Showing posts with label president-elect obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label president-elect obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

White House Counsel, Another Terrorist Sympathizer

Pedro Miguel González Pinzón is a leading political figure in Panama who was indicted by a U.S. federal court in October 1992 for the June 10, 1992 killing of an American serviceman, Sgt. Zak Hernández, and the serious wounding of another, Sgt. Ronald T. Marshall.

Barack Obama's White House Counsel, Gregory Craig has offered legal advice to Mr. González.

Mr. Craig has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. As assistant to the President and special counsel in the White House of President Bill Clinton, Craig directed the team defending Clinton against impeachment. He was a foreign policy advisor to Senator Edward Kennedy and to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Byron York reported:

American prosecutors have long wanted to put González behind bars; the nearly 17-year-old murder charge stands today. But in addition to his family in Panama, González has at least one very well-connected, very influential advocate in the United States: Gregory Craig, the man Barack Obama chose to be the next White House counsel. Craig’s representation of an American soldier’s killer drew scant notice during the 2008 campaign, when Craig was a top Obama adviser.

It has drawn little attention since Obama named him White House counsel.

And it will probably remain relatively unnoticed as
the spotlight focuses on the Obama administration’s economic plan, on the Middle East, and on Iraq.

But Craig’s role in the González case, or at least what little is known about it, is worth exploring. Top White House officials like Craig serve solely at the president’s pleasure; they are not subject to the scrutiny of the confirmation process. They have made choices and connections in their careers that tell us something about how they will perform their new duties. For Gregory Craig, that includes the case of Pedro Miguel González.
Another misdeed by the media. Another questionable Obama confidant. Another anti-American terrorist sympathizer.

Mr. Obama officially becomes President at Noon today.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Monday, January 19, 2009

Oops! Jill Biden Spills The Beans, Tells Oprah Joe Biden Had Choice Of Vice President Or Secretary of State!

It seems Biden's Foot-in-Mouth disease is contagious! In a surprise visit to Obama's Number One Fan, Jill Biden committed a pretty big Biden-esque gaff!



Whoops!

From Political Punch:

During the taping of the Oprah Winfrey show today, Dr. Jill Biden said that her husband, the vice president-elect, was given a choice of being either vice president or secretary of State.

This revelation came after Vice President-elect Joe Biden told Oprah that after then-Sen. Obama offered the job of VP he asked for some time to think about it and talk it over with his family.

Mrs. Biden interjected: "Joe had the choice of being secretary of State or vice president." She then seemed to realize she'd said something she wasn't supposed to have said.

Her husband laughed.

Said Oprah, trying to continue the conversation, "You said, 'Joe...?'"

"I said, 'Joe if you are secretary of State you will be away, I'll never see you,'" Mrs. Biden said. "We will see you at a state dinner once in a while. But I said if you are vice president, the entire family, because they worked so hard for the election, they can be involved ... They can come to our home, they can go to events, they can be with us and that is what is important to us."

Oprah turned to the VP-elect, asking "Were you worried about being number 2 because you wanted to be number one?"

"I think Barack was worried about it," the former senator said with a laugh.

This can't be the kind of thing that would please Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Israel To Withdraw From Gaza Just Prior To Obama's Inauguration

Coincidence? Think again. It is our belief that Israel, though not necessarily afraid, is skeptical of the level of support it will receive from the Obama Administration.

From Breitbart:

JERUSALEM (AP) - Gaza's streets brimmed with energy Monday as people picked up the pieces of their lives, while Israeli officials said they planned to pull all troops from the territory by Barack Obama's inauguration as president of the United States on Tuesday.

More from The Jerusalem Post:

1. Israel expects pressure on the illegal outposts issue. I hear this not just from the panel, but also from Israeli officials. Most of them also think that this pressure can’t be denounced: Israel has made a promise to evacuate, but took its time. Well, I guess it's time.

2. An interesting split on the Saudi peace plan. Some experts believe that this plan will give Obama the opening he will be looking for (I wrote about this topic here). Obama has indicated, as did many other members of his administration, that if a Palestinian state is to be established, the Arab world will have to play a contributing role. The Saudi plan - or a version of it - can be the vehicle with which to test Arab intention of really delivering the goods.

3. Most members of this panel expect Obama to try to achieve peace in his first term. I'm not so sure. Last week, Obama was very careful not to raise expectations.

