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"Let's be perfectly clear about what is going on here.
This was not an oversight........... It was not a mistake.
This was a deliberate snub.......... a middle finger flipped, to over fifty percent of the country.
The decision to light up the White House in celebration of the Supreme Court ruling, was not a spontaneous case of someone flipping a switch, It involved planning and consultation.
The Administration chose to make a highly visible statement about its position on Gay marriage.
The decision to not light up the White House for what is arguably America's most important holiday also must have involved planning and consultation. The deliberate choice to not light up the White House, even as an olive branch to those who were offended by the actions of the administration on June 27, shows clearly the petty spitefulness that has marked this administration from day one."
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Do you regret voting for Obama ?
Voters: 90
Yes : 6 - 6.67%
No : 22 - 24.44%
I didn't Vote for Obama : 57 - 63.33%
Like it matters anyway .... 4 - 4.44%
Even if I did I wouldn't tell you because it would make you right : 1 - 1.11%
More lies from the Liar-In-Chief! Did he forget that he has increased our deficit x4 since taking office? He and his fellow Dems/Communists, lied about, and continue to do so, Obamacare from day 1. All the changes were intentionally delayed to benefit the Dems at the polls. It is nothing but a huge tax on the middle class. It will increase our deficit dramatically although he said it wouldn't. Now he is trying to shove Obama/Communist Core down our throats with more lies. The Democrat Party should be called the Socialist/Communist Party of America. They have sold the American people out and no longer operate in our best interests. They, along with their pathetic leader, are a disgrace to this country and what we stand for!
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A Black Reporter Summarizes Barack
The below summarization of Barack and Michelle Obama’s 5 year reign in the White House is by far the best I’ve ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head. And it took a black reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is. A white man’s account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obamas is penned by a well known journalist of color?
BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE EVER!
Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles.
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The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obama's? Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama's? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture."
The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.
I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous. I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress.
I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people.
The Reagan's made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Obama's arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?
Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama's have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.
I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to not being able to be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.
Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide." No president in history has spent millions of dollars to keep his records and his past sealed.
And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea. He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today.
He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel. His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.
I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.
Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.
I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood...
Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed."
As the World Burns, White House Launches THIS?!
Written by Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor on August 15, 2015
Obama playlist
I don’t know about you, but it sure seems to me that we’ve got quite a lot on our plate these days, with all that’s happening in the world and our nation. I often wonder, with so many critical priorities, how the President of the United States knows what to deal with first.
In just the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen ISIS continue its global rampage — with fresh atrocities in unexpected new locales, like Egypt and IKEA (yes, the store); Iran gaining dangerous strength through side deals with the likes of Russia and China, while they mock the U.S. and our leaders; and, now, North Korea chiming in with its own fresh threats to our nation. Just to name a few of the highlights.
Meanwhile, at home, we’re uncovering potentially major compromises of our own top-secret information at the hands of our former Secretary of State, and our U.S. economy continues to just limp along — even as those of dangerous adversaries like Iran gain strength. Again, just the highlights here…
So it’s comforting to know that against this backdrop, our fearless leader President Obama is focused on other priorities — and, apparently, hoping we will follow his lead.
As the Associated Press reports, President Obama and the White House seems to be taking the phrase “fiddling while Rome burns” rather literally: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/57701...ylists-spotify
While I suppose even I can cut the president a tiny bit of slack for tweeting a summer playlist while he’s on vacation, the launching of an official White House Spotify channel really has to make you wonder. Where can this possibly fit in the priorities of our nation? To have any resources at all devoted to this is outrageous.Quote:
Obama on Friday tweeted links to his daytime and evening summer playlists as the White House launched an official channel on Spotify, the popular music streaming service.
Obama said he shared the lists “due to popular request.”
“What’s your favorite summer song?” he said on Twitter.
The presidential presence on Spotify marks the latest step by a White House already active on social media to boost its presence in the online world. Obama and other White House officials regularly use Twitter, Facebook, Medium and other social media platforms to make announcements.
