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Suggestions for the President – Open Thread * Update*

By Linda Anselmi on February 21, 2009 at 10:30 PM in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Linda Anselmi

(bumped up from late Friday evening, with a great update)

UPDATE: h/t andy for the link to Mark McKinnon’s Dear Mr. President, Have the Guts to Be an Optimist article at The Daily Beast.

OK, Mr. President, enough with the doomsday talk already. We get it. Things suck. And they’re going to get worse before they get better.

And we get how it important it was for you to level-set expectations out of the gate, as they were stratospherically out of whack.

We are all in economic rehab now, clear eyed and sober…

It’s time for less mope and more hope. You were elected because you are a walking, talking hope machine. Plug that sucker back in and crank it up to ten.

**********

Personally, I’m just a little frustrated that the American people are not being enlisted as builders of our own future. It’s as if we were the fourth leg on that three legged stool everyone kept trying to construct. Only we got thrown out with the packaging materials and the instructions!

Waiting Americans
by Linda Anselmi

We can awaken our courage,
And uncover our grit.
We can strap on responsibilities,
No matter the split.

But frustrations are growing,
Despite readying all that we can.
Because we see no real future,
And nary a plan

Those stools don’t need mending,
We can no longer afford such a sit.
America is waiting, Mr. President,
To see where our citizens will fit.

______

Of course, Former President Bill Clinton presented his suggestion for President Obama on ABC Good Morning America in a much more thoughtful and measured way.

_____

So what’s your suggestion for our President?

Andy

Great poem Linda A. !!!!

Mark McKinnon had some really good suggestions for Obama on that front as well:

Dear Mr. President, Have the Guts to Be an Optimist

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-18/dear-mr-president-have-the-guts-to-be-an-optimist/

Linda Anselmi

Thank you Andy. I wouldn’t call the poem great, but I tried to have a little fun making my point. Thanks for posting the link to the McKinnon article. Now that’s great writing!

Andy

I love the poem Linda A.; it says so much in such an elegant manner…Perfect!!

sandi78

Resign now.

Obama: Dubya II-Electric Boogaloo

I second that!
AlexisM

Suggestion for the Fraud?

Get the hell out of the White House you phony, incompetent, lazy, America hating, Constitution pissing on, commie, arrogant, amoral, lying, cheating USURPER!

Disgusted

Don’t soft soap it Alexis. Tell us how you really feel.

AlexisM

Disgusted…that was tame for what the truth about the creep is.

Disgusted

I hear ya Alexis. Imagine having Obama as your state senator for 12 years or so and then your senator for 2. Just when you think things can’t get any worse his mentor Rev Wright moves into your suburb. Welcome to my world.

AlexisM

No wonder you are “Disgusted” LOL. I would take that to Appalled, Shocked and Disgusted. . I keep thinking I will wake up and this was all a really sick nightmare. Sigh.

Disgusted

It never ends Alexis. I keep watching the Burris stuff on TV and thinking who the hell are you gonna replace him with? It goes from bad to worse.I mean now that Obamas gone we are fresh out of non-corrupt politicians. Snark

AlexisM

Have you EVER seen anyone with so much corruption around him BEFORE he even took office? Have you EVER seen any political candidate who had so many questionable associations? Have you ever seen someone pick such corrupt cabinet members? Do you believe that Geithner doesn’t pay his taxes but is in the treasury department? This is like some really freaky movie where the world has been totally turned upside down. The only person who probably finds this is amusing is Bush, since he’s going to go up a few notches in esteem when this piece of crap President leaves office, which couldn’t happen soon enough for me.

TeakwoodKite

There go “The Burbs” Disgusted.

Mark Rumsfield: ~~Walter~~. Wright,I know you’re in there. That scum-sucking, barking rat of yours has just taken his last dump on my lawn. I find one more- just one- and I’m gonna catch him and staple his ass shut.

.

TexasMirth

AlexisM, your suggestions work for me. The smug-factor of Obama turns my stomach. I simply don’t believe he loves this country. Where is the evidence?

C.S.

I think Mr. Soertoro/Obama and his wife both expressed their feelings for our country very well during the campaign when he stood on that stage, arrogantly clasping his hands in front of him while others saluted the flag. I doubt we needed his wife’s rant about her feelings for this country to get the point.

What I don’t know is how our public servants elected by the People could continue to push this man forward to the point of stealing delegates for him knowing his contempt for what our nation stands for.

