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    If McCain had won the presidency, I would be reading about his mistakes. You would not.
    Nope ... sorry .... I call "BS". IF McLame had won then we would be hearing about his mistakes, missteps, and flaws 24/7 ad nauseam....
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    The highs and lows of Obama's first 100 days
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    Ever since FDR, the judging of the president's first 100 days is a time-honored tradition, something akin to a teacher issuing a report card. Or a fraternity hazing the new pledge.

    Luckily for President Obama, there's only one "First 100 Days." But unluckily for President Obama, the stakes are much higher: In his hands lies the future of Wall Street, two wars and a recession. Here's a look at the president's report card so far:

    HIGHS

    Domestic policy: During the election, much was made about then-Sen. Barack Obama's lack of experience. But President Obama hit the ground running: Just days after his inauguration, Obama issued a White House pay freeze, ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay and signed his first bill into law.

    Obama then pushed through a massive $787 billion stimulus bill, ended the ban on stem-cell research, and lifted travel limits to Cuba. Oh, and a few weeks ago, he authorized the use of U.S. force against Somali pirates holding an American sea captain hostage.

    Foreign policy: Depending on whom you ask, Obama's European trip for the G20, NATO and EU-US summits was either a successful first step toward "soft diplomacy," or as Karl Rove dubbed it, the "President's Apology Tour."

    In a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama set the tone for his trip, telling Brown that he came to Europe "to listen and not to lecture." By reaching out, Politico declared that Obama made it clear to the world that "the Bush era of foreign policy is over." In return, various heads of state lavished praise for the new U.S. president. A sampling:

    - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown: "Your first 70 days in office have changed America, and you've changed America's relationship with the world."

    - French President Nicholas Sarkozy: Called Obama a "U.S. president who wants to change the world and who understands that the world does not boil down to simply American frontiers and borders."

    - Chinese President Hu Jintao: "Since President Obama took office, we have secured a good beginning in the growth of this relationship."

    Back home, however, analysts were on the fence as to what Obama actually accomplished. The New York Times called the trip a "mixed bag," while Politico commented that Obama got "a warm embrace and a cold shoulder" from our NATO allies. The verdict? Not a solid "high," but since Obama was universally well-received, his trip falls into the "plus" column — for now.

    The White House: So far, the Obama White House might be the most relaxed — and open — administration yet. Even after he was elected president, Obama was seen in Chicago, taking Michelle out for Valentine's Day dinner. In D.C., the president was seen sipping a beer courtside watching the Bulls play the Wizards.

    It's definitely the most wired administration; Obama managed to keep his Blackberry and his weekly radio addresses are the first to be released as Web videos. In March, Obama became the first sitting president to appear on "The Tonight Show" and hosted the first virtual town hall at the White House.

    And honestly — when was the last time the president and the secretary of state held a briefing meeting at a picnic table?

    LOWS


    Vetting nominees: But it hasn't been all roses and rainbows since inauguration day. No less than four nominees have been flagged for not paying taxes, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, despite what the administration called a "comprehensive" vetting form.

    Geithner paid his overdue taxes and still got the job, but three nominees — Nancy Killefer, Tom Daschle and Bill Richardson ended up withdrawing their nominations.

    Missteps, mixed messages: On the way to the White House, Obama earned the nickname "No-Drama Obama" for his famously disciplined campaign. But as of late, that famous discipline seems to be slipping. In March, when news of AIG bonuses became public, Obama waited several days before making an official statement. When it became known that the White House knew about the bonuses for almost a week, the story turned into "who knew what when" — and why Obama didn't say something sooner.

    Things came to a head at a press conference at which CNN's Ed Henry asked the president why he waited so long to respond. Obama replied tersely, "It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak." (Watch the clip here.) Afterward, Obama sought to limit the damage, going on a whirlwind media tour, appearing on "60 Minutes," "Jay Leno" and ESPN.

    Obama's latest misstep — and one that may have the most lasting consequences — involves the investigation of detainee interrogations. On April 21, AP reported that Obama was open to a probe of the Bush-era detainee program. Days later, however, the White House declared Obama was opposed to a special commission to investigate detainee interrogations. But the president is still facing pressure from key Democratic lawmakers to establish a "truth commission" to probe abuses.

