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“Some glitz, some glamor and plenty of campaign cash. President Barack Obama is hitting a reliable fundraising trail in California, tapping star donors and trading quips with Jay Leno in what is for him a well-worn path,” AP writes.
The New York Daily News notes that Obama’s trip, though, politically is all about Hispanics.
“President Obama did an end-run around Congress on a trip to Las Vegas yesterday, launching an expanded program to help down-on-their-luck homeowners refinance their loans -- while hitting the jackpot for his campaign at a fund-raiser at the Bellagio Hotel,” the New York Post adds.
“President Obama's approval rating in Gallup's popularity tracker went up 6 points in the past week - to 44%,” The New York Daily News notes. “Obama's poll numbers jumped in the wake of the Thursday slaying of Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy.” It’s worth pointing out Obama’s approval rating in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll has been 44% for the past two months.
“Joe Biden’s office has complained to the Senate press gallery about a confrontation the vice president had with a conservative journalist last week on Capitol Hill,” The Hill reports. “Biden aides asked whether Senate rules were broken in the wake of the contentious exchange between the vice president and the reporter.”
“President Obama’s reelection campaign has hired a former lobbyist to serve as a senior adviser to the 2012 team,” The Hill reports. “The Obama campaign announced Monday the hiring of Broderick Johnson, a veteran of the Clinton White House and Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) 2004 presidential campaign.”
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President Obama’s reelection campaign has hired a former lobbyist to serve as a senior adviser to the 2012 team,” The Hill reports. “The Obama campaign announced Monday the hiring of Broderick Johnson, a veteran of the Clinton White House and Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) 2004 presidential campaign.”
MSNBC First Read seems to also be part of the 2102 Obama team; letting this massive hypocrisy slide by ?No mention of how candidate Obama promised to rid Washington of lobbyists' influence?
Too busy snarking at the GOP, aren't we?
Honesty and transparency are not hallmarks of this administration. Lying and cheating are.
Bob, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Broderick is a FORMER lobbyist, not a current one. Are you in favor of having lobbyists influencing the political debate or against it? If you are against it, are you also tracking the lobbyists and former lobbyists influencing the GOP?
Bob, go easy on the libbies! Sure their snarking is juvenile and pointless but they are in denial of the truth!
Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America’s future. He is the best thing ever.
Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America’s resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.
That’s why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.
Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored.
Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips — they’ve gotten off the fence. They’ve woken up. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven’t seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.
Think of the crap we’ve slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy. Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and “disabilities.” Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts.
We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.
But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest.
In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms. ACORN — a taxpayer-supported organization — is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers’ union — whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense — is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.
I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they’re starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world’s policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.
Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They’re organizing, they’re studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they’re reading history and case law, they’re showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years — the Constitution. Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.
left is fuzzy.... the best thing about BO is that he'll be gone in a year! What will Carrot Top and the other disciples of the anointed one do then?
Romney 2012!
left is fuzzy
Your simply a numskull. Those capitalists, Rush, Faux New, Bachman, TP, Beck etc, who sold you this hate lines are smiling to their banks everyday while you're hear displaying your ignorant and fuzzy knowledge. You must be having some terrible nights, hating and causing out aloud because Barack Hussein Obama is your President. You bought yourself, TORMENT.
You can rant and bark like a tormented nut from now till thy kingdom come, Barack Hussein Obama is your President now and the next 5yrs.......Capisce.
Leon Panetta is more excited than anyone that obama's reign is almost over. He must be very tired and frustrated explaining foreign policy to the guy and helping him make decisions! It took him almost 6 months to convince the neighborhood organizer to take out bin Laden for crissakes!
BenSnead
Is this the best lie you've got? Nice try.
Isn't it amazing how the tea people GOP republicans whine and cry about how President Obama is being mean to them. And in their vary next sentence they make up lies and try to spread their hate filled posts.
Left is fuzzy?? Really?? Your first comment is how the "Lefties" are snarking, juvenile and in denial then the rest of your post is nothing but bashing? So how mature are you? Maybe you should practice what you preach.
left is fuzzy "Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America’s future. He is the best thing ever....Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America’s resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace."