We the People and our Constitution are permanent; our leaders transient so that “absolute power would not corrupt absolutely.” Would we have elected anyone who had said this after Pearl Harbor?

“I will stand with the Japanese should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

And yet we allowed a political party to put someone who said

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Page 26l, Audacity of Hope

When you take the oath of office as a United States president you pledge

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Our forefathers would never have elected a Tory who would have stood with England when the political winds shifted in that ugly direction that produced the Revolution.

And if Soertoro/Obama’s own words aren’t enough to convince us of his divided loyalty to his job, what more proof do we need? Adjudication of his eligibility for office of president?

Andy

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Page 26l, Audacity of Hope

Isn’t this unbelievable?? WTH do people think this means? …Ugly winds from where Mr. Obama? Who are you going to stand AGAINST ???
Scout

The image of him standing there, stiffly, and looking uncomfortable while others held their hands over their hearts has never left my mind.

It’s one thing to disagree with some of our policies, or to want to make our country better. But I don’t think he loves this country, or its people. I think he wants to take America down from the inside out.

AlexisM

Scout…I’m with you. He should have been out of the race right there. What kind of AMERICANS would vote for someone who has such clear hatred and contempt for who we are, and our traditions? That should have been the END of the Fraud.

And, I am with you. He wants to literally end America. Period.

brett

You have forgotten misogynist

James

Listen to Paul Krugman on economics.
cynic

Consider constructive criticism but ignore the negativity. Keep reminding America that the future is wide open and our potential unlimited. Some of us have temporarily forgotten that.

Docelder

Some of us have temporarily forgotten that.

That is a fact. Many have come to that place honestly though. “O” needs to act Presidential. McCain acted Presidential when he said the “fundamentals of the economy were strong” was it true? if you mean our free market system is good, we just need some adjustments… then yes it was true. Obama and Biden made their stump speeches about ridiculing McCain for his optimism. I think we should have all seen it then, but it was missed… the man is no optimist. Hope and change isn’t something he has to give. We will get through this.
sowsear

Akinsky would not sanction that. People have to be kept in a perpetually agitated state about something.

Texas Playwright

Move to Kenya.
pm317

Good poem.

It is always good to see Bill Clinton — what a refreshing change to hear him break everything down to one or two sentences but with still full impact and substantive.

Andy

pm317: Indeed !! That’s b/c Bill C. understand every aspect and detail of what’s happening, really knows this stuff and thinks hard and long about it at all times. That’s why he can process it and deliver like this. It takes a lot of knowledge and understanding to be able to speak like that.
What has happened to our society that in the last 9 years it has voted into office presumed cheerleaders rather than leaders with any heft?

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

I can’t decide between resign now and move to kenya, so how about resign AND move.

Obama, let the people who know what to do go to the front of the line. Fade out and get lost.

James

Very constructive.

imustprotest

thank you james

rw

Fade out takes too long, cut and and get lost is faster. Even one nano second more is too long to bear the fraud.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

LOL!! Hasn’t it been four long years already?

Hillary 2012!!

imustprotest

Can’t Hillary assume power earlier?? We can’t wait until 2012! How about 2009 and 1/2?
rw

It really is stress producing. I live in limbo…refuse to watch him on the tube, will not listen to his bs on the radio, will not listen to the obot reporters lie about his performance…it’s a weird existence.

imustprotest

I’m with you….no MSM or OMG (obama media group) for me! When will this nightmare end?
http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

I’m right there with you. But since everyone in my family is very adept at changing the channel the second anything about Obama is on, it’s not too painful.

Hillary can be president any time she wants to in my book.
cynic

How can you be be sure your estimation of the guy is correct when you won’t listen to him, and won’t listen to any opinion about him that isn’t negative to begin with? Isn’t this viewing reality through a filter?

I don’t restrict my listening or reading or viewing only to Obama’s cheerleaders. I try to take in the other stuff also. It seems like that’s the only way to get a halfway balanced picture.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

It’s called the internet, moron. I do read both sides and visit Buzzflash and other dem websites – as I used to as a liberal dem. Even their kool-aid jones seems to have worn off.

It’s getting a little hard to defend incompetence and Obama’s shitty attitude even for die hard liberals. I used to be one, by the way.

Many of my liberal friends no longer want to discuss Obama. I take that as a sign.

