Quote :

"Americans have become increasingly less positive about Obama's handling of the economy in recent months, and are most negative when asked to say whether they approve of his handling of the federal deficit and federal spending."

http://www.gallup.com/poll/120770/obama-rated-highest-as-person-lowest-deficit-spending.aspx

7/10/2009 2:01:34 AM

This is worth some serious street-cred.

7/10/2009 2:30:04 AM

^^comes with the territory. he's going to get panned on that until the economy recovers.

7/10/2009 2:33:07 AM

^^
It's Good to be The Messiah.

7/10/2009 10:27:58 AM

7/10/2009 10:30:25 AM

7/10/2009 10:31:25 AM

WELL WELL WELL

MAYBE HE'S NOT THE PIMP WE HOPED HE WAS

[Edited on July 10, 2009 at 10:48 AM. Reason : ]

7/10/2009 10:46:42 AM

Even if he was checking out the young lady, I fail to see why this is such a controversy. A heterosexual male trying to catch a glimpse on the sly of a beautiful female? Oh noes, what is the world coming to?! Its funny at best, but I hardly think this is going to change the world.

7/10/2009 11:03:11 AM

personally i don't really care that much, especially considering one look at the video pretty much kills all the hype around the pic. the reason it got so much attention is that it looks bad at first glance. not everybody has the same moral standards, but some believe that when you're married with kids, it's about time to stop eyeballing other women. the whole issue might as well go back into the corner from which it came.

obama's policies on the other hand... that's a more shameful thing to talk about.

7/10/2009 9:28:17 PM

^^ FYI, no one is actually upset about this. "They" are faking moral outrage in hopes that something sticks. I'm not convinced that the "easily-offended, uptight bitch soccer mom" demographic actually exists in significant enough force to justify people bowing readily to their perceived whims.

7/10/2009 10:14:36 PM

^^^ if you watch the video, it's not clear that Obama even noticed the girl in red. He was turning around to give the woman behind him a hand and the picture caught him as his head happened to be at that angle, but from the video it's obvious there was no double-take or lingering or any kind of effort made to even look at the red girl specifically.

7/10/2009 11:53:50 PM

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to hate obama, I could care less if he looks at some 16 year old girls ass.

7/11/2009 12:29:49 AM

Sarkozy is the fucking man

7/11/2009 12:36:49 AM

Obama is trying to shackle us with a $7.1 trillion deficit, as well as putting gov't burearcrats in charge of our health-care system.

And all the press wants to do is make us think he is ogling some teenager.

7/11/2009 9:59:14 AM

about that reset button . . .

Obama Snubbed By Russian Diplomats



That is actually ridiculous and I take a bit of offense that Russian diplomats would so blatantly refuse to shake the hand of the President of the United States, whoever he is. I think it speaks less about him specifically however, and more about how we are viewed as a whole. Needless to say, it isn't good.

7/12/2009 10:52:26 PM

the comment on that video says that it's obama introducing americans which makes a lot more sense.

7/12/2009 11:12:16 PM

Yeah, you're probably right. At first, his leaning back looked like he was pissed.


Duped again I need to go to bed.

7/12/2009 11:24:50 PM

Quote :