4. Following the Gaza war, the issue of Palestinian unity government is on the table again. If the panel is correct, the Obama team (similarly to the Bush team two years ago) will not be enthusiastic about the establishment of such government. If Obama will end up encouraging Fatah and Hamas to join forces, it might be a first sign that the panel needs to take a second look at this new administration and its intentions.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

At Least "Higher Education" Doesn't Have An Obama Fetish...Oh Wait...

The Jefferson Rotunda at UVA

University of Virginia cancels classes for "educational moment"?

For the record, Republicanism advocate Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia... another Ivy League Wannabe of The South.

The irony is so delicious, isn't it? Godspeed Barack Obama!

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Sunday, January 18, 2009

This Is A Call To All Conservatives And Republicans. Give Obama His Day. Let The Obamamaniacs Have Their Day.

We encourage everyone to allow Barack Obama to have his day.

Let him have his moment in the limelight, his honeymoon, if you will.

As a Nation, we need to move beyond the hate. We conservatives are all disgusted by the anti-Bush hate speech of the last 8 years but if we have learned anything during this time, it is to agree to disagree.

Barack Obama won the election in a legitimate, democratic fashion and we all need to respect this fact.

Let us move beyond the rhetoric, allow him and his supporters to celebrate his Inauguration.

Let us afford him his well-deserved day in history and give him the respect that our Commander-in-Chief deserves.

We conservatives are above the fray. Let us not use hate and disrespect to retaliate against the Liberals for their vile treatment of President Bush.

We are better than that. And history will prove us correct.

Fear not my conservative friends, American history will run its course.

We at The ConservativeXpress will give Barack Obama a chance to fulfill his promises, but we will be ever vigilant to his shortcomings.

Pledge to do what the Liberals and the Left-Wing Media failed to do; respect the Office of The President of the United States of America.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

$1 Trillion Divided By The US Population Equals? What Would Your Family Do With $13,000? Obama's Stimulus Would Give Every American Over $3000!

President Elect Obama/Congress Economic Stimulus plan could reach $1 Trillion.

There are approximately 304 Million American citizens.

$1 Trillion Divided by 304 Million equals roughly 3290...per person, not per taxpayer.

What would you do with approximately $3290? What if you are a family of 4? That's over $13,000 per family!

Don't you think your family can spend $13,000 more wisely than the Federal Government?

Would that not "stimulate" the economy is more unimaginable ways than Congress and Obama?

Wake up America! You are being deceived! You are being robbed!

Tax breaks, tax cuts, tax credits! Please! Help the cause!

Obama, Pelosi and Reid are stealing from you! They are using YOUR money to buy votes!

Please, if you visit any website today, visit readthestimulus.org!

Speak up! Contact your congresspeople!

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Russia to Open Naval Bases in Syria, Libya and Yemen


Russian Prime Minister and Wannabe-Czar Vladimir Putin recently told President-Elect Obama and America that "the biggest disappointments are born out of big expectations".



And today we learn some more encouraging news from Vlad the Great.



From Red State:



Vladimir Putin isn’t a “protegé” of Josef Stalin; his model is Peter the Great. Putin can look at Russia’s multitude of social problems and conclude that Russia is perishing. And his take is simple - Russia must re-aggrandize itself as the cure for those problems.

Because of this, the Russians are in a hurry - since they see themselves as being in a race against time. As an Obama Presidency began to appear likely last fall, I offered the guidepost that in terms of international problems, “Russia won’t be the worst, but they’ll be the first.”

Now, Russia has quietly announced plans to establish naval bases in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.

RedState cited an article from Sunday's Moscow Times :



Russia has decided to establish naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen within a few years, a military official said Friday, in a sign of Moscow's growing foreign policy ambitions.

"It is difficult to say how much time it will take to create the bases for our fleet in these countries, but within a few years this will be done without question," the unidentified military official told Itar-Tass.

"The political decision on this question has been taken," the official said.

Fear not, America! Secretary Clinton is on the job!



We can just ignore Putin's comment last year that Clinton "has no head".


Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Open to Prosecution of Bush Officials, Dems Might Not "Have a Right to Ignore" Them, Lincoln Would Tell Them Otherwise

Nancy Pelosi, like her fellow Liberals inflicted with "Bush Derangement Syndrome", cannot let go of her hatred of George Bush.