Inferential comprehension does have it’s place.
AlexisM

cynic…you’re not going to get a ton of cheerleaders here for the Fraud. And, come on, are you a troll? You can’t possibly read what the fabulous NQ writers write, the articles, documentation, watch the videos, etc. about Obama and take him seriously. For God’s sake. Even high school kids are waking up and seeing him for the phony creep he is. You can keep up licking Obama’s feet but it makes you look a little strange.

lark

Great switcharoo, Alexis. Remember that banks are slated to be ‘nationalized.’ We need to practice good behavior. Otherwise you may face overdrafting for a long long time.

AlexisM

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/83596

Everybody should watch this video. It’s plain and simple…”Stop Obama Or America Will Cease To Exist.” That’s pretty much how I feel, but watch this.

lark

Making your point through proxi. Excellent way. Keyes was looking much more relaxed, hysterically speaking. Keyes is good. I like him. He lashed pretty good at the reporter, suggesting he was an imbecile. We need more of Keyes.
Katmoon

Most excellent, thanks for the post Alexis!

cynic

I don’t visit here with the expectation of “converting” anybody. I visit here to test my own thinking by exposing it to opposing views.

AlexisM

“How can you be sure your estimation of him is correct…”

Uh, well, cynic…we’re damned sure our estimation is correct and he’s out to destroy our country. That’s pretty damned obvious even to my 8 year old nephew.

cynic

I’m not quite that certain about anything. Chalk that up to 59 years of thoughtful observation.

Beware! Kool-Aid comes in more than one flavor.

AlexisM

I’m pretty confident in my own brain and power of deductive reasoning. Pretty much a rat with a lobotomy could figure out that America has been conned though. I’m 100% positive that Obama is the biggest threat to our security and prosperity in our history. Good news is that more and more people are waking up off the Kool Aid drunk and agreeing with us. I would hate to see Civil War in this country, but whatever it takes, he has to go.
http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

Call it intuition or experience. But Obama has reeked of corruption since he announced his candidacy.

Follow the money and Operation Board Games, the lack of transparency on his birth certificate, his lack of solid feelings for his relatives, his overblown notion of his intelligence, his arrogance, and the list goes on, and it all starts to add up to a fraud.

Obama has perpetrated, with the help of the DNC, the largest fraud on America and it’s citizens in history.
TexasMirth

Obama has perpetrated, with the help of the DNC, the largest fraud on America and it’s citizens in history.

AMEN TO THAT, Buzz. The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. If that old adage holds true, we know what we are in for: more corruption.
Ignignokt

The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior.

Except, of course, this doesn’t apply to Obama’s republican critics.

The fact that most of the national debt was accumulated during the terms of the last three republican presidents with republican majorities behind them should be disregarded.

The fact that most elected reps involved in lobbyist scandals over the past decade have been republicans should be disregarded.

The fact that deregulation has been a republican mantra since Reagan, and that our crisis is a direct result of the total lack of oversight of key financial activities should be disregarded.
FLDemFem

What does your 50 years of observation tell you about what the stock markets are doing? They tank even further every time Obummer opens his mouth. I sure hope you don’t have funds you intend to depend on in the stock market, because if you do, they aren’t there anymore. Thanks to Obummer’s “economic expertise”, we are heading for another 1929. Let’s see you milk “hope” out of that!

And you are aware that the Obamas, while asking the rest of us to sacrifice are doing no such thing themselves. They are reveling in the perks of the office, spending over $250,000 of taxpayers money on the Friday night date weekend in Chicago. That was a purely personal trip and they didn’t need to take it. They wanted to. At our expense. And rather than wear a jacket at the office, Obummer is cranking up the heat in the White House so he will be warm enough. We pay those utility bills. We are supposed to turn down our thermostats to save energy, but the one who is asking us to do that is turning his up. He should at least try to set an example.

He is unprepared, unschooled in the process of legislation, has no work ethic and should resign for the good of the country. He won’t because for him it’s never been about the good of the country, it’s always been about him and what he could get out of whatever office he is holding. Someone should tell him that if he resigns in good form, then he will still get the perks, pension, etc. If he is impeached and convicted, then he doesn’t get any of them. And he won’t be able to hold office again. That would be best for the country, in my opinion.
cynic

Blaming everything on Obama is an easy way to avoid finding out the real reasons for anything.
Ferd Berfle

Blaming everything on Obama is an easy way to avoid finding out the real reasons for anything.

I see you conveniently ignored the gist of the post, which is that he is unqualified for the position he bought and has always been in politics for the glory and adulation that it brings to sooth his NPD.

