2012 cant come fast enough
Obama holding postelection news conference
November 2, 2010 The White House said Tuesday that Obama will take reporters' questions Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the East Room. It'll be the first chance for Obama to react to what are widely forecast to be major Democratic losses in the midterm elections, including the possible Republican capture of one or both houses of Congress. Will this guy give it a break? Does he have to be on TV every day? Hes just like the popular guy at work thats always blabbing at meetings but you wonder "what has that guy ever done?" Its been 2 yrs of campaigning...he'll come on and say that he wants to work with the republicans in the house, that we cant do notthing for 2 yrs, that we need to work for the american people. All the while just campaigning for 2012. Laying the foundation for blame. My President come on tv when you have SOMETHING to tell us. SOMETHING other than politics. Spend less time crafting messages and more time developing solutions. Wedsnesday, you should be calling all the newly elected congressmen to the WH to welcome them, roll up your sleeves and GET TO WORK! We;re tired of all the talking! |
RIJIMMY, from your lips to Gid's ears, 2012 cannot come fast enough.
Obama's megalomania wikll ensure that he misreads today's result. He will not see this as a rejection of his liberal agenda from a center-right populace, rather he'll conclude that we're simply too stupid to be able to comprehend the brilliance of his accomplishments. After all, according to him, everyone who disagrees with him is an irrational boob. To quote Obama...""facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time...because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared." Translation...anyone who disagrees with Obama is irrational. This, from the guy who ordained himself as the one who would descend from the heavens and unite as all. Personally, I just hope Palin doesn't run. My fear is that she would very possibly win the primary, but that she's not electable in the general election. Lots of good prospects out there...Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty, David Patreus (God I wish he'd run), Mike Pence, Newt Gingrich (who would be my first choice). |
There's so little in common between Newt and Petreus I'm not sure how you can even utter them in the same sentence.
Newt is a smart guy but a slimeball with no shame. He doesn't have a chance in a Presidential election. The General might just do it, but I'd wager he'd run as a Democrat. Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device |
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They (the Obama Admin) would rather lose the war than lose an election. |
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"There's so little in common between Newt and Petreus I'm not sure how you can even utter them in the same sentence. " They are both admitted conservatives who believe that (1) Islamic facism is a grave threat, and (2) the way to defeat that threat isn't to give them a hug and apologize for all our faults, but rather, to bring them to their knees with levels of force that produce "shock and awe". "Newt is a smart guy " Agreed. IMHO, he is brilliant, and the most qualified person on the planet for the job. But he's got baggage. "but a slimeball with no shame. He doesn't have a chance in a Presidential election. " Bill Clinton was more of a slimeball, but IMHO, a great president who understood that you can't spend more than you've got. Newt is also now a devout Catholic, but I agree, probably not electable. "The General might just do it, but I'd wager he'd run as a Democrat." He's an admitted conservative and a registered Republkican. so I'll take that bet. I remember when he gave his plan (what came to be known as "the surge") to Congress. Hilary said to him "General, to believe your plan requires the willful suspension of disbelief". In other words, she called him a liar, and he turned out to be 100% right. Did she apologize? Nope, she became SecState. So again, lack of ethics certainly doesn't preclude one from rising in the ranks of the Democraic party, does it? |
[QUOTE=RIJIMMY;807388]Obama holding postelection news conference
November 2, 2010 The White House said Tuesday that Obama will take reporters' questions Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the East Room. It'll be the first chance for Obama to react to what are widely forecast to be major Democratic losses in the midterm elections, including the possible Republican capture of one or both houses of Congress. Will this guy give it a break? he will give a very rare press conference and then take off in a 40 aircraft fleet with an entourage of 3000 of his closest friends at a cost of 200 million/per day...at least thats what I was just reading...staggering US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visitPress Trust of India, Updated: November 02, 2010 21:07 IST Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama's visit to the city. "The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said. About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments |
By the way, Spence, I participated in the surge with the USMC. SWe all knew that Harry Reid, swell patriot that he is, said "the war in Iraq is lost", and if you don't think it demoralizes our guys, and emboldens our enemies, when the Senate majority leader says somehting like that, you're wrong.
I love the Democratic party. Let's look at the line of succession for president. (1) Obama. Voted to support infanticide as a state senator in IL (2) Biden. Admitted plagiarist (3) Nancy Pelosi. "I was never at a meeting when the CIA mentione dwaterboarding". "No, I meant to say I was at the meeting, but I didn't hear that part". "No, I meant to say that I heard that part, but they weren't specific on who they would waterboard". "No, I meant to say..." (4)until recently, Strom Thurmond (my personal favorite), president pro tempore of the Senate, and an admitted former Wizard of the Klan who regularly used the n word until his death. (5) Hilary Clinton, who claimed that during a visit to Bosnia, she had to DIVE! into her limo because of sniper fire. Whhen video footage clearly showed that was a lie, her excuse? "I was overtired". Everyone who has ever raised a baby has been overtired, how many then falsely claim to have been shot at? (6) Timothy Geithner, who doesn't pay his own taxes... Yessir, that's some list!!! |
Jim - Thank you for your time in the Marines and your service.
