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Latest Articles: Obama Wars
As Oil Slips Away, So Do Chances for Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-03 10:33:47 by Badeye
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As Oil Slips Away, So Do Chances for Obama By PETER BAKER Published: June 2, 2010 Sign in to Recommend Twitter Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share CloseLinkedinDiggFacebookMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink WASHINGTON — President Obama is supposed to leave Washington in 10 days for Indonesia, Australia and Guam, but with oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, some in the White House are wondering whether the weeklong trip should be scrubbed. For now, the trip remains on the schedule. But as the White House tallies up the spiraling price tag of the largest oil spill in American history, the bottom line extends beyond dollars and cents. Also on the line are the opportunity costs ...
White House Faces Fresh Questions Over Back-Room Dealmaking
Post Date: 2010-06-03 10:17:29 by Badeye
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White House Faces Fresh Questions Over Back-Room Dealmaking Published June 03, 2010 | FOXNews.com WASHINGTON The White House faced fresh questions over back-room dealmaking after it acknowledged one of President Obama's top advisers had suggested to a Democratic candidate the potential for an administration job in lieu of challenging the candidate whom the president favored in the Colorado Senate race. Former Colorado House of Representatives Speaker Andrew Romanoff on Wednesday night released a copy of an e-mail in which White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina described three federal international development jobs that might be available to him if he were not challenging Sen. ...
Obama Weekly Approval Average Dips to New Low of 46%
Post Date: 2010-06-03 10:15:06 by Badeye
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Obama Weekly Approval Average Dips to New Low of 46% Obama's average has been in 46% to 50% range since mid-Februaryby Frank NewportPRINCETON, NJ -- At 46%, President Obama's job approval average for the week ending May 30 is the lowest weekly average of his administration, one point below the previous low of 47% measured in April. Overall, Obama's weekly job approval average has generally been quite stable in 2010 so far, and has been at or below 50% since mid-February. It fell out of the 60% range in early summer 2009 and first fell below 50% in late November. Obama Rating Lower Than Most Presidents' Comparables Obama's end-of-May weekly average is lower than the ...
Blagojevich subpoenas Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett for his defense - EXTORTION
Post Date: 2010-06-03 03:57:23 by HAPPY2BME-ONLF
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Blagojevich subpoenas Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett for his defense UPDATED President Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett were subpoenaed by the defense to testify in Rod Blagojevich's upcoming trial, a Blagojevich attorney told the Chicago Sun-Times. "Yes, he's been subpoenaed by the defense," one of Rod Blagojevich's lawyers, Shelly Sorosky told the Chicago Sun-Times. Sorosky described Emanuel as a "critical" witness because: "he's the supposed victim of an extortion." One of the charges against Blagojevich accuses him of attempting to extort Emanuel while he was a congressman. The White House this ...
Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already
Post Date: 2010-06-02 15:00:47 by Badeye
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Fiscal Fraud of Obamacare Snowballing Already by Terry Jeffrey Remember the health care issue? Well, the fiscal consequences of the socialized medicine scheme enacted by President Barack Obama and Congress just two months ago are already beginning to snowball. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, was one of the key architects and advocates of Obamacare. He was back on the House floor on Friday delivering an urgent plea to fellow Democrats that inadvertently -- or, perhaps, unavoidably -- revealed the fraudulent nature of our new national health care regime. It was supposed to save the taxpayers money, remember? ...
Liberals Say Gulf Oil Spill Will Help Them in November
Post Date: 2010-06-02 13:44:12 by Badeye
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Liberals Say Gulf Oil Spill Will Help Them in November by Michelle Oddis 06/02/2010 I turned on the TV Sunday morning just in time to hear TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein on the “Chris Matthews Show” claim that Obama's approval ratings won’t be affected negatively by the Gulf oil spill. He is “incredibly lucky in his opposition -- the oil spill is a great example,” said Klein. “The Republicans look worse on that than the Democrats do.” A chuckle was shared between Klein and Matthews. In hindsight Democrats should be reminded that we are drilling in deep off-shore wells (5,000 feet or more) because berserk environmentalists refuse to let anyone ...
