Obama General Discussion... (Part 2)

[Irvine511]

spoiler! spoiler!

 

[2861U2]

Whoops, you're right. My fault. I fixed it.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

David Letterman appearance latest for Barack Obama media blitz
By Associated Press | Wednesday, September 16, 2009

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is visiting David Letterman on Monday, part of a media blitz to sell his health care plan.

CBS says it would make the first visit ever by a sitting president to Letterman’s "Late Show." Obama has appeared on Letterman’s show five times before, the last during the campaign in September 2008.

The president is scheduled to visit Sunday morning talk shows this weekend on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. That’s a highly unusual schedule, even for a president eager to get his message across throughout the media.

Obama will be the sole guest on Monday’s "Late Show."

 

[BEAL]

OH NOEZ!!!11!! LETTERMAN IS A SOCIALIST!!!!

Didn't Hitler make all the late night rounds to sell his ideas too??????

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Letterman transmits subliminal Communist messages

 

[diamond]

but there's no connection

Obama and Acorn Is there a case for a special prosecutor?.

By JAMES TARANTO

The Acorn scandal continues to mushroom. Yesterday BigGovernment.com published videos from a fourth Acorn office visit by freelance investigators James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. As Johnny Carson used to say, it's weird, wild stuff. The woman manning the Acorn office in San Bernardino, Calif., Tresa Kaelke, responds to the pair's requests for help setting up a child-prostitution ring by claiming to be an ex-prostitute herself. "Heidi Fleiss is my hero!" she exclaims.

When Giles claims her former pimp abused her, Kaelke tells of having been abused by an ex-husband--then confesses to his premeditated murder. San Bernardino's finest are looking into the claim: "Investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands, who are alive and well." Thus her claims "do not appear to be factual." Politico's Ben Smith interprets this as meaning that the confession was "a joke" and writes that according to Acorn, this "demonstrates that the employee there was playing along with the outlandish visitors, not actually indulging them."

Smith is writing rather sloppily here, since indulging and playing along are more or less the same thing. In any case, another Acornite gave a somewhat different, but highly entertaining, explanation to the San Bernardino Sun:

At ACORN's office Tuesday, office supervisor Christina Spach told reporters she was not authorized to comment and that an official spokesperson would comment later in the day.
"Just to be clear, ACORN in not in the prostitution business," Spach said.
Spach said she did not wish to be quoted, but did confirm that Kaelke is an ACORN employee. She would not permit reporters to speak to Kaelke and said ACORN employees do not typically make statements to the media, instead relying on their members to articulate the group's positions and activities.
In a subsequent telephone conversation on Tuesday, Spach said Kaelke pretended to cooperate with O'Keefe and Giles because she feared for her safety.
"She was in an office all by herself," Spach said. "She felt unsafe in their company."
Spach, who identified herself as Kaelke's supervisor, said Kaelke lied to the undercover bloggers because she was afraid and wanted to "come across as a strong individual."
"It was a defense mechanism," Spach said.
Think about it: When you feel threatened, isn't "Heidi Fleiss is my hero" the first thing you blurt out?

Government officials continue responding to the Acorn revelations. The New York Post reports that Andrew Cuomo, New York's state attorney general, "yesterday launched an investigation into pork-barrel grants given to ACORN by state lawmakers, as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn froze all city funding earmarked for the scandal-scared [sic] community-activism organization"--this in response to the third released set of videos, from Acorn's Brooklyn office.

The Wall Street Journal urges the U.S. Justice Department to undertake a criminal investigation of Acorn. This column echoes that call, although we wonder if the Obama administration is compromised here. The president, who as a candidate touted his background as a "community organizer," has extensive ties to Acorn. In February 2008, the Acorn Political Action Committee endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton, and Obama's campaign Web site, Organizing for America, boasted of the candidate's support for the group:

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, "I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."

And in August 2008, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that the Obama campaign paid more than $800,000 to an Acorn "offshoot" for "get out the vote" projects.

Obama worked for Acorn and Acorn worked for Obama. That doesn't mean the president is implicated in any wrongdoing, but it suggests at least that the worse things get for Acorn, the more embarrassing it is for him. If the Justice Department fails to prosecute, it invariably would raise suspicions of political favoritism. This column does not care for special prosecutors, but the case for appointing one would seem to be stronger here than usual.

 

[BVS]

Any "newsource" that uses a doctored photo is legit.

Another bigtime FAIL.

Guys Obama worked with ACORN, ACORN has now been caught doing bad things years later, Obama = communist!!!

Let me ask you again Diamond so that you can ignore a real question again:

Republican sex scandals? Should I tie all Republicans to them?

Should I blame George Bush for all the failures of the places he used to work? Oh wait, the difference is he actually "ran" those companies.

Where will the double standard end?

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Maybe the Rangers can blame Bush for their fall in the wild