenty percent of Americans are in a pose of locked denial and retrenchment against the President, hoping and expecting no recovery and certainly taking no action to aid the recovery themselves.
Try some cautious optimism, but keep it real. That's what Obama did in his reply.
It's possible that the GOP will be able to prevent this recovery, but will they be able to convince all the people they ruin that it was for the best in the long run? Sure, they're rich and unaffected by economic downturns, but not every Republican is as rich as Rush, and many of them are still at least as loyal to America as they are to the GOP.
Crack on Obama all you want; do you see Bush or Cheney trying to save our economy? Palin claims she is free to fight for the American People now, but she's trying to stop new jobs. Don't see Romney fighting for job creation either. The GOP wants America to fail, just so they will have a better chance in the next election.
Didn't Rahm come out last week and say the administration had "fixed" the economy?? Didn't Mitch McConnell make fun of him on the house floor?? Now they make fun of a magazine basically repeating what they proclaimed....Awesome
Talk about a non-story. Nothing else to put on the cover of a news magazine. Nothing else for CNN to talk about. Pitiful
Maybe Newsweek is doing their part to lift the countries mood with a little reverse psychology. Most people don't understand the economy , and only care about how it afftects them, if you tell then it's over, Business may being hiring at lower salaries, but job will be filled, and impulse spending here we come. Hopefully the American consumer will be smarter about their personal finances this time around, most of us have such short attention spans though I doubt it. Obama's been in office 7 months and some are screaming that all the problems should be fixed like he has a magic wand.
Finally agree with Obama on something. Of course his stimulous package hasn't done anything to alleviate the recession either.
Newsweek might as well be People magazine. Worthless. Other than an extension of the White House press office I fail to see their value. Glad Obama was honest because out here in the real world companies are not spending $ and things are tight.
Didn't Obama just hire one of Newsweeks reporters for a position in the administration?? Wasn't it the guy who was supposed to be covering Obama throughout the campaign?? Sure no bias there, but then he turns around and mocks the organization that has become a feeder program for his organization... Interesting
Not everything is "mocking" you know. Tired of people using that word when they obviously don't know what it means.
of course he would mock it – if it's not in his best interest
- he's running this country – along with his ("friends" ) into the ground and what he'd not running into the ground he's selling or giving away to China and other nations he's getting favors from. THAT'S A FACT. obama is NOT doing the AMERICA PUBLIC any favors nor is he LOOKING OUT FOR OUR INTERESTS. Wake up America. Is this really the kind of leader we need? Were we really STUPID ENOUGH to believe he would be any better than any other politician we have elected in the recent past?
I pray GOD will help us all. Please God, BLESS AMERICA – we are in deep trouble. We keep getting it all wrong. SHOW US THE RIGHT PATH.
How can one person be so stupid . . . I thought Obie was intelligent, but as usual with his actions, he proved that he is ignorant of the facts in the real world. Never have I had such little respect for a so-called 'leader' of the country. I thought he would be different than the typical liberal . . . and I was right in that he is actually worse.
Kinda like a "mission accomplished" sign?
Obama came into this mess caused by bush, he is doing what he can to fix it, and he is a great president. He is going to get the health care reform that has never been done. He is not a lobbyist loved lke bush and the right. You people are a joke that blame him for this. AND there are jobs being created and saved due to HIM! Thank your friends and neighbors that voted for Obama, could you imagine palin and mccain in there? OMG!!!
Bush would have have this made into a huge sign behind him at every stop..after all, he economy was in great shape last fall, until it wasn't. Thank God that Obama is in office. I can't understand the negativity toward him, unless it's race-based. The good old boys cannot come to grips with an intelligent black man as our leader. Tough! He's working hard for all of us, not just you guys (oh, THAT'S the problem!)
OBUMMER didnt do a darn thing.
The media and the democrats with blinders on need to wake up and realize Obama has not done ANYTHING but spend some money.
History has shown there have been economic recessions that we have always come out of. And Obamas 7 months in office have nothing to with the recession being over.
As usual, Obie can only read something someone else has written. How dumb can a person be . . . and yet more disturbing is that 40% of the people are following him into downfall of our country.