I take it that you think that an occasional exposure to the effects of extreme liberalism is a beneficial 'reality check' for future reference.
Unfortunately, the huge cost - over $4.2 Trillion in additional debt in only 33 months, will be hard for our children and grandchildren to repay. That's pretty expensive 'medicine'.
Why can't he just say he is out on a re-election tour on the backs of the tax payer.
You can say what ever you want MRWSR, this is America. Trouble is nobody is listening to you. Your lies aren't resonating anymore.
Please tell me how I am lying, Mo ?
"I will have no lobbyists in my administration."
-Barack Obama, 2008
"Now is not the time for profit!"
-Barack Hussein Obama, Jan. 26, 2008
He is not in the administration Bob he is working for his campaign, not the US government. Big difference the Republicans in the SCOTUS said so with the CU ruling. BTW the guy he hired, he is good, real good, tied in like you would not believe.
We really can't wait for this do nothing Grover Norquist Zombies in the congress to start acting like responsible elected officials. The president's new plan is going to help 1million home owners out of 11 million. that's a good start. this is the new dawn in our history where congress sits on her arms while the nation face one a daunting task of reviving an ailing economy.
To help the common man and in many ways, help themselves is what GOP/TP call bail out. Teachers, police, firefighters who are responsible for our development, impacting knowledge, our safety and in some cases, putting their own lives in harm's way to get their jobs done. These are people that directly impact our lives in different ways and on daily basis. The only time you here these zombies, under the command of their General, come alive is whenever the rich and corporation are mentioned. I am for the 99%.
Way to go Obama, not that you got rid of Gadhafi what exactly is your plan for Libya? Oh wait, there was no plan because the transitional leader said the following...
"You should only embrace honesty, patience, and mercy," Abdul-Jalil told the crowd at the declaration ceremony in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising against Gadhafi. He urged Libyans to reconcile their differences.
And he laid out a vision for the post-Gadhafi future with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the "basic source" of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In a gesture that showed his own piety, he urged Libyans not to express their joy by firing guns in the air, but rather to chant "Allahu Akbar," or God is Great. He then stepped aside from the podium and knelt to offer a brief prayer of thanks.
All together now "Allahu Akbar", "Allahu Akbar"...
And this is different from Gov. Perry and his religious gathering HOW? How is it any different for Muslims to have an Islamic faith-based society than it is for Americans to have a Christian faith-based society? By your logic, we should get all religious ( influence, all prayers out of our society so we can tell other nations to get it out of theirs.
Kate,
You should go and live under sharia law for awhile, then come back and talk your crap.
MRWSR
Why do you crazy nuts on the right fret, pissing in your pants, over what happens in another man's kitchen? We don't practice sharia law here in the US so why does it bother you nuts? Sharia law is what these people want. Respect them for that cause that's whom they are.
Pen,
Why exactly did we spend over a Billion Dollars bombing Libya? Please tell me...
Why exactly did we spend over a Billion Dollars bombing Libya? Please tell me...
You spent billions to colonize them? Stupid, you were obliging to the call of the UN, a body, US is a member of after a call for help from the People of Libya and the Arab League.
Pen,
Thank you for the kind words. According to Barna.com 85% of those under the banner of Sharia Law, are on or are tied in with terrorist ogranizations. Plus, would you treat your wife or daughter this way.
You make no sense.
MRWSR.
"Kate,
You should go and live under sharia law for awhile, then come back and talk your crap."
MRWSR: Sharia law is what they have over THERE. Maybe, just maybe- that's why Kate wants to live HERE, and NOT there?
You been listening to Hannity again, haven't you?
And every American President ends his or her major speeches with "God Bless America."
Islam itself isn't evil. Just because the Italian Mafi is Catholic doesn't mean all Italian Catholics belong to the Mafi.
Amy,
You have no problem with the way women are treated under sharia law. This law was not there before or in egypt. Its not a good thing and will only raise threats.
