President Obama News Thread

[Boon Mee]

I feel sorry for Mary Jo Kopeckne.

Got that right...



Senator Teddy Kennedy’s car is dragged by a wrecker out of Poucha Pond in the morning on July 19, 1969. (Ytedk)

[sabang]

Oh thanks booner, another massive Issue for the current Millenium.


Yawwn.

[sabang]

I give him an F for his first year in office.

Really Jet? not even an F+?? I'm speechless.
Seriously darling, I could have written your erudite comment for you before he was elected.
Or Clintons, or the next Democrat Presidents. You are nothing if not predictable.

[dotcom]

Oh thanks booner, another massive Issue for the current Millenium.


Yawwn.

sad sack you brought up the topic.

[Jet Gorgon]

5555 SB, F is good in libbie America! You can get a scholarship with an F, especially if you are a minority. Go to Harvard law and such! Work for ACORN and SEIU!

[slackula]

I can't send any repo to Sabang right now, but I think post #3071 was excellent.

[dotcom]

In honor of Ted Kennedy. Fast forward to 8:30

[dotcom]

Another victory for us.

TSA Nominee Withdraws Name from Consideration

January 20, 2010 9:03 AM
Criticized by some conservative Republicans, President Obama's nominee to head up the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Erroll Southers, withdrew his name from consideration, it was announced today.
Calling Southers "uniquely qualified for this job," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said that "it is with great sadness that the President accepted Southers' withdrawal. Fortunately the acting TSA Administrator is very able and we have a solid team of professionals at TSA doing vital national security work to keep us safe."

TSA Nominee Withdraws Name from Consideration - Political Punch

[dotcom]

Bam. Been saying this for years. Libs transposed their hopes & dreams onto bambam. If they were for curing breast cancer they were sure it was bambam's # prioroty. Global Manmade warming. ditto. Enjoy.

[panama hat]

Been saying this for years. Libs transposed their hopes & dreams onto bambam.

For years? He really hasn't been around that long in a position to be heaped with hopes and dreams of all Libs.

Care to explain or will you tell me again that you won't do 'my' research for me?

[slackula]

Another victory for us.

[Butterfly]

seems like a bad week for Obama, he is going to be Bush cursed if he keeps fucking up like Jr

where are the fucking changes he promised ? so far, none

[MrG]

where are the fucking changes he promised ? so far, none

Where are the balls? Where's the kick-ass?

The 60 seat majority was a wraith. It was really only 59 seats if you factor out Liberman. So now with Brown in figure the Dems have a 58 seat majority. Cut out the hard core blue dogs and take it down to 53 or 54 seat majority. Obama and the Dems can use that number to give the American people back its country (just before the corporate Huns sweep the elections with their unlimited contributions).

[Jet Gorgon]

Are there not limits on total contributions? And most companies, via their mgmts, support candidates as it is, and most contribute to both parties to cover their bases.

[sabang]

Are there not limits on total contributions? And most companies, via their mgmts, support candidates as it is, and most contribute to both parties to cover their bases.

I need to find out more about this awful, awful Supreme court decision. Really, it's a shocker. They've overturned the oldest electoral law in the USA. The implications are awful- and I don't mean from a Democrat perspective. Aramco, British Aerospace, News Corp, EADS, Halliburton, a Chinese bank or a Venezuelan oil company- Any corporation is now free to throw unlimited amounts of money to try to influence the outcome of a US election.

To put this in perspective, Exxon clubbed together it's shareholders and directors to raise money to donate to their preference for the last elections (you can bet for the GOP, but thats fine). They raised $900,000. But Exxon made about $85,000,000,000 profit last year.

Crisis breeds opportunity they say, and I tend to optimism. The Democrats should be able to rally the People on this unDemocratic and anti- Constitutional decision quite easily. And they certainly could do with a rallying call right now.

Concerned Americans, heres a start-



Portal:Corporate Rights - SourceWatch

You most certainly should be concerned. Special interest lobby groups cause enough damage and running interference to the Democratic process as is- and we know that they are overwhelmingly funded by Corporations. Now it's open season.

[sabang]

Oh, and here was the Plaintiff in the Supreme court appeal-

Citizens United - SourceWatch

Home page-

Citizens United :: Dedicated to restoring our government to citizen control.


They're from the loonie fringe of the religious right.

[robuzo]

Are there not limits on total contributions? And most companies, via their mgmts, support candidates as it is, and most contribute to both parties to cover their bases.

I need to find out more about this awful, awful Supreme court decision. Really, it's a shocker. They've overturned the oldest electoral law in the USA. The implications are awful- and I don't mean from a Democrat perspective. Aramco, British Aerospace, News Corp, EADS, Halliburton, a Chinese bank or a Venezuelan oil company- Any corporation is now free to throw unlimited amounts of money to try to influence the outcome of a US election.

To put this in perspective, Exxon clubbed together it's shareholders and directors to raise money to donate to their preference for the last elections (you can bet for the GOP, but thats fine). They raised $900,000. But Exxon made about $85,000,000,000 profit last year.