He could have done us all a favor and become a model, instead.
cynic

I guess I missed the “gist” because I don’t personally see it as differing much from the balance of the comments.
Ferd Berfle

I guess I missed the “gist” because I don’t personally see it as differing much from the balance of the comments.

I guess unqualified and suffering from a personality disorder isn’t a concern. Oh, well.
cynic

I’m gist saying I see that as one component of a circular argument. It only makes sense when you accept the premise to begin with. On the premise itself, opinions vary.
Ferd Berfle

Nope. A circular argument is the obamatron’s argument which goes thusly:

He is a good president because he is That One. And he is That One because he was destined to become a good president.

Try again.
AlexisM

I guess unqualified and suffering from a personality disorder isn’t a concern. Oh, well.

LMAO Ferd. Yeah, really, we’ve never had someone who is clearly a mental case, a lazy azz, an incompetent, and an amoral criminal reveal himself so early in the game. Scary shit.
AlexisM

FLDemFem…WTG. Awesome post. I think that’s a great idea. Remind him that if he gets the hell out now he can have his little pay day. But if we have to force him out by legal remedy then he’s screwed.
cynic

…we’ve never had someone who is clearly a mental case, a lazy azz, an incompetent, and an amoral criminal reveal himself so early in the game.

Many people had Bush and Cheney sized up long before they even took office. Both were Right Wing Authoritarian personality types. That’s a clearly defined mental disorder in my book. Morality? Together they launched a needless war that resulted the deaths of 4,247 American soldiers and 99,073 confirmed civilian deaths. They turned America into a country that sexually humiliates and tortures captives–in several cases to the point of death. Bush was totally incompetent in many areas. Cheney was frightening competent, which under the circumstances might actually have been worse. Both very likely committed crimes while in office, although owing to Cheney’s competence at covering tracks prosecution is unlikely.

elise

It’s self preservation, cynic. I started muting Bush and Cheney in 2003 and just read parts of their speeches or read the crawls. I try not to rubberneck when we pass car wrecks either.
susan

“I don’t restrict my listening or reading or viewing only to Obama’s cheerleaders”

Then you must not watch much of the MSM!
susan

“I don’t restrict my listening or reading or viewing only to Obama’s cheerleaders”

Then you must not watch much of the MSM! Is there any other kind?

sowsear

Here are the friendliest countriesm if you’re planning on a move:(before they take your passport)
http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/09/relocate-world-countries-employment08-forbeslife-cx_ds_1210friendly.html

sowsear

And for women, go to these countries:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5227737/Women-friendly-countries-rankings.html

http://noquarter foxyladi14

and don’t forget the wify,,,,,,,,,

imustprotest

Obama…..go F@#k yourself…my humble suggestion.

AlexisM

imustprotest…Right on!
nickoury

stinky’s too busy screwing the country to do that right now.

rw

cool poem, nicely complements what Bill says.

lark

It’s going in the right direction. From great, to good to cool. I can’t wait until someone says the truth about the pathetic attempt to write a so called ‘poem.’ It mirrors Obambi’s attempt at governing. No better, no worse.

Docelder

Or “O’s” attempt to write poetry. I recall a couple of his college poems he wrote came out around several months back. He’s not much of a poet… it didn’t keep him from having them published. Maybe somebody should have been paying attention. Whatever he may be… creative genius is not it.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/07/02/070702on_onlineonly_obama

lark

Great post, Docelder, thanks. I won’t comment on the second of Obama’s poems for fear of being banned forever. But the first one seems to be quite prophetic indeed, describing his seeming personality this first month. Maybe it will be like that at the end of four years. I only wish that would be the only permanent damage we suffer.

Just a wish. I’m entitled to a wish.

rw

Whose truth? Yours?

“It mirrors Obambi’s attempt at governing. No better, no worse.” ie, cool poem.
linda Anselmi

It’s ok lark.
You don’t need to like it.
The “poem” is just for fun – and thought.

lark

The criticism too. for fun and thought.

Linda Anselmi

Thank you rw.

AOK

You PUMAs are as delusional as ever.

Obama: Dubya II-Electric Boogaloo

Now what did we say about drinking the brown kool-aid at Botstock 2009….sheeeshhhh…..
AlexisM

AOK…troll, I’m not a PUMA. Just an American, patriot, who loves my country and knows what a joke Obama is. Chill Kool Aid drinker, you’re eventually going to have to face up to the reality of the Fraud.

so saddened

i’d love to tell him you have the right to remain silent, etc.

