Only initiatives that wreck government are sacrosanct and represent the will of the people. Initiatives that do non-wrecking things like promoting clean power sources do not meet this definition, and thus can be safely wrecked themselves without fear of a special session being called.
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Hmmm… Jack Welch thinks differently Jon DeVore. Warren Buffet thinks differently Jon DeVore. Why are you holding onto this false ideology?
I think I’ll listen to two men who know how to make money
“I think he’s a good man. But these– you bring up a comment about him, and all of a sudden you’re a pariah! You’re not American! You’re a bad guy. If you even bring his name up. My two trust-fund daughters, if I bring his name up in anything other than a glori[fying way]–they don’t have any critical thinking about it: at all!” – Jack Welch
“Now, just rephrase that and since it’s, in my view, it’s an economic war, and–I don’t think anybody on December 7th would have said a `war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore we’re going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and–but we expect to–expect the other party to unite behind us on the–on the big problem.’ It’s just a mistake, I think, when you’ve got one overriding objective, to try and muddle it up with a bunch of other things.” – Warren Buffet
Government is the only thing left that still works in this country. Capitalism has destroyed itself — again. Capitalism needs a government babysitter.
Bit off topic there, Puddy.
I-937 Redux coming soon to a mail in ballot near you.
At this point I’m actually laughing. If I-937 gets gutted We’ll run another initiative undoing the changes. Throw in a little rabble rousing “Them dirty politicians down in Olympia ignored and undid the will of the people” talk and even the rednecks will vote for it.
Plus, the next time they come around looking for endorsements and cash from the environmental community we’ll tell them to fuck off.
@1 How’s Jack’s company doing these days, puddinghead? Last I heard, you could buy several GE shares for less than the cost of a cheap toaster.
GE has many divisions, including a Capital leasing division. I wonder if GE Capital was involved in the Sub-Prime mess? They might have some of the Toxic Assets on their sheet. The Locomotive Division is still getting some orders, including from BNSF, probably because if BNSF bought too much from EMD, it might be anti-trust laws broken. Warren Buffet supposedly(Berkshire Partners is one of the investors, but probably not the same as Buffet’s holding company) owns some of EMD, and is one of the largest shareholders of BNSF. The difference, Erie PA will lose some jobs, but not catastrophic, London, Ontario(EMD’s plant), preparing for more layoffs. At least GE still builds there locomotives here. The more logiccal reason BNSF ordered more from GE, they probably have the better product. Also, GE builds Windmills, so they stand to gain from Windpower.
Pud, Bud,
Oh, yeah, Jack Welch did well. Shit, man. I am tabulating who might get the next Troll of the Week Award (aka The Golden Goat–Rujax came up with that). This post puts you right out front. Go for it, sweetheart.
Proud Leftist, yeah you lower loony ladder lander. Facts always escape you. Attack with no knowledge. You are falling lower on the loony ladder. Keep it up and Puddy will have to add to the bottom rung and maybe tie you with the monomaniacal one knuckle dragging clueless village idiot.
John Francis “Jack” Welch, Jr. was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001.
In 1980, GE revenues were around $26.8 billion. Jack Welch takes the helm. In 2000, his last full year as CEO revenues were $130 billion. Welch adopts the Six Sigma quality program of Motorola’s in the latter half of 1995. When Jack Welch left, GE’s market cap went from $14 billion to greater than $450 billion at the end his tenure 09/07/2001. GE was more valuable than Microsoft, at number 2, with a market cap of $335 billion. proud leftist is still a tooltard.
In 1999, GE once had a very bad American Visa/Mastercard portfolio. GE sold it in 1999 to Metris. HSBC bought Metris. HSBC asked for guvmint handout. Jack Welch was a smart man in 1999.
When Welch left GE’s margins went from 9% to more than 20%. He delivered consistent annual profit growth around 15% per annum. proud leftist is still a tooltard.
Under Welch, GE Credit Services portfolio was $376 billion. It was less leveraged than Citigroup or AIG. proud leftist is still a tooltard.
When Welch bought NBC in 1986 it was a respectable leftist pinhead news organization. proud leftist is still a tooltard.
Then Jeffery “The Pinhead” Emmelt became the Chairman. Immelt has taken GE into the ground. GE’s stock price fell 56% in 2008. Its market cap is now $113 Billion. Immelt took a $450 billion market cap and has built it to 113 Billion.
But to the proud leftist, facts don’t matter. But then again did you notice the positive rhetoric from PMSNBC rise after the Obama GE capital bailout?
So Puddy hopes he wins. Puddy wins on facts. Proud leftist moves down the ladder on his innate moronic stupidity.
So let Puddy ask proud leftist another question. Who was the chairman of GE when the Obama bailout occurred?
Don’t worry Puddy won’t lose sleep waiting for proud leftist to answer. You are too moronic.
I haven’t looked at the specifics of the bill lately, but leaving hydro (and nuclear) out if the initiative was a mistake in the first place.
Poor Puddy – off topic again. The point of John’s post (that you missed, reading is a terrible thing to waste)is that there is all this screaming about overriding the “peoples” intitiatives on tacxes – but another initiative on energy – well, go ahead and over ride it.
Either initiatives are the peoples choice or they are not. If you don’t like the initiative Puddy – too bad. The PEOPLE voted on it. It must be sacrosanct and not changed….unless some people don’t like it.
What a bunch of hypocrites the republicans are….it is only sacrosanct and the people’s will…when they say so.
And here is what some rightwingnut Nazis will do when they don’t like the people’s will…..try to build a dirty bomb. these are the Obama haters that Puddy associates with. chack out the link below for Nazi rightwingers gone crazy:
http://bangornews.com/detail/99263.html
NutRight, off topic? What a fool you are.
It’s the economy stupid. Even Warren Buffet says fix the economy, not go after some political initiative. Exactly the point and delivered correctly again. Fool!
You can’t understand facts when delivered on the silver spoon by Puddy.
NutRight, you were asked to deliver the full link of the “attacks”. You haven’t produced yet.
You need to stop drinking the kook-aid fool. I thought Buffet and Cramer loved Democratics?
@11: I know reading is tough for you as are the subtle points that John is making – but you contnually miss the forest and point out the trees.
Thanks for calling me a fool – that means I said something intelligent that you failed to understand.
The point of the post was hypocrisy – that you still fail to get that is really funny.
When you say this:
Then you have not even read the post – that really doesn’t talk about the economy. Thanks for proving that you have no reading comprehension.
Thanks for delivering “facts” on a silver spoon – the only problem is that they aren’t facts and that isn’t a spoon. Other than that you are as accurate as ever :).
Jon–
What really wrecks government is fly-by-night shakedown artists calling themselves “Community Organizers” like Sir Hopenchange, the knight in shining armor who is showing his tarnished side and Americans are waking up to this huckster.
From today’s Rsmussen:
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Was +32…now 3 days in a row at +6.
Biggest lose of political capital in 1st 2 months of a Presidency ever.
Obama is becoming transparent and shows a lack of leadership.
He is still hanging on to some very thin & weak support from people who desperately want him to help them…but folks who refuse to look at Obama’s Socialist actions & Agenda.
TIM-BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Sir Hopenchange…what a phoney!
Man you are dense. WA State has a budget deficit. It’s the economy stupid. Where is the money coming from for these “green initiatives”?
Puddy was using Jack and Warren on the big scale so you could understand the small FUWA scale.
Scaling is lost on you. Do you remember mechanical drawing? Point Perspectives?
@15: Again Puddy, the post was about hypocrisy and you still don’t get it. Yes there is a budget deficit – so what. That is not the main point of the post. If this were reading comprehension – you would get an F. Grow up and learn to READ.
No wonder you are so off topic and can’t even read the links you post that dispute your conclusions. Intellectually sloppy and lazy is no way to go through life….
Facts lost on NutRight: From Jon’s link…
“The first one, sponsored by Sen. Phil Rockefeller (D-23, Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island) is the “Cap and Trade” bill; or more accurately: What’s become of the cap and trade bill. At this point, every environmental lobbyist in Olympia is grousing under their breath about what a joke the bill is because it has no substance.”
Now what did Buffet say about cap and trade NutRight?
“The second bill, sponsored by Democratic Majority Whip Sen. Chris Marr (D-6, Spokane) and backed by the Sen. Majority Leader Sen. Lisa Brown (D-3, Spokane) will undo I-937—the environmental initiative passed by voters in 2006 that mandates energy companies up the amount of renewable energy sources they use. (PubliCola has been a little obsessed with this one. Some of our earlier reports are here, here, here, and here.)” Focusing on undoing a 2006 bill is focusing on the economy?
Now what did Welch and Buffet say about directing all to fixing the economy? So what is Queen Chrissy and the Democratic doing? Focusing on sumtin else.
