The Official Barack Obama Discussion Thread

[HotZ28]

Originally Posted by BNaylor

I guess he had a childhood fantasy of being a Marine

Once a Marine, always a Marine! If you were never a Marine, you never will be! I think he would make a better looking Messiah!

[wafrederick]

Obama needs to be kicked out!This guy is an idiot and is screwing up already.He has proposed a gun ban bill already which will be killed.Obama does not know the NRA is way too powerful.The republicans are going to reject the stimulas money,way too much.The Duke Men's basketball coach is critizing him too.

[BNaylor]

Oh wow! Gore invents it and now Obama uses the Internet in a "town hall" meeting.

I guess he has nothing better to do in addition to playing basketball in his spare time.

BTW - The top questions were on cannabis.

Source: Telegraph

Barack Obama's internet 'town hall' meeting hijacked by cannabis questions
US President Barack Obama had to answer a question about legalising cannabis after deciding to 'open up the White House to the American people' to a live question and answer session.

Link to Article

[HotZ28]

Originally Posted by BNaylor

Oh wow! Gore invents it and now Obama uses the Internet in a "town hall" meeting.

I guess he has nothing better to do in addition to playing basketball in his spare time.

BTW - The top questions were on cannabis.

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Don't forget Bob; he is trying to improve his bowling skills so he does not look like he is a participant in the "Special Olympics"! The Secret Service is going to have a hard time keeping this wild-man off the talk shows, cell phone-blackberry and internet.

[BNaylor]

Originally Posted by HotZ28

Don't forget Bob; he is trying to improve his bowling skills so he does not look like he is a participant in the "Special Olympics"! The Secret Service is going to have a hard time keeping this wild-man off the talk shows, cell phone-blackberry and internet.

If I was a SS agent I would look for another job. And speaking of people getting upset. I mentioned I didn't have to worry about Obama being the graduation speaker at my son's graduation in May but there are plans to have him speak at Notre Dame and Arizona State in addition to the Naval Academy.

Although a President speaking at a graduation is an honor and historical event you can still boycott the speech which are boring anyways and just attend the awarding of diplomas and special honors. But in many cases the commencement speaker helps give out the diplomas.

Source: AP

Criticism over Obama invite mounts at Notre Dame

Link to Article

[thegladhatter]

Chicago style politics in the Whitehouse.....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html
The President Is 'Keeping Score'
Chicago politics has moved into the White House.
By: KARL ROVE
"Don't think we're not keeping score, brother." That's what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.
A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration's stimulus bill. The comment from Mr. Obama was a presidential rebuke and part of a new, hard-nosed push by the White House to pressure Congress to adopt the president's budget. He has mobilized outside groups and enlisted forces still in place from the Obama campaign.
Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.
Its targets were initially Republicans, as team Obama ran ads depicting the GOP as the "party of no." But now the fire is being trained on Democrats worried about runaway spending.
Americans United is going after Democrats who are skeptical of Mr. Obama's plans to double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10. The White House is taking aim at lawmakers in 12 states, including Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor. MoveOn.Org is running ads aimed at 10 moderate Senate and House Democrats. And robocalls are urging voters in key districts to pressure their congressman to get in line.
Team Obama is also ginning up the Democratic National Committee. A special group at the DNC has been created called "Organizing for America." It is headed by Mr. Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, and is lobbying for the administration's spending proposals.
Organizing for America's first effort has not been terribly effective. It emailed 13 million Obama election workers, recruited 1,200 neighborhood canvassers, and, after a couple of weeks and more email pleas to the Obama list, produced 642,000 signatures. Having less than 5% of your own activists sign a petition is unimpressive and perhaps evidence that adding $9.3 trillion to the deficit alarms even some of Mr. Obama's most fervent supporters.
Every White House is faced with finding ways to nudge Congress without antagonizing it. But this overt campaign could infuriate members who won't appreciate being targeted by a president of their own party. They could react by becoming recalcitrant. Should that happen, team Obama will have to recalculate its efforts, especially as the public sours on big spending plans.
In March, a Gallup Poll found that positive impressions of the Obama budget dropped five points. Only 39% now harbor supportive views of it. A CNN/Opinion Research Poll in mid-March found that support for the stimulus bill Mr. Obama signed into law shifted 11-points against the bill in five weeks, with 66% of Americans opposed to a second stimulus bill.
Support continues to decline for the proposition that a big boost in government spending will lead America to prosperity. A NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll early last month found that 61% of Americans were concerned that "the federal government will spend too much money" (up 12 points from December), and only 29% were concerned "it will spend too little money to try to boost the economy."
This growing skepticism will not be assuaged by White House Budget Director Peter Orszag's bewildering response when asked by a reporter last week about increasing federal debt. He said, "I don't know what spiraling debt you're referring to."
Members of Congress should also worry about how Mr. Obama is "keeping score." He is steeped in the ways of Chicago politics and has not forgotten his training in the methods once used by Saul Alinsky, the radical Chicago community organizer.
Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. (The president's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, went so far as to lash all three from the White House press podium.) It may also explain Mr. Obama's comments to Mr. DeFazio.
After all, Alinsky's first rule of "power tactics" is "power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have." Team Obama wants to remind its adversaries it has plenty of power, and it does. The question is whether the White House will wield it responsibly. The jury is still out, but certain clues are beginning to emerge. "Don't think we're not keeping score, brother," even if said with a wink and a smile, isn't quite the "new politics" we were told to expect.
Mr. Rove is the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush.

