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Subscribe to RSSThe New York Times wraps up the president’s day in Ireland yesterday. “In a jubilant visit that included a pint of Guinness at a local pub — the first lady, Michelle Obama, had a half-pint — a stop at a house once lived in by his great-great-great grandfather and quite possibly the most garrulous rope line he has ever worked, Mr. Obama made a familiar pilgrimage for an American president: going back to his Irish roots. It was the emotional highlight of a 12-hour visit to Ireland by the president, as he kicks off a six-day tour of Europe that will also take him to Britain, France and Poland — and immerse him in thorny issues like the military campaign in Libya and upheaval elsewhere in the Arab world.”
“Democrats took a victory lap Tuesday to celebrate Chrysler's repaying of its bailout, and hit the Republicans who opposed the rescue of the Detroit automaker,” The Hill writes, adding, “The DNC released a new web video containing clips of Republican presidential contenders publicly opposing the administration's bailouts for Chrysler and General Motors (GM) in early 2009.”
Come on, get happy: “Americans have been pessimistic about the direction of the country for more than two years, yet a vast majority has been consistently happy and satisfied with their own lives during that time, according to polling results published by the Associated Press,” the Boston Globe writes, adding that the poll earlier this month showed, like other polls, that there is pessimism about the direction of the country, but people said they were personally happy. “[L]ittle-noted results … suggest that the level of personal happiness in America has stayed remarkably stable through the recession and the painfully slow economic recovery. Asked to ‘think about how things are going in your life in general,’ 81-one percent of respondents this month reported being ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ happy; just 14 percent said they were personally unhappy.”
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I am personally happy, even during the recession, because I like our President and Vice President and their administration. It's amazing what a difference that makes in one's life. The Bush presidency was so depressing. I remember walking through Portland one day and catching numerous conversations where people were complaining about W. It was just in the air, a constant irritant. Some people make fun of Obama these days, but there isn't that fog of negativity hanging over us all the time.
Really...tell that to all the people without and those who lost their homes. The boy-president is filddling while the US burns. What an embarassment. Sucking on a Guiness pretending to be Irish. Whast next? A descendant of the one of the lost tribes of Israel. Oops...forgot. He's an anti-semite.
Being a sycophant does not become you.
A heck of a lot of people would have lost their jobs as well as their homes if the Democrats hadn't passed the stimulus when they did. President Obama walked into the making of another Great Depression and halted the slide, even with every Republican aligned against his policies. Fiddling while Rome burns? Hardly. President Obama only been the most effective President in my lifetime (next to Bill.)
Evidently this article was written a liberal democrat. My statistics professor at Columbia always said "statistics are like a loose woman, once you get them down you can do what you want with them."
Hey, Glo...if you don't like the articles written on MSNBC, why don't go to FOX where articles are "fair and balance!" Right.
Oh, those pesky facts. A right-winger's worst enemy.
I'm another happy American regarding our President. Yet I figured that any Republican who watched the tens of thousands of Ireland's citizens cheer President Obama were wiggling in their seat with anger and resentment. It's sad that so many Republicans refuse to accept anything and everything GOOD that President Obama has done - even for them! For the millions of Americans (and millions around the world), let's all stand together with pride and happiness to have such a brilliant President! Thank you, President Obama!!
NBC is pulling this out of their collective Obama loving behinds. Can you imagine anything of the sort being printed in the middle of a US economic disaster if Pres Bush were still the Pres. What a freaking joke.
George W. was the freaking joke, milcon, and there was nothing funny about it. Maybe if George W. had done anything worthwhile in the USA or world, he would have been applauded.
This is funny, but before getting elected in 2008, BO had no knowledge of his 'roots in Ireland'! It was after he was in office that some researched his background to find the link to a great, great, maternal grandfather.
Now he announces 'he is home!' Just as he did in Egypt and frequently talked about his homeland in Kenya and more recently he has become a Hawaiian! Good for him, but I think the folks who just recently lost their homes in Joplin as well as the many other victims left homeless because of Mother Nature and the foreclosure crisis would like him to act more like an American or at least offer words of comfort to to these Americans!
He can always go to Ireland, or his other homes, when he is out of office!
We can only hope he does something wonderful at the G8 conference, because he's not winning any popularity contests back in the USA right now!
Miked...I'm glad I'm not you.
K2mn, not sure if you will see this... or respond. Yes I do have strong misgivings about Obama, I also had problems with Bush! But Obama has done more damage... and it upsets me!
Here are some quotes from another site (First Read may collapse). If you have the courage please respond to any or all of these items..... like most citizens I have no power to make change, but I read a lot and have opinions.... and my opinion is that while he's a nice guy and a good politician as a leader he has failed.... but the politician part of him is slippery as a raw oyster... and that too frightens me... I look forward to your comments to the following points (and comments from Feisty (Feisty?) would be welcome to, but I know her very well and she won't comment...:
An old West Virginia Hillbilly saying: You cannot get the water to clear up until you get the pigs out of the creek.
*If any other of our presidents had doubled the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have
approved?*
*If any other of our presidents had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had criticized a state law that he admitted he never even read, would you think that he is just an ignorant hot head? *
*If any other of our presidents joined the country of Mexico and sued a state in the United States to force that state to continue to allow illegal
immigration, would you question his patriotism and wonder who's side he was on? *
*If any other of our presidents had pronounced the Marine Corps like Marine Corpse, would you think him an idiot? *
*If any other of our presidents had put 87,000 workers out of work by arbitrarily placing a moratorium on offshore oil drilling on companies that
have one of the best safety records of any industry because one foreign company had an accident, would you have agreed? *
*If any other of our presidents had used a forged document as the basis of the moratorium that would render 87000 American workers unemployed would you support him? *
*If any other of our presidents had been the first President to need a Teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would
you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes? *
*If any other of our presidents had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take his First Lady to a play in NYC, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had reduced your retirement plan holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had given the Queen of Englandan iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought it a proud moment for America ? *
*If any other of our presidents had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had visited Austria and made reference to the nonexistent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a
minor slip? *
*If any other of our presidents had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes,
would you have approved? *
*If any other of our presidents had stated that there were 57 states in the United States , wouldn't you have had second thoughts about his capabilities? *
*If any other of our presidents would have flown all the way toDenmark to make a five minute speech about how the Olympics would benefit him walking
out his front door in his home town, would you not have thought he was a self-important, conceited, egotistical jerk. *
*If any other of our presidents had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, wouldn't you have winced in embarrassment? *
*If any other of our presidents had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?*
*If any other of our presidents' administrations had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown
Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11? *
*If any other of our presidents had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than
in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? *
*If any other of our presidents had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is
happening in America , would you have ever approved. *
*If any other of our presidents had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? *
*So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? *
Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 24 months -- so you have that much time to come up with an answer.