    The divider: Yes, Obama has the high approval marks, but for someone who made bipartisanship a theme of his campaign, polls also show that Obama is "a polarizing figure in the mold of Bush," says RealClearPolitics. An ABC/Washington Post poll shows 93 percent of Democrats support his actions, while only 36 percent of Republicans do.

    Pew Research Center finds that "Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades." AP reports that for every step toward bipartisanship by the White House, there has been one step back: Obama put two Republicans in his Cabinet, but when Republicans pushed for more tax cuts in the stimulus package, Obama replied, "I won. So, I think on that one, I trump you."

    According to David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser, the 100-day review is the "journalistic equivalent of the Hallmark holiday." But perhaps because of Wall Street, two wars and a recession, these 100 days do matter, because now more than ever, people need the change Obama promised.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/200904...ws/ynews_pl314


    Some of the items that are listed as "HIGHS" are questionable at best ....JMO




    Cillizza on George W. Bush
    First 100 Days: JFK to Obama
    The Post's Chris Cillizza recalls the controversial start to the Bush administration.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...src=newsletter
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    100 Days: Obama's Campaign Promises
    According to the MSM

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    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON IRAQ – “We should end this war responsibly. We should do it in phases. But in 16 months we should be able to reduce our combat troops.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON IRAQ – He tasked military leaders to develop a plan for responsible withdrawal on his first full day in office. In February he announced the U.S. combat mission will end by Aug. 31 2010 and all military personnel will be out by the end of 2011.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON TAX CUTS – “I want to give a break to 95 percent of middle class Americans. Folks who need it and deserve it. I want to give tax breaks to the small businesses that create more than two-thirds of our jobs.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON TAX CUTS – His stimulus bill included a tax credit of up to $800 for couples, lower than the $1,000 per couple in his original proposal. Obama’s plan to give employers a $3,000 tax credit for each worker they hire was dropped from the final stimulus bill.

    ---

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON THE ECONOMY – “What we haven't yet seen is a rescue package for the middle class. Because the fundamentals of the economy were weak even before this latest crisis.

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE ECONOMY – He signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, committing about $787 billion to stabilizing the U.S. economy. The stimulus package includes tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans and major investments in infrastructure, education and energy

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON LOBBYISTS – “When you walk into my administration, you will not be able to work on regulations or contracts directly related to your former employer for two years.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON LOBBYISTS – He signed executive orders toughening ethics rules. For lobbyists, it includes a two-year waiting period before working for the administration. Among the most controversial is former Raytheon lobbyist William J. Lynn (at left), who obtained a waiver and is now deputy defense secretary. About a dozen former lobbyists have top administration jobs.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON AFGHANISTAN – “We should be going into Afghanistan, that’s where bin Laden is, that’s the central front on terrorism, and that it’s slipping, because we haven’t stay focused on it. We need to send some troops there, not into Iraq.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON AFGHANISTAN – In February he ordered nearly 17,000 more soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan. It doubled the number of combat brigades in the war-torn country. An additional 4,000 will train Afghan forces.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON GUANTANAMO – “As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act, and adhere to the Geneva Conventions.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON GUANTANAMO – He signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within one year. However, debate still remains on the fate of the detainees – whether to transfer them to another facility or release them.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON TORTURE – “When I am President, America will reject torture without exception. America is the country that stood against that kind of behavior, and we will do so again.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON TORTURE – He signed an executive order banning harsh interrogation techniques – including waterboarding – and the use of secret detention centers by the CIA. The order requires interrogators to follow standards laid out in the Army Field Manual.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON ENERGY – “I think that in ten years, we can reduce our dependence so that we no longer have to import oil from the Middle East or Venezuela.”


    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON ENERGY – He got about $17 billion for efficiency and renewable energy programs in the stimulus bill, including billions for a smart electricity grid and other projects. His 2010 budget includes further investments. But the centerpiece of Obama’s energy agenda, his ambitious carbon cap-and-trade system, still faces a tough fight in Congress.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON STEM-CELL RESEARCH – “I believe that the restrictions that President Bush has placed on funding of human embryonic stem cell research have handcuffed our scientists and hindered our ability to compete with other nations.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON STEM CELL RESEARCH -- He issued an executive order removing Bush’s research restrictions on human embryonic stem cells. Obama also asked the National Institutes of Health to create new guidelines for scientists studying human stem cells.

    --
    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON EDUCATION – “What’s happened is that there’s been a debate between more money or reform, and I think we need both.”