AlexisM

I just wish Patrick Fitzgerald would do his job. We all know that every law enforcement agent, FBI agent, cop, prosecutor, you name it, knows exactly what kind of frigging criminal Obama is. Mr. Teflon is going to be led away in cuffs one day. I know it.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

LOL!! Who would have guessed that the fantasy of watching Bush and Cheney do the perp walk would change to Obama so soon!

Frankly, after following Operation Board Games and the birth certificate fiasco, it could become a reality if the Justice Department had any male reproductive parts.
I’m a Linda too

Some advice for BOberry? How ’bout paying what you owe folks, especially in your cash strapped ChiTown!

“Obama victory bash owes city $1.74 mil.
PARTY IN THE PARK | Waiting for Dems to pay up

In late October, Mayor Daley assured that the cash-flush Obama campaign would reimburse the city for every penny spent on the rally. “We have a financial crisis,” he said at the time. “The City of Chicago could not afford $2 million on this because we’re gonna be laying off people, cutting back. That [cost] would really be unfortunate. . . . It’s a huge cost to the City of Chicago.

“This is not a presidential visit. . . . This is a political event, and they’ve agreed to pay for all those services — all the expenses of that. … It’s costly, but they raised quite a bit of money. There’s no [shortage] of money in that campaign.”

The day after the Nov. 4 election, Daley was asked again whether the Obama campaign would pay up.

“Yeah. I don’t know why you’re so negative. … What is this? He just won for president, and you say, ‘He’s not gonna pay his bills,’ ” the mayor said then.

On Dec. 9, the day the Sun-Times disclosed the $1.74 million tab, Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt referred questions to the DNC.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1441157,CST-NWS-rally20.article

NICE BOberry. 4 months and you still won’t cough up money you owe Chicago for your election night partying.

Heck of a job BOberry.

I’m a Linda too

oops, more backtracking from BOberry and let’s see if Rachel Maddow wants to joke and make light about THIS one.

AMAZING.

Balls in the face of his supporters and promoters. WooT!

updated 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

“Obama administration keeps Bush view on Afghanistan detainees
Story Highlights
Justice Department: U.S. “adheres to its previously articulated position”
Lead counsel for detainees in Afghanistan calls decision “deeply disappointing”
New administration was given a month to review detainee rights in theater of war
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By Terry Frieden
CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration told a federal court late Friday it will maintain the Bush administration’s position that battlefield detainees held without charges by the United States in Afghanistan are not entitled to constitutional rights to challenge their detention.

Former detainees pray near Kaubul in 2005 following their release from U.S. custody at Bagram Air Base.
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“Having considered the matter, the government adheres to its previously articulated position,” said a Justice Department document filed in federal court in Washington.

In a controversial 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court last year ruled that detainees held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay had a right under the constitution to challenge their continued detention. However, the court did not say whether it applied to prisoners in other locations abroad, including Afghanistan.

Five prisoners held at Bagram Air Base, backed by human rights groups, have gone to court to claim the same rights as the men detained in Guantanamo Bay.

The new administration, which was given a month by a federal judge to declare whether the government wants to change its position, has now indicated it will continue to argue that it is against its security interests to release enemy combatants in a war zone.

Barbara Olshansky, lead counsel for three of the detainee petitioners, said that the administration’s decision was “deeply disappointing.”

“We are trying to remain hopeful that the message being conveyed is that the new administration is still working on its position regarding the applicability of the laws of war — the Geneva Conventions — and international human rights treaties that apply to everyone in detention there,” she said.”

I said so!!!!! And Barbara, OBviously NOT. He waited and chose poorly.

Yep, BOberry is making enemies FAST.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

Ouch!

FLDemFem

The DNC is in debt, thanks to Obummer who didn’t share any of his campaign funds with them. He had millions left over after the election. Didn’t help Hillary pay her debt, other than the one check he wrote. Said he would ask his supporters to help. Didn’t do that either. So, if the DNC is billed for the Election night party that Obummer they won’t be able to pay it. He won’t pay it out of his funds unless the city sues him. I hope they do.

lark

I have to say this, Obama’s intention to inflict total chaos into the American way of life is going well ahead of schedule. Too bad Hillary doesn’t seem to be cooperating, otherwise we could be looking at a good “circus circus.” Anyone from Casselberry, FL would understand.

Yes, everything you have worked on for years, decades, is in danger of being wiped out. All in the name of political correctness, may I say.
TeakwoodKite

My suggestion to BO?

