Obama

By Robert Kuttner over at Huffington Post

On Friday, the government moved to seize and temporarily shutter one of the truly heroic banking institutions of this dismal era for American finance -- ShoreBank of Chicago. More precisely, ShoreBank of Barack Obama's old neighborhood.

Over the years, since its founding in 1973, ShoreBank had enabled thousands of moderate income residents to become homeowners, and thousands of small businesses to get credit, without ever playing the subprime game or making a single predatory loan. It was a model bank that earned a modest profit by delivering on a social mission.

In the end, ShoreBank succumbed to the aftermath of a financial crisis made on Wall Street. Yet while the Treasury Department found hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue giant Wall Street institutions, it refused to come up with the $75 million for which ShoreBank qualified under the TARP program.

Yes sirree!  He must be getting into full campaign mode now.  Not that he ever stopped.

From Huffpo

NEW YORK — ABC's "The View" has welcomed many notable guests, but none more prominent than President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to visit for Thursday's edition.

In making the announcement on Monday, executive producers Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie said this marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited a daytime talk show.

They said the majority of the hour will be devoted to Obama's appearance, which will touch on topics including jobs, the economy, the Gulf oil spill and family life inside the White House. It is scheduled to tape on Wednesday.

"We are so pleased and honored," Walters said.

A pivotal spot in political history.

Don't we all feel dumb now?  Every talking head saying how every other talking head jumped the gun without doing the journalist's job of checking the facts.  The White House doing the worst in this mess by reacting to a clip on a blog post because it might have an effect on the evening Presidential ratings.

And not just talking heads.  Even this blog has a post showing the original short clip that Andrew Breitbart used to target the NAACP.  

This is the time for us all to have the conversation.  Not about race or immigration, rich or middle class, tax cuts or jobs programs, abortion or adoption.

No

This is the time for us to have a thoughtful conversation about how we as a nation wish to converse about our future as a nation.

Do we wish to continue the one minute news cycle that demands instantaneous responses thus feeding the one minute news cycle?  It has become a monster that feeds on itself.  It especially loves to feed on instant polls and un-verified writings by unknown self appointed journalists.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-16/obama-ban-on-a...

Women’s organizations are crying foul at an Obama administration ban on abortion coverage in a new insurance program.

from the Daily beast Dana Goldstein

As President Barack Obama heads off to vacation in Maine, yet another interest group is furious with his administration. Feminist organizations say Obama has stepped beyond the letter and spirit of the new health-care reform law by banning abortion coverage in a new insurance program for people with pre-existing conditions.

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I'm just a dumb guy but I'm taken with Sarah Palin's Mama Grizzlies effort to empower women. Something has gone horribly wrong with our government and something needs to be done about it. The leftists (progressives, communists, socialists, Marxists, statists, collectivists) should never have been allowed to take over the DNC and BHO should never have won the nomination. Had the DNC rules and bylaws not been changed in 2007, HIllary Clinton would have won the nomination. Without the corruption and voter intimidation in the caucuses, Obama would never have won. Had Hillary won the nomination, she would be president now and the country would probably be on the right track. Obama is president, we're on the wrong track, and we're screwed. Even though Hillary is a self-professed progressive, we'd be doing far better than we are now.

just now which urged watching the station at 9AM for revelations that BO stole election from HC.  I was too late to get the whole story - just passing on what I heard.  Couldn't find anything on google  or Drudge which usually are prompt with this kind of stuff.

Once in a while, something happens that makes people, governments, and media outlets show their true colors. This year, on Memorial Day, a group of 6 ships led by communists and terrorists tried to run Israel's arms blockade of Gaza. Because of all the rockets and mortar shells that have rained down on innocent Israelis since 2005, Israel will not allow any country or entity to ship goods directly to Gaza. All food and other aid is transferred to Gaza after being inspected first by Israel to eliminate an avenue of contraband. Ayers, Dohrn helped organize flotilla group | Washington Examiner. » Media Matters Covers Up Obama Ties to Hamas Ally Jodie Evans - Big Government

Obama said, "I was wrong".

Peter Baker of the New York Times put it this way.

President Obama uttered three words on Thursday that many of his 43 predecessors twisted themselves into knots trying with varying degrees of success to avoid: “I was wrong.”
 

He may be doing it for all the wrong political reasons but a President of the United States saying he was wrong is, in my view, a major milestone.  He's not just saying he was wrong in the response to the gusher but he was wrong in his thinking when proposing increased offshore oil drilling.

He was wrong, he said, to assume that oil companies were prepared for the worst as he tried to expand offshore drilling. His team did not move with “sufficient urgency” to reform regulation of the industry. In dealing with BP, his administration “should have pushed them sooner” to provide images of the leak, and “it took too long for us” to measure the size of the spill.

A California company called Sungevity is offering to put a comprehensive solar system on the White House for free. If President Obama is seriously committed to curbing emissions and preventing runaway climate change, there is simply no better way to show the world that commitment than to run his own house — the seat of the most powerful government in the world — on clean, green solar energy.

The company sent a letter to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama telling them that “we need a bold statement from the First Family saying that clean energy works, saves money, creates jobs, and is something ‘I want for my home.’”

nh -- Most likely a good PR move for this company, but a brilliant one.  Why not put panels on the roof of the WH?

From Greenpeace

I came across a headline today:

'Celestial body' lands in Bat Yam

My perception:

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The European Union Times had a very strange and disturbing story posted over the weekend entitled “French Leader Sarkozy Slams Obama, Warns He Might Be Insane.”  If the story is true, it seems our MSM painted a false picture of Sarkozy and Obama hitting it off at the White House a couple of weeks ago. If the story is to be believed, our POTUS is making a lot of enemies.

The article begins with this:

Yes, I said it. 