    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON EDUCATION – His economic stimulus bill includes about $100 billion for schools. It raises the maximum college Pell Grant by $500. His administration promises better data metrics and the promotion of merit pay. Obama also created a $5 billion “race to the top” fund for states that improve the most.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON HEALTH CARE – “I think every single American has a right to affordable accessible health care.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON HEALTH CARE – He made health care reform a top priority in his budget plan. Congress is on track to debut health reform legislation but has mostly rejected Obama’s proposed measures for funding the overhaul. So far, the economic stimulus bill includes about $19 billion for health information technology.

    --

    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON BIPARTISANSHIP – “I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.”

    PRESIDENT OBAMA ON BIPARTISANSHIP – He has made gestures to his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill and has invited them into his administration. But turning politics into a less divisive, less partisan affair has proved difficult. Only three Republicans voted for Obama’s stimulus legislation in February.
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    Greatest hits from '100 Days' stories
    Eamon Javers
    Thu Apr 30, 4:46 am ET


    Amid the florid writing, chin-stroke analysis and fortune telling that went into the media’s coverage of Barack Obama’s 100 days in office, some reporters actually managed to commit journalism, bringing to light new details, poignant vignettes and inside accounts of the Obama Presidency.

    Reading through the pieces, we learned what makes President Obama feel “weirded out” and that that economic adviser Christina Romer once said “holy [expletive]” to the president.

    Scaring up such fresh and colorful nuggets is not an easy thing to do – particularly in a river bed that’s freshly panned every day. By mid-Wednesday, the phrase “100 Days” produced 12,736 hits in a Google News search – which means there are a lot of reporters chasing a very few new details.

    For reporters crafting those 100 Days pieces, it felt like the good ideas had all been taken, and taken hundreds of times. Want to compare Obama’s 100 Days to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Done 1,606 times. Heard that the White House press office considers the 100th Day nothing but a “Hallmark Holiday?” So did 308 other reporters. How about mentioning that there were still 1,360 days left in the Administration? 191 of your peers had the same thought.

    The frequent criticism of 100 Days stories is that even the seemingly revealing anecdotes are doled out by the White House to eager reporters – and they almost always show the president in a flattering light. The invisible hand of the White House press operation seemed to be at work this year, too. We didn’t stumble upon a single anecdote that made Obama look anything than charming and presidential. :snort:

    But several reports stood out, divulging fresh details about Obama’s first 100 days:

    The Washington Post’s Magnum Opus:

    The Post’s Scott Wilson – and 11 other credited reporters! – generated a mammoth take for the newspaper’s special 100 Days insert. Perhaps as a result of all that firepower, the piece was loaded with anecdotes we didn’t see anywhere else. Wilson & Co. detailed some of the courtship of party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter by Obama, detailing all of the White House officials who called him in the run-up to his high-stakes stimulus vote, and the fact that Obama granted the disgruntled Republican – now Democrat — his first-ever one-on-one Oval Office meeting with a president. Specter was duly impressed, even though it only lasted 15 minutes.

    Another scene included a meeting in which Christina Romer, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, made a pitch to the president about the dramatic constriction of the economy.

    During her presentation, Romer told Obama that Americans had yet to have their "holy [expletive]" moment over the economy, a phrase she had borrowed moments earlier from the more profane David Axelrod, Obama's senior political adviser. Obama was taken aback, and not just by the numbers. "I'm still trying to get my arms around the fact you said [expletive]," he told the bookish economist.

    And finally, the Post team came up with endearing details about the fitness habits of the White house staff and David Axlrod’s bed head the night he was woken up and told about the North Korean missile launch.

    A Walk in the Park:

    In her classic newsweekly take on the 100 Days theme for Newsweek, Holly Bailey wrote that while in London for the G-20, Obama developed cabin fever during his stay at the residence of the US ambassador and went for a walk in the garden, causing the Secret Service to “freak.” The president and his aides strolled laps around the garden for about 45 minutes. Bailey also included a vignette about one of the earliest moments Obama knew his life was changing. When he came in to the Chicago transition office for the first time after Election Day, aides began standing at their desks when the president-elect walked by. “You know what, guys, this is weirding me out,” Obama said.

