The "NObama" Chronicles
 

This site was created to track promises and rhetoric of the campaign 2008, the time leading to
inaguration and the performance once in office. Many things are promised and then forgotten
as web sites are purged etc. The following is a daily chronicle of the election of
Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetoro, his promises and their results.
You and history will judge

Will "O" govern or "rule"? 11/10/2008
A simple slip of the tongue? - we'll see

The following are taken from the official website change.gov.

Symbols indicate:
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Major HYPOCRITE
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Obama To Expand Earned Income Credit

Plan to Revitalize the Economy

Jumpstart the Economy

    * Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families:Barack Obama and Joe Biden will enact a windfall profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on the Obama-Biden long-term plan to provide middle-class families with at least $1,000 per year in permanent tax relief.

    * Provide $50 billion to Jumpstart the Economy and Prevent 1 Million Americans from Losing Their Jobs: This relief would include a $25 billion State Growth Fund to prevent state and local cuts in health, education, housing, and heating assistance or counterproductive increases in property taxes, tolls or fees. The Obama-Biden relief plan will also include $25 billion in a Jobs and Growth Fund to prevent cutbacks in road and bridge maintenance and fund school re­pair - all to save more than 1 million jobs in danger of being cut.

Provide Middle Class Americans Tax Relief

Obama and Biden will cut income taxes by $1,000 for working families to offset the payroll tax they pay.

    * Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Obama and Biden will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they need. Obama and Biden will create a new “Making Work Pay” tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. The “Making Work Pay” tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans.

NOTE: This will eliminate 10 million families from paying any income tax

Obama: Give Terrorists $2B For Education

Homeland Security

The Problem

Conventional thinking has failed to adapt to a world of new threats. Barack Obama and Joe Biden understand that a range of risks, both natural and manmade, can have major consequences for the security, prosperity, and well-being of Americans at home and abroad. We need a president who understands these new security threats - and who has effective strategies for addressing them…

Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Plan

Defeat Terrorism Worldwide

… Prepare the Military to Meet 21st Century Threats: Barack Obama will not hesitate to use military force to take out terrorists who pose a threat to America. Obama will ensure that our military becomes more stealthy, agile, and lethal in its ability to capture or kill terrorists. He will bolster our military’s ability to speak different languages, navigate different cultures, and coordinate complex missions with our civilian agencies.

Win the Battle of Ideas: An Obama Administration will defeat al Qaeda in what the 9-11 Commission called “the Battle of Ideas” by returning to an American foreign policy consistent with America’s traditional values and by working with moderates within the Islamic world to counter al Qaeda propaganda. Barack Obama will establish a $2 billion Global Education Fund to work to eliminate the global education deficit and offer an alternative to extremist schools…

Prevent Nuclear Terrorism

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have a comprehensive strategy for nuclear security that will reduce the danger of nuclear terrorism, prevent the spread of nuclear weapons capabilities, and strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Secure Nuclear Weapons Materials in Four Years and End Nuclear Smuggling: Barack Obama will lead a global effort to secure all nuclear weapons materials at vulnerable sites within four years - the most effective way to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Barack Obama will fully implement the Lugar-Obama legislation to help our allies detect and stop the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction.

Strengthen Policing and Interdiction Efforts: Barack Obama will institutionalize the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a global initiative aimed at stopping shipments of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and related materials worldwide.

Convene a Summit on Preventing Nuclear Terrorism: Barack Obama will convene a summit in 2009 (and regularly thereafter) of leaders of Permanent Members of the UN Security Council and other key countries to agree on implementing many of these measures on a global basis.

Eliminate Iran’s and North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Through Tough, Direct Diplomacy: Barack Obama will use tough diplomacy - backed by real incentives and real pressures - to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and to eliminate fully and verifiably North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Barack Obama will seek to ensure that the Agency gets the authority, information, people, and technology it needs to do its job.

Control Fissile Materials: Barack Obama will lead a global effort to negotiate a verifiable treaty ending the production of fissile materials for weapons purposes.

Prevent Nuclear Fuel from Becoming Nuclear Bombs: Barack Obama will work with other interested governments to establish a new international nuclear energy architecture - including an international nuclear fuel bank, international nuclear fuel cycle centers, and reliable fuel supply assurances - to meet growing demands for nuclear power without contributing to the proliferation of nuclear materials and fuel production facilities.

Set the Goal of a Nuclear-Free World: Barack Obama will show the world that America believes in its existing commitment under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to work to ultimately eliminate all nuclear weapons…

Seek Real, Verifiable Reductions in Nuclear Stockpiles: Barack Obama will seek deep, verifiable reductions in all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons and work with other nuclear powers to reduce global stockpiles dramatically by the end of his presidency…

Strengthen Nuclear Risk Reduction Work at Defense, State, and Energy Departments: Thwarting terrorist networks requires international partnerships in military, intelligence, law enforcement, financial transactions, border controls, and transportation security. To make diplomacy more effective, Obama will stop shuttering consulates and start opening them in the tough and hopeless corners of the world. He will expand our foreign service, and develop the capacity of our civilian aid workers to work alongside the military.

Strengthen American Biosecurity

… Lead an International Effort to Diminish Impact of Major Infectious Disease Epidemics: Senator Obama was one of the first legislators to recognize the dangers of a potential avian influenza pandemic and was successful in securing $25 million for U.S. agencies to combat and contain widespread outbreaks of avian flu and worked to provide $4 billion in funding to the Centers for Disease Control to combat avian flu…

Protect Our Information Networks

As president, Barack Obama will lead an effort, working with private industry, the research community and our citizens, to build a trustworthy and accountable cyber infrastructure that is resilient, protects America’s competitive advantage, and advances our national and homeland security.

Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cyber Security: Barack Obama will declare the cyber infrastructure a strategic asset and will establish the position of national cyber advisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyber policy…

Protect the IT Infrastructure That Keeps America’s Economy Safe: The public and private infrastructure that keeps America running is increasingly brought online to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Barack Obama will work with the private sector to establish tough new standards for cyber security and physical resilience for critical infrastructure…

Improve Intelligence Capacity and Protect Civil Liberties

… Give Real Authority to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board:

Created by Congress and recommended by the 9/11 Commission, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board needs to be substantially reformed and empowered to safeguard against an erosion in American civil liberties. As president, Barack Obama will support efforts to strengthen the Board with subpoena powers and reporting responsibilities, will give the Board a robust mandate designed to protect American civil liberties and will demand transparency from the Board to ensure accountability…
NOTE: We are going to defeat Al Qaeda by giving them $2 billion to educate themselves?

Obama Will Give Illegal Aliens Amnesty

Plan for Immigration

The Problem

Undocumented population is exploding: The number of undocumented immigrants in the country has increased more than 40 percent since 2000. Every year, more than a half-million people come illegally or illegally overstay their visas.

Immigration bureaucracy is broken: The immigration bureaucracy is broken and overwhelmed, forcing legal immigrants to wait years for applications.

Immigration raids are ineffective: Despite a sevenfold increase in recent years, immigration raids only netted 3,600 arrests in 2006 and have placed all the burdens of a broken system onto immigrant families.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s Plan

Create Secure Borders

Obama and Biden want to preserve the integrity of our borders. They support additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.

Improve Our Immigration System

Obama and Biden believe we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill.

Remove Incentives to Enter Illegally

Obama and Biden will remove incentives to enter the country illegally by cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

Bring People Out of the Shadows

Obama and Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

Democrats undercut aid for U.S. workers 2/11/2009
   With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama's near trillion-dollar spending bill, it's what is being cut out that's receiving too little attention.
   And once Americans realize it, they won't be happy.
   What's been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants.
   Democrats in the House voted for the E-Verify component. But when the great porkulus package reached the Senate, Democrats there dropped it.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-11-feb11,0,657719.column
NOTE: The first steps in amnesty

America Serves

Suddenly, all mention of “required” has been disappeared. And the college tuition incentive has been added.
NOTE: SKIP AHEAD TO 4/23/2009 TO SEE THIS HAPPEN ALMOST WITHOUT A WHIMPER. totalitarians  understand, control the youth and you control tomorrow.

Update!

All of the individual pages where Mr. Obama listed great his plans for our future have been removed from the official web site -

Except for his “Service” page, where the word “require” has been replaced with words like “encourage” — and a $4,000 college tuition incentive.

Yet the Obama campaign still claim to have these plans, and that they are ready to “rule” on day one:
 

Obama plans Guantanamo closure, US terror trials 11/11/2009
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.
NOTE: Granting Habeus corpus to enemy terrorists in US Courts will make Pandora's Box look like Sunday school.
Jamie S. Gorelick considered for AG
 New York Times
Carries as baggage: Her work at Fannie Mae, which had to be bailed out by the government in September as part of a $200 billion deal. Ms. Gorelick left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures. She has also drawn criticism for her role at the Justice Department, in which she allegedly created an intelligence “wall” that hindered counterterrorism agents in the years before the Sept. 11 attacks. Conservatives called for her removal from the Sept. 11 commission, but her fellow members rallied around her and said critics were distorting her record. The criticism grew so heated that the F.B.I. investigated a death threat against her family, and President Bush had to intervene personally to stop the Justice Department from releasing sealed reports involving her. Some conservative bloggers have already begun trying to derail Ms. Gorelick’s possible nomination as attorney general, pointing to her experiences at both Fannie Mae and the Sept. 11 commission.
NOTE: She was paid $25.6 million in salary and other compensation from 1998 to 2003 at Fannie Mae, but jumped ship before the axe fell - wonder why?
Hillary for Sec State? 11/15/2008
   Barack Obama made "change" the mantra of his presidential campaign. But when it comes to appointees, his team doesn't reflect much change from the Bill Clinton era.
   Of the 47 appointees named so far to transition or staff posts, 31 have ties to the Clinton administration, including all but one member of the 12-person Transition Advisory Board.
NOTE: The Clinton's had 8 years in the 90's to fix all the problems they now complain about - why didn't they fix them then?
Obama Wants Israel Back to 1967 Borders
 Obama has said privately that Israel would be "crazy" to reject such a plan, since it would "give them peace with the Muslim world."
NOTE: Another US President with the "messiah" complex, actually imagining he can "fix" thousands of years of animosity.
 
Cap & Trade 11/19/2008
"Few challenges facing America -- and the world ­ are more urgent than combating climate change". "That will start with a federal cap and trade system,"
NOTE: A design designed to bankrupt the coal industry and others
 
John F. Kerry will be named chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 11/20/2008
  Source: Daschle accepts cabinet post 11/20/2008
Another Clinton era partisan hack who's wife is a huge lobbyist, can you say "conflict of interest"?
NOTE: So much for "transparency" in the O'cabinet
Obama Advisers To Public: Temper Expectations 11/21/2008

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Obama.advisers.expecations.2.869896.html
NOTE: Ah, so now begins the back pedaling, seems the "messiah" may only be a mere "mortal"?
 
Climate change garbage: 11/21/2008
   “There is absolutely no scientific evidence that Obama’s carbon capping targets would solve any of these problems,” the Heritage Foundation argued. “If the U.S. reduced carbon emissions by 75 percent by 2050, it would result in just 0.013 degrees Celsius of “prevented” warming by 2050.”
   Other bullet points in the Heritage counter-argument included:
   Studies show that stabilizing carbon at 2000 levels would do nothing to stop the rising seas.
   The Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., calculates that even if the United States, Europe and Japan turned off every power plant and mothballed every car, atmospheric carbon dioxide would still climb from the current 380 parts-per-million to a perilous 450 ppm by 2070 -- thanks to contributions from China and India.
   The Heritage rebuttal also emphasized that there are no environmental benefits from Obama’s green agenda promises ­ only costs to bear from the President Elect’s cap-and-trade plan, for instance. Obama says he will take the proceeds from his plan and spend $15 billion a year to create 5 million new green jobs.
   The Foundation fired back with these bullets:
* The environmentalist left has already admitted these numbers are completely bogus. Apollo Alliance co-director Kate Gordon recently told the Wall Street Journal that her group’s job estimates were arrived at “just to inspire people.”
* Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis studied the economic costs of the much less stringent Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade plan and found that it would cost the U.S. economy a $4.8 trillion loss in GDP and a net one million loss of jobs by 2030.
* “There is a reason European Union countries such as Germany and Italy are insisting that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions targets be eased; they are experiencing the economic pain of the green agenda first hand,” argued the Heritage Foundation brief. “The EU’s cap-and-trade program is in complete collapse. Now is not the time for the U.S. to import Europe’s failed and job killing environmental policy.”
  Obama to delay repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' 11/21/2008
Advisers see consensus building before lifting ban on gays
 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/21/obama-to-delay-repeal-of-dont-ask-dont-tell/
NOTE: "To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects". - Margaret Thatcher
Hillary accepts Secretary of State 11/21/2008
 Bob Woodward: "Being president is about control, and tell me who ever controlled Bill or Hillary Clinton. They can't control each other. ... I think it's because Warren Buffett and Paul Volcker and others have convinced Obama, 'You're going to have to focus like a laser on the economy. That's issue Number One. And give Hillary and Bill the world.' ... I think people are fantasizing or smoking something if they think Joe Biden's going to call Hillary Clinton up and say, 'This is what we want you to do.' "
  Obama orders plan to create 2.5 million new jobs by 2011 11/22/2008
 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081122130923.iv8bvumy&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: What's the matter with 2010, or 2009? - apparently the "messiah" is more mortal than we thought? It's the government's job to create a climate conducive to job growth, NOT to create the jobs, he proposes a new CCC for the 21st century.
Obamas Choose Exclusive Private School for Their Daughters 11/23
NOTE: I'm sure they believe in vouchers for everyone, isn't that what "pro-choice" means?
 

11/25/2008
   "We have only two things to say about Tim Geithner, who we do not know: AIG and Lehman Brothers," said Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics. "Throw in the Bear Stearns/Maiden Lane fiasco for good measure," he said, referring to the site of the New York Federal Reserve, where many rescue discussions took place.
   "All of these 'rescues' are a disaster for the taxpayer, for the financial markets and also for the Federal Reserve System as an organization. Geithner, in our view, deserves retirement, not promotion."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/25/business/25sorkin.php
  At the same time, it is unclear how much money Obama could save by scouring the budget "line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices," as he promised yesterday. 11/25/2008
America is back as climate change leaders - John Kerry. 11/26/2008
 

The American electorate? 11/26/2008
   The majority of American voters say they would have been less likely to vote for President-elect Barack Obama if they had known he supported controversial legislation that would eliminate workers' right to a secret ballot in union elections, according to an exclusive post-election poll conducted by ATI-News and Zogby International.
   One of Obama's campaign promises was to push for controversial legislation, misleadingly dubbed the "Employee Free Choice Act," which would eliminate workers' right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to form a union. The promise helped Obama win the crucial support of union chiefs.
NOTE: Isn't it nice the electorate is so well informed by the media?
The birth certificate question
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81944
Teary-eyed communists cheer Obama victory 11/27/08
   Celebrate 'biggest political realignment since 1930s ? first step toward a new society'
   Communist Party USA leaders ' including one who spoke with tears in his eyes ' held a confab at which they celebrated the election of Barack Obama as "the biggest political realignment since the 1930s" and urged the immediate implementation of socialist policies.
Kenya: 'I don't know' if Obama born in U.S. 11/27/08
   Ambassador suggests question be put to American government
   Kenyan Ambassador Peter N.R.O. Ogego is saying he's "infuriated" by a radio program's efforts to "misquote" him on the subject of President-elect Barack Obama's birthplace ? but he refused to confirm whether Obama was born in the United States.
  Orders from new president to spark lawsuit every time 11/27/08
   Lawyer lining up plaintiff groups until citizenship dispute addressed
   A lawyer who is playing a key role in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved says he's organizing plans to challenge, even after the inauguration, every order, every proposal, every piece of paperwork generated by Obama.
   "We will file lawsuits on his actions, every time. As long as we have money, we will keep filing lawsuits until we get a decision as to his citizenship status," Gary Kreep, chief of the United States Justice Foundation, told WND today.
  Duo take Obama birth challenge to Court  11/27/08
NBC finally reports Obama's birth certificate question.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/26/1689515.aspx

India rejects Obama proposal on Kashmir  11/27/08
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday shot down US Predient-elect Barack Obama?s suggestion that former US President Bill Clinton could prod India and Pakistan into making peace over Kashmir.
NOTE: Diplomacy failure #101, although it's unclear who failed, Clinton or Obama?
Obama team repackaging Clinton after campaign digs 11/29
   It wasn't too long ago that Barack Obama and his advisers were tripping over one another to tear down Hillary Rodham Clinton's foreign policy credentials. She was dismissed as a commander in chief wanna-be who did little more than sip tea and make small talk with foreign leaders during her days as first lady.
   "What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."
   That was in March, when Clinton was Obama's sole remaining rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
   Now, Clinton is on track to become Obama's secretary of state.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94OK8MG0&show_article=1&catnum=0
  Obama's War Cabinet Dominated by Policy Graybeards 11/29
   Barack Obama's campaign credo: Change is good. President-elect Barack Obama's credo: When it comes to war and peace, maybe wisdom is better.
   Obama has assembled a national security brain trust populated by graybeard establishment figures with decades of combined experience and even a few medals. He is entrusting critical wartime management to people with unassailable credentials and low buzz factor.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_cabinet_security/2008/11/27/155932.h
NOTE: How to spell "Obama electorate"? - S - U - C - K - E - R - S !!!
Hllary not eligible for SOS post by Constitution 12/1/2008
   The second clause of Article 1, Section 6, of the Constitution reads, "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."
   During Hillary Clinton's current term in the Senate, the salary for Cabinet officers was increased from $186,600 to $191,300. Since the salary is scheduled to again be raised in January 2009, not only Hillary Clinton, but all sitting Senate members could be considered constitutionally ineligible to serve in Obama's Cabinet.
  Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: aide 12/3/2008
Experts warn Barack Obama of a nuclear Iran 12/3/2008
  Obama Fomenting A Constitutional Crisis: Constitutional Lawyer Discusses Ramifications Of Controversy 12/3
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=20210273&brd=2737&pag=461&dept_id=576361
  Imaging guru: 'Certification' of birth time, location is fake 12/3/2008
'It would be hard to perform as president from behind jail cell door at Leavenworth'
  Rice a 'Mind-Boggling' Choice for United Nations 12/4/2008
 Rice 'was in the middle of some of the Clinton administration?s worst foreign policy disasters,'
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/susan_rice/2008/12/03/157709.html
An impostor in the White House? 12/05/2008
Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/05/an-imposter-in-the-white-house/
  President-elect would seek changes in Supreme Court 12/05/2008
"Constitution a living breathing document and more justices have to understand that"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82729
Weatherman terrorists: Obama's centrism a 'smokescreen' 12/05/2008
Forecast a radical agenda that would impress Lenin coming
"His centrist appointments are a smokescreen; they co-opt the moderate center, but he's still the commander in chief. Even Lenin would be impressed!"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=82774
  Obama Plans Huge Pentagon Shake-Up 12/5/2008
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_pentagon/2008/12/04/158414.html
  Decision on Obama citizenship pending 12/6/2008
Court delays action on suit
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/06/obama-challenge-awaits-a-decision/
  Welcome to Obama's America: the USSA
 Socialism the world over, has been an abject failure wherever it has been tried, yet we have some that are absolutely giddy over the notion that we are about to jettison 230 years of blood, sweat and tears for a system that promises utopia but delivers chaos.
http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20081207/SHE06/812070393/1110
  Obama Plans Largest Building Program Since 1950s
President-elect Barack Obama said he’ll make the “single largest new investment” in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration to lift the sagging economy and create jobs.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aBcPiaRqqffg&refer=worldwide
NOTE: I'm sure this will be of great benefit to the thousands of workers in Tech, food industry, construction etc. that have lost jobs, can we say CCC?
  Court: No review of Obama's eligibility to serve  12/8/2008
  Nationalization? 12/8/2008
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081208/D94UQ0CG1.html
  Obama: Don't stock up on guns
As gun sales shoot up around the country, President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that gun-owning Americans do not need to rush out and stock up before he is sworn in next month.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1318968,obama-gun-sales-up-120808.article
  Cracks appear in Obama foreign policy team
The push by Rice, an early Obama supporter whose position the President-elect wants to elevate to a cabinet post, is also a signal that she intends to use her influence with the new president to play a more significant role than previous U.N. envoys, they said. The transition sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94USGDG0&show_article=1&catnum=0
  Liberals voice concerns about Obama 12/8/2008
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous ? and some just flat-out angry ? that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16292.html
  Obama's Web presence loses its luster 12/9/2008
Viewership for President-elect Barack Obama's weekly YouTube "fireside chats" has tanked, dropping more than 50 percent since his initial video three weeks ago.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/09/obamas-web-presence-loses-its-luster/
Obama's End Run around Congress 12/9/2008
Candidate Barack Obama promised "change we can believe in," but he never hinted that this change would all but circumvent Congress to impose on America the most dramatic liberal social transformation since the New Deal.  While promising to lead, he did not suggest that he would create a kind of "imperial presidency" that would horrify the Founding Fathers.  Based on their own direct experience with a sovereign, they were rightly concerned with any one man having too much power.  This is the kind of power that Obama is now reaching for, following the same kind of "stealth strategy" that helped get him elected.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/obamas_end_run_around_congress.html
  Obama plans major address in Islamic capital: 12/10/2008
 "I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081210/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamadiplomacyislam_081210083044
What did Obama know ... and when did he know it? 12/10/2008
Unanswered questions alarm anti-corruption investigators
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83223
  Barack Obama plans to reach out to Muslim world 12/10/2008
he says he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-barack-obama-muslim-1210,0,5694976.story
  Obama Transition Web Site 'Open for Questions' -- Except on Blagojevich 12/11/2008
Apparently, Obama supporters (one presumes that's who's voting this way) think that any question that might make the president-elect uncomfortable is "inappropriate."
12/10/2008http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/obama-transitio.html
Blagojevich's corruption: a warning for Democrats 12/11/2008
 Blagojevich's dramatic downfall is the first big Democratic scandal story of the Obama era. Granted, Obama has yet to set foot in the Oval Office (though right now he's probably wishing his transition headquarters wasn't in Chicago).
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/la-oe-brooks11-2008dec11,1,6850311.column
  Obama's Carbon Busters 12/12/2008
A team of Al Gore's prot?? takes over energy policy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122904166229300171.html
  Senate Finance Chairman: Congress Must Spend Money to ?Show it Cares? 12/12/2008
"One thing we?ve learned from past recessions, is that you?ve just got to spend money to get out of it,"
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40658
NOTE: Yes sir, that's what I always do when I get in financial trouble, I spend lots of other people's money, works every time?
Obama aides won't discuss Ill. governor probe 12/14/2008
Obama's staff has declined to respond to even basic questions, like who is conducting the probe, how long it will take, what issues are being explored and whether they are working with federal investigators.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_illinois_governor
 NOTE: Nothing like transparency and "open government".
Hot air from Obama 12/14/2008
   In one of his first public policy statements as America's president-elect, Barack Obama focused on climate change, and clearly stated both his priorities and the facts on which these priorities rest. Unfortunately, both are weak, or even wrong.
   Obama's policy outline was presented via video to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Governors' Global Warming Summit, and has again been shown in Poznan, Poland, to leaders assembled to flesh out a global warming road map. According to Obama, "few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change".
   Such a statement is now commonplace for most political leaders across the world, even though it neglects to address the question of how much we can do to help America and the world through climate policies v other policies.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24799129-7583,00.html
Bill Ayers continues to justify his terrorist past 12/15/2008
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Charles+Lane%3A+Bill+Ayers+continues+to+justify+his+terrorist+past&articleId=cb2eab42-7815-4775-b00a-3d0e42d870b6
NOTE: We are often judged by the company we keep
Straw Man? Historians say Obama is no Lincoln 12/15/2008
 Simply put, some scholars think the comparisons have gone a bit over the top hat.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16569.html
Obama Team Has Forged Another Link With Clintons 12/17/2008
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/politics/17currie.html?_r=1
NOTE: And people were told to worry about A 3RD "Bush" term?
  Obama Cabinet Is Shy on Southerners, Republicans  12/16/2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaAI_KuDoB7s&refer=worldwide
NOTE: Duh
Illinois Democrats Let Blagojevich Keep Naming Power 12/16/2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=ajp3kuscJCn0
NOTE: It's a Chicago thing, besides an "open" election might elect a Republican
  Investigator casts doubt on Obama's birth residence 12/16/2008
Neighbor believes family didn't live at address in newspaper announcement
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83851
  Obama picks new SEC chief and other regulators  12/18/2008
Schapiro, who served as an SEC commissioner in Republican and Democratic administrations
Gensler, a former Treasury official in the Clinton administration
Tarullo, a Georgetown law professor who also worked for President Bill Clinton
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9558F881&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: Again, they told us to worry about a 3rd Bush term?
  'Time' Crowns Obama 'Person of the Year' After Bureau Chief Accepts Job with Administration 12/18/2008
 NOTE: Nothing like an objective media
  Citizenship issue has merit, AOL poll says 12/16/2008
Nation seeks answers to questions about president-elect's eligibility
There are more than 88,000 national votes in the unscientific survey. A full 52 percent of nationwide respondents believe people should be concerned about Obama's citizenship, 42 percent say the controversy has no merit and 6 percent of voters remain undecided.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83846
Flawed Science Advice for Obama? 12/20/2008
Does being spectacularly wrong about a major issue in your field of expertise hurt your chances of becoming the presidential science advisor?
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/
Obama's cabinet short of Southerners 12/22/2008
    There are Democrats and Republicans, liberals and moderates, Hispanics and Asians, whites and blacks, Northerners and Westerners.
   But one group was arguably missing when President-elect Barack Obama rounded out his 15-member Cabinet Friday ? Southerners.
http://www.freep.com/article/20081220/NEWS15/81220006/1215
NOTE: That's a great big "duh" good buddy.
Democrats Try to Lower Expectations 12/22/2008
 Even as they depict a massive stimulus package as indispensable to turning the economy around, U.S. Democratic leaders are aggressively lowering expectations that the package will yield dramatic accomplishments quickly.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122990372926325149.html
Obama's Labor pick has communist ties 12/22/2008
Radical leaders hail Solis as 'outstanding,' 'terrific'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84221
Clinton Donors Are Massive Conflict of Interest 12/22/2008
Compelled by the Obama transition team to make it public as a condition of his wife's appointment as secretary of state, it becomes clear that the list is a virtual encyclopedia of conflicts of interest for the husband of a senator, to say nothing of the husband of an incoming secretary of state.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2008/12/22/clinton_donors_are_massive_conflict_of_interest?page=full
NOTE: Comforting isn't it to know Bubba may blow into town, collect a few Mil from an Arab leader to be followed a few days later by Ms. SOS lecturing them about being nice to Israel?
  Biden Worried About 'Expectations' for Obama 12/22/2008
Vice president-elect Joseph Biden said in an interview airing Monday he was worried about soaring international expectations for Barack Obama's presidency.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/biden_obama/2008/12/22/164581.html
  Rep. Frank: Obama 'Overestimates' Ability to Unify 12/22/2008
"Oh, I believe that he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences," said Frank, the first House member to come out of the closet voluntarily.
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/12/22/rep-frank-obama-overestimates-ability-to-charm/
Carter: Hamas putting eggs in Obama basket 12/23/2008
Terrorist group has high expectations for incoming Democrat administration "Like the Syrians, they (Hamas) are patient, relatively satisfied with the status quo, and putting all their eggs in Obama's basket. We had to caution them about expecting too much of an immediate change in U.S. Middle East policy,"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84283
  Obama's Plan to Rejoin the World Community 12/23/2008
Obama plans to use his presidential power to get the Democratic-majority Senate to ratify a series of treaties that would take us a long way toward global rule over our money, our laws, our military, our courts, our customs, our trade and even our use of energy. Here are the treaties he says he wants:
  * The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982 - LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes.
  * the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - It would prohibit all nuclear explosive testing and thereby allow our nuclear arsenal to deteriorate until the American people are defenseless against rogue regimes such as Iran and North Korea.
  * A new Global Warming Treaty - The new treaty would force dramatic reductions in our use of energy
  * the U.N. Treaty on Women, known as CEDAW - This treaty would require us "to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women," to follow U.N. dictates about "family education," to revise our textbooks to conform to feminist ideology in order to ensure "the elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women" and to set up a federal "network of child-care facilities." Article 16 would require us to allow women "to decide number and spacing of their children." Everyone recognizes this as feminist jargon for a U.N. obligation to allow abortion on demand.
  * the U.N. Treaty on the Rights of the Child - This treaty would give children rights against their parents and society to express their own views "freely in all matters," to receive information of all kinds through "media of the child's choice," to use their "own language," and to have the right to "rest and leisure.

*** Every U.N. treaty would interfere with self-government over some aspect of our lives and would transfer significant power to foreign bureaucrats, many of whom hate and envy America.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/12/23/obamas_plan_to_rejoin_the_world_community?page=full
  Clinton moves to widen role of State Department 12/23/2008
Even before taking office, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to build a more powerful State Department, with a bigger budget, high-profile special envoys to trouble spots and an expanded role in dealing with global economic issues at a time of crisis.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/23/americas/diplo.php
NOTE: Just what we need, more gutless mealy-mouthed enablers
  Eligibility remains focus of Supremes' conferences 12/27/2008
Dispute posted on docket twice after Electoral College votes in
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84609
  Rezko attorney 'owns' Obama mansion 12/27/2008
Lawyer at firm where Democrat worked receives tax bill
 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84101
 
Obama economic plan to cost 'between $675 and $775 bln' 12/29/2008
Axelrod said the economic downturn adds urgency to repealing Bush's tax cuts for wealthier Americans and will not prevent the future Obama administration from enacting its planned middle-class tax cuts.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081229121955.klyczyzs&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: Hoover tried raising taxes during a recession, some people never learn.
Obama Will Ration Your Health Care 12/30/2008
Think of his health plan as a federal HMO.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123060332638041525.html
  Eligibility case finds 'standing'? 12/31/2008
New suit claims unique state law enables citizens to demand proof
   "These lawsuits have pointed their fingers at the various secretaries of state and said, 'You handle the elections, it's your job [to verify Obama's eligibility],'" Stephen Pidgeon told WND, "and the secretaries of state have said, 'No, it's not our job. You the voter have to prove he was ineligible.' But when the voters try to do it, the courts tell them they have no standing. So it presents a catch-22.
   "Here, we have standing by means of statute," Pidgeon continued. "This particular statute provides for any registered voter to challenge the election of a candidate if the candidate at the time of the election was ineligible to hold office."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84966
  Global warming: climate deal possible under Obama presidency, 12/31/2008 says Lord Stern
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/4044147/Global-warming-climate-deal-possible-under-Obama-presidency-says-Lord-Stern.html
NOTE: Followed by - - -
  Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/4029837/Global-warming-Reasons-why-it-might-not-actually-exist.html
NOTE: Followed by - - -
  2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html
  AOL: Growing majority worried over eligibility 1/1/2009
Even half in Illinois say issue should be reviewed, resolved
Fifty-three percent nationwide, and majorities in 45 states individually, say "yes" when asked if there is "any merit" to the controversy surrounding his citizenship. Even in Obama's own state, Illinois, the opinion is split 47-47 percent on the issue.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=84990
  NASA's Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth 1/2/2009
Climate realists around the world have contended for years that the real goal of alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his followers is to use the fear of man-made global warming to redistribute wealth.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/01/01/nasas-hansen-obama-use-global-warming-redistribute-wealth
  U.S. governors seek $1 trillion federal assistance 1/2/2009
The governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin -- all Democrats -- said the initiative for the two-year aid package was backed by other governors and follows a meeting in December where governors called on President-elect Barack Obama to help them maintain services in the face of slumping revenues.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5014F120090102
NOTE: Politicians forget the government has NO money except what comes from the people - how exactly are they going to give $1T to people to spend without getting $2T from the same people? (Government is inefficient by it's nature)
  Enthusiasm for Obama likely to wane once policies are clear 1/2/2009
Canadian enthusiasm for Barack Obama is likely to wane once the warm and fuzzy idea of an Obama presidency becomes a much firmer reality.
http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081230.wdrohan0102/BNStory/Business/home
  Harsh dose of reality to hit America after inauguration 1/2/2009
Americans will hear less about an ill-defined "war on terror" and more about restoring their international esteem; less about unilateralism and more about co-operating with their allies, particularly in dealing with the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/harsh-dose-of-reality-to-hit-america-after-inauguration/2009/01/02/1230681746015.html
  Gallup: Liberals Still Love Obama 1/2/2009
   Despite reports of unrest among liberal Democrats regarding certain moves made by President-elect Obama, Gallup's tracking poll finds liberals still overwhelmingly support him. Among liberal Democrats, 93% are confident Obama will be a good president, and 96% have a favorable opinion of him.
   Obama currently enjoys decent numbers among Republicans as well. About half (51%) of liberal/moderate Republicans and almost a third (29%) of conservative Republicans are confident Obama will be a good president. Obama's favorable ratings among both groups are even better, with 61% of liberal/moderate Republicans and 37% of conservative Republicans holding a favorable opinion of him.
http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2009/01/02/gallup-liberals-still-love-obama/
NOTE: "STILL"? - he was elected less than 2 months ago, so far he has gone on vacation to Hawaii, where BTW he didn't bother to pick up a copy of his BC? - Let's wait 100 days and see what the numbers look like
  Obama keeps silent on explosive Gaza conflict 1/3/2009
   As the clock ticks down to Barack Obama's inauguration, the US president-elect has kept silent on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its latest deadly turn in the Gaza Strip.
   Obama transition officials have ventured little more than saying their boss is "monitoring" the situation in Gaza, where at least 460 people have been killed in eight days of air raids before a ground offensive began Saturday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=090103214058.23r7czam&show_article=1
NOTE: Bless my soul, maybe he's smarter than he looks?
  Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary  1/4/2009
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95GHJPO0&show_article=1
NOTE: And so it begins, but I thought it was Reps that were the "culture of corruption"? Too bad, he was actually one of the "good guys" which makes you wonder about the rest!
  Prez-Elect Makes New Pitch, Promises on Job Creation -- Including 600,000 New Government Employees
1/4/2009 http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/prez-elect-make.html
NOTE: Just what we need like more cancer. What we need is 6,000,000 LESS.
  Obama: 'I choked up' when leaving his home in Chicago 1/4/2009
NOTE: Uh huh, and Clinton cried at Ron Brown's funeral - when the cameras were on  
   Supreme Court to take up eligibility question again 1/7/2009
   Conference to evaluate claims president-elect isn't qualified
   "What if an impostor from another country ran for the presidency and won?" she asks. "What if the media blocked any news of his birthplace and citizenship? What if the media censorship even blocked paid advertising which tried to expose it?
   "What if no one had the courage to challenge or verify it? What if he was inaugurated illegally? What if the military had to answer to a commander in chief who was illegitimate? What if every law he signed was invalid?"
   And, she wonders, "What if it all happened on our watch?"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85434
NOTE: Certainly a valid question that few in the media are willing to ask.
  Funds Tie Obama to Richardson Probe Figure 1/7/2009
Embattled Executive David Rubin Gave Thousands to Campaign
President-elect Barack Obama took big money from a man at the center of a federal probe that has forced one of Obama's top Cabinet picks to withdraw.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Politics/story?id=6586275&page=1
  Obama names special watchdog for federal spending 1/7/2009
Obama pledges to take on entitlement spending, names special watchdog for federal programs
Obama made the pledge but provided few details as he named Nancy Killefer as his administration's chief performance officer, creating a new White House position aimed at eliminating government waste and improving efficiency.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-names-special-watchdog-apf-13992873.html
NOTE: Translation:She will "watch" the government spend massive amounts of money - impressive?
  Eligibility issue to follow Obama into Oval Office 1/8/2009
Supreme Court sets 'natural born' conference to follow inauguration
A legal challenge that alleges Barack Obama isn't a "natural born" citizen and therefore constitutionally ineligible to be president of the United States will follow the Democrat into the Oval Office, with a U.S. Supreme Court conference on the dispute set after the Jan. 20 inauguration.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85595
  Obama stumbles after smooth road to top 1/8/2009
In the past four days, President-elect Barack Obama, once lauded as having the smoothest transition to power in modern history, has learned how hard it is to navigate the political high wire.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/08/obama-starts-to-stumble-after-smooth-road-to-top/
  Obama era expected to end taboo on gays in US military 1/8/2009
Sixteen years after Bill Clinton tried to end restrictions on gays in the military, the US armed forces under Barack Obama may be forced to give homosexuals the same welcome as non-gays.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090107/ts_alt_afp/usmilitarygays_newsmlmmd
NOTE: Social tinkering at the expense of the military in a time of war is extremely dangerous
  Watch Obama commercial they don't want you to see 1/9/2009
Fox, CNN, MSNBC refuse ads questioning Barack's eligibility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdk26ezVio&eurl=http://users.zoominternet.net/~f2a/ObamaCitizenship2.htm&feature=player_embedded
  Obama camp 'prepared to talk to Hamas' 1/9/2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/08/barack-obama-gaza-hamas
NOTE: Sure give them credible status, that will stop them?
  Obama: Huge Job Losses Mean All Ideas Welcome 1/9/2009
"I want this to work," Obama said at a news conference. "Just show me. If you can show me that something is going to work, I will welcome it. If it works better than something I've proposed, I'll welcome it." 
http://www.newsmax.com/
NOTE: They say people naturally recognize leadership - ok, I'm still looking? What a pathetic blunder by the rookie even before he's warmed the seat.
  Obama Pressed From Left on Stimulus 1/9/2009
It turns out you don?t have to look very hard to find the fault lines in President-elect Barack Obama?s bid for a massive stimulus bill. He tried to scare Congress into acting quickly on Thursday -- and more pressure is coming Friday and beyond -- but there?s still no measure to act on, or even the outlines of one.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/01/the-note-1909-o.html
Obama Calls for 'Grand Bargain' on Economy: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give' 1/11/2009
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don?t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I?m not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped,"
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/01/obama-calls-for.html
NOTE: Two obvious things that work every time they're tried; tax cuts and smaller government!
Obama climate czar has socialist ties 1/12/2009
Group sees 'global governance' as solution
   Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.
   By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/
NOTE: And this is exactly why this web site "remembers" when others scrub their pages
  Obama Plans to Keep Estate Tax 1/12/2009
Democrats Want to Freeze Levy at Current Levels Instead of Letting It Expire Next Year
President-elect Barack Obama and congressional leaders plan to move soon to block the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, suggesting the levy might outlive the "Death Tax Repeal" movement that has tried mightily to kill it.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172020818472279.html
  In Interview, Obama Talks of ?New Approach? to Iran  1/12/2009
'We are going to have to take a new approach,' he told the program's host, George Stephanopoulos. 'My belief is that engagement is the place to start.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/politics/12iran.html?_r=1&hp
NOTE: Stupid is as stupid does
  NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama 1/12/2009
   White House reporters for The New York Times predict that the market collapse will force President-elect Barack Obama to abandon for now many of his campaign promises.
   If his stimulus plan "doesn't work out, he may very well be a one-term president, said Jeff Zeleny, who covered Obama's campaign. It's hard to imagine that he could be reelected if the economy's in the exact same position four years from now.'
   'A lot of the things he said on the campaign trail you can now dispense with,' said correspondent Peter Baker. 'For the moment he has to focus on the economy.'
   'He hasn't asked anybody for sacrifice,' Baker said. 'His whole economic package is about giving things to people.'.
   One of Obama's principal political challenges, Stolberg said, is: 'How will he try to lower expectations'?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17331.html
NOTE: So now "Operation Backpedal" begins - his first official act
  Obama preparing order to close Gitmo 1/13/2009
It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama-gitmo13-2009jan13,0,200194.story
NOTE: And then the Arabs will love us right? - or, it's going to save a huge amount of money right? - or, the rest of the world will love us then right? - or, it's a meaningless gesture - RIGHT?
  AP: Clinton acted on concerns of husband's donors 1/13/2009
    WASHINGTON - Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found.
   The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton's foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raise new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband's fundraising. The AP obtained three of the senator's government letters under the Freedom of Information Act.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/clinton_letters___dollars
NOTE: When did a leopard ever change it's spots?
  Treasury nominee failed to pay taxes 1/13/2009
This one deserves the whole story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the economic rescue effort disclosed to senators Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication in an otherwise smooth path to confirmation.

Timothy Geithner paid most of the past-due taxes days before Obama announced his nomination in November, an Obama transition official said. The unpaid taxes were discovered by Obama's transition team while investigating Geithner's background, the official said.

The transition official requested anonymity because the source was not authorized to discuss Geithner's situation.

Obama reiterated his support Tuesday for Geithner as senators who are considering the appointment quizzed Geithner behind closed doors.

"He's dedicated his career to our country and served with honor, intelligence and distinction," incoming White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "That service should not be tarnished by honest mistakes, which, upon learning of them, he quickly addressed."

Geithner failed to pay self-employment taxes for money he earned while working for the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003, the transition official said. In 2006, the IRS notified him that he owed $14,847 in self-employment taxes and $2,383 in penalties from 2003 and 2004.

Transition officials discovered last fall that Geithner also had not paid the taxes in 2001 or 2002. He paid $25,970 in taxes and interest for those years several days before Obama announced his nomination, the transition official said.

Geithner also didn't realize a housekeeper he paid in 2004 and 2005 did not have current employment documentation as an immigrant for the final three months she worked for him, the transition official said.

Geithner is the second Obama nominee to face controversy. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his name on Jan. 4 as Obama's Commerce secretary after questions surfaced about an ongoing federal investigation.
 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090113/D95MGFTO1.html
NOTE: BOY, THIS IS "CHANGE" - YEAH, SURE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  Obama irks panel heads with silence 1/15/2009
President-elect Obama?s evident distrust in sharing with Congress sensitive information about the internal workings of his administration has begun to irk Democratic committee chairmen.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-irks-panel-heads-with-silence-2009-01-14.html
  Barack Obama: it is no longer essential to kill Osama bin Laden 1/15/2009
As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Mr Obama said: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5520116.ece
NOTE: Oh, so NOW that it's his responsibility, the song and dance begins?
Obama Ready to End Harsh Interrogations 1/17/2009
 President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_waterboarding/2009/01/16/172358.html
NOTE: Not a problem, just ask the terrorists "please" and they'll tell you everything - or die laughing.
  Eligibility battle rages on 3 fronts 1/18/2009
Court, Congress and college challenged on constitutionality
"Obama has refused to submit certified copies of any of his original long form 'vault' birth certificates in Hawaii to any public officer or to any Petitioner. Relevant records in Kenya have also been officially restricted," she said. "Obama has sealed all educational records which might reveal his stated citizenship. These include Punahou High School, Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86325
Hail King Obama: President for life 1/18/2009
Move underway to repeal Constitution's term limits
   The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering a bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment prohibiting a president from being elected to more than two terms in office.
    "If some termination to the services of the chief magistrate be not fixed by the Constitution or supplied in practice," Jefferson wrote to the Legislature of Vermont, "his office, nominally for years, will in fact become for life; and history shows how easily that degenerates into an inheritance."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86324
  Obama appointee: civilian trials likely for terrorism suspects 1/18/2009
"It wouldn't surprise me if the Obama administration just sent them back and said they are small fish," predicted the senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/59917.html
  As challenges mount, ardor for Obama cools abroad 1/19/2009
"Just two months ago, the future president seemed a cross between Superman and Merlin the magician," Massimo Gramellini wrote in a commentary for Italy's La Stampa newspaper. "Now he himself admits he won't be able to keep all his promises, and who knows? Maybe someone will ask for his impeachment by the end of next week."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95PNOH00&show_article=1
  Obama stimulus plan no sure fix for economy 1/19/2009
Some economists, politicians wary of government intervention
Some conservative economists say that additional stimulus may only prolong the grief at best, triggering runaway inflation down the road and resulting in an even more bloated federal bureaucracy.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28707244/
  Obama's Trojan Horse: Bailout Signals Return of Welfare State 1/19/2009
Some experts say that the Trojan horse of pork and welfare spending will ultimately worsen the recession and drive the nation deeper into debt, according to financial experts.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_welfare_spending/2009/01/18/172756.html
  Pelosi Fighting Obama To Kill Tax Cuts 1/19/2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears to differ from Barack Obama on at least two issues ? tax increases and investigating the Bush administration.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/pelosi_tax_cuts_repeal/2009/01/18/172758.html
  Foundation concerns could delay Clinton confirmation 1/19/2009
Republican Sen. John Cornyn may hold up the nomination of Hillary Clinton to become secretary of state if his concerns about foreign donations to her husband's foundation are not resolved, a spokesman for the Texas senator said on Monday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50I4TY20090119?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true
 

IINAUGURATION DAY 2008, A DARK DAY FOR AMERICA

Obama Stumbles Out of the Gate 1/20/2009
Barack Obama has yet to be sworn in as president, but he's already been bedeviled by a series of miscues and unfortunate revelations.

Among them:

*Obama named Timothy Geithner as his Treasury secretary, only to find out that Geithner had failed to pay $34,000 in taxes several years ago.

Geithner, who in his post would be the head of the IRS, did not pay self-employment taxes for money he earned from 2001 to 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund.

He paid some of the taxes in 2006, after an IRS audit, but it wasn't until days before Obama tapped him to head Treasury that he paid back the rest.

*New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination to be Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation.

The jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson's political activities won a New Mexico state contract worth more than $1 billion.

*The arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was an embarrassment to Obama, whose ties to the governor run primarily through Chicago slum lord and felon Tony Rezko.

Rezko served as the political godfather for both Blagojevich and Obama, helping both to rise in Chicago and Illinois politics. Obama himself has credited Rezko with helping bolster his political career.

Rezko raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both politicians.

The FBI charges that Blagojevich conspired to sell the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Obama.

*Obama personally endorsed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's stance against seating Roland Burris to replace Obama in the Senate after Burris was appointed by scandal-scarred Gov. Blagojevich.

But Obama and Reid eventually had to back down, and Obama conceded that when the Senate seats Burris 'I'm going to work with Roland Burris just like I work with all the other senators.'

*Obama's choice for Attorney General, Eric Holder, acknowledged that he made mistakes in the 2001 pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich when Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general.

Rich's wife was a major donor to the Democratic Party and to Clinton's library. Holder urged Rich's lawyer to solicit a pardon directly from the White House.

Holder has also been criticized for his role in the April 2000 government raid that led to the return of a Cuban boy, Elian Gonzales, to his homeland, and for the pardons of 16 Puerto Rican nationalists responsible for a series of bombings that killed six people and injured dozens more.

*Obama's appointment of Leon Panetta as the new CIA director drew howls of protest from Sen. Diane Feinstein, chair of the Senate intelligence committee.

Panetta has no experience with the intelligence community, and Feinstein issued a statement making it clear she preferred a career intelligence professional.

*Reports surfaced that Obama's choice to be his global warming czar, former EPA administrator Carol Browner, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society.

The organization calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change, according to the Washington Times.

*Obama was also criticized for his appointment of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as secretary of Homeland Security.

'He could have selected a Rudy Giuliani or a Louis Free or a Ray Kelly ' anyone with real life experience in battling terrorists,' political analyst Dick Morris observed.

'Instead he chose a governor with no knowledge of the subject whose obvious credential is her proximity to the border.'
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_stumbles/2009/01/19/173032.html

Wall Street hits session lows after Obama's speech 1/20/2009
Stock indexes extended losses and hit session lows on Tuesday after President Barack Obama's inauguration speech provided few new details about measures to tackle the growing economic crisis.
 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wall-Street-hits-session-lows-rb-14104562.html
NOTE: Down over 1600 points since his election, down 332 today AFTER his speech, closing below 8,000

Banks and Profit Worries Sink Stocks; Dow Closes Below 8,000 1/20/2009
The dawn of the Obama presidency could not shake Wall Street from its dejection over the banking industry's growing problems. After hearing the new president's inaugural address Tuesday, investors went back to unloading stocks, sending the major indexes down more than 4 percent and the Dow Jones industrials down more than 300 points.
http://finance.yahoo.com/
NOTE: Wow, nothing like a vote of confidence, the Dow is down over 1600 points since his election and only closed below 8,000 once before.

Obama may be the 'no we can't' President 1/20/2009
After the waves of optimism, this was an inaugural speech that dared to set limits on the world's expectations
Mr Obama was elected on a wave of optimism, a surge of hope. But I think that when he is remembered by future generations it may be as the man who said: "No we can't."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article5555653.ece

Barack Obama inauguration: this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears 1/20/2009
This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/01/20/barack_obama_inauguration_this_emperor_has_no_clothes_it_will_all_end_in_tears

U.S. Stocks Slide in Dow Average?s Worst Inauguration Day Drop 1/20/2009
U.S. stocks sank, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst Inauguration Day decline, as speculation banks must raise more capital sent financial shares to an almost 14-year low.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=worldwide&sid=aOYw.awwsNSg

And so it begins, the long journey into darkness
  Barack Obama halts Guantanamo trials 1/21/2009
Hours after being sworn in as US President, Barack Obama has called for a halt to Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, a move which will begin the long awaited process of dismantling the prison itself.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5557738.ece
NOTE: Official mistake #1
  Fed coffers to be opened for worldwide abortions 1/21/2009
President set to repeal Bush, Reagan pro-life policy on 1st day in office
Officials with the Obama administration have revealed that the new president will repeal a ban on U.S. taxpayer funding of foreign abortions on his first day in office.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86629
NOTE: Official mistake #2
  The Obama Presidency: Here Comes Socialism 1/21/2009
   He will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever expanding welfare checks from the government. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.
   So Obama's name will be mud by 2012 and probably by 2010, as well. And the Republican Party will make big gains and regain much of its lost power.
   But it will be too late to reverse the socialism of much of the economy, the demographic change in the electorate, the rationing of health care by the government, the surge of unionization and the crippling of talk radio.
 http://townhall.com/Columnists/DickMorrisandEileenMcGann/2009/01/21/the_obama_presidency_here_comes_socialis?page=full
  Obama takes presidential oath again after stumble 1/22/2009
   Craig, the White House lawyer, said in a statement Wednesday evening: "We believe the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. Yet the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of the abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath a second time."
   The Constitution is clear about the exact wording of the oath and as a result, some constitutional experts have said that a do-over probably wasn't necessary but also couldn't hurt.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_oath_do_over
NOTE: THIS IS RICH, COMING FROM PEOPLE WHO WON'T PRODUCE THE ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE! - WHAT A SHAM.
  Obama flashes irritation in press room 1/23/2009
President Obama made a surprise visit to the White House press corps Thursday night, but got agitated when he was faced with a substantive question.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17831.html
NOTE: Let it be known that you DO NOT ask the messiah substantive questions, all bow and scrape.
  News organizations concerned about access issues at the Obama White House 1/23/2009
News organizations that cover the White House sparred with the Obama administration on Thursday over access issues for photographers and rules for briefings.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-obama-news-access,1,6232068.story
NOTE: Aw, poor babies, just when they thought they had elected THEIR guy.
  White House may put hold on offshore drilling plan 1/23/2009
Shortly after being sworn in on Tuesday, Obama ordered all federal agencies and departments to halt pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming staff.
http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINWBT01046020090121
NOTE: Major mistake # whatever, be sure to NOT develop new sources when the price of oil is low - brilliant?
 
Obama's Dirty Dozen: What the President's Agenda Means for America
   Here are a 'dirty dozen' changes Team Obama is most likely to enact.
1. Allow Anyone to Vote
[Probability 5.2 / U.S. Impact 6.4 / GOP Impact 7.8 / GOP Misery Index = 6.46]
   The 2008 election triggered multiple voter-fraud investigations, and Democrats apparently have decided that, if everyone is declared eligible to vote, no one can be accused of voting illegally.
   Registering to vote is just a 'bureaucratic obstacle' they say. So Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., says she'll introduce legislation to promote automatic, universal voter registration by the government.
   Government voter registration would rely on existing databases, mail surveys, and door-to-door canvassing. This would make the demographic challenges facing Republicans that much tougher.
2. Ban Offshore Drilling
[Probability 7.0 / U.S. Impact 7.5 / GOP Impact 3.1/ GOP Misery Index = 5.86 ]
   Blocking offshore oil drilling has been a mainstay of the Democratic agenda. Under political pressure, Congress let a drilling moratorium expire, and President Bush changed an executive order that prohibits it. Obama will be pressured to reinstate the executive prohibition. It wouldn't even require congressional approval.
3. Close Guantanamo
[Probability 9.8 / U.S. Impact 7.5 / GOP Impact 2.0 / GOP Misery Index = 6.43]
   Now that Guantanamo Bay is Obama's problem, The New York Times is admitting the problems associated with shutting it down, stating it could lead to 'the release of suspects for lack of evidence.' Jailing suspects in the United States could lead to the radicalization and recruitment of U.S. prison populations, along with the nightmare scenario of armed jailbreaks. Obama is closing the camp to placate the globalists -- but at what cost to U.S. security'
4. Curtail Gun Owners' Rights
[Probability 8.0 / U.S. Impact 8.5 / GOP Impact 3.2 / GOP Misery Index = 6.56]
   Obama strongly supports the right of cities and states to restrict gun owners' rights. So it was not surprising that more than 350,000 Americans rushed to buy guns the week after the election. Expect Obama to appoint judges who oppose the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Washington, D.C.'s, gun ban. No only will he have a chance to fill key vacancies of the nation's appellate courts, Democrats are pushing through a new judgeship bill that will create more judicial slots ' all to be vetted and filled by the Democrat-controlled Congress.
5. Enact Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
[Probability 8.2 / U.S. Impact 7.8 / GOP Impact 8.8 / GOP Misery Index = 8.26]
   Democrats know that amnesty for America's 12 million illegal immigrants is the best way to lock in the gains it achieved in 2008.
   Given the 2006 political backlash against immigration reform, however, look for Obama and Congress to move circumspectly. The first step will be legislation fast-tracking naturalization for all illegals serving in the U.S. military or attending college. Next, processing backlogs will be expedited. Given that 67 percent of Latinos voted for Obama in 2008, the long-term impact on the GOP could be devastating.
   Amnesty would be 'a nation killer' politically, says William Gheen, president of the Raleigh, N.C.-based Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). It would 'destroy any future hopes for immigration enforcement or border security,' he warns.
6. End Faith-Based Initiatives
[Probability 7.7/ U.S. Impact 7.1 / GOP Impact 6.5 / GOP Misery Index = 7.10]
   Obama insists that religious groups not discriminate in hiring, which could kill faith-based initiatives. This could mean, for example, that an Orthodox Jewish group would have to hire an avowed atheist to administer a faith-based program. 'He's rolling back the Bush protections,' Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals, told The New York Times.
7. Give Driver's Licenses to Illegal Immigrants
[Probability 8.5 / U.S. Impact 6.6 / GOP Impact 7.4 / GOP Misery Index = 7.43]
   Obama says giving illegals licenses 'is the right idea.'
   Unfortunately, a driver's license confers many other rights to anyone who holds it. With a license, you can board a commercial aircraft, open a checking account, or register to vote.
   'When you give somebody a license you give them the keys to the kingdom,' says ALIPAC's Gheen. 'You have at that point given them a type of legal presence.'
8. Hike Taxes
[Probability 6.6 / U.S. Impact 7.2 / GOP Impact 6.3 / GOP Misery Index = 6.70]
   Obama promised to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans -- quite a feat, considering that only about 60 percent of Americans earn enough to pay taxes in the first place. Political sleight-of-tongue aside, any realistic hope of extending the Bush tax cuts died on Nov. 4. Obama has yet to back off on his plan to hike taxes for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans, despite the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression.
9. Implement 'Card Check' in the Workplace
[Probability 6.0 / U.S. Impact 8.1 / GOP Impact 7.2 / GOP Misery Index = 7.10]
   The unions helped elect Obama and expect some payback. They're demanding approval of the Employee Free Choice Act, which, naturally, being a government program, seeks to take away workers' free choice. The act would eliminate the confidential balloting in which workers now determine whether they want to be unionized. Even former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern warns that the measure could deny 'freedom to many Americans.'
10. Impose Greenhouse Restrictions
[Probability 8.5 / U.S. Impact 7.8 / GOP Impact 2.3 / GOP Misery Index = 6.20]
   Energy companies are bracing for a double whammy: Obama will push for the greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system he once said would bankrupt coal-fired power plants, while hitting oil companies with a windfall profits tax. It's all part of 'spreading the wealth around.'
11. Silence Talk Radio
[Probability 5.6 / U.S. Impact 7.8 / GOP Impact 8.5 / GOP Misery Index = 7.30]
   Democratic Campaign Chairman Charles Schumer recently compared outlawing talk radio with 'limiting pornography.' So should Rush, Sean, Laura, and the gang start looking for another line of work' The guess here is that the Democratic troika of Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Sen. Harry Reid will have bigger problems to deal with, at least initially. But count on frequent attempts to intimidate right-minded radio.
12. Promote Islamic Education
[Probability 5.5 / U.S. Impact 6.1 / GOP Impact 2.7 / GOP Misery Index = 4.76]
   Despite the recession, Obama plans to pour $2 billion into reforming schools -- not in America, mind you, but in the Middle East. 
   It's all part of Obama's plan to defeat global terrorism by winning 'the battle of ideas.' Obama promises to 'work with moderates within the Islamic world' by establishing 'a $2 billion Global Education Fund to work to eliminate the global education deficit and offer an alternative to extremist schools.'
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obamas_dirty_dozen/2009/01/23/174261.html
  Obama 'declared end' to war on terror: media 1/23/2009
   President Barack Obama "declared an end" to his predecessor's "war on terror" and began to heal the US reputation abroad when he ordered the Guantanamo Bay prison to close, US editorialists wrote Friday.
   Obama's order to close the detention facility within a year, end coercive interrogations and shut secret overseas CIA prisons sent a strong signal to the world and presented a new post-September 11 era, wrote The Washington Post.
   "President Obama has begun the rehabilitation of this country's reputation when it comes to the treatment of suspected terrorists," the Times wrote.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090123/usa/us_politics_obama_guantanamo_media_reax
NOTE: This has to rank as the #1 worst mistake he could have made - and he wasted no time in signaling to the world that we have dropped our pants and bent over for any and every terrorist and would be terrorist to attack the US - MANY PEOPLE WILL DIE WITHIN 12 MONTHS OF THIS DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEE FOLLOWING STORY IF YOU DOUBT
Guantamo detainee resurfaces in terrorist group 1/23/2009
The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/23/mideast/detainee.1-414168.php
Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions 1/23/2009
   Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn't look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department's bank bailout fund last fall.
   Mr. Frank, by his own account, wrote into the TARP bill a provision specifically aimed at helping this particular home-state bank. And later, he acknowledges, he spoke to regulators urging that OneUnited be considered for a cash injection.
   He cites the bank's status as the state's only financial institution owned by African-Americans.   
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106471/Political-Interference-Seen-in-Bank-Bailout-Decisions
NOTE: My God, the very man who caused much of this disaster Barney Frank stands up for a bank and guess what? - in the last paragraph you learn it's - - - yes, you may have guess, a minority owned bank ! When will the Dems ever give up this disaster?
  Vatican criticizes Obama on abortion issue 1/23/2009
VATICAN CITY ? Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama's decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_obama_2
NOTE: Duh
  Vatican official accuses Obama of 'arrogance'  1/23/2009
It is "the arrogance of someone who believes they are right, in signing a decree which will open the door to abortion and thus to the destruction of human life," Archbishop Rino Fisichella was quoted as saying by the Corriere della Sera daily.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ae20b64499f4af8b4c9bf8793c4ba754.341&show_article=1
NOTE: DUH AGAIN, ARROGANCE? - FROM OUR BOY "O" - SURELY YOU JEST.
  Challenges loom as Obama seeks space weapons ban 1/26/2009
Moments after Obama's inauguration last week, the White House website was updated to include policy statements on a range of issues, including a pledge to restore U.S. leadership on space issues and seek a worldwide ban on weapons that interfere with military and commercial satellites.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50O15X20090125
NOTE: Bend over and grab the ankles, O is in the drivers seat and you know where that puts the rest of us - yes, bent over !
  Two-Thirds Approve of Obama's Start 1/26/2009
That's a number near the high end for new presidents, but short of President John F. Kennedy's 72 percent in 1961.
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/president-obama-approval-rating/316834?icid=200100397x1217629154x1201174422
Lobbyists skirt Obama's earmark ban 1/26/2009
   President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects.
   They're just working around it?and perhaps inadvertently making the process more secretive.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95U7LH81&show_article=1
Summers: Bush Tax Cuts Won't Be Extended 1/26/2009
   President Obama's senior economic advisor made clear Sunday that any idea of renewing the Bush tax cuts, set to expire in 2010, is a dead issue.
   The Heritage Foundation has warned that if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, "taxes will rise dramatically for most taxpayers" with tax rates rising "substantially in each tax bracket, some by 450 basis points."
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/summers_bush_tax_cuts/2009/01/25/175083.html
NOTE: Major BAD idea, but Libs never learn do they?
President Obama Does First Formal TV Interview as President with Al-Arabiya 1/26/2009
President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya, ABC News has learned.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/president-ob-10.html
NOTE: THAT'S OUR (MUSLIIM?) BOY? - God help us please, and soon if you will?
Obama To Launch Direct Talks With Iran 1/26/2009
   The United States is set to launch direct talks with Iran without any apparent preconditions, according to President Barack Obama?s new United Nations ambassador.
   The Obama administration apparently is setting no preconditions for its talks, which will be made in conjunction with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany -- often referred to as the "P5+1.? They had put discussions on next steps with Iran on hold until the Obama team was in office.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_talks_iran/2009/01/26/175319.html
NOTE: Sure, why not, what's the most that can happen, nuking Israel, direct attacks on the US? - sure why not?
Obama May Ease Rules on Immigration Arrests 1/26/2009
The White House is promising to reconsider a new rule requiring high-level approval before federal immigration agents can arrest fugitives.
The directive from the Homeland Security Department came amid concerns that such arrests might generate "negative media or congressional interest,"
http://www.newsmax.com/us/obama_immigration_arrests/2009/01/26/175290.html
NOTE: Why bother to arrest at all? - but then what about MY INTERESTS???????????? - FOOL!
  Obama, Most Secretive President Ever 1/26/2009
This is a short list of things we don't know about Obama. Indeed, the unanswered questions tell us much more about him than what he has told himself. So before we celebrate opening up our national security secrets for the world, including al-Qaida, how about some openness about the man whom we have just handed the keys to the kingdom?
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_secrets/2009/01/26/175370.html
NOTE: For a starter, why not show us your birth certificate - huh huh huh? - or is that too open?
Has newspaper really solved eligibility question? 1/27/2009
Retired teacher cited as proof but she claims no first-hand knowledge
A blogger at ObamaCitizenshipFacts.org pointed out that West could not possibly have delivered Obama since, according to a Hawaiian Pearl Harbor history website, he retired in 1956, five years before Obama's birth. "December of l956, after delivering at least 5,000 babies ... he retired from the practice of medicine," said the Pearl Harbor Survivors Project website.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87233
Obama pick: Taxpayers must fund abortions 1/28/2009
Nominee takes position that 'contradicts' Constitution
President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state contends American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions, a position that contradicts the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87249
Obama hails 'anti-Israel' Arab plan 1/28/2009
Initiative includes massive concessions, erosion of Jewish character
Following scores of denials he would trumpet the plan, President Obama today hailed a so-called "Saudi Peace Initiative," which offers normalization of ties with the Jewish state in exchange for extreme Israeli concessions.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87271
NOTE: The final dark days may be here
Hollow victory: Republicans deliver slap in the face to Barack Obama 1/28/2009
   President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2 trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House of Representatives but the 244 to 188 vote is a hollow victory indeed. Without a single Republican voting for the bill, his high-profile visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday came to exactly naught - at least on the House side.
   Obama vowed to change Washington and usher in a new post-partisan era. The the mood music and optics were pitch perfect as he trekked up to the Hill. Republicans praised his gesture, welcomed his sincere demeanor and appreciated his willingness to listen.
   Problem was, he wanted only to listen and did not want to act on what Republicans said. When he was asked if he would re-structure the package to include more tax cuts, he reportedly responded: "Feel free to whack me over the head because I probably will not compromise on that part."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/01/29/hollow_victory_republicans_deliver_slap_in_the_face_to_barack_obama
Only 5 percent of $819b plan would go toward infrastructure 1/29/2009
Critics say transportation is shortchanged
Five weeks before becoming president, Barack Obama urged passage of a massive economic stimulus package, vowing that it would "create millions of jobs by making the single largest new investment in our national infrastructure since the creation of the federal highway system in the 1950s."
But the bill passed by the House yesterday dedicates only about 5 percent of the $819 billion measure to highway, mass transit, and rail projects, analysts said.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/01/29/only_5_percent_of_819b_plan_would_go_toward_infrastructure/
  Professor Called Hillary 'Monster:' Now Obama Aide 1/29/2009
Samantha Power, the Harvard University professor who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster" while working to elect Barack Obama president, will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_aide_power/2009/01/29/176561.html
NOTE: Big surprise? - I don't think so.
Citing Obama Opposition, McDowell Warns Against Fairness Doctrine 1/29/2009
Reimposition Could Undermine Kids TV Regulations, Public Radio
FCC commissioner Robert McDowell had a message for Democrats, or anyone else contemplating trying to reimpose the fairness doctrine: The move could undermine the justification for existing localism and children's TV regulations, and could be used against public radio.
He also suggested it would not come back wearing a big sign saying, "it's me, the fairness doctrine," but would likely instead be rebranded.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/162933-Citing_Obama_Opposition_McDowell_Warns_Against_Fairness_Doctrine.php
NOTE: Why would free speech be a problem for the Libs? - just ask me!
Obama finds room for lobbyists 1/29/2009
   President Obama promised during his campaign that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House."
   So far, though, at least a dozen former lobbyists have found top jobs in his administration, according to an analysis done by Republican sources and corroborated by Politico.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090128/pl_politico/18128
NOTE: See "hypocrite" sign at top of page
  A Warning to the President 1/30/2009
The cost of abdicating to Nancy Pelosi.
Barack Obama promised to end the "politics of division," unite Washington's factions and overcome partisanship. And what do you know -- so far he has: The President's stimulus plan generated bipartisan House opposition, with every Republican and 11 Democrats voting against it on Wednesday. It passed 244-188.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123327812504331563.html
US pours cold water over hopes of Iran deal 1/30/2009
The White House warned Iran last night that military action is still one of its options despite the "hand of friendship" offered by President Obama.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5614805.ece
NOTE: Nothing like sending mixed signals to the enemy, are we going to send letters or bombs ???????????????





Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver 1/31/2009
"A pattern is developing," Cantor said. "The pattern is solidified. ... It's easy for the other side to sit here and advocate higher taxes because -- you know what? -- they don't pay them."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/bumps-in-the-ro.html
NOTE: Amazing isn't it?

Daschle Owed Back Taxes That Exceeded $128,000 1/31/2009
Former Senator Paid Days Before First Confirmation Hearing
   Thomas A. Daschle, nominated to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, did not pay more than $128,000 in taxes over three years, a revelation that poses a potential obstacle to his Senate confirmation.
   Daschle paid the back taxes six days before his first Senate confirmation hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013003793_pf.html
NOTE: The voters knew what they were doing when they refused to return him to the Senate.


Congress sued to remove prez from White House 1/31/2009
'Defendants had to ensure the Constitution is upheld'
A new lawsuit is challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, and this one targets Congress as a defendant for its "failure" to uphold the constitutional demand to make sure Obama qualified before approving the Electoral College vote that actually designated him as the occupant of the Oval Office.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87622
Iran says Obama's offer to talk shows US failure 2/1/2009
   US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of "domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
   "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed,"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.073ba2ee2f1f00668848a4655420fedc.411&show_article=1
NOTE: I don't ever remember that being said about Bush, but what can you expect when you drop your pants and bend over?
Under Obama, 'war on terror' catchphrase fading 2/1/2009
The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151ap_war_on_terror.html
Is Obama's post-partisan politics dead on arrival? 2/2/2009
After Barack Obama's first big win, the White House finds itself in the odd position of denying the new president has absorbed a power-sapping defeat.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.7920ad41d201471477cc3e9c0bd967e6.21&show_article=1
NOTE: Symbolism over substance, he tried, that's all that important isn't it?
Obama Relaxes White House Dress Code 2/2/2009
Barack Obama promised change and on his first morning as president he delivered. He appeared at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in his shirt sleeves.
http://news.aol.com/main/obama-presidency/article/obama-relaxes-white-house-dress-code/323903
NOTE: It's hard to respect a man who doesn't respect the office. Personally I was a salesman for 30 years and not a single customer ever saw me in less than a dress shirt and tie and generally a jacket and vest in the old days. I never owned a short sleeve dress shirt.
Iran denies secret talks with U.S. 2/3/2009
Obama's overtures seen as weakness by Tehran
Instead of responding positively to Obama's suggestion in his televised interview with the al-Arabiya Arabic television news service that Iran "unclench its fist," Tehran seems to be hardening its negotiation position.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87865
NOTE: Live and learn - but on the backs of innocent Americans, where's the charm you were so sure you had Mr. President?
re: Daschle on Taxes 2/3/2009
"Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. " Sen. Tom Daschle, Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507.
NOTE: At least he was right once in his life !
Obama: 'One-term proposition' if no fix 2/3/2009
   The economy will not turn around overnight - "there are no silver bullets to this'' - President Barack Obama says in the second part of an interview with NBC News that aired this morning on Today.
   But if it doesn't turn around in three years, the president suggested, he will be looking at "a one-term proposition.''
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/02/obama_oneterm_proposition_if_n.html
NOTE: SEE NOBAMA CLOCK AT TOP OF PAGE

D.C. Station Dumps Its Failing Liberal 'Obama 1260' Talk Format 2/3/2009
   Obama may be riding high in Washington, but OBAMA 1260 is not. The area's only progressive talk station is changing formats, dropping such syndicated liberal hosts as Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Bill Press in favor of financial news, starting next week."
   Program Director Greg Tantum says he thought the station could work because of enthusiasm over Obama, but that ratings collapsed to a level that could not be measured after the election. But ratings nearly doubled, he says, at...conservative station, WTNT, which features Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett. Tantum said he will move Schultz to WTNT to give him another shot.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/02/02/d-c-station-dumps-its-failing-liberal-obama-1260-talk-format
NOTE: Pretty much says it all


Daschle withdraws as nominee for HHS secretary 2/3/2009
"Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting "with sadness and regret" Daschle's surprise request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle in the face of problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D964904G0&show_article=1
NOTE: Ah, maybe the big chair is not as comfortable as it looks huh? This is the second good thing done to this partisan hack.
Obama performance chief Killefer out, citing taxes 2/3/2009
   Nancy Killefer withdrew her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government on Tuesday, saying she didn't want her bungling of payroll taxes on her household help to become a distraction for the Obama administration.
   Killefer was the second major nominee to withdraw. Within hours, former Sen. Tom Daschle also withdrew his nomination to be secretary of health and human services.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D964A48O0&show_article=1
NOTE: NOW THIS IS GETTING GOOD, FAR BETTER THAN REALITY TV !

Holder Confirmed As the First Black Attorney General 2/3/2009
Nominee Overcame Objections in GOP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202581_pf.html
NOTE: Well, 2 out of 3 isn't a bad average, can we have a do over on the previous bunch?
Gregg Voted to Kill Commerce Before He Agreed to Lead It 2/3/2009
President Obama's new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/cq-assets/docs/gregg_voted_to_kill_commerce.html
NOTE: So, he's a Rep? - so what, maybe he was right the first time
President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat 2/3/2009
Last night Mr Obama gave a strong signal that he would remove the most provocative passages from the Bill.
"I agree that we can"t send a protectionist message,? he said in an interview with Fox TV.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5655115.ece
NOTE: The big chair gets a bit warm at times huh? - well, being from Hawaii??? he likes it hot - but the rest of us should be energy efficient.
Departures tarnish president?s ethics drive 2/3/2009
There could not have been a worse time of year for revelations to emerge about unpaid taxes by Tom Daschle and other prospective members of Barack Obama?s administration.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3e08a8d8-f234-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1
NOTE: You lay down with dogs you get up with fleas, most people know that - but apparently not some of our "elected" officials - and BTW, what about the birth cert?
India warns Obama over Kashmir 2/3/2009
India has warned US President Barack Obama that he risks ?barking up the wrong tree? if he seeks to broker a settlement between Pakistan and India over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a545f3b0-f1f9-11dd-9678-0000779fd2ac.html

Obama: 'I Screwed Up' on Daschle Pick 2/3/2009
Obama told NBC "I'm frustrated with myself" for unintentionally sending a message that there are "two sets of rules" for paying taxes, "one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks."
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_daschle_screwed_up/2009/02/03/178168.html
NOTE: WOULD THIS BE ANYTHING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD HAVING TO SHOW A BIRTH CERTIFICATE WHILE YOU DON'T????? - IS THAT TWO SETS OF RULES????
Same old fudges and loopholes in Obama's new era of ethics 2/4/2009
The sheen is already coming off the Obama presidency.
At times, Mr Obama's candidacy verged on a cult of personality. As president, however, he will ultimately be judged on actions and results. If he fails to deliver, the corrosive cynicism about politics that he so frequently lamented on the campaign trail will only deepen.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4450516/Same-old-fudges-and-loopholes-in-Obamas-new-era-of-ethics.html
NOTE: Same old same old
Obama may become a disaster 2/4/2009
By their actions ye shall know them. By now we are seeing an ominous pattern of actions by the O administration.
Foreign and military affairs
Flunking Econ 101
A Commissar style of governance
A Government-Media fusion
Appointing openly corrupt officials
Moving against conservative media
That's what we are seeing so far. Keep a sharp out in the coming weeks and months. Let's hope the O's will see reason somehow. But so far, the signals sent by their actions are ominous.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/obama_may_become_a_disaster.html
All the President's Tax Cheats 2/4/2009
You never get a second chance to make a first post-inaugural impression. Less than three weeks into his first 100 days, Barack Obama has left an indelible mark on his nascent presidency: the mark of incompetence and hubris. Despite the administration's much-touted wealth of bright minds and high bars, the transition has been a complete disaster.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/02/04/all_the_presidents_tax_cheats
NOTE: It was a truly short honeymoon
President wants U.S. nuke arsenal slashed 80%  2/5/2009
Proposes radical deal even as Russia revives Cold War-era military bases
President Obama plans to offer Russia a deal whereby each country would reduce its nuclear weapons stockpile by 80 percent, the Times of London reported today.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87975
Top Iranian official: Zionists brought Obama to power 2/5/2009
A representative of Iran's supreme leader said Barack Obama taking office as U.S. president did not mean Tehran's ties with Washington would change, a news agency reported on Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061422.html
NOTE: Oh pishaw, they've not yet experienced O's "charm"?
CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul 2/5/2009
President Obama's economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/
NOTE: What would they know, the new guy walks on water or haven't they heard?
Cheney Warns of New Attacks 2/5/2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is blasting the fledgling administration of Barack Obama, arguing that its policies dealing with terrorism and international foes are na?e and dangerous, making it all the more likely that terrorists will succeed in their next attempt at killing Americans, according to a report in Politico.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cheney_obama_policies/2009/02/04/178350.html
NOTE to O: You might want to listen to the old gentleman, he did play a major roll in keeping up safe for the past 7 years
Obama's Approval Numbers Plummet In Just One Week 2/5/2009
President Obama?s approval ratings began to plummet even prior to Tuesday?s admission that he ?screwed up? over the failed nomination of former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as his secretary of Health and Human Services.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_approval_plummet/2009/02/04/178359.html
NOTE: Welcome to the big chair, turns out the "emperor" isn't wearing clothes
Obama pushes stimulus; reminds he won 2/5/2009
President Obama used the announcement of restrictions on executive compensation for banks receiving federal aid to remind Congress and the American public who won the election and to push for passage of his recovery plan.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/04/1780772.aspx
NOTE: Another lesson for the new pres, "winning" doesn't always mean what you think !

Obama Warns of 'Catastrophe:' What Happened to 'Hope' and 'Change?' 2/5/2009
   "A failure to act, and act now [on the bill], will turn crisis into a catastrophe," Obama said, sounding a lot more like his predecessor than the candidate of hope and change.
   Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
 http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/168779/Obama-Warns-of-%27Catastrophe%27-What-Happened-to-%27Hope%27-and-%27Change%27?tickers=^dji,^gspc,^IXIC,SPY,DIA,QQQQ,TLT
NOTE: And, we should be surprised that the lies of the campaign were written on flowing water? Wake up people, you bought a pig in a poke and now you're stuck with him.

Obama says jobless numbers demand action 2/6/2009
"These numbers demand action. It is inexcusable and irresponsible for any of us to get bogged down in distraction, delay or politics as usual while millions of Americans are being put out of work," Obama said bluntly. "Now is the time for Congress to act."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9667EBG0&show_article=1
NOTE: WHAT'S NEXT, WILL HE THROW A TANTRUM AND KICK AND SCREAM UNTIL HE GETS HIS WAY???????? THIS IS THE MOST PATHETIC "LEADERSHIP" I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFETIME !!!!!!!!!!!

STIMULUS DEAL REACHED:
$780-827,000,000,000.00
THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WORLD WE KNEW -
WILL OUR CHILDREN EVER FORGIVE US?
Biden Urges Passage of Stimulus Despite Voter Backlash 2/7/2009
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged today that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the $900 billion economic stimulus package.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/02/06/biden-urges-passage-of-stimulus-despite-voter-backlash/

Pelosi dismisses bipartisanship calls 2/7/2009
In a statement sure to rile Republicans, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Friday dismissed calls for bipartisanship as ?process? arguments extraneous to passing a stimulus bill ? and warned Senate Democrats against slashing proposed increases to education spending.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18514.html

Inhofe Statement on Stimulus Compromise 2/7/2009
"While I appreciate the efforts of my colleagues to bring down the price tag of this bill, the fact is we still face a trillion dollar spending bill. Making it worse, the bill is 93% spending and only 7% stimulation.
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=4e7169a4-802a-23ad-4415-a737ffca72f7

Obama ratchets up the rhetoric on stimulus plan 2/7/2009
When open hand yields nothing, Obama shows GOP a clenched fist on stimulus bill
President Barack Obama's soft-sell pitches to Republicans haven't gotten him very far on his economic stimulus plan, so he's resorting to a sharper tone that is at odds with his vow to make Washington less partisan. Stopping just short of a take-it-or-leave-it stand, Obama has mocked the notion that a stimulus bill shouldn't include huge spending. He's also defended earmarks as inevitable in such a package. And he's pointedly reminded Republicans about who won the November election.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-ratchets-up-the-apf-14284923.html

Commentary: Stimulate the economy, not government 2/7/2009
We're on an economic tightrope. The package that passed the House is a huge increase in the amount of government borrowing. And we've borrowed so much already that if we add too much more debt, or spend foolishly, we could invite an even bigger crisis.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/06/romney.stimulus/index.html

The Fierce Urgency of Pork  2/7/2009
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe."
-- President Obama, Feb. 4.
   Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill. And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn't understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent.
   I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020502766_pf.html

Lawmakers in 20 states move to reclaim sovereignty 2/7/2009
Obama's $1 trillion deficit-spending 'stimulus plan' seen as last straw
As the Obama administration attempts to push through Congress a nearly $1 trillion deficit spending plan that is weighted heavily toward advancing typically Democratic-supported social welfare programs, a rebellion against the growing dominance of federal control is beginning to spread at the state level.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88218

Results in on Obama's grassroots appeal: It's a bust 2/7/2009
Few supporters are answering President Barack Obama's call for nationwide house-party gatherings this weekend to build grass-roots support for his economic stimulus plan.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/61724.html

Obama and Congress Vow to Shove Treasury Theft down Voters? Throats  2/7/2009
In the greatest of all thefts in American history, GL (?great leader?) Obama and his Democrat-run Congress are operating solely on their own counsel.  The will of the American people (snip) is no longer of any import whatsoever. A greedy and ever-growing glutinous Congress has decided (snip) that theft of and from the American taxpayer no longer needs to be hidden from them.  Besides, congressional leaders now believe that voters can no longer do . . . 
http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=449970

Democrats Defeat GOP Plan to Reduce Mortgage Rates 2/7/2009
A plan by Republicans in the Senate aimed at pushing mortgage rates lower has gone down to defeat at the hands of Democrats.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/democrats_gop_mortgage/2009/02/05/178903.html


Obama Weighs 23-month Iraq Withdrawal 2/7/2009
The White House is considering at least two troop withdrawal options as it weighs a new Iraq strategy ? one that would preserve President Barack Obama's campaign pledge to get all combat brigades out within 16 months and a second that would stretch it to 23 months, two officials said Friday.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/iraq_withdrawal_obama/2009/02/06/179262.html
NOTE: LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE - BUT THEN THAT'S A GOOD THING ISN'T IT?


NYT: Obama thanked Collins, Snowe, Specter for their ?patriotism? 2/8/2009
Mr. Obama called Ms. Collins and Mr. Specter, as well as Senator Olympia J. Snowe of Maine, another Republican expected to support the deal, to acknowledge they were acting against pressure from their party and, one official said, to thank them for their patriotism in helping advance the bill at a critical time.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/07/nyt-obama-thanked-collins-snowe-specter-for-their-patriotism/
NOTE: IF THERE WERE EVER 3 POSTER CHILDREN FOR DISGRACE AND DEFEAT - HERE THEY ARE

GOP Senators Risk Political Backlash Over Support of Stimulus Bill 2/8/2009
Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter have risked the wrath of their fellow Republicans and constituents to help push the controversial economic spending plan over the finish line
Until Friday, President Obama's plea for bipartisanship support of his costly plan for stimulating the economy mostly had fallen on deaf GOP ears, but that changed when three Republican moderates pledged their support.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/07/gop-senators-risk-political-backlash-support-stimulus/
NOTE: MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS NOT "BI"PARTISAN, IF THERE WERE EVER 3 DEMS IN REP CLOTHING THIS IS THEM.

'Doom' talk scored as 'not presidential' 2/9/2009
Poses risk for 'Yes, we can' candidate
   From crisis to catastrophe. Off a cliff. Dark, darker, darkest. Mortal danger of absolute collapse. Armageddon.
   President Obama and top Democrats on Capitol Hill are deploying these and other stark predictions of doom and gloom to push through their economic-stimulus package. In terms not heard in Washington since the late 1970s under President Jimmy Carter's watch, the new president has sought to terrify Americans into supporting the $800 billion-plus bailout bill.
   Brad Blakeman, a senior aide to Mr. Bush from 2001 to 2004, said the new president's language is immature.
  "It's not presidential. An American leader needs to be hopeful and optimistic - and truthful. Everything he says is parsed; everything he says is searched for deep meaning. When he goes to 'DefCon 5' on the economy and says that we're on the brink of catastrophe, it's absolutely insane."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/ramped-up-obama-rhetoric-could-backfire/
NOTE: This is the most pathetic excuse for a "leader" as we've seen in modern times. Someone should tell him a true "leader" doesn't spook the troops, he encourages them and elevates them, but then trying to teach a Liberal to "encourage or elevate" is like pushing a rope.
Obama's Charm Isn't Working Wonders Abroad  2/10/2009
Policy does matter after all.
And so it goes. True, Mr. Obama has made the U.S. popular in places like Montreal and Berlin, where our unpopularity never mattered much to begin with. But foreign policy is not about winning popularity contests. And woe to the president who imagines he needn't inspire fear among the wicked even as he embraces the adulation of the good.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123422514997765617.html
Obama's Busted Bubble 2/10/2009
Barack Obama's bubble has been burst. Over the past three weeks, he has learned a primal conservative lesson, one on which all else is based. As put by the noted political philosopher Clint Eastwood: "A man's got to know his limitations." O now has a vague glimmering as to what his limitations are. His followers, as yet, do not.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/obamas_busted_bubble.html

Obama forceful and angrier in first press conference as president 2/10/2009
US president Barack Obama goes on the offensive against Republicans in Congress over $800bn economic stimulus plan
   Barack Obama returned to campaign mode last night just three weeks after entering the White House, using the first press conference of his presidency to make a direct sales pitch to the American people for his economic rescue plan.
   Obama, as president, was far more forceful - and angrier - than the candidate who swept to a convincing victory last November.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/10/barack-obama-first-press-conference
NOTE: A continuing deficit in leadership skills, but a reaffirmation of his Chicago "thug" history.
Taking on Critics, Obama Puts Aside Talk of Unity 2/10/2009
Three weeks into his tenure, Mr. Obama acknowledged that his effort to change the political climate in Washington had yielded little. He made clear that he had all but given up hope of securing a bipartisan consensus behind his $800 billion economic recovery package, arguing that the urgency of the economic crisis had at least for now outweighed the need for unity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/politics/10assess.html?_r=1

Did Obama Tell an 'Out and Out Lie'? 2/10/2009
   In the course of crafting the economic stimulus bill, which is about to face a key procedural vote in the Senate, Democrats have bragged that the measure does not have any earmarks. Obama made the same point during his appearance today in Elkhart, Ind. "Understand, this bill does not have a single earmark in it, which is unprecedented for a bill of this size, does not have a single earmark in it," Obama said.
   But on the Senate floor a few minutes ago, in the midst of arguing against the compromise stimulus measure, Coburn said that many of the bill's advocates were claiming that there were no earmarks in it, but "that's an out and out lie. A total untruth. There are tons of earmarks in this bill."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/02/did_obama_tell_an_out_and_out.html
NOTE: "Truth" is adjustable
Eligibility issue: McCain checked but not Obama 2/11/2009
Lawsuit contends Congress failed to qualify Democrat for Oval Office
A lawsuit that accuses Congress of failing to investigate President Obama's birthplace before approving the Electoral College vote giving him the presidency has been amended to include additional claims of rights violations, including unequal treatment, because Congress did such an investigation into GOP candidate Sen. John McCain.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88566
Why Obama?s new Tarp will fail to rescue the banks 2/11/2009
Has Barack Obama?s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times. They are times of great danger. Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it. Today, it can offer solutions; tomorrow it will have become the problem. Today, it is in control of events; tomorrow, events will take control of it. Doing too little is now far riskier than doing too much. If he fails to act decisively, the president risks being overwhelmed, like his predecessor. The costs to the US and the world of another failed presidency do not bear contemplating.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ebea1b8-f794-11dd-81f7-000077b07658.html
Stocks reject Obama's plans 2/11/2009
Dow drops nearly 400 as bill passes, Geithner speaks
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped nearly 400 points today, closing below 8,000 in a sharp rebuke of Obama administration economics.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88569
World stocks sag on concerns about Obama plans 2/12/2009
World stock markets fell Thursday amid pessimism about the Obama administration's plans to fix the U.S. banking system and restore the overall health of the world's largest economy.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090212/D96A0U800.html
NOTE: And this is the man who would charm the world and change the US image? - Well, he IS changing the image!
Obama's Press List 2/12/2009
Membership shall have its privileges
The problem wasn't the lighting in the East Room. The President was running down a list of reporters preselected to ask questions. Presidents are free to conduct press conferences however they like, but the decision to preselect questioners is an odd one, especially for a White House famously pledged to openness.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431418276770899.html

Barack Obama and Tim Geithner rob Main Street of $3 trillion 2/12/2009
   "The sparkle has gone from his eyes already," an American acquaintance said to me yesterday, referring to Barack Obama. "He doesn't know what to do." Obama's performance at his press conference confirmed that impression, with the rhetoric of the campaign trail, fluent and banal as piped musak, replaced with long hesitations not just between sentences, but between clauses. This was an auto-cue junkie suffering cold turkey.
   It is madness. These lunatics are mugging Main Street of $3 trillion and squandering it on a liberal fantasy. It could be a generation before America recovers - not simply from the loss of these funds, but from the economic mismanagement of which it is a symptom. The fall-out will be very serious for the rest of the world. Hope? Change we need? Vote in haste, repent at leisure.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/02/12/barack_obama_and_tim_geithner_rob_main_street_of_3_trillion

Obama's outrageous oversight 2/12/2009
President Obama clearly didn't do his homework before ordering the suspension of military tribunals to try terrorist suspects. We have learned that even his own legal counsel admitted that Mr. Obama erred in discussing details about terrorism with families of victims last week, and that the administration was ignorant of a key point that terrorists exploit to their advantage. In his rush to fulfill a campaign promise to his more fervid anti-war supporters, the president's legal oversights risk the disclosure of some highly classified information to terrorists.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/12/obamas-outrageous-oversight/

'Sanctions' sought in eligibility case 2/13/2009
   President's attorneys file motion demanding birth, college records be withheld from public
   A high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing President Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be "monetary sanctions" against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn't qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution's demand for a "natural born" citizen in that post.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88746
NOTE: IT'S REAL SIMPLE MR. "PRESIDENT" - SIMPLY PRODUCE THE BC AND THIS ALL GOES AWAY - ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
Will the stimulus actually stimulate? Economists say no 2/13/2009
   The compromise economic stimulus plan agreed to by negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate is short on incentives to get consumers spending again and long on social goals that won't stimulate economic activity, according to a range of respected economists.
   "I think (doing) nothing would have been better," said Ed Yardeni, an investment analyst who's usually an optimist, in an interview with McClatchy. He argued that the plan fails to provide the right incentives to spur spending.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/62082.html
Bipartisanship dead? Huge blow for Barack Obama as Judd Gregg withdraws as Commerce Secretary nominee 2/13/2009
The bombshell news that Senator Judd Gregg, citing policy differences over the stimulus bill and Census, is pulling out as Commerce Secretary is a major blow to President Barack Obama.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/02/12/bipartisanship_dead_huge_blow_for_barack_obama_as_judd_gregg_withdraws_as_commerce_secretary_nominee
NOTE: SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE - a REPUBLICAN nominee drops out due to ETHICS - NOT SCANDAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama is headed for a one-term presidency 2/13/2009
   Well, that didn?t take long.
   Obama is making himself the symbol of what?s wrong with Washington rather than being the agent of change in Washington.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/MarkTapscott/Obama-is-headed-for-a-one-term-presidency-39461127.html
NOTE: Ah, finally some GOOD news, but at what cost to the country and people?
Stimulus Sellout: 3 Gop Senators Slashed Billions in Tax Cuts; Specter Got $6.5 Billion 2/13/2009
The "gang of three" liberal Republican Sens. Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins who handed President Obama the stimulus bill he so desperately needed, apparently sacrificed billions in tax cuts during final negotiations over the measure in order to reduce its cost.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/stimulus_specter_taxes/2009/02/12/181372.html
NOTE: Does the name "Benedict Arnold" ring a bell? The gang of 3 MUST be replaced ASAP.

State lawmakers: Prove you're president, Mr. Obama 2/14/2009
Case being assembled to demand eligibility documentation
   A new lawsuit is being prepared by a California attorney who already has four cases pending over the issue of President Obama's eligibility to occupy to Oval Office, and this one will include a demand from state lawmakers who forward state funds to Washington for documentation of his qualifications.
   Four already have signed up, including state Rep. Eric Swafford of Tennessee, who agreed to be a plaintiff "for a Writ of Mandamus to obtain original birth certificate, immigration records, passports and other vital records for Barry Soetero aka Barack Hussein Obama."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88646
NOTE: Far from being a dead issue or "settled" this will fester until it reaches a critical point. Consider that IF the pres is illegitimate the "stimulus bill" is illegal as well as anything else with his fingerprints.
WHAT'S THE RUSH? 2/15/2009
'URGENT' $TIMULUS ON HOLD FOR BAM'S WEEKEND OFF
After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway. The president plans to spend the Presidents' Day weekend in the Windy City, and is not expected to sign the bill until Tuesday, when he travels to Denver to discuss his economic plan.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02152009/news/nationalnews/whats_the_rush__155255.htm
NOTE: Quote Rahm Emanual "never waste a crisis"
Ken Starr: Obama's Supreme Court picks will face trouble
   Kenneth W. Starr has a warning for the Obama administration: what goes around comes around.
   During a speech yesterday in Boston, Starr told a group of attorneys that President Barack Obama could face an uphill battle over his Supreme Court nominees because as a senator he opposed two of George W. Bush's Supreme Court picks, Samuel Alito and John Roberts.
   Starr's message: elephants don't forget.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/politics-101/2009/Feb/14/ken-starr-obamas-supreme-court-picks-will-face-tro/

White House dampens stimulus expectations 2/15/2009
President Barack Obama's aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the $787 billion economic stimulus bill he will sign this week, but said it would help eventually.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1527608020090215?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Obama lied, democracy died  2/16/2009
   He said government would be different with an Obama administration.
   "When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it," he said. His campaign called the idea the "sunshine before signing promise."
   The lies are piling up after only 30 days.
   The campaign promises are being broken so fast, it is making the America people's heads spin.
   *If you had gone into business on the day Jesus was born, and your business lost a million dollars a day, 365 days a year, it would take you until October 2737 to lose $1 trillion.
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88989

Obama Drops Idea of 'Car Czar' to Oversee Detroit 2/16/2009
   The GOOD NEWS: President Barack Obama will not name a so-called "car czar" to oversee aid to the embattled U.S. auto industry.
   The BAD NEWS: Instead, a senior administration official says, the Obama administration is establishing a presidential task force, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, to direct the restructuring of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/obama_car_czar/2009/02/15/182270.html
NOTE: in our eternal futile search for good news from this administration this is a dribble, of course overshadowed by "the price".

The Audacity of the Obamas 2/17/2009
Who would have thought that a CEO position would be tiring? Apparently Barack Obama had no idea that all of that hard work would actually be just that -- hard work. I suppose he thought the job of POTUS would be just as much fun as the two years he spent on the campaign trail. He must have been under the illusion that the citizens of this great country would swoon over his tax cheating choices for cabinet members and staff, and that the kool-aid buzz evident during the campaign would keep the media brainwashed for the four years of his term.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_audacity_of_the_obamas.html
NOTE: Darn, and he still has nearly 4 years to go and it ain't gonna get any easier! Guess he didn't read the fine print in the contract, but then there IS an easy out - all he has to do is make his BC public and he'll be out in a flash.
Obama has new flag frenzy 2/18/2009
White House embraces a backdrop of red, white and blue
Oh, say - can you see? Look. It's President Obama, and he's surrounded by American flags. That's the same president who once would not wear an American flag pin. Things have changed.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/18/obamas-new-flag-frenzy/
NOTE: Ah, now here's a guy who knows how to put the "hyp" in "hypocrite".
Dow slips nearly 300 points 2/18/2009
he downward spiral came as President Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package and executives at General Motors and Chrysler prepared to submit major restructuring plans to the U.S. government after receiving billions in bailout money.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/17/business/18marketsA.php
Tax troubles for president's chief of staff 2/18/2009
Emanuel's rent-free Washington residence draws questioning
   There could be tax troubles on the horizon for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who reportedly has lived rent-free in Washington for five years but hasn't paid taxes on the imputed income from that, according to reports.
   He's the latest in a growing list of President Obama's nominees to have been involved in tax issues, according to those tabulating the tally in Washington.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89242
NOTE: Sure, why not, are we surprised, taxes are for honest people

For Obama, it's more about showmanship than sunlight 2/18/2009
After rushing Congress to act, why did he wait for days to sign the "emergency" stimulus bill?
   Back during the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised something he called ?Sunlight Before Signing. ?Sunlight Before Signing? faded into darkness with the first bill that came across Obama?s desk.
   This delay had nothing to do with sunlight ? and everything to do with showmanship.
http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/For-Obama-its-more-about-showmanship-than-sunlight-39689777.html

Stocks fall as Obama releases housing plan details 2/18/2009
Stocks extend decline as president releases details on $75 bln mortgage relief plan
Wall Street extended its decline Wednesday after President Barack Obama released details of his $75 billion mortgage relief plan. "There's a huge lack of confidence in that stimulus package," Hefty said. "It's just (a question of) where does it end and at what point will they address the real problems."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Stocks-fall-as-Obama-releases-apf-14398978.html
NOTE: Any time the government injects itself into private business confidence tanks, it's almost automatic because everyone - but government - knows it will be a disaster.
White House: Obama Opposes 'Fairness Doctrine' Revival 2/18/2009
A White House spokesman tells FOXNews.com President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine.
President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine, a spokesman told FOXNews.com Wednesday. 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/18/white-house-opposes-fairness-doctrine/
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide 2/19/2009
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/science/earth/19epa.html?_r=1
NOTE: A train wreck waiting to happen, especially in a time of financial crisis
The White House's missing documents 2/19/2009
   In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor's system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D'Ivoire.
   Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the White House press corps.
   The moves escaped notice because they were never announced by the White House Press Office and were never placed on the White House web site.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18969.html
NOTE: Change we can believe in?
Keyes: President 'has something to hide' about eligibility 2/19/2009
Says Dem 'asked to be chosen, therefore must answer'
"In effect, the courts are refusing to admit plaintiffs on this matter into the courtroom, thereby denying them justice," he wrote. "Madison wrote, 'Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It will be pursued either until it be obtained or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.'"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89078
'Obama diplomacy will give Iran nukes' 2/19/2009
Ex-Mossad chief warns Tehran stalling, worries about president's 'learning curve'
President Obama's policy of direct diplomacy with Iran may buy Tehran enough time to produce nuclear weapons, Shabtai Shavit, former chief of the Mossad intelligence agency, warned in an exclusive WND interview today.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89277
Forget 100 days, Obama's honeymoon is already over 2/22/2009
The hopes which attended President Obama's inauguration were so unprecedentedly, soaringly, stratospherically high that it was inevitable the process of coming down to earth would be bumpy. But few expected the descent to be so rapid. In the last few days the President who was welcomed across the world as not just America's, but the globe's, redeemer has turned into – well, into just another politician.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/comment/Michael-Gove-Forget-100-days.5004362.jp
NOTE: Well, that's ok, but we'll still report at 100 days to see if the followers of the "messiah" are still in their Liberal brain fog induced euphoria, or if any will admit to finding reality
Senator questions Obama eligibility 2/23/2009
Shelby: 'They said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate'
A U.S. senator has weighed in on the continuing controversy over Barack Obama's eligibility for office by saying he has never seen proof the new president was actually born in Hawaii.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89704

Report card: Obama's 1st 30 days 2/23/2009
While President Obama gets an "A" from voters on style, only Democrats give him a passing grade on substance, and barely at that, as only 55 percent of Democratic voters think his stimulus bill spends money in the right places.
President Obama has now officially taken ownership of the recession
President Obama is losing one of his core constituencies: young people
President Obama is losing the Americans who should have the biggest hand in the recovery: small business leaders
President Obama is talking down the economy at the worst possible time
President Obama is now working on his fourth Commerce secretary in only one month
President Obama's high standard for cabinet appointees never materialized
President Obama has effectively undone many of the strides America has made on welfare reform
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89676
Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama?s Action 2/23/2009
In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of ?hope? equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government?s authority over the states.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30807
NOTE: State's Rights - use them or loose them
  Obama approval falls back to average 2/24/2009
Republicans have seen enough to end honeymoon ratings
   Obama's initial job approval rating in January stood at 68 percent, second only to Kennedy's 72 percent among elected presidents since Gallup began tracking the rating during Eisenhower's administration.
   But after only a month in office, Obama's negative rating has doubled: from 12 percent who disapprove of the job he's doing, to 24 percent.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89760
NOTE: You mean he could be simply "mortal" like the rest of us?
Soldier doubts eligibility, defies president's orders 2/24/2009
'As an officer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this'
A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an "impostor" in a statement in which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff in a challenge to Obama's eligibility to be commander in chief.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89837

Auto team drives imports 2/24/2009
Fed task force has few new U.S. cars
Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090223/AUTO01/902230327
NOTE: Guess they didn't get the "buy American" memo
Major stock market indexes fall to 1997 levels 2/24/2009
Dow, S&P 500 fall to 1997 levels as sagging confidence pulls stocks lower; Dow falls 251
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Major-stock-market-indexes-apf-14447084.html
NOTE: That's MINUS $2,511 since election day - now, that's impressive!
Obama's trillions dwarf Bush's 'dangerous' spending 2/24/2009
Pelosi and Reid called Bush's budgets "dangerous" and "unpatriotic," but with Obama, they've changed their tune
http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/Obamas-trillions-dwarf-Bushs-dangerous-spending.html
  Meltdown on MSNBC: The Leg Tingle Is Gone? 2/24/2009
I can hardly believe what I'm watching on MSNBC right now. Chris Matthews is almost critical ? no, not even almost, he's flat-out critical of President Obama on the economic front.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTAyYTk1NWVlOThhZDUyMGU1YTJhYTNjOTNlYzU2MTU=

Officials: Obama to announce Iraq withdrawal 2/25/2009
President to announce most U.S. troops will be out in under 19 months
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371588/
NOTE: BIN LADEN AND THE BOYS WANT TO SAY "THANKS" FOR THE VACATION UNTIL THE US SNEAKS OUT OF IRAQ - NOW THEY KNOW WHEN THEY CAN RETURN !!!!!!!!!! There is NOTHING more devastating to a country than when politicians are allowed to "fight" a war from the security of the White House !!!!!!!!
Republicans to Obama: Right idea, wrong tactics 2/25/2009
Following President Barack Obama's call Tuesday evening for a return to fiscal responsibility, Republicans responded by demanding the country return to a policy of fiscal responsibility.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gop-reactfeb25,0,556761.story

Byrd: Obama in power grab 2/24/2009
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest serving Democratic senator, is criticizing President Obama?s appointment of White House ?czars? to oversee federal policy, saying these executive positions amount to a power grab by the executive branch.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19303.html
NOTE: Old "sheets" Byrd has a point
Stocks fall as Obama fails to deliver details 2/24/2009
Stocks fell on Wednesday as President Barack Obama's first address to Congress shed little new light on how he plans to stabilize the economy and shore up banks, and gloomy home sales data fed the negative sentiment.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Wall-St-falls-as-Obama-speech-rb-14464125.html
NOTE: Swell, you guys bought us a hollow sock, a face with nothing behind it who is not only a fraud but a liar as well.

'Era of big government' is back 2/26/2009
   Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared a return to ?the era of big government? the day after President Obama?s first formal address to Congress.
   "From everything I've seen, it looks like the era of big government spending is back," he told reporters at a lunch convened by the Christian Science Monitor. ?My question to my Democratic friends is how are you going to pay for it??
http://mobile.thehill.com/leading-the-news/boehner-era-of-big-government-is-back-2009-02-25.html

2nd U.S. soldier in Iraq challenges eligibility 2/26/2009
Says issue could decide if 'we are a Constitutional Republic'
"I was inspired by 1LT Easterling's story and am writing you to inform you that I would like to be added as a plaintiff against Obama as well if you feel it would help your case," said the soldier, identified for this report only as a reservist now on active duty in Iraq.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89941
NOTE: When you loose the confidence of those you command, you loose all
'Wrong Way' Obama 2/26/2009
Last night, with his faux State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama lifted off on a flight of dramatic rhetoric that will attempt to take America in exactly the wrong direction. His speech was reminiscent of an experimental flight made by Douglas Corrigan on the foggy night of July 18th, 1938.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/wrong_way_obama.html
The 2% Illusion 2/26/5009
Take everything they earn, and it still won't be enough.
President Obama has laid out the most ambitious and expensive domestic agenda since LBJ, and now all he has to do is figure out how to pay for it. The bottom line is that Mr. Obama is selling the country on a 2% illusion. Unwinding the U.S. commitment in Iraq and allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire can't possibly pay for his agenda. Taxes on the not-so-rich will need to rise as well.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123561551065378405.html
Major general says president's eligibility needs proof 2/27/2009
'Most important, what I really want is the truth'
On the heels of two active duty members of the U.S. military serving in Iraq calling for President Obama to prove his eligibility to be president, a retired major general, Retired Maj. Gen. Carroll Childers, has agreed to join the case, saying he just wants "the truth."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90125
It's Obama spreading panic 2/27/2009
President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the contrary, his every remark and the constant preoccupation of his Cabinet is to heighten the sense of crisis and to escalate the predictions of doom if we do not do as they tell us and raise spending now and taxes later.
http://thehill.com/dick-morris/its-obama-spreading-panic-2009-02-24.html

OBAMA TARGETS U.S. OIL 2/27/2009
Alberta experience shows risks of downturn, dependence on Mideast
The move also lines up with Mr. Obama's goals of penalizing fossil fuels in favour of green energy and finding cash to plug his ballooning deficit and pay for various bailouts.
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1333557
NOTE: Very very very bad and dumb idea in a time when we should be encouraging drilling and development of new sources.

Obama Tied to Millions in Budget Earmarks 2/27/2009
President Obama and top members of his administration appear to be sponsoring hundreds of millions of dollars of earmarks in the 2009 budget that Obama is trying to push through Congress, CQPolitics.com reports.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_budget_earmarks/2009/02/27/186605.html
Charity tax limits upset many 2/27/2009
Democrats and Republicans poured cold water on President Obama's budget plan to cut down on wealthy taxpayers' charitable giving tax deductions, the second of his ambitious cost-savings plans to earn lawmakers' scorn, and underscoring the legislative minefield he is entering.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/27/charity-tax-challenged-by-political-friends/
Physicians: Obama plan will 'shut down hospitals' 2/27/2009
'Radically pro-abortion agenda' would remove conscience protections
Doctors are forecasting the closure of hospitals and clinics across America and a mass migration of physicians and their assistances to other careers should the Obama administration succeed in its attempt to overrule their rights of conscience.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90240
California used to check prez candidates' eligibility 2/27/2009
Lawsuit seeks school records to verify citizenship status
A California lawsuit seeking documentation from Occidental College that could verify the nationality under which Barack Obama entered the school points out that the state formerly reviewed presidential candidates and disqualified those who were ineligible.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90256
TOP DEM: O'S BUDGET NEEDS A 'SCRUB' 2/27/2009
President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget came under criticism from an unexpected source yesterday - Sen. Kent Conrad, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, who vowed to give the spending plan a "thorough scrubbing."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02282009/news/politics/top_dem__os_budget_needs_a_scrub_157326.htm

Airbrushing Obama's name off earmarks 2/27/2009
   Congress will scrub President Obama's name from a list of earmark cosponsors in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill.
   The reason: Whether Obama cosponsored the earmark depends on what the definition of earmark is and when an earmark becomes an earmark, according to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/airbrushing_obamas_name_off_ea_1.html

Obama Declares War on Investors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, And More  2/27/2009
   Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama?s State of the Union speech and his budget.
   He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29434104
 

The Hypocrite Who Hijacked Air Force 1 3/1/2009
Transparency and accountability in government does not apply to Obama
   This man's words have absolutely no credibility at all. He has been running his mouth for so long and said so many contradictory things that he?s pretty much covered it all in one context or another. It is what he does, not says, that we have to look at and take seriously.
   Some of the documents revealing citizenship and place of birth that Obama refuses to release include:
  • Original, vault copy birth certificate
  • Obama/Dunham marriage license
  • Soetoro/Dunham marriage license
  • Soetoro adoption records
  • Punahou School records
  • Original unaltered Selective Service Registration
  • Passport (Pakistan)
  • Indonesian citizenship records
  • Student Visa records upon returning to the U.S.
  • Records of reinstatement of U.S. citizenship (if any exist)
  • Occidental College records
  • Columbia College records
  • Harvard College records
  • Medical records

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/8907
Obama's cap, trade irk some in party 3/2/2009
Senators wary of state costs
   Senate Democrats are breaking with President Obama over his plan for sweeping new climate-change laws that he says will rake in billions of dollars to help offset massive budget deficits.
   The dissenters, mostly Democrats from Rust Belt states likely to be hit hardest by the proposed environmental rules, question the economic impact of the program that would cap carbon-dioxide emissions and then sell to businesses the right to emit that carbon dioxide.
   The senators also want their states to get a chunk of the windfall from selling the credits - $646 billion over 10 years by Mr. Obama's estimate.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/02/obamas-cap-trade-irk-some-in-party/
Rahm: Obama Will Agree to 9,000 Earmarks 3/2/2009
President Barack Obama is set to sign a $410 billion spending bill with some 9,000 earmarks ? a practice he repeatedly criticized on the campaign trail last year.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/emanuel_earmarks/2009/03/01/187114.html
Obama 'ready to drop shield plans for Russian help on Iran' 3/2/2009
Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran's nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090302/120375219.html

Dow ends below 7,000 for first time since '97 3/2/2009
A blizzard of selling amid despair that the recession will be deep and long 3/2/2009
I don?t think we find a bottom in the market until we see some sort of increased level of optimism and confidence among consumers and investors, said Jim Baird, chief investment strategist at Plante Moran Financial Advisors.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
NOTE: A continuing "NO CONFIDENCE" vote for the O admin.
EDITORIAL: On Iraq, Obama refuses to credit Bush 3/2/2009
President Obama constantly bemoans all the troubles he says he inherited from George Bush, but has never given President Bush due credit for the U.S. victory in Iraq.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/03/iraq-mission-accomplished/
NOTE: Only a truly "small" man refuses to give credit where due, it costs nothing. He repays kindness with silence and graciousness with distain
Obama lied; the economy died 3/2/2009
Big government is really his bag, but he doesn't own up to it
Only a big government man would think of calling a trillion-dollar tax increase a spending cut or "saving."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/03/obama-lied-the-economy-died/
Obama Is Enemy of Prosperity 3/2/2009
He is the enemy of prosperity. He, literally, favors redistribution of income as being more important and more a function of the president than the creation of wealth," Morris says. It amounts to, literally, a war on the business community.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/dick_morris_prosperity/2009/03/02/187522.html
Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition 3/4/2009
President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on high earners and greenhouse gas polluters met fierce opposition Tuesday from congressional Republicans and also a few Democrats.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090303/D96MR05G2.html
NOTE: Always looking for good news in these trying times, apparently some backbone still exists
Russian President Won't "Haggle" Over US Missile Defense Plans 3/4/2009
Russian President Medvedev has said he's willing to discuss the proposed US missile shield with Washington. But he added that any deal linking those talks with negotiations regarding Iran would not be productive.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4068869,00.html
NOTE: Guess he didn't get the memo about O's charm?

The Obama Economy 3/4/2009
As the Dow keeps dropping, the President is running out of people to blame.
   As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem.
  The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy.
 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604419092515347.html
U.S. soldier gagged on prez's eligibility 3/4/2009
Military member seeking documentation silenced
She said she already has a list of 101 volunteers in her case demanding Obama's proof of eligibility.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90682
More military officers demand eligibility proof 3/4/2009
   Plaintiff: 'In the worst case ? it's going to be revolution in the streets'
   Eidsmoe said it's clear that Obama has something in the documentation of his history, including his birth certificate, college records and other documents, "he does not want the public to know."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90574
CNBC's Cramer on Obama: It's Amateur Hour at Our Darkest Moment?  3/4/2009
Until the Obama administration starts listening, until they start paying attention to what you're watching to the stock market, until they realize that their agenda is destroying the life savings of millions of Americans then all I can give you is caution.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=289503
Obama trade nominee Ron Kirk agrees to pay back taxes 3/4/2009
Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_03_02_Obama_trade_nominee_Ron_Kirk_agrees_to_pay_back_taxes/srvc=home&position=recent
  New Europe Longs for Bush as Obama Turns Focus to EU, Russia 3/4/2009
Eastern European governments that ran political risks to support former President George W. Bush?s security policies are now concerned that his successor, Barack Obama, will backtrack on those regional commitments.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aTafsPsPnkdw&refer=europe
US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks 3/5/2009
It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.
http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINN0454844120090304
NOTE: THESE GUYS HAVE TAKEN THE AMATEUR HOUR TO A WHOLE NEW UNIVERSE
Treasury secretary's choice for deputy withdraws 3/6/2009
Treasury Secretary Geithner's choice for deputy withdraws; department still lacks senior staff
The person Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wanted as his chief deputy has withdrawn from consideration, dealing a setback to the understaffed agency as it struggles to address the worst financial crisis in decades.
The decision followed more than a month of intense scrutiny of her taxes and multiple interviews.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Treasury-secretarys-choice-apf-14561901.html
Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter 3/6/2009
President Barack Obama doesn?t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19663.html
Obama intel chief violating Iran sanctions? 3/6/2009
   Board member of Chinese government-owned company in deal with Tehran
   President Obama's nominee for a top intelligence post sits on the board of a major oil company owned by the Chinese government that is in the midst of a multibillion dollar deal with Iran which may violate U.S. sanctions, WND has learned.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90734
Obama's 'fixes' worsen problems 3/6/2009
The Obama administration is threatening "regulatory arm twisting" to lower interest rates. That is not the way to encourage more loans.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/06/obamas-fixes-worsen-problems/
NOTE: ANY TIME THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERES WITH THE PRIVATE MARKETS IT'S ALWAYS A DISASTER - ALWAYS
Uh Oh, White House Seeks Economic Advice From Twitter 3/7/2009
Twitter cofounder and CEO Ev Williams is headed to the White House today. As Ev himself puts it -- in a Twitter message, of course -- "[this] must mean they're *really* out of ideas."
http://www.businessinsider.com/uh-oh-white-house-seeks-economic-advice-from-twitter-2009-3

Deception at Core of Obama Plans 3/7/2009
   Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the "$2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 -- 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.
   Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama's tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that's a matter of scale, not principle.
   All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of brazen deception at the heart of Obama's radically transformative economic plan, a rhetorical sleight of hand so smoothly offered that few noticed.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/a_dishonest_gimmicky_budget.html
Gibbs knows the art of war 3/7/2009
President Obama?s spokesman and confidant simply characterizes his battles with Limbaugh and CNBC commentators Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer as ?fun.?
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gibbs-knows-the-art-of-war-2009-03-05.html
NOTE: This is what passes for professionalism and "adult" behavior in the highest office in the land, or the world for that matter. While America burns, O fiddles
"Obama Bear Market" Punishes Investors as Dow Slumps 3/7/2009
President Barack Obama now has the distinction of presiding over his own bear market.
Only twice has the benchmark gauge slipped in the 12 months after the election of a Democratic president since 1900, after Woodrow Wilson?s victory in 1912 and Jimmy Carter?s in 1976.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGJ_.gr_awkY
Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow  3/7/2009
A financial crisis is the worst time to change the foundations of American capitalism.
It's hard not to see the continued sell-off on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street as a product, at least in part, of the realization that our new president's policies are designed to radically re-engineer the market-based U.S. economy, not just mitigate the recession and financial crisis.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629969453946717.html

Obama Can't Double-Talk Us Out Of This 3/7/2009
To those who believe that Barack Obama is a different kind of politician ? more honest, more courageous ? please don't examine his administration's budget. Obama is a great pretender.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=321238251738795

Obama: Crisis is time of `great opportunity' 3/7/2009
President Barack Obama on Saturday challenged his country to see its hard times as a chance to "discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090307/D96P7GG00.html
NOTE: SO, THIS IS WHAT PASSES FOR "LEADERSHIP" IN THE O ADMINISTRATION? THIS IS WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE VOTED FOR - "CHANGE"??????????? OR, IS IT MANAGEMENT BY FEAR AND CRISIS?
Attorney General Chided for Language on Race 3/8/2009
President Obama has chided his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., for describing America as a "nation of cowards" when discussing race, wading into a tumult that flared over Mr. Holder's indictment of the way this country talks about ethnicity. "I think it's fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language," Mr. Obama said in a mild rebuke from America's first black president to its first black attorney general.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08race.html
NOTE: BUT IT'S OK FOR HIM TO TALK ABOUT "CATASTROPHE" AND "DON'T WASTE A CRISIS" ! So, who was this talking, Barry Sorento, or Barrack Hussain Obama? - or does he even know?
Analysis: Obama recovery plans sowing some unease 3/8/2009
Every day, the economy is becoming more and more an Obama economy.
Obama may have contributed to the national anxiety by first warning of "catastrophe" if his stimulus plan was not passed and in setting high expectations for Geithner. Instead, Geithner's public performance has been halting and he's been challenged by lawmakers of both parties.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hzxMIm4EJQJddvV_ZHPkN1pw8nJwD96P7RC80

Obama Ponders Outreach to Elements of the Taliban 3/8/2009
' President Obama declared in an interview that the United States was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the American military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08obama.html?_r=1
NOTE: NO FOOL LIKE A YOUNG FOOL
US is not winning in Afghanistan: Obama 3/8/2009
In an interview with the New York Times, when asked if the United States was winning in Afghanistan -- a war Obama effectively adopted as his own last month by ordering an additional 17,000 troops being sent there, he flatly replied "No."
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200903080925.htm
NOTE: The Libs tried the same thing in Iraq, fortunately we had a President at the time who understood how to WIN !!!!!!!!!!!

Obama: No Certainty Economy to Rebound This Year 3/8/2009
President Barack Obama said he could not assure Americans the recession-mired U.S. economy would start growing again later this year, The New York Times said on Saturday.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_economy_rebound/2009/03/07/189560.html
NOTE: And he's the man that would know with his programs and a runaway Dem Congress it's likely we will NEVER recover.
Obama makes Oval Office call to reporters 3/9/2009
"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question," he told reporters, who had interviewed the president aboard Air Force One on Friday.
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/joe-curl/2009/Mar/08/obama-makes-oval-office-call-reporters/
NOTE: ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, WE'RE AS SERIOUS AS CANCER AND YOU'RE PROVING IT DAILY!
Socialist? Moi? 3/9/2009
President Obama is quite touchy about being referred to as a "socialist."
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/03/08/socialist-moi
NOTE: Ah, the truth, so painful at times when properly applied.
WHAT'S BEHIND BARACK'S BRIT SNIT 3/9/2009
   PRESIDENT Obama's first hosting of a foreign leader, the UK's Gordon Brown, was a diplomatic disaster.
   Also notable were the two leaders' choices for the traditional gift exchange: Brown's carefully chosen official gifts included a pen holder made from a Royal Navy vessel that once fought to end the Atlantic slave trade and a first edition of the eight-volume biography of Winston Churchill begun by Winston's son Randolph and completed by Sir Martin Gilbert. Obama paid him back with a stack of Hollywood movies on DVD that Brown could just as easily have ordered from Netflix. http://www.nypost.com/seven/03092009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/whats_behind_baracks_brit_snit_158653.htm
NOTE: Nothing like a class act - the Brit I mean.

Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility 3/9/2009
   Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned
   Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91114
NOTE: SO MUCH FOR WIKI'S CREDIBILITY, IT SEEMS THAT "TRUTH IS ADJUSTABLE" - WHICH IS EXACTLY THE REASON FOR THIS SITE, TO DOCUMENT AND REMEMBER
  Obama's Call on Moderate Taliban Useless: Analysts 3/9/2009
"Obama's comment resemble a dream more than reality," said Waheed Mozhdah, an analyst who has written a book on the Taliban.
http://www.newsmax.com/international/obama_moderate_taliban_/2009/03/09/189775.html
NOTE: Ah, maybe O should have talked to an expert before spouting off - or maybe the expert under rate O's "charm"?

New President? - LET THE TESTS BEGIN

Pentagon: Chinese Ships Harass U.S. Navy Vessel 3/9/2009
The Pentagon charged Monday that five Chinese ships shadowed and maneuvered dangerously close to a U.S. Navy vessel in an apparent attempt to harass the American crew.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china_navy_ships_harass/2009/03/09/189860.html

N. Korea warns intercepting 'satellite' will prompt counterstrike 3/9/2009
"We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army as saying.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96Q4L200&show_article=1
NOTE: Let's see how the new guy handles these - if he's as good as he was with the Brits, we can kiss our butts goodbye!
 
Perpetuating a Needless Stem-Cell War 3/9/2009
Obama's decision is bad ethics, bad science, and bad politics.
President Obama today fulfilled his campaign promise to lift federal-funding restrictions on research involving the destruction of human embryos. He couldn't have done so at a more inappropriate time, for just last week scientists made headlines again announcing yet another breakthrough in what is known as "induced pluripotent stem-cell" technology. Following up on the initial breakthrough in November 2007 that allowed scientists to produce the biological equivalent of embryonic stem cells without creating, using, or destroying any human embryos, scientists have continued to refine their methods. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/258hdaij.asp#
Rush campaign 'counter-productive' 3/9/2009
   The White House admission that its Rush Limbaugh campaign may be "counter-productive" is a promising sign that the Obama team may be dialing back its investment in an unwise strategy.
   Now that everyone's had their fun, perhaps the grown-ups are asserting themselves.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=E42FA9FB-18FE-70B2-A8BF69A7EC581478
Has Obama's Popularity Peaked? 3/9/2009
How long will the country's post-election goodwill last as jobs continue to decline?
There is a growing number of Americans, including some in the dominant moderate/liberal media, who are speculating upon this question: When will Barack Obama?s ?Day of Reckoning? arrive?
http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/has-obama-s-popularity-peaked
Why Obama?s left leaning is no tactical feint 3/10/2009
If Mr Obama were a centrist he would be positioning himself to the right of the congressional Democrats, with a plan to be walked back in their direction. In fact, his budget has delighted the left of his party. Far from pulling him to the centre, most Democrats will resist that move if he tries.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/328430d0-0c0c-11de-b87d-0000779fd2ac.html
Examiner Editorial: Is it amateur hour at the Obama White House? 3/10/2009
It was embarrassing enough that President Barack Obama insulted British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week by handing him 25 movie videos as the chief executive?s diplomatic gift to the visiting representative of America?s most important ally.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/Examiner-Editorial-Is-it-amateur-hour-at-Obama-White-House-41006402.html

 

 The 10 Biggest Amateur Mistakes By the Obama Administration So Far 3/10/2009
   During the 2008 presidential campaign, people speculated whether someone like Barack Obama, who has never really run anything or had any major achievements other than winning political office, could handle a three AM crisis call. Well, as it turns out, Obama has been such a bumbling incompetent that he probably couldn't handle a trip through a Wendy's drive-in window without a teleprompter telling him what to order and whether he wants a Coke or a Mountain Dew.
   10) After doing the "We've got to have this stimulus package passed right this second or the economy is going to explode" routine so convincingly that not one single soul in Congress actually had time to read the entire bill before it was signed, Barack Obama then promptly went on a three day vacation to celebrate before he signed it.
   9) In a juvenile stunt, reminiscent of something a third grader might come up with, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a button that was supposed to say "reset." However, incredibly, the word on the button translated to "overcharge," not "reset."
   8) When Barack Obama was trying to sell America his stimulus bill that will put the country more than a trillion dollars in debt, he alerted America that, "Caterpillar's chief executive?told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes." But, when he was asked about Obama's statement, Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said, "I think realistically no.
   7) A large part of Barack Obama's appeal was the idea of racial reconciliation. The implicit deal was that by putting our first black President in office, America would prove once and for all that it wasn't racist, and we could put all this silly squabbling about race in the rear view mirror once and for all. However, not only has it failed to work out that way, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder issued an an insulting challenge on the topic to the American people,
   6) Typically, Presidents don't pick fights with pundits and talk radio hosts for obvious reasons. It draws more attention to their criticisms, elevates their status, and comes across as thin skinned and a little creepy, much like Richard Nixon's "Enemies list."
   5) The first task a new President engages in is bringing a staff on board. After choosing Joe Biden, who has behaved like he was kicked in the head by a horse as a child, things have really gone down hill from there.
   4) George Bush spent a lot of time strengthening our ties to Eastern European nations like Poland and the Czech Republic during his two terms in the White House. Yet, it took Barack Obama less than two months to undo much of Bush?s good work with those nations.
   3) After making a stink by sending back a Winston Churchill bust, Barack Obama blew off a press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- but, the real kicker was the gifts.
   2) Choosing tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary was such an incredible screw up that it deserves it own entry.
   1) Barack Obama may be a liberal thriller, but he's also a stock market killer.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/03/10/the_10_biggest_amateur_mistakes_by_the_obama_administration_so_far?page=full
Freeman hits 'Israel lobby' on way out 3/11/2009
Charles W. Freeman Jr.'s abrupt withdrawal from his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council came after he drew fire on a number of fronts - including questions about his financial ties to China and Saudi Arabia.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19856.html
NOTE: O is having a lot of problems filling posts, maybe he should look in a different sector, like one that isn't corrupt!
A Turning Tide? 3/11/2009
Obama still has the approval of the people, but the establishment is beginning to mumble that the president may not have what it takes.
Obama may be mistaking motion for progress, calling signals for a game plan.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188565/output/print

Iraq attacks not due to Obama withdrawals: White House 3/11/2009
The White House on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that two recent bloody attacks in Iraq were a reaction to President Barack Obama's decision to pull out most combat troops by August next year.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a39a7b54b886bba645d55c20ff5958c2.f11&show_article=1
NOTE: I hope they're only lying and not actually so dumb as to believe what they're saying or it's going to get a lot of people killed!
Stocks turn in worst performance for new president 3/10/2009
   The election of Barack Obama offered the promise of a new set of fixes for the financial crisis and the economy, a do-over that might help nurse the stock market back to health.
   Since then, the market hasn't just gotten worse ? it's turned in its worst performance ever for a new president.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008833666_stocksobama10.html
Officials: Afghanistan Taliban leader was at Gitmo 3/11/2009
The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration's efforts to close the prison.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gepueqQ9a2V5zxXES7DoGnVhSFHwD96REJ1G0
NOTE: It's like a "catch and release" program - I guess?
Obama Makes Use of Signing Statements  3/11/2009
The move came two days after Mr. Obama ordered a review of his predecessor's signing statements and said he would rein in the use of such declarations.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680763049200481.html
NOTE: If you look up the word HYPROCRITE in the dictionary it will plainly spell out O-B-A-M-A AKA Barry Sorento, birth place unknown?
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists  3/12/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123671107124286261.html
Obama's honeymoon bliss fading 3/12/2009
President Obama's honeymoon is beginning to fade. Members of Congress and old political hands say he needs to show substantial progress reviving the economy soon.
Democrats from states racked by recession say Obama needs to produce an uptick by August or face unpleasant consequences.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-honeymoon-fades-2009-03-11.html
NOTE: Tick toc, tick toc, it's hard to win the race against time when you're in reverse with your foot on the floorboard.

Obama grants two more lobbyists waivers 3/12/2009
President Obama has issued waivers allowing two appointees who were formerly registered lobbyists to work for his administration.
http://thehill.com/business--lobby/obama-grants-two-more-lobbyists-waivers-2009-03-10.html
NOTE: The first time you lie and cheat it's hard, but it gets easier every time after that.

Obama tiptoes into battle on earmarks 3/12/2009
'Nobody's going to believe it's real until they see an example,' Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said, urging Obama to follow up soon with specific rescissions singling out wasteful projects to be terminated.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19926.html
Obama and the Liberal Freeloader Culture 3/12/2009
Liberals have made freeloading into a way of life -- even for the well to do.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obama_and_the_liberal_freeload.html
The White House Misfires on Limbaugh 3/12/2009
In the face of our enormous economic challenges, top White House aides decided to pee on Mr. Limbaugh's leg. This is a political luxury the country cannot afford, and which Mr. Obama would be wise to forbid. Or did he not mean it when he ran promising to "turn the page" on the "old" politics?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682426946303905.html
NOTE: Rush's revenue and listeners is up 30% - THANKS O, YOU STEPPED IN IT AGAIN !

RPT-FEATURE-Corporate oil booms in low-tax Switzerland 3/12/2009
   ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland are an unlikely setting for an oil boom.
   Yet a wave of energy companies has in the last few months announced plans to move to Switzerland -- mainly for its appeal as a low-tax corporate domicile that looks relatively likely to stay out of reach of Barack Obama's tax-seeking administration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSL312427120090312?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssEnergyNews&rpc=22
NOTE: Read it and weep O, you're driving companies out of the country

Obama: Economic crisis 'not as bad as we think' 3/13/2009
"A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we're down on the dumps," Obama said. "And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96SP30G5&show_article=1
NOTE: OK O - WHICH IS IT, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, EITHER YOU WERE LYING BEFORE, OR YOU'RE LYING NOW !!!!!!!!!!
Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth  3/13/2009
Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama's net presidential approval rating -- which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve -- is just six, his lowest rating to date.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html

 

 Obama racks up list of broken promises 3/13/2009
Just 2 months into term, president abandons numerous commitments
Broken promise No. 1: 'Sunlight Before Signing'
Broken promise No. 2: Capital gains tax elimination
Broken promise No. 3: New American jobs tax credit
Broken promise No. 4: Hiatus on 401(k) penalties
Broken promise No. 5: 'No jobs for lobbyists'
Broken promise No. 6: Earmark reform
Broken promise No. 7: Bring troops home in 16 months
Broken promise No. 8: Sign 'Freedom of Choice Act'
Broken promise No. 9: $4,000 college credit
Broken promise No. 10: Transparency
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91286
  Obama official on leave after FBI raids 3/13/2009
Obama technology official on leave after FBI raids his old DC office, arrests 2
An aide to President Barack Obama is on leave from his White House job after the FBI raided his old District of Columbia government office Thursday, arresting a city employee and a technology consultant on corruption charges, a White House official said.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Source-Obama-official-on-apf-14623083.html
Obama's energy policy will increase dependence on foreign oil 3/13/2009
President Obama?s biofuel and oil policy is on a collision course to a national catastrophe.  Yet, the alarms are not sounding and the red lights are not flashing.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obamas_energy_policy_will_incr.html
Russia weighs Cuba, Venezuela bases: report  3/15/2009
   Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday.
   "This is possible in Cuba," General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air force's strategic aviation staff, told the Interfax-AVN military news agency.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9776268a25e75ad5b44b4d87e8a32a02.4a1&show_article=1

Chief justice publicly accepts WND's eligibility petition 3/15/2009
Attorney Orly Taitz talks to Roberts, who agrees to read Obama-birth docs
   A California attorney lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of Barack Obama's qualifications to be president confronted the chief justice yesterday with legal briefs and a WND petition bearing names of over 325,000 people asking the court to rule on whether or not the sitting president fulfills the Constitution's "natural-born citizen" clause.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91763

Why we elect liars as leaders 3/15/2009
   Did you ever stop to wonder why most governments ? no matter where on earth you look, or what time period you consider ? tend toward being dishonest, predatory and tyrannical?
   William Penn said it all: "If man is not governed by God, he will be ruled by tyrants." Freedom apart from God is just an illusion of pride.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91407

Is liberalism anti-intellectual? 3/15/2009
Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work.
If a company is too big to fail, it's too big to exist.
~ George Will
 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=91660
NOTE: EXCELLENT ARTICLE WORTH READING TWICE !
Science Without Limits 3/15/2009
On Monday President Obama issued an executive order, removing the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) instituted by former-President Bush. ESCR has provoked great controversy because it necessarily involves the destruction of nascent human life. Two alternative methods of stem cell research have seen great success and are free from ethical controversy, but Obama chose to ignore both ethics and pragmatism in his misguided commitment to support embryonic stem cell research with taxpayer money.
http://www.centerforajustsociety.org/press/article.asp?pr=4673
NOTE: There is NO proof that embryonic stem cells are, or will be, the cure to anything
More than a bad day: Worries grow that Barack Obama & Co. have a competence problem 3/15/2009
   The beat goes on. Last week, Obama brazenly gave a speech about earmark reform just after he quietly signed a $410 billion spending bill that had about 9,000 earmarks in it. He denounced Bush's habit of disregarding pieces of laws he didn't like, so-called signing statements, then issued one himself.
   And in an absolute jaw-dropper, he told business leaders, "I don't like the idea of spending more government money, nor am I interested in expanding government's role."
   No wonder Americans are confused. Our President is, too.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/15/2009-03-15_more_than_a_bad_day_worries_grow_that_ba.html?page=1

 

 Obama open to taxing some health benefits 3/15/2009
The Obama administration is signaling to Congress that the president could support taxing some employee health benefits, as several influential lawmakers and many economists favor, to help pay for overhauling the U.S. health care system.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/15/america/health.php
NOTE: WOW, why didn't anyone else think of that before? - that will make healthcare better for everyone and cheaper also?????????????

Obama Breaks Own Signing Statements Standard 3/16/2009
   On Monday of this week, President Barack Obama issued an order to the Executive Branch that all presidential signing statements issued by the Bush Administration are to be ignored That was Monday.
   On Wednesday, however, President Obama issued his first signing statement on the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill that he signed into law. In that signing statement, the president broke his own short-lived standard, expressly overturning the will of Congress and claiming that his Administration could simply ignore several provisions of the new law.
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/03/13/obama-breaks-own-signing-statements-standard/
Obama Cannot Be President 3/16/2009
Obama is Disqualified by the Known Unknowns
Furthermore Obama's eligibility remains unknown, even to Americans who are very interested in this question, and have inquired deeply into it.  When asked in court to produce evidence of his eligibility, Obama has declined to do so, even in the face of the considerable time, expense and trouble that is needed to avoid providing this evidence.  Thus, the US citizenry did not know on November 4 if Obama was eligible, and they still do not know.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6254
  Formerly Useful Idiots 3/16/2009
   Lenin famously said of liberals in the West that they were "useful idiots."
   A number of really smart (go ahead, ask them) people endorsed Obama only to find out that they were hoodwinked. He's not the guy they fell in love with. It's the morning after, and they've been forced to confront the fact that he's a fraud. A forgery.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/formerly_useful_idiots.html
  Cruelty, Thy Name is Obama 3/16/2009
Depths of liberal cruelty, Washington, DC school vouchers program
   The Obama administration is making it easier than usual to mine the depths of liberal cruelty. 
   Finally finding one government program they could do without, liberals passed the omnibus spending bill which included express language killing the successful Washington, DC school vouchers program. 
   The program has been operational long enough now for data to be in showing the effectiveness of the program.  Only a liberal would need this explained. 
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9348
  Why the polls say Obama is worse than Bush 3/16/2009
There is much more to the fact that President Obama now polls lower than President Bush did at fifty days into his presidency than merely what bi-partisan pollsters Schoen and Rasmussen were able to point out this week. In nearly every category of performance, President Obama has adeptly demonstrated that he is in over his head, and sinking fast. "We the people" sense his inability to make sound decisions and thusly, the President has wiped out nearly all of the Republican support he enjoyed not long ago, and Independents are not far behind.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/KevinMcCullough/2009/03/15/why_the_polls_say_obama_is_worse_than_bush?page=full
Obama's Attack on Medical Civil Liberties 3/16/2009
By eliminating the enforcement of these legal protections, the Obama Administration is signaling that it intends to ignore the law and refuse to protect the civil liberties of healthcare professionals based upon religious or moral conscience. Without enforcement, healthcare personnel will have scant legal recourse for intimidation and bigotry rendering the laws intended to protect them meaningless.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/gingrich_obama_conscience/2009/03/15/192127.html
The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment 3/17/2009
The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090316/pl_usnw/the_american_legion_strongly_opposed_to_president_s_plan_to_charge_wounded_heroes_for_treatment
NOTE: Truly a SMALL SMALL man to even consider such a thing
Pew poll: Obama's public support is eroding 3/17/2009
"President Barack Obama's approval rating has slipped, as a growing number of Americans see him listening more to his party's liberals than to its moderates, and many voice opposition to some of his key economic proposals," the Pew Center concluded.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/64060.html

Obama on the economy: both sides now 3/17/2009
   If Obama is confident about the soundness of the U.S. economy, does that mean he "just doesn't get it?"
   No, it means that he is president. Now he has to pay the political price for incessant badmouthing of the U.S. economy. Now he has to prop up the very system at which he had been sniping for years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/17/EDLK16G855.DTL
Electing a Child to be President 3/17/2009
   In terms of political leadership, he is a child among grownups and a petulant one at that.
   His first months in office have demonstrated an astonishing lack of judgment regarding those who he appointed to office, many of whom were revealed to be tax cheats and others who have since demonstrated a distinct lack of competence or preparation for positions of critical importance.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9385
Anger Over Firm Depletes Obama's Political Capital   3/17/2009
President Obama's apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threatening to derail both public and congressional support for his ambitious political agenda.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031600640_pf.html
NOTE: This is an emotional & political issue and while repugnant, reality says "a contract is a contract" and further illustrates the dismal and ineffective management of this organization. (having been a salesman I understand this only too well - except I didn't have a contract, on a promise written on toilet paper apparently) Further, a perfect example of Liberalism, ignore the problem (management) and go after the workers - ABSOLUTELY PERFECT !!!!!!!!!!!
Congress looking at new taxes on AIG bonuses 3/17/2009
An outraged Congress threatened Tuesday to impose new taxes to recoup at least some of the $165 million in bonuses that insurance giant AIG awarded to executives and traders after getting billions in federal bailout money.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96VSPHO3&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: PERFECT, THE ONLY THING THE CONGRESS KNOWS HOW TO DO IS "TAX, TAX, TAX" - WHAT A PATHETIC SEGMENT OF OUR SOCIETY.
Some Dems want brake in Obama plans 3/18/2009
   Barack Obama's Big Bang Theory of Governance is starting to face its first big test among the new president's fellow Democrats.
   At the White House Tuesday morning, Obama began the day with a sharp push-back against the idea that his far-reaching agenda on health care, energy and other initiatives is too much, too soon.
   As Obama?s remarks echoed on Capitol Hill, it soon became clear that the skeptics are not just Republicans.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20150.html
Bush refuses to criticize Obama in Canada 3/18/2009
Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence,"
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090317/D97021CO0.html
NOTE TO O: Take a lesson from a truly BIG man, a GRACIOUS man

Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG 3/18/2009
Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama. 
http://www.examiner.com/x-268-Right-Side-Politics-Examiner~y2009m3d17-Obama-Received-a-101332-Bonus-from-AIG
NOTE: Tell Pelosi this is where we get the first $1,1,332 back - if O isn't talking out both sides of his mouth - I won't wait for the check, I'm sure it's in the mail

SPARE US YOUR FAKE FURY, DC HYPOCRITES 3/18/2009
   ALL the world's a stage, wrote Shakespeare, and in the world of Washington, the curtains have opened on the most elaborate farce of the year.
   Welcome, taxpayers, to the Kabuki Theater of AIG Outrage - where DC's histrionic enablers of taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts compete for Best Performance of Hypocritical Indignation.
   The checks were mailed Friday, but the March 15 bonus deadline had been on the Capitol Hill radar screen since December.
   Geithner, the primary architect of the original $85 billion AIG bailout last fall, "reluctantly" approved the bonuses.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03182009/news/columnists/spare_us_your_fake_fury__dc_hypocrites_160098.htm
NOTE: THIS IS THE BUNCH THAT PUTS THE "H" IN HYPOCRITE making the Clinton's look like school kids!

Two Faced: Dodd Protected Bonuses, Now He Wants Them Out 3/18/2009
   Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday criticized the bonuses given to executives of American International Group Inc. and suggested that the government could tax the recipients to recoup some or all of the payouts.
   But it was Dodd who inserted language ? known as the Dodd amendment ? in the $787 billion stimulus bill that allowed all bonuses awarded before February 11, 2009, to be paid to AIG executives. That very amendment, which is now law, is now the chief hurdle to government officials who want to recover that money.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/chris_dodd_bonuses/2009/03/17/192860.html

Analysis: White House, Dems backpedaling on AIG 3/18/2009
Analysis: AIG bonuses have Democrats reeling, unable to blame Bush; Republicans go on offense
For the first time since last fall's election, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Analysis-White-House-Dems-apf-14677357.html

Obama nixes idea of billing vets' insurance 3/18/2009
President Barack Obama has decided to drop any consideration of billing veterans' private insurance companies for the treatment of combat-related injuries, the White House said Wednesday.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D970NKUO0&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: Well, at least someone listened long enough to get that message
Obama, Congress Knew About AIG Bonuses for Months 3/19/2009
Cue the outrage. For months, the Obama administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/aig_what_did_they_know/2009/03/17/193012.html

Dodd: Treasury Insisted On Grandfathering Bonuses 3/20/2009
It was a day of outrage on Capitol Hill. Outrage that AIG, recipient of almost $180 billion in federal bailout money, is paying out $165 million in "retention awards" to hundreds of employees, including 73 bonuses of $1 million or more and 11 payments to people who no longer work for AIG.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4875279.shtml
NOTE: And only last week Dodd claimed "someone" changed the language in committee, which is it, someone did it or you did it, in either case you're lying

MEXICAN TRUCKS: PHANTOM MENACE 3/19/2009
ANYONE worried that, once in charge, Democrats wouldn't be vigilant in protecting our southern bor der can relax: The grave threat of Mexican long- haul truckers has been shut down.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/mexican_trucks__phantom_menace_160216.htm
NOTE: Nice going O, YOUR Congress just started a trade war with MX by sucking up to the unions - NICE GOING!

Sen. Dodd Admits Adding Bonus Provision to Stimulus Package 3/20/2009
Sen. Chris Dodd says Treasury forced him to add language to the stimulus bill last month that specifically excluded executive bonuses included in contracts signed before the bill's passage.
In a dramatic reversal Wednesday, Sen. Chris Dodd confessed to adding language to a spending cap in the stimulus bill last month that specifically excluded executive bonuses included in contracts signed before the bill's passage.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/18/sen-dodd-admits-adding-bonus-provision-stimulus-package/

Obama Stiffs Poor and Minority Seniors 3/20/2009
One of Barack Obama's most frequently repeated campaign promises was that his health care reforms would allow Americans to keep their current insurance coverage if they so desired. Like much of his campaign rhetoric, however, that pledge turns out to have been disingenuous.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/obama_stiffs_poor_and_minority.html
It's Obama's Crisis Now 3/20/2009
"Ultimately, I'm responsible, I'm the president of the United States," Obama told reporters.  "The buck stops with me."   That makes it official: Barack Obama didn't start the financial crisis, but he owns it now.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Its-President-Obamas-crisis-nowand-so-is-the-blame-41528712.html
  The Banality of Obama 3/20/2009
   Pundits have been critiquing the new administration for its socialism, for its willful ignorance of foreign policy, for its puerile missteps, but the salient fact of the Obama Presidency is its banality.  He who promised change has dredged up the failed nostrums of the past as if they were something new and fresh.  In fact, the ordinariness, the dullness, the lifelessness of the Obama Administration is obvious.
   *What is the answer to a collapsing economy?  Obama simply resorts to the seventy-five year old policies of FDR.
   *What is Obama's foreign policy? It is a return to the naivet?of Woodrow Wilson of a century ago and to the sanctimonious silliness of Jimmy Carter three decades ago.
   *What is the answer to our problem of national morale?  President Obama will use the bully pulpit - again and again and again.  Teddy Roosevelt coined that term ... over one hundred years ago.
   *President Obama seems to think that if he just does even more of what nearly every president in the last fifty years has done, miracles will follow.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/the_banality_of_obama.html
AIG is Obama's Katrina 3/20/2009
Well, now President Obama has his own Katrina. The bill that allowed for the AIG bonuses was hastily written. It was rammed through without discussion or debate. Republicans were systematically excluded from the bill. Not a single Republican was allowed to participate.
http://townhall.com/blog/g/e4f3a82e-ac32-47cf-83b3-e536d956567b?comments=true&commentsSortDirection=Descending
Obama apologizes for Special Olympics gaffe 3/20/2009
Bowling just isn't President Barack Obama's game.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D971OQK80&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: And neither is public speaking without his teleprompter - truly a small small man

Houses Passes 'Bonus Tax' On AIG, Other Bailouts 3/20/2009
The Democratic-led House overwhelmingly approved a bill on Thursday to slap punishing taxes on big employee bonuses from AIG and other firms bailed out by taxpayers.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/house_bonue_tax/2009/03/19/193927.html
NOTE: SO, NOW WE PASS LAWS TO FIX CONGRESS'S MESS, WE PUNISH PEOPLE AFTER THE FACT - WHEN DO WE GET OUT THE PITCH FORKS AND CLEAN OUT CONGRESS?

Obama-Speak: Homeland Security Secretary Replaces 'Terrorism' With the Term 'Man-Caused Disaster' 3/20/2009
Even as President Obama compares bankers to suicide bombers, his Homeland Security Secretary is suggesting the T-word, terrorism, is too inflammatory and representative of old-fashioned "politics of fear.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus
NOTE: A lot of people are going to die with this mentality
Democrats blame each other on AIG bonuses 3/20/2009
The case of the missing AIG bonus limits has become a tale of political intrigue and Democratic infighting that could threaten the re-election chances of a top senator and the credibility ? if not the career ? of one of President Obama's top advisers.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2D2gxTNCtz_IpnKzTEDIE92sPJwD971EKBO0
NOTE: Finally, some good news from DC, hopefully this will be the end of "Congressman" Dodd and the beginning of "citizen" Dodd
  A.I.G. Sues U.S. for Return of $306 Million in Tax Payments  3/20/2009
While the American International Group comes under fire from Congress over executive bonuses, it is quietly fighting the federal government for the return of $306 million in tax payments, some related to deals that were conducted through offshore tax havens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html?_r=2
NOTE: If AIG is 80% owned by the Gov, does this mean the Gov is suing itself?
Banker fury over tax 'witch-hunt' 3/21/2009
'Finance is one of America's great industries, and they're destroying it,'
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4ff2f77e-1584-11de-b9a9-0000779fd2ac.html
Senators may block Obama on emissions 3/21/2009
   Michigan's senators, reliable allies of President Barack Obama, are emerging as potential obstacles to one of his top budget priorities.
   The issue once again puts Michigan lawmakers who are generally friendly toward the party's priorities closer to the party's moderates, and even Republicans, on a debate affecting Michigan and the auto industry.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090319/POLITICS/903190367/1148/AUTO01
In AIG flap, it's not just about bonuses anymore 3/21/2009
Scrutiny of bailout terms expands as critics question federal officials' longtime ties to aid recipients.
The firestorm over American International Group is spreading beyond executive bonuses, with lawmakers and policy experts now questioning virtually all aspects of the taxpayer-financed rescue package for the insurance giant.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aig-bailout19-2009mar19,0,2707699.story
NOTE: It should consume anyone in the government even remotely tied to this scandal

Obama's rhetoric and reality clash 3/21/2009
   Barack Obama's optimistic campaign rhetoric has crashed headlong into the stark reality of governing.
   In office two months, he has backpedaled on an array of issues, shifting positions as circumstances dictate while ducking for political cover to avoid undercutting his credibility and authority.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090321/NEWS15/90321006
NOTE: That's because it's hard to perpetuate a lie day after day
Obama stumbles on trade, vets' care, AIG  3/21/2009
Threatening to force veterans to turn to private insurance to pay for treating war-caused disabilities. Triggering a trade war with Mexico. Worst of all -- botching oversight of the AIG bailout. It has been a bad week for President Obama, and the mystifying part is that these are largely self-inflicted injuries.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/1486591,CST-EDT-hunt20.article
  Obama's Gas-Mileage Claim Sputters
What's more fuel-efficient, a Ford Model T or a modern-day sport utility vehicle? President Barack Obama says the Model T, but his comparison is a stretch.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/fact_check_obama_autos/2009/03/20/194398.html

Is this the end of America? 3-20-2009
U.S. law-making is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship
Helicopter Ben Bernanke's Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/19/terence-corcoran-is-this-the-end-of-america.aspx

Administration seeks increase in oversight of executive pay 3/22/2009
The new rules will cover all financial institutions, including those not now covered by any pay rules because they are not receiving U.S. government bailout money.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/22/america/22regulate.php
NOTE: Couldn't be more wrong, Gov has no business in private business board rooms, EXAMPLE: AIG

Soldier 'Mutiny' Against Obama 3/22/2009
AN active duty Army officer in Iraq is refusing to recognize President Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief - and hundreds more soldiers are lining up to follow suit, sources reveal in a shocking world exclusive!
http://www.globemagazine.com/story/316
NOTE: When you loose the military, you loose security and confidence in America, show us the BC Mr. Sorento
  Tongue-tied Barack Obama is turning into Jimmy Carter 3/22/2009
Obama seems incapable of balancing the need to be a national leader and his childish desire to retain his image as the uber cool dude he so clearly believes that he is.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/tim_shipman/blog/2009/03/21/tonguetied_barack_obama_is_turning_into_jimmy_carter
NOTE: And they said GWB had a problem, maybe what goes around comes around?
  Orator Obama shaping up as Olympic gaffe gold medalist 3/22/2009
   Yet even I, as Obamafied as can be, have to wonder: Where is that little voice in his head that should stop his mouth, as it stops most of us most of the time, surely when we're on national TV?
   What if Mr. Silver Tongue, Mr. Perfect Pitch, Mr. Talk a Dog Off a Meat Wagon in fact is Mr. Tone Deaf, Mr. Tin Ear, Mr. Can't Talk Anybody off Anything, including that aforementioned abyss?
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1160214
Mexico throws counterpunch in trucking dispute  3/22/2009
Mexico threw a series of precise counterpunches at the US ban on 18-wheelers on Thursday.
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/03/20/mexico-throws-counterpunch-in-trucking-dispute/
NOTE: Nice going O, you let the Libs start a trade war for the Unions over 95 trucks?
Democrat anger at Obama overkill 3/22/2009
There were dark mutterings that by commandeering evening programming only a few days after he appeared on Jay Leno's popular late-night chat show, Obama was 'just like Fidel Castro [of Cuba] and Hugo Chavez [of Venezuela] - always on camera, always giving speeches and lecturing'.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5950373.ece
Iran's Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures 3/22/2009
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed overtures from President Barak Obama on Saturday, saying Tehran does not see any change in U.S. policy under its new administration.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Iran_Supreme_Leader/2009/03/21/194506.html
NOTE: Yawn, another looser that didn't get the "O charisma memo"
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I AM KING OF THE TOILET PLUNGER!

I AM A PUBLIC RELATIONS DISASTER!

 

Sorry O, it's going to take more than
that to fix the mess you have created!
Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk? 3/23/2009
"Are you punch-drunk"? Kroft said. "No, no. There's gotta be a little gallows humor to get you through the day," Obama said, with a laugh
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20339.html
NOTE: Gallows humor, that's appropriate?
Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government 3/23/2009
A public furor over big bonuses paid by firms bailed out with U.S. taxpayer money is fueling resistance to President Barack Obama's ambitious plans to extend government intervention in the U.S. private sector.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52L0J820090322
  Obama Continues To Set Records For Incompetence 3/23/2009
Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but the early days of the Obama administration will be remembered for his picking NCAA basketball tournament winners, appearing on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and making fun of special needs children ' while the American economy is burning.
http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/03/23/herb_denenberg/doc49c6f7ccaf164641312510.txt
A presidency approaching meltdown 3/23/2009
President Barack Obama told CBS News "60 Minutes" yesterday that he still has confidence in his embattled Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, and would refuse his resignation if it were offered. Not only is that clearly the wrong answer concerning the President?s most important cabinet appointment, it is also the latest and most disturbing evidence that the Obama administration is approaching political meltdown.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/A-presidency-approaching-meltdown-41657252.html

U.S. Seeks Expanded Power to Seize Firms  3/24/2009
The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032302830_pf.html
NOTE: The typical creeping power grab of a Lib Socialist, give them a little, they want a lot!
  Celebrity spotlight is no place for a president 3/24/2009
   Commander in chief? Try celebrity in chief. As in President Barack ?The H is for Hollywood? Obama.
   Sure, we like our presidents to be accessible, but as Britney Spears taught us all, sometimes too much limelight can sour a career.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2009_03_24_Celebrity_spotlight_is_no_place_for_a_president/

The Mexican-American War of 2009  3/24/2009
The Mexican trade war may just be getting revved up, thanks to the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress ending a Bush administration pilot program that allowed a limit of 97 Mexican long-haul truck drivers into the United States (whereas, under NAFTA, all Mexican trucks meeting reasonable road standards should have been allowed access). These 97 Mexican trucks passed U.S. safety inspections and in fact compiled a slightly safer record than U.S. trucks.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/24/the-mexican-american-war-of-2009/
Krugman: Geithner Plan Certain to Fail 3/24/2009
"This is more than disappointing," Krugman wrote in The New York Times. ""In fact it fills me with a sense of despair."
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/geithner_plan_krugman/2009/03/23/195005.html

White House to Hunt for New Tax Revenues 3/25/2009
Task Force to Weigh Ending Loopholes, Bolstering Enforcement as Lawmakers Take Aim at Budget
The White House said it would launch a search for new tax revenues, as Congressional leaders moved to scale back proposed spending increases and tax cuts in President Barack Obama's ambitious budget.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123792991709930321.html
NOTE: Wow, BIG surprise, but he wasn't going to raise taxes on the average guy, he'll just do it to business which will pass it on to Joe six pak and his hands are clean, a real class a hypocrite.

Obama mum on proposal to scrap tax cut 3/25/2009
Obama outlines budget priorities, reserves comment on tax cut
President Barack Obama says he's not ready to comment on a proposal from some Senate Democrats to scrap his middle-class tax cut after 2010.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-mum-on-proposal-to-apf-14735219.html
NOTE: He learned that one from Bubba Clinton "I never worked harder on anything in my life, but it just can't be done" But those dumb enough to vote for O probably actually believed him, maybe now they'll believe those who told them they'd get nothing but higher taxes !
Poll of change: Obama's job approval slipping to '50-50' 3/25/2009
The honeymoon is over, according to a national poll out today as President Obama's job approval stumbles to about 50 percent over the lack of improvement with the crippled economy.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1160639
NOTE: Well well well, that didn't take long at all, let's see where it goes from here
Obama's educational hypocrisy 3/25/2009
... It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works." Yet this is the president who has remained silent when his congressional Democrats essentially killed the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in the city where he now lives and works.
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92769
NOTE: You ain't seen nothing yet, this is only one small example

On Spending and the Deficit, McCain Was Right 3/27/2009
   Barack Obama used to get very upset about federal budget deficits. Denouncing an "orgy of spending and enormous deficits,"
   That was then. Now, President Obama is asking lawmakers to vote for a budget with a deficit three times the size of the one that so disturbed candidate Obama just a few months ago.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/On-Spending-and-the-Deficit-McCain-Was-Right-41936467.html

Intel Chief Confirms Terror Suspects May Get U.S. Release 3/27/2009
President Barack Obama's intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/terror_suspects_US/2009/03/27/196692.html
NOTE: Ah, a new way to "immigrate" to the US ahead of honest foreign citizens who stand in line for years and are highly skilled - at something other than killing Americans. And next, talk about an oxymoron "intelligence chief"?
Limbaugh's Ratings Surge Coincides with White House Attacks 3/28/2009
'Given this blockbuster data, will the White House think twice before targeting Rush again'?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/03/26/limbaughs-ratings-surge-coincides-white-house-attacks
Obama Facing Democratic Defections 3/29/2009
Infighting has broken out in Democratic ranks as liberal organizations seek to pressure moderate lawmakers into supporting President Barack Obama's massive budget.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/blue_dog_democrats_budget/2009/03/26/196370.html
NOTE: And this is a "bad" thing? - NOT !
Baucus: Make Bush Tax Cuts Permanent 3/29/2009
   The head of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday proposed extending tax breaks for millions of middle-class Americans, a major part of President Barack Obama's economic plan.
   The low capital gains tax rate and other tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush will expire at the end of next year.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/baucus_bush_tax_cuts/2009/03/26/196585.html
NOTE: Well, at least one Lib "gets it".

Obama Widens Al-Qaida War, Making It His Own  3/29/2009
The president, who declared last weekend an "exit strategy" was needed for Afghanistan, never used those words in announcing his plans on Friday.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_afghanistan/2009/03/27/196922.html
NOTE: Characteristic of a dreamer, deny a war we won and expand one we can't win.
Congressman suggests calling a terrorist a terrorist 3/29/2009
'I think it is a disservice to not speak with clarity about the enemies we confront'
An Arizona congressman says it is a problem when U.S. officials fail to speak clearly ' for example not calling a terrorist a terrorist ? when discussing the dangers the nation faces in confronting enemies.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93044
NOTE: A terrorist by any other name is just as dangerous
Obama Faces Cold Reception in Europe 3/29/2009
Support Has Turned to Opposition Over Stimulus Plan
   The last time President Obama went to Europe, he was greeted with raucous applause and 200,000 Europeans choking a Berlin square, chanting "Obama" and "Yes We Can."
   This time, as the president heads to London this week to press the Group of 20 nations for a global economic stimulus plan, he's likely to get a warm reception but cold comfort from many European leaders.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Economy/story?id=7198914&page=1
NOTE: Apparently they aren't reading the memo's on O's charm and "change" - or, maybe they are reading them?

The Obama We Knew But Denied 3/30/2009
   Anyone still harboring the illusion that President Barack Obama cares one whit about the millions of Americans whose retirement funds and futures dwindle with each passing day of this "regime change" needs a reality check. 
   Smart people always make the most dangerous fools.
   This election, I predict, will stand as the most perfect example of political jujitsu ever enacted.  An entire Nation choked on its own liberal-racism petard and doesn't even have the courage to admit it.  We have become a Nation of fools and President Barack Obama is our just dessert.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/the_obama_we_knew_but_denied.html
NOTE: Better read this one twice before taking another asprin
Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts 3/30/2009
   45 Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 execs,government officials submitted for look.
   "It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251
NOTE: Can you imagine the headlines if he had looked for "more Christians"?
Obama signs landmark U.S. conservation bill 3/30/2009
   U.S. President Barack Obama signed sweeping land and water conservation rules into law on Monday, setting aside millions of acres as protected areas and delighting environmentalists.
   Opponents, most of them Republicans, complained the legislation would deny access for oil and gas drilling and said House Democrats refused to consider changes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52T72S20090330?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
NOTE: Nothing like living in a "Representative Republic" where it's more important to block drilling than it is to save jobs and business's
Private Medicare plans get new rules 3/30/2009
   The Obama administration Monday placed new curbs on private insurance plans that are popular with seniors in Medicare, but have been criticized for marketing abuses and high costs to the government.
   In a separate move, the administration has proposed payment cuts of 3.75 percent overall to private medical plans that serve seniors. Insurers claim the cut could be as high as 5 percent for some plans, and they'll have to pass on the cost through higher premiums or fewer benefits.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D978IFN02&show_article=1&catnum=0
NOTE: Nice one O, give trillions to crooks and poor business people, but cut medical benefits, is this the "new" healthcare reform?
  NANNY STATE: GOVERNMENT WEBSITE TO WARN OF SADNESS/CRYING OVER ECONOMY 3/31/2009
Mon Mar 30 2009 18:43:56 ET
http://www.samhsa.gov/economy/
Is There a War on the Term 'War on Terror' 3/31/2009
"The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself," she said at a different point during her trip. "Obviously."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/is-there-a-war.html
NOTE: I'd say that speaks volumes (of insanity) Ms. Clinton, you're going to get a lot of people killed.
Analysis: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget 4/1/2009
   President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
   "If we don't pass the budget, it will empower those critics who don't want to see anything getting done," Obama told House Democrats Monday
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090401/D979IH4O0.html
NOTE: No, this is NOT April fools, but just a bunch of "fools" playing with our money
Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes 4/1/2009
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors"?the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D979CMGO0&show_article=1
NOTE: Ho Hum, it's almost a resume enhancement
Citizen grand jury indicts Obama 4/1/2009
Groups in 20 more states reviewing eligibility claims
President Obama has been named in dozens of civil lawsuits alleging he is not eligible to be president, with one man even filing a criminal complaint alleging the commander-in-chief is a fraud, and now a citizen grand jury in Georgia has indicted the sitting president
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93481
NOTE: It's not over until it's over
Quick!!! While He's Outta the Country, Let's Change it Back to 'America' !!!!!!! 4/1/2009
   The Prez has flown to England and there's only one thing to do while he's gone: Let's get our country back. Okay, it's not going to be easy, there are a lot of hurdles.  I'm pretty sure I can take Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, and that puffball press secretary Gibbs.  Multiple adversary bash-a-thon!!!   Hai-Yah!!
   Barney Frank I ain't touchin'' I'm not a homophobe; I simply suffer from an irrational childhood fear of Elmer Fudd.
   Too bad the phrase 'a confederacy of dunces' is already taken, or I'd be tempted to use it here.
   Quick!   Before he gets back.  Let's do it!  We've only got eight days.  He's going on a five-country Apology Tour, meeting with countries upset over 1) the Iraq War, and 2) treatment of enemy combatants at Gitmo.  He's got a lot of groveling and appeasing to do, but he's coming back in just over a week, so we've got to act fast! 
   Breitbart ? Hit Pelosi high, she'll go down like bag of used condoms.  And don't worry about Barney Frank'I think Lou Ferrigno is going to go have a little 'chat' with him.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/03/31/quick-while-he%E2%80%99s-outta-the-country-let%E2%80%99s-change-it-back-to-%E2%80%98america%E2%80%99/#more-94270

Lawmakers Have Long Rewarded Their Aides With Bonuses  4/1/2009
While Congress has been flaying companies for giving out bonuses while on the government dole, lawmakers have a longstanding tradition of rewarding their own employees with extra cash -- also courtesy of taxpayers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854799133476409.html
NOTE: They DO know how to put the "hyp" in hypocrite now then don't they? - but then again, "ho hum" until voters get off their backsides and throw the dead wood out.
Barack Obama's gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty 4/1/2009
Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 visit to the United States.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/04/01/barack_obamas_gift_for_the_queen_an_ipod_your_majesty
NOTE: Talk about a national embarassment, this is pathetic - give the queen something NOT made in America and duplicating something she already has - PATHETIC !!!!!!!!!!

PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke 4/1/2009
   One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.
   The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.
   This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.
"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
   He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
   Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D979POSG0&show_article=1

Obama's Massive Tobacco Tax Slams Middle Class 4/1/2009
 http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_tobacco_tax/2009/04/01/198442.html


Protocol is abandoned as Michelle Obama cosies up to Queen 4/2/2009
Breaching Royal protocol has left visiting digintaries and statesmen in hot water in the past. When the former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating put his arm around the Queen in 1992, he was branded the 'Lizard of Oz'. When his successor, John Howard, was accused of doing the same, a spokesman insisted: 'We firmly deny that there was any contact whatsoever.'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article6018322.ece
NOTE: PLEASE SOMEONE GET THEM HOME BEFORE THEY EMBARASS US FURTHER, APPARENTLY NONE OF THE 500 PEOPLE ACCOMPANYING O HAS ANY IDEA OF HOW TO BEHAVE IN PUBLIC ! First the DVD's, then the iPod, now this?

Obama bows to Saudi king 4/3/2009
Greeting called 'most unbecoming for president of the United States'
   President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.
   "I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States," writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93696
NOTE: YOU DON'T TAKE KIDS OUT IN PUBLIC UNTIL THEY'RE PROPERLY TRAINED, DON'T WE HAVE A STATE DEPT THAT CAN TEACH PROTOCOL? - OR IN FACT IS HE BOWING TO A HIGH MUSLIM LEADER?

Meet Obama's pollsters 4/4/2009
'The pace [of polling] is picking up,' said one source familiar with the data.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20852.html
  Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan 4/4/2009
   Barack Obama made an impassioned plea to America?s allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, warning that failure to do so would leave Europe vulnerable to more terrorist atrocities.
   But though he continued to dazzle Europeans on his debut international tour, the Continent?s leaders turned their backs on the US President.
   The presidential charm offensive failed to move fellow Nato countries. President Sarkozy told Mr Obama that France would not be sending reinforcements to bolster its existing force northeast of Kabul.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece
NOTE: Well, so much for the "Euro love affair" - drop you pants and you get screwed and not even kissed. Welcome to reality O

"Comrade" Obama Makes His Marx At G20 4/4/2009
   Russian President Dmitry Medvedev may have confirmed that which conservatives, libertarians, and insightful independents have been shouting for over two years: Barack Obama is a dedicated Marxist.
   According to Medvedev, Barack Obama is his "new comrade,"
as the Russian president was apparently pleased with Obama's willingness to waffle on the US missile shield program, which Medvedev described as a "mistake" on the part of the Bush administration.
http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212220285.shtml
Obama, Going Along to Get Along 4/4/2009
   Barack Obama has proved in the past few days that he can work smoothly and productively with a wide range of foreign leaders -- provided that he allows them to set the agenda.
   What's striking about Obama's diplomacy, however, has been his willingness to embrace the priorities of European governments, Russia and China while playing down -- or setting aside altogether -- principal American concerns.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040301945.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Note: Another gutless Lib falicy, "be nice and they weill also" - GROW UP O THIS IS BIG BOYS TIME !
Obama Wants to Control the Banks  4/5/2009
There's a reason he refuses to accept repayment of TARP money.
If the banks are forced to keep TARP cash -- which was often forced on them in the first place -- the Obama team can work its will on the financial system to unprecedented degree. That's what's happening right now.
 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879833094588163.html

Partisan Gap in Obama Job Approval Widest in Modern Era 4/5/2009
For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1178/polarized-partisan-gap-in-obama-approval-historic
NOTE: Another myth, another lie

MSNBC poll of 1.8 million: Obama earns 'F' 4/8/2009
   In less than three months in office, president gets failing grade
   In its "Give President Obama a Grade" survey, MSNBC asked nearly 2 million respondents, "If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?"
   The largest number of respondents ' or 43 percent ' gave Obama an "F."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94194
NOTE: Well, there goes the "charm offensive" (except in Europe?)
Obama's code of secrecy 4/15/2009
Government secrecy has become the norm under this administration, particularly when it comes to the financial bailout.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/obama39s-code-of-secrecy/
Green Hell: Obama's Environmental Plans Will Lead To 'Energy Chaos,' Author Says 4/15/2009
We are nearing a point of no return with green policies. Barack Obama wants to ram through this cap and trade, which is going to cause havoc in our economy.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/green_hell_milloy/2009/04/14/202927.html
World Agenda: Nicolas Sarkozy puts Barack Obama in the doghouse 4/15/2009
Mr Sarkozy is pouring cold water on President Obama's efforts to recast American leadership on the world stage, depicting them as unoriginal, unsubstantial and overrated. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article6098836.ece
NOTE: Well, so much for the charm offensive, we're back to just being offensive and getting screwed as usual and not even kissed!

Federal agency warns of radicals on right 4/15/2009
A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/
NOTE: WASN'T IT JUST A YEAR OR TWO AGO THAT DISAGREEING WITH THE PRESIDENT (THEN BUSH) WAS CONSIDERED "PATRIOTIC"????????????? Now it's verging on terrorism????????????
Obama's Energy Policy Driven by Ideology, not Reason 4/19/2009
What Obama lacks in leadership, substance and management skills, he more than makes up for with rhetoric and ideological zeal. Time and again Obama shows he will use his power to drive the left-wing agenda without regard to economic consequences or loss of liberty. Moreover, with the liberal holy grail of penalizing fossil fuel use in his grasp, it's doubtful Obama will shy away.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/TomBorelli/2009/04/18/obamas_energy_policy_driven_by_ideology,_not_reason?page=full
Obama Extends Hands to Chavez, Ortega at Summit 4/19/2009
President Barack Obama offered a spirit of cooperation to America's hemispheric neighbors at a summit Saturday, listening to complaints about past U.S. meddling and even reaching out to Venezuela's leftist leader.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/cb_obama_summit/2009/04/18/204528.html
Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security  4/20/2009
A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/19/cia.torture.chief/index.html

Obama: Reaching Out to Enemies Strengthens U.S. 4/20/2009
Defending his brand of world politics, President Barack Obama said Sunday that he is "strengthening our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States and making sure that the nation is a leader, not a lecturer, of democracy.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cb_obama_summit/2009/04/19/204729.html
NOTE: The man is a fool of the first order, when did he ever EVER reach out to his enemies in Chicago? - but now it's OK? - a fool of the first order and a dangerous one at that.
US demands Iran end 'horrible rhetoric'  4/20/2009
The United States called Monday on Iran to end its "horrible rhetoric" after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's attacks on Israel but said it still wanted talks with Tehran to mend relations.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f6a7492655c21f479cbd21b7c1d1c12c.801&show_article=1
NOTE: Yeah, or we'll really get tough and throw a temper tantrum! - guess we sure told them? I can hear them laughing themselves to death from here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And they wonder why "Tea Parties" are popular


Senator's husband cashes in on crisis 4/21/2009
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/21/senate-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis/

Axelrod suggests 'Tea Party' movement is 'unhealthy' 4/21/2009
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday suggested the "Tea Party" movement is an "unhealthy" reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/19/axelrod-suggests-tea-party-movement-is-unhealthy/

ROUND 2
 Independence Day tea parties in 350 cities 4/22/2009
Round 2 of tax protests scheduled for 47 states
The tea party website asks, Are you fed up with a Congress and a president who:

  • vote for a $500 billion tax bill without even reading it?
  • are spending trillions of borrowed dollars, leaving a debt our great-grandchildren will be paying?
  • consistently give special interest groups billions of dollars in earmarks to help get themselves re-elected?
  • want to take your wealth and redistribute it to others?
  • punish those who practice responsible financial behavior and reward those who do not?
  • admit to using the financial hurt of millions as an opportunity to push their political agenda?
  • run up trillions of dollars of debt and then sell that debt to countries such as China?
  • want government-controlled health care?
  • want to take away the right to vote with a secret ballot in union elections?
  • refuse to stop the flow of millions of illegal immigrants into our country?
  • appoint a defender of child pornography to the No. 2 position in the Justice Department?
  • want to force doctors and other medical workers to perform abortions against their will?
  • want to impose a carbon tax on your electricity, gas and home-heating fuels?
  • want to reduce your tax deductibility for charitable gifts?
  • take money from your family budget to pay their federal budget?

    • http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95657

    Saving federal money the easy way 4/21/2009
    The thrifty measures Obama ordered for federal agencies are the equivalent of asking a family that spends $60,000 in a year to save $6.
       The president gave his Cabinet 90 days to find $100 million in savings to achieve over time.
       For all the trumpeting, the effort raised questions about why Obama set the bar so low, considering that $100 million amounts to:
       _Less than one-quarter of the budget increase that Congress awarded to itself.
       _4 percent of the military aid the United States sends to Israel.
       _Less than half the cost of one F-22 fighter plane.
       _7 percent of the federal subsidy for the money-losing Amtrak passenger rail system.
       _1/10,000th of the government's operating budgets for Cabinet agencies, excluding the Iraq and Afghan wars and the stimulus bill.
       Republicans were quick to point out that borrowing costs for February's stimulus package will on average cost almost $100 million a day over the next decade.
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97MDHAG0&show_article=1

    Obama savings? 15 minutes of federal spending 4/21/2009
    'You'd need a pair of extra-thick glasses to actually see that'
    Just days ago Congress passed Obama's $3.5 trillion budget for 2010, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said it just spends "too much."
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95633

    OBAMA'S ROUNDING ERROR 4/21/2009
       No wonder there's a "confidence gap," as Obama himself put it yesterday, in terms of the public's view of his team's handling of budget issues. That kind of sum, after all, is less than a rounding error in most federal funding lines.
       Indeed, it amounts to 0.0027 percent of the $3.6 trillion budget.
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/04212009/postopinion/editorials/obamas_rounding_error_165386.htm

    And then in the next breath ??????

    Obama proposes $100 billion U.S. loan for IMF 4/21/2009
    President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $100 billion U.S. loan to the International Monetary Fund to boost the IMF's resources and urged a bigger stake in the IMF for emerging powers.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE53J6NH20090420?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true

    Ex-CIA Director: Obama Compromised National Security with Memo Release 4/21/2009
    A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency insisted Sunday that harsh interrogation techniques widely condemned as torture had succeeded in battling Al-Qaeda and saving American lives, something he characterized as "an inconvenient truth."
    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/hayden_cia_memos/2009/04/19/204761.html

    Obama Defends Memo Releases to CIA 4/21/2009
    Days after releasing top-secret memos that detailed the CIA's use of simulated drowning while interrogating terror suspects, President Barack Obama went to the spy agency's Virginia headquarters on Monday to defend his decision and bolster the morale of its employees.
    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_cia/2009/04/20/205131.html
    NOTE: How do you defend the indefensible?
    Otto Reich: Obama?s Encounter With Chavez Damaged U.S. Foreign Policy 4/21/2009
    Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich tells Newsmax that Hugo Chavez is calling President Barack Obama?s 'hobnobbing' with the Venezuelan leader the 'greatest triumph in Venezuelan diplomacy ever.'
    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/reich_obama_chavez/2009/04/20/205012.html

    		Obama's budget will make us the most socialist country in the world 4/22/2009
       America has sold its soul for unsustainable entitlements, and the price could very well be our capitalistic society as we move closer and closer to socialism.
       Socialism, as Winston Churchill defined it, is a philosophy of failure. Yet when President Barack Obama fired the CEO of GM, the American public barely batted an eye. As financial markets have teetered on the brink of going under, the U.S. government has stepped in, taken ownership, arbitrarily decided what companies will fail and pumped and inflated others with fat TARP and bailout funds, but at a devil of a cost.
    http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/Obamas-budget-will-make-us-the-most-socialist-country-in-the-world-43396137.html
    DeMint: U.S. Suffering 'Buyer's Remorse' With Obama 4/22/2009
    'We can't afford the government to run anything else in our lives because it doesn't do it well and it makes it much more expensive,' DeMint said.
    http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/demint_obama_healthcare/2009/04/21/205685.html

    		DHS Chief Napolitano: Illegal Immigration Is Not a Crime 4/22/2009
    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stunned many listeners during an appearance on CNN when she asserted that illegal immigration is really not a crime.
    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/napolitano_illegals_crime/2009/04/22/205948.html
    NOTE: OH YES IT IS !
    NOTE: HERE'S WHAT SOME OF YOU VOTED FOR, HAPPY NOW?

    The border for dummies 4/23/2009
    Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295
    NOTE: Nice going O, a great candidate, anyone remember Joycelyn Elders?

    		Obama muddles torture message 4/23/2009
    President Barack Obama's attempt to project legal and moral clarity on coercive CIA interrogation methods has instead done the opposite creating confusion and political vulnerability over an issue that has inflamed both the left and right.
    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21569.html
    NOTE: Nothing like a waffle, especially one that is a "killer waffle" - and make no mistake, Americans WILL die because of this action!
    SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement  4/23/2009
       The White House refused to authorize deployment of a Navy SEAL team to the location for 36 hours, despite the recommendation of the on-scene commander.
       The White House also turned down two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander on the scene and the captain of the USS Bainbridge.
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95451
    NOTE: I seem to remember another president micro managing things he didn't understand - LBJ I believe

    		New law to 'manage' 8 million 'volunteers' 4/23/2009
       Obama signs huge expansion of youth brigades legislation
       Judi McLeod of Canada Free Press wrote that the bill simply would turn everyone into a community organizer.
       "Everybody means the roughly seven million people called to public duty in the $6 billion National Service effort," she said. "But members pressed into the service of the one million-strong Youth Brigade, sanctioned by 'Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE),' will have none of the freedoms of the community organizer who started it all.
       "There's no room for God in Obama's long promised Youth Brigade, no room to protest, petition, to boycott or to support a strike, and loopholes to give its mandatory membership a pass," she wrote. "Obama's plan requires anyone receiving school loans, among others to serve at least three months as part of the brigade."
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95674
    NOTE: SEE ORIGINAL POST AT TOP OF THIS PAGE DETAILING O'S CAMPAIGN SITE - IT HAS NOW COME TO PASS
    Healthcare Bills Will Be Fast-Tracked to Thwart GOP 4/23/2009
    Democrats controlling the House went on record again Wednesday in favor of advancing health care legislation while allowing only limited debate, which would minimize the ability of Republicans to wrest concessions on one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities.
    http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/healthcare_reconciliation/2009/04/22/206198.html
    NOTE: And they didn't read the massive 1100 page spending bill either and look what we/they got.
    Fidel Castro: Obama Wrong About Raul's Words 4/23/2009
    "There's no doubt the president interpreted badly the declaration by Raul," said Castro, referring to a statement by his younger brother, President Raul Castro, on Thursday in which he said Cuba was prepared to discuss "everything" with the United States, including political prisoners and human rights.
    http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/castro_obama_wrong/2009/04/22/205731.html
    NOTE: Well, so much for "extending the hand of friendship" - now O knows what you get - - - you get bitten! Apparently Fidel is so old and senile he doesn't recognize another Socialist when he sees one.

    		Obama's leap to socialism  4/23/2009
       President Obama showed his hand this week when The New York Times wrote that he is considering converting the stock the government owns in our country?s banks from preferred stock, which it now holds, to common stock.
       This seemingly insignificant change is momentous. It means that the federal government will control all of the major banks and financial institutions in the nation. It means socialism.
       And whoever controls the banks controls the credit and, therefore, the economy. That's called socialism.
    http://thehill.com/dick-morris/obamas-leap-to-socialism-2009-04-21.html

    		Presidential Poison 4/23/2009
    His invitation to indict Bush officials will haunt Obama's Presidency.
       Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.
       But at least until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting its predecessor for policy disagreements. This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.
       Mr. Obama is more popular than his policies, due in part to his personal charm and his