People should not be using this as a shot at Obama... I mean seriously, use your heads! This is another blatant example of Media overhyping "news" in an effort to make sales. Obama was just pointing this out
Once again, Obama's media trying to help out the boss.
The headline should have read: It's Official....Obama Overtakes Carter as The Worst President Ever!
Bush's mess can't be cleaned up that easily!!
Obama has dual citizenship, that is the foundation of the birther issue! Post the facts CNN you mullet wrap!
The President has consistantly, over the past couple of months, said the recovery shows signs of improving, but it will take time! I am glad he again reinforced that at the AARP meeting. He can be hopeful, but realistic.
President Obama you have done a great job you and your Administration. Considering the mess that was left to you, not bad Stock Market has been up, Home sales are rising,The recession is slowing, we were headed for a depression! Gas prices have been bearable, You have to work on Employment but things take time not a bad Job for 6 months keep up the good work!
Obama makes a point to tell people lets not get to excited here , there's still alot of work to do and you haters out there can only find insults to fling. I feel sorry for all you people who finally have a president with a brain who actually has the respect of people all over the world and all you can do is complain. Shameful behavior. And you wonder why Americans get laughed at abroad.
everyone across the board needs to pay tax on health care benefits-from low to high income-our representatives need to get tough and do whats right for our country-in 1776 our representatives did it !
Not to mention that the cover is a blatant rip-off of the artwork for the music group Presidents of the United States of America's "These Are the Good Times, People" recording.
Once again, the right can't handle the truth and prefers being told that everything is okay so they can go and shop, spend, and borrow from China. Newsweek should know better than to report something like that with so many out of work. Thanks for being honest, President Obama. We've got a long way to go before full recovery and I wish we could work together as Americans and stop complaining.
newsweek works with the chancellor and this is just a staged publicity stunt...WAKE UP America.
Obama is just being a realist, it doesn't matter if we are in a recession or a jobless recovery or whatever you want to call it those are just labels. We still have a lot to do to drag palin eats babies ourselves out of the whole that Bush left behind.
We, as Americans, should all be happy that at least there are some signs of recovery on the horizon.
It seems by many of the comments on this blog, that many people in the US don't really care about the US, rather they would just see the economy collapse even further just to promote political ideology.
Or worse - their suppressed racism.
I dont care what you want to call your party; Dems, Repubs, whatever, I want my 3 year old daughter to have a happy, healthy life and enjoy the opportunittes that our generations have been careless enough to squander.
I would hope that all Americans share this value.
Obama is unprofessional, arrogant and condescending. What a guy!
He's too wet behind the ears for the job.
Good trick Obama, mock those who love you the most so that you can gain some street cred from those who feel the media is in bed with you.
I'm sure Newsweek will cut down on the covers you garner next year from last years 42 to maybe 40 or even 39.
What's next, mocking MSNBC?
So he shows his ignorance by not actually reading the article that was there what a suprise. Ohh wait he never read the stimulus bill that congress passed either. For those who seam to think the President was slamming them maybe you should learn to read too as everything he said was in the article. the magazines cover is meant to grab attention so people will buy the magazine and read what is in it something the Obama aparently didn't do.
Newsweek acted stupidly.
Newsweek is pretty much a national joke.....it is fine to have a liberal attitude, but when you become like Newsweek and MSNBC,,,,,,,,you really aren't taken seriously anymore.....almost like satire
why, oh why, do the republicans who comment on here continuously show how childish they are? their escalating language does no good and only serves to push people away. they are NO help to anyone. too bad they don't seem to realize that. it'd be nice if they could just work WITH the rest of the country instead of AGAINST it.
"Don't scare the Republicans like that……they want the COUNTRY TO FAIL!!"
Exactly. "Country First" was nothing but empty marketing spin for the GOP. They would rather see our democratically-elected president fail, and have the country continue to suffer, than have to live through the embarrassment of his policies actually fixing the problem THEY caused. It's looking more and more like "conservative" and "patriot" are mutually exclusive terms.