Wow NutRight. You truly are stupid? YES YOU ARE!
Now Andy Grove has sumtin to say about Obama…
Yet another corrupt Obama appointee bites the dust!
When will the insanity end??
Obama also lied to us about opposing earmarks and is signing the Pork-laden Spending Bill.
Obama==Say one thing (populist message)…do the opposite (corrupt business as usual)
Once again, Obama’s BASTARD CHILD SYNDROME (BCS) caused by his daddy abandoning him at birth is rearing it’s ugly head.
Perhaps Obama can seek psychological help from whoever Goldy uses in dealing with his Road Rage!
Hey Goldy…maybe you & Obama together can get a counseling DISCOUNT. 2 for 1!!
Get on it Goldy..I know you are always looking to save a buck.
You and Obama are equally screwed up in the noggin so perhaps the group counseling rate will apply?
Take all the HA KLOWNS with you.
Let them pay for it…you get your counseling for free.
Or better yet, let THE US GOVERNMENT pay for it. You want them to pay for everything else.
Some good counseling for you KLOWNS may be something I would be willing to support with my tax dollars!
Does Cynical EVER have anything useful to say? What a waste of bytes.
Here is another Obama-hater like cynical.
Turns out he is a wingnut, an Obama hater, a Nazi and wanted to make a dirty bomb. Cynical would have agreed with 100% of this guys rants too:
http://bangornews.com/detail/99263.html
NutRight got another smack down from Puddy so he attacks Cynical.
Then he asks if someone else is wasting bytes? One of the biggest byte wasters here. Can’t put abstract facts together!
@20 Does Cynical EVER have anything useful to say? What a waste of bytes.
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You seem to be reading – and replying to – him in case that fact also escaped you, neverbright.
@23: And I am replying to you too – but you did not have anything useful to say except for a juvenile insult.
This is a liberal blog – and the right wingnut fools on here need to be shown as fools. I have deconstructed cynical’s weak arguments and faulty logic many times – I just get tired of his same old negative crap. Obama has been in office 50 days or so and cynical started day one with negative posts that lacked any factual basis.
Come up with some substantive alternatives – or shut your negative pie holes you wingnut wimps. Where are the new, innovative republican ideas?
……crickets chirping…….
Looks like Carville wanted Bush to fail on the morning of 9/11/2001.
“”We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg admitted.
The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”
Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: “Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!””
“”The difference between Carville and his ilk and me is that I care about what happens to my country,” Limbaugh told Fox on Wednesday. “I am not saying what I say for political advantage. I oppose actions, such as Obama’s socialist agenda, that hurt my country.”
Yes, Democratics only care about the party, not America.
Moronic one@24:
Well you are failing miserably…
Can’t have it both ways.
Should nuclear and hydro been included…probably, but they weren’t so…
The initiative passed. Live with it.
The whole discussion about alternative sources of energy in this region are far less complex since we are very lucky to have an over-abundance of cheap hydro power. We already have very clean energy sources.
This was a feel good initiative hatched by feel good greenies, and the feel good crowd bit, hook line and sinker….
Well that man from Ohio with the year-round tan called for a “spending freeze”.
So pitiful and laughable – these idiots think they can win back the country by ensuring a depression.
They also thought putting up a man of color as RNC head would be a good idea .. well until he called the blowhole noises of the gas-bloated whale on the AM dial “ugly” – now it’s throw him under the bus time.
Wow it looks like since Cyn’s dark night of the soul, he’s decided to double down on insanity.
How predictable.
correctneverbright spews:
Spoken from the lips of a LEFTIST PINHEADED KLOWN who spewed 8 years of negative crap against R’s and Bush.
You are a riot cnr!
If you are “tired”, take a nap loser!
I disagree with Obama’s Socialist Agenda.
You bet I want him to fail in this Agenda.
You bet.
I’m not alone as Obama’s declining poll numbers show.
Republicans gave Obama the benefit of the doubt. Polls clearly show that.
That was based on Obama’s rhetoric.
Now Obama is making decisions and has shown to consistently represent one thing and do the opposite…like Porkulous Spending, Tax-cheats & Lobbyinstgs in his Cabinet & staff. The list goes on & on.
Obama fails to understand that respect is EARNED! He was given the benefit of the doubt.
Now BY HIS ACTION he is losing support faster than poop thru a goose.
Get used to the ACCOUNTABILITY for Obama.
You spin it as “negative”.
Go ahead.
But we differ in our opinions.
Keep your head in the klouds or whatever dark, dank, smelly place it may dwell cnr.
Obama is a failure…and a Socialist.
By his voting record.
And by his right-hand henchman Emmanuel playing petty politics with Limbaugh when 100% of his focus should be on addressing problems of this Country.
Loser like CNR are typical of Goldy’s Northwest Division of Lunatic Moonbats (credit to Puddy!)………
They love playing political games and the thrill of winning elections.
However, once in office, they are KLUELESS on what to do…so they continue to play politics rather than address problems.
@24 I have deconstructed cynical’s weak arguments and faulty logic many times
You mean the bytes that are a waste of time? You’re an idiot and if you EVER deconstructed anything it would have been out of sheer “once in a hundred years” chance.
Goldy probably cringes every time you post out of absolute panic that you’ll set the “cause” back a decade.
So you just keep on “deconstructing,” neverbright.
Cynical: “Republicans gave Obama the benefit of the doubt. Polls clearly show that.”
He hasn’t been president for even 2 months, yet you make such an absurd claim. Cynical, I don’t believe you are so stupid as to actually believe what you claim. So, that leaves one option for explaining your claim–you are simply a liar.
@32 Nicely said, PL, but this former lock-stepper says it better.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....72822.html
In the end he calls Republicans out as the traitors they are. A most excellent smack-down.
@19 “Obama’s BASTARD CHILD SYNDROME (BCS)”
So says Mr. Clynical, otherwise known as “he who suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder” (NPD).
The serpent head plays to destroy not just to win. You will never get a response to your post, as they know it is the truth. They pretend it never was posted and go on their loser way making up lies and hateful rubbish. Ha and team have shown through their postings how misinformed and how easy it is to trick them into propaganda of the left. They cannot even tell you what liberal DC reporter or publication they trust.
Typical of liberals and socialist bow to the Government for guidance.
A bunch of losers with no thought other than what is immoral or illegal.
It is still funny reading their posts as not even them take it seriously. Or maybe they do.
Steve @ 33
That is fucking beautiful. Cynical and Puddy should be forced to read it. (The Truth wouldn’t understand it. Some of the words have more than one syllable.)
@35 Serpent head?? What a babbling fool you are.
@36 Indeed. That guy really nailed these treasonous fucks to the wall.
A troll will no doubt soon drop by to explain to us how Frank Schaeffer was really a Dem all those years. LMFAO!!
Cynical like many wingnuts is obsessed with the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Poll and their Presidential Approval Index.
Never mind that Rasmussen shows a much lower Presidential approval and higher disapproval than every other poll. Then just because that doesn’t quite cook the numbers enough to make Republicans feel good they have a “Presidential Approval Index” which subtracts the “strongly disapprove” from the “strongly approve”.
Never mind that according to Real Clear Politics Obama’s average approval rating based on 9 different polls is 60.8% and his disapproval is 28.4%.
Gallup, long considered the gold standard in Presidential Approval polls has Obama at 62% approval and 26% disapproval. If you don’t like Gallup then how about Fox News? Fair and Balanced, right? Obama has 63% approval and 26% disapproval.
Yep, Rasmussen is clearly an outlier, and consistently so. That indicates some serious problems with methodology since it is more likely they are wrong rather than every other pollster.
@33
He is trying to sell his books…. Not a real Republican he was a McCain man big deal.
Big deal this was made for losers like you and HA team. Go buy his books help the economy this would be better than what obama has not done to help us.
Knowing you cheap liberals you wait until it is in the 2nd hand store.
@37
The heading of this thread is Deep thought.
Leaves you out loser and that proud leftist or NotRight another loser who never knows what loser he will play today.
@40 “Not a real Republican”
What’d I tell you, PL? LMFAO!!
The Truth thinks he’s capable of “Deep Thought”.
ROTFLMFAO!!!! Howl at the moon!!!! Yowl!!!! I can’t take anymore!!!!
@42
You can’t read he was a McCain supporter he’s your candidate never ours loser.
@44 Too funny! LMFAO!!
“The worsening economic situation is your fault and your fault alone. The Republicans created this mess through 8 years of backing the worst president in our history and now, because you put partisan ideology ahead of the good of our country, you have blown your last chance to redeem yourselves. You deserve the banishment to the political wilderness that awaits all traitors.”
You’re a traitor. Sucks to be you, I’m sure.