"Obama Rewrites the Cold War The President has a duty to stand up to the lies of our enemies. By LIZ CHENEY There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow last week. Speaking to a group of students, our president explained it this way: "The American and Soviet armies were still massed in Europe, trained and ready to fight. The ideological trenches of the last century were roughly in place. Competition in everything from astrophysics to athletics was treated as a zero-sum game. If one person won, then the other person had to lose. And then within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be. Make no mistake: This change did not come from any one nation. The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful." The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind. The basis of the Cold War was not "competition in astrophysics and athletics." It was a global battle between tyranny and freedom. The Soviet "sphere of influence" was delineated by walls and barbed wire and tanks and secret police to prevent people from escaping. America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War. The Soviets were not. The Cold War ended not because the Soviets decided it should but because they were no match for the forces of freedom and the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism. It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended. One wonders whether this was just an attempt to push "reset" -- or maybe to curry favor. Perhaps, most concerning of all, Mr. Obama believes what he said. Mr. Obama's method for pushing reset around the world is becoming clearer with each foreign trip. He proclaims moral equivalence between the U.S. and our adversaries, he readily accepts a false historical narrative, and he refuses to stand up against anti-American lies. The approach was evident in his speech in Moscow and in his speech in Cairo last month. In Cairo, he asserted there was some sort of equivalence between American support for the 1953 coup in Iran and the evil that the Iranian mullahs have done in the world since 1979. On an earlier trip to Mexico City, the president listened to an extended anti-American screed by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and then let the lies stand by responding only with, "I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for the things that occurred when I was 3 months old." Asked at a NATO meeting in France in April whether he believed in American exceptionalism, the president said, "I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." In other words, not so much. The Obama administration does seem to believe in another kind of exceptionalism -- Obama exceptionalism. "We have the best brand on Earth: the Obama brand," one Obama handler has said. What they don't seem to realize is that once you're president, your brand is America, and the American people expect you to defend us against lies, not embrace or ignore them. We also expect you to know your history. Mr. Obama has become fond of saying, as he did in Russia again last week, that American nuclear disarmament will encourage the North Koreans and the Iranians to give up their nuclear ambitions. Does he really believe that the North Koreans and the Iranians are simply waiting for America to cut funds for missile defense and reduce our strategic nuclear stockpile before they halt their weapons programs? The White House ought to take a lesson from President Harry Truman. In April, 1950, Truman signed National Security Council report 68 (NSC-68). One of the foundational documents of America's Cold War strategy, NSC-68 explains the danger of disarming America in the hope of appeasing our enemies. "No people in history," it reads, "have preserved their freedom who thought that by not being strong enough to protect themselves they might prove inoffensive to their enemies." Perhaps Mr. Obama thinks he is making America inoffensive to our enemies. In reality, he is emboldening them and weakening us. America can be disarmed literally -- by cutting our weapons systems and our defensive capabilities -- as Mr. Obama has agreed to do. We can also be disarmed morally by a president who spreads false narratives about our history or who accepts, even if by his silence, our enemies' lies about us. Ms. Cheney served as deputy assistant secretary of state and principal deputy assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs from 2002-2004 and 2005-2006. "

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124744075427029805.html

7/14/2009 2:50:27 PM

So how exactly did Obama embrace lies against America? and what was the complete truth that he should have told, regarding how the Cold War ended?

7/14/2009 3:02:26 PM

It's pretty silly to think that the US and only the US ended the Cold War.

But the wing nuts are latching on to this en masse, it seems, in light of Hannity's editing in the Fox News thread.

7/14/2009 3:05:12 PM

Articles like this are truly inspiring. They inspire me to devour human flesh.

7/14/2009 3:21:48 PM

7/14/2009 3:24:43 PM

^^^^ Hannity is disingenuously splicing the Obama interview, and the idiots on the right that watch Fox News seem to be eating it up: http://mediamatters.org/research/200907080007

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=540676&page=11#13066230
There's a better video posted there

[Edited on July 14, 2009 at 4:31 PM. Reason : ]

7/14/2009 4:25:39 PM

^ Maybe so, but what's really idiotic is this. . .

$18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov Web Site

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html

. . .and this. . .

Rattner Quits Car Czar Post as Probe Intensifies
He Oversaw Bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler

Quote :

"In announcing Rattner's resignation on Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the investor would be returning to private life and his family in New York. A source close to Rattner said he does not plan to rejoin his former firm, Quadrangle. Rattner, a former journalist, made his name as a media banker and co-founder of media-focused private equity fund Quadrangle, and surprised Wall Street when he took the autos role in the government in February. Quadrangle and Rattner have in recent months been linked to a corruption probe by New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, into the pensions industry. A source familiar with the matter said that Cuomo's investigation of Rattner has 'intensified' in recent weeks."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8076004

Rattner's been on the job for only about five months. . .QUITTER!!!1

7/14/2009 4:41:29 PM

^ huh? Would you rather corrupt figures stay in politics? How is it idiotic that he's leaving?