I think the magazine cover may have been to spark some hope and raise morale. And that cover is the very beginning of people actually showing hope. So, even if the cover is wrong, I believe it was a smart move.
Yeah...I forgot that Obama has been in office for last 2 or 3 years and is completely responsible for this mess...and why shouldn't we expect him to fix it in 7 mths? Because most of us Americans are ignorant and stupid and want all our problems fixed in an instant...
Just like the Gates controversy, Obama read the headline (in this case, the cover), and failed to read the underlying story which essentially said the same thing Obama did. This is twice in one week that Obama criticized people without knowing all the facts or bothering to find them out, It is beginning to look as though Obama is quite shallow in his knowlwdge, and often speaks stupidly with his foot in his mouth. This does not foster confidence among millions of Americans
There are some of of you who are going to trash the man no matter what he does, at least he's trying to address some of these issues and fix them, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say about the last 8 years. Many of us knew Bush would wreck this country before he ever took office and when we questioned it, we were told 'support your president'. Now the shoes on the other foot. Facts are simple, you can whine and moan and claim you know the solutions...you Don't. Nobody does. And Nobody can predict what will happen with this mess, it is an immense problem that has to be 'worked' and changes need to be made as you go. So my question to all the people who post this negative garbage about what's happening and claim to have all the solutions, where the hell were you 8 years ago? Nuff said.
I find it hysterical that all the NeoCons are crying the "sky is falling" everyday with Obama in charge... If these idots and their GOP puppetmaster really knew anything about the economy, why are we in this mess in the first place?
Sorry 29%ers – you have NO CREDIBILTY anymore! YOUR policies brought about this recession... and it scares the daylights out of you that Obama is being successful in pulling us out of it!
Typical NeoCons – loyality to party over country!
To really end this thing in a lasting way we will need healthcare reform. But I am glad someone thinks it is over.
Gee republicans – such hate for your commander in chief for commenting about a headline, or wearing mom jeans, or for being born for Pete's sake.
So who is un-American now?
The sad thing is the generation that allows its elected officials to solve these problems by literally throwing buckets (maybe even dump trucks) of money at them will pay for it in the end. The kids who voted for a rock star will still be paying for these problems and the multi-trillion dollar deficits long after the rest of us are gone. No such thing as a free lunch, guys....
"Don't waste a crisis", or so said Obama's chief of staff. Obama's biggest fear is that the economy improves before he can get all his "emergency powers" legislation passed.
And, of course, an economy that can improve so fast is obviously one that wasn't in bad shape to begin with, so he'd have a very hard time taking credit for fixing something that wasn't really broken. When will people realize we all had more of an economic panic attack than a real-live meltdown?
Of course he mocked the cover...
With Obama in office, it should have read, "The recession is just gearing up..."
CNN – you jump to post articles about every single thing OBama does; reminds me of a gossip rag.
I can't believe all the negativity from this crowd. President Obama is an intelligent caring President who is trying to dig us out of a mess the last idiot and his croanies got this Country into.
Poor Obie is MAD he can't control EVRYONE!!! Thanks, Newsweek. We, the people, don't believe any of this manure the man is SHOVELING!!! Maybe he should shut up and LISTEN for a change!!!!
We need to remeber that this is a mess that the democrats have to clean up, not one that they caused. Republicans want to eat babies complain that democrats are running the economy into the ground when in reality it was their lack of regulation and business as usual tactics that got our country into this mess in the first place.
If john McCain were in office the artice would read "We're in a Deeper Recession."
maybe their recession is over, remember the fat cats were bailed out
"why, oh why, do the republicans who comment on here continuously show how childish they are? their escalating language does no good and only serves to push people away. they are NO help to anyone. too bad they don't seem to realize that. it'd be nice if they could just work WITH the rest of the country instead of AGAINST it."
Jim, one of the wisest things I have read ina blog in weeks. I swear people who write in this garbage have no comprehension of how bad things could ahve been. -and... hate to say this but at least some Bush advisor told him that if he doesn't do a bailout, he will be responsible for the 2nd great depression... at least he heard that message.... maybe Cheeney can give back some of his companies trillion dollars to america...