43
Isn’t that just precious? He’s staking his claim to this week’s Goat.
@46
Ha,
you just used up whatever small pea size cell was left in your nut size brain.
HAHAHAHA
With manoftruth off enjoying his win, it’s a real horse race this week. I give the nod to Cynical with his latest “after the fact” report of how he made money on Wells Fargo this week. If he puts up one of his “Godless heathens” posts then I’d say it’s over. Truth would have to die in the middle of a post with a final finger twitch hitting the “submit” button to top that. Lordy, this is sometimes just too much!!
@48 I am devasted by your remark. I shall kill myself now.
LMFAO!!!
@50
Oh, No don’t do that PL and notright can’t compare with your humor.
His brain consist of one grain of brain cell that fits inside a sand gradual.
Steve,
When The Truth comes up with jewels like, “[h]is brain consist of one grain of brain cell that fits inside a sand gradual,” it is hard to rule him out. I mean, damn, that’s an all-timer. Imagine, a “sand gradual.”
@52 “sand gradual”
Good grief! What can I say other than that Cynical’s going have to try real hard if he’s gonna ever win against the likes of the Truth.
Chris Stefan, you should stay on transportation blogs…
BULLSHITTIUM Alert Star Trek Klaxon horn sounds
Baloney. Gallup was in the cellar of 2008 pollsters. But don’t Puddy’s word for it. Dont take TPM Erection Central’s word for it. Take their word for it.
1T. Rasmussen (11/1-3)**
1T. Pew (10/29-11/1)**
20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)
21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)
22. CBS/Times (10/25-29)
23. Newsweek (10/22-23) – Didn’t some libtard just throw up this org as having an accurate Obama poll in another thread?
Newsweek 58%
Cook-RTStrategies 57%
Quinnipiac 59%
And Chris it was Puddy who introduced libtards to RCP/Poll. So don’t try and say Rasmussen is the only one there below 60%
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
End of BULLSHITTIUM Alert Star Trek Klaxon horn ends
Subject: TEA BAG
So please mark your Calendars
There’s a storm brewing’. What happens when good, responsible people keep quiet? Washington has forgotten they work for us. We don’t work for them. Throwing good money after bad is NOT the answer. I am sick of the midnight, closed door sessions to come up with a plan. I am sick of Congress raking CEO’s over the coals while they, themselves, have defaulted on their taxes. I am sick of the bailed out companies having lavish vacations and retreats on my dollar. I am sick of being told it is MY responsibility to rescue people that, knowingly, bought more house than they could afford. I am sick of being made to feel it is my patriotic duty to pay MORE taxes. I, like all of you, am a responsible citizen. I pay my taxes. I live on a budget and I don’t ask someone else to carry the burden for poor decisions I may make. I have emailed my congressmen and senators asking them to NOT vote for the stimulus package as it was written without reading it first. No one listened. They voted for it, pork and all.
O.K. folks, here it is. You may think you are just one voice and what you think won’t make a difference. Well, yes it will and YES, WE CAN!! If you are disgusted and angry with the way Washington is handling our taxes. If you are fearful of the fallout from the reckless spending of BILLIONS to bailout and “stimulate” without accountability and responsibility then we need to become ONE, LOUD VOICE THAT CAN BE HEARD FROM EVERY CITY, TOWN, SUBURB AND HOME IN AMERICA. There is a growing protest to demand that Congress, the President and his cabinet LISTEN to us, the American Citizens. What is being done in Washington is NOT the way to handle the economic free fall.
So, here’s the plan. On April 1, 2009, all Americans are asked to send a TEABAG to Washington , D.C. You do not have to enclose a note or any other information unless you so desire. Just a TEABAG. Many cities are organizing protests. If you simply search, “New American Tea Party”, several sites will come up. If you aren’t the ‘protester’ type, simply make your one voice heard with a TEABAG. Your one voice will become a roar when joined with millions of others that feel the same way. Yes, something needs to be done but the lack of confidence as shown by the steady decline in the stock market speaks volumes.
This was not my idea. I visited the sites of the ‘New American Tea Party’ and an online survey showed over 90% of thousands said they would send the teabag on April 1. Why, April 1?? We want them to reach Washington by April 15. Will you do it? I will.
Send it to; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington , D.C. 20500 .
Forward this to everyone in your address book. Visit the website below for more information about the ‘New American Tea Party’.. I would encourage everyone to go ahead and get the envelope ready to mail, then just drop it in the mail April 1. Can’t guarantee what the postage will be by then, it is going up as we speak, but have your envelope ready. What will this cost you? A little time and a 40 something cent stamp.
What could you receive in benefits? Maybe, just maybe, our elected officials will start to listen to the people. Take out the Pork. Tell us how the money is being spent. We want TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. Remember, the money will be spent over the next 4-5 years. It is not too late.
Of course, if you agree with the way things are being done now, just delete!!!!!
Google: New American Tea Party, also
http://newamericanteaparty.com/
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34. Steve spews:
So says Kountry-Klubber steve who pretends to have been born a poor white child…and now with all his success in life, CHOOSES to pay Kountry Klub dues rather than help those less fortunate.
You are a loser steve.
Puddy @ 54–
Thank you for setting the record straight on Poll accuracy.
These KLOWNS ought to know that NBC is never close on the news or polls.
I love watching these KLOWNS dig the hole for themselves by citing unreliable sources.
Way to bitchslap ’em!
@31: dJoie
hahahah – All your little iddy bitty mind can think of is those juvenile insults. Thanks for proving my point about how you have nothing to say.
I am glad to put my education or IQ up against any of you morons any time anywhere. You have nothing because you can’t cite any real facts. Your heros are Rush and Bush – and anyone who supports them is clearly not thinking stright. One was the worst president in history and the other is a fat, racist, drug-addles fool who flunked ot of coollege.
Now explain why you are soooo intelligent. What ideas you have for fixing this country?
How did you support Bush when he created the largest budget deficits in history from the surplus that Clinton handed off?
Explain how you think authorizing torture was good for the reputation of the USA?
Explain how how Iraq was a danger to our country and wasting a trillion dollars theere was worth it?
Crickets are chirping……while waiting some semblance of intelligence and a reply….
Yup, all talk and nothing to back it up. It sums of the republicans very well. Attack, criticize, call names and then run away.
Let’s here it dJoie – or are you a complete wimp?
@54: Dear moron puddy – RCP is politically affiliated and Rasmussen I have already shown to ask biased questions.
oooops, you know even less about polling then you do about science, global warming, statistics and how to read.
Wow – you are really impressing me with your overall ignorance. When cynical idiot is agreeing with you – you know that you are wrong.
‘Cause even cynical has been right twice a day (like stopped clock). Even the blind squirrel occaisionally finds a nut. But when cyncial consistently agrees with you – run for cover because you will clearly be in the wrong.
Obama defends pet projects and signs spending bill
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, sounding weary of criticism over federal earmarks, defended Congress’ pet projects Wednesday as he signed an “imperfect” $410 billion measure with thousands of examples. But he said the spending does need tighter restraint and listed guidelines to do it. Obama, accused of hypocrisy by Republicans for embracing billions of dollars of earmarks in the legislation, said they can be useful and noted that he has promised to curb, not eliminate them.
On another potentially controversial matter, the president also issued a “signing statement” with the bill, saying several of its provisions raised constitutional concerns and would be taken merely as suggestions. He has criticized President George W. Bush for often using such statements to claim the right to ignore portions of new laws, and on Monday he said his administration wouldn’t follow those issued by Bush unless authorized by the new attorney general.
White House officials have accused Bush of using the statements to get around Congress in pursuing anti-terror tactics.
Obama signed the bill in private, unlike a number of recent signings that took place with fanfare, but he raised the issue of earmarks in public remarks playing down their scope and possible harm in the measure. They comprise about 1 percent of the spending package, which will keep the government running through September, he told reporters.
“Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts. And that’s why I’ve opposed their outright elimination,” he said.
Still, the president acknowledged the storm of criticism from watchdog groups, talk show hosts and many Republican lawmakers — including some who have obtained earmarks — who call them wasteful and politically motivated. They are special provisions earmarking money in spending bills for specific projects.
Obama, too, has criticized them as overused and subject to abuse.
Proposing new safeguards, he asked Congress to require that any earmark for a for-profit company be subject to competitive bids. He also said he would work with Congress to eliminate earmarks or other specific items in spending bills that he believes serve no legitimate purpose. But he did not specify how.
Critics were unmoved. Obama “naively asked earmark addicts to police themselves,” said Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. Lawmakers “trumpet their pork on their Web sites,” he said, “and nobody believes we will have public hearings on pet projects.”