UN expert: 'Targeted killings' may be war crimes
Post Date: 2010-06-02 12:36:51 by Badeye
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UN expert: 'Targeted killings' may be war crimes Jun 2 11:45 AM US/Eastern By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press Writer Comments (2)Email to a friend Share on Facebook Tweet this GENEVA (AP) - Governments must come clean on their methods for killing suspected terrorists and insurgents—especially when using unmanned drones—because they may be committing war crimes, a U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday. Philip Alston, the independent U.N. investigator on extrajudicial killings, called on countries to lay out the rules and safeguards they use when carrying out so-called targeted killings, publish figures on civilian casualties and prove they have attempted to capture or ...
Five Reasons Guantanamo Won't Close This Year
Post Date: 2010-06-02 12:26:52 by Badeye
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Five Reasons Guantanamo Won't Close This Year Obama Administration's Plan to Close Embattled Prison Stuck in Political, Legal Limbo By DEVIN DWYER and ARIANE de VOGUE WASHINGTON, June 2, 2010 Sixteen months after the Obama administration ordered the closure of the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, more than 180 detainees remain at the base, stuck in political and legal limbo that appears likely to persist at least through the end of the year. George Will and the Roundtable weigh in on Guantanamo and terrorism. Congress and the administration, facing the realities of election-year politics and a litany of legal and security concerns, remain at an impasse about ...
Keep America Safe
Post Date: 2010-06-02 12:01:10 by Badeye
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Keep America Safe Steps to reforming intelligence. BY Stephen F. Hayes June 7, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 36 ShareThis Two weeks ago President Obama fired his top intelligence adviser—or at least the man who held the title. In the six months before Dennis Blair was relieved of his duties as director of national intelligence, there were three attacks on U.S. soil, each one with troubling details. After Fort Hood, we learned that the FBI knew before the attack about email correspondence between the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, and al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki and did nothing. We know that the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, stopped talking to his interrogators after he ...
Elected officials say no thanks to Obama invite
Post Date: 2010-06-02 11:57:18 by Badeye
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Elected officials say no thanks to Obama invite By Mike Wereschagin PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Congressmen Jason Altmire and Tim Murphy have previous engagements. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Rep. Mike Doyle are out of town on anniversary trips with their wives. Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato will be campaigning in Philadelphia. When President Obama and Sen. Arlen Specter land at Pittsburgh International Airport today, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl will receive them by himself. The rest of the region's top elected officials declined White House invitations to attend Obama's speech at Carnegie Mellon University this afternoon, their offices said. The White ...
The Big Story: Obama's woes
Post Date: 2010-06-02 11:15:27 by Badeye
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The Big Story: Obama's woes 5:40 AM Wed, Jun 02, 2010 | Permalink Betsy Simnacher Everywhere he turns, President Barack Obama sees crises. An oil spill of epic proportions may keep flowing until August. The Middle East is erupting again, with two of our allies, Turkey and Israel, at each other's throats. Reporters quiz the White House on whether Obama is showing any passion over the BP disaster. Obama's style, dubbed "no drama Obama" in the campaign, seems to be backfiring. The Washington Post invokes Young Frankenstein to make a point: Obama seems to be overwhelmed with foreign and domestic issues. And then it started to rain. Slate suggests that, when the ...
Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model
Post Date: 2010-06-02 10:51:55 by Badeye
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Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model TORONTO (Reuters) – Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, kicked off a fierce battle with drug companies and pharmacies when it said earlier this year it would halve generic drug prices and eliminate "incentive fees" to generic drug manufacturers. British Columbia is replacing block grants to hospitals with fee-for-procedure payments and Quebec has a new flat health tax and a proposal for ...
Obama Abandons Israel to UN Feeding Frenzy
Post Date: 2010-06-02 10:40:24 by Badeye
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Obama Abandons Israel to UN Feeding Frenzy By Anne Bayefsky Published June 01, 2010 | FOXNews.com In the past twenty-four hours United Nations bodies have engaged in a frenzied attack on Israel over the Turkish-facilitated effort to end the naval blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza. In the process, the Obama administration’s Israel policy has been outed. With virtually unprecedented speed and only hours to go before the Lebanese presidency of the UN Security Council expired at midnight on May 31st the Council unanimously agreed on a Presidential Statement – with American approval. And in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) unanimously decided to invent new procedural rules ...