    Axelrod’s fans:

    In her Chicago-Sun Times report, Lynn Sweet relates a telling anecdote about how Axelrod’s life has changed since the campaign. The two were meeting at an outdoor café, she says, but the White house adviser was continually interrupted by people on the street. The interrupters were “youthful figures I can only describe as fans,” she wrote.

    Actual News:

    The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman scored some substance in a “Next 100 Days” piece, revealing the Administration’s schedule for the coming months. “The White House has already divided up the rest of the year into ‘work periods,’ with milestones and expectations set for the first period, through Memorial Day; the second, through August; and the final, through the congressional adjournment in November,” he wrote.

    Avoiding the Pack:

    At Vanity Fair, Nancy Jo Sales beat the competition by writing about the first 100 Days – of ex-president George W. Bush. Her efforts produced this cutting lead sentence: “He swaggers onto the stage of the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, looking as psyched and proud as the day of ‘Mission Accomplished.’ He’s wearing a blue suit, American-flag pin, green tie—a tanned and fit 62-year-old version of the Yale frat boy they used to call ‘Gin and Tonic.’”

    Going Meta:

    At the New York Times, reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg filed a piece in the run-up to the 100th Day with anecdotes about the White House’s efforts to provide anecdotes for 100 Day stories. “Mark W. Lippert, a top foreign policy adviser, sat down with a small group of reporters Friday; Mr. Axelrod entertained questions from columnists in the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday,” she revealed.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/200...F0ZXN0aGl0cw--

    What is left out is just as telling as what was put in, don't you think ?
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    CANDIDATE OBAMA ON STEM-CELL RESEARCH – “I believe that the restrictions that President Bush has placed on funding of human embryonic stem cell research have handcuffed our scientists and hindered our ability to compete with other nations.”
    Because some of that work is sooooo important ....

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    Fun fact: A reporter for the financially ailing New York Times gloats that the Fishwrap of Record has made $2 million off of Obama-themed merchandise.

    Every Obama story by the Times should include this financial disclosure. Same for any other national paper that has been hawking Obama gear since Nov. 4, 2008.

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    AP’s Jennifer Obama-lovin’ Loven gets the first question. Should we close the border to deal with (bleep) flu? Obama says not now. But they are readying resources on border. He leaves the door open in case of a worse case scenario.

    Repeats several times that people need to wash their hands.

    Reminds me of how people mocked Bush for recommending to Obama that he use hand sanitizer.

    ***

    Well, now. After the left-wing bloggers went bananas trying to blame the GOP for underfunding flu pandemic programs, Obama just praised the GOP for working on Tamiflu stockpiles that he inherited.

    ***

    Gag. NYTimes reporter Jeff Zeleny asks what has “surprised, troubled, enchanted, humbled” Obama the most since his presidency began. Obama gets out his pen to write it all down. Where’s the teleprompter when you need it?
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    As Tim Graham mentioned earlier, Washington Post Style-page columnist/TV critic Tom Shales went completely rhapsodic over President Obama's speech last night. It's a bizzaro read, actually. Starting with the headline, "Obama's Enchanting Quizfest" and continuing with descriptors like "earnestly," "disarmingly," "enchantingly" (again), "comfortingly cool and collected," "truly flabbergasting" (in a good way, pretty sure he means), and so on. Shales even compares Obama to a comic-book hero. The level of abject fawning and slobbering on the part of Shales is itself truly flabbergasting (in not a good way, I mean). What possessed him to lose sense of appropriate professional tone in covering an elected official? Fine, you think the man is doing a great job in office. But as a journalist, why write it that way? Especially in the wake of Obama's massive government expansion and take-over of the US economy, Shales really does a disservice to WaPo readers by abandoning a more balanced, detached and critical write-up of the Obama 100-day presser.

    Obama's Enchanting Quizfest
    By Tom Shales
    Thursday, April 30, 2009


    The questions put to Barack Obama at his news conference last night covered nearly every topic but the Craigslist Killer, and if that had come up, Obama probably would have answered it in stride. You ask, he'll answer -- earnestly, disarmingly, enchantingly, even -- and most of the time convincingly, which is no small accomplishment for a politician.

    Obama has given more prime-time news conferences (three) in his first 100 days than Bill Clinton did in his first four years. And he seems to enjoy facing the press as much as Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did. Obama, celebrating his 100th day in office, has enough seriously worrisome problems to thwart a comic-book hero, but he was his comfortingly cool and collected self last night, even taking the time to answer a marginally frivolous four-part query from a New York Times reporter, about which things had most troubled, enchanted, surprised and humbled him since he took office.