Presidents can ask Congress to rescind various spending items. But the authority has little bite because lawmakers tend to ignore requests to undo their work.
Sen. John McCain, Obama’s GOP opponent in last year’s election, wants to require Congress to vote on a president’s rescission requests. Obama is open to such a change, spokesman Robert Gibbs said, but has not proposed it.
“It doesn’t do anybody any good to send up a rescissions package,” Gibbs said, if it “becomes a piece of paper in somebody’s file drawer.”
Congress has wrestled for years with how to regulate earmarks, the targeted spending items for construction projects, weapons systems, research grants and thousands of other programs sought by Senate and House members. Voters tend to disdain earmarks in the abstract, but they often embrace the money and jobs that earmarks produce close to home. Many lawmakers base their re-election bids on the goodies they steer to constituents, and efforts to eliminate earmarks have repeatedly met strong resistance in both parties.
Nearly all earmarks serve some public purpose, even the so-called “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska. But abuses have included tying earmarks to kickbacks, including those that sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to prison in 2006.
Congress tightened regulations after that, including requirements that requests for earmark be made public and subject to scrutiny. The number has decreased since then, but they still totaled 7,991, costing $5.5 billion, in the “omnibus” spending bill Obama signed Wednesday.
The president called the bill imperfect and recommended further earmark changes “to ensure that the budget process inspires trust and confidence instead of cynicism.”
For a time, President Bill Clinton enjoyed line-item veto power, which allowed him to strike specific projects, including earmarks, from massive spending bills. But the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1998. Since then, presidents have had to accept or veto entire spending bills, often packed with thousands of items, some of them earmarks.
Congress’ Democratic leaders issued statements Wednesday praising Obama’s remarks and defending earmarks in general. The House Appropriations Committee announced said it would submit every future earmark to the appropriate executive branch agency for a review.
But a statement issued by the committee’s chairman, David Obey, D-Wis., hinted at irritation with the public’s focus. “With all of the hyperventilating over the 1 percent of the omnibus appropriations bill that is made up of earmarks,” he said, “Washington has mostly glossed over the important results it has achieved with the other 99 percent of the bill.”
It was unclear how Congress might prevent earmarks from being directed to specific for-profit companies. House Appropriations staffers said the process will be changed to prevent “sole-sourcing” of contracts through earmarks and to require an open bidding process instead.
Obama’s signing statement said he wouldn’t be bound by provisions of the bill in five areas. They involved negotiations with foreign governments, limits on using U.S. troops in U.N. missions, protections for government whistleblowers, a congressional claim of authority over the spending of money already approved by Congress and congressional demands that the administration submit budget requests in certain forms.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_spending
Leftnuts :
March 11,2009
“In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus,” McConnell says. “To put that in perspective, that’s about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour—most of it borrowed. There’s simply no question: government spending has spun out of control.”
“Kountry-Klubber steve who pretends to have been born a poor white child”
Yes, I started off a rich white kid who lived in the projects and the youth center for kicks. In search of even more fun times, I indulged in the homeless-kid-living-on-the-streets lifestyle.
“CHOOSES to pay Kountry Klub dues rather than help those less fortunate.”
I see that it has never occurred to your feeble mind that one can actually do both.
“You are a loser steve.”
I’m sure you can tell just how truly devastated I am to hear that from you, Cynical.
Keep up the fixation on me, Cynical. It amuses me to no end.
@60 Have you ever heard of copyright law?
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
@54
Well I’m not the one who is OCD all over every thread here on HA.
Note the poll accuracy was for election polls not Presidential approval.
As for RCP, thanks puddybitch but I knew about them well before you started vomiting in every damn thread here at HA.
Mind you one of the reasons Gallup is the gold standard in Presidential polls is they are the only ones you can use to go all the way back to FDR. Otherwise any comparisons between administrations tend to be apples to oranges.
In any case compared to the other 8 polls Rasmudssen is an outlier.
Poll Approve Disapprove
Ipsos-McClatchy 65 29 +36
Gallup 62 26 +36
Rasmussen Reports 56 43 +13
Newsweek 58 26 +32
FOX News 63 26 +37
Diageo/Hotline 67 27 +40
Quinnipiac 59 25 +34
Cook/RT Strategies 57 28 +29
NBC News/WSJ 60 26 +34
Their numbers are very different than everyone elses’.
Oh and note, again that Fox News gives almost exactly the same numbers as Gallup. Ol’ Fair and Balanced not doing it for you wingnuts anymore?
I just love how wingnuts will go through all sorts of contortions to try to show how reality fits their delusions.
But sure, go ahead and think President Obama is “tanking” and “deeply unpopular” if it helps you sleep at night.
Though be warned if you keep it up I’ll have to post the Presidential approval numbers for the past two Republican Presidents.
Oh wait, I forgot neither of the President Bushes were “real Republicans”.
CBO said if we did nothing the economy would have corrected it’s self. Now spending with no end in sight. Paid on the backs of our children and grand children CBO said this would destroy America, as we now know it.
Brought to you by POTUS Obama and his gang of crooks.
@57
Poll accuracy? Sure Ras called the election numbers closer than anyone other than Pew.
However that really doesn’t say a damn thing about the accuracy of their Presidential approval poll.
The list of “most accurate pollsters” jumps around election to election and will vary depending on exactly which data you are comparing on.
BTW where the fuck did I bring up the NBC poll other than citing it in the list of 9 presidential approval polls RCP has up?
Again don’t make me go back to the approval ratings of our past two Republican Presidents. It isn’t pretty and might scare the children.
Trolls are following the Bloviating Bloated Bastard over the cliff and they think that is a good thing. I must admit, so do I.
@67
I don’t know about you but I brought beer and popcorn for watching the show.
67 and 68
Can you believe admission to this most entertaining of events is free?
Another one bites the dust.
Obama’s choice for top security posts withdraws candidature.
If obama can’t pick simple candidate correctly how can we trust him running the country.
http://www.iht.com/articles/20...../intel.php
@68, 69 It truly is fun to witness this all unfold. Too bad, though, in regards to the damage Republicans have done to our nation. That’s the real price of admission we’re all going to be paying, watch the show or not.
@2
“Roger Rabbit spews:
Government is the only thing left that still works in this country.”
Check Fort Knox nothing but IOU’s.
They probably removed all the guards cause even the IOU’s are worthless thanks to Obama.
@70 “how can we trust him running the country”
Don’t you fret, Truth. Our nation survived Reagan, as well as Bush I and II. We’ll be OK. We just have a big mess to clean up. It’ll help if you support our nation’s president in these efforts. Oh, wait. You hate America and our President. Sorry, my bad.
70: It just goes to show that the standards are a heck of a lot higher under the Obama administration than they were under the Bush administration. The nominee’s financial ties to the Saudi’s would have been considered an job qualification under Bush.
@70
Pea brain,
Days ago you accused me of the same. I responded to your attacks. After reading this you have embarrassed yourselves again attacking me on this. Either you do not care about responses or you are a Pea Brain. Both must be your cup of tea.
70. The Truth spews:
75. The Truth spews: “@70 Pea brain”
Dissing yourself now, I see. Then I reckon I needn’t bother as I agree with you – you’re a pea brain.
@74
What was surprising he condone the slaughter of human life in China and obama still wanted him.
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by
legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person
receives without working for, another person must work for
without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take from
somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that
they do not have to work because the other half is going to
take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea
that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the
end of any nation.. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it..”
~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
@78 Get to work, Fucktard. I need some mo’ MONEY! But grab me a beer before you go.
@76
Your a jewel steve in a pile of Shit some of your ha team members may try to find you. I’m staying way.
It would have been fun staying on the same subject without you twisting everything around.
Last time I saw that my kids where in grade school. You could have been a student. Did you live in Maple Valley in the mid 70’s
@70
Well if you think Obama is all that bad I suppose you can try having Congress block his agenda or impeach him if you think he’s REALLY gone too far. Good luck with that.
@69, 71
Sadly the price of admission is quite high. Record deficits, a depression, and bailouts for banks and others that will make the S&L bailout look like penny ante poker night.
82
Man, do you have to insist on taking all the fun out of GOP immolation?
@83
Sorry to be a killjoy, but there is a cost.
Also a reminder of why they can’t be allowed to come back until after a very long trip through the political wilderness.
84
I’d guess that during their wandering in the wilderness, most of them will claim to have had a burning bush speak to them. They’ll report that the bush’s voice, oddly enough, sounded like Rush Limbaugh. And, I’m confident that they’ll report that the bush told them to move to the right and keep doing what got them into the wilderness in the first place, but just do more of it.
@80 “Did you live in Maple Valley in the mid 70’s”
Nope. Boulder, CO. But I did do a lot of partying on the river in the 60’s and early 70’s.