"Obama is unprofessional, arrogant and condescending. What a guy!
He's too wet behind the ears for the job." Ok Patster, why dont you put McCain, Palin or Limbaugh in the oval office. Would they do a better job?
To bad the media couldn't have been as vigilent when the economy was tanking, rather than ignoring the signs year after year after year.
It might have helped settle the "who did what when" controversy the GOPers seem to have such trouble understanding.
It is time to sell all your stocks, the crash is coming. Sell now while you had a chance. All my friends are getting out of the market, you should too.
"Credit" Is not easy to come by, even if your a "Walter Mitty" President who loves to dream...
I find it hysterical that all the NeoCons are crying the "sky is falling" everyday with Obama in charge… If these idots and their GOP puppetmaster really knew anything about the economy, why are we in this mess in the first place?
Sorry 29%ers – you have NO CREDIBILTY anymore! YOUR policies brought about this recession… and it scares the daylights out of you that Obama is being successful in pulling us out of it!
Typical NeoCons – loyality to party over country!
How is it that while the GOP is off-duty from running (ruining) the country, they resort to their wits like conspiracy theorists?
And that being the case, how can anyone take you seriously? You asked for more time, more room, and more loyalty with Bush but are Patriotic in wanting Obama to fail.?
I'm not surprised. I'm just astonished that you don't even try to veil your bias and your hatred during your ill-informed rants that have no solution attached to the criticism.
If you're the party of "responsibility," like you claim to be, prove it. Go out there and do something productive like your father did when things were rough. I doubt he sat in the comforts of his home angerly shaking his fist at the radio or TV. You know, "patriotism."
We have someone refreshing and so very different in this President – someone who is honest with the people he serves and who doesn't sugarcoat the truth because it's the easy way out. President Obama's policies ARE beginning to work (sorry Repubs, I know you really need for America to fail so you can get conservatives back in power), but it's a slow process. Having this man lead us gives me confidence we will succeed.
....for all those that say "Maybe Newsweek is doing their part to lift the countries mood with a little reverse psychology." or have a similar attitude; would you be willing to agree the media helped cause this recession??? In the long historical run, fair minded economists will see this was a media caused recession. I for one believe the media exasperated (exploited maybe) a normal economic cycle for political gain.
Isn't it clear that Newsweek was mocking the idea that the recession is over? Doesn't it say a great deal about our president that he would give the cover a glance and then make determinations that fall as far from the actual thrust of the IMAGE and the article. My point is that you don'e even need to rad the article. Look at the picture of a balloon (bubble) and a pin, not to mention the * and the "Good Luck Surviving the Recovery" caveat.
Am I wrong?
Obama will take a yet another vaction that we as tax payers pay for while I work 2-3 jobs and stay home....Yep...he is doing a great job for all of us.....duh...
It is so strange....I actually miss Bush!!!! Obama is starting to show his true colors...and they are quite racist. He is going to spend all the money we have and all the money we don't have. Get ready to turn Chinese. This man is absolutely NO friend of America. He will bring it down. He is doing it so fast because he doesn't even care if he gets re-elected. He just wants to ruin the country fast. The less you do in Obama's America, the more you get. That is a fact and that is the way Obama wants it.
Maybe Newsweek should become President, they're offering more hope than Ozombie
Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to FAIL
Rush Limbaugh hates Newsweek.
Actually, Rush Limbaugh has FAILED in his Idiotic Analysis.
Why, oh why, would Newsweek have a cover like that? My guess is to get people to buy the issue. But when I saw the title I was wondering if they were kidding. It sounds like George Bush declaring Victory in Iraq a tad bit too early.
Mission Accomplished!
Who is the president hear, you guys, the papers, Or Barack Obama? Who has the last say besides Jah? Is it not the president. The more they try to make Obama look bad, the more Victorious he shall be. Help to make the world a better place, instead of focusing on things that really dont benifit us as a People/Nation. Obama has got my vote with his Health Reform Plan. We Love you OBAMA.
