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The Washington Post: “Obama was cool toward Netanyahu during their last meeting, leaving the Israeli leader and his aides in the West Wing alone for hours as a subtle rebuke over Israeli settlement policies… That encounter followed an announcement by Israel, during a visit to the country by Vice President Biden, of a plan to construct 1,600 Jewish homes in a part of East Jerusalem that Palestinians view as their future capital. This next meeting has been promised as ‘a makeup visit.’”
"Vice President Joseph Biden said Monday that the Iraqis are 'absolutely' ready to take over full responsibility for securing their country as the U.S. proceeds with a planned drawdown of combat forces," The Hill reports. "'They are ready. Absolutely they’re ready to take over,' Biden said in an interview with NBC News during his two-day trip to Iraq over the July 4th holiday."
"President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon," the New York Daily News' DeFrank reports. "Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years -- through the end of Obama's first term, sources said. That means Kennedy will be around to provide a fifth vote for the court's conservative bloc through the 2012 presidential election. If Obama loses, Kennedy could retire and expect a Republican President to choose a conservative justice."
Arizona Democratic Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell and Gabrielle Giffords joined a growing Republican chorus in denouncing President Barack Obama for not pushing for more specific action in his Thursday speech on the nation’s immigration and border security issues," The Hill notes.
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"Can't we all just get along". Rodney King needs to right a song and get paid everytime someone uses this phrase.
President Obama needs to remain cool to Bozo Netanyahoo until the Israelis stop stealing Palestinian land and stop building their illegal settlements which are the biggest roadblock to peace in the Middle East. Israel is not our friend when it continualy spits in our faces after we've given them too much state welfare. Time for Israel to stop acting like Nazi Germany with it's demands for Lebensraum and running their Gaza Concentration Camp if Israelis expect our continued help. All we've gotten from Israel is more enemies and more strife in the world.
Sound like what the illegals are doing here and we have bleeding hearts who want to give away America to them.
DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS!!!
Native Americans agree. When are all of you going to follow your own rhetoric and go back where you came from?
How can we really expect anything positive from the Republicans today when all they do, with the strong overt and covert support from Special Interests and the select few who they serve, is to use scare tactics and emotional appeals to self-interests aimed to excite and manipulate? How can they solve any of the real problems we have when they won’t even address them and instead only irresponsibly fault and obstruct others efforts? How can we trust them when they literally put their political ambitions above all else and just use subterfuge to rationalize and justify? How can we expect anything constructive from them when all they do/say is aimed at returning to ‘more of the same’ that got us where we are? When Bush-Cheney, with the stubborn and arrogant full support of the Republican Party, spent eight years using their offices and America’s resources for a private agenda to benefit only Special Interests and a select few while giving the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to rationalize and to manipulate, how can we now ever realistically trust them to be different? When ‘deregulation’, ‘open markets’ and ‘small’ government is used to rationalize run-away greed, self-indulgence and gross dishonesty as being ‘conservative’ how can we then expect them to really support reform? To ever get the Republicans to once again be the ‘Grand Ole Party’ conscientiously, honestly and responsibly representing the people, which we should really want, we need to firmly reject what they have become, to resist their manipulation and to reject their subterfuge (and the ‘Tea Party’ movement just doesn’t get that as theirs’ is another deceptive manipulation of public opinion like ‘Swiftboat’ was). To accomplish that we really need to be more responsible ourselves by rejecting our own irrational ‘more-for-me-for-nothing’ mentality that feeds into accepting their destructive manipulation and instead be disciplined and objective to then make conscience driven choices.
For any progressive to point the finger of guilt while using the terms aggorant, manipulative, subterfuge, dishonest, etc., is as ridiculous as ted kennedy on the ethics committee!!!
I’m a 70 year old retiree, and Bush's 8 Years work well for me. However, when you are taking care of yourself and yours, it does not seem to matter which party is in power. My mother, father and all my grandparents were Democrats and low middle class workers. Back in the 1950’s there was unionizing vote where I was working just after High School. I started to look at the pluses and minuses of the union, voted NO, starting changing my philosophy from my earlier home training, started voting Republican and everything started to improving and I have had a great life so far.
There hope for you, you just have to get passed who is suppose to take care of philosophy problem.
kennedy a true patriot to stay on the job to help keep obamas socialist agenda in check
Given that Obama is putting moderate dems, and not true progressives on the court to offset the very far right wing (Scalia, Thoman, Robertsm and Alito), we desparately NEED to replace Kennedy, when he's ready to retire, with a moderate: and since there is apparently no such thing as a moderate Repub anymore, we need a moderate Dem. Pul-eeze, Justice, Kennedy, retire during Obama's administration!