Speaker Pelosi told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that she is receptive to prosecuting some Bush administration officials.

From Fox News:

"I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do we even have a right to ignore it," the California Democrat said. "And other things that are maybe time that is spent better looking to the future rather than to the past."


Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced Friday he wants to set up a commission to look into whether the Bush administration broke the law by taking the nation to war against Iraq and instituting aggressive anti-terror initiatives. The Michigan Democrat called for an "independent criminal probe into whether any laws were broken in connection with these activities."


President-elect Barack Obama has not closed off the possibility of prosecutions, but hinted he does not favor them.


"I don't believe that anybody is above the law," he told ABC News a week ago.

"On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as
opposed to looking backwards."

We suggest that Speaker Pelosi and Congress heed the words of Obama's hero Abraham Lincoln. In his 2nd Inaugural Address, just days away from the end of the Civil War, Lincoln called not for triumph and celebration, but for reflection and reconciliation. Instead of calling for punishment and restitution from leaders of the Confederacy, Lincoln called for healing and Reconstruction -- in other words, forgive and forget.

The conclusion to Lincoln's speech:



With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.



The Anointed One must surely have read these words.

And Pelosi, Conyers and others should take these timeless words into perspective.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Obamapalooza Kicks Off Tonight In Washington, DC! Rock Star President-Elect Gets Rock Star Welcome!



Who's House? Abe's House!

The above video shows a truly "kick ass" performance of Stevie Wonder's hit "Higher Ground" featuring Usher, Shakira and The Dancing Obamas.


From Fox News:

President-elect Barack Obama said it could take several years for the economy to turn around, news obscured Sunday by an inaugural concert that saw crowds stretched along both sides of the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.


The "We Are One" concert marked the start of inaugural celebrations for Obama.

"I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation," he said.



Convenient use of a celebratory occasion to sober the mood with another dire economic prediction, Mr. Obama. Not to mention, setting your country up for the lowest of expectations. We all feel so much better.

Performers including U2, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, John Mellencamp and Herbie Hancock were on the bill. Brooks said it was well past time that all the different musicians from multiple genres should appear. Organizers said virtually everyone asked to participate agreed to come to Washington for the show.


Bruce Springsteen sang "The Rising" to open the concert with the help of the choir, taking a song best known as a call to action following the 2001 terror attacks and using it to usher in a new era in American politics. The crowd, expected to reach a half-million, gathered in temperatures above the freezing mark. It was a welcome relief from the frigid weather that had gripped the nation's capital.


Earlier in the day on Sunday, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty said the size of the crowd at the concert would be the city's first dry run of security and also a good indicator of the audience to arrive on Tuesday for the inauguration.

A "dry run" of security? What does that mean? If anything went wrong organizers could have just said "oops" and go back to the drawing board? Would that be another "hiccup" or "honest mistake".

Actor Denzel Washington, noting the Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson memorials, set the tone at the concert by proclaiming that "on this day, we are inspired by the man we have elected to be the 44th president of the United States."

"We come here knowing that we are all in this together," Washington said. "We are one!"


Another speaker was actor Tom Hanks, who as Forrest Gump famously gave a speech at the monument steps and jumped into the reflecting pool. This time, he appeared in a dark suit and read a somber tribute to Abraham Lincoln.

(HBO will re-air the event Sunday 1/18 at 7 P.M. EST. For the record, the season premiere of "Big Love", the HBO series which follows a Mormon polygamist family airs after the the "We are One" special. Hanks, executive producer of the show, said last week that Mormons were "un-American" for donating money to pass California's controversial Prop 8. Just saying.)


Jamie Foxx brought many in the crowd -- and the Obamas -- to their feet by repeatedly urging those from Chicago to make some noise: "Chi-town, stand up!" he demanded.


Foxx then launched into a quick impersonation of the president-elect.


Hilarity ensued and there was much rejoicing!

Bono gets political, as usual, but U2 still rocks!

USAToday estimated the Obamapalooza crowd at 400,000. The paper also added that Queen Latifah and Tiger Woods read dramatic readings.


****

An anonymous and completely unreliable source added that mosh pits may have broken out when Vice President-Elect Biden was announced and saw lots of "crowd surfing freaks, clearly suffering Bush Derangement Syndrome".



