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Latest Articles: Obama Wars
FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech
Post Date: 2010-06-16 10:11:34 by Badeye
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FACT CHECK: Obama left blanks in oil spill speech By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 16, 6:19 am ET WASHINGTON – In assuring Americans that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either. That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill. Obama aimed high in his prime-time Oval Office address Tuesday night — perhaps higher than the facts support and history teaches — as he vowed to restore livelihoods and nature from the ...
Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-15 16:39:33 by Badeye
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Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama Today at 02:20:38 PM » www.amazon.com/gp/product...5&creativeASIN=0984544704 Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama Mike Cullen Enjoying Your Hope and Change? Whiny Little Bitch is your guide to the most embarrassing presidency since the Carter Administration. It's an exciting way to pass some time while you're waiting for the sea levels to drop. Don't faint, or you'll miss: Obama's Foreign Policy - Under the exciting new Obama regime, treating your allies with respect is part of the failed policies of the past. Obama's Party - Congressional Democrats view ...
How the New Wealth Taxes Will Hit You
Post Date: 2010-06-15 16:22:18 by Badeye
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How the New Wealth Taxes Will Hit You by Laura Sanders Monday, June 14, 2010 provided by The health-care bill that Congress passed in March contained two surprising new taxes to help pay for the changes: an extra 0.9% levy on wages for couples earning more than $250,000 ($200,000 for singles) and a new 3.8% tax on investment income on those same people (technically, people with "adjusted gross incomes" above those amounts). Each tax signals a radical change in policy. For workers, the extra 0.9% levy puts a progressive element in what used to be a totally flat tax. The 3.8% tax on investment income also knocks down a longstanding wall by applying a "payroll" tax ...
Oil spill: BP Gulf leak could stain President Obama like Iran hostage crisis destroyed Jimmy Carter
Post Date: 2010-06-15 10:56:12 by Badeye
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Oil spill: BP Gulf leak could stain President Obama like Iran hostage crisis destroyed Jimmy Carter BY Thomas M. Defrank DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Originally Published:Tuesday, June 15th 2010, 7:58 AM Updated: Tuesday, June 15th 2010, 8:16 AM Dharapak/APPresident Barack Obama is briefed on the BP oil spill relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region earlier in June. AP/APImages from the 444-day Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980 helped doom Jimmy Carter's reelection bid. Take our PollOil's well, or not? How do you rate President Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill crisis? Good, he's clearly demonstrated that he believes this is a major environmental crisis. Bad, ...
Obama in the Bunker
Post Date: 2010-06-15 09:40:53 by Badeye
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Obama in the Bunker by Rich Galen The Obama White House is in full bunker mode. Don't believe me? Here's the definition of "bunker mentality from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Allusions: In politics, a "bunker mentality" is an embattled frame of mind, often accompanied by an aggrieved sense of being unfairly under attack. The term is most often applied to American Presidents who suffer political reverses and assume a surly, defensive posture - all critics are enemies; if you're not for us you're against us; etc. Sound familiar? How about last week when the President went on the Today show and - no, I'm not going to get into a discussion about ...
Obama's 9/11 envy
Post Date: 2010-06-15 09:29:47 by Badeye
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Obama's 9/11 envy Weird bid to spin BP spill Last Updated: 12:25 AM, June 15, 2010 Posted: 12:10 AM, June 15, 2010 John Podhoretz President Obama doesn't like the fact that the Gulf oil spill reminds people of Hurricane Katrina, since the public response to that catastrophe hastened the decline of his predecessor's standing. He'd prefer that the American people be reminded of something else -- something that rallied people around their president. And so he told Politico over the weekend that the oil spill has "echoes of 9/11." Americans thought differently about "our vulnerabilities" after the events of 9/11, Obama said, and the oil spill is ...
Does Obama Love the U.S.?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 16:16:27 by Badeye
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Does Obama Love the U.S.? Published June 14, 2010 | FOXNews.com Today is Flag Day, a holiday that celebrates the adoption of our nation’s standard by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. Ironically, there is currently an email circulating the Internet that contrasts a press conference held by President Obama with those of several of his predecessors, including George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. The difference? The former presidents stand surrounded by big, beautiful American flags; President Obama is flag-less. Not a single Old Glory festoons his podium. It is impossible to know if this photo is genuine. It could well be that, like so many things on the Internet, ...
