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“Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he is ‘determined’ to find a solution to the controversial birth control issue and that the administration is making ‘a significant attempt to work this out,’” The Hill writes of Biden’s appearance on a Cincinnati radio show, adding, “ ‘As a practicing Catholic, I am of the view that this can be worked out and should be worked out and I know the president feels the same way,’ the vice president told Cincinnati radio station WLW, adding that the ‘frustration’ voiced in recent days ‘is real.’”
“Ten states now have President Barack Obama’s OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would raise standards and develop more creative ways to measure what students are learning,” AP notes. “‘We’ve offered every state the same deal,’ Obama said Thursday. ‘If you’re willing to set higher, more honest standards than the ones that were set by No Child Left Behind, then we’re going to give you the flexibility to meet those standards.’”
Michelle Obama will raise money in Boston March 9.
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So predictable…. (although I thought they would wait until later this afternoon)
Today is walk back day for President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and the crackle of moonbats that thought they could impede freedom.
Sorry to say but the damage is done. People of faith will not forget what this President and his band of libbies attempted. See Americans of faith value the Constitution and hold freedom of religion in high regard.
I hope Jarrett and the sisterhood enjoy the view of Axerod’s backside as it’s now apparent that they have been ordered to walk a few paces behind him from now on. Maybe a good foot binding would be in order for such a colossal mistake.
The spin from the leftwing cheerleaders on FR today will be hilarious I’m sure.
I will be back and forth from media matters and the daily kos. I do want to see how the libbies with actual convictions take this one. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Another Obama Friday flipflop...late Friday document dump.
Amazing how the massive groundswell against this unconstitututional brazen attack on religion was ignored by the state run media for days and days...
In fact, First Read analysis minimized this issue, until just a few days ago...unmasking MSNBC as not a news organization, but an Obama propaganda outlet.
Someone made a Friday call on this one. Was that you, Rob?
Anyway, FirstRead ought to send a t-shirt to whoever predicted that.
sure did - thanks
There is a world of difference between abandoning this mandate and giving a small exception (The Hawaii Exception, which is whats expected today) to the mandate.
I love it how those on the right see actually trying to come to some reasonable accomodation about this issue as a flip flop and a walk back. Its one of the reasons very little gets done in Congress. There is no compromise on the Right.
This administration is responsive to criticism unlike any I have ever seen. I often said, if George Bush had invited Cindy Sheehan for a second meeting, and used the event to talk to the American people about why we invaded Iraq, he might not have left office with the lowest approval rating of any modern President besides Nixon.
President Obama excells at finding the middle way, and communicating all the elements of a decison to the American people. Let's keep him!
Yeah me too, Paul. 5 pm Friday.
Things are getting pretty predictable in the White House these days.
So the President managed to upset the Catholic Clergy and at most 5% of the Flock. Meanwhile the Catholic Clergy and the Republican Party managed to upset the 95% who use birth control. Nice victory there Rob! Boy the Republicans are smart in getting the vote out.
[People of faith will not forget what this President and his band of libbies attempted.]
By "people of faith" do you mean the 90% of catholics that already use birth control in one form or another (which in your world would be hypocrites, right?), or the ones that work for the large universities and hospitals, since the year 2000, ALREADY have had their choice between health care plans that do and do not cover birth control?
Those "people of faith"? Quite the stretch, eh Raab?
Ahhh...the Conservative La-La Land where compromise is seen as caving, and moral and ethical inconsistencies as well as true flip-flopping are seen as strengths...
Conservatism truly is a mental illness..
Oh, I almost forgot...
Nice avatar, booby...
Nobody But Obama...carry that torch high, booby!
And on a lighter note:
Congress: Bachus under investigation for insider trading
"Congress: Bachus under investigation for insider trading"
Burn him, a crime is a crime right? No matter what party their in. Kind like the nut job in Colorado that was taken way by the Secret Service...........
What else is in the health care law that we do not know about?
Well...Pelosi will let us know when she finally reads it all...