The source could not comment on other Obamapalooza festivities, such as The Blago Pay-To-Pay Circus Freakshow or The Zany Antics of Karl The Markist Clown.

***

In all seriousness, congratulations to Barack Obama. We applaud the Celebration and all the singers and actors who gathered to warm the hearts of Obama supporters in Washington and around the globe. It really was a great show!

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

"Climate Czar" Browner Is Not Only a Socialist, But She Is Also A Racist! Another Inconvenient Truth.

Socialist "Climate Czar" Carol Browner has bigger problems than her links to Socialist International. Turns out that her last job in Washington, as EPA chief, was marred with incidents of racial discrimination!


The Examiner has this. (Hat tip goodtimepolitics.com)



However, Browner's performance at one of her previous jobs -- as head of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration -- is only now receiving renewed scrutiny.

According to a February 2001 report in TIME magazine, the EPA was plagued with “festering racial problems” during Browner’s time in charge. One African-American EPA employee, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, told TIME that she’d been passed over for promotions for being “too uppity,” adding, "We [African-American employees] were treated like Negroes, to use a polite term. We were put in our place.”

Coleman-Adebayo was later awarded $600,000 in damages in a settlement that found the EPA guilty of “discrimination and retaliation against whistle blowers.” Shortly thereafter, Congress passed the “No Fear” government whistle blower protection act in response to the Coleman-Adebayo v. Carol Browner decision.

Dr. Coleman-Adebayo lamented in a recent interview.



“The very woman I prevailed against in court is being elevated to a White House decision-level position.”

At least 150 EPA employees filed similar lawsuits during Browner’s time there. In one particularly bizarre incident, blogger Shawn Mallow notes, “Anita Nickens, an EPA specialist, and the only black present during a visit of Mrs. Browner, was told to clean the toilet prior to her arrival. Afterward, the rest of her white co-workers bragged about it.”



President-Elect Barack Obama spent Saturday retracing the tracks of The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.

For the record, Ms. Browner is not subject to Senate confirmation.



All Aboard the Hope and Change Express!

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Putin to Obama: "Biggest Disappointments Are Born Out of Big Expectations"; Chavez to Obama: You Stink Like Bush; Hillary Offends Afghanistan

Sounds like Socialism teaches us to "hope" for the best, but "expect" the worst! It's gonna be a long 4 to 8 years...

From Breitbart:

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he had noted "positive signals" about US president-elect Barack Obama but cautioned against "big expectations."

"We have watched an election campaign with great attention and we have heard and seen the positive signals which have been directed at us," Putin told German newspaper editors and journalists in Dresden, Germany.

But he also warned of the danger of raising expectations too high.

"I am deeply convinced that the biggest disappointments are born out of big expectations," he added.

All this while Hugo Chavez says Obama has the "stench" of Bush on him and faces death threats if he follows through with his plans to change the American "empire".

And Secretary Of State Designee Hillary Clinton has already committed an international faux-pas, despite not having been officially confirmed by the US Senate.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Welcome To The United States of Obama!

Inside Charm City and Michelle Malkin bring the latest Obamanation to life... from The Obama Express!


Photo source: Baltimore Sun


US Flag Code: “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”


Why should we be surprised, this is the man who proclaimed Saturday morning in Philadelphia, "What is required is a new declaration of independence..."

The Baltimore irony is not lost here, as "Star-Spangled Banner" author Francis Scott Key may roll over in his grave...

Surprisingly, this isn't the first time in recent days Obama's likeness has been linked to disrespect and anti-Americanism....

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Barack Obama: "Gun Salesman of The Year", "Bitter" Americans Rush Out to Buy Guns

More "bitter" Americans "clinging to their guns"!

From Fox News.

President-elect Barack Obama's election has spurred a surge in gun sales, firearms retailers and enthusiasts say, as gun owners brace for what they believe will be a new era of gun control in Washington.

An electronic news service that covers outdoor news has even named Obama its "Gun Salesman of the Year."

Firearms associations began to suspect that political considerations were driving gun sales late last year as the number of background checks increased. But end-of-year figures showed a big spike in background checks for the last three months of 2008, and in November, the month Obama was elected, the number of background checks was 42 percent greater than in November 2007.