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hopefully it's Goodbye Harry
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Jim in CT. thanks for your service. Much respect to you and your brethren. Always support the troops, regardless of politics!
RIJimmy... Seriously? You don't expect a response from the white house/? After 2006 election, remember Bush's press conference where 'It was a thumpin"? (OK, maybe it was the morning after in 2006), but then you would just bitch the Obama should have addressed the country the night of. Were you outraged then?? C'mon Man! |
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Semper Fi! and you service is beyond thanks!! |
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"Does he have to be on TV every day?" Seems he's on vacation more than on tv ! Heard on the radio today he's getting ready for another one. |
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Maybe he is out front too much, however, don't get annoyed because he is having a press conference post election, you look, in the words of a RI pol talking to Caprio (after 'Shove-it') like a petulant child :-P |
uhhh Bry.....hes going to be on 60 minutes this weekend too. Is that too much for ya? Maybe next week Oprah, Daily Show?
NOW do you see what I mean. Hes all about the MESSAGE. He needs to QUIT communicating. Obama bound for ’60 Minutes’ - On Media: Obama bound for ’60 Minutes’November 03, 2010 Categories:Barack Obama.Obama bound for ’60 Minutes’ President Obama’s next post-shellacking face-to-face with national television audiences will be this Sunday, when do does “60 Minutes,” Marc Ambinder reports. |
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Did Obama order more Drone strikes in his first 6 months in Office than had been ordered in the previous 6 years or something along those lines?
Didn't he also almost immediately start working towards adjusting the military focus from Bush's failed war in Iraq to where the real terrorist threats are in Afghanistan and Pakistan? |
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To be quite honest, I was riding with a US Marine to a business meeting this morning and we agreed Reid was a douche. He also likes Newt, although didn't put up much of an argument when I trash talked him as a brilliant slime ball. All that being said, I'd take Reid over Sharon Angle...she's a freak. Quote:
Second, Joe Biden wears nice suits and has great style. Third, water boarding IS torture by nearly any measure. If we employ torture or not isn't the issue, let's just be honest about it. Fourth, I think you meant Robert Byrd. Fifth, she's been a pretty good Sec State. Sixth, who really cares? -spence |
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All the stuff going on and THIS is what you get up in arms over. you can admit that your MASS frustration is spilling out and clouding the logic portion of your brain. |
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Whether or not we should have been there (we shouldn't have but as Powell said, once you break the china you own it), once we were in and once he realized - very late - that we could win or lose he put his chips on win, rather than doing what the politically easiest thing to do was. While everyone else was crying run and not winnable (Reid, Biden, Pelosi, Hillary, and pretty much the entire Dem party - sans Lieberman) he doubled down on Petraeus, our military, strategy, LUCK, and sticking it out. The surge worked, no doubt helped out by things that changed on the ground, but it worked. No timetable. Obama campaigned on making AFG the good and necessary fight but he stumbling over ways to get out. If different sources like Woodward's book is to be believed, the entire administration is a mess in its bickering approach to how to handle AFG other than that they want to get out ASAP and put a foolish timetable on it. Timetable. Quote:
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Personally I think many just weren't close enough to the situation on the ground to sense the opportunity as the General was. The results from the Surge appear to have been the result of timing, effort and luck. Had the situation changed slightly (i.e. Sunni resistance) I'd think it could have easily failed. I'm thankful that we had all three. Quote:
What the article seems to show is that after all the drama, Obama chose to do what the military was advocating rather than what would appease the democratic (and younger voters) base. The "timetable" issue is a red herring though. One one hand it gives the edge to the enemy and on the other it motivates local forces to take up the slack. I call it a wash... -spence |
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REVISIONIST HISTORY CONFERENCES Education Professor Exposes Federally Funded ‘Revisionist’ History Conference Posted on November 1, 2010 at 4:28pm by Meredith Jessup Pearl Harbor, 1941 In July, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored a workshop on “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII” for college professors in Hawaii. Professor Penelope Blake, a veteran professor of Humanities at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., was one of 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, but was reportedly disheartened to find the conference “driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda.” Professor Blake is now reportedly calling on Congress to implement better oversight over the NEH. In a letter addressed directly to her Illinois congressman, Rep. Don Manzullo, Blake documents conference details and asks him to vote against NEH funding for future events. According to PowerLine, copies of the letter have also been delivered to members of the NEH council and NEH chair Jim Leach. Full letter follows (emphases hers): Dear Congressman Manzullo: As one of twenty-five American scholars chosen to participate in the recent National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshop, “History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII,” at the University of Hawaii, East-West Center, I am writing to ask you to vote against approval of 2011 funding for future workshops until the NEH can account for the violation of its stated objective to foster “a mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and groups” (NEH Budget Request, 2011). In my thirty years as a professor in upper education, I have never witnessed nor participated in a more extremist, agenda-driven, revisionist conference, |
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Going into Iraq was stupidly wrong. It was planned wrong, it was managed wrong. Easy to see in hindsight. Like 85% of the rest I believed in the WMD too. But that ship had sailed and all of those options sailed with it over the horizon. Quote:
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