Or the Office of the President?

If BO, stop the Bamboozling. Put a halter on Biden and ride him for your worth into the sunset. Show us you papers before you go.

For the Office of POTUS? Make the buck stop. Take leadership seriously instead of using pawns in your pay to play mantra.
Peggy Sue

Be a patriot, Mr. President. Country first, always.

If you convince me of that then and only then will you have my support.
http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

Save your support, Peggy Sue. Obama won’t or can’t even prove his is a citizen of the United States, let alone prove he is a patriot.

It astounds me that the Dems still seem to think that Obama’s birth certificate/citizenship problem will go away. I don’t care how many attorneys Obama hires, he still is a corrupt liar on this one.

AlexisM

Buzz, the BC issue isn’t going away just because SCOTUS is a bunch of lying criminals too. It just makes the people filing the lawsuits even more determined. They will beat this issue until the Fraud shows that he is in fact the Kenyan.

lark

This was a real real bad week. And I thought it was bad the week we invaded Iraq. Bad week, bad week.

I would suggest Obama to divorce Michelle and to try to see if he can borrow GW Bush’ wife for the next four years, just a loan, to see if she can cuddle him to bed dearly and read to him a few stories that would settle him to reality on the next day. My god Michelle, can’t you do something to read to this man before he goes to sleep. Do it for all your African American devotees.

TeakwoodKite

Wife Swaps are going to be securitized?

Darn, just like the california Lottery!
candymarl

Ewww! Pass the brain bleach.

http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

Maybe Michelle hate them (the AAs), too. Since she hates the rest of us Americans, maybe her hate knows no bounds.

If she really loved Obama or her country, she would have never let this fiasco get out of the starting gates.

elise

She tried to warn voters on The View when she said he was “pathetic” so I’m not sure she should be blammed Buzz. if people don’t listen. BTW, my advise for Obama. stop campaiging, stay in Washington and learn something. Crack the books every night. Get a clue! Find some reliable advisors and listen to them. Get rid of Rahm Emanuel instead of making jokes about his gutter mouth.

http://AOL Diane

Obama wants to keep a eye on mayors.Well we should all report to him people we know getting bailed out of foreclosed homes.
IM telling ,If they go to the beauti shops
IM telling ,If they get their nails done
IM telling ,if they buy a new car
IM telling ,if they throw parties
IM telling ,if they bring too many bags from the market.
We all work hard for our own homes.
OH ,,and they better cut their own grass
or IM telling.

lark

My goodness. I was doing dishes after lunch and I heard the first add about a mortgage rescue company offering their services under the Obama plan. They were not shy enough to offer free money in top of also paying all their bills. I said to myself, ‘this is going to be hilarious, thousands of ads every week by companies each beating the other offering free money and great perks for refinancing their mortgages under the Obama plan.’ We are going to be so happy every time we hear the ads. Oh my God. So happy, happy happy.

Don’t tell anyone, but I think those ads will sink the banking industry all by themselves. But be quiet. That’s a secret between you and me.
lark

Reply to appear later when the filter gets purged.

Disgusted

Have you guys seen this clip from CNBC on Obamas motgage bailout plan?

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/storytext/housing_bailout_backlash/31044518/SIG=10he95as7/*http://CNBC.com

Disgusted

Make that mortgage even.
Disgusted

Sorry, That link doesn’t work and I can’t spell. Let’s try this again.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1041856849&play=1

cynic

Art Bell will be discussing the global economic crisis with Michael J. Panzner on Coast to Coast AM at the top of the hour, if anyone is interested. Panzner is a Wall Street insider who predicted the financial melt-down before it happened in his book “Financial Armageddon”. Open lines on the same topic began half-an-hour ago.

rw

what’s the station number?

cynic

Here’s a link to the list of Coast to Coast AM radio affiliates: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/info/wheretolisten.html

Click your state on the map that comes up.

It’s always good to hear Art’s voice again.

rw

OK, thanks.
TeakwoodKite

via remote viewing? He is an x file.

TexasMirth

The “3 am phone call” was scary to think about during the campaign. But now that we have seen how ill prepared Obama actually is, the 3 am phone call scenario has become far more terrifying to contemplate.

AlexisM

I’m with you Texas…My mother was the one that always told me that “we would be okay” even though neither of us can STAND the Fraud and know he will destroy American. Now she has totally changed her tune. She’s terrified. So am I. I can’t believe this is the nut who is going to answer that 3 am call…Uhhh….well….ummm…uhhhh…well….KABOOM!