"It's not a hard tea leaf to read," said Jim Shepherd, publisher of the news service Outdoor Wire, which claims Obama's election has "frightened consumers into action."




And Free Republic added this from Mr. Shephard.

"Manufacturers are months behind on orders for semi-automatic pistols, AR-style rifles, and anything with so-called 'high-capacity magazines'," declared The Outdoor Wire's publisher, Jim Shepherd.

"Buyers we’ve surveyed across the country seem to have a single explanation for their rush to purchase firearms — Obama."

Guns are in demand because sportsmen are wary of Obama's support for gun control laws, Shepherd said.

"Mr. Obama has consistently voted against individual rights to firearms, appointed a re-tread Clinton administration full of gun banners, and made it plain to anti-gun groups that despite what he might say to the contrary, he’s on their side," Shepherd said.




At least some people are defending the Constitution....

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

All Aboard! Mr. Obama Goes To Washington! Obama Express Follows Path of Lincoln!


Mr. Obama, You are No President Lincoln.






Watch Obamamania unfold live! or Watch Obamamania Live Here!


10:00 AM
From The Associated Press:

Barack Obama is borrowing a page from history even as he sets a new marker for America, boarding a train in sunny, icy Philadelphia for a ride to the city of presidents along the same route Abraham Lincoln took nearly 150 years ago.


Obama and his wife, Michelle, and daughters Malia and Sasha, were the center of attention Saturday morning amid plans for his talk to citizens and the kickoff of a six-city whistle-stop tour originating at Philadelphia's historic 30th Street train station.






10:15 AM










Quotes From Obama's 1st Stop:


"We are here today not simply to pay tribute to our first patriots but to take up the work that they began. The trials we face are very different now, but severe in their own right. Only a handful of times in our history has a generation been confronted with challenges so vast. An economy that is faltering. Two wars, one that needs to be ended responsibly, one that needs to be waged wisely. A planet that is warming from our unsustainable dependence on oil.






And yet while our problems may be new, what is required to overcome them is not. What is required is the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed. What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives - from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry - an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.





That is the reason I launched my campaign for the presidency nearly two years ago. I did so in the belief that the most fundamental American ideal, that a better life is in store for all those willing to work for it, was slipping out of reach. That Washington was serving the interests of the few, not the many. And that our politics had grown too small for the scale of the challenges we faced.

12:00 P.M. Claymont, DE (From AFP)

"Hallelujah, we did it!" read one poster held up by a supporter, while another declared "Hail to the Chief" as Obama's trundling train did a "slow roll" through the town of Claymont between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.

12:23 P.M. Wilmington, DE ... Obama arrives in Wilmington...





WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama is promising that he and Vice President-elect Joe Biden "will fight for you every day we're in Washington" as the pair visited Delaware en route by train to the capital.

Obama paid tribute to Biden, who has commuted by Amtrak from Delaware to Congress for several years. He told a cheering crowd that getting things right for the country is the reason he asked Biden "to take one more ride to Washington."


1:55 P.M. ObamaXpress leaves Wilmington...




3:00 P.M. Edgewood, MD






In Edgewood, in Harford County, where the whistle-stop train did "slow-roll" through just before 3 p.m., and Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden waved from the caboose, the historic "Georgia 300" car. The crowd was ebullient, and many ran with the train from one side of the station to the other.


There were about 600 people at the Edgewood stop just before Obama and Biden were scheduled to pass through, and the inaugural committee handed out small American flags. A small combo played jazz tunes.


Imari Hawkins, 7, of Abington and her sister held Obama signs.


"He's cute on TV," Imari said of Obama, "but he's even cuter in person."



4:15 P.M. Baltimore, MD







Tens of thousands of people in Baltimore gathered today as President-elect Barack Obama shared his vision for the country's future and thanked them for their support.


"You proved once more that people who love this country can change it," he told the crowd gathered at War Memorial Plaza near City Hall. Obama noted Baltimore's role in the American Revolution and once interrupted his prepared remarks to say "I love you back" to a fan.


Spectators, including several generations of families, had waited for much of the day to see him speak as part of his a "whistle-stop" train tour that began earlier this morning in Philadelphia and would end in Washington.


The crowd had listened to gospel music this afternoon and did calisthenics to keep warm as they waited for Obama.