    "Now let me write this down," the president said with perfect comic timing. And he did appear to be jotting down the four terms so he could answer them in order -- no hint of talking down to the questioner or making light of the question.

    Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting president. And in a good way -- not the way some of his predecessors were. He's not flabberghastly.

    When Obama answers a question, you don't slap your forehead and moan, "Oh, brother!" He is, as guest expert David Gergen noted on CNN after the news conference, not only "up to speed" on the pressing issues of our time but also articulate about addressing them in a friendly, accessible way. He's not the student who wears a button that says, "Smartest kid in class," but clearly he is, at least when surrounded by the White House press corps.

    Obama can use a five-dollar word such as "overarching" in one sentence and a few sentences later utter a folksy "doggone it." His verbiage is a melting pot that's always bubbling. A few times, he did stumble over words, and once or twice appeared semantically stranded, unable to find the precise language he wanted to use. But compare him with his predecessor and such moments seem trifling.

    Of the dozen or so questions asked, not all were about the economy. The first was about the swine flu pandemic, a disease outbreak that has had the oddly salutary effect of taking people's minds off the economy. Gracious to a fault (even if there has been talk about prosecuting members of the previous administration for authorizing torture of prisoners), Obama even went out of his way to praise the Bush administration for gearing up to face the bird flu.

    The bird flu fizzled, but America was ready.

    All the teleprompter problems that plagued Obama at a previous prime-time news conference appeared to have been resolved, and the president made eye contact with us folks at home in the early part of the one-hour session, when he read prepared statements about congressional action on the budget and how to deal with the flu ("Cover your mouth if you cough," for example).

    He really doesn't want to be President Everything, he as much as said -- not an all-purpose problem-solver who takes the nation's temperature and holds its hand while devising budgetary reforms, fighting a few wars, changing immigration laws and shoring up Detroit to keep it from sinking lower than New Orleans did. Obama doesn't want to run car companies or banks, he said late in the session: "I've got enough to do." He was deflecting criticism from those who contend he wants to grow the government. The disbelievers will still be unconvinced, but there appear to be relatively few of them, and many are just the predictable strident voices of the kind of partisan pedantry that Obama has said he abhors.

    The TV networks always get a little jealous when a president, or any news figure, turns out to be a great communicator. They start looking for ways to distract viewers. During the early minutes of the news conference, ABC ran little poll questions and news squibs at the bottom of the screen. That was just video gingerbread, and wildly unnecessary at that.

    Meanwhile, CNN, in what looked an awful lot like desperation, embedded the news conference in a day-long (or is it week-long) gimmicky "National Report Card" routine, as hired experts and members of Congress rated the president on this and that. Graphically speaking, it was a mess, and one sympathized with Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer and other CNN talents caught up in one of those Producers' Brainstorms that didn't work.

    Fox stations, meanwhile, chose not to carry the news conference at all. One of the regularly scheduled shows that did air: a series called "Lie to Me."

    MSNBC showed its strengths -- at least two of them, anyway -- by going to ravaging Keith Olbermann and ravishing Rachel Maddow. Two smart people are a lot better than an arsenal of computerly contraptions.

    Some industry sources were heard to grumble in recent days about the advertising revenue being lost because of the presidential news conferences. Oh, boohoo! What's a president going to have to do: Start programming networks, too?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042900001.html
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/christi...r-obama-speech


    Obama's stage-managed press "conferences" in which pre-vetted media shills send slow pitch softballs his way are among the most depressing things on earth. It's like a scripted sitcom that refuses to get cancelled. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that whenever Obama goes off script or takes unanticipated questions he says incredibly stupid things. A classic example is Joe the Plumber, who contrary to every other major media outlet/cheerleading group, dared to walk up and - GASP - ask Obama an unexpected question. And the response he got was among the most revealing and terrifying seen to date. The only thing missing from the current press "conferences" is an official laugh track.
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    Obama: The First 100 Days

    Michelle Malkin linked up to this assessment of Barack Obama's first 100 days. Some of it is just tongue-in-cheek, but the lion's share of it is extremely disturbing. It's unbelievable that Americans could have been hoodwinked into electing this guy.

    Let me comment today on just the first 10 ...

    1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said."