Crisis breeds opportunity they say, and I tend to optimism. The Democrats should be able to rally the People on this unDemocratic and anti- Constitutional decision quite easily. And they certainly could do with a rallying call right now.

Concerned Americans, heres a start-



Portal:Corporate Rights - SourceWatch

You most certainly should be concerned. Special interest lobby groups cause enough damage and running interference to the Democratic process as is- and we know that they are overwhelmingly funded by Corporations. Now it's open season.

Here's a sophist explaining the Supreme Court majority view. It's disgusting, but know thine enemy.
Free Speech For Corporations - Forbes.com

Scott Horton writing in Harper's gets to the point:
http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment
January 22, 11:47 AM
Syllabus for the Court
The shorter Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission:

Held, 5-4: The guarantee of a “Republican form of Government” contained in Article IV of the Constitution must be construed to guarantee the political dominance of the Republican Party.

[attaboy]

California already allows union and corporate spending in races for statewide offices such as governor, legislature, mayor, etc.. Now it can be applied to US Congressional races and POTUS elections.

In 2005 the unions spent $200 million to defeat four of Gov. Schwarzenegger's ballot measures to limit the use of union member dues for political purposes, cap state spending, redraw legislative districts and restrict public-school teacher tenure. In comparison Schwarzenegger was able to raise $45 million to fund his ballot measures. The television advertising by the unions began a year before the election. The California teacher's union and the State worker's union have California politics tied up with the amount of money they can raise to defeat a ballot measure or candidate.

What the Supreme Court decision means for Californians is that union money will be spread thinner now that it must also be used to influence US Congressional and POTUS campaigns.

The teacher's union collects $150 million in dues annually and the State worker's union collects $90 million.

[dotcom]

I need to find out more about this awful, awful Supreme court decision. Really, it's a shocker. They've overturned the oldest electoral law in the USA. The implications are awful

Yes we saw Schmuckey crying about it on TV. So based on that I will say this is a great decision. Thank God.

[dotcom]

Kneale: Obama Loses It?the Bank-Bash Backlash - CNBC

Kneale: Obama Loses It — the Bank-Bash Backlash
The Democrat Debacle in Massachusetts offered a rare gift to President Obama: a premonition of the rout that was about to rack his own party in the mid-term congressional elections nine months from now.
Forewarned, Obama had the chance to adjust way ahead of time, reshaping his tax-and-spend onslaught, scaling back his health plan and learning the upside of compromise.
Instead, Bam is losing it. He is squandering this gift in favor of a damaging, intensified attack on big banks—the very engine of economic growth he needs to revive the economy and get himself re-elected.
Worse, he alienates even some stalwart supporters on Wall Street and in business. Real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman, an Obama supporter, said as much moments ago on Power Lunch, saying the President is “playing games with the financial system. . . It’s more about politics than policy.”

In so doing, the President has shed his usual, becalmed visage of judicious intelligence and what-me-worry confidence. In its place is an unpleasant portrait of a sulking, vengeful politician lashing out at Goldman Sachs , J.P. Morgan Chase , Bank of America , Citigroup and their brethren on Wall Street—the only target that, his polls say, might resonate with the voters who are forsaking him.
The Obama folks “don’t accept that banks perform a necessary function in the system: to get the economy going again,” says one senior executive at a Wall Street giant. “This business has a social benefit, and it’s how we make money. The two are not exclusive.”
Yet the White House is deaf to complaints that burdensome new rules would hurt bank profits and hamper the recovery. “When you tell them that reduces our profits, they just don’t care,” this exec complains.
That’s the big problem: All of us, especially the Obama Posse, should care a lot about profits at the banks. Healthy banks provide the fuel for a healthy economy. They line up hundreds of billions of dollars a year in syndicated loans for businesses and directly loan out hundreds of billions more.
Obama’s bank-bashing bent is an ominous sign that Rahm Emanuel and the politicos have taken over the White House, infecting sound economic policy with poll-motivated invective and restrictions that could thwart a strong rebound.
Former Fed head Paul Volcker had prescribed this straitjacket months ago but got nowhere, as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and economic adviser Laurence Summers opposed the idea.
Then the Democrats lost in Massachusetts on Tuesday, and suddenly the “Volcker Rule” is top priority.