I watched a bishop from Washington DC on morning Joe. His conversation had nothing to do with religion, it was all partisan tea people GOP republican politics. And this is who you so called Catholics put your faith in? He needs to read the part of the constitution about the separation of church and state. Oh that's right he's like all the other tea people GOP republicans, the constitution only matters when it helps the tea people GOP republicans. If I were a catholic which I am not, after listening to this guy I'd have to leave the faith.
That bishop trounced brezezski and stein. great tv
Sorry Bob. NOT
He wasn't being a Bishop, he was political. Is that what you expect out of Catholic Bishops Bob?
Modern day Pharisees. Jesus would not approve of these Bishops.
Mo-1852032---I too watched the show and I got the same feeling about this Bishop that you did.
Keep going tea people GOP republicans, It's the one and only issue you have. Hope you can keep it going till November. My bet is it'll be long out of the minds of voters by then. President Obama seems to always get you tea people to play your hand way to early. But we all knew you tea people don't have any restraint when it comes to hate for our President.
with 24/7 news it won't be hard to point this obama methodolgy (hurry up and retract) at anu point over the next 8 1/2 months. After all, the left likes going back 30+ years.
to play your hand way to early.
It's Obama that's played his hand way too early. He has genuflected his entire first term trying to appear to be a moderate. This latest action is a glimpse into what a second term will look like when he doesn't have to worry about reelection.
His is the most liberal progressive ever to be elected and this country will not endure if he's elected to a second term!
Not at all. Look at what he did.
He came out with a strong mandate that the Catholics were against. He then comes back to the table with the Hawaii Exception (which is what is expected to be the announcement today) and can be seen as trying to come to an accomodation with the Right and with Catholics. It can easily be spun (and will be) that he is the only one trying to compromise on this issue. This is far enough ahead of the elections that this will fall by the wayside by then and be resolved long before.
I would look for President Obama to say that this exception (already law in Hawaii) is a fair compromise as it is already law in one state in the land (and the Catholic Church abides by it).
The Catholic Church will buckle on this, as they are already hypocrites for accepting the exception in Hawaii and the actual mandate in dozens of states around the country already. Nevermind the fact that this is an unpopular issue to be on the other side of, as it is being spun as a womens rights vs religious rights issue.
Bob he's playing you tea people GOP republicans like a cheap fiddle. And just like in 2008 you keep falling for it. Nothing wrong with a Liberal Progressive Bob, we're what made this country great.
BTW: The country will get stronger in a second term. So get ready to endure four more years of Liberal progressive policies.
Liberals made this country great? LMAO! It is past time for liberals to stop practising the old school politics of "deficits don't matter"
The country will get stronger regardless of POTUS but not with liberal progressive policies. Fiscally focused responsibility will be the key, we don't need the shotgun approach to the economy that obama blindly embraces.
Great?? LOL If you love receiving a handout!! Enjoy my tax dollars Mo? You should, I paid 34K
Good for you Paul. Like to brag much? I will enjoy my SS, but it's not a hand out, I paid into it for 45 years. Wake up and get the facts. Do you consider your pension a hand out Paul?
Paul - [I paid 34K]
Bragging or complaining ???
ROB, It looks like you are ecstatic with joy like a drunken sailor, have you ever heard of terms like loosing a battle but winning the war. You think women in general, l mean the majority of women both catholic and others will support whatever the yellers and noise makers think they have achieved. Like Nika said to the political Bishop, dont you think that this is about freedom of women not that of the church but the bishop conveniently ignored her. This is a personal health issue for women not political expediency for the likes of men whose health or physical well being are not involved. They will remember at the ballot box who is with them and who will best serve them on women issues, another ingenious political master stroke for Obama. He is adept at setting up the opposition at every turn for a latter fall. The house is reeling from the last one, tax cut for the middle class which they fail to see the consequence as they make their incessant noise. This will end up another faux noise with dire consequence for the opposition
american In 2002 then Vice President dick cheney said "Ronald Raygun (zapp) proved deficits don't matter. Wow & your a right winger putting down a Raygun (zapp) policy. Yes the sun is setting on Raygun's legacy.
Me thinks he is an AINO - American in name only.