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Topic: Obama jokes Jack Lew´s
loopy signature could ´debase
our currency´ as he makes him
official pick for Treasury Secretary |
Obama jokes Jack Lew´s
loopy signature could ´debase
our currency´ as he makes him
official pick for Treasury Secretary
Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harden
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Original Article
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Posted By:pineledger, 1/11/2013 6:56:44 AM
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| President Barack Obama today formally nominated his chief of staff Jacob ´Jack´ Lew as Treasury Secretary and joked that he had considered abandoning the nomination after learning of his illegible signature. The president was responding to criticism of Lew´s scrawl which has been compared to a spring or a curly French fry - and how if it is not changed could become an international embarrassment as the Treasury Secretary´s signature always graces the dollar bill. ‘Jack assures me that he is going to work to make at least one letter legible in order not to debase our currency
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Comments:
The Won´s signature has done far more debasing (think Obamacare, stimuli, etc.).
It´s always somebody else´s fault.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
reilly, 1/11/2013 7:12:59 AM (No. 9110240)
Have a seat. On the Titanic.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/11/2013 7:19:14 AM (No. 9110254)
Do we need a man who is incapable of writing his name in government?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tangles, 1/11/2013 7:31:26 AM (No. 9110271)
The loopy signature isn´t as offensive as the $800,000 plus bonus he took from his taxpayer bailed out Citibank.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/11/2013 8:17:14 AM (No. 9110336)
Lew and the other appointees will be very dangerous for the country.
Lew boldly lies about the state of our fiscal situation, and he absolutely refuses to talk about reducing entitlement programs by as much as 1 cent. Lew is in this for Obama, not to serve the American people.
We are in so much trouble with these radical appointees.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/11/2013 8:26:13 AM (No. 9110355)
Obama must be back on crack.
He stated that Geithner will be known as the best Treasury Secretary ever.
Said he lowered the deficit, blah blah blah.
And so we focus on Lew´s signature?????
WAKE UP.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Axeman, 1/11/2013 8:48:52 AM (No. 9110395)
Misdirection.
Look! A squirrel!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/11/2013 9:04:32 AM (No. 9110421)
Obie´s public remarks are turning into Vegas lounge show standup acts, the openers for the bigger stars. He´s spent so much time on Letterman and Leno that he thinks he is one of them.
His misguided, ill-timed humor makes him look the fool and sickens us when we are his audience.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 1/11/2013 9:13:06 AM (No. 9110441)
Loopy is right, it´s his brain scan.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/11/2013 9:22:25 AM (No. 9110461)
Obama knows Lew is going to debase the currency. That´s why he was appointed. More debt. Redo the numbers so that inflation is not recognized. Call the falling exchange rate due to an overvalued Chinese Yuan. Meanwhile, America´s standard of living fell 10% in Obama´s first term. The second term will show another 15% fall in living standards. America will enjoy failure and decay. Fed up blue state citizens will be forced to emigrate to the red states.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
southernboy, 1/11/2013 9:42:09 AM (No. 9110497)
#9 "... Fed up blue state citizens will be forced to emigrate to the red states…."
Y´all are welcome….but don´t bring that liberal nonsense with you.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy, 1/11/2013 9:48:12 AM (No. 9110514)
Too late. President Downgrade already debased our currency. The first grade scrawl would simply make it on a par with the mindset of the low information dolts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/11/2013 10:24:54 AM (No. 9110612)
I can´t find in the Constitution where it says America-hating socialist with friends like Bill Ayers get to pick the Treasury Secretary. Maybe you Democrats can help me locate it...?
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