It just kills me when people "accuse" President Obama of using a teleprompter like it is something bad. Most people making speeches use them now – it's 2009. Would you rather he used handwritten notes like Lincoln, Roosevelt etc.?? What an idiotic thing to criticise. Apparently there was a need for the technology or it would exist on every newscast and awards show. The man is smart, writes brilliantly, and is actually familiar with grammer and sentence structure. Hmmmmmmmm GWB used teleprompters and STILL got it wrong "the decider who decides"
has anybody noticed how thin skinned o'bama is? he absolutely can not take any kind of criticism! what an arrogant fool!?!?!?
I can only figure Newsweek must be increasing and adding new SURPRISE fees just like the State of Oregon is doing right now! It looks like the rich have already found loopholes to get richier as the poor won't be able to afford to go out in public to speak AT ALL, won't be able to afford the internet to post or even afford a stamp to write of such grief that we are to the point of unbearable suffering with no relief in sight! Further hush the poor and struggling? Shame on THIS country and those who say this recession is over as my very last dime is being taken for MORE fees without even enough to take my child to the INCREASED FEE PUBLIC PARK... as panic of winter, school expenses and MORES FEES are right around the corner from our fortunate to STILL have swelting 106 degree plus non air-conditioned home today(although I couldn't afford the electric bill to run one anyway now)!
Barack Obama's famous last word when he talks? "Y'know" Y'know?
Your not Stupid like me..
Oh Republicans, get off your high horses! The President borrowed a page out of your own playbook and now, you don't like it. The Republicans have never seen a headline that is favorable to liberals that they've never expoited. Sure he used the Newsweek headline to make his point, that's exactly what Republicans would have done. Good move, Mr. President. It's time we as Democrat start playing the same game with the Republicans. Enough Already for bipartisanship. If the Republicans don't want to get involved in geting this country back on track after eight years of running it down by the Bush administration, we Democrats need to do it ourselves, and we'll take the blame as well as the criticism.
Well, if we want to get technical, people wouldn't have freaked out last October if not for the media talking about how bad things were, maybe this is a reverse psychology approach to the economy.
...And Republicans don't want the nation to fail, just the nation to fail why Democrats are in power so they can take power back, it is just the same cycle that has been in motion since Lincoln won his election.
Maybe Newsweek will start printing honest stories about what is really going on now. If we don't start paying down the deficit, this country is going to go into hyper inflation like Japan during the late 90's. Then your dollar won't be worth much, PRINT THAT.
When I received my newsweek I had to take a long stare at cover. Perhaps its real intention is to give us much needed hope. I have been out of work 6 months after losing my job and my reality is that its very frustrating to continue t look for work-never been unemployed before but i keep plugging away with high personal convictions ad spirits. Is Obama now going to comment on everyday facets of ou lives-just like the gates debacle.
shows you how clueless New Week really is. They must be trying to sell magazines in these times..... Nothing like a catchy front page and endorsement from the president.
As usual, CNN, your "headline" is always "over the top"! Perhaps you need to get ahold of a Webster's Dictionary and look up the word "mock"!!!! Get with the program!!! WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED OF THE PRESS MANIPULATING THE TRUTH!! President Obama's remarks were in no way "mocking" the magazine cover! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
What an obamanation!! The cover picture certainly misleads what the article is really about, but do you think Obama has time to read Newsweek, with everything else he must read? It just goes to show, and Obama especially should know, Don't judge a book (or a magazine) by its COVER.
That's what Obama and Biden has been saying RECESSION IS OVER. Now, he has the GALL to mock his OWN stupidity? THE KNOW-NOTHING-IN-CHIEF is at it again! Please make it 2010 and 2012 next month. This NONSTOP LIES and PANDERING of Obama to the thinking impaired of this country is giving me nightmares day in and day out!
C'mon CNN . . . I would hardly call what he said "mocking"! Stop trying to incite controversy where there isn't any!
I am uneasy about this trend from our President, first this cop situation and now this.... He makes comments that if a little research was done he never would have made.
Did he not hire good fact finders? is he shooting from the hip too much?