Obama’s new proposal to ban banks from trading for their own accounts cracks down on a practice that contributed, in no way whatsoever, to the housing bubble and the tumultuous tumble that followed. A recent Goldman Sachs report shows that, simply put, faulty and loose bank lending practices caused 98 percent of all losses, not the banks’ proprietary trading.
“No one believes proprietary trading caused the meltdown,” says an official at another big fat bank. “This is purely a piece of political theater designed to win grass-roots support from people who don’t know better.”
This exec adds: “One of the stupidities of the legislation is that it pre-supposes you can use retail deposits to support” a bank’s bets in capital markets. “It’s already against the law. This is really a very strange piece of legislation.”
This latest anti-bank tantrum will have unintended—and sometimes stupid—consequences. Obama wants to spend billions on green energy, so guess the identity of one of the largest owners of wind farms in the U.S.? J.P. Morgan, which would be banned from that role in this poorly conceived crackdown.
It also would raise troublesome questions about the kinds of investing banks would be allowed to pursue. If a bank helps a client buy $10 million worth of stock in a particular company, would these new restraints block the bank from then placing a bet on the other side of that trade to hedge its exposure? Maybe—and that would be bad for reducing risk.
President Obama doesn’t care about any of this. He is down in the polls, he was humiliated in Massachusetts, and he’s trying to start a fight in an empty room to get himself out of this mess. Yesterday he declared that if Wall Street fat cats want a fight, he’s happy to give them one.
But the better point was made on Power Lunch today by BB&T bank CEO Kelly King. He says he is surprised the President is “looking for a fight—we’re looking for consensus.”

If this pack of libs over at NBC are critizing the beige messiah you know things are bad. OPINION.

[dotcom]

Ok since libs are like cockroaches & cockroaches hate a spotlight it's time to expose obama's fellow rats who do their dirty work at night under the cover of darkness.

This story concerns a convicted felon who attended the first & only State dinner hosted by big ears barry. You remember the one Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed. The convicted felon is Robert Creamer. His wife is US Rep Jan Schakowsky, D Illinois.

His book is called "Stand Up Straight; How Progressives Can Win.



We hear quotes from this book out of the mouths of Bambam, Valerie Jarrett, Rahmbo, Axlerod - all the unholy cabal running the white house.

And this is pretty much why bambam doesn't want people talking about the underwear bomber.
Because a man who can't secure the white house sure as hell can not secure the nation.
Creamers book has been described as the Liberal playbook. The blueprint for the road ahead.
Sadly 60% of Americans want no part of bambam's "fundamental transformation". Most Americans were quite happy with the status quo & reject libs efforts to tax them into the poorhouse while stripping them of their liberties.

HEALTHCARE is DEAD!!!!!!!!! bambam you failed miserably. We wait to see what kind of lies you can spin next week during the (Sad) State of the Union speech. You failed son. Get used to it.

[attaboy]

Throwing Deeds under the bus before the election. That's class. Deeds didn't follow Obama so it's under the bus with him. Every Democrat politican is on notice. Hey, and don't forget the White House senior administration official's inference about the people of Virgina being racists. The Democrats are going to lose because Virginians are racists. Voters, you're on notice. FOX NEWS, you're on notice. Obama has allot of people on notice.

What on earth are you blathering about now....? The Post article you quote says nothing about "throwing anybody under the bus" because they didn't follow Obama orders. You're either inventing things or you're delusional. But then, since the wingnuts have no real answer on the issues, the whole object is to create a fog of accusations and divert from the issues. Don't you ever feel ashamed of constantly publically humiliating yourself with such nonsense.

Who do you think you are?

Somebody who can call out nonsense.

A second administration official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "Obama, Kaine and others had drawn a road map to victory in Virginia. Deeds chose another path."

The article clearly states that Obama & Kaine had drawn a route to victory. Deeds chose another path. You spun that into Obama throwing Deeds under the bus. That's what I call nonsense AKA blather.

But when you consider the African American turnout that they need, and then when you consider as well they've got a huge problem with surge voters, younger voters, we were just a natural for them."

You spun this one as a White House Official infering racism on the part of Virginia voters instead of a political analysis that includes the patterns of voter blocks, in this case Black voters, in the tabulation.

This isn't Faux News. Things can be corrected here before they coalesce into another distorted interpretation of what people actually said. If you don't think you're subject to that, who do you think you are?

Yeah, ok, you keep the streets clean, Sheriff-G.





https://teakdoor.com/us-domestic-issu...ml#post1213961
^You missed a spot.

[MrG]

^
That post was from November 1st of 2009. Did you just sober up, Ata, or did you just find the right picture for your clever retort?

[Jet Gorgon]

^ Yep, ignore all the other comments and truth noted throughout Issues that are not nice for libbies and focus on some vapid innocuous detail.

I just heard on CBS News that the SoU address may focus on "rescue, restore, rebuild". Oh Lord! I thought that was their focus last year and what a wonder that was. Cute little bit of alliteration to give the libbie crowds a new mantra to chant.

[dotcom]

Well the question for this week is:

Will Obozobambam take heed of the Senate election, triangulate , & move to the center ala BJBilly or will he dig in his heels & stick to his Marxist Communist ideology ?

I have $1,000,000 that says he is far too ridgid to change. Far too ridgid to work with the GOP.

Thank God the libs/progressives didn't get their claws into 1/6 of the US economy. i.e. Healthcare. That was setting up to be a massive patronage scheme. Agree with Bozo? you get treatment. Don't work for a union? F O.

So bambam you can join your hero Jimmy Peanut as a one termer. Adios.