@84 “a very long trip through the political wilderness”
More like a descent into the abyss from which there is no return. One doesn’t bounce off the bottom. Rather, they’ll go “splat”. Perhaps we’ll see a new conservative party emerge one day, one that isn’t into this present day Christo-commie-fascist bullshit.
The master of the NutRoots incorrectneverbright:
Oh exalted idiot NutRoot, RCP averages all the other polls fool. Too bad you can’t figger that out. Puddy has placed it on this blog for all to see for themselves and they can decide.
BTW it was christmasghost who first told yos idioto (clueless village idiot) that he was a stopped clock who was right twice a day. I suggested he was a military clock who was right once a day. Not even original NutRoot!
Stay a moron. We luv ya dat way.
Chris Stefan, who cares what you think. Puddy doesn’t although many of the HA Loony Leftist Ladder Landers may care. Dey yo bros in moronic thought. Every time we see the comment Obama’s got the highest ratings I whip out RCP. CNN had Obama at 76%. It’s been downhill since there due to his broken promises. Hmmm…
So what you knew about RCP. Good for you Chris. A temper tantrum twerp who reads sumtin other than kook-aid. Many of the HA temper tantrum twerps here (you included) live on the daily kurse kook-aid getting a tingle up their legs.
So with 4 polls in the 50’s Rasmussen is an outlier.
Tooooooooooooooooooo
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Funnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny
@81
We do not even need to to that. All that is needed is us sitting back and watch and wait.
You can tell when obama or the democrats are having a bad day. These HA team members stay off subject and play their little childish games.
Cheers
Here’s some deep thought.
Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists http://online.wsj.com/article/.....86261.html
“A majority of the 49 economists polled said they were dissatisfied with the administration’s economic policies.”
But didn’t the Moonbat! Leftist Loony Ladder Landers said economist agreed with Obama’s plan?
clueless knuckle dragging village idiot, it’s an article not from the opinion page.
@81
see @92
That did not take long.
Here’s more deep thought
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,212,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,376,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,331,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,274,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,044,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,965,000
CNN COOPER 1,214,000
CNN KING 1,185,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,041,000
CNNHN GRACE 986,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 928,000
A clean sweeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Or as HAs clueless village knuckle dragging idiot… the other networks are booooooooooooooooooooooooring.
Geez, Puddy, it looks more like you’ve submitted evidence that Republicans need their daily Fox fix whereas Democrats have better things to do than sit in front of the toob or listen to bloated bloviators on the radio.
No Steve, people go to Fox over the biased news from the libtard MSM.
Sure, we all know that Fox News isn’t biased. Yup! They be as pure as the driven snow.
Everybody has cable or dish. Let’s see what that list of yours looks like with the networks added. Oops, there goes Puddy’s argument – down, down the drain she goes, into the pipe and into the sewer.
You into music at all?
Steve @79
My man, all you forgot to add was “beee-atchhh”
LMAO
“I need some mo’ MONEY, beee-atchhh!”
Hey, you’re right, that’s much better.
I was thinking more along the lines of
” Get to work, Fucktard. I need some mo’ MONEY! But grab me a beer before you go.BEE-AAHTCH”
Ooh, better yet. I like that.
Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”
by Lydia Saad
Page:1-2
PRINCETON, NJ — Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.
As recently as 2006, significantly more Americans thought the news underestimated the seriousness of global warming than said it exaggerated it, 38% vs. 30%. Now, according to Gallup’s 2009 Environment survey, more Americans say the problem is exaggerated rather than underestimated, 41% vs. 28%.
The trend in the “exaggerated” response has been somewhat volatile since 2001, and the previous high point, 38%, came in 2004. Over the next two years, “exaggerated” sentiment fell to 31% and 30%. Still, as noted, the current 41% is the highest since Gallup’s trend on this measure began in 1997.
Since 1997, Republicans have grown increasingly likely to believe media coverage of global warming is exaggerated, and that trend continues in the 2009 survey; however, this year marks a relatively sharp increase among independents as well. In just the past year, Republican doubters grew from 59% to 66%, and independents from 33% to 44%, while the rate among Democrats remained close to 20%.
Notably, all of the past year’s uptick in cynicism about the seriousness of global warming coverage occurred among Americans 30 and older. The views of 18- to 29-year-olds, the age group generally most concerned about global warming and most likely to say the problem is underestimated, didn’t change.
Dampened Concern
Apart from these findings about news coverage of global warming, the March 5-8 poll shows in a similar vein that Americans are a bit less concerned about the seriousness of global warming per se than they have been in recent years.
Six in 10 Americans indicate that they are highly worried about global warming, including 34% who are worried “a great deal” and 26% “a fair amount.” Overall worry is similar to points at the start of the decade, but is down from 66% a year ago and from 65% in 2007.
The 2009 Gallup Environment survey measured public concern about eight specific environmental issues. Not only does global warming rank last on the basis of the total percentage concerned either a great deal or a fair amount, but it is the only issue for which public concern dropped significantly in the past year.
Also, compared with last year, fewer Americans believe the effects of global warming have begun to occur. The figure is now 53%, down from 61% in March 2008. At the same time, a record-high 16% say the effects will never occur. (Prior to now, Gallup polling found no more than 11% of Americans saying the effects of global warming would never happen.)
Most Doubt Warming Is a “Serious Threat”
Altogether, 68% of U.S. adults believe the effects of global warming will be manifest at some point in their lifetimes, indicating the public largely believes the problem is real. However, only 38% of Americans, similar to the 40% found in 2008, believe it will pose “a serious threat” to themselves or their own way of life.
This fear that global warming will pose a serious threat in one’s lifetime steadily expanded from 25% in 1997 to 40% in 2008. The drop this year to 38% is not statistically significant; however, it is the first time since 1997 that the rate of concern has not increased.
Bottom Line
Americans generally believe global warming is real. That sets the U.S. public apart from the global-warming skeptics who assembled this week in New York City to try to debunk the science behind climate change. At the same time, with only 34% of Americans saying they worry “a great deal” about the problem, most Americans do not view the issue in the same dire terms as the many prominent leaders advancing global warming as an issue.
Importantly, Gallup’s annual March update on the environment shows a drop in public concern about global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans over the past year. Gallup has documented declines in public concern about the environment at times when other issues, such as a major economic downturn or a national crisis like 9/11, absorbed Americans’ attention. To some extent that may be true today, given the troubling state of the U.S. economy. However, the solitary drop in concern this year about global warming, among the eight specific environmental issues Gallup tested, suggests that something unique may be happening with the issue.
Certainly global warming has received tremendous attention this decade, including with Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” It is not clear whether the troubled economy has drawn attention away from the global warming message or whether other factors are at work. It will be important to see whether the 2009 findings hold up in next year’s update of the annual environmental survey.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,012 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted March 5-8, 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only).
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
by Lydia Saad
Page:12
PRINCETON, NJ — Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject.
As recently as 2006, significantly more Americans thought the news underestimated the seriousness of global warming than said it exaggerated it, 38% vs. 30%. Now, according to Gallup’s 2009 Environment survey, more Americans say the problem is exaggerated rather than underestimated, 41% vs. 28%.
The trend in the “exaggerated” response has been somewhat volatile since 2001, and the previous high point, 38%, came in 2004. Over the next two years, “exaggerated” sentiment fell to 31% and 30%. Still, as noted, the current 41% is the highest since Gallup’s trend on this measure began in 1997.
Since 1997, Republicans have grown increasingly likely to believe media coverage of global warming is exaggerated, and that trend continues in the 2009 survey; however, this year marks a relatively sharp increase among independents as well. In just the past year, Republican doubters grew from 59% to 66%, and independents from 33% to 44%, while the rate among Democrats remained close to 20%.
Notably, all of the past year’s uptick in cynicism about the seriousness of global warming coverage occurred among Americans 30 and older. The views of 18- to 29-year-olds, the age group generally most concerned about global warming and most likely to say the problem is underestimated, didn’t change.
Dampened Concern
Apart from these findings about news coverage of global warming, the March 5-8 poll shows in a similar vein that Americans are a bit less concerned about the seriousness of global warming per se than they have been in recent years.
Six in 10 Americans indicate that they are highly worried about global warming, including 34% who are worried “a great deal” and 26% “a fair amount.” Overall worry is similar to points at the start of the decade, but is down from 66% a year ago and from 65% in 2007.
The 2009 Gallup Environment survey measured public concern about eight specific environmental issues. Not only does global warming rank last on the basis of the total percentage concerned either a great deal or a fair amount, but it is the only issue for which public concern dropped significantly in the past year.