Why Is Obama Comparing Gulf Spill to 9/11?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 14:10:34 by Badeye
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Why Is Obama Comparing Gulf Spill to 9/11? By Cal Thomas Published June 14, 2010 | FOXNews.com President Obama will address the nation from the White House Tuesday night. Subject: the BP oil spill. The problem is the president is a few weeks late and millions of gallons short. The president revealed his impotence and just how out of touch he is with this and another issue of profound importance to the public in an interview with Politico. In that interview, the president compared the BP oil spill to 9/11. What ? September 11 was about the murder of 3,000 Americans in a deliberate act by a group of Islamic fanatics. The BP affair was an accident which killed 11 and injured 17 others. ...
The BP lobbyist whose brother has Obama’s ear
Post Date: 2010-06-14 14:04:44 by Badeye
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The BP lobbyist whose brother has Obama’s ear By: Timothy P. Carney Examiner Columnist 06/14/10 12:04 PM EDT John Podesta of the Center for American Progress is nearly scripting the White House’s BP response, according to Jonathan Weisman at the Wall Street Journal in a blog post picked up by Drudge. But Weisman leaves out a key detail: Podesta’s brother is a BP lobbyist. Tony and John Podesta cofounded the Podesta Group, a K Street lobbying firm. Now BP is a client, and Tony is one of the lobbyists on the account, according to the firm’s latest lobbying filings. Tony and John have worked on the same team before. Last year, Wal-Mart came out big for a federal law ...
The Obama Window
Post Date: 2010-06-14 14:01:05 by Badeye
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The Obama Window By Chris Horner on 6.14.10 @ 12:20PM Oh, dear. Politico reports that the president will make another push for his central planning repackaged as a "green economy" in a national address tomorrow night. The reason for what used to be a global warming tax then a climate change tax is now "green jobs" and showing he's really engaged and angry at BP. You see, they spilled some oil when drilling in deepwater offshore instead of in ANWR and other, drier places onshore with lots of oil where they're not allowed. So it just follows that we should stop offshore drilling and...mandate windmills (raise the price of granny's air conditioning, hike the ...
End of a Love Affair?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 11:40:32 by Badeye
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End of a Love Affair? by Christian Toto 06/14/2010 You don’t need a time machine to recall how the media portrayed then Sen. Barack Obama in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. Scribes dutifully reported on Obama’s bipartisan nature, his intellectual fitness for the task at hand and his promise of a truly transparency administration. Business as usual would no longer hold the political process in its meaty grip. That was the narrative not just from Team Obama but from the starry eyed reporters covering the well-spoken candidate. Who can forget MSNBC host Chris Matthews describing the “tingle” up his leg when Obama spoke, or how “conservative” ...
The Obama Watch
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:32:27 by Badeye
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The Obama Watch Barack Obama's Body Language By Ron Ross on 6.14.10 @ 6:08AM Psychologists say more communication takes place non-verbally than verbally. Consider, for example, Barack Obama's body language. Probably more than anyone I've ever seen, he literally looks down his nose as he speaks. He physically lifts his chin and looks down his nose at his audience or the camera. It's not something he does on all occasions. It's most noticeable during commencement speeches and similar events. "Looks down his nose" is a phrase everyone understands. It's as familiar as "hang dog," "chin on chest," or "spring in his step." ...
Great Depression Ghosts Haunt Dem Prospects
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:30:29 by Badeye
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Great Depression Ghosts Haunt Dem Prospects By David Paul Kuhn The ghost of the Great Depression has become eerily (more) relevant in recent months. The Depression was the confluence of two catastrophes: an economic bubble burst domestically while Europe faced a debt crisis. The September 2008 market crash brought us the former but not the latter. We now have the latter. Greece's debt crisis has spread to the more-vulnerable European economies. This debt crisis remains still an echo of what overtook Europe following the Great War. But it's a loud echo at that. Markets closed May with their worst monthly declines since early 2009. Amid lax jobs growth, May's decline in ...