[thegladhatter]

The Mighty ACORN
By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, Apr 02, 2009

In conservative circles, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is the devil. This group mobilizes left-wing voters and champions liberal causes, sometimes using tax money (state and federal grants) to pay expenses. Of course, that makes right-wingers seethe with indignation.

ACORN employees across the country have been indicted for voter fraud and, by its own admission, the group has submitted at least 400,000 questionable voter documents, according to a New York Times report dated October 24, 2008.

Now, two whistle blowers, Anita MonCrief and Marcel Reed, who used to work for ACORN, have testified under oath before the House Judiciary Committee that the organization took money to intimidate capitalist organizations like the Carlyle Group and H&R Block and worked closely with the Obama presidential campaign to get voters to the polls. It is here where the story begins to rise to the next level.

According to Ms. MonCrief, New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom was getting close to documenting a story directly linking the Obama campaign to ACORN through the "Project Vote" organization. President Obama himself worked for "Project Vote" in the 1990s. There is speculation that "Project Vote" did a number of illegal things last November during the voter registration process. Apparently, Ms. Strom was zeroing in on the situation.

But then the Times investigation suddenly stopped dead, prompting a call from Ms. Strom, the reporter, to Ms. MonCrief, her source. A voice mail by Strom was left on October 21, 2008:

"Hi, Anita, it's Stephanie. I've just been asked by my bosses to stand down... they want me to hold off on coming to Washington. Sorry, I take my orders from higher up."

The Times did run a story about ACORN's left-wing partisanship, but stopped there. The paper would not make Stephanie Strom available to talk with me. Spokeswoman Catherine Mathis sent a statement saying, "Every day we make news judgments about which stories to publish and which ones not to pursue. Political considerations played no role in our decision about whether to cover this story."

Of course, the motto of the New York Times is "All the News That's Fit to Print." "Standing down" on a story with presidential implications does not seem to fit that motto. Or am I wrong?

But Congressman John Conyers, a fervent Democrat and head of the Judiciary Committee, is not standing down. He is calling for a full House investigation of ACORN's role in the Presidential election and beyond. Good for him.

The story is somewhat technical, thus does not hold much appeal for TV news operations, but it is important. According to the whistleblowers, ACORN is a corrupt organization with close ties to the Obama administration. That sounds kind of ominous. Let's hope Conyers continues to step up.

[thegladhatter]

You gotta love them photogenical BHO supporters!

[thegladhatter]

But wait....there's more!

[BNaylor]

Are these mug shots or are they all on welfare?

[VR43000GT]

Originally Posted by BNaylor

Are these mug shots or are they all on welfare?

I think both.

[HotZ28]

Looks like a bunch of crack titans to me! No wonder Obama seeks to change crack sentences, if he don’t, he will loose most of his supporters!

[thegladhatter]

Originally Posted by BNaylor

Are these mug shots or are they all on welfare?

......from the BHO Fan Club Directory

[03cavPA]

Originally Posted by thegladhatter

......from the BHO Fan Club Directory

C'mon, give us a link.

[thegladhatter]

Smokinggun.com

Right click on the picture and you can see where it came from.