Also, compared with last year, fewer Americans believe the effects of global warming have begun to occur. The figure is now 53%, down from 61% in March 2008. At the same time, a record-high 16% say the effects will never occur. (Prior to now, Gallup polling found no more than 11% of Americans saying the effects of global warming would never happen.)
Most Doubt Warming Is a “Serious Threat”
Altogether, 68% of U.S. adults believe the effects of global warming will be manifest at some point in their lifetimes, indicating the public largely believes the problem is real. However, only 38% of Americans, similar to the 40% found in 2008, believe it will pose “a serious threat” to themselves or their own way of life.
This fear that global warming will pose a serious threat in one’s lifetime steadily expanded from 25% in 1997 to 40% in 2008. The drop this year to 38% is not statistically significant; however, it is the first time since 1997 that the rate of concern has not increased.
Bottom Line
Americans generally believe global warming is real. That sets the U.S. public apart from the global-warming skeptics who assembled this week in New York City to try to debunk the science behind climate change. At the same time, with only 34% of Americans saying they worry “a great deal” about the problem, most Americans do not view the issue in the same dire terms as the many prominent leaders advancing global warming as an issue.
Importantly, Gallup’s annual March update on the environment shows a drop in public concern about global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans over the past year. Gallup has documented declines in public concern about the environment at times when other issues, such as a major economic downturn or a national crisis like 9/11, absorbed Americans’ attention. To some extent that may be true today, given the troubling state of the U.S. economy. However, the solitary drop in concern this year about global warming, among the eight specific environmental issues Gallup tested, suggests that something unique may be happening with the issue.
Certainly global warming has received tremendous attention this decade, including with Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” It is not clear whether the troubled economy has drawn attention away from the global warming message or whether other factors are at work. It will be important to see whether the 2009 findings hold up in next year’s update of the annual environmental survey.
Survey Methods
Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,012 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted March 5-8, 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only).
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/116.....rated.aspx
Hey it’s in Gallup. They are the “gold” standard.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/.....article.do
Obama has a history of broken promises not only here but in Africa
This will bring tears to your eyes.
Barack Obama’s broken promise to African village
David Cohen, Evening Standard
25.07.08
It is an extraordinary sight to walk into a basic two-room house under a mango tree in rural east Africa and discover what is essentially a shrine to Barack Obama.
The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens, goats and cows is owned by Sarah Obama, Barack’s 86-year-old step-grandmother. Inside, the walls are decorated with a 2008 Obama election sticker, an old “Barack Obama for Senate” poster on which he has written “Mama Sarah Habai [how are you?]”, a 2005 calendar that says “The Kenyan Wonder Boy in the US”, and more than a dozen family photos.
But this bucolic scene in his father’s village of Kogelo near the Equator in western Kenya conceals a troubling reality that, until now, has never been spoken about. Barack Obama, the Evening Standard can reveal, after we went to the village earlier this month, has failed to honour the pledges of assistance that he made to a school named in his honour when he visited here amid great fanfare two years ago.
At that historic homecoming in August 2006 Obama was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo. He visited the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School built on land donated by his paternal grandfather. After addressing the pupils, a third of whom are orphans, and dancing with them as they sang songs in his honour, he was shown a school with four dilapidated classrooms that lacked even basic resources such as water, sanitation and electricity.
He told the assembled press, local politicians (who included current Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga), and students: “Hopefully I can provide some assistance in the future to this school and all that it can be.” He then turned to the school’s principal, Yuanita Obiero, and assured her and her teachers: “I know you are working very hard and struggling to bring up this school, but I have said I will assist the school and I will do so.”
Obiero says that although Obama did not explicitly use the word “financial” to qualify the nature of the assistance he was offering, “there was no doubt among us [teachers] that is what he meant. We interpreted his words as meaning he would help fund the school, either personally or by raising sponsors or both, in order to give our school desperately-needed modern facilities and a facelift”. She added that 10 of the school’s 144 pupils are Obama’s relatives. Obiero was not the only one to think that the US Senator from Illinois, who had recently acquired a $1.65 million house in Chicago, would cough up. Obama’s own grandmother Sarah confidently told reporters before his visit: “When he comes down here, he will change the face of the school and, believe me, our poverty in Kogelo will be a thing of the past.”
But the Evening Standard has heard that the promises he made to help the school as well as a local orphanage appear to have been empty.
Seven months ago I travelled to Iowa to cover the start of the US primaries and was impressed by Obama’s charisma and integrity as he kicked off a thrilling battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Now, with only John McCain standing in the way of him making history as America’s first black President, and amid the fanfare over his current world tour, nowhere is this possibility more eagerly awaited than in Kogelo, the place where his father and grandfather are buried. Yet there is disappointment and hurt here, too. Granting us access to the school and its records, Principal Obiero, 48, tells us: “Senator Obama has not honoured the promises he gave me when we met in 2006 and in his earlier letter to the school. He has not given us even one shilling. But we still have hope.”
The letter Obiero refers to – dated 22 June 2005, signed by Obama and addressed to her – was written after his election to the US Senate in 2004 and hangs, framed, on the wall of her spartan office alongside photographs of Obama’s visit to their school. It says: “I am honoured that you have decided to rename the Kogelo School in my name.
The land that the school is built on was donated by my grandparents and I am proud to carry on the tradition of supporting the school.”
Obiero and her board of governors followed up his letter offering ” support” with a bald, formal request for funds in the form of a nine-page proposal, a copy of which has been provided to the Evening Standard, laying out their ambitions for the school. In it they ask for 8.2 million Kenyan shillings (approximately £65,000) to upgrade the school. The money would be used, they say, to bring water to the school by sinking a borehole and building a water tank, erect a perimeter fence, complete the science laboratory and add muchneeded new classrooms, additional latrines, and a school dining hall.
Obiero recalls: “When the US Ambassador William Bellamy came to visit the school for the official renaming ceremony in February 2006, we gave him two copies of the proposal, one for the Embassy and one to give to Senator Obama. But we have not heard anything from either of them since.”
Recently, she adds, she gave another copy of the proposal to Obama’s Kenyan half-sister, Auma Obama, who recently returned to Nairobi after living in England and working in children’s services in Reading. Auma had been married to a British man but they are now divorced. “Auma also promised to pass it on to her brother,” says Obiero.
When we ask an Obama spokesperson in Kenya, who is also a family member, why no support has been forthcoming, he says: “We have no comment, the family are not doing any interviews at this time.”
However, the school’s senior teacher Dalmas Raloo, 41, who is often used as a translator for Obama’s grandmother who only speaks Luo, and is a friend of the family, says the family are mystified by what they are calling “Obama’s lapse”. “If you ask whether Obama’s family think he should give something to the village and to the school, the answer is ‘yes, definitely’. But they feel it should come from him spontaneously. They don’t want to ask him for it.”
During Obama’s visit to the school, he opened their half-finished science laboratory (built with £4,900 raised by the community) and wrote in the visitor’s book: “Congratulations on the new laboratory!” Today, the lab has been mothballed because they ran out of funds to equip it and because, critically, there is no running water. “We must pay the man with the donkey to fetch us water from the river four kilometres away,” says Obiero. The situation in the school mirrors that of Kogelo village where the people live without water, electricity or access to proper healthcare and on average incomes of less than $1 a day. Yet they remain diehard fans of the man who has put their rural community on the map and have even renamed the beer, called Senator, in his honour: locals now order “an Obama”.
Obama’s “lapse” is all the more difficult to understand given that he wrote in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams from My Father, that Kogelo occupies a special place in his heart as being where he reconciled the diverse parts of himself – American and African, white mother and black father. Obama wrote how he fell to his knees, sobbing, between the graves of his father and grandfather at the family compound.
“When my tears were finally spent,” he wrote, “I felt a calmness wash over me. I felt the circle finally close. I realised that who I was, what I cared about, was no longer just a matter of intellect or obligation, no longer a construct of words. I saw that my life in America – the black life, the white life, the sense of abandonment I’d felt as a boy, the frustration and hope I’d witnessed in Chicago – all of it was connected with this small plot of earth an ocean away.”
Obama had visited Kogelo for the first time in the 1980s after attending Columbia University and then again in 1991 to research his memoirs after graduating from Harvard Law School. He would later become a civil rights lawyer and community organiser before going into politics and serving in the Illinois Senate in 1997 and then the US Senate in 2004.
On those two voyages of personal discovery to Kogelo, he learned that his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who lived to 105 according to his gravestone (1870-1975), had been a respected elder and witchdoctor. But it was the road travelled by his estranged father, Barack Hussein Obama, that inspired and intrigued him. His father had transcended his roots as a goat herder to get a PhD at Harvard and work for the Kenyan government before falling from grace and dying in a car accident in 1982 at just 46.