Obama Jobs
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:28:45 by Badeye
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Obama Jobs By The Prowler on 6.14.10 @ 6:10AM THE PERMANENT CENSUS The Obama White House, stung by criticism of the recent May employment report, which showed virtually no job growth beyond the 411,000 temporary census workers, is attempting to find ways to put as many of the 411,000 in permanent government jobs. According to White House sources, the Labor Department is spearheading efforts to identify government jobs created or enabled by federal stimulus programs, as well as unfilled bureaucrat jobs, where the temporary workers might be placed. "There are policies in place that would allow us to put those people into federal or possibly stimulus-related jobs fairly quickly," ...
A Mom Asks: Should We Care What's Wrong with Obama?
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:27:10 by Badeye
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A Mom Asks: Should We Care What's Wrong with Obama? By Kyle-Anne Shiver Robin of Berkeley has provided a great summary of psychological speculation to answer a question now in the minds of some Americans: "What's wrong with Obama?" I suppose a few among us are still asking this question, as though the answer will undo a whit of the damage done. As a full-time mom, with 36 years of experience under my belt and a couple of model American adults now on my resume, I've stopped asking that question, however. In fact, from a mom's point of view, I'm much more prone, at this point, to be asking, "Should we care what's wrong with Obama?" From the Dr. ...
Obama golfs for four hours in sweltering heat
Post Date: 2010-06-14 09:02:15 by Badeye
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Obama golfs for four hours in sweltering heat By Bridget Johnson - 06/13/10 06:12 PM ET President Barack Obama spent four hours on the golf course Sunday in temperatures that peaked in the low 90s. The White House pool reported that they left Andrews Air Force Base as it started to rain after 4 p.m. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was among the group golfing with Obama. Also reportedly in the golfing group were White House Trip Director Marvin Nicholson and photographer David Katz. The president leaves Monday for his fourth trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP oil spill began nearly two months ago. On the trip, the President will visit Gulfport, Miss., Theodore, Ala., and ...
Primaries a win for Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney
Post Date: 2010-06-11 13:46:46 by Badeye
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Primaries a win for Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney By ANDY BARR | 6/11/10 4:50 AM EDT Text Size-+reset. Both former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Massachussets Gov. Mitt Romney backed the GOP's first-place finishers in the South Carolina and Iowa gubernatorial races. IfSarah Palin and Mitt Romney decide to run for the presidency in 2012, they'll have some powerful friends in the early states that are key to winning the GOP nomination. Mike Huckabee? Not so much. All of it is part of the presidential election fallout from Tuesday’s primaries in Iowa and South Carolina, two states so pivotal in the GOP nomination process that even their off-year state elections are ...
Anyone have Tony Hayward's BP number? Why Obama couldn't be bothered calling the CEO
Post Date: 2010-06-11 13:01:41 by Badeye
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Anyone have Tony Hayward's BP number? Why Obama couldn't be bothered calling the CEO June 11, 2010 | 2:12 am White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's boss will visit the gulf coast again next week to be seen asking after things concerning the nation's worst environmental disaster ever. This time, President Obama will stay overnight. In politics, which of course the presidency is, a campaign's most valuable resource is not free rent for supporters, not the $750 million donated by oil companies, lobbyists, banks and individuals. The most precious resource is the politician's time. No wealthy insider can add to the finite 1,440 minutes in each day. So, if Obama ...
James Carville Bashes Fareed Zakaria: 'I Wanted to Hit Him With a Football Bat'
Post Date: 2010-06-11 12:26:40 by Badeye
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James Carville Bashes Fareed Zakaria: 'I Wanted to Hit Him With a Football Bat' By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) Fri, 06/11/2010 - 00:43 ET Democrat strategist James Carville Thursday had strong words for Fareed Zakaria who in an interview recently published at CNN.com defended President Obama's handling of the Gulf Coast oil spill. "When I read that I wanted to hit him with a football bat," Carville told CNN's John King on the program bearing his name. For those not getting the joke, Carville was mocking Zakaria's reference to "offensive linebacker" during the interview; only the defense has such a position in football. Carville continued, ...