TexasMirth

I think a lot of people are like your mother, realizing that Obama is in way over his head.
I fear for our country.

jbjd

I just watched the MSNBC video in which Keith Olberman and Jonathan Alter (Newsweek, credited as a MSNBC news analyst) discussed Keyes’ comments that BO is not a NBC. They specifically cited his comments that BO,‘The military is questioning whether they have to follow orders of a CIC they believe is not a NBC,’in conjunction with his comments,‘He needs to be stopped.’ Both men said this is dangerous and that the SS should look into this! They were intimating that, Keyes was inciting violence against BO!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29307564#29308546

Obamastolemyboyfriend

Wow. I almost had to stop watching that half way through, but made it to the end! It is unbelievable how they want to down play Obama’s eligibility! Why don’t they just ask Obama to prove it since they think it is such a joke? I pray to God that this phoney is exposed somehow before things go much farther!

TeakwoodKite

How embarrassing for them to have to even discuss it. Sinners all.

TexasMirth

I think they are a little nervous. I gave up MSNBC awhile back, but I managed to watch this entire thing, despite Olberman’s continual insult-insertions (“wack-job,” etc.) Jonathan Alter may have actually done a disservice to Obama by highlighting Keyes’ assertions. Whatever people think of Alan Keyes, I don’t think they see him as a deliberate liar. This story may generate some questions in viewers’ minds. And I got to hand it to Alan Keyes. He does not back down. I had not heard that there were military personnel questioning whether they had to obey orders from Obama. That was interesting.

http://AOL Diane

There are lawsuits now from retired military who are on life recall to follow orders they may now come to think as committing treason if indeed Obama in not legit.

Katmoon

The military’s first duty is to uphold the constitution. Period. The one can give an unlawful order, they are not expected to follow unlawful orders, of anyone.

rickrickrick

Obama is way over his head. Anyone who has to repeat ” let me make myself clear” knows he is not in control.

PainkillerJayne

Brings to mind the day he had to hold three press conferences to CLEAR UP the ones he had given earlier that day.

gianni

President Obama,

First, come clean about Larry Sinclair. After more than a year of following this story in spite of the whitewashing by the media, it is clear that Sinclair is telling the truth about what happened between you and him in Chicago on November 6 and 7, 1999.

Second, you should arrange to have your personal bodyguard, Michael Signator, provide a deposition to the Chicago police regarding his wherabouts on or around Christmas Eve, 2007. That was the day Donald Young, the gay choir master at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago–your church–was shot to death in cold blood. Over a year later the case remains unsolved. Why? Why won’t the Chicago police explain what is going on? Perhaps there should also be an investigation of the Chicago police by the AG of Illinois, or perhaps even the United States attorney general. But now that you have them in your back pocket, well, yeah, I guess you have the game rigged nicely, don’t you?

Third, release some of your key unreleased records. Why are you sitting on them? Here’s a few you should think about releasing:

- Long form version of Hawaii certification of live birth (COLB), not the short form you posted to Daily Kos
- Your Occidental College records
- Your Columbia University records
- Your Harvard Law School records
- The obstetrics records of your mother presumably giving birth to you in Hawaii in 1961 (it is still a contested issue as to which hospital in Hawaii performed the procedure to have you delivered, who the doctor was, etc.). When basic facts like this are in dispute, reasonable people wonder just what you are hiding.
Sassy

Linda, good poem and a valient effort to salvage something from this mistake the electorate made!
Truthfully, BO showed his mettle all along, and essentially told us what he would do once elected.
There were many instances that left no doubt about his socialist leanings.
I didn’t buy it then, and I don’t follow his lead now!
http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Great post!! :OD

Linda Anselmi

Thank you Sara. I had fun with it.

http://www.latinarepublican.com Latina Republican

My suggestion is for Obama to tell us what was in the letter given to John Kerry. Did you hear about the possible news of Hamas sending Obama a letter?

http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/240631
NYSmike

Mr. President,

Stop wasting so much effort on lowering the bar and attempt to do the actual work needed to help get us out of this massive mess! Focus on these next four years rather than the upcoming election in 2012!
Do a somewhat decent job and everything will fall in to place.
Masha

This is how a president should talk. I still miss President Clinton.

Margaret

me too.

Linda Anselmi

me three.