Barack’s father, an economist, had split up with his white mother, Ann Dunham, from Kansas, when Barack was two. Apart from a month-long visit from his father when he was 10 years old, Obama would know him only through letters. As an adult he learned there was a darker side to his father, reflecting in his book that he had apparently also been “a bitter drunk”, “an abusive husband”, and “a defeated, lonely bureaucrat”. But during this process of soul-searching he came to know and adore the elderly woman who had raised his father, his step-grandmother Sarah Obama.
We had been told that Sarah’s house, which is adjacent to the school, was patrolled by two armed security guards – who pays their wages is not clear – but when we visited the home, Sarah was away in Nairobi and we were shown in by one of Obama’s young cousins.
The house is basic with a concrete floor, an outside kitchen, latrines and no running water. The only sign of modernity is the recently installed solar power unit that provides electricity for lights and a television set. Chairs are neatly laid out around the sides of the living room, each with an embroidered cover and as you enter, there is a photograph of a young Barack Obama bent over under the weight of a sack of maize.
THE graves of Obama’s father and grandfather are in the yard, and Obama’s cousins and uncles, including Said Obama, 41, his father’s younger brother, also live on the compound in smaller one-room houses. Behind the house there is a thriving maize plantation and a clump of banana trees in addition to the giant mango trees that dominate the property. Villagers say that despite her age, Sarah Obama still comes to market where she sells her homegrown fruit and vegetables.
The market is where we head next to speak to villagers about their hopes for an Obama victory in November and what it might do for their village. Mary Manasse, 40, who runs the Mama Siste Mini Shop selling staples such as bread and cow’s milk (packaged in old Coke bottles) says she has a photograph of Obama shaking hands with her on his 2006 visit.
“Back then I was looking after 40 orphans at the orphan centre,” she recalls. “We faced a desperate shortage of money and Obama told us that he especially liked special, dedicated projects like ours and wanted to help. We thought he would give funds to help our project but we got nothing. A few months later we were forced to shut down the orphan centre because of lack of funds. Just a million Kenyan shillings [£6,000] would have kept us going another year. I feel disappointed that he did not come through.”
A few stalls away mango-seller Gladys Anyango, 60, does an impromptu Obama impression to the amusement of her fellow peddlers. She places her hands on her hips, gazes into the middle distance and, mimicking his deep voice, says: “How are you, people of Kogelo?” Her friends collapse with laughter. She also takes off Obama’s wife, Michelle, who had accompanied him on his visit along with his two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
“Oh, but there will be a big party here when Obama wins,” she adds. “We still have hope that he will bring electricity and build schools so the children have a good education. Maybe when he’s President of America, he’ll remember his roots and look after his community in Kenya.”
LMAO !!!!!!
Goto the web site to see the pictures of the chump.
http://www.obamasgaffes.blogspot.com/
Obama’s No Change & No Hope
We dedicated this blog to Obama’s gaffes, words, broken promises, exaggerations and backtracking agenda! As you will find out, all his statements come with an expiration date.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
More No Hope & No Change From Obama
· Obama White House Discloses Two More Lobbyist Waivers Granted
· Obamas administration killed of the experimental school choice program that was giving 1,700 Washington D.C. children a chance to get out of their failed public school system and attend a quality private school. A measure that he supported during campaign.
· Where does the buck stops in Obama’s administration? The staff? Well Camille Paglia thinks so.
· Do you ever wonder why do there seem to be so many withdrawn Obama Nominees? You can read it here.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:15 AM
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Does Obama Like To Govern?
No he likes having summits. Last week he had a summit to promote fiscal responsibility (which its kind f funny when he has the most irresponsible budget), and this week he had the health care summit and next month he will have G-20 summit (not mentioning summits from pervious months!).
According to Jennifer Rubin from Commentary magazine;
Well, it’s becoming obvious he’s not really much of a manager, decider, legislation-craftsman, or supervisor. His vetting process is in shambles and key Treasury slots are still vacant. His Treasury Secretary is a classic under-performer and Obama encourages that tendency by talking about everything other than our immediate recovery needs.
Even Reuters news is noticing it; Their headline is; Another Crisise, Another Summit for Obama.
Also read more on Obama Summit Fetish here.
There is no hope and no change in this administration. What they have is collective failed policies and strategies from pervious administrations (Democrats and Republicans) all at once.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:23 AM
Friday, March 6, 2009
Obama & Teleprompter-Dependency
Can Obama talk without Teleprompters? Well , we have been covering this issue, in this blog before he became president, but the media is now noticing it. Politico reports:
Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
Even NYTimes admits that Obama’s use of teleprompters is unusual.
So, we should inspired to have a president whose reading is all he’s ever shown an ability to do.
UPDATE: Obama can’t break the teleprompter habit, either
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:55 AM
Obama will pour more money into Hedge Funds
That’s $1 Trillion Loan to Hedge Funds and Private-Equity Firms!!!
Washington Post reports:
The government is seeking to resuscitate the nation’s crippled financial system by forging an alliance with the very outfits that most benefited from the bonanza preceding the collapse of the credit markets: hedge funds and private-equity firms.
Can you imagine that? Where is the outrage? These are the same groups that brought us to this mess.
Mr. President, where is the “CHANGE” and where is the new “HOPE”?
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:44 AM
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Obama & Stock Market
Profit and earning ratios?? what? Does he mean Price-to-Earning ratio?
He has no clue what he is talking about, and he is in charge of fixing our economy! God help us.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:36 PM
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Obama’s czars; How many is too many to have?
Let’s count Obama’s czars; Health reform Czar , Urban affairs Czar, Energy and climate change Czar, Car Czar, AIDS Czar, Drug Czar, and he just recently picked his gaffe galore VP as the Stimulus Czar.
So what’s the big deal?
Czars are not accountable to Congress or to Cabinet officials and rarely testify before congressional committees. These Czar will not go through confirmation hearings, and they are not accountable to public. So why is he doing it, well a Democrat Senator Byrd thinks that Obama’s administration is tying to accumulative more power through these czars and asserting more control. This is a direct conflict with Obama’s commitment to openness and transparency.
There is no hope and no change!! Another broken promise.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:34 PM
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Obama needs some history lesson!
“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”
~ President Obama during his first Sate Of The Union address.
How embarrassing! Our president does not know that we did not invent automobile and now Germans are probably laughing at us!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 4:04 PM
Monday, February 23, 2009
Why Obama Is So Secretive?
“Right now in Congress, they’re working on the budget. And just like the last time the House prepared to spend ungodly amounts of money, the Democrats have excluded the Republicans. Even worse, they’re not letting the public see the bill before it’s voted on.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration is working on its defense bill. And to make certain that everyone sings from the same hymnal, they’ve ordered top defense officials to sign a secrecy oath that they will not discuss the details with anyone outside the federal government.”
Copied from Commentary blog
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:24 PM
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Barack Obama under fire for picking a crony fundraiser as his ambassador to Britain
More “hope & change” stuff from Obama’s administration. Do they know that their mantra of “change & hope” is becoming ridicules? Here is the headline:
“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. ” Read on.
Or you can read some reaction about this appointment here.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 1:55 PM
Obama The Grinch
Will Obama stop campaigning and start governing? Can he do that? Well even NYTimes most Liberal commentator has her doubts. Maureen Dowd had this to say:
“Though he demonstrated in the campaign that he has a rare gift for inspiring the country with new belief in itself, Mr. Obama has not yet captured either the grit the moment requires or the fury it provokes. He has not explained in a compelling way why Americans who followed the rules need to sacrifice more to help those who flouted the rules.”
and this from Jennifer Rubin:
“Much as it may pain the former community organizer, Obama’s job is not now to criticize, demean, rile and anger the public. We thought he, better than most politicians in recent memory, understood the power of rhetoric to lift and inspire, but maybe that only worked as a campaign tactic. Now there is no George Bush to kick around. And the result seems to be a surly and depressive presidency. Perhaps we were not the change we were waiting for after all”.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 9:56 AM
Monday, February 16, 2009
Obama’s Rhetoric Is the Real ‘Catastrophe’
Mr. Obama’s analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they’re also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren’t likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a “recovery” package that delivers a lot less than it promises. A more cool-headed assessment of the economy’s woes might produce better policies.
Read the whole article here.
Enough Mr. President enough! It’s time to lead the country and stop campaigning!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 2:32 PM
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Another broken promise by Obama!
Thank God for youtube! Here Obama promises that the public will have 5 DAYS to look online and find out what’s in his proposed bills before he signs it. Well, another promise broken. Barack Obama is going to sign the largest spending bill in US history on Monday, It had only been posted online for 12 hours before it was voted on in the US House and Senate.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:16 PM
Obama is changing his webiste to remove any past promises!