And $20 million dollars spent through 2014 on a website to increase transparency in government is not bad, especially when it could potentially be accessed by millions of people. Do you know of a cheaper way to run a server farm securely hosting high traffic content?

[Edited on July 14, 2009 at 4:52 PM. Reason : ]

7/14/2009 4:49:12 PM

^ How idiotic is it that we now have dozens of these unvetted "czars" in the Obama administration? This is the purpose of vetting, so that these type fiascos can better be avoided.

Five months? Really?! Did the taxpayers get their money's worth? We may never know.

In any event, which of Obama's czars is next?

And maybe we should spend the $18 million educating VP Joe Doofus on what the "number" of the Web site is:

http://tinyurl.com/lqo2ck

http://tinyurl.com/nf75rs

Damn, this is a hard one. . .

http://www.recovery.gov/

[Edited on July 14, 2009 at 5:03 PM. Reason : .]

7/14/2009 4:56:24 PM

Ooohhhh... you don't have anything to say, you're just ranting. I see.

Carry on then.

7/14/2009 5:01:17 PM

are you sure the car czar isn't just getting out because his main task (getting the car companies out of bankruptcy) is over? i honestly don't know enough about what he had planned to do from the beginning.

7/14/2009 5:08:00 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/14/obama.community.colleges/

Quote :

"Obama: Community colleges can help boost ailing economy ... To underscore that contention Tuesday, the president unveiled the American Graduation Initiative, a 10-year, $12 billion plan to invest in community colleges. ... "

Isn't this along the same lines as one of McCain's ideas?

If Obama is just John McCain without Palin, doesn't that mean that we all win?

7/14/2009 6:18:52 PM

^^but someone is taking his place. No automaker czar is needed. rather the fed gov't should mind their own f*cking business and leave the industry alone (in regards to regulation and bailout funds).

^I didn't like either one of them

7/14/2009 7:07:56 PM

RON PAUL 2012

7/14/2009 7:11:36 PM

^^^^ Um. . .if you'd just read the quotation I posted:

Quote :

"Quadrangle and Rattner have in recent months been linked to a corruption probe by New York's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, into the pensions industry. A source familiar with the matter said that Cuomo's investigation of Rattner has 'intensified' in recent weeks."

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=8076004

Here's another:

AP source: NY AG seeking settlement with Rattner - 24 minutes ago

Quote :

"NEW YORK (AP) — A person familiar with a New York investigation into the state's public pension fund says officials are pressing for a settlement that would allow ex-White House auto czar Steven Rattner to avoid civil charges. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) is investigating the payment of millions of dollars in kickbacks from investment firms trying to raise money from the fund. Rattner's former private equity firm, the Quadrangle Group, paid more than $1 million to one of the people indicted."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icDaQXmEChjQ7ijAJynvGHkH33fAD99EH1U80

^^^ I salute Obama for recognizing the crucial role of community college systems in our country. Now if we could just stop funding the illegal aliens in these systems. . . .

7/14/2009 7:41:14 PM

That issue of funding is an issue for the states since they set the entrance requirements.

7/14/2009 7:44:51 PM

^ I didn't indicate otherwise--nice attempt at misdirection. But some continually push for federal financial aid for illegal aliens, though.

College Board wants more help for illegal immigrants

Quote :

"Under House and Senate bills known as the Dream Act, illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children — defined as age 15 and under — and have lived here for five years could apply to the Homeland Security Department for conditional legal status after graduating from high school. Such legal status would make the immigrants eligible for in-state college tuition rates and some forms of federal financial aid. Then, if they attend college or participate in military service for at least two years, the immigrants would qualify for permanent legal residency and ultimately citizenship."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-21-college-board-immigrants_N.htm

7/14/2009 8:21:57 PM

Are you talking about illegal aliens or people who have their immigration status changed?

7/14/2009 8:34:29 PM

^ Actually, the comment at issue was merely an aside. I was attempting to give Obama some credit for recognizing the importance of community college systems until you decided to troll the shit out me.

GG.