Please for the Love of God don't attack me with Bush this or that, no where am I defending anything in the last 8 years of speeches. I am speaking about our President now and no past President's actions have any bareing on that.
At least Obama showed he is smarter than Colin Powell since he did not use a double negative.
Being aware that in a country with free education to as high as undergraduate that most people will not read for social reasons. Meaning most don't read instruction manuals, directions or the entire cover of a mag. Most Americans seem to like their information abbreviated. As a result many will see the cover smile and move on. Not understanding the wit of the title. The President just put the attention grabber in perspective he did not mock the mag. Stop with the stupid stuff already will ya.
Can someone please muzzle this man
For he knows not what he speaks
READ Mr. President !! READ the article before commenting on the cover !!! READ the whole story before going off ..
and please .. no off the cuff remarks .. please stick to your prepared speeches ..
I voted for him because I thought he was an intelligent person and a good speaker who would be able to improve our image in the world .. at this rate .. forget the world .. he is making it VERY difficult for even his supporters to forgive his errors and keep supporting him
I pray for a Dictator in 2012
WOW dems and repubs alike all you do is whine back and forth..to dems I say "spend more time reading the actual policies and see how awesome they are (smirks)" and to repubs i say "stop hating the man in charge do something about it, start rallys for the next presidential election to get a GOP in the white house again if you hate Obama so much"
all of you shutup and quit your moanin about who hates who and whose fault it is let's just come up with a solution already geeze!!!!!!!
He's just upset that NEWSWEEK has dared to run an issue without him or Michelle on the cover . . .
Newsweek is the "progressive magazine", they were simply helping to prop their POTUS. Why would Obama bite the hand that feeds his image?
Obama never claimed "Mission Accomplished."
Only seeing half the cover, I thought it was excellent satire; "THE RECESSION IS OVER!!!" on an enormous balloon...that would have been priceless. As such, the big fat asterisk should have been enough of a clue to any dolt reading it that this is not a ringing endorsement heralding the end of hard economic times. Or maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't start spending like you worked at Lehman Bros. after they discovered credit default swaps.
Who remembers that Obama-as-Muslim-militant New Yorker cover from the campaign season? That was HYSTERICAL!
Anyway, Obama's off-the-cuff, reactionary comments disappoint me, first the Stupidly comment, and now this. He's too smart a man to engage in such shallow pontificating.
ANY country out there wanted to take Obama? PLEASE dial 911, we will send Obama to your country and pay for his ROOM & BOARD, he's getting to be irritating and EXPENSIVE to maintain as President. You can send him back to us after 2012. Any takers out there of Barack Hussein Obama?
Point in case – Asian4Hillary comment is exactly what my post was about. The President put the title in perspective and some right wing nut job went over the deep end.
Recession over? It will not be over in the next thirty years!
I'm ashamed of people who criticize their President every time he swats a fly or shares an opinion.
I respect my brilliant President. He's the first President in my lifetime who I have complete faith in his leadership, and I'm 54 years old.
Why so hateful and disrespectful – I know you're used to Bush who didn't deserve respect, but be grateful and get on your KNEES and thank God you finally got a wise and moral President.
President Obama is doing an amazing job!
He inherited an absolute mess and in only 6 months, he has stabilized the housing, financial, banking and auto industries, revived science, improved our standing in the world, begun bringing our troops home from Iraq and is on track to deliver substantial healthcare reform. He obviously can't turn the Bush Recession around that quickly, but we are on our way. Go OBAMA!
BEST vote I ever cast!
I thought only Palin didn't read Newsweek?
It was irresponsible of Newsweek to put this on their front cover, knowing full well people will only read the headline and not buy the magazine to read the entire article. Well, if Newsweek is "hitting back" (how ridiculous!), then they can't be in the "tank" for Obama now can they? Of course, anything negative about Obama is going to wind up the Rethuglicans to a frenzy so they can attack him for "not knowing all the facts before he speaks". He knows what he is talking about. Can anyone imagine the further mess we would have been in had McCain/Palin been elected?! I shudder to think!!