Best worry about how the tealiban wants to impose their "christian" version of Sharia Law in this country instead of worrying about what the people of an Islamic country want to do with their own government! MRWSR, you seem to have a great deal of concern about how women are treated under Sharia Law, but ignore how women, poor, elderly, gays are treated by evangelical "christians"!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Nurse,
You can not even compare the two. Shows how much you take for granted. You have no idea the mission works of this countries churches for those in need. You need to read the law's and really be thank GOD, you live here.
MRWSR.
Yet when President Obama sends 100 troops to Uganda to help remove the leader of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, who have waged a campaign of rape, murder and enslavement, Rush Limbaugh tels us they are a "Christian" organization and we have no business getting involved in that situation.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_targets_christians
I do know about the missions of some churches--some truly give unconditional assistance to the poor. The ones I am speaking of are the ones who give aid with the condition that the "heathens" convert to their version of "christianity" and who wish to impose their brand of religion on the rest of us. If there is so much compassion amongst the TPGOP right wing "christians" why do they cheer at the idea of capitol punishment that may kill innocent people, why do they cheer at the idea of a 30 year old man without health insurance being left to die without care, why do they boo at a gay soldier that has put his life on the line to protect the rights of said group to have their own opinions, who care more about the unborn than those who are living now, hate the elderly and the poor, involve us in endless wars, and are willing to create even more poverty and misery? The poverty these folks are deliberately trying to create dwarfs the amount of mission work that churches are capable of providing to the poor. Read the laws? From where I sit--the TPGOP and the uberwealthy are trying circumvent the laws! You are the one who needs to read and understand history as well as current events! Remove the log from your own eye! The destruction of my country by the uberwealthy and the ignorant is why I and others sometimes consider expatriating--and believe me,there are other countries that do a much better job at taking care of their citizens!
We don't need any plan for Libya, they are a sovereign nation, we did not take them over, democracy means they can have any silly damn thing people vote for, just like here, they get democracy, which means they get what they want, not want anybody else wants for them, that's the system we love and send kids to die protecting. We need to keep our nose out, unless asked for advice, if they elect a murderous bastard that attempts to harm us we collect his head and they start looking for the next guy. That's the beauty of the way it was handled through NATO we did not break so we are not on the hook to fix it, nor should we be. They can take care of themselves, they got some oil.
Nurse,
You are taking things out of context and using the same lie's time after time. If you watch the debates in which you talk about here, you will see that the boo's and cheers follow other statments. Santorum was saying being gay has no place in the military. Did not say they could not serve or that they are derserve our gratitued. But, being gay is not a platform for battle or a need that has to be met by anyone. The military does not care if you are married or whatever. Just don't wear it as a badge of I AM GAY. That is not right for any group. That is what people were cheering for.
Can you "provide some sources for these "Hethens" you talk about. Would like to see how many there are compared to the ones that are not.
Amy,
Will research your link. But that has nothing to do with what I asked.
Nurse,
Then please go there. Because here it is not the governments job to take care of anybody. .
yeah MRWSR--because here it is the government's job to take care of the uberwealthy--via corporate welfare and tax cuts!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Sorry, you rant and delusion will not serve anybody. This country is still the best in the world. You and the liberals will never rest untill the government has control. You want what you do not deserve. Your term "Uberwealthy". There are some who totally deserve to have their butts kicked for abusing the free marekets. But you want to put the hurt on all wealth in this country. You have no right to what they have worked for.
I do not have a cute little poem for you, sorry.
But will offer these words"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
The New York Daily News notes that Obama’s trip, though, politically is all about Hispanics.
If Obama wants to win Hispanic votes post this ad on Spanish language television.
El empresario Herman Cain propuso recientemente construir una cerca electrificada a lo largo de la frontera con México que mataría a quienes intentasen cruzar ilegalmente.
or Post this on English language television to see the choice.
The businessman Herma Cain recently proposed to construct an electrified fence along the border with Mexico that would kill those that tried to cross illegally.
Place it as an ad for a sitcom since Cain claims it was supposed to be a joke.
Putting aside partisan politics can anyone justify or support the current set of clowns they Republicans are proposing? If anyone is working harder to reelect Obama I don't know who they are. Religious zealots and has bins or wanna bees but not a candidate amongst them.