    -- McClatchy, 3/11
    This is no surprise. Obama was an "earmark" senator. Why would anyone be so foolish as to believe he wouldn't be an "earmark" executive?

    2. "There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments."

    -- Obama during the campaign.
    Oh he made adjustments all right. More of the same stuff that got us into this mess in the first place. Thanks a lot Barry.


    3. This year's budget deficit: $1.5 trillion.
    Thanks a lot, indeed. Especially given this guy's campaign complaints about the prior administration's deficit spending.

    4. Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million -- a whopping .0027%!
    Yeah - that's gonna help ...

    5. "The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties."

    -- ABC News, 4/15
    Try "in denial".


    6. "Mr. Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the 'teleprompt president' over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech."

    -- Sky News, 3/18
    Yeah right. An ... ummmmm ... well yeah ... an ... umm accomplished ... ummm .. orator umm ... yeah ... indeed.

    BULLSHT!


    7. In early February, the 2010 census was moved out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, politicizing how federal aid is distributed and electoral districts are drawn.
    He can't guarantee his re-election by any semblance of decent governance, so he does it by controlling the census, thus controlling the structuring of the electoral districts. Sounds a lot like something Hitler would do.


    8. Obama taps Nancy Killefer for a new administration job, First Chief Performance Officer -- to police government spending. But it surfaces that Killefer had performance issues of her own -- a tax lien was slapped on her DC home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She withdrew.
    Americans will hold Obama's feet to the fire on this one. If we are expected to pay taxes, so shall those he wishes to have serve (with) him. Shame he didn't learn this the first time it happened.


    9. Turkey tried to block the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as new NATO secretary general because he didn't properly punish the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel were outraged; Obama said he supported Turkey's induction into the European Union.
    No free speech rights for a Danish cartoonist? This is a bad way to start building a record on human rights.


    10. . . . and he never mentioned the Armenian genocide.
    Why should he? The only thing Barack Obama cares about is amassing power. The examples of Washington and Jefferson have been thrown completely to the wind, as if they never existed.


    Can anyone provide a single shred of honest evidence that this man is good for America, beyond the fact that he's waking the people up to the foolishness that's been going on for the last hundred years? Actually, that fact is going to loom large in any effort to save the Constitution and the country from these thugs. Without the people, this Revolution will fail, and America will run the way of the Soviets.


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    Here's a petition a group I joined is starting:


    To The United States Congress:

    Whereas the umbrella organization and many of its affiliate organizations have been contracted to conduct the 2010 United States Census;

    and whereas the leadership of the Acorn Organization has been charged in Civil Court with embezzlement by former members of the Acorn Organization or its affiliates;

    and whereas the Acorn Organization or its affiliates have been charged with corruption in more than 10 states;

    and whereas multiple persons working as agents or employees of the Acorn Organization have been charged with voter registration fraud;

    and whereas multiple persons working as agents or employees of the Acorn Organization have been charged with identity theft and other fraud related charges;

    and whereas cooperation with Census takers is required under Federal Law;

    and whereas cooperation with Acorn organization employees or agents or the employees and agents of its affiliate organizations poses a real and present danger of crimes of identity theft, fraud and other crimes against persons and property;

    and whereas the Federal Government's contract with the Acorn organization and its affiliates constitutes an assault upon the citizenry of the United States through the agency of federal law:

    We the undersigned Citizens of the United States do hereby petition that the United States Census Bureau and all U.S. Government Agencies immediately sever all fiduciary relationships with Acorn and all of its affiliates.
    I think the plan is to start getting signatures at the July 4th demonstration. ACORN is as corrupt as the day is long and the MSM isn't covering it. They need to be OUT of our census and no more government money for them until we know where the LAST gov money went. The group will not submit to an audit requested by their members.
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    Great idea and hopefully they will submit a copy of the petition to the senate.
    I think there have been several Republican senators that have tried to stop the funding of ACORN and it's many other groups.

    Did you know that most of these ACORN groups and affiliates have a central office in Louisiana, and the building is or was a funeral home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SurferGirl View Post
    Great idea and hopefully they will submit a copy of the petition to the senate.
    I think there have been several Republican senators that have tried to stop the funding of ACORN and it's many other groups.

    Did you know that most of these ACORN groups and affiliates have a central office in Louisiana, and the building is or was a funeral home.
    There are even some ACORN board members that are trying to stop government funding of ACORN, so hopefully we can help them.
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