7/14/2009 8:36:35 PM

at least the mofo can throw a ball better than John Kerry

7/14/2009 8:40:39 PM

Quote :

"I was attempting to give Obama some credit for recognizing the importance of community college systems until you decided to troll the shit out me."

Someone calling you on your troll bait isn't trolling.

7/14/2009 8:53:30 PM

I take it back. he bounced it 3 or 4 feet in front the plate. jeez, man, blacks are supposed to be good athletes

oh, and he said no bailouts for the NL. Cause we don't have any more money. oh shit, might he be turning around?

7/14/2009 9:20:34 PM

Quote :

"at least the mofo can throw a ball better than John Kerry"

True enough, but he's no George Bush on the mound.


It was cool seeing him in the booth with the announcers for a bit. I was out at a bar, so I have no idea what they chatted about. But it was cool nonetheless.

7/15/2009 8:35:05 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE56G06K20090717?feedType=RSS
Obama has tough-love message for African-Americans

Quote :

""Our kids can't all aspire to be the next LeBron or Lil Wayne. I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers. I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States," he said. Obama noted that his own life could have taken a different path, had it not been for his mother's urgings. 'SHE TOOK NO LIP' "That mother of mine gave me love; she pushed me, and cared about my education," he said. "She took no lip and taught me right from wrong. Because of her, I had a chance to make the most of my abilities. I had the chance to make the most of my opportunities. I had the chance to make the most of life.""

uh oh, we all know what happened when cosby said the same thing

7/17/2009 4:24:14 PM

What did Cosby say?

7/17/2009 4:29:11 PM

Obama's campaign rhetoric:

1) "no one will pay higher tax rates than they paid in the 1990s."
2) "The danger in a cap-and-trade system is that the permits to emit greenhouse gases are given away for free as opposed to priced at auction. One of the mistakes the Europeans made in setting up a cap-and-trade system was to give too many of those permits away."

If he were true to his word, he would come out against the surtax in the House's health-care bill and the auction giveaways in the cap-and-trade bill.

[Edited on July 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM. Reason : .]

7/18/2009 10:01:25 AM

He would also stop the wiretaps and end the state's secrets bullshit that he complained about. Oh, and he would end DADT. He doesn't even need Congress in order to do those things. And whatever happened to giving Congress at least a week to read a bill before they voted on it? He sure hasn't pressed Pelosi to do that. Didn't happen with the porkulus, didn't happen with Crap-and-Trade.

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!!

7/18/2009 4:03:13 PM

Change has to come from the populus... and the tv watching, Internet surfing, gun toting, tree hugging, dogmatic religious, wal-mart fucking, clear-channel listening, car driving, pet store owning, book-reading, can't believe it's not butter mother fuckers in this country aren't going to do an amount of fucking shit.

Not a God damn thing.

Just sit in your chair and cry anonomously from a computer.

So shut the fuck up and post a stupid YouTube of a monkey licking it's balls.

Cause it's a much more researched than anything I have to hear about anything on here.

You worthless chumps.

7/18/2009 4:27:40 PM

Hey marko...

What're you gonna do? Post a witty comment? Draw a shitty cartoon?

7/18/2009 4:50:03 PM

Fuck off asshole... I think it's time for fuckers to "start taking resonsiblility for themselves."

So the first thing I'm gonna do is put the blame on someone else and excuse me of any wrongdoing ever.

7/18/2009 4:52:54 PM

What the hell is THAT supposed to mean?

How's that HOPE and CHANGE working out for ya?

7/18/2009 4:55:39 PM

OH I GET IT you fucking facist

Bootstraps worked just fine for hundreds of years, but NOW a man can't do anything for himself... Weak ass marks.. For centuries talkin bout how "those people" hold THEMSELVES down, but now all of sudden someone can't even tie their own shoes because "the government" prevents them from doing so.

7/18/2009 5:02:57 PM

WHAT?

Now that's just retarded.

You know damn well corporate America and the Illuminati would never allow Obama to turn this country into a Socialist nation.

Nike itself would never want to just compete against itself... They'd end up having to force the Martians to make shoes at even lower wages to sell to the Milaysians!

7/18/2009 5:07:30 PM