The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama
Post Date: 2010-06-02 09:40:20 by Badeye
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The Coming Resignation of Barack Obama By Peter Ferrara on 6.2.10 @ 6:09AM Months ago, I predicted in this column that President Obama would so discredit himself in office that he wouldn't even be on the ballot in 2012, let alone have a prayer of being reelected. Like President Johnson in 1968, who had won a much bigger victory four years previously than Obama did in 2008, President Obama will be so politically defunct by 2012 that he won't even try to run for reelection. I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it that far. I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012. Like my previous prediction, that is based not just on ...
Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit
Post Date: 2010-06-02 09:33:54 by Badeye
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Hewlett-Packard to cut 9K jobs in services unit By BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP) – 17 hours ago NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest information-technology company, plans to lay off about 9,000 employees as it tries to cut costs in its back-office computing centers and deepens its use of software, rather than people, to do some of the work that those hubs require. The changes to these data centers, which are clusters of computers that run websites and process information for HP's corporate customers, will be made over about three years, the company said Tuesday. The layoffs amount to about 3 percent of HP's global work force, which had 304,000 employees as of ...
Barack Obama didn’t part the waters - he just made them dirtier
Post Date: 2010-06-02 09:30:22 by Badeye
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Barack Obama didn’t part the waters - he just made them dirtier By Howie Carr Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - Added 13h ago + Recent Articles Boston Herald Columnist E-mail Print (86) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!What if George W. Bush was still president, and this oil spill was going on unchecked in the Gulf of Mexico? Imagine the bumper stickers on the Priuses in Harvard Square and Brookline: “STOP THIS ENDLESS LEAK!” “DEEPWATER HORIZON - AN INSIDE JOB.” “OIL SPILL - NOT ON OUR WATCH.” But of course it’s the moonbats’ messiah who is presiding - or, more accurately, not presiding - over this environmental fiasco. So the outcry among the ...
What’s Driving Obama Down? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-01 15:51:34 by Badeye
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What’s Driving Obama Down? Posted by Dick Morris on Jun 1st, 2010 and filed under FrontPage. President Obama’s job-approval rating just hit an all-time low. And there’s a pattern behind the trifecta of issues that are driving the drop — the oil spill, the Arizona immigration-policing law and the fallout from the Greek crisis. After four months of hovering between a low of 46 percent approval and a high of 49 percent, Obama just fell to 42 percent in the daily Rasmussen polls. What’s hurting him and why? On each of these issues, the president originally seized on the issue to make populist political hay. But then the problem wouldn’t go away — and ...
McGinniss: Palin using 'Nazi' tactics
Post Date: 2010-06-01 14:17:23 by Badeye
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McGinniss: Palin using 'Nazi' tactics Tags:Sarah Palin,Books,'Today Show',Joe McGinniss ListenPrintCommentEmail Subscribe.By ANDY BARR | 6/1/10 1:13 PM EDT Text Size-+reset. Author Joe McGinniss accused former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday of using “Nazi” tactics in unleashing the “hounds of hell” upon him in protest of his moving next door. Palin first announced that McGinniss was renting the home next to her Wasilla residence in a post on her Facebook page, which among other things suggested he could see into the bedroom of the governor’s teenage daughter. Since then, McGinniss has been a target of conservative scorn online and has ...
A Tale of Two Americas On Memorial Day 2010
Post Date: 2010-06-01 10:48:17 by Badeye
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A Tale of Two Americas On Memorial Day 2010 By William Forstchen Published May 31, 2010 | FOXNews.com So what the hell do these conservatives want out of Obama? And does it matter if Obama throws some leaves on a tomb? --David Corn Memorial Day. Those of us old enough to remember might recall a parent or grandparent who referred to it as “Decoration Day.” We might recall as well that “Memorial Day,” was not on the last Monday in May, serving as an endcap for a three day weekend of sales and vacations, but instead was observed on May 30, no matter what day of the week that was. It started shortly after the Civil War when General Logan, who was part of the forces ...