Those who know me understand that I am very interested in the how of politics more than the what, or the outcome.  Of course, I am still a die hard liberal, socialist, atheist who dislikes the health care bill not for what it does but for how little it changes.  This post is not about health care but I want to reiterate that the republican planned giveaway to big business is not the Universal Health Care we've been fighting for. 

I am in disagreement on this with most of Partizane but in this post it is just the first example of what I'm liking about the New Mr. Obama.

I love that he stopped his year-long ass kissing of the GOP and finally with Health Care he took the ball down the court and stuffed it.  This little feat has rattled the GOP to their core so of course they are fighting back the only way they know how.  By crying. 

This gives NewHampster the giggles.

I love that he set them up with the summit where he got them to say no enough times on camera that the democratic ad men will have a field day this fall.  I've loved the entire end game when he has gone against everything I thought he'd do.  Maybe I was wrong about him, but I don't think so.  I think I was wrong about Nancy Pelosi.

You sleep better when you don't lie, and keeping quiet when you know the truth must have been hard for some of the Democrats that stuck to the party line. So, Al Sharpton's brush with the truth seems to have started something. Senator Sam Baucus (D-MT) has decided to come clean; the truth dribbles from his lips here and there.

Obama lied, and he is going to raise the taxes of people making less than $250,000. Baucus set the record straight for all the Obots that fell for the song and dance:

Listen closely to the very end as our one and only Joe drops a bomb.

As I'm writing this, president Obama is arriving at the US Capitol building for a final pep talk to the Democratic caucus. He's a half hour late, evidently waited until most of the tea party crowd dispersed. News is coming fast and furious in these final hours before Sunday's healthcare vote. The deem & pass rule is dead. There will be a straight up or down vote on the Senate bill. It remains to be seen if that bill is passed before or after the "fix" bill. Negotiations are ongoing but it might be passed before the Senate bill. Is that even legal?

We still don't know what will end up in that fix bill. Only 2 hours of debate have been allocated. The Democratic leadership seems confident they will have enough votes to pass the Senate bill.

Today's tea party rally on the west lawn of the Capitol:

The video of the ceremony won't stream so above is Shadi Sadr's Speech.

Secretary Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the annual International Women of Courage Awards at the Department of State, which was broadcasted live this afternoon.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/barack-obama-still-smoking-well-youd-be-to

Thank you once again Mediaite

by Drew Grant | 11:49 am, February 28th, 2010

The White House released the official report of Barack Obama’s medical exam this morning, giving the president his first clean bill of health since he went into office. So what did we learn from our look inside the body of our leader today?

• He might be a cyborg. Who has 20/20 vision at age 48?

• He has no past surgical history. None. Whatsoever. Again, cyborg.

• His efforts to quit smoking continue with “a self-use” “nicotine replacement therapy.” Our cultural discouragement on smokers might actually hurt Obama’s ratings more than the fact that he may be a terminator from the future with no history of eyesight problems or any surgery.

I've only listened a little today but I have to say this takes stones.  He may be a crook and he may have sneaky political objectives, but I have to give President Obama props for doing this today.

Never have I seen a President sit around a table for 6 hours with a group of congress critters discussing an issue in public view.  That in and of itself is awesome.

Today, The President put forward his own Health Care plan.  First time the White House has actually written a plan.

I haven't had time to look it over but I do know one thing is missing.  The one piece my spousal bot assured me would be included.  No public option.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33275.html

President Barack Obama released a $950 billion health care reform proposal Monday aimed at pleasing the warring wings of his own party and bringing along skeptical voters, in part by including a provision to put off an unpopular tax on high-cost health insurance plans until 2018.

One notable absence in Obama’s plan – a public health insurance option, a favorite of liberals, but a provision that became the most controversial part of the congressional debate on reform. Obama has long said he would sign a bill without it, and his own legislation confirms that.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33275.html#ixzz0gI9WDKid

President Obama has announced the return of Nuclear power with a government guarantee to the builders of the projects.

President Obama has announced more than $8bn of federal loan guarantees to help build the first new nuclear power stations in the US for 30 years.

Two new plants are to be constructed in the state of Georgia by US electricity firm Southern Company.

President Obama said the plants would be "safe and clean" and were needed to meet the country's future energy needs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8518670.stm

I for one am in favor of this.  I protested against our Seabrook plant but I have to believe that technology has advanced since the old plants were designed 50 years ago.  I know.  Trust is such a hard thing and here is Obama helping to put more money in the hands of big industry.

How about some more billions for Solar research.

So many things going on right now and so many things about to happen. First, let's go back to a 1943 Disney cartoon called Chicken Little.

That was a little parable about the threat of Communism, a threat we still face today. Sure, there's no more Soviet Union and no more Mao. China has adopted a sort of state-sponsored capitalism. The threat isn't from without, it's from within. The DNC was taken over by leftists* in 2007 and the first thing they did was change the rules that governed them. They changed them again at the RBC meeting on May 31, 2008, thus ensuring that Obama would win the Democratic primary. The sky fell and we ended up with president Obama.

Chris "I forgot he was black, for an hour" Matthews wins the Tweety for his State of the Union speech analysis.  The editorial board of Partizane feels that beyond the pure stupidity of his racist remark we want to keep this episode before the eyes of the world.  Obviously, the other media players are giving him a by because, we don't know why but we know he's getting a pass.  We doubt Comcast will be as lenient a task master as GE and cannot wait for the change of ownership for this dog we also know as Tingles.

According to Mediaite, he is Obama's #1 Fan.

http://www.mediaite.com/print/charles-krauthammer-1-obama-fan/

Be here to live chat the speech or Idol, whichever circus you'd rather watch.  As usual, the instructions will be posted sometime around 8:30 ish.