The only three I would vote for are in this order 1) Newt Gingrich 2) Romney & 3) Cain
And that's why nobody takes you seriously JFK. What are those three offering that excites you?
JFK is just one of many anxious to get rid of the inept neighborhood organizer occupying the White House right now!
Most of the Republican candidates could reduce Obama to tears in a debate discussing his record for the last 3.5years! Unfortunately only a few (Romney, Gingrich, Cain, and a few others that are sitting in the wings) have the ability to undo the damage Obama and his anti-business Czars have caused in such a short time!
The first mess to clean up (redact) is obamacare, simply the most expensive mistake in USA history!
Hey Mo, which three candidates do you like?
Sally I predict 5 minutes after the debate between President Obama and the tea people GOP republican candidate start, you'll be throwing things at your TV and turning it off. Then you'll come on FR and start ranting about how unfair the questions were to the tea people GOP republican candidate. Keep telling yourself how great the tea people GOP republican candidates are while 80% of America is laughing at them.
Sally -- the "inept neighborhood organizer" meme is old and played out. Would you deny that Gov. Romney is a neighborhood organizer? He worked as a Mormon missionary, he worked in his ward in Massachusetts.... isn't that the same thing? We can now all start calling Gov. Romney a "neighborhood organizer" too. Or we can call him an "inept French-speaking missionary." And we can call Herman Cain a "burger flipper" since he had that job at one time. We can call former Speaker Newt Gingrich a "polygamist" since he has had more than one sexual partner at a time. It's an endless game. In point of fact, President Obama has had many jobs and positions over time, just as the others have. His current position is that of President of the US, Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
Kate,
By the sound of it, we should call him King.
Tell me the jobs he had in the private sector, tell me other than being a community organizer, and short time senator, that he had more experience than Mitt Rommney (who I am not endorsing here) does right now.
MRWSR, there's hardly any point...you have the facts available to you. However, President Obama worked as a community organizer, then went to law school, worked in New York at a private firm for a year, moved to Chicago and worked as a civil rights lawyer (private sector) and as a professor at the U of Chicago (private university). He then was a state legislator in Illinois, then a Senator. He has seen how government works at a state and national level, he has taught the law and has practiced law. That is a good amount of experience for someone who wants to run our country. In addition, he has done this without having had parents who could open doors for him (Romney's father also ran for President and was governor of Michigan).
That's not a resume' sorry.
Your candidates all lose to him in a head to head match-up, and his numbers are climbing, republicans might be whistling past the graveyard, because at this stage he wins the election.
Hey Beck72...outside of michelle bachman, any one of the repub contenders are more qualifoed than obozo. And while the hipocritical bag of methane obozo beats on the rich, he's out here in CA kissing hollywood fat-cat @$$ for money. What a lying slime ball.
If I had a dollar for every time that capitalism was blamed for the problems caused by the government, I'd be a fat filmmaker with a baseball cap.
You tea people GOP republicans keep spouting how capitalism will save the world. Tell us what you think the meaning of capitalism is Slide.
I just laugh and laugh and laugh about how this pos has desroyed the office os President, this is why people like them will never gain respect because they think we owe them, NOT.
Keep laughing pony05, your sides are going to get pretty soar if you keep laughing the next 5 years.
I bought and "flipped" 17 houses in Nevada. The 18th one I got caught in the bursting bubble. I was making up to $30,000 on each house I flipped at the peak. Can't sell this one. If Obama wants to help me pay for it, that's fine with me. In fact, that's REAL fine with me. LOL
Are you a member of ACORN or are you a member of a group that is eligible for membership in ACORN, the Black Liberation Theology Church, New Black Panthers, generational welfare subculture or similar groups? If you work for an honest living and are not one of his primary support group members, Obama ain't gonna do nothing for you.
Now I know why China has been able to walk all over us.
This ought to be interesting.
You might want to question Obama's primary loyalties. Of course we know his first loyalty is to Obama but what about his loyalty to country?
Your Affirmative Action President's mortgage modification ploy can help people who don't need help. It can do nothing for his no-to-low income supporters. To help them he needs to come up with an Affirmative Action mortgage loan scheme for people who don't qualify for any kind of loan in the real world.