ABC Bashes Bush on Memorial Day (ABC Lied)
Post Date: 2010-06-01 09:54:34 by Badeye
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ABC Bashes Bush on Memorial Day Rick Richman The ABC News report on the rainout of President Obama's planned Memorial Day speech in Illinois noted that Obama had been criticized for not staying in Washington to go to Arlington National Cemetery. But ABC provided a ready excuse, subtitling its report "Obama Not First to Skip Arlington on Memorial Day" and asserting that George W. Bush "did not attend in 2001 or 2002." ABC was flat-out wrong about 2001, and highly misleading about 2002. Memorial Day 2001. On May 28, 2001, George W. Bush not only went to Arlington National Cemetery and gave a remarkably eloquent speech after laying a wreath there; he had multiple ...
Drone operators blamed in airstrike that killed Afghan civilians in February [ 23 killed ]
Post Date: 2010-05-31 03:22:57 by WhiteSands
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KABUL -- A biting U.S. military report released Saturday criticized "inaccurate and unprofessional" reporting by operators of unmanned drones for contributing to a mistaken February airstrike that killed and injured dozens of civilians in southern Afghanistan. As many as 23 people were killed in the attack in Uruzgan province, where a strike intended for what military officials believed was an insurgent force hit a civilian convoy. The incident was condemned by the Afghan cabinet as "unacceptable," and it prompted Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to apologize to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The U.S. military said in a ...
Look out establishment: It's not just tea partiers
Post Date: 2010-05-28 13:37:09 by Badeye
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Look out establishment: It's not just tea partiers By RON FOURNIER and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press Writers LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Heads up, tea partiers. You're not the only angry outsiders making waves. In state after state, voters are taking out their frustrations on the political establishment - and no place reflects the depth and diversity of their ire better than Arkansas. Unions, corporate interests and insurgent candidates all are hoping to ride high here on the mad-as-heck tide. In the home state of former President Bill Clinton, as elsewhere, party leaders and structures are being bypassed - undermined, in some cases - by free-agent candidates who declare ...
Issa: White House memo doesn't hold up, Clinton and Sestak need to answer questions
Post Date: 2010-05-28 13:33:58 by Badeye
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Issa: White House memo doesn't hold up, Clinton and Sestak need to answer questions UPDATE: I've added Sestak's statement below the fold, as Issa asked in HIS statement for Sestak to respond. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Ca.), whose doggedness in asking question after question about an answer Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) gave to a local TV reporter is bearing fruit, responds to the White House's memo on what happened. Issa: After more than ten weeks of outstanding questions, the White House has offered a version of events that has important differences from what Congressman Sestak has been saying for months – that he was offered a ‘job’ by ‘someone in the White ...
White House reporters need to ask about Romanoff job offer, too
Post Date: 2010-05-28 13:21:03 by Badeye
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White House reporters need to ask about Romanoff job offer, too By: Mark Hemingway Commentary Staff Writer 05/28/10 12:54 PM EDT Byron notes that the GOP, not to mention the public at large, have good reasons to be highly skeptical of the White House’s version of events surrounding the Sestak job offer. In particular, little attention has been paid to allegations that the White House made a very similar offer to Andrew Romanoff to get out of the Colorado senate primary where he is challenging incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet. L’Affaire Sestak looks eeirly similar to what happened in Colorado, yet has received little scrutiny in the national media. Denver Post columnist David ...
And here's Sestak's response
Post Date: 2010-05-28 13:17:36 by Badeye
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And here's Sestak's response Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:57 PM by Mark Murray Filed Under: White House, Congress, Democrats, 2010 From NBC's Mark Murray And right on cue, Sestak just issued a statement confirming what the White House had released. Last summer, I received a phone call from President Clinton. During the course of the conversation, he expressed concern over my prospects if I were to enter the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and the value of having me stay in the House of Representatives because of my military background. He said that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had spoken with him about my being on a Presidential Board while remaining in the ...
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