"Let them eat peas"

[SoCalDem]

Right about now, that probably would sound downright tasty to people whose cupboards are bare and the mailbox is full of bills they cannot pay:(

[Drale]

1. While i agree with the sentiment of the post,

whats wrong with peas? I like peas, put them on a bed of rice with a little salt and yum.

[SoCalDem]

4. I LOVE creamed peas & potatoes

and can make a meal on them:)..but then I can also afford to buy the peas & potatoes & pay for the gas to cook them

[QC]

15. Great recipe for peas here,

but who can afford butter and heavy cream anymore?

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/mushy-peas-i/detail.aspx

[999998th word]

2. Sickened by the condescending attitude- utterly devastated.

By our 'Leader'.
I had such hopes...but we have to keep fighting.This proves it..if we don't fight for ourselves, who will ??:mad:

[Raine]

6. That remark seemed very snotty and arrogant

it's like his "haircut" remark, yeah very condescending. x(

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[MADem]

12. +100 nt

[TheKentuckian]

13. Hard decisions like how to cut our retirement and health care as not to bother the wealthy

with paying for their own party that they've already made gobs off of coming and going.

By telling those that aren't into selling out to eat their peas, he is telling those whose interests they are representing to do the same.

[MADem]

11. Condescending? Good grief. He was calling the Republicans CHILDISH.

You tell CHILDREN to eat their vegetables.

:banghead:

[bahrbearian]

22. Your right he was telling the GOP to eat their peas, he is offering us Cat food.

[MADem]

26. Gee, I have never seen so much hate around here in a long while.

It's so ... counterproductive, too.

[emcguffie]

32. People are afraid of not having enough to eat.

My family barely does. I got sick and was put on disability. I was the breadwinner. Now we cannot pay our bills and run out of money for food every single month. The utilities were turned off three times last year, and the only way we can pay for them is to borrow MORE MONEY on whatever credit card offer we can find, leftover from when I had an income. Of course, since we can't pay for all of our bills as it is, borrowing more money is just digging a deeper hole. But we can't sell our house, because we owe more on it than it is worth now.

What do we do?

Eat our peas? Happy to, when we have them.

[Springer9]

3. All we are saying, is give peas a chance

#eatyourpeas @ Twitter

[saras]

9. No more a-peas-ment. Sax and violins. And vuvuzelas.

[robinlynne]

17. LOL!

[BOG PERSON]

5. nobel peace prize winner tells america to nobly eat its peas

[WinkyDink]

7. Nobel Peas Prize winner.

[MADem]

10. They should sit up straight, too.

Oh, and brush their teeth.

:eyes:

[Texasgal]

14. Imagine whirled peas.

:P

[7wo7rees]

16. If they said cake

I was going cut off their heads.

[QC]

18. The rich folks will also eat their peas, in the spirit of shared sacrifice.

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[SoCalDem]

20. Neither..but thanks for playing

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[bahrbearian]

23. Your right, because later he said that the rest of us will be eating Cat food

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[dameocrat67]

25. He is not feeding us peas

peas are good for you. He is feeding us bread and water. Starving us.

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[Tx4obama]

28. Who are you quoting in your OP title? Not Obama.

It is misleading to make up shit and then post it with quotation marks (unless you put your own name on the quote).

Excerpt from the press conference transcript:

THE PRESIDENT: I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension. That is just not an acceptable approach. And if we think it’s going to be hard -- if we think it’s hard now, imagine how these guys are going to be thinking six months from now in the middle of election season where they’re all up. It’s not going to get easier. It’s going to get harder. So we might as well do it now -- pull off the Band-Aid; eat our peas. (Laughter.) Now is the time to do it. If not now, when?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/11/press-conference-president

[SoCalDem]

29. I just said it outloud..so I'll quote ME

Mkay?

:rofl:

[Joe the Revelator]

30. You're being purposely misleading which makes any point you were trying to make....

...unable to be taken seriously.

[Bluebear]

31. No. Don't tell me ignored said "Obama never really said that!!!!1"

:rofl: