tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30803920185946316222024-03-05T17:03:31.961-08:00Dear President ObamaSince you'll never see mail disagreeing with you, here's a few letters you might not want to read.K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-26997252779310953482009-05-26T09:41:00.000-07:002009-05-26T09:46:19.038-07:00Dear President Obama: You're kidding.... right? Comrade Sotomayor for Supreme Court<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>VIDEO: <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sotomayor</span> on the court: 'Where policy is made'...</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;"><br /></span></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15judge.html?pagewanted=print"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sotomayor</span>: 'I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male'...</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15sotomayor.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>Prospect's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Résumé</span>...</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://wcbstv.com/topstories/obama.supreme.court.2.1019163.html"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>Self described '<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Newyorican</span>'...</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=45d56e6f-f497-4b19-9c63-04e10199a085"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>MAG: The Case Against...</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>NBC: Would Republicans dare vote against first Hispanic Woman?</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=313548&start=1"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>McConnell: 'Senate Republicans will treat Judge <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sotomayor</span> fairly. But we will thoroughly examine her record'...</strong></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22970.html"><span style="font-family:Courier New;color:red;"><strong>NO BIG OPINIONS ON ABORTION...</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-family:Courier New;"> </span></strong><br /><br /><br />Look, Mr. President... I GET that you're very big on affirmative action, given what it's done for you... but this is absurd.<br /><br />You actually WANT to appoint a Justice that directly violates judicial tenets by believing and acting on the concept of usurping legislative prerogative by making "policy" from the bench?<br /><br />Once again, you've managed to frighten and disgust me.<br /><br />Well done.K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-70667693709043941082009-05-13T15:06:00.000-07:002009-05-13T15:19:12.038-07:00Dear President Obama: Are you imitating a broken clock?Mr. President, I have hammered you like a nail on this blog. But when you get it right, you get it right.<br /><br />Although it's disappointing that you ever considered releasing additional photos that would do nothing but inflame, that you stood up to the leftist scum running the ACLU and other anti-American groups that would rip this scar open is a hopeful sign.<br /><br />I appreciate it. Hopefully, there will be much more to come.K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-68991383946424524892009-05-11T07:30:00.000-07:002009-05-11T07:44:53.065-07:00Dear President Obama: Sorry, Sir, but I DO "blame you" for our horrific deficit.Look, I appreciate having a staff of leg-humpers as much as the next guy. But Orszag really isn't doing you any favors by trying to tell us this massive deficits YOU'VE run up aren't your fault.
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<br />See, Mr. President, those of us paying attention know the dirty little secret that your scum are unwilling to say: If (as if it were ever possible) the deficit had, somehow, miraculously shrank, that moron Orszag would have come out and told us all that it was a direct result of YOUR efforts.
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<br />OK. I can accept that. Except for one thing: If GOOD economic news is your doing...
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<br />... then so it the bad.
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<br />You were warned by the Congressional Budget Office NOT to dig us deeper in debt with your bogus stimulus. You were told that to do that would, in fact, SLOW our recovery.
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<br />As is so often the case, you didn't listen and you saw the opportunity to pay back your union massa's while you shoveled layer after layer of debt on to the heads of our children's children's children.
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<br />So, now, the natural result of your inept incompetence is coming out.
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<br />And your moronic budget director tells US not to blame YOU?
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<br />Fat chance, dooder. This is YOUR economy. ALL of it. If it WORKS, you'll be WAYYYYYY out front, taking all of the credit. Good or bad, it's ALL on you.
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<br />When it falls on it's face, as it will inevitably do, you're gonna get all the credit for that as well.
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<br />Well done, Mr. President. You're screwing us up more and more every day.
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<br />Thanks for nothing.
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<br /></div></span><p>WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - High U.S. budget deficits are being driven by an economic crisis that President <a title="Full coverage of President Barack Obama" href="http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/barackobama">Barack Obama</a> inherited, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said on Monday.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p><span id="midArticle_0"></span><p>Orszag, writing in a blog posting, also said that the administration's latest budget deficit estimates -- which were revised upward by $89 billion and $87 billion for this year and next, respectively -- reflect the latest data on tax receipts, federal bailouts and other government costs.</p><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p>(Reporting by Caren Bohan and Richard Cowan) </p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-9353146128242740002009-05-10T23:32:00.000-07:002009-05-10T23:51:20.754-07:00Dear President Obama: In case you're wondering what military leadership really is.So far, you've been a clueless idiot about most all things military.<br /><br />In everything from lying during your campaign about troop withdrawals, to blowing off the Medal of Honor Reception on your inauguration, to trying to get us to pay for our own wounds by sticking it to our own insurance companies, you've been an utterley loathsome Commander in Chief.<br /><br />Well, Mr. President, here's another clue in the clue bag as to what it takes to lead. It's about courage. It's about sacrifice. It's about honor.<br /><br />And frankly, Sir, you seem to lack any clue about any of those tenets of leadership. So here;s a video, from CBS of all people, that may give you a glimpse of what you're in charge off.<br /><br />No con job like your last photo op with screened military supporters. But the real deal.<br /><br />So, watch this, Mr. President. Get a grip. And get a clue. This is the kind of leadership YOU should aspire to. <div><br /> </div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 65px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://thisainthell.us/blog/wp-content/themes/thisainthell/images/logo.gif" /> <h2><a title="Permanent Link: The Warriors Code, Part II" href="http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=10473" rel="bookmark">The Warriors Code, Part II</a></h2><div class="post-body"><div class="post-date">May 8th, 2009</div><p><del datetime="2009-05-08T19:40:30+00:00">Maybe not for you guys</del>, but this one comes with a hankie warning for me anyway. Nah, who am I kidding, even if you have a Grinch pre-whoville 2 sizes too small heart, this one will choke you up.<br /><a href="http://thisainthell.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/brian_brennan_adw.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10479" title="brian_brennan_adw" alt="" src="http://thisainthell.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/brian_brennan_adw.jpg" width="275" height="299" /></a></p><p>Video up after the jump, since it plays automatically.<br /><span id="more-10473"></span><br /><embed height="324" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width="425" src="http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/player-dest.swf" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="linkUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5000003n&releaseURL=http://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/player-dest.swf&videoId=50071487&edid=2121&vert=News&autoPlayVid=false&name=cbsPlayer&allowScriptAccess=always&wmode=transparent&embedded=y&scale=noscale&rv=n&salign=tl"></embed><br /><a href="http://www.cbs.com/">Watch CBS Videos Online</a> </p><p>Brian Brennan is a fellow alumnus of The Citadel, and a brother of mine, in arms if not in blood. He is <a href="http://externalaffairs.citadel.edu/brian_brennan">a recipient of the Arland D. Williams Award</a>, and a true American Hero.</p><p>I just feel so humbled by men like Brian.</p><p><a href="http://brennanstandsalone.org/">Here is his website.</a></p><p>H/t to Hawkeye and the VA<br /><br /><br /></p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-84528700059010002622009-05-10T10:22:00.000-07:002009-05-10T10:49:00.792-07:00Dear President Obama: When it comes to Veterans and the military, you're a real moron.Mr. President, I fear that one day, soon, <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-president-obama-heres-why-military.html">your lack of value for the military</a>, both present and past, is going to cost us blood.
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<br />American blood.
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<br />Once again, in it's own inimitable way, the fine folks at BLACKFIVE have hit the nail on the head.
<br />And, as a brief aside, that racist crap you thought was so funny... about Limbaugh succumbing to kidney failure?
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<br />Oddly enough, I'm coming to feel the same way about you.
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<br />Hah, hah. Yuk, yuk. Funny, eh?
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<br />Your cluelessness about <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-president-obama-heres-why-military_16.html">the military</a> and <a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/once-again-oama-blows-off-te-troops.html">veterans is already legendary</a>. That you never cared enough about our country to serve it emphasizes your clueless idiocy about all things military.
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<br />Mr. President, this isn't ABOUT you. It's about those who put their asses on the line so a dumb shit like YOU could unfortunately be elected to the most powerful office in the world.
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<br />So, do us all a favor.
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<br />Don't go. Stay here. Send Biden. Send Clinton. Hell, send that lie of a "I'm going to get a dog out of a shelter" mutt that got more coverage than Darfur.
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<br />That you would use this as a photo op disgusts me. The networks will, of course, be on there knees in front of you, again, and make some totally absurd effort to make you One Of Us.
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<br />It's as bad as ripping us off for $350,000 for a photo op that could have been photo-shopped for nothing.
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<br />I am not trying to harsh the Best Ranger Mellow...
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<br />I refuse to listen to anything that the Obama Administration, or President Obama says about how much he "values the sacrifices of our veterans" when he continues to do things like suggest that combat related injuries would need to be covered by my Blue Cross/Blue Shield (what a tool-bag idea).
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<br />And I remain unconvinced that he even has any idea about the sacrifices that veterans make for the freedoms that many others, besides America, enjoy now. <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jromano/2009/05/09/barack-bans-the-commonfolk-from-normandy/">And this is why...</a>
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<br /><blockquote><p>The 65th Anniversary of D-Day is fast approaching. Barack Obama will attend the events on June 6th as George Bush did in 2004 for the sixtieth memorial service.
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<br />Here is the rub, as of now <strong><em>Obama’s State Department has asked (read demanded) the French government not allow tour guide services to operate that day.</em></strong> It is a big day for Normandy tourism. Yet, the king will not allow those not connected with government to enjoy the day. </p></blockquote>I refuse to listen to a Commander in Chief who continues to treat me like a battered wife; telling me how much you love me after you spend most of the evening slapping me around the kitchen for dinner not being hot.
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<br />His continued disrespect of the sacrifices of men who he isn't fit to hold the hat of sends me absolutely to the moon, and I know I should not get this angry about this stuff, because it is who he is, but I am flat tired of being told, in a very battered wife sorta way, that I am a potential terrorist, that I am not allowed to tour the grounds where heroes shed their blood for the freedom of others (and my comrades lie forever) and that I better get a job with good health insurance, so I can use it to cover my combat injuries.
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<br />K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-48936156984684289382009-05-08T13:51:00.000-07:002009-05-08T14:36:04.405-07:00Dear President Obama: Firing Caldera doesn't let you off the hook.Dear Mr. President: A few days ago <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/04/dear-president-obama-someone-most.html">I suggested that someone needed to be fired for the Scare Force One NYC flyover.</a><br /><br />I had earnestly hoped that YOU would take responsibility for yet another domestic debacle, and that YOU would resign, sparing us the continued agony of your tenure as President.<br /><br />Sadly, it was not to be. However, the sacrifice of former Secretary of the Army (Under Clinton) Louis Caldera, one in a series of your clueless appointments, certainly doesn't clear you of responsibility for your stupidity.<br /><br />You screwed up by politicizing the White House Military Office; you screwed up by putting Caldera in charge of it, instead of a military Flag Officer, and then YOU allowed the people of downtown New York to be terrified as YOU wasted over $300,000 for a picture that will forever shame you; a picture that COULD have been photo shopped for a buck.<br /><br />Mr. President, your unforced errors are continuing to frighten those of us who actually pay attention to what you do instead of how you look. PLEASE get someone in there with at least a modicum of competence before someone who can REALLY hurt this Nation gives it a shot.<br /><br /><br /><div><div id="masthead" align="center"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/" lid="/img/nypmasthead2.gif"><img border="0" alt="New York Post" src="http://www.nypost.com/img/nypmasthead2.gif" /></a> </div><br /><div align="center"><span class="date">Friday, May 08, 2009</span><br /><span class="update">Last Update: 04:55 PM EDT</span> </div><br /><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05082009/news/nationalnews/white_house_to_release_review_of_low_fly_168274.htm"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">WHITE HOUSE AIDE RESIGNS OVER FLYOVER FLAP</span></strong><br /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">PHOTOS OF INCIDENT RELEASED</span></strong><br /><div id="relHolder"><div id="relStories"><div class="relTitle">ASSOCIATED PRESS</div></div></div><div id="article"><br /><p jquery1241816561704="10"><span class="update"><br />May 8, 2009<br />Posted: 3:54 pm<br />May 8, 2009</span></p><a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/afnyc.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 328px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 219px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.drudgereport.com/afnyc.jpg" /></a><br /><p jquery1241816561704="11">WASHINGTON -- A top <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=White_House">White House</a> aide resigned today for his role in Air Force One's $328,835 photo-op flyover above New York City that sparked panic and flashbacks to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. His resignation was made public at the same time the photo of the flyover was released by the White House.</p><p jquery1241816561704="12">Louis Caldera said the controversy had made it impossible for him to effectively lead the White House Military Office. "Moreover, it has become a distraction in the important work you are doing as president," Caldera said in his resignation letter to President Barack Obama.</p><p jquery1241816561704="13">The sight of the huge passenger jet and an F-16 fighter plane flying past the Statue of Liberty and the lower Manhattan financial district sent panicked office workers streaming into the streets on April 27. Obama said it would not happen again.</p><p jquery1241816561704="14">Caldera's office approved the photo-op, which cost $35,000 in fuel alone for the plane and two jet fighter escorts. The Air Force estimated the photo shoot cost taxpayers $328,835.</p><p jquery1241816561704="15">White House officials said the flight was designed to update the official photo of the plane, known as Air Force One when the president is aboard. The White House released a photo of the blue-and-white plane high above the Statue of Liberty, with New Jersey in the background.</p><p jquery1241816561704="15"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05082009/news/nationalnews/white_house_to_release_review_of_low_fly_168274.htm">More:</a></p></div></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-6412668440797199452009-05-05T10:41:00.000-07:002009-05-05T10:53:02.664-07:00Dear President Obama: Did you REALLY believe this would just "go away?"Mr. President, in just one of your many idiotic moves, you've decided (and a barn-headed monkey knows it was you, personally) not to release any of the pictures from yet another $328,000 of our money that YOU wasted on a campaign photo-op that could have been accomplished by even a beginner?<br /><br />You actually are dumber then you look.<br /><br />YOU vaporized over $300,000 and now WE, who PAID for your idiocy, have NOTHING to show for it?<br /><br />Good God... I simply cannot believe you deluded enough people to get elected.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/" lid="/img/nypmasthead2.gif"><img border="0" alt="New York Post" src="http://www.nypost.com/img/nypmasthead2.gif" /></a></div><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052009/news/regionalnews/phantom_air_farce_pictures_167671.htm">PHANTOM AIR FARCE PICTURES</a></span></strong><br /><h2></h2><div id="relHolder"><div id="relStories"><div class="relTitle">RELATED STORIES</div><p class="relTop" jquery1241545428097="15"><a class="redtext" href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/white_house_apologizes_for_air_force_one_166484.htm" name="&lid=" lpos="topicStoryLink_2">WHITE HOUSE APOLOGIZES FOR AIR FORCE ONE PHOTO-OP</a> </p><div id="relMoreStories" class="relMore" jquery1241545428097="18">RELATED TOPICS</div></div><div id="relTopics"><div style="HEIGHT: 82px" class="relTop" jquery1241545428097="14"><ul style="HEIGHT: 68px" id="relTopicsUL" class="relUL" oldheight="36"><li><a class="redtext" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=White_House" name="&lid=" lpos="relatedTopicLink_0" jquery1241545428097="3">WHITE HOUSE</a> <li><a class="redtext" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Barack_Obama" name="&lid=" lpos="relatedTopicLink_1" jquery1241545428097="4">BARACK OBAMA</a> </li></ul></div></div><div class="clearer">Comments: 164</div></div><ul id="comment_info"><li><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052009/news/regionalnews/phantom_air_farce_pictures_167671.htm#comments">Read Comments</a> </li><li class="last"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/05052009/news/regionalnews/phantom_air_farce_pictures_167671.htm#commentsiframe">Leave a Comment</a> </li></ul><div id="article"><!--googleon: index--><h3>By JEREMY OLSHAN</h3><div style="MARGIN: 9px 0px 0px 5px; WIDTH: 300px; FLOAT: right"><!--googleoff: index--><div id="relHolderSmall"><div id="relStoriesSmall"> </div><div id="moreRelTopicsSmall" class="moreRelSmall"> </div><div class="clearer"></div></div></div><!--googleon: index--><p jquery1241545428097="5"><span class="update">Last updated: 11:24 am<br />May 5, 2009<br />Posted: 1:56 am<br />May 5, 2009</span></p><p jquery1241545428097="6">The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=White_House">White House</a> said yesterday. </p><p jquery1241545428097="7">"We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further. </p><p jquery1241545428097="8">The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city. </p><p jquery1241545428097="9">"The photos . . . are classified -- that's ridiculous," Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., said. </p><p jquery1241545428097="10">The photos have not technically been "classified," a White House aide said, but they are being kept from public view.</p><p jquery1241545428097="11">New Yorkers said they could not understand how a president who shares intimate snapshots from the White House could justify keeping these secret. </p><p jquery1241545428097="12">"So we're not gonna see the fruits of this cruel joke?" said Frank Antonelli, 39, one of the Wall Street traders spooked by last week's flyover. </p><p jquery1241545428097="13">"I'm not surprised. Obama . . . wouldn't further all the bad publicity by putting out those pictures."</p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-72110205193964477912009-05-05T06:29:00.000-07:002009-05-05T09:23:41.665-07:00Dear President Obama: So now we have a self-admitted clueless Transportation Secretary?Mr. President, how is it that we now have a Transportation Secretary that knows as much about transportation as you do about the economy, domestic policy and foreign policy... in short, nothing?<br /><br />I've got to tell you that when the Obama Campaign Propaganda Arm known as the New York Times disses yet another of your moronic personnel choices, that should give even the thickest-skinned individual pause.<br /><br />It's a shame that you think so little about the economic heartbeat of this nation that you blew off the importance of the issue... and stuffed a GOP rube into the slot, because, in his words,<br /><br /><blockquote>“I don’t think they picked me because they thought I’d be that great a transportation person.... They picked me because of the bipartisan thing,” he explained, “and the Congressional thing, and the friendship thing.”</blockquote>So, here we have it. No vision... no plan... no enthusiasm... no clue. A cynical choice that will accomplish absolutely nothing in the vital area of our Nation's transportation system.<br /><br />While I do give Mr. LaHood credit for an altogether unusual honesty, I do question the complete lack of intelligence in his selection, and the complete idiocy of Senatorial approval for such a terrible appointment.<br /><br />The money excerpt from the story?<br /><br /><blockquote>But one of the astonishing things about Mr. LaHood, 63, is how limited his transportation résumé is, how little excitement he exudes on the subject (other than about <a title="More articles about high-speed rail." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/high_speed_rail_projects/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">high-speed rail</a>) and how little he seems to care who knows it. So why exactly did <a title="More articles about Barack Obama." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">President Obama</a> pick this former seven-term Republican congressman from Illinois to oversee everything that moves?</blockquote>Your disdain for the importance of your personnel selections (when you weren't lying about hiring lobbyists, of course... or appointing criminal tax cheats) and your cynicism that we wouldn't notice or care, having noticed, seem only to be exceeded by your arrogance, Mr. President.<br /><br />And, I'm sure, you'll bring the same level of those characteristics to your selection for Supreme Court justice, as evidenced by your most moronic statement on appointments yet:<br /><br /><blockquote><p>I will seek someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives -- whether they can make a living and care for their families; whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation.</p><p>I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as <em>just decisions and outcomes.</em></p></blockquote><p>The law and Constitution be damned.</p>Yup... REAL confidence building going on here. And among those paying attention, more sleepless nights that your shallowness and arrogance will be the downfall of this Nation.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/"><img id="NYTLogo" alt="New York Times" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/nytlogo152x23.gif" /></a> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/us/politics/05lahood.html?ref=global-home">G.O.P. Résumé, Cabinet Post, Knack for Odd Jobs</a><br /></span></strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/us/politics&pos=Frame4A&sn2=4e88d5fe/69d06416&sn1=63ea1a3/311a0816&camp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011073c_nyt5&ad=500DOS_120x60_c&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/500daysofsummer" target="_blank"></a><br />By <a title="More Articles by Mark Leibovich" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/mark_leibovich/index.html?inline=nyt-per">MARK LEIBOVICH</a><br />Published: May 4, 2009</div><div align="left"><br />WASHINGTON — <a title="More articles about Ray LaHood." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ray_lahood/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Ray LaHood</a>, the secretary of transportation, is not one to toot his own horn over how much he knows about planes, trains and automobile bailouts. On the contrary.<br /></div><div align="left"><a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/05/us/lahood190.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 190px; float: left; height: 148px;" alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/05/us/lahood190.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Jim Young/Reuters<br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Mr. LaHood’s ties to Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, were part of the reason President Obama appointed him.<br />Blog</span></em><br /><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/"></a><br /></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/">The Caucus</a><br />The latest on President Obama, the new administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/">Join the discussion.</a><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html">More Politics News</a><br /><a name="secondParagraph"></a><br />Readers' Comments<br />Share your thoughts.<br /><a onclick="dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcssip','www.nytimes.com','DCS.dcsuri','/article comments/post-promo2.html','WT.ti','Article Comments Post Promo2','WT.z_aca','Promo2-Post','WT.gcom','Com')" href="http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/05/05/us/politics/05lahood.html#postComment">Post a Comment »</a><br /><a onclick="dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcssip','www.nytimes.com','DCS.dcsuri','/article comments/view-promo3.html','WT.ti','Article Comments View Promo3','WT.z_aca','Promo3-View','WT.gcom','Com')" href="http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/05/05/us/politics/05lahood.html">Read All Comments (4) »</a></div><div align="left"><br />“I don’t think they picked me because they thought I’d be that great a transportation person,” Mr. LaHood says with refreshing indifference as to how this admission might play if, say, he were ever to bungle a bridge collapse. </div><div align="left"><br />Yes, transportation is Mr. LaHood’s day job, a post that a few days ago required him to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a highway in New Hampshire, speak to a group about the dangers of tailgating trucks and discuss “bird strikes” on CNN.</div><div align="left"><br />But one of the astonishing things about Mr. LaHood, 63, is how limited his transportation résumé is, how little excitement he exudes on the subject (other than about <a title="More articles about high-speed rail." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/high_speed_rail_projects/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">high-speed rail</a>) and how little he seems to care who knows it. So why exactly did <a title="More articles about Barack Obama." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">President Obama</a> pick this former seven-term Republican congressman from Illinois to oversee everything that moves?</div><div align="left"><br />Mr. LaHood posits a theory. “They picked me because of the bipartisan thing,” he explained, “and the Congressional thing, and the friendship thing.”</div><div align="left"><br />The “bipartisan thing” and the “Congressional thing” are self-evident: Mr. LaHood is a Republican with close ties to Capitol Hill. One White House insider described Mr. LaHood as “a master of odd jobs,” whose knowledge of Washington allows him to take on assignments as varied as lobbying lawmakers on the budget and helping political novices in the cabinet navigate Beltway social rituals (“cocktail situations,” as Energy Secretary <a title="More articles about Steven Chu." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/steven_chu/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Steven Chu</a> calls them).</div><div align="left"><br />“The friendship thing” perhaps most explains why Mr. LaHood is in his job. The White House chief of staff, <a title="More articles about Rahm Emanuel." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/rahm_emanuel/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Rahm Emanuel</a>, is one of Mr. LaHood’s closest friends, and wanted him around. Mr. Obama told Mr. LaHood as much when Mr. LaHood interviewed for the job in December.</div><div align="left"><br />Four months later, here is Mr. LaHood, smiling broadly in his sprawling office, sipping a “healthy” Frappuccino lunch (“healthy because it will keep me awake this afternoon”). Behind his desk hangs a photograph of Mr. Obama adjusting Mr. LaHood’s neckwear (inscribed: “This isn’t the House, straighten your tie”).</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/us/politics/05lahood.html?ref=global-home">More:</a></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-23166358044021426632009-05-01T20:19:00.000-07:002009-05-05T07:35:59.050-07:00Dear President Obama: Please leave your cluelessly idiotic hands off the Supreme CourtMr. President, I get that so far you've been totally incompetent in handling our economy, our domestic policies, our foreign policies and your choices for staff and cabinet.<br /><br />But for you to come out and spew this garbage:<br /><blockquote>I will seek someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives -- whether they can make a living and care for their families; whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation. <p>I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as just decisions<em> and outcomes</em></p></blockquote>You make me think that perhaps whatever law school you attended (Matchbook Cover Law School?) should give you a complete refund... with interest.<br /><br />Words almost fail me as to how moronic such a bizarre perspective could possibly be.<br /><br />Let me help you, idiot stick: Supreme Court Justices have precisely ONE function: and that is to interpret that law while determining it's Constitutionality.<br /><br />There is no place for "empathy." There is no place for "hopes and struggles." There is, in fact, no place for "just decisions and outcomes."<br /><br />You <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">fricking</span> idiot; you're even politicizing the US SUPREME COURT!<br /><br />I'm astounded that you must have missed the first day of Constitutional Law 101 at Matchbook U.<br /><br />You would put people on the bench not based on their academic and legal qualifications, but instead, by how much they reflect YOUR moronic view of the law, which clearly doesn't extend beyond a series of suggestions that YOU can ignore whenever the mood strikes.<br /><br />To paraphrase someone relatively close to you, for the first time in my life I'm ashamed of my country because they saw fit to elect a complete ignoramus like you.<br /><br /><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 960px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 140px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://static.powerlineblog.com/img/pl.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023465.php" name="023465">A lawless president looks for a lawless Supreme Court Justice</a><br /><a class="share" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/#">Share Post</a> <a class="print" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/05/023465.php?format=print">Print</a></p><p>May 1, 2009 </p><p>Posted by Paul at 7:13 PM </p><p><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/01/obama_transcript_the_press_on_souter_retirement_96303.html">President Obama</a> made a short statement about the retirement of Justice <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Souter</span> in which he outlined what he will be looking for in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Souter's</span> replacement. He stated, in part: </p><blockquote><p>I will seek someone who understands that justice isn't about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book. It is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's lives -- whether they can make a living and care for their families; whether they feel safe in their homes and welcome in their own nation. </p><p>I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people's hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving as just decisions <em>and outcomes</em></p><p>(emphasis added)<br /></p></blockquote><p>By indicating that his concern is not just with just decisions but also just outcomes, Obama reveals the lawless quality of his thinking. The legitimate function of a judge is to reach just decisions, full stop. Once judges, or the president who appoints them, start thinking about just outcomes, we are well down the path to judicial tyranny. And once just outcomes are defined as those that display empathy for "the people," we could be starting down the road to banana republic status.</p><p>Obama apparently wants outcomes that will make people feel welcome in their own nation. It's not clear to me what he's referring to here. But whatever it is, the extent to which people feel welcome must be determined by how their neighbors view them and, to the extent (limited, one hopes) the law becomes involved, the rights and benefits conferred by the language of the laws in question. </p><p>If Obama wants to appoint a Justice who has run or worked in a soup kitchen, that's fine. But it looks to me like he wants to appoint a Justice who will reach outcomes that establish "soup kitchens" regardless of whether that's the best view of the legal provision he or she is interpreting. </p><p>Expect the worst, not just from this judicial nomination but from all subsequent ones.</p>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-33141075058488815022009-04-29T23:30:00.000-07:002009-04-29T23:45:41.876-07:00Dear President Obama: Your partisan arrogance makes me sick.Mr. President, as unfortunate for us as it is that you were elected president (God help us) the fact is that you were elected president of ALL of us... including those of us "waving tea bags around."<br /><br />Your insistence on once again playing the race card is yet another in the many sickening chapters you're writing as you destroy our economy and enslave my children to pay for your socialism. Let me make this clear enough that even a high functioning moron can understand it:<br /><br />The fact that half of your genetic make up comes from the continent of Africa means nothing to me. It is you incompetence, your fringe-leftist partisanship, your total cluelessness on both domestic and foreign polciy and your massive, unrelenting arrogance that makes you such a colassal waste of skin as our President.<br /><br />If you were a green lepricon, my distain for you and the damage that you and your minions are causing would be precisely the same. You've made the idiotic mistake of surrounding yourself with yes men and women; you've politicized issues that should not be politicized; you've shown a massive level of disdain for those of us wise enough to oppose your rank stupidity and you've done absoluitely nothing to bring us together except to insult, belittle and punish us with trillions of dollars of debt.<br /><br />As we wise up to the truth of your perfidy, you popularity will shrink at a rate that even your media leg-humpers will not be able to fix.<br /><br />And then what?<br /><br />Idiot.<br /><br /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><a title="Blog home" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/"><img border="0" src="http://images.politico.com/global/v3/blog_images/headerlarge_michaelcalderone.jpg" /></a> </td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><div style="WIDTH: 458px; OVERFLOW: hidden"><p><br /><b style="COLOR: #666666">April 29, 2009</b><br /><b style="COLOR: #666666">Categories:</b> <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/index.cfm/category/BarackObama"><strong><span style="color:#004276;">Barack Obama</span></strong></a></p><h1 class="section_best_breaking">Obama knocks 'certain news channels'</h1><p class="blogtext"><object width="320" height="260"><embed height="260" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" src="http://mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf" flashvars="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg%3Fflv%3Dhttp://mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/04/29/obama-20090429-teabags.flv"></embed></object><p><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0409/Obama_knocks_certain_news_channels.html">Wonder which news channel Obama was talking about today during his town hall in St. Louis.</a></p><blockquote>"Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21275.html"><strong><span style="color:#004276;">you see folks waving tea bags around</span></strong></a>, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security...but let's not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act."<br /></blockquote><p>(h/t JMart)</p><p>UPDATE: Media Matters has the clip, as well as, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904290023?show=1"><strong><span style="color:#004276;">Limbaugh's reaction</span></strong></a>.</p><p></p><br /></div></td></tr><tr><td><div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; PADDING-TOP: 15px"><b style="COLOR: #666666">By Michael Calderone 12:23 PM</b></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-16542406388886481422009-04-27T20:20:00.000-07:002009-04-28T15:54:57.128-07:00Dear President Obama: Someone, most likely you, needs to be fired for the NYC fly-over idiocy of yours.Mr. President, it's bad enough that you're such a rank hypocrite on the environment, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/04/23/cbss-knoller-obama-burned-9-000-gallons-jet-fuel-one-earth-day-speech">having wasted 9,000 gallons of fuel and hundreds of thousands of our tax payer dollars so you could make one of your many hypocritical speeches </a>telling us how to live while you ignore those same rules, some moron working for you <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272009/news/regionalnews/obama_plane_photo_op_startles_new_yorker_166470.htm">REALLY thought it was necessary for one of the Air Force One fleet to ACTUALLY fly low over the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">WTC</span> site for a photo op with the Statue of Liberty.</a><br /><br />Besides the idiocy of actually spending ADDITIONAL hundreds of thousands taxpayer dollars for ANOTHER photo op, you failed to let all of the appropriate New York authorities on to the gag, so you managed to scare the crap out of a few million people... more then you do merely by being our incompetent president, I mean.<br /><br />Tell us, please, Mr. President... we're dying to know: is there some PARTICULAR reason one of those criminals... one of those incompetent morons working for you couldn't have accomplished the same thing by PHOTO SHOPPING THIS LITTLE DRAMA?<br /><br />YOU tell US not to waste energy... and then YOU, not unlike that simpleton short-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">busser</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">AlGore</span>, waste more energy in a DAY then most families go through in a year.<br /><br />EVERY DAY YOU'RE PRESIDENT TERRIFIES ME.<br /><br />What scares me even more is that apparently, you've surrounded yourself with a bunch of "yes" men and women, people who lack the guts or intelligence to tell you when you're bound and determined to do something stupid... again.<br /><br />When you engage in these monumentally stupid and unforced errors; stupid, unforced errors that the media would have crucified any Republican over, you embolden our enemies and weaken our country. Who is your fall guy for this idiocy, Mr. President? Who <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">gets</span> fired? That non-military idiot you hired to run the Military Affairs Office, Louis Caldera in your shop? He seems like a likely foil. At only $50,000 per hour to fly your plane, ($328,835 total costs... for a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">fricking</span> PICTURE) you'd think he'd give a rat's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">patooty</span> about our money and making you like more like a fool than you do all by yourself.<br /><br />Simple, basic, competency, Mr. President. You're screwing up in ways that would get a 5<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">th</span> grade class president suspended from school. And you're doing it over... and over... and over... again.<br /><br />Caldera needs to go, and you need to put a one star BACK IN THERE. If you had actually kept this a military billet... then none of this additional idiocy would have happened.<br /><br />Stop it. While the Iranians, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">NorKs</span>, Russians and Chinese are amused by your idiocy, and are becoming increasingly sure that if they take a shot at us, they'll be able to accomplish that which no one else has been able to do... and that is, succeed.... those of us actually paying attention are becoming less so.K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-10550870087671110182009-04-26T09:48:00.000-07:002009-04-26T09:52:43.196-07:00Dear President Obama: 100 Days, 100 mistakes.Mister President, I know that those fronting for you are out there spinning like a top... and that you're trying one of those back room, smoke and mirror "reconciliation" moves to ram your moronic health care program down our throats...
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<br />...But here's a reality check JUST for you.
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<br />I provide this along with my fervent prayer that we can survive your fringe left politics and incompetence. Thanks to you, 2010 is shaping up rather nicely.
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<br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/100_days__100_mistakes_166177.htm?page=0">100 Days, 100 Mistakes</a></span></strong>
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<br />Last updated: 4:44 am April 26, 2009 Posted: 12:38 pm April 25, 2009
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<br />1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said." -- McClatchy, 3/11
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<br />2. "There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments." -- Obama during the campaign.
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<br />3. This year's budget deficit: $1.5 trillion.
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<br />4. Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million -- a whopping .0027%!
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<br />5. "The <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=White_House">White House</a> says the president is unaware of the tea parties." -- ABC News, 4/15
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<br />6. "Mr. Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the 'teleprompt president' over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech." -- Sky News, 3/18
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<br />7. In early February, the 2010 census was moved out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, politicizing how federal aid is distributed and electoral districts are drawn.
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<br />8. Obama taps Nancy Killefer for a new administration job, First Chief Performance Officer -- to police government spending. But it surfaces that Killefer had performance issues of her own -- a tax lien was slapped on her DC home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She withdrew.
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<br />9. Turkey tried to block the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as new NATO secretary general because he didn't properly punish the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel were outraged; Obama said he supported Turkey's induction into the European Union.
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<br />10. . . . and he never mentioned the Armenian genocide.
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<br />11. The picture of Obama and Hugo Chavez shaking hands.
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<br />12. Hugo Chavez gave him the anti-American screed "The Open Veins of Latin America." Obama didn't remark upon it. At least it wasn't DVDs.
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<br />13. Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega went on a 50-minute anti-American rant, calling Obama "president of an empire." Obama didn't leave the room. "I thought it was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought," he said.
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<br />14. Executives at AIG get $165 million in bonuses, despite receiving an $173 billion taxpayer bailout.
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<br />15. "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. It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back." -- Associated Press, 3/18
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<br />16. "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." -- <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=New_York">New York Post</a>, 2/15
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<br />17. SARAH PALIN ON: "I WON" AND THE DEATH OF BIPARTISANSHIP
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<br />"Obama soared to victory on the hopeful promise of a new era of bipartisanship. During his inaugural address he even promised an 'end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.'
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<br />"Too bad it took all of three days for the promise to ring hollow.
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<br />"Start with Obama's big meeting with top congressional leaders on his signature legislation -- the stimulus -- on the Friday after his inauguration. Listening to Republican concerns about overspending was a nice gesture -- until he shut down any hopes of real dialogue by crassly telling Republican leaders: 'I won.' Even the White House's leaking of the comment was a slap at the Republican leadership, who'd expected Obama to adhere to the custom of keeping private meetings with congressional leadership, well, private.
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<br />"It's only gone downhill from there. The stimulus included zero Republican recommendations, and failed to get a single House Republican vote.
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<br />"It's not just the tactic of using Republicans for bipartisan photo-ops, and then cutting them loose before partisan decisions, that irks Obama's opponents. The new president wasted no time rushing forward with policies and legislation guaranteed to drive Republicans nuts. The first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- a partisan hot-button that drew all of eight Republican supporters in the entire Congress. Then there was the swift reversal of Bush policies on abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research -- issues dear to the Republican base.
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<br />"And when Obama and the Democrats in Congress took up SCHIP -- the children's health-insurance bill that Republicans say vastly expands government's role in health care -- they had an easy chance for real bipartisanship. After all, the bill had been hashed out in the previous Congress, and a bipartisan accord was reached before President Bush responded with a veto. Did the Obama team push for the compromise version in the 111th Congress? Nope. They went back to the drawing board, ramming through the Democrats' dream version.
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<br />"Of course, the lack of bipartisanship isn't limited to Capitol Hill. Obama has taken gratuitous swipes at the Republicans who recently decamped Washington, blaming President Bush for everything from the economy and the war to the lack of sufficient puppies and rainbows. And who could forget the Rush Limbaugh flap -- in which Obama's top advisers, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, orchestrated a public relations campaign meant to undermine the <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Republican_National">Republican National Committee</a> chairman, Michael Steele, by framing talk-radio personality Limbaugh as the real head of the Republican Party.
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<br />"For now, Obama's back-pedal on the bipartisanship promise just makes him look insincere. But the real consequences of the mistake will be felt soon enough. As Presidents Bush and Clinton could tell him, congressional majorities do change -- and at some point, Obama will need Republicans on his side. He'd be smart to spend his second 100 days making up for the serious snubs of his first."
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<br />-- Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska
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<br />18. "The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war is being replicated today." -- Department of Homeland Security intelligence report
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<br />19. Nixes a "buy American" provision in the stimulus bill.
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<br />20. "Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn't have a drug war going on. Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there." -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The 9/11 hijackers did not come across the Canada border
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<br />21. "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 health care system. The proposal is politically problematic for President Obama, however, since it is similar to one he denounced in the presidential campaign as 'the largest middle-class tax increase in history.' " -- New York Times, 3/14
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<br />22. JOE SCARBOROUGH ON: PROMOTING FEAR
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<br />"During his historic inaugural speech, <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> promised to usher in a transformational age where hope would replace fear, unity would overtake partisanship, and change would sweep aside the status quo. But early in President Obama's first 100 days it is obvious that the only thing that is changing is the Candidate of Change, himself.
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<br />"The same politician who proclaimed during his inauguration that 'on this day we have chosen hope over fear' soon warned Americans that the US economy would be forever destroyed if the stimulus bill was voted down.
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<br />"Why was it that same man who promised to put Americans' interests ahead of his own political ambitions chose instead to use the suffering of citizens to advance his agenda?
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<br />"Maybe he was following the guidance of <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Rahm_Emanuel">Rahm Emanuel</a>, who famously said, 'You never want to waste a good crisis.'
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<br />"They didn't.
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<br />"The White House's warnings were so over-the-top that Bill Clinton felt compelled to warn the new president against making such grim pronouncements. Americans would quickly warn that the White House would not channel FDR's eternal optimism but rather embrace the gloomy worldview of Edgar Allen Poe.
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<br />"The Candidate of Hope also quickly adopted the Nixonian worldview that Americans voted their fears rather than their hopes. Over Mr. Obama's first 100 days, that cynical calculation paid off politically for a White House that seemed most interested in appeasing the most liberal members of his Democratic Party.
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<br />"I expected more from Barack Obama. For the sake of my country, I hope I get it from the new president over the next 100 days."
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<br />-- Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and author of "The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise" (Crown Forum), due out June 9.
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<br />23. Sanjay Gupta was in discussions to become Surgeon General, but the TV personality withdrew after he was criticized for his flimsy political record.
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<br />24. Rasmussen finds 58% of Americans believe the Obama administration's release of CIA memos endangers the national security of the United States.
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<br />25. Only 28% think the Obama administration should do any further investigating of how the Bush administration treated terrorism suspects.
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<br />26. "Obama thanked CIA employees for their work and said they're invaluable to national security. He explained his decision to release the memos, then told everyone not to feel bad because he was now acknowledging potential mistakes. Theirs, not his. 'That's how we learn,' Obama said, as though soothing a room full of fourth-graders." -- The Oklahoman, 4/23
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<br />27. By releasing the torture memos, Obama opened American citizens up to international tribunals. A UN lawyer said the US is obliged to prosecute lawyers who drafted the memos or else violate the Geneva Conventions.
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<br />28. In their first meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave Obama a carved ornamental penholder from the timbers of the anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet. Obama gave him 25 DVDs that don't work in Europe.
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<br />29. TIM CARNEY ON: PICKING BILL RICHARDSON AS SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
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<br />"Richardson's value in Obama's Cabinet had everything to do with appearances. First, he was the Hispanic pick. Second, because Richardson had run against Obama for President, tapping him for the Cabinet helped the media write the Obama-Lincoln comparisons by burnishing the 'Team of Rivals' image.
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<br />"But Richardson withdrew before Obama was even inaugurated when news came out about a criminal investigation involving David Rubin, president of a firm named Chambers, Dunhill, Rubin & Co. (although there was no Chambers or Dunhill), who had donated at least $110,000 to Richardson's campaign committees and had also profited from $1.5 million in contracts from the state government.
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<br />"This was an early warning sign about Obama's vetting process (various tax problems and the Daschle problem would reveal this as a theme), but picking Richardson to run Commerce also highlighted that Obama and Richardson's promise of 'public-private partnerships' -- such as Detroit bailouts, Wall Street bailouts, and green energy--was an open door for corruption and was at odds with Obama's promise to diminish the influence of lobbyists.
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<br />"The Richardson mistake was one of Obama's first, and it was emblematic. Richardson embodied Obama's attention to self-image and the problems inherent in his vision of an intimate business-government connection."
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<br />-- Tim Carney is a Washington Examiner columnist
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<br />30. Timothy Geithner nomination as Secretary of Treasury was almost torpedoed when it was discovered he had failed to pay $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes. He also employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper. He was confirmed anyway.
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<br />31. . . . Not so lucky, Annette Nazareth, who was nominated for Deputy Treasury Secretary. She withdrew her name for undisclosed "personal reasons" after a monthlong probe into her taxes . . .
<br />32. . . . or Caroline Atkinson, who withdrew as nominee for Undersecretary of International Affairs in Treasury Department, with a source blaming the long vetting process. Geithner still has a skeleton crew at Treasury, with no one qualified -- or willing -- to take jobs there.
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<br />33. "Barack Obama has been embroiled in a cronyism row after reports that he intends to make Louis Susman, one of his biggest fundraisers, the new US ambassador in London. The selection of Mr. Susman, a lawyer and banker from the president's hometown of Chicago, rather than an experienced diplomat, raises new questions about Mr Obama's commitment to the special relationship with Britain." -- Telegraph, 2/22
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<br />34. Obama's doom-and-gloom comments and budget bill push the Dow below 7,000, from which it's only recently recovered.
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<br />35. "You're sitting here. And you're -- you are laughing. You are laughing about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, 'I mean, he's sitting there just making jokes about money--' How do you deal with -- I mean: Explain. Are you punch-drunk?" -- Steve Kroft, "60 Minutes," 3/22
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<br />36. "We have begun to modernize 75% of all federal building space, which has the potential to reduce long-term energy costs by billions of dollars on behalf of taxpayers. We are providing grants to states to help weatherize hundreds of thousands of homes, which will save the families that benefit about $350 each year. That's like a $350 tax cut." -- Obama, describing something that doesn't cut taxes.
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<br />37. "The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government." -- Defense News, 2/19
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<br />38. Backtracking on a campaign promise he made to black farmers, Obama significantly lowered the amount of money they could claim in a discrimination settlement against the Agricultural Department. "I can't figure out for the life of me why the president wouldn't want to implement a bill that he fought for as a US senator," said John Boyd, head of the National Black Farmers Association.
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<br />39. "I've been practicing bowling. I bowled a 129. It was like the Special Olympics or something." -- Obama on "The Tonight Show"
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<br />40. Obama lifts travel and remittance restrictions on Cuba.
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<br />41. Obama considers dropping the embargo on Cuba.
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<br />42. After warming signs from Raul Castro, Fidel Castro says Obama "misinterpreted" his brother's words, and that Cuba would not be willing to negotiate about human rights.
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<br />43. Obama is considering dropping a key demand to Iran, allowing it to keep nuclear facilities open during negotiations.
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<br />44. In a letter to Dmitri Medvedev, Obama offered to drop plans for a missile shield in Europe in exchange for Russia's help in resolving the nuclear weapons issue in Iran.
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<br />45. Medvedev said he would not "haggle" on Iran and the missile shield.
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<br />46. Obama asked Congress for an extra $83.4 billion to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a special funding measure of the kind he opposed while in the senate. As a candidate, Obama promised to cut the cost of military operations.
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<br />47. After trying to woo Europe as the "anti-Bush," Obama made an impassioned plea for more troops in Afghanistan. "Europe should not simply expect the United States to shoulder that burden alone," he said. "This is a joint problem it requires a joint effort." Only the UK offered substantial help, most others refused.
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<br />48. "While the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 2008." -- Washington Post, 3/27
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<br />49. Obama bows to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London.
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<br />50. "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah." -- An Obama aide
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<br />51. DANA PERINO ON: REMAINING IN CAMPAIGN MODE
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<br />"Has it really only been 100 days? In many ways it feels like a lot longer.
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<br />"That's partly because the new administration remains in campaign mode most of the time. Now that's not in itself a bad thing if you can do that and accomplish your agenda. But what's happened is that a popular new president has laid out a very bold agenda in the midst of an economic crisis, and I don't think Congress is going to get a lot of work done on those big ticket items this year. They'll eke out a couple of small wins on issues like healthcare and maybe energy, but the Democrats will hail them as big victories. The Republicans have been working like a cohesive and loyal opposition party, and they need to continue to outline positive new ideas like the recent one to help grow American's savings.
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<br />"The early stumbles on the administration's high profile nominations -- Daschle and Richardson for just to examples -- acted like weights around their ankles. In addition, the partisan shots from the White House were unbecoming and I don't think we'll see more of that. Our allies and our enemies -- heck, even we ourselves -- are trying to understand the new foreign policy direction, which in some ways seems to be change just for the sake of change. The next moves by the leaders of other countries -- like Iran, North Korea and Venezuela -- probably will prove that really not much will change just because America has a new president.
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<br />"In many ways, it's the next 100 days that will tell us more about our new president and what he'll be able to accomplish than we can forecast based on the first 100 days."
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<br />-- Dana Perino was White House press secretary in the Bush Administration
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<br />52. "We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary." -- Obama, describing the stimulus bill
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<br />53. Three candidates for ambassador to the Vatican -- including Caroline Kennedy -- were turned down by the Holy See because they supported abortion, according to reports.
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<br />54. After saying he wouldn't have lobbyists in his administration, Obama made 17 exceptions in the first two weeks in office.
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<br />55. . . . including Tom Daschle, who worked as a top lobbyist yet was going to be appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services -- until his failure to pay income taxes derailed his nomination.
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<br />56. For an April 14 speech at Georgetown, the administration asked the university to cover up all signs and symbols -- including the letters "IHS" in gold, a symbol for Jesus.
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<br />57. Samantha Power, who resigned from the Obama campaign after calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a "monster," was hired to a position on the National Security Council.
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<br />58. "Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park -- despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions." -- Chicago Sun-Times, 2/20
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<br />59. Firing Rick Wagoner as president of GM.
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<br />60. Threatening to fire Vikram Pandit as CEO of Citigroup.
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<br />61. Threatening to fire anyone the administration doesn't like from any company.
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<br />62. Not adopting a dog from a shelter.
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<br />63. "The GAO study asserts that officials from most of the states surveyed 'expressed concerns regarding the lack of Recovery Act funding provided for accountability and oversight. Due to fiscal constraints, many states reported significant declines in the number of oversight staff -- limiting their ability to ensure proper implementation and management of Recovery Act funds.' " -- ABC News, 4/23
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<br />64. "The National Newspaper Publishers Association named Obama 'Newsmaker of the Year.' The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon. The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press." -- Los Angeles Times, 3/20
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<br />65. "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." -- Attorney General Eric Holder
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<br />66. "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances." -- Obama, on consulting with only "living" presidents
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<br />67. Obama quietly announced that he would not press for new labor and environmental regulations in the North American Free Trade Agreement, going back on a campaign promise.
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<br />68. NICOLE GELINAS ON: MISSPENT STIMULUS
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<br />"One of Obama's most poignant missed opportunities was in not using the historic $787 million stimulus package to reorder state and local government's spending priorities. As states and cities continue to spend ceaselessly and without results on education and healthcare, they're crowding out investments in the physical infrastructure that the private sector needs to rebuild the economy.
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<br />"In the stimulus, of the more than $200 billion that went directly to states and cities, nearly 70% went to education and healthcare spending. Only 24% went to infrastructure spending.
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<br />"But the states and cities in the most trouble already spend way too much on education and healthcare, pushing taxes up and sending private industry away. They don't spend nearly enough on infrastructure, which attracts the private sector and builds the real economy.
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<br />"As David Walker, former comptroller general of the US, said at the Regional Plan Association's annual meeting a week ago, nationwide, we are the 'highest in the world' on education. We are 'the highest in the world' on healthcare. 'Nobody comes even close.' On infrastructure, by contrast, we are 'below average' in both critical new investments and in much-needed maintenance spending.
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<br />"And, as Democratic governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell said at the same conference, when President Dwight Eisenhower left office, infrastructure spending was about 12.5% of non-military domestic spending. Today, it's about 2.5%.
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<br />"This shortfall is obvious to anyone who's ridden on an "express train" to the outer boroughs or driven on the Cross Bronx Expressway recently. But in New York, as elsewhere, the stimulus money has just allowed the state to ramp up spending on its wasteful, inhumane Medicaid program and its nosebleed public-school spending.
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<br />"Meanwhile, the subways are about to crumble into oblivion -- taking the economy with them. The same is true of decaying infrastructure in California and in aging states across the nation.
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<br />"The stimulus was a once-in-a-generation chance to change this. Instead, it made the situation worse."
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<br />-- Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to City Journal
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<br />69. "The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to overrule Michigan v. Jackson, the 1986 Supreme Court decision that held that if police may not interrogate a defendant after the right to counsel has attached, if the defendant has a lawyer or has requested a lawyer. This isn't the first time the Justice Department, under President Obama, has sought to limit defendants' rights." -- TalkLeft blog
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<br />70. "By any measure, my administration has inherited a fiscal disaster." -- Obama
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<br />71. "Ahh, see. I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can't end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I'm going to get grilled every time I come down here." -- Brushing off questions from the White House press corps
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<br />72. On Earth Day, Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One to get to Iowa, burning more than 9,000 gallons of fuel.
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<br />73. "President Obama's plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs for the treatment of troops injured in service has infuriated veterans groups who say the government is morally obligated to pay for service-related medical care." -- Fox News, 3/17
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<br />74. "And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it." -- Obama during his first State Of The Union address. A German invented the automobile
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<br />75. RALPH PETERS ON: FUMBLING IN AFGHANISTAN, FAKING IT IN PAKISTAN
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<br />"We're squandering blood and treasure in Afghanistan. Instead of concentrating fiercely on the vital task of destroying al Qaeda and its friends, the Obama administration's determined to erect a modern nation where no nation exists. Afghanistan isn't a country. It's a dysfunctional reservation inhabited by tribes that hate each other. There's no 'Afghan' identity. And even if our blind-to-reality efforts succeeded perfectly, the result would be meaningless.
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<br />"Except as a target range where we can gun down terrorists, Afghanistan doesn't matter. Next door, Pakistan matters immensely. But we don't know what to do about it. With 170 million anti-American Muslims descending into chaos as Pashtuns, Baluchis, Punjabis, Sindhis and others claw each other over the country's shabby remains, Pakistan's corrupt president shrugs, its military cowers, its loathsome intelligence services collude with Islamist extremists, and the safety of its nuclear weapons grows doubtful.
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<br />"Pakistan may be this generation's chamber of horrors.
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<br />"The Obama administration's response? Drill more wells in the Afghan countryside. Dramatically reinforce our troops in Afghanistan, sticking them with an impossible mission of modernizing a pre-medieval landscape while exposing them at the end of an insecure 1,500-mile supply line through, of all places, Pakistan.
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<br />"As for Pakistan itself, the Obama administration wants to send billions of dollars to a thieving government that makes Nigeria's look like a Quaker meeting and to hand Pakistan's military more arms -- weapons that might soon be used against us.
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<br />"Pakistan was a bad idea when it was created in 1947. It's a worse one now. Afghanistan wasn't even an idea, just an accident of where other borders ended. We can't 'save' either one -- because neither wants to be saved on our terms.
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<br />"Obama said the right things -- that Afghanistan isn't Iraq and that our goal should be the destruction of al Qaeda. But his policies just regurgitate our Iraq strategy (one he opposed) in a profoundly different context, while ambitious generals echo Vietnam-era calls for more forces.
<br />"Our troops will do whatever we ask, to the best of their magnificent abilities. But we should ask them to do things that make sense. We need creative strategic thought, but we're succumbing to sheer inertia. And the president's supporters who howled that we should abandon Iraq to concentrate on their candidate's 'good war' don't seem to be volunteering to do any fighting. Meanwhile, our president's trapped himself inside his own campaign promiseing, Vietnam!"
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<br />-- Ralph Peters is the author of "Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Ben World"
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<br />77. "President Obama failed to consult Congress, as promised, before carving out exceptions to the omnibus spending bill he signed into law -- breaking his own signing-statement rules two days after issuing them -- and raised questions among lawmakers and committees who say the president's objections are unclear at best and a power grab at worst." -- Washington Times, 3/24
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<br />78. Adolfo Carrion was confirmed as Director of White House Office of Urban Affairs, but is serving under a cloud after allegations that he accepted thousands of dollars in cash from developers whose projects he approved.
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<br />79. KYLE SMITH ON: GOING AFTER RUSH LIMBAUGH
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<br />"Every so often an unfocused athlete forgets about the field of play and climbs into the stands. Ty Cobb did it. Ron Artest did it. Maybe no one did it with more sick flir than the greasy, furious Hanson Brothers who, in 'Slap Shot,' climbed into the stands to give a beatdown to a fan.
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<br />"In March, Barack Obama sent his own personal Hanson Brothers, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and spokesman Robert Gibbs, out to attack a non-politician -- Rush Limbaugh -- who was sitting innocently in the stands jeering the action. Limbaugh didn't even throw a cup of beer.
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<br />"Senior White House staffers, who have already fallen into the classic trap of paying more attention to polls than fixing the country's problems, had become obsessed with surveys showing that Limbaugh was an unpopular figure with swing voters. Pretty soon Emanuel and Gibbs developed Limbaugh Tourette's. To paraphrase Joe Biden's witty putdown of Rudy Giuliani, for a few days every sentence they uttered contained three things: a subject, a verb and Rush Limbaugh.
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<br />"El Rushbo, chuckling over his cigar as his ratings skyrocketed, could not have been more pleased if a picture had emerged of Obama wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt and burning the American flag on Harvard Square. Even that portion of the public that doesn't like Rush squirmed at the embarrassing spectacle of the president's men going all Mean Girls on an entertainer. <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=George_W.">George W. Bush</a>'s spokesmen maintained a dignified silence about Michael Moore. Picture them fanning out over the Sunday talk shows to denounce, and drive up the box-office receipts of, 'Fahrenheit 9/11.' Wouldn't you have loved that, Michael?"
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<br />-- Kyle Smith is a Post columnist
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<br />80. Forced banks that didn't want TARP money to take it, then added on stipulations about pay and government control after the fact. Secretly forced <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Bank_of">Bank of America</a> to buy Merrill Lynch, then allowed the bank to be criticized for overpaying.
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<br />81. "More than 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States," Obama said in Mexico, yet factcheck.org says, "The figure represents only the percentage of crime guns that have been submitted by Mexican officials and traced by U.S. officials. We can find no hard data on the total number of guns actually 'recovered in Mexico,' but US and Mexican officials both say that Mexico recovers more guns that it submits for tracing. Therefore, the percentage of guns 'recovered' and traced to US sources necessarily is less than 90%."
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<br />82. Obama: "[Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc.], said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off." Jim Owens: "I think realistically no. The truth is we're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again."
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<br />83.</a> "In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." -- Obama in Strasbourg, France
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<br />84. Joe Biden: "If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, if we stand up there and we really make the tough decisions, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong."
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<br />85. Joe Biden: "You all worked for change. You wanted to see change. Well, that wasn't a hard thing to try to communicate to the American people. Obviously, obviously, we needed a change almost no matter who was running."
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<br />86. Joe Biden: "You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number? I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."
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<br />87. "There are more than 6.5 million trucks in the United States. The program Congress terminated allowed 97 Mexican trucks to roam among them. Ninety-seven! Shutting them out not only undermines NAFTA. It caused Mexico to retaliate with tariffs on 90 goods affecting $2.4 billion in U.S. trade coming out of 40 states." -- Charles Krauthammer, 3/20
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<br />88. DAVID M. DRUCKER ON: BOWING TO CONGRESS
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<br />"Although the president possesses enormous political capital -- both because of high approval ratings and because his administration is still in its infancy -- he has generally declined to exercise it with Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, including when it comes to crafting legislation key to moving his agenda forward.
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<br />"Rather he has allowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) to craft legislation as they see fit -- even though the very bills in question were proposed by the president and involve key planks in his agenda. Among them were Obama's signature $787 billion <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=economic_stimulus">economic stimulus</a> bill, his first major piece of legislation that was signed into law in February; and now health care reform, currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill with minimal input from the White House.
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<br />"This soft-pedal style of leadership runs the risk of forcing Obama to embrace legislation constructed for narrow partisan interests rather than in a manner capable of garnering broad bipartisan support. Over time, the public might come to see Obama's deference to Pelosi and Reid as a weakness of leadership not befitting a president in tough times."
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<br />-- David M. Drucker is a staff writer for Roll Call
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<br />89. "It has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census, there are irresolvable conflicts for me." -- Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who became the second failed Commerce Secretary nominee
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<br />90. In the third sentence of his first speech as president, Obama said, "44 Americans have now taken the presidential oath." The correct number is 43, as Grover Cleveland served twice.
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<br />91. The $49 million inauguration -- triple what taxpayers spent at Bush's first inauguration.
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<br />92. Giving the Queen of England an iPod full of his own speeches.
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<br />93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting "American Idol."
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<br />94. "The United States government has no interest in running GM. Your [GM] warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been, because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty." -- Obama
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<br />95. GM is given $15.4 billion in loans from the government.
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<br />96. The Obama Administration is trying to scuttle a lawsuit filed in federal court against Iran by former US embassy hostages. The lawsuit alleges that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers who interrogated the captives.
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<br />97. GLENN BECK ON: BAD ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS
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<br />"Ten days before his inauguration, the President's chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Rohmer, released a report describing what to expect economically during the first 100 days and beyond. It presented two starkly different scenarios: one good (if the stimulus were to be passed), and one terrifyingly bad (if we did nothing). Amazingly, the report estimated that if the stimulus package were to pass, the unemployment rate would not go above 8% at any time until at least 2014.
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<br />"It's already at 8.5%.
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<br />"In fact, while there is an acknowledged level of uncertainty, the projections estimated that the unemployment rate would be lower today if we had done nothing at all. This suggests one of two things: either the administration misjudged the seriousness of our economic problems, or the stimulus plan is actually making things worse. I suspect it's a little of both.
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<br />"Remember, when the President's budget was released, he was roundly criticized for his never ending deficits, even under his own optimistic scenarios for growth. The nonpartisan <a class="topiclink" href="http://www.nypost.com/topics/topic.php?t=Congressional_Budget">Congressional Budget Office</a> projected deficits that were even uglier. But, if the President and his economic planners were this far off, this soon, how much worse does the future look now?
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<br />"The election was supposed to bring 'change,' but I was hoping for more than the letter after the President's name, the positivity of the media coverage, and the hypoallergenic qualities of the White House puppy. President Obama didn't get us into this situation, but so far he's doubling down on the same spending philosophy that did. Common sense tells us that new debt is not the cure for old debt. No matter what the slogans say, that won't change in 100 days or 100 years."
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<br />-- Glenn Beck is the host of the "Glenn Beck" show, weekdays at 5 p.m. on Fox News.
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<br />98. "Education Secretary Arne Duncan has decided not to admit any new students to the D.C. voucher program, which allows low-income children to attend private schools ... For all the talk about putting children first, it's clear that the special interests that have long opposed vouchers are getting their way." -- Washington Post, 4/11
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<br />99. Obama enrolled his daughters in a DC private school.
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<br />100. "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." -- Obama to Rep. Peter DeFazio, after the Democratic congressman voted against the stimulus bill.
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<br />K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-82883320074702991752009-04-24T16:11:00.000-07:002009-04-24T16:35:32.812-07:00Dear President Obama: Even John Kerry thinks your Afghan policy sucks.Dear Mr. President, when John Kerry thinks your strategy sucks... you're in deep doo doo.<br /><br />The only question is this: will our country survive your training wheels phase?<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/"><img style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 16px; PADDING-TOP: 11px" border="0" alt="Home" src="http://i.usatoday.net/_common/_images/usat_logo2.gif" width="64" height="36" /></a> </div><span class="inside-head"><strong><span style="font-size:6;"></span></strong></span><br /><span class="inside-head"><strong><span style="font-size:6;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-04-21-kerry_N.htm">Kerry: Administration lacks 'real strategy' for handling Pakistan</a></span></strong></span><br /><br /><div id="byLineTag" class="byLine">By <a class="linkedBylineName" href="http://www.usatoday.com/community/tags/reporter.aspx?id=1552">Ken Dilanian</a>, USA TODAY</div><div class="byLine"></div><div class="inside-copy">WASHINGTON — Just back from a visit to Pakistan, Sen. John Kerry says the Obama administration's plan for that volatile country, rolled out last month with great fanfare, "is not a real strategy."</div><p class="inside-copy">"Pakistan is in a moment of peril," Kerry, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during a session with USA TODAY reporters and editors. "And I believe there is not in place yet an adequate policy or plan to deal with it."</p><p class="inside-copy">In an interview after the session, Kerry advised the Obama administration to stop using the term "Af-Pak," to describe a unified strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, because "I think it does a disservice to both countries and to the policy. The two governments, he said, are "very sensitive to it" and "don't see the linkage."</p><p class="inside-copy">Kerry's spokesman, Frederick Jones, said that the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan are scheduled to embark on a rare joint visit to the U.S. for meetings in May, and Kerry plans to host them for lunch May 7. </p><p class="inside-copy"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-04-21-kerry_N.htm">More:</a></p>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-14727608788271747052009-04-22T10:06:00.000-07:002009-04-22T11:07:14.042-07:00Dear President Obama: Fire that idiot Napolitano. Better yet, please resign. (2)On April 1, <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/04/dear-president-obama-fire-that-idiot.html">I posted that you should fire Napolitano... or that, better yet, you should resign.</a><br /><br />The reasons for that were obvious then, and this article makes it even MORE obvious now.<br /><br />You've put a fringe-left, clueless idiot in charge of this country's borders. Since you seem to be a fringe-left, clueless idiot yourself, I can see the attraction. Nevertheless, her increasingly obvious incompetence and ignorance does nothing to engender confidence in our security.<br /><br />Her arrogance, her coddling of illegal aliens and microm,anagement of ICE to keep them from raiding businesses that hire illegal aliens by the regiment make her a liability in every sense of the word, and it's time for her to go.<br /><br />Given your moronic handling of our economy and the idiocy you've displayed in your failed attempts to engage in foreign poiliucy, it's time for YOU to resign as well, but that's a subject for another 1000 posts or so.<br /><br />Get rid of this moron. Quickly. Before she gets us killed.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 640px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 90px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.nationalpost.com/_assets/images/logo-np.gif" /><br /><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">The border for dummies</span></strong></a><br /><p class="author"><strong>National Post </strong><span style="font-size:0;">Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009</span></p><div class="story-tools"><div class="newsblock triline">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.</div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class="story-content"><br /><p>In an interview broadcast Monday on the CBC, Ms. Napolitano attempted to justify her call for stricter border security on the premise that "suspected or known terrorists" have entered the U. S. across the Canadian border, including the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack.</p><p>All the 9/11 terrorists, of course, entered the United States directly from overseas. The notion that some arrived via Canada is a myth that briefly popped up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and was then quickly debunked.</p><p>Informed of her error, Ms. Napolitano blustered: "I can't talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here's the future. The future is we have borders."</p><p><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1520295">More:</a></p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-91358763632502049442009-04-22T09:50:00.000-07:002009-04-22T10:01:20.988-07:00Dear President Obama: So, your Communications Director is leaving? Is she the first rat to leave the sinking ship?Mr. President, this is a very interesting development.<br /><br />Why would your newly minted Communications Director want to leave the front lines of your battle to turn us into a socialist state to become Chief of Staff for a wonk like Locke?<br /><br />What happened here? Who's next? I could play that fabulous "Could it BEEEEE?" game, but I won't.<br /><br />But this is cause to pause.<br /><br />We hardly knew her, and now she's seeking political obscurity as opposed to crafting your message.<br /><br />Filed under "Things that make you go HHhhhmmmmm."<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/"><img border="0" alt="The Washington Times" src="http://media.washingtontimes.com/media/img/TWTlogo.gif" /></a> </div><div id="body" sizset="0" sizcache="2" jquery1240419473676="111"></div><br /><h1><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/wh-communications-director-leaving/">WH communications director leaving</a></h1><p class="byline">By <a class="bylinelink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/christina-bellantoni/"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Christina Bellantoni</span></a> (<a class="contactlink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/christina-bellantoni/contact"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Contact</span></a>) Wednesday, April 22, 2009<script type="text/javascript"><br />document.write('<scr' type="text/javascript" src="'+ 'http://c2l.media.newsworthyaudio.com/Partners/' + 'WashingtonTimes' + '/Audio/WashingtonTimes/' + 'news_2009_apr_22_wh-communications-director-leaving' + '.js' +'"></SCR' + 'IPT>');<br /> </script><br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://c2l.media.newsworthyaudio.com/Partners/WashingtonTimes/Audio/WashingtonTimes/news_2009_apr_22_wh-communications-director-leaving.js"></script><br /></p><p>President Obama is losing a member of his press shop just shy of his first 100 days in office. </p><p>Ellen Moran, White House communications director, will become chief of staff for Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. </p><p>Mr. Obama issued a statement through the press office commending her service thus far. </p><p>"I thank Ellen Moran for her leadership during these first critical months of my administration, and I am pleased she will serve as chief of staff at the Department of Commerce," Mr. Obama said in the statement. "Her management and strategic skills will ensure that Secretary Locke, an important member of my economic team, gets off to a fast start." </p><p><strong>TWT RELATED STORIES:</strong><br />• <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/obama-okd-2-seal-teams-for-pirates/"><span style="color:#cc6600;">EXCLUSIVE: Obama OK'd 2 SEAL teams for pirates</span></a><br />• <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/obama-open-to-torture-memo-prosecutions/"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Obama open to torture memo prosecutions</span></a><br /></p><p>Mr. Locke, the former governor of Washington state, has been in the post less than one month. He was Mr. Obama's third nominee for Commerce after two previous nominees withdrew from consideration. The agency is understaffed. </p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/wh-communications-director-leaving/">More:</a><br />.<br /></p>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-6538464862430103102009-04-16T09:08:00.000-07:002009-04-16T09:37:29.230-07:00Dear President Obama: As one of the slickest used car salesmen to ever get into the White House, your tin ear never ceases to amaze.So, you go to Georgetown University to give a speech. And then, you demand that the name of Jesus be covered, as if it weren't an integral part of the school itself.<br /><br />Now, Mr. President, I get that you could no more throw Jesus under the bus then you could the rest of the black community (Hey... wait a minute.... you DID throw Wright under a bus) but if seeing the name of Jesus OFFENDS you so much, then why the hell did you go there to give a speech?<br /><br />It seems to me, Mr. President, that since you really AREN'T God (even though it seems, all-too-frequently, that you may THINK you are) that out of politeness and respect, YOU would have accommodated THEM.<br /><br />In addition to your many other miserable failures, you're going to become known as the "Administration of Unforced Errors."<br /><br />Mr. President, the self-evident idiocy of your petty dictate on this issue is the kind of thing that breeds contempt, if not down-right hatred. What the hell were your worker bees thinking? Did one of your more moronic underlings that seem to infest our government make this call? Was it done with your concurrence?<br /><br />I've got to tell you, Mr. President, no matter how much you made MY leg tingle, if I ran that school, and you made such an idiotic demand on me, I would tell you to get stuffed.<br /><br />So, when you give your commencement at Notre Dame, are you going to force THEM to cover up references to Jesus?<br /><br />Why any Catholic school or institution would ask you to speak, given your pro-Abortion stance, is beyond me anyway.<br /><br />Your political idiocy never ceases to amaze me, Mr. President. It's seems superseded only by your supporter's gullibility.<br /><br />But as you find out in the abysmal failure that was your G-20 debacle, charm alone ain't enough to get it done. Pretty soon, you're gonna have to win some ball games.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 895px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 76px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.cnsnews.com/webimages/header_bg.jpg" /><br /><div class="print-header"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="title"><span id="ctl00_ContentArea_lblTitle">Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request</span></span><br /><span id="ctl00_ContentArea_spnAPTitle" class="APTitle"></span></span></strong></a><span class="date"><span id="ctl00_ContentArea_lblPostDateTime">Wednesday, April 15, 2009</span></span><br /><span class="byline"><a id="ctl00_ContentArea_lnkByline"></a></span>By <span id="ctl00_ContentArea_rptAuthors_ctl01_lblAuthorName">Edwin Mora</span><br /></div><div class="article-text"><p></p><div class="mediaAlignRight"><img style="WIDTH: 220px; MAX-WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: auto" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/46671.jpg" onclientload="javascript:if (typeof this.style.maxWidth == 'undefined') this.style.width='220px';" /><br /><span class="caption"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Photo of Gaston Hall stage that shows </em></span></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>symbol "IHS" that was covered up during </em></span></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>President Obama's speech to accommodate </em></span></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>a White House request. (Wikimedia photo)</em></span></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span></em></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></span></div><div><b>(CNSNews.com) </b>- Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”--symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university on Tuesday and the White House had asked Georgetown to cover up all signs and symbols there.<br /><br />As of Wednesday afternoon, the “IHS” monogram that had previously adorned the stage at Georgetown’s Gaston Hall was still covered up--when the pediment where it had appeared was photographed by CNSNews.com.</div><p></p><p></p><div class="mediaAlignRight"><img style="WIDTH: 220px; MAX-WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: auto" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/46669.jpg" onclientload="javascript:if (typeof this.style.maxWidth == 'undefined') this.style.width='220px';" /><br /><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">President Obama is greeted by Georgetown </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">University President John J. DeGioia as he </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">arrives to deliver remarks on the economy, </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">April 14, 2009, at Georgetown University. </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Georgetown had covered the symbol "IHS" </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">on the pediment above and behind the two </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">men. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)</span></em> </span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight">.</div><div class="mediaAlignRight"></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"></span></div><div>“In coordinating the logistical arrangements for yesterday’s event, Georgetown honored the White House staff’s request to cover all of the Georgetown University signage and symbols behind Gaston Hall stage,” Julie Green Bataille, associate vice president for communications at Georgetown, told CNSNews.com.<br /><br />“The White House wanted a simple backdrop of flags and pipe and drape for the speech, consistent with what they’ve done for other policy speeches,” she added. “Frankly, the pipe and drape wasn’t high enough by itself to fully cover the IHS and cross above the GU seal and it seemed most respectful to have them covered so as not to be seen out of context.”<br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="mediaAlignRight"><img style="WIDTH: 220px; MAX-WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: auto" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/46672.jpg" onclientload="javascript:if (typeof this.style.maxWidth == 'undefined') this.style.width='220px';" /><br /><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Pediment in Gaston Hall with "IHS" </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">covered as photographed by CNSNews.com,</span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">April 15, 2009. (Photo by Penny Starr,</span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">CNSNews.com)</span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">.</span></em></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></span></div><div>On Wednesday, CNSNews.com inspected the pediment embedded in the wall at the back of the stage in Gaston Hall, where Obama delivered his speech. The letters “IHS” were not to be found. They appeared to be shrouded with a triangle of black-painted plywood.<br /><br />Pictures of the wooden pediment prior to Obama’s speech show the letters “IHS" in gold. Many photos posted on the Internet of other events at Gaston Hall show the letters clearly.<br /><br />The White House did not respond to a request from CNSNews.com to comment on the covering up of Jesus’ name at Gaston Hall.<br /></div><p></p><p></p><div class="mediaAlignRight"><img style="WIDTH: 220px; MAX-WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: auto" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/resources/46673.jpg" onclientload="javascript:if (typeof this.style.maxWidth == 'undefined') this.style.width='220px';" /><br /><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">President Obama speaking at Gaston </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Hall at Georgetown on April 14 with </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">the "IHS" covered up on the pediment </span></em></span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"><em><span style="font-size:85%;">behind him. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)</span></em> </span></div><div class="mediaAlignRight">.</div><div class="mediaAlignRight"></div><div class="mediaAlignRight"><span class="caption"></span></div><div>Georgetown, which is run by the Jesuit order, is one of the most prestigious Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States.<br /><br />Roman Catholics traditionally use “IHS” as an abbreviation for Jesus’ name. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “St. Ignatius of Loyola adopted the monogram in his seal as general of the Society of Jesus (1541) and thus became the emblem of his institute.” The Society of Jesus is the formal name for the Jesuits. </div><div>.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46667">More:</a> </div></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-87037082773906415292009-04-15T11:14:00.000-07:002009-04-15T11:28:08.078-07:00Dear President Obama: I thought you might be disinterested in the people, but this is ridiculous: ABC reports: "Obama unaware of Tea Parties."At the risk of running afoul of the fascist you've got running Homeland Security, I have to ask you: are you a moron, or are your people just flat-out lying?<br /><br />Is it even remotely possible that you're so isolated that you actually DON'T know about the hundreds of protests aimed at your out of control spending and your socialist programs?<br /><br />Is it possible that you're so disinterested that even though you DO know, you simply don't care enough to respond?<br /><br />Are you such a clueless idiot that 1994 has simply faded from your reality?<br /><br />I'm chained to my desk, WORKING this morning, and if I COULD have figured out a way, I WOULD have found one of these efforts locally and voiced my concerns over the moronic programs, spending, partisanship and leftist policies you've brought to this country.<br /><br />I actually fear the leg-humping media that covers for you no matter how badly you screw up. And your utter and complete failure to acknowledge the increasing restiveness of the American tax payer shows you to be as clueless in domestic policy as much as your idiotic foreign policy.<br /><br />Get a grip, Mr. President. Fewer and fewer people are buying into your low-grade BS.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.mrc.org/"><img src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/graphics/mrc_small.gif" width="50" height="66" /></a> <a href="http://newsbusters.org/"><img alt="NewsBusters.org, the official blog of the Media Research Center" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/graphics/logo7.gif" width="310" height="65" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour/2009/04/15/abc-reports-obama-unaware-tea-parties">ABC Reports Obama is 'Unaware of Tea Parties'</a></span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong> </div><div class="picture"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/user/14264"><img title="View Julia A. Seymour's profile" border="0" alt="Photo of Julia A. Seymour." src="http://newsbusters.org/files/user_pics/picture-14264.jpg" height="85" /></a></div><div class="byline">By Julia A. Seymour (<a title="Read author biography" href="http://newsbusters.org/bios/julia-seymour.html"><span style="color:#ff4010;">Bio</span></a> <a title="View author's previous articles" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/julia-seymour-0"><span style="color:#ff4010;">Archive</span></a>)<br />April 15, 2009 - 11:13 ET </div><div id="article_tools" class="node"></div><div class="node"><br clear="right"></div><div class="entry"><div style="FLOAT: right"></div><p>Maybe he just doesn't <i>know</i> that there are people who disagree with his massive tax and spend agenda. That would explain a lot. Perhaps the network media's near <a href="http://newsbusters.org/commentary/2009/20090415101007.aspx"><span style="color:#ff4010;">silence</span></a> on the "tea party" phenomenon has kept President Obama from realizing that hundreds of tax day protests will happen today?</p><p>"The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties and will hold his own event today," ABC's Dan Harris said on "Good Morning America" on April 15.</p><!--break-->Harris's story was the first ABC News report specifically about the tea parties since Rick Santelli's of CNBC's famous rant calling for a Chicago Tea Party back in February. CNBC's Joe Kernen referred to Santelli's impact on spurring the tea parties as a <a href="http://newsbusters.org/articles/2009/20090415092104.aspx"><span style="color:#ff4010;">"cultural phenomenon."</span></a> <p>Santelli reacted on April 15 to the hundreds of protests scheduled for tax day around the country saying "<a href="http://newsbusters.org/articles/2009/20090415092104.aspx"><span style="color:#ff4010;">I'm pretty proud of this</span></a>."</p><p>NBC also addressed the tea parties in passing on April 15 "Today." Chuck Todd dismissed the protests as "so-called" tea parties and said <a href="http://newsbusters.org/articles/2009/20090415085228.aspx"><span style="color:#ff4010;">"the idea hasn't really caught on."</span></a></p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-19333282584460626452009-04-14T11:12:00.000-07:002009-04-14T11:49:47.251-07:00Dear President Obama: Has that garden gnome you appointed to run our security lost her fricking mind?<a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/jhs.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 339px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.drudgereport.com/jhs.jpg" /></a>Mr. President, I get that you know next to nothing about security. I get that compared to your <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">HSC</span> secretary, you're an expert in the field, although you don't know any more about the subject than you do, say, being a senator. <div></div><div></div><div></div><div>.</div><div>But unleashing this moron?</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>.</div><div>Mr. President, I know your feelings for the military, a military that YOU never deigned to join, borders on contempt. But by allowing this complete idiot to go out with HER tripe, you've gone WAY over the border and committed an act of war on our troops.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>.</div><div>It's bad enough that you appointed a politically correct waste of skin who shouldn't have been allowed to run an elevator. But instead of kicking this moron in the ass and firing her, you respond with THIS pap?</div><div><blockquote>"The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins. He also believes those who serve represent the best of this country, and he will continue to ensure that our veterans receive the respect and benefits they have earned."</blockquote></div><div>Obviously this cretin has ZERO respect for those of us who have not only taken an oath but have actually defended this country.</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Were she to have published some garbage like this substituting, say, the word "Muslim" for "war veteran," you would have hung her by now, if not literally, at least figuratively.</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>What was she thinking? With your tepid, gentle slap on the wrist, what were YOU thinking?</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This document is despicable.</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>The person running this agency that allowed this tripe to be published is despicable.</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Your response to this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">intolerably</span> offensive garbage is despicable.</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Have you detected a common thread here, Mr. President?</div><div>.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>And what are YOU going to DO about this?</div><div></div><div><p align="center"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/"><img border="0" alt="The Washington Times" src="http://media.washingtontimes.com/media/img/TWTlogo.gif" /></a></p></div><div></div><div><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/">Home</a> > <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news"></a><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news">News</a> > <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/editor-favorites"><strong>Editor Favorites</strong></a></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/">Federal agency warns of radicals on right</a></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size:85%;">9-page report sent to police</span></div><p class="byline">By <a class="bylinelink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/audrey-hudson/">Audrey Hudson</a> (<a class="contactlink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/audrey-hudson/contact">Contact</a>) and <a class="bylinelink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/eli-lake/">Eli Lake</a> (<a class="contactlink" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/eli-lake/contact">Contact</a>) Tuesday, April 14, 2009 </p><p>The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias. </p><p>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. </p><p>"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says. </p><p>The White House has distanced itself from the analysis. When asked for comment on its contents, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said, "The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins. He also believes those who serve represent the best of this country, and he will continue to ensure that our veterans receive the respect and benefits they have earned." </p></div><div><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/">More:</a></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-28646532504416663752009-04-13T23:13:00.000-07:002009-04-13T23:51:11.878-07:00Dear President Obama: Just when I thought you weren't worthless, this news comes along.Mr. President, I was litterally stunned to find out that you, in fact, had the balls to order the deaths of someone who actually needed it.<br /><div></div><br /><div>I was prepared to come in here and give you an "atta boy" for doing what had to be done. But then I find this out about you:</div><br /><div></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 539px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 352px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/AlecRawls/Obama/ObamaSupriseVisitToIraq2.jpg" /><br /><div>I was stunned when I saw the video of the troops response to you. Given your past efforts to sell us out; <a href="http://http//dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-president-obama-heres-why-military_16.html">your bogus effort to get us to pay for our OWN health care after we are WOUNDED</a>, <a href="http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/07/obama-landstuhl.html">your lack of concern over the troops in Landstuhl at the hospital,</a> <a href="http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/once-again-oama-blows-off-te-troops.html">your snubbing of the Medal of Honor Recipiant's Ball on your inauguration</a>, <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/02/dear-president-obama-qare-you-one.html">your illegal use of soldiers as campaign props</a>, <a href="http://dearprezobama.blogspot.com/2009/03/dear-president-obama-are-you-lying-to.html">your lies about the troop drawdown in Iraq</a>, I just could not believe that anyoine wearing a uniform would give you the time of day...</div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>..and all of a sudden, soldiers were jumping around like puppies while you had a porkchop tied around your neck.</div><div></div><div></div><br /><div>I thought it was bogus. But I couldn't put my finger on it. Fortunately, the fine folks at <a href="http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/04/11/obamas-potemkin-military-receptionno-scandal-troops-plan-who-will-take-what-questions-from-bushhuge-scandal-reader-post/">Flopping Aces</a>, via <a href="http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-military-love-fest-staged.html">NW Republican,</a> got their entire hands on the issue. And you look like a despicable punk as a result.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 627px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 571px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-content/themes/FA-aspire/images/header-bg.jpg" /></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div><p>11 Apr<br /><a title="Permanent Link to Obama’s Potemkin Military Reception=No Scandal; Troops Plan Who Will Take What Questions From Bush=Huge Scandal [Reader Post]" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/04/11/obamas-potemkin-military-receptionno-scandal-troops-plan-who-will-take-what-questions-from-bushhuge-scandal-reader-post/" rel="bookmark">Obama’s Potemkin Military Reception=No Scandal; Troops Plan Who Will Take What Questions From Bush=Huge Scandal [Reader Post]</a></p></div><div><p class="author">Posted by: <a title="Posts by Alec Rawls" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/author/alec-rawls/"><span style="color:#c33511;">Alec Rawls</span></a> @ 9:29 am in <a title="View all posts in Barack Obama" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/category/politics/barack-obama-politics/" rel="category tag"><span style="color:#c33511;">Barack Obama</span></a>, <a title="View all posts in MSM Bias" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/category/msm-bias/" rel="category tag"><span style="color:#c33511;">MSM Bias</span></a>, <a title="View all posts in Military" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/category/military/" rel="category tag"><span style="color:#c33511;">Military</span></a>, <a title="View all posts in The Iraqi War" href="http://www.floppingaces.net/category/the-iraqi-war/" rel="category tag"><span style="color:#c33511;">The Iraqi War</span></a></p><span style="font-size:78%;">Visited 5679 times, 154 so far today</span><br /><div class="entry"><br /><p>“Cheered wildly by U.S. troops,” begins Jennifer <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=jennifer+loven+democratic+operative&btnG=Search"><span style="color:#c33511;">Democratic Operative</span></a> Loven’s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97DP9U83&show_article=1"><span style="color:#c33511;">AP report</span></a> on Obama’s surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday. </p><p>Quite a contrast to the <a href="http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2009/02/semper-fi-marines-give-obama-cold.html"><span style="color:#c33511;">silent treatment</span></a> Marines gave Obama at his Camp LeJeune speech in late February. Just how did Obama manage to fix that little problem?</p><p>According to a sergeant in Iraq : </p><blockquote><p>We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?”, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up. [Via <a href="http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2009/04/07/about-that-obama-iraq-visit/"><span style="color:#c33511;">Macsmind</span></a>.]</p></blockquote><p>As supporting evidence for the digital-cameras part of the story, the sergeant (or Mac, can’t tell which), suggests that the identical cameras can be verified in the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/04/08/troops_welcome_obama_in_iraq/"><span style="color:#c33511;">AP photos</span></a>. Looks right:<br /></p><center><img src="http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/AlecRawls/Obama/ObamaSupriseVisitToIraq2.jpg" /></center><br /><em>Charles Dharapak/associated press </em><br /><p></p><p>So will the press cover this evidence of a staged and unrepresentative show of military affection for our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE"><span style="color:#c33511;">anti-military</span></a> president? The reporters were there. Did they actually see the troops being sorted by whether they voted for Obama, which the sergeant describes as happening on the spot? </p></div></div><div><a href="http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/04/11/obamas-potemkin-military-receptionno-scandal-troops-plan-who-will-take-what-questions-from-bushhuge-scandal-reader-post/">More:</a></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-2401690945641270132009-04-04T11:25:00.000-07:002009-04-04T18:34:00.042-07:00Dear President Obama: Thank you so much for failing us again - Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for AfghanistanMr. President, you've been in office a very short time... yet your list of failures has become monumental.<br /><br />You've destroyed our economy for generations; you failed to keep criminals and lobbyists out of your administration; you've failed to pull us out of Iraq; you've been an abysmal failure in our energy policy, demonizing coal, coal producers and coal minors while you've done nothing to expand nuclear power; you've failed to cut my taxes; You've failed in our foreign policy; you've failed to allow gays into the military (Although God alone knows why you'd want them there) and to that list, you can add this:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan</span><br /></div><br />You've been played like the rank amateur you are. The Russians rightfully believe they own you; The Iranians think you're a joke; the Chinese view you as a minor annoyance and the North Koreans KNOW you won't do anything about their missile launch because they perceive you as a coward.<br /><br />And what have you done to dissuade them of that?<br /><br />Meanwhile, your Charm Offensive fell flat. That massive ladle of BS that got you elected here got you no where in Europe, where they were singularly unimpressed by your willingness to sell us out and to remove America from the pedestal we have assumed via our blood and sacrifice to keep the world free...<br /><br />So, what have we gained with your ascension?<br /><br />Iran will have a nuclear weapon. North Korea will have the means to deliver a nuclear weapon.<br /><br />Iraq will start the process of spiraling out of control. The Straights of Hormuz will become an Iranian lake, our oil supplies crippled and our economy with it as gas prices soar out of control as a result of your blinding bias, incompetence and short-sightedness.<br /><br />I get that you promised change, Mr. President. But somehow I'm thinking your product to date wasn't exactly what most of your supporters, as ignorant and delusional as they seemed to be, was looking for.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/img/global/tol-logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 70px;" src="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/img/global/tol-logo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div id="region-column1and2-layout2"><div class="small color-666">April 4, 2009<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece"><span style="font-size:130%;">Barack Obama fails to win Nato troops he wants for Afghanistan</span></a></span><br /><br /></div> <!-- END: Module - Main Heading --><!-- BEGIN: M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> <script type="text/javascript" src="/tol/js/m24-image-browser.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/tol/js/tol.js"></script> <!-- BEGIN: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (e) --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- /* Global variables that are used for "image browsing". 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Belgium offered to send 35 military trainers and Spain offered 12. Mr Obama’s host, Nicolas Sarkozy, refused his request. </p> <p>The derisory response threatened to tarnish Mr Obama’s European tour, which yesterday included a spellbinding performance in Strasbourg in which he offered the world a vision of a future free of nuclear weapons. </p></div></div><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6032342.ece">More:</a>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-42755655645475776302009-04-03T15:48:00.000-07:002009-04-03T15:53:57.886-07:00Dear President Obama: I did a search for your accomplishments at the G 20.<div>This is what I got:</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnoiCGZq9CUQ2izeufnduu_cU9M5-0RMVSLoUvypUDuCv5v2dOuqDhyphenhyphenwJ736kdfUTZYkLNVD81liSgMSr-7wqQMgbIVaefL_iChBUEKpkASlAEMLJSDiHKXmLi_FPGLAfo6BtINqO8TT3/s1600-h/obamaaccomplishmentsoz0.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 68px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320601882353569794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnoiCGZq9CUQ2izeufnduu_cU9M5-0RMVSLoUvypUDuCv5v2dOuqDhyphenhyphenwJ736kdfUTZYkLNVD81liSgMSr-7wqQMgbIVaefL_iChBUEKpkASlAEMLJSDiHKXmLi_FPGLAfo6BtINqO8TT3/s200/obamaaccomplishmentsoz0.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Can you help us with that?</div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-5497823854379465982009-04-01T15:08:00.000-07:002009-04-01T15:27:02.466-07:00Dear President Obama: Fire that idiot Napolitano. Better yet, please resign.Mr. President, I get that you've got the situational awareness of a board fence. Really, I do.<br /><br />But you cannot be serious about the idiocy displayed by the moron you've put in charge of enforcing our immigration laws.<br /><br />Our laws are not supposed to be suggestions. When, for example, you decide not to pay your taxes, you should go to jail as opposed to becoming the Secretary of the Treasury. You know, the guy who is in charge of ENFORCING the law concerning paying taxes?<br /><br />I know that was just one of your first efforts at implementing a leftist double standard. For example, if MY name were <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Geithner</span>, I would, perhaps, be <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">going</span> to jail.<br /><br />So, you've come out and through the actions of that complete dolt <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Napolitano</span>, who I personally wouldn't let run an elevator, but who YOU <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">have</span> put <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">in</span> charge of this nation's border security, told the entire planet that our laws are meaningless.<br /><br />In your <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">bizarro</span> world, Illegal Immigration apparently doesn't exist. Odd that you didn't mention that in your Fantasy Island campaign, you failed to mention that you would appoint a moron to gut our immigration laws. <blockquote><p>The arrest of 28 illegal immigrants at a small engine plant in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bellingham</span> has ignited a national political firestorm over work-site raids carried out under the Obama administration.</p><p>The Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Yamato</span> Engine Specialists on Feb. 24 was the first of this presidential administration. Under massive pressure from immigrant advocates, Homeland Security Secretary Janet <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Napolitano</span> the next day ordered a probe into the actions of the Seattle-based ICE team that conducted the raid.</p><p>In the weeks that followed, most of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bellingham</span> workers were either released for<br />humanitarian reasons or after posting bond. At least one was deported. And the<br />remaining workers still in custody were freed without bail last week and offered<br />legal permission to work in the United States.</p></blockquote>You've sent a message, but the message you've sent is precisely and absolutely the WRONG message.<br /><br />You've decimated any vigor on the part of ICE to actually obey their oath and go out and rid us of this plague that takes our jobs, sucks up our resources and BREAKS OUR LAWS.<br /><br />You should know the law, Mr. President. After all, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">affirmative</span> action got you into law school, didn't it?<br /><br />To GIVE these people... BREAKING OUR LAWS.... a PERMIT TO WORK HERE is an utter <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">violation</span> of your duty to those you would govern.<br /><br />What about the millions of Americans who can't find jobs... jobs held by those who are not supposed to be here?<br /><br />Congrats, Mr. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Presid</span><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">ent</span>. Once again, you've managed to make me sick.<br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/"><img alt="The Seattle Times" src="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/art/ui/seattletimeslogo_home.gif" width="320" height="47" /></a></div><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008959099_raid01m0.html">Illegal immigrants go free; some offered work permits</a></span></strong><br /><div class="block"><p class="summary">The arrest of 28 illegal immigrants at a small engine plant in Bellingham in February has ignited a national political firestorm over work-site raids carried out under the Obama administration. The last of the workers have been released from custody and offered work permits.</p><p class="byline">By <a href="http://search.nwsource.com/search?searchtype=cq&sort=date&from=ST&byline=Lornet%20Turnbull">Lornet Turnbull</a></p><p class="source">Seattle Times staff reporter</p></div><div class="clear"></div><div class="backgrounds"><p class="relatedlabel">Related</p><ul class="iconbglink"><li class="Related_story"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008959093_border01.html">Detroit and Buffalo to get video surveillance towers</a></li><li class="Related_story"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008955371_webraid31m.html">Archive Workers arrested in Bellingham work-site raid freed</a></li><li class="Related_story"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008787533_raid26m.html">Archive Napolitano demands review of ICE raid at Bellingham plant</a></li><li class="Related_story"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008781541_webraid24m.html">Archive Immigration officials raid Bellingham plant</a></li></ul></div><div class="infobox"><p class="title"><strong>The illegal-worker dilemma</strong></p><strong>The past:</strong> ICE raids have focused more on workers, because it's relatively easy to prove an individual is illegal. <p><strong>The present:</strong> Agents are expected to be told to focus more on arresting and prosecuting employers and less on workers.</p><p><strong>The problem:</strong> An employer must wait for a newly hired employee to start work before trying to verify work eligibility in this country.</p><p><em>Seattle Times staff</em></p></div><div id="admiddle3right"><p><img border="0" alt="advertising" vspace="1" src="http://local.ads.nwsource.com/ads/adv.gif" width="70" height="7" /></p><!------ OAS AD 'Middle3' begin ------><script language="JavaScript"><!-- OAS_AD('Middle3'); //--></script><!------ OAS AD 'Middle3' end ------></div><div class="body"><!-- quote: " We hope these changes will create a new precedent in how raids are done, that it leads to them being stopped completely." --><!-- qtitle: Community to Community --><!-- quote: Rosalinda Guillen --><p>The arrest of 28 illegal immigrants at a small engine plant in Bellingham has ignited a national political firestorm over work-site raids carried out under the Obama administration.</p><p>The Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at Yamato Engine Specialists on Feb. 24 was the first of this presidential administration. Under massive pressure from immigrant advocates, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano the next day ordered a probe into the actions of the Seattle-based ICE team that conducted the raid.</p><p>In the weeks that followed, most of the Bellingham workers were either released for humanitarian reasons or after posting bond. At least one was deported. And the remaining workers still in custody were freed without bail last week and offered legal permission to work in the United States.</p><p>Napolitano also has delayed raids planned for other work sites, while she reviews policies under which ICE agents carry out these actions.</p><p><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html">More:</a></p></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-86548363309974305642009-03-31T00:16:00.000-07:002009-03-31T00:17:02.301-07:00Dear President Obama: I have to admit it. My liberal friends were right....They told me if I voted for McCain, the nation's Hope would deteriorate, and sure enough there has been a 20 point drop in the Consumer Confidence Index since the election, reaching a lower point than any time during the Bush administration.<br /><br />They told me if I voted for McCain, the US would become more deeply embroiled in the Middle East, and sure enough tens of thousands of additional troops are scheduled to be deployed into Afghanistan.<br /><br />They told me if I voted for McCain, that the economy would get worse and sure enough unemployment is approaching 10% and the new stimulus packages implemented recently have sent the stock market lower than at any time since 9-11<br /><br />They told me if I voted for McCain, we would see more "crooks" in high ranking positions in Federal government and sure enough, several recent cabinet nominees and Senate appointments , LET ALONE the CHICAGO CRIMINALS, revealed resumes of bribery and tax fraud.<br /><br />Well I ignored my Democrat friends in November and voted for McCain. And sure enough, they were right... all of their predictions have come true.K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-71064264414297094642009-03-30T08:56:00.000-07:002009-03-30T09:31:05.248-07:00Dear President Obama: The evidence indicates you've lost your fricking mind.The thought <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">occurred</span> to me in a rather frightening way, that you don't <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">have</span> someone like me at the table.<br /><br />You don't have someone there who will look at you and tell you that what you want to do in a given situation, flat out, "stuck on stupid," wrong.<br /><br />Or, as I would put it a bit more succinctly, "stupid... moronic... idiotic... irresponsible... short-sighted... damaging... dumber than a box of rocks... sheer, unadulterated idiocy."<br /><br />As far back as the Ides of March with another <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">tonedeaf</span> leader in the past, EFFECTIVE leaders include those unimpressed with their positions, so they'll be told the truth.<br /><br />The market is weighing in on your stupidity and interference, down almost 300 as I write this. Mr. President, you have no more idea on how to run GM then you do how to stop smoking... which, come to think of it, you ALSO don't know how to do... some example to our children YOU are.<br /><br />How has GM stock responded to your arrogant idiocy? As of this writing, the stock is off 20%.<br /><br />Now, Mr. President, companies around the world in all areas of business will be asking themselves: Am *I* going to get the call? Is this moron going to fire ME?<br /><br />Mr. President, clearly, you know no more about running business then you do foreign policy. You're as clueless about this as you are the deficit.<br /><br />And one thing I bet is this: You would never DARE fire the management of the autoworkers unions, would you?<br /><br />Idiot.<br />.<br />.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.w-r-s.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/wsj_logo.jpg" /><br /><div style="DISPLAY: block" id="headerPromoContainer" class="promo"><small><span style="font-size:78%;color:#666666;">MARCH 30, 2009, 12:09 P.M. ET</span></small></div><p class="dateStamp first"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123841609048669495.html"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Obama Outlines Plans for GM, Chrysler</span></strong> </a></p><div class="art_tabbed_nav"><ul id="articleTabs" class="tab" djw_optcache="'{articleTabs:"><li id="articleTabs_tab_article" class="selected" djw_tabid="article"><a class="article" onclick="" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123841609048669495.html#articleTabs=article" djw_tabid="article"><span style="color:#000000;">Article</span></a></li><br /><li id="articleTabs_tab_comments" class=" deselected" djw_tabid="comments"><a class="comments" onclick="" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123841609048669495.html#articleTabs_comments" djw_tabid="comments">Comments (118)</a></li></ul><div class="more_in">more in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/news-politics-campaign.html"><span style="color:#093d72;">Politics</span></a> »</div></div><br /><div id="articleTabs_panel_article" class="mastertextCenter"><div id="article_story" class="col6wide colOverflowTruncated"><div id="article_pagination_top" class="articlePagination"></div><div id="article_story_body" class="article story"><div class="articlePage"><h3 class="byline">By <a href="http://online.wsj.com/search/search_center.html?KEYWORDS=HENRY+PULIZZI&ARTICLESEARCHQUERY_PARSER=bylineAND"><span style="color:#093d72;">HENRY <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">PULIZZI</span></span></a></h3><p>WASHINGTON--Warning that they can't depend on unending taxpayer dollars, President Barack Obama on Monday gave <a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=gm"><span style="color:#093d72;">General Motors</span></a> Corp. and Chrysler <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">LLC</span> a brief window to craft plans that would justify fresh government loans.</p><div class="insetContent embedType-image imageFormat-D"><div class="insetTree"><div class="insettipUnit"><img border="0" hspace="0" alt="[GM CEO Rick Wagoner]" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-DJ760_wagone_D_20090329173317.jpg" width="262" height="174" /> <cite>Associated Press</cite><br /><br /><p class="targetCaption"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>DETROIT IN CRISIS: The ouster of Rick Wagoner, shown at a February news conference, is a milestone in the state's intervention in the economy.</em></span></p></div></div></div><p>"We cannot, we must not, and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish," President Obama said at the White House.</p><p>"What we are asking is difficult," he said. "It will require hard choices by companies. It will require unions and workers who have already made painful concessions to make even more. It will require creditors to recognize that they cannot hold out for the prospect of endless government bailouts."</p><p>The remarks come a day after the administration ousted GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and rejected the restructuring plans that GM and Chrysler had hoped would lead to another infusion of government cash. Instead, the White House is giving GM 60 days to come up with a strategy for viability. Chrysler has a month to wrap up a partnership with Italy's Fiat <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">SpA</span>.</p><p>General Motors Corp. (GM) is expected to hold a news conference Tuesday morning to respond to the White House's rejection of the auto maker's restructuring plan, a person familiar with the plans said. </p><p>The administration says a "surgical" structured bankruptcy may be the only way forward for GM and Chrysler, and President Obama held out that prospect Monday.</p><p>"I know that when people even hear the word 'bankruptcy,' it can be a bit unsettling, so let me explain what I mean," he said. "What I am talking about is using our existing legal structure as a tool that, with the backing of the U.S. government, can make it easier for General Motors and Chrysler to quickly clear away old debts that are weighing them down so they can get back on their feet and onto a path to success; a tool that we can use, even as workers are staying on the job building cars that are being sold."</p><p>The firms, hobbled by the economic downturn and years of reliance on sport-utility vehicles, will receive an unspecified amount of working capital from the government while they hone their new plans.</p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123841609048669495.html">More:</a></p></div></div></div></div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3080392018594631622.post-84283462678550941852009-03-28T18:17:00.000-07:002009-03-28T18:33:25.702-07:00Dear President Obama: Why haven't YOU stopped the flooding in Fargo?<h3>This is a very good question.</h3><p>My God, when New Orleans experienced sprinkles, the leftist scum out there DEMANDED to know what Bush had done something. They wanted to know why he hadn't redeployed National Guard troops from Iraq, brought in the entire US Navy, and how ANY of this could have happened.</p><p>Bush was blamed for EVERYTHING.</p><p>He was blamed for the hurricane itself by the leftist <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">algorebots</span>.</p><p>He was blamed for the condition of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">dikes</span> and levies.</p><p>He was blamed for the police looting the stores.</p><p>He was blamed for the mishandling of everything from prisoners to hospital patients.</p><p>He was blamed for every emergency failure imaginable... almost as if the states and cities hadn't existed as entities. New Orleans Mayor Ray <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Nagan's</span> rampant bigotry and racism were immediately forgiven.</p><p>But to this day, we've not heard the end of New Orleans, including the moron set who actually told us that Bush had BLOWN UP THE LEVIES.</p><p>Now, Fargo is in the process of dissolving. Where are the media hounding you?</p><p>How come they're not dogging you like they did Bush?</p><p>How come all those concerns expressed by your fellow leftist loons when Bush was in office are unheard of now?</p><p>HOW COULD YOU HAVE LET THIS HAPPEN?</p><p>Is THIS the Change we're supposed to believe in? </p><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3><a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile/atomicturtle/journal/2167575610954182046/Why-hasn">Why hasn't Bambi saved Fargo? </a></h3><div class="entry_text">So, apparently Fargo has been flooding. News to me. Supposedly, the Red River rests around 13' - and is now over 40' and looking to crest. I've seen a few photos - flooded streets, destroyed houses, etc. Terrible, terrible stuff.<br /><br />But you know what? I'm a little ticked off with the citizens of Fargo. I mean, my god man - quit trying to steal the thunder out from the Hurricane Katrina victims. This year is about <b>CHANGE.</b> We VOTED IN OBAMA. Don't come crying to us with your sob stories about ineffectual government prevention of natural disasters. We only pull that shit on Republicans.<br /><br />We all know that within a day or two, Obama is going to fly in on his magical unicorn and use his superpowers to pull them out of whatever predicament they're in. At least, that's what he promised us in his campaign speeches. And Democrats always tell the truth.<br /><br />I mean, it IS the President's job to prevent this sort of thing, isn't it? We <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">absolutely</span> <i>reamed</i> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dubya</span> for it, right? So, where's Bambi and his endless supply of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">FEMA</span> teams? Heck, where's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kanye</span> West accusing the President of hating white people (Fargo IS primarily white, isn't it?) Isn't Bambi's complete inaction ABSOLUTE PROOF of his clear and overt racism? Or is that just asinine in and of itself?<br /><br />You might think I'm being facetious - but I'm really not. Now, granted, I gave up following the news for Lent, so I haven't really been paying attention - but this is actually the very first I've ever even HEARD of flooding trouble in Fargo, threatened levees, etc. And I can't help but wonder why.<br /><br />When it was New Orleans, you couldn't flip through the channels without getting at least four of them reporting on A) the terrible calamity about to occur; and B) the failure of the Executive Branch to do anything about it (even though it's not their job.) Today, the Top Stories on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">MSNBC</span> are with regard to the Space Shuttle and (I shit you not) "Diners can 'have a ball' at testicle festival." Front page at the New York Times? Immigration and health care. The headline on Yahoo's front page is about <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Miley</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">freakin</span>' Cyrus. Where are the 24-7 live-feed videos of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">floodwaters</span> over people's homes? Where are the left-wing celebrities decrying the failure of the federal government?<br /><br />Don't you find it just the least bit odd that when <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">floodwaters</span> are rising and people are in jeopardy, that the nation, the president, and media outlets are suddenly silent - when only less than half a decade ago, people wanted to see someone from the national administration hang for it?<br /><br />Why is it that when people's homes and lives are threatened by natural disaster, it's OK to blame Republicans for it; but when it's a Democrat sitting in the big chair, we barely even know it's happening? To add insult to injury is the fact that your fledgling, doe-eyed president made so much reference to the "suffering of New Orleans" in order to gain the pity vote. Yet, I don't see him out there bailing water with a bucket, do you?<br /><br />"Change," he said. Yet, from where I'm sitting, it looks like exactly the same thing. </div>K.J. Hintonnoreply@blogger.com0