Harsanyi: The Cuckoo's Nest
Post Date: 2010-06-11 12:22:50 by Badeye
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Harsanyi: The Cuckoo's Nest By David Harsanyi Posted: 06/11/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT Any impartial national media type will tell you as much: A bunch of half-baked zealot nutjobs have emerged from the Republican primary field. Folks like Nevada's Sharron Angle and California's Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are all throwing around frighteningly out-of-step opinions. Let's start with Angle, who believes it would be prudent — get this — to start de-funding the Department of Education. The Department of Education! You must be aware that the vast majority of Americans were unable to write or use basic arithmetic before the prestigious bureaucracy began operating in 1980 ...
Experts Say White House 'Misrepresented' Views to Justify Drilling Moratorium
Post Date: 2010-06-11 11:33:49 by Badeye
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Experts Say White House 'Misrepresented' Views to Justify Drilling Moratorium Published June 11, 2010 | FOXNews.com May 26: Greenpeace protesters hold up a banner as Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar testifies before the House. The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon explosion are accusing his administration of misrepresenting their views to make it appear that they supported a six-month drilling moratorium -- something they actually oppose. The experts, recommended by the National Academy of Engineering, say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar modified their report last month, after they signed it, to ...
The gulf between Hollywood hypocrites and the oil spill
Post Date: 2010-06-11 10:09:22 by Badeye
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The gulf between Hollywood hypocrites and the oil spill Andrea Tantaros Thursday, June 10th 2010, 4:00 AM In case anyone is questioning it, celebrities are terribly concerned about the Gulf of Mexico. Actor Sean Penn has said he "cares about New Orleans." Actor Brad Pitt has spent days in the region assisting with relief efforts. And Jamie Foxx has raised more than half a million dollars to help those living in the area put their lives back together. Oh, wait: That was in 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - when George W. Bush was President. Back then we saw A-listers come out in droves to shout about the man in charge, draw attention to the need for assistance and ...
A Leak in the Presidency
Post Date: 2010-06-11 10:05:34 by Badeye
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A Leak in the Presidency By Ross Kaminsky on 6.11.10 @ 6:09AM Leave it to my wife to come up with a jewelry metaphor for Barack Obama. Obama is, according to my bride, the political equivalent of cubic zirconia. Usually sold to people who love the look of diamonds but can't afford a real one or are fooled into buying an imposter, cubic zirconia is superficially pretty and appealing. But when subjected to the scrutiny of an expert or when placed under great pressure, the falseness and weakness compared to the real thing become apparent. The pressure analogy is particularly appropriate given that the source of Barack Obama's troubles lie a mile under the ocean's surface, where ...
Obama, Dems can’t put blame genie back in the bottle
Post Date: 2010-06-11 10:02:42 by Badeye
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Obama, Dems can’t put blame genie back in the bottle By: Matthew Sheffield Washington Examiner 06/11/10 5:54 AM EDT (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) If a neoconservative, as Irving Kristol said, is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality, perhaps “administration official” is what one might call a liberal who is in the process of being mugged by reality. That conclusion seems all but inescapable as BP’s oil well continues flooding its contents into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s also rather inevitable that something like this would have happened. After eight years of tarring the Bush administration as utterly ineffectual and to blame for natural disasters, job ...
Obama’s Tough Talk Is a Real Kick
Post Date: 2010-06-11 09:59:52 by Badeye
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Obama’s Tough Talk Is a Real Kick Any day now, the Standing Committee for Posterior Selection will release a working list of targets for POTUS to kick with an OSHA-approved shoe. In the movie The Andromeda Strain, scientists discover an alien bacteria with the potential to destroy humanity. Immediately, government protocols snap into place. The nation’s greatest experts drop everything and race to their lab to work on the problem. However, in a scene that was cut from the movie, these top-flight experts don’t race to a remote installation beneath the Nevada desert. Rather, they fly to Washington to coordinate strategy with the hands-on commander in chief. The ...
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