We doubt indicted Baltimore Mayor Shelia Dixon was there....



5:55 P.M. Obama Express pulls into Washington's Union Station....Next Stop, The White House






"Everyday Americans" join the ObamaXpress.... did he invite Joe the Plumber?

...Biden invites Gregg "Joe The Train Conductor" Weaver on board....

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Obama Won't Give Up His Blackberry; It's Illegal and A Major Security Risk. Do Any Rules Apply to Obama? The Messiah Can Do Whatever He Wants!


It would seem that yet another law does not pertain to the Anointed One.


Hey, who cares if terrorists hack into classified national security! It's Okay! It's Obama!


He needs some method to keep track of the "boots on the ground" in Obama's Army!


From Breitbart:


Despite legal and security hurdles, president-elect Barack Obama says he has a plan to retain his beloved Blackberry once he moves into the White House next week.


Interviewed by CNN Friday, Obama said the smartphone was among the tools that he would use to stay in touch with real Americans and avoid becoming trapped inside the presidential "bubble."



"I think we're going to be able to hang on to one of these. My working assumption, and this is not new, is that anything I write on an email could end up being on CNN," he said.



"So I make sure to think before I press 'send'," he said of his Blackberry, which was an ever-present fixture on his belt or in his hand on the campaign trail.


Obama did not divulge just how he will overcome legal constraints, given the requirement of the post-Watergate Presidential Records Act of 1978 to keep a record of every White House communication.



Nor did he say how he would persuade his Secret Service protectors that the Blackberry does not pose a security risk, for instance if it is hacked over the air.


But Obama, who succeeds the unpopular George W. Bush on Tuesday, said the phone was a valuable part of a wider strategy to escape the White House fishbowl.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Michelle Obama's 160% Salary Increase at University of Chicago Had Nothing To Do With Barack Obama's Million Dollar Earmark, Right?

Guess Mrs. Obama must have been really, REALLY good at her job!









Doug Ross put this juicy nugget together.















Excellent question. Some roguish wags might speculate that a quid pro quo arrangement was in effect; pay-to-play as it were. But that seems highly unlikely given Barack Obama's high ethical standards *.


* Ignoring, of course, Auchi, Ayers, Blagojevich, Jarrett, Jones, Rezko, etc.
Is that how she affords to do this? $447 for a "snack" at The Waldorf Astoria, 10/15/2008

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Friday, January 16, 2009

No Liberal Media Bias? CBS, NBC, ABC Morning Shows Devote A Combined 55 Seconds Reporting On Bush Farewell Speech; Feature Obama Thongs Instead

After Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow showed their anti-American true colors, this should come as no real surprise...




The three network morning shows on Friday almost totally skipped any coverage of President Bush's farewell address to the country on Thursday. Despite having a combined eight hours of air time, NBC's "Today," CBS's "Early Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America" devoted only 55 seconds total to reporting on Bush's speech. Instead, important topics such as "Obama thongs" and cheddar biscuits were highlighted.



Looks like Ann Coulter was right, the media really does want to have sex with Obama!

See related liberal media bias here.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Eric Holder Is Pro-Terrorism, Anti-American, Pro-Iran, Pro-Bill Ayers Yet Senator Herb Kohl Asks Him If He Could Challenge Obama In Basketball?

“One last question, and this relates to your ability to exercise your responsibilities independently of what the president may or may not like. Uh, he is reported to have considerable skills as a basketball player, and you have indicated to me when we met in my office that you also are a person of considerable skill. In the event, Mr. Holder, that he invites you to the gym for a little one on one, will you promise us and the American people that you will do everything in your power to defeat him as badly as you can?”

--Senator Herb Kohl, owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks at Senate confirmation hearings of controversial Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder



From USA Today:




Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., ends his questions by asking Holder if he'll do everything he can to defeat Obama on the basketball court (the president-elect is a regular player).

Holder, who played high school ball in New York City, says of Obama that "he's 10 years younger than me. He plays a lot more frequently than I do. Having said that, I've got a New York City game. ..."If you give me a little time and a little space to get back in shape, I think I could hang with him."

But beating Obama might not be a great idea, Holder jokes.




Nice, hard hitting question from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Seriously, way to take Holder's controversial record seriously.



What a joke....



For more on Holder's hearings....

