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So many hypocrisies, so little time. Determined to tame my Inbox, I've rounded up a few headlines/teasers from this week - thanks to many contributors, including Tripp, Nella, and A Mug and a Cup o' Joe. You can pick and choose - just click on the title to get to the full article:
Everyman Obama courts socialites
Stephanie Green for the Washington Times 3/13/09
While publicly identifying with the nation's have-nots, the Obama administration has been cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration invited top editors of three of Washington's local luxury lifestyle magazines -- Capitol File, DC magazine and Washington Life -- to a meeting where they discussed, among other things, how President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama can embrace Washington's glittery social scene.
Obama cancels dire emergency He Himself warned of and claims he is victim
(think The Boy Who Cried Wolf and pray people get wise to this manipulation soon)
Pro-Life Groups Left Off Obama's Health Care Summit List, Abortion Advocates OK |
Deception at Core of Obama Plans
By Charles KrauthammerWASHINGTON -- Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the "$2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 -- 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely.
Jim McGeraghty
Perhaps it's just some Obama ally speaking out of school. But these are probably some of the most terrifying words to come from an unidentified source in some time:
Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been "overwhelmed" by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest. . . . .
The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda."That was the gamble these guys made at the front end of this presidency and I think they're finding it a hard thing to do everything."
It's at moments like this I'm reminded of this assessment of Obama, back in 2007: "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
That assessment came from . . . Vice President Joe Biden.
Obamas's Poll Numbers are Falling to Earth
MARCH 13, 2009
Douglas Schoen and Scott RasmussenIt is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.
The lame anti-Rush billboard -- and a response
The Democratic Party has to do something to distract people from the parade of flopped nominations in the Barack Obama administration, the botched diplomacy of Hillary Clinton, the Wall Street meltdown, and the insane spending spree of the Democratic-controlled Congress. Rather than have people actually pay attention to what Democrats do, the party has decided to hold an anti-Rush Limbaugh contest -- to gin up a slogan for a billboard near the Excellence in Broadcasting studios in Florida. My friend Tommy Christopher reports that they've picked a winner:The winning slogan, submitted by William C. of Camden, New Jersey, will let Rush -- and the Republicans who've decided to follow his lead - know that Americans aren't hoping for failure. They voted for a new direction in November, and they're ready to leave behind the failed partisan attack politics of the past.
Um, say, like holding slogan contests to belittle conservatives? I know that consistency isn't a strong point with Democrats, but didn't anyone read this for comprehension before sending it out?
Apparently they were too busy picking a slogan. And here it is, the message that they believe will send Rush Limbaugh screaming into oblivion:
[click title for witty chatter - but if you don't have time, here's the response:
Update III: HA reader Paul C, known as Loudtalker at RFC Radio, sends a better photoshop of the same idea:
Senate Confirms Porn Lawyer as Deputy Attorney General
Ogden 'has a poor record of protecting children from the exploitations of child pornography and obscenity.'
The Senate confirmed David Ogden as deputy attorney general today by a 65-28 vote.
Ogden opposes restrictions on abortion and pornography, and has represented Playboy and Penthouse in court. He previously filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of child pornographer Stephen Knox, who possessed sexually explicit videos of children. Ogden argued that, because the children's genitalia were partially covered by clothing, such exploitation is protected by the First Amendment.
Obama critics should be wary of coming reprisals
By Mark Hyman, OpEd Contributor
- | 3/10/09 4:45 PM
Commercial fishing is the most dangerous job in America. The fatality rate is nearly 30% higher than the next most dangerous profession. Perhaps the most risky vocation - in a non-lethal way - is to be a critic of President Barack Obama.
Nearly 40 years ago, Vice President Spiro Agnew caused an outcry when he called the media "nattering nabobs of negativity." Today, Obama and senior staff are attacking radio and TV hosts who criticize Obama. The precedent of a president singling-out media personalities has led to mischief by committed Obamunists.
Apparent Botched Abortion at George Tiller's Center Comes Days Before Trialby Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 12, 2009
Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- An apparent botched abortion has occurred at the late-term abortion business of George Tiller in Kansas just four days before jury selection begins in his trial for allegedly doing illegal late-term abortions. An ambulance transported a woman from Women's Health Care Services to a local hospital.
Eyewitnesses say Sedgwick County ambulance number 23 left Tiller's abortion center Thursday at mid-afternoon and transported a woman to Wesley Medical Center.
The ambulance had no lights or sirens running -- which is customary with many abortion facilities that don't want to draw attention to failed abortions.
Newsflash! Embryos Aren't Fertilized!
Newsflash! Embryos Aren't Fertilized! So it's ok to kill them. So said former President Bill Clinton five times in an interview last night. And what's worse is that the brain surgeon who was nominated by President Obama to be Surgeon General didn't even correct him.
Either CNN's Sanjay Gupta doesn't know what Clinton said is laughably wrong or he is so cravenly submissive to power that he failed to point out that of course embryos are fertilized, you dunce.
What do they think an embryo is, if not fertilized?
March 10, 2009During the 2008 presidential campaign, people speculated whether someone like Barack Obama, who has never really run anything or had any major achievements other than winning political office, could handle a three AM crisis call. Well, as it turns out, Obama has been such a bumbling incompetent that he probably couldn't handle a trip through a Wendy's drive-in window without a teleprompter telling him what to order and whether he wants a Coke or a Mountain Dew. Even though Obama has been in office less than two months, he has already made more boneheaded errors than most Presidents do in an entire term.
10) After doing the "We've got to have this stimulus package passed right this second or the economy is going to explode" routine so convincingly that not one single soul in Congress actually had time to read the entire bill before it was signed, Barack Obama then promptly went on a three day vacation to celebrate before he signed it. If the bill was so important that no one could even have time to read it before it was passed, then why wasn't it important enough for Obama to skip dinner at Table Fifty-Two in Chicago to immediately make it a law? [be sure to click on the title above to read the other 9]
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Mr. Clinton does not think that embryos are fertilized. Wow, well that does it! Im a believer in the old saying that anyone can become president if they try hard enough. We may want to start teaching sex ed 101 in our government classes. Maybe half america doesnt know what they are doing wrong when they support stem cell research if even a president doesnt know that for a egg to become an embryo fertilization has taken place.
Posted by: april | March 14, 2009 7:38 PM
Just saw the numbers for Republican leaders. Huge drop: low, low , low. Same sources that WSJ using for Obama ratings. Looks like no one is happy with politicians of either party these days, but Obama's ratings are still double the avg Republican leader polls.
An excellent chance for a true leader to step forward.
Posted by: Cath Young | March 16, 2009 7:24 PM