As a Democrat I acknowledge that many Republicans voted for President Obama for one of two good reasons: 1) to keep Hillary out of the White House, they turned out in primaries to vote Obama, and; in the general election, although John McCain was the nominee, the Republicans understood that he was selected by Democrats crossing over in open primaries to knock out Romney. Turn-about is fair play. Now that we have had some time to reflect, we probably should not do this to our country again. Neither Hillary or Romney would have been as bad a choice as what we got.
Where were all these posters when the last administration was running this country into the ground faster than a cat can lick its you know what?
It is absolutely astounding that they accept no blame for anything that occurred the past 8 years. They blame it all on Clinton and the 7 months of Obama.
No sane individual could possibly believe that! They are obviously repeating things they have heard without really thinking about it.
At least I hope so.....These 29% are running around lose among us. That is SCARY!
Oh please, everyone wants their moment in the spotlight. Obama didn't RIP anyone and they want to RIP back for what exactly? Now the 911 caller in the Gates nonsense is holding press conferences because she is feeling vilified. Give me a break.
Now she is going to be on every TV show for the next 2 weeks and will probably write a tell all book.
It's a 'jobless recovery' and everyone knows it. Obama was stating the obvious so that we all know he is aware that things are still not good.
This is bad comedy, Newsweek is in the tank for Obama.
How can you determine the recession is over when the real GDP is on a roller coaster? rising and falling then rising and falling again and again!. Its every sane person hope that, this recession is over but please refrain from giving people false hope!
In my house , out here in Oakland , Calif. , the recession is NOT over.
In fact, I feel like we're in a full DEPRESSION !!!!
Here we go again – using a canon to slay a fly. The media creates false impression by using hyperboles or words like "mock" when the President is merely clarifying a point. End result: The uneducated or hate filled droolers fall for it and go into panic or venom spewing mode.
Did he even read the story before commenting on it? Shoot first...ask questions later is the norm in Obamaland. I think folks are starting to understand who this idiot really is.
Enough!!! Don't you people have anything better to do than write negative comments about President Obama? He's much smarter and works much harder than the boob that was in office before him!
Newsweek is just trying to sell magazines. The title, "the Recession is Over" gives consumers false confidence, which could erode public support for the stimulus and give false hope that could lead to another downturn. Consumer confidence can only go so far.
The President is simply trying to put the current conditions into perspective. The recession, for all intensive purposes, is far from over and the work is not done.
I thank God EVERY DAY for President Obama!! He TRULY cares about us every day folks!! Shame on you, Newsweek!! You're not writing anybody's speeches, unless you start doing so for Rush!
I wish the media will stop picking at Obama over everything he says and does! He is doing a fine job! Being President of the United States is the most difficult job in the world and Obama is doing the best he can for all of us.
For the record... this IS the aftermath of the ignorance in electing a rich, white, Republican's momma's TWICE! May this country FINALLY learn and figure out what WE WILL NEVER WANT AGAIN!
I love all of these comments about how terrible it is to criticize the President and call him stupid, etc. And then the rest of the comment is about how stupid Bush is/was and how we don't see Cheney or Bush out there fixing the economy. Wow. The pot calling the kettle black. and please, jump all over me now calling me racist because I used the words black and President in the same comment, like Democrats tend to do whenever race is brought up.
Mocking??????????? Mocking????? PLEASE CNN, get a GRIP!
And...... for ALL the critics.......... last I heard we still had the Freedom of Speech!
Even IF you don't agree, President Obama has a right to voice an opinion!
Just like George W. Bush did!
Amazing that people think Obama is doing a good job. Idiots...that is how he got elected. There are a lot of idiots out there!
So now Newsweek is flashing the banner "Mission Accomplished" for the president.........................?
This Administration and their lapdog media are so funny.
Funny how the those who used to say "Don't slam the president, his job is tough" for the last 8 years is now the ones with the pitchforks, while the ones who wanted to lynch the last commander in chief refuse to acknowledge that the current commander in chief is no better and no worse than the last. He is following his own agenda, and refuses to listen to the other side.
I'm proud to be an American, and I believe it won't be until people go back to acting like a country instead of a party that real change will happen.