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Obama's Army: A Frightening Look Into How Obama's Political Machine Will Force-Feed Socialist Agenda to Americans, Politicians. Obama 2.0

Is this the National Citizen's Security Force he was talking about? This is an unprecedented powerful force of crazed Obamamaniacs, angry Obama Youth, and radical Left Wing Wackos.


Read this closely. This is Obama's effort to run the country with an Iron Fist. Make no mistake, there is nothing here which Obamanite's truly feel is good for America.

The AP (From The Chicago Sun Times) reported this in November and it went largely unnoticed, just days after the election.

NEW YORK — Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 — an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect’s vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House.

If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal for help from millions of Americans who already favor his ideas, bypassing the news media to pressure Congress.

‘‘He’s built the largest network anyone has ever seen in politics, and congressional Republicans are clueless about the communications shift that has happened,’’ Democratic strategist Joe Trippi proclaims. The results, he says, ‘‘will be amazing to watch.’’


For legal and privacy reasons, Obama’s campaign list must be kept separate from White House operations. Aides are figuring out if that list should be run through the Democratic National Committee or as a freestanding political entity that will eventually become his 2012 re-election committee.


This is more of his efforts to have as little opposition as possible to his potentially tyrannical dreams of implementing his socialist agenda and force-feeding his Hope and Change BS down our throats whether we like it or not.

Stay vocal! Stay connected! If you want a truly Conservative, Capitalist "Free" Democracy, Obama's Army must be kept in check! Stay Vigilant! Republicans must keep his White House communications in check because it's illegal to use the campaign's list from the White House directly.

"Never Tire. Never Fail."

Frightening stuff from LA Times:

"Retooling Obama's campaign machine for the long haul"
Susan Walsh / Associated Press


The vast network that helped elect Obama will be tapped to lobby lawmakers on behalf of the president, with an eye toward reelection. A service organization as a nonprofit arm is also considered.


Reporting from Washington -- As Barack Obama builds his administration and prepares to take office next week, his political team is quietly planning for a nationwide hiring binge that would marshal an army of full-time organizers to press the new president's agenda and lay the foundation for his reelection.

The organization, known internally as "Barack Obama 2.0," is being designed to sustain a grass-roots network of millions that was mobilized last year to elect Obama and now is widely considered the country's most potent political machine.


Organizers and even Republicans say the scope of this permanent campaign structure is unprecedented for a president. People familiar with the plan say Obama's team would use the network in part to pressure lawmakers -- particularly wavering Democrats -- to help him pass complex legislation on the economy, healthcare and energy.


The plan could prompt tensions with members of Congress, who are unlikely to welcome the idea of Obama's political network targeting them from within their own districts. Already, Democratic Party officials on the state level worry that it could become a competing political force that revolves around the president's ambitions while diminishing the needs of down-ballot Democrats.


Though the plan still is emerging, one source with knowledge of the internal discussion said the organization could have an annual budget of $75 million in privately raised funds. Another said it would deploy hundreds of paid staff members -- possibly one for every congressional district in certain politically important states and even more in larger battlegrounds such as Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina.


The full-time staff is likely to consist primarily of the presidential campaign workers, many in their 20s, who served as the local points of contact for the campaign's vast network of neighborhood volunteers. As part of the new organization, these workers probably would focus on similar campaign-style tasks, such as arranging phone banks, distributing signs, recruiting more helpers, buying coffee and doughnuts for house meetings and reporting voter contact data to senior officials.


"The only way to keep this thing going is to have boots on the ground," said a strategist familiar with the plan who spoke on condition of anonymity because campaign officials have not granted permission to talk about it.


In what would be another unprecedented step, Obama's political staff is deciding whether to create a service organization that would use the vast corps of its grass-roots campaign supporters. As described by one source knowledgeable with the discussions, this nonprofit arm would be used to help victims of natural disasters, but would do so under the Obama umbrella while continuing to build the overall network's massive e-mail database.

The prospect of a president being able to guide a service or relief agency outside the framework of his government is a unique development.


Though the campaign-style organizing network would be operated through the Democratic National Committee, the new service organization is envisioned as a separate nonprofit. Obama recently appointed his friend Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia as chairman of the DNC and his campaign battleground states director, Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, as executive director.