While I’m a huge fan of music and fun playlists, we do NOT need our government to provide them. We have pop stars who can entertain us and set trends for music and other art. We do not need our president for this. We don’t need him to be “cool.” We need him or her to be focused 1,000% on the many critical issues facing our nation. None of the other stuff — summer playlists, for example — will matter if ISIS continues to gain more global ground, Iran becomes a nuclear leader or more Americans struggle just to make ends meet or give up trying altogether.
President Obama, please. Stop fiddling while the world burns.
P.S. In case you care, here are President Obama’s “Summer Playlists” — one for daytime and one for evening:
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OBAMA’S DAYTIME PLAYLIST:
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” – The Temptations
“Live It Up” – Isley Brothers
“Memories Live” – Talib Kweli & Hi Tek
“Tombstone Blues” – Bob Dylan
“So Much Trouble in the World” – Bob Marley
“Paradise” – Coldplay
“Tengo Un Trato (Remix)” – Mala Rodriguez
“Wang Dang Doodle” – Howlin’ Wolf
“Another Star” – Stevie Wonder
“Hot Fun in the Summertime” – Sly & the Family Stone
“Boozophilia” – Low Cut Connie
“Wherever Is Your Heart” – Brandi Carlile
“Good Day” – Nappy Roots
“Green Light” – John Legend
“Gimme Shelter” – Rolling Stones
“Rock Steady” – Aretha Franklin
“Down Down the Deep River” – Okkervil River
“Pusher Love Girl” – Justin Timberlake
“Shake It Out” – Florence + The Machine
“La Salsa La Traigo Yo” – Sonora Carruseles
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OBAMA’S EVENING PLAYLIST:
“My Favorite Things” – John Coltrane
“Superpower” (featuring Frank Ocean) – Beyonce
“Moondance” – Van Morrison
“Is Your Love Big Enough?” – Lianne La Havas
“How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” – Al Green
“Red & White & Blue & Gold” – Aoife O’Donovan
“Nothing Even Matters” – Lauryn Hill
“The Best Is Yet to Come” – Frank Sinatra
“You Don’t Know Me” – Ray Charles
“I Found My Everything” – Mary J Blige
“Help Me” – Joni Mitchell
“I’ve Got Dreams to Remember” – Otis Redding
“Suzanne” – Leonard Cohen
“Feeling Good” – Nina Simone
“Stubborn Love” – The Lumineers
“Until” – Cassandra Wilson
“UMI Says” – Mos Def
“The Very Thought of You” – Billie Holiday
“Flamenco Sketches” – Miles Davis
“Woo” – Erykah Badu
While we share the sentiment, we can't help bowling over in laughter that Obamas paid liar would make such a statement given his boss is consistently ignoring the Constitution, and court rulings, on gun rights, authority to regulate CO2, disobey Obamacare, and ignore the Senate's authority to reject treaties. This entire administration, and it's former secretary of state and attorney general should all be in prison along with this county clerk.
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White House On Jailing Of Kentucky Clerk: 'No Public Official' Is Above The Law
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday afternoon that no public official, including the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed earlier in the day for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is above the law.
Kim Davis, a clerk from Rowan County, Kentucky, was found in contempt of court and taken into federal custody Thursday.
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Earnest told reporters during his daily media briefing that he had not yet talked with President Obama about Davis being taken into custody.
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“On principle, the success of our democracy depends on the rule of law. And there is no public official that is above the rule of law," Earnest said. "Certainly not the President of the United States, but neither is the Rowan County clerk. That’s a principle that is enshrined in our Constitution and in our democracy and it’s one that obviously the courts are seeking to uphold."
The recovery plan: shock & awe for a shaken nation
02-13-2009
WASHINGTON – America is bringing shock and awe to the home front, using dollars instead of bombs.
It's the military doctrine of lightning force — fast and brute, or as brute as the shaken country can manage — applied to the campaign for economic recovery.
With a record-busting stimulus plan, the U.S. is marshaling resources against economic catastrophe in ways not seen since Franklin Roosevelt put the New Deal in motion.