Donna

Here’s the thing, I don’t believe in corporate welfare and I don’t like any of this bailout crap. That being said:

IF they are going to pump trillions of dollars into the economy (ok, so it’s legally counterfeited money but lets not go there) why in the name of hay don’t they send every adult legal resident/taxpayer the money instead of giving it to the banks and the auto makers? Hello? Why don’t they trust the people to fix this crap? After all, they work for US… not the other way around. See, let’s say they send everyone, oh, maybe $25K. Well, personally, I’d go buy me a car – a good ol’ Dodge, or maybe a Ford ‘cuz I like ‘em. Joe might take his money and use it to pay down his debts, Charlie might make a downpayment on a house – and Jane takes her money to the bank and puts it in a CD. Betty buys up stock and Bill and Sue go on a kick butt shopping spree.

Now THAT’S what I’d call an economic stimulus!

BlueTopaz

I’d pay off my CCs and invest in my new business which I started just before this latest economic crises. Great timing, too bad I wasn’t in the loop about the Oct. surprise.

Clyde1975

Now we know why the people have not elected a POTUS with out executive exp. To do so is a Cluster ****. or if you prefer FUBAR.
Clyde1975

Sorry I should have said in the last 40 yrs.
indiedogg

Okay, somebody do the math for me. I admit, the brain has hit overload and the smoke coming from my ears cannot be a good sign. So, help me with this while I go soak my head, Paul Newman style, in a bucket of ice water:

With the brand spanking new dimwit bill, the CBO is projecting the federal budget deficit to RISE to ~$2.0 trillion (yes, trillion). Okay, got that. Take $1.2 and add another $0.8 for the dimwit bill and that’s about $2.0. So far so good. But that’s bad, right? Borrowing and spending at that level is fiscal insanity, right?

Right. Okay, I’m still with you. Here’s the hard part.

The President (yes, like it or not, that’s the title) has now pledged to CUT the DEFICIT in HALF (sound’s good, right)!! Hooray. That puts us at $0.6. If the deficit is $1.2 now, and if my gozzintas are right, half of that is $0.6.

But our Witless Leader is promising to cut the deficit in HALF. To ONLY somewhere around $1.0 trillion.

And he pontificates, this deficit spending has to STOP!!!

I’m sorry, did I miss Alice walking by? Am I in Wonderland? Are those bunnies or billions floating by? Can somebody take me to the wizard (I know, different movie, but I’m confused, like I said).

Maybe this is it. I’ll spare you the details of the joke about the scientist, the lawyer and the accountant but the question was, “What’s 1 + 1?” The accountant’s answer (who is now, I think, the royal accountant to the court of St. Obama): “What do you want it to be?”

I have to lie down. Please let me know if somebody figures this out.
Illinois Voter

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm

President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers in April of 1961, regarding the dangers of an administration keeping secrets from the citizens and the dangers of secret societies. This speech is very insightful and President Kennedy has an important message for us today.

Linda Anselmi

Thank you IL Voter. Very much. Your timing is perfect!

Gary McGowan

So what’s your suggestion for our President?

Have a two-hour breakfast with Bill Clinton at least once a week.

Linda Anselmi

Excellent suggestion!

Chuckie

Impeach President Pelosie and vice Pres. Reid o yest the chimp to
kat in your hat

Great post. (Thanks for poem, article, and vid.) I’ve been pretty exhausted by O’s fear mongering. They got the stimulus bill, there’s no need to lay it on thick anymore.

No more “Great depression” talking point. Sick of it. I bet he sounds more hopeful in address…he got the stim. bill. enough is enough.

Linda Anselmi

Thank you kat. I agree – we’ve got to be focused on building our future.

KintheNorthwest

I would just like to see Obama and Congress tighten their belts a little bit like Obama has told the American citizens to.
Do away with flights that are unnessary–Signing the bill in Colorado was that really nessary? I heard that cost taxpayers upwards of 1/2 a million.
Having $100 a pound steak dinners—Dang one pound of that steak feeds many families for a week or two depending on their size.
Upping the thermostat in the Oval office way beyond the 68 point mark–Didn’t Obama tell us all to lower our Thermostats?
Sending several dozen congress men overseas for a MLK dedication (I heard that the plane alone was over 200 Thousand dollars.) I would make a bet that the trip alone was probably a million with security and all.

Ok add to the list guys…Especially those of us that have tighten their belts because they had to or wanted to.
http://noquarter foxyladi14

where are the last several comments???????????
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