Some top Obama organizers, such as former deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand, had argued that the grass-roots machinery should be kept separate from the DNC to avoid alienating Republicans and independents who were inspired by Obama but could be turned off by a close association with the Democratic Party. But those organizers are not part of the inner circle drafting the plan.


A centralized system run from the DNC would mark a break from the Democratic tradition of relying more on muscular state and local party organizations. It would more closely mirror the Republican structure created under President Bush, whose political guru Karl Rove engineered the 2004 reelection campaign from his post at the White House using a central GOP database.

One key difference, however, is that the Republicans used their network to target Democrats and win elections, whereas the Obama system will be used at least in part to influence members of the president's own party.

For example, Democratic lawmakers in Republican-leaning districts might resist voting for an Obama-backed global warming bill. In that case, the White House or DNC could use the new network for phone campaigns, demonstrations or lobbying trips to push lawmakers to stick with Obama.


"You can pretty much target the list to people who haven't always voted with Democrats," said a House Democratic leadership aide familiar with the plan.


This aide said the pressure could actually help Democrats in those districts. They could either point to a groundswell of support for the Obama policy as a reason to vote for it -- or, alternatively, they could choose to score points with conservatives by bucking the activists.


"It could give them cover either way," the aide said.


Another Capitol Hill strategist, however, said some lawmakers in closely contested districts were anxious about the Obama plan, "watching very carefully to see whether or not they're going to be pressured at home.


"A spokesman for the Obama campaign, Ben LaBolt, declined to comment other than to say that any speculation about budget figures, state-specific strategy or staffing levels was premature because the plan had not been finalized.

Strategists in both parties said the ideas being discussed would create an on-the-ground weapon for policy battles far more powerful than the speeches, news conferences and donor-targeting techniques traditionally used by presidents.

"No one's ever had these kinds of resources," said Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who led political operations under President Reagan. "This would be the greatest political organization ever put together, if it works.

"In operating the network, the DNC would work closely with the White House political office, which will be headed by experienced campaign organizers schooled in the Obama tactics of using the Internet to harness the massive network of neighborhood-level volunteers.


Obama's presidential campaign generated a database of 13 million e-mail addresses and tens of thousands of phone bank volunteers and neighborhood coordinators. Strategists believe these assets can grow in the years before Obama runs again.


Concerns about Obama's ambitions are coming from state party leaders as well as from Capitol Hill.

"The party needs to be rooted not just around one individual, but it needs to have a grass-roots base that can survive the times and even endure past whoever may be in office," said Jerry Meek, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party.


"Obama brings a lot to the table, but, on the other hand, state parties exist for more than serving the objectives of the president and are in the business to elect county commissioners, school board members and members of the legislature."



WaPo also covered this:

But he revealed that he will oversee Obama's sprawling grass-roots political operation, which boasts 13 million e-mail addresses, 4 million cellphone contacts and 2 million active volunteers.

One of those loyalists who is certain to be involved in the re-imagining of Obama's political world -- "Obama 2.0" as its known to insiders -- is campaign manager David Plouffe who recently explained his thoughts on what the new organization might look like in an interview over the weekend with the Post's Lois Romano.

Bits and pieces of the structure of Obama's political organization have spilled out in recent days -- most notably the appointment of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Jen O'Malley Dillon as its executive director, a sign that the president-elect plans to keep control of his massive grassroots army in the hands of a small number of loyalists.

The goal of the new grass-roots operation, according to Plouffe, is to ensure buy-in from the millions of people who donated or volunteered during the course of the campaign.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit

Wait A Minute, Bush Wire Tapping Is Legal Now? Obama Inaugural Next Week...Coincidence?

Don't expect any apologies to Bush from anyone on the left....such as CNN and The New York Times, the ACLU, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy...

To their disappointment, our friends at The NY Times have this:

WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved.

The court decision, made in August 2008 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, came in an unclassified, redacted form.
The decision marks the first time since the disclosure of the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program three years ago that an appellate court has addressed the constitutionality of the federal government’s wiretapping powers.

In validating the government’s wide authority to collect foreign intelligence, it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has the power to act without specific court approval in ordering national security eavesdropping that may involve Americans.



Thank goodness, we certainly would not want anyone to call for Obama's impeachment.

For the record, Obama supported Bush on wiretapping legislation.

Stumble Upon Toolbar submit to reddit