Washington Examiner writes: What could be more quintessentially Sixtyish than this passage in Obama's -
[or was it written by William Ayers?] memoir
Dreams from my Father?
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes on the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
Read more at the Washington Examiner:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/04/mean-streak-obama-not-nice-he-looks#ixzz1JsFTA3E2BS News reports: In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.
In the candid remarks, Mr. Obama complains of Republican attempts to attach measures to the budget bill which would have effectively killed parts of his hard-won health care reform program.
"I said, 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'" recalled the president of his closed-door negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government until September. (listen to the remarks in the video at left). "Put it in a separate bill," the president said he told Boehner and his staff. "We'll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don't try to sneak this through."
[Theses are appropriate tactics and speech of a community organizer, not a President who respects his office and his pledge to bring Americans together.] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20054185-503544.html
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Politico writes: The [White House visitor] logs are missing the names of thousands of other visitors to the
White House, including lobbyists, government employees, campaign donors, policy experts and friends of the first family, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.
The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database.
Yet the Center’s analysis shows that the logs routinely omit or cloud key details about the identity of visitors, whom they met with and the nature of their visits. The logs even include the names of people who never showed up.
[So much for transparency....]
Read more:
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he Blaze reports: Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’
If bloodbath was unlikely, how did this notion propel US intervention?
Kuperman
explains that the rebels deftly crafted the narrative of an “impending genocide” in order to sway the international community to intervene in Libya.
And it worked.
So did the president lead the U.S. into war under false humanitarian pretenses, or was he duped by the rebels?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/expert-obama-led-u-s-into-libya-under-false-pretenses/
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Fox News reports: "The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool
phones and stuff," he said during a small fundraising event at a Chicago restaurant. "I'm like, c'mon guys, I'm the president of the
United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen."
[Well at least he still has Air Force One to give him a kick.] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/15/obama-disappointed-lack-cool-phone-oval-office/?cmpid=cmty_email_Gigya_Obama_Disappointed_With_Lack_of_%27Cool%27_Phone_in_Oval_Office
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Yahoo News reports: US President Barack Obama accused Republicans of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country as he rallied support for his reelection campaign. Under their vision, we can't invest in roads and bridges and broadband and high-speed rail," Obama told a select group of the Democratic faithful at the second of three fundraising events in his hometown of Chicago.
"I mean, we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought -- that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure."
[And here I thought that all those federal taxes we pay on our gasoline purchases are to pay for infrastructure. This man is totally ignorant about how the country works, and he is only too willing to lie.] http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110415/pl_afp/usvote2012obama_20110415045805
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From the very liberal Salon.com: There is no ambiguity in that vow: none at all. He explicitly promised not to use signing statements to nullify Congressional statutes he thought were invalid. Citing his credentials as a Constitutional Law professor, Obama explained that "Congress' job is to pass legislation," and when that happens, a President has only two options: "the President can veto it or sign it." In contrast to Bush -- who, Obama said, "has been saying 'I can change what Congress passed by attaching a statement saying I don't agree with this part, I'm going to choose to interpret it this way or that way'" -- Obama said he, by contrast, believes "that's not part of [the President's] power." He punctuated his answer as follows: "we're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress." It just doesn't get any clearer than that.
Obama vaguely asserted that "no one doubts that it is appropriate to use signing statements to protect a president's constitutional prerogatives", but then added: "it is a clear abuse of power to use such statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability" and explicitly vowed: "I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law."
He said
in that Boston Globe questionnaire, as clearly as possible, that "
the President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation"; he added that only "
in instances of self-defense" would "the President [] be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent."
These campaign statements are nothing less than vows made to voters about how he would exercise the power he was seeking if they voted for him. To insist during the campaign that Presidents have no power to start wars without Congress or to ignore laws the President believes are unconstitutional -- and then do exactly that once he's been vested with that power -- is a form of fraud.
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Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's records and transactions.
Newsmax reveals: According to
Roll Call, the audit of Obama's financial records began two years ago. It was not required by law, since the Obama campaign did not accept federal matching funds and funded itself entirely with private donations. But allegations of improper contributions, coupled with the FEC's suspicions of certain transactions, led to the probe.
"The FEC is conducting a routine review — as is true with the McCain campaign, the Romney campaign and many others — to determine if they have any questions with the information reported,"
A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.
For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.
And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.
According to a Newsmax analysis of the Obama campaign data before the latest figures were released, potential foreign currency donations could range anywhere from $12.8 million to a stunning $63 million in all. With the addition of $150 million raised in September, this amount could be much more.
Read more on Newsmax.com:
FEC Investigators Digging Into Obama's 2008 Campaign
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND2XKjAy-Tc&feature=share
On this video you will see and hear union members saying that they will "brand" anyone who denies the "right" to collective bargaining a "human rights violator". Richard Trumka is excited about unionizing home care workers, cabbies, ect., as well as "international union efforts" and he says to, "forget the law". They are desperate and ready to rumble......
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After two years of Obama... [Gas is higher than listed, and our government declares there is no inflation
to worry about.....]
| | | % chg | Source |
Avg. Retail price/gallon gas in U.S. | | | 69.6% | |
Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) | | | 127.7% | |
Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) | | | 135.9% | |
Gold: London (per troy oz.) | | | 60.5% | |
Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL | | | 78.1% | |
Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL | | | 42.3% | |
Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. Fob | | | 164.7% | |
Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall | | | 23.7% | |
Unemployment rate, blacks | | | 25.4% | |
| | | 24.7% | |
Number of fed. Employees, ex. Military (curr = 12/10 prelim) | | | 2.2% | |
Real median household income (2008 v 2009) | | | -0.7% | |
Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10) | | | 35.1% | |
Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10) | | | 22.2% | |
Number of long-term unemployed | | | 146.2% | |
Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009) | | | 8.3% | |
People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009) | | | 9.5% | |
U.S. Rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings | | | n/a | |
Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10) | | | -21.4% | |
Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) | | | 17.1% | |
U.S. Dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate | | | -8.6% | |
U.S. Money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) | | | 18.4% | |
U.S. Money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) | | | 6.5% | |
National debt, in trillions | | | 32.2% | |
Just take this last item: In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast. Metaphorically speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane. 27 times faster, it would be doing 7,555 MPH!
Sources:
(1) U.S. Energy Information Administration; (2) Wall Street Journal; (3) Bureau of Labor Statistics; (4) Census Bureau; (5) USDA; (6) U.S. Dept. Of Labor; (7) FHFA; (8) Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller; (9) RealtyTrac; (10) Heritage Foundation and WSJ; (11) The Conference Board; (12) FDIC; (13) Federal Reserve; (14) U.S. Treasury
The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders -- but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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