The American Small Business League is also finding out that Obama is breaking with his campaign rhetoric. Here is what they had to say:
President Obama seemed to agree it was time to stop the fraud and abuse in federal small business contracting programs when, in February of 2008, he released the statement, “Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource. It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.”
Since making that statement almost a year ago, President Obama has consistently refused to make good on his campaign promise, and support legislation to stop Fortune 500 firms from hijacking federal contracts designated for America’s nearly 27 million small businesses.
Not only has President Obama refused to propose even a single policy to address the problem, but he actually changed his Web site to remove the appearance that he had ever made the statement, “It is time to end the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants.”
Is someone counting the broken promises? It’s interesting to see how many it will add up until his re-election?
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 12:17 PM
Friday, February 13, 2009
Obama’s broken promises continues
Remember this promise from Obama during campaing, well it’s gone now. Another promise broken!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 5:17 PM
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Obama mocked? That’s a new beginning!
Things must be really bad for Obama when you see Daily Show mocks him for his performance this week, watch:
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c
Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – Stimulus Package: Prime Ribbing
Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin
Funny Political News
Joke of the Day
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:32 PM
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Obama’s Secret Stimulus Package!
“For officials who came into office promising to operate the most honest and transparent White House and Congress ever, President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seem determined to achieve exactly the opposite result. . . . Less than 48 hours elapsed between the time the text of the compromise became available for public examination late Saturday evening and yesterday’s 61-37 vote for passage. At that rate, the Senate effectively was spending about $300 million every minute while considering the compromise, and allowing taxpayers a scandalously brief opportunity to discover how the senators were doing it. ….” Continue to read here.
Another promise broken piece by piece.
UPDATE: Republicans Shut Out of Stimulus Conference Negotiations. More signs of bipartisanship, Obama style!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:14 AM
Obama & Dow Performance 93 Days Post Election!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 9:30 AM
Monday, February 9, 2009
Ouch! Obama & Marine One.
Obama waves and learns the door on Marine One is much shorter than he is, and bumps his head …ouch! he is getting used to Marine One. Go here and vote for the picture.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:35 AM
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Obama’s Governing Style ?
He dictates, complains and campaigns — ultimately not very effective means for a president. And the high rhetoric mixed with nasty partisanship is not only confusing, but it undercuts what for him was the key attraction for many voters — you remember: his temperament.
Read the rest here.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 12:24 AM
Friday, February 6, 2009
Obama administration and tax cheaters!
Wow! another tax cheater in the Obama’s administarion:
A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama’s nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business — including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.
Oh! I see this one does not matter, it’s the husband who cheated for the last 16 years while she was the congresswoman! Indeed the era of responsibility has begun.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:57 AM
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Obama’s empty words, and his politics of fear!
What happened to politics of HOPE that he run during his campaign? His words mean nothing anymore. Here is what he said yesterday:
“A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.”
— President Obama, Feb. 4.
Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 8:56 PM
Obama’s religion
I was not raised in a particularly religious household. I
had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist,
grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and
Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized
religion, even as she was the kindest, most spiritual
person I’ve ever known. She was the one who taught me as a
child to love, and to understand, and to do unto others as
I would want done.
I didn’t become a Christian until many years later, when I
moved to the South Side of Chicago after college.
Obama, February 5,National Prayer Breakfast.
Our only point is how come he never talks this way during his campaign. Why did he get mad, every time people will raise his Muslim background? So what was he before becoming a Christian? Why can’t he just talk about this?
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 6:18 PM
Has Obama lost control?
Newsweek’s Michael Hirsh sounds panicky as he warns the President has “has all but lost control of the agenda in Washington at a time when he simply can’t afford to do so.” :
The decisive issue here is leadership. The lack of it is what is plaguing the Obama administration. Every war needs a successful general, and this administration doesn’t have one yet.
No kidding!! Obama has never been a leader in any issue in his life. He just wrote two books and you can read his books and you will know there is nothing there!!! Don’t blame us, we made it clear in this blog that he just likes to give speeches , that’s all he knows!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 9:13 AM
Obama’s broken promises … continues
Remember this pledge from Obama when he was campaigning? (check right away before they erase it~)
Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.
Obama has now signed two bills into law — the Lily Ledbetter Act and SCHIP — and in neither case did he wait five days before signing.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:01 AM
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Obamanation = Naive abroad and Wasteful at home
Obama runs the risk that every rebuff is regarded as a personal setback. His first full week in power has been clouded by the farcical presence of Rod Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, and revelations that Tom Daschle, his choice for health secretary, had failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes.
The president’s foreign policy offensive also got off to an uncertain start. Critics claim there are too many czars and special envoys at the White House and State Department, who will end up fighting rather than problem solving.
Read the whole think here.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 10:21 PM
Kentucky freezes; Obama dines on $100 a pound steak
Kentucky freezes; Obama dines on $100 a pound steak. Click here.
Where is the outrage? Nearly 1 million people are without power in ice storm.. I guess the outrage was only for Katrina. HOPE and CHANGE is merely a campaign slogan.
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 3:32 PM
Friday, January 30, 2009
Obama & White House Thermostat.
What a hypocrte this guy is? After lecturing us about, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.”
We read this story in the New York Times:
The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Oh! really Mr. President. We love it warm too but we thought we have to watch our carbon footprints!!!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 2:10 AM
Obama Hires Back An Advisor After Firing Her
This is just amazing! Samantha Power, the professor who earned notoriety for calling Hillary Rodham Clinton a “monster” while working to elect Barack Obama president, will take a senior foreign policy job at the White House.
This is the same lady who said, “Clinton is stooping to anything and the amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.” Obama let her go during his campaign because he did not wanted to look bad. But I guess it’s cool to have her back now. He is “hoping” no one will notice!
I wonder what’s Hillary thinking now?
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 1:56 AM
Thursday, January 29, 2009
More Lobbyists in Obama’s government!
USA Today reports that Obama hires shows that 21 have registered as federal lobbyists. What happened to his pledge of NO LOBBYIST in my administration? More broken promises!
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 7:57 AM
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Obama can’t find the door
Obama was trying really hard to open a window !!Couldn’t he see that there is not handle there? Can you imagine if Bush had done this?
Posted by mom & pop bloggers at 2:08 PM
@105, 106: The “fool”
Have you ever heard of copyright laws?
Copying an entire long article even with a citation is like stealing.
Oh, and the amount you post does not correlate with the quality of the posts or the credibility of your argument. Copious posting by a fool is still follish posting – ask Puddy, who never figured out the main point of this thread.
The juice of the article is how Obama thinks of his own family the chump lies to them and to you lefties today. This article doesn’t bother you? Have you no sympathy for the poor Africans he lied to? Just like his brother he doesn’t care about him or his poor aunt. This is acceptably behavior for a far left socialist liberal liar.
You liberal nuts want everyone to think how caring you are for your fellow brother and sisters. Your all lacking honesty. You have kept your foot on the black man head for years. Never wanting him to succeed so he will rely on the liberal pinkos. For none of you to be outrage against obama for doing nothing about his Africa family is really normal for a liberal. Only a few Africans involved in his scam. He is really not black so it does not mean much. You ass holes have lost any respect a snake would have had for you.
Your all a joke and your posts are nothing more than morning talking points with lies and rubbish for filling. You had nothing before obama and you will have even less after obama.
Only fools voted for this chump and the way he is going HA and team will be his only support.
It takes a dumb chump obama to hook up with the same on this site you bought him, he is yours. You all can clean yourself off in the cesspool LOSERS.
HAHAHAHA
Report: Police Union Accuses Ayers in Deadly 1970 San Francisco Bombing
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508948,00.html
“Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s description of the United States as a “deadbeat” donor to the world body. ”
Just one day after he met with obama. Obama must of left a dull mark on the table.
http://www.breitbart.com/artic....._article=1
@111
Crikey, the US hasn’t paid it’s full UN dues in YEARS. It isn’t like we suddenly stiffed the UN in the last 60 days.
No matter, you didn’t hear obama saying where paying. I for one wished we pay up and pull out.
HA is still alive and kicking like before.
I missed the midnight madness hopefully it’s still here.
All the loonys still around like steve,ylb,roger,left foot,correctnotright,
proud to be left and the rest of the sewer water.
Idiot @ 114
Yep some of us liberal-leaning regulars are still around kicking shit-headed right wing ass.
Hint: we’re on the winning side of the issues – see last Nov 4.
@115 To see my name listed with such fine folk tells me that I must be doing something right.
NutRight@107:
Oh you are toooooooooooooooooo funny. After Puddy smacked yo ASS on another thread Puddy came back and smacked yo ASS on this thread. Let Puddy show everyone post #17 again. SMACK
Then look at #88 again. SMACK
See ya NutRight, such a delusional fool.