President Barack Obama is going with the best deal he could get. The stimulus bill is a landmark legislative achievement for a new president who inherited economic spoilage along with the spoils of power. Now the nation anxiously waits to see if it works.
Undermining federal balance sheets that were already deeply in the red, Obama and Congress settled on a nearly $800 billion plan that aims to spend more on the crisis at hand than the government has spent waging the Iraq war for six years.
The idea: fast cash, and lots of it, but with a strategic view to the future.
Some dollars will flow quickly into wallets — and right out again.
The stimulus plan will mean thousands of dollars in tax breaks for first-time home buyers and people buying new cars. Lower- and middle-income taxpayers will get an extra $13 a week in their paychecks this year, and about $8 a week next year. Unemployment checks will go up $25 a week, and keep coming longer. Food stamp benefits for 30 million Americans will rise. Short-term health insurance will become more affordable for many losing their jobs.
The success of the stimulus package may be measured less by visible achievements than by what does not happen — the home that is not foreclosed, the family that doesn't slip into poverty, the disease that does not go undiagnosed.
"The one thing we'll never know is what would have happened if we didn't do it," said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist for IHS Global Insight.
It's not FDR's deal and these aren't his times.
No federally subsidized artists will paint murals glorifying the muscle of American workers or the progress belching from smokestacks, as they did in Roosevelt's day.
No grand compact is to be formed between generations like the one that promised everyone a federal pension. No institutions will rise to try something brand new.
"We're not reinventing government," said historian Kenneth C. Davis, author of the best-selling "Don't Know Much About" series. "We're modifying things that exist."
Yet as the share of the economy taken up by federal spending rises to an anticipated 30 percent, the nation is grappling again with big questions about Washington's place in people's lives.
"The stakes are so high now, this is such a big bill, average Americans are following it," says Princeton historian Julian Zelizer. "It's become a bill that is an argument about what government can or can't do.
"If there is no effect and in six months we are talking about the same economy or a worse economy, I think it would be a devastating blow to the president, Democrats, and to liberal claims about what government can do."
To critics such as Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, the package is the "Europeanization of America." Others call it "Rooseveltian" or "generational theft" in reference to the debt passed on to the future.
They might envision murals glorifying little more than filled potholes, insulated windows, depreciated computers.
Obama said it's about more than that, and drew parallels with FDR in speaking Friday to the Business Council, formed by corporate leaders in the 1930s to advise Roosevelt's administration.
"We adapted, we changed," he said about those days — and these. "President Roosevelt understood the new role of government in this new world, that while extraordinary actions on its part might be the source of recovery, no action on the part of government, no matter how extraordinary, would alone be the source of our prosperity."
Democrats and just enough Republicans in Congress — three — saw the package as the best chance to tamp down the economic wildfires breaking out across the landscape.
Obama came into office saying he wished to be judged on his first 1,000 days instead of the usual benchmark of 100. In some ways he will be judged on his first 10 or 20.
Not even Roosevelt, fast off the mark to deal with a bank crisis, was as fast as this in achieving something so sweeping, so early.
The enormity of the package left politicians grasping for concrete ways to convey its size.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., spoke of a stack of hundred-dollar bills 689 miles high, and of bills wrapped side-by-side that would encircle the Earth nearly 39 times. House Republicans predicted that the package's costs — with interest on the necessary borrowing — could total more than a trillion dollars, enough money to buy about 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for every American.
It was enough to prompt comic Jon Stewart to riff that if you sewed the $100 bills together, "you would make a blanket for Jupiter."
The stimulus wasn't just about throwing cash at the economy, though.
The package is filled with billions for some of the same goals that Obama preached about on the presidential campaign trail — renewable energy and green jobs, computerized medical records, broadband Internet service for underserved areas.
"There are seeds in this bill for long-term change," says Zelizer. "There are things that can develop out of the research that can change our lives."
Obama sounded a drumbeat of warnings about the consequences of failing to act. But Americans didn't need their president to tell them how grim the economic situation was — and could become.
Forty percent of Americans already have been affected by some sort of job problem in the past year, be it unemployment, underemployment, layoffs, reductions in pay or hours, or job losses by members of their households, according to a poll released Friday by the Pew Research Center. Fifty-six percent expect things to be worse or about the same a year from now — and they've got solid grounds for their pessimism.
The country could well suffer a net loss of 2 million to 3 million or more jobs this year, economists believe. And the unemployment rate, now 7.6 percent, could top 9 percent by spring of 2010.
The stimulus pull-together was a colossal game of winners and losers shaped and reshaped by the latest set of hands on the package. The fortunes of people, schools, towns and other varied interests rose and fell in blinks of time.
Ready to buy another home?
Poof — you just lost $15,000 that legislators had considered providing.
Buying a first home? You're still in luck — the government plans to give you an $8,000 credit if you buy by the end of November.
A new car? You'll be able to deduct the thousands in sales taxes from your income tax but not — as was initially proposed — your loan interest as well.
One day, the government proposed to pay 65 percent of the cost of health coverage for a year for jobless people who lose their workplace insurance. Days later, it was down to half. Ultimately, the subsidy zigzagged back up to 65 percent, but it expires before the end of the year.
Obama declared an end to pork-barrel politics, but legislators still managed to look out for favorite projects.
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The stimulus plan will mean thousands of dollars in tax breaks for first-time home buyers and people buying new cars. Lower- and middle-income taxpayers will get an extra $13 a week in their paychecks this year, and about $8 a week next year. Unemployment checks will go up $25 a week, and keep coming longer. Food stamp benefits for 30 million Americans will rise.
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Numbers to know for the new year
By Donna Brazile
Posted Jan 03, 2010 @ 12:02 AM
Americans often put tremendous value on numbers, and rightfully so. We spent 2009 tracking the stock market, the president’s approval ratings, interest rates and home values.
Reflecting on 2009, it became clear that numbers — whether in columns, tweets, ledger sheets, Facebook pages, bottom lines, televised speeches, bank accounts or the litany of legislation recently introduced — tell the real story. I’ve pored through many of them to bring you “The Numbers to Know in 2010.”
$459 billion: the size of the federal budget deficit in 2008.
$1.587 trillion: the size of the federal budget deficit in 2009.
0: the number of House Republicans who voted for the stimulus bill.
1: the number of U.S. senators it took to blow up the public option in health-care reform.
60: the number of votes needed to move legislation in the U.S. Senate.
13,930: the estimated high-end number of H1N1-related deaths between April 2009 and November 2009.
2.9: the number of percentage points unemployment jumped between November 2008 (6.5 percent) and November 2009 (9.4 percent).
5.7 million: the number of people working part-time because they could not find a full-time job in 2008.
9.1 million: the number of people working part-time for the same reason in 2009.
119,874: the number of personal bankruptcy filings in 2009, as of this column.
358,471: the number of home foreclosures from September 2008 to August 2009.
$3.65: the average price for a gallon of gas in September 2008.
$2.59: the average price for a gallon of gas in September 2009.
$99,000 (give or take): the price for one share of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway as of this writing.
5.07 percent: the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in 2009.
55: the number of lives saved by pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger’s ability to land U.S. Airways Flight 1549 on — not in — the Hudson River.
41: the percentage of Americans in a recent NBC/WSJ poll who feel either very or somewhat positive about the Tea Party movement.
700,000: the number of cars sold under the “Cash for Clunkers” program.
$22,000: the median debt faced by recent college graduates in 2009.
1,100: the total square footage of the new White House vegetable garden planted by Michelle Obama and 23 fifth-graders from Bancroft Elementary School.
$439 million: the average amount districts held by Democrats received in federal stimulus money.
$232 million: the average amount districts held by Republicans received in federal stimulus money.
20: the number of city blocks between the former World Trade Center site and the federal courthouse where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the accused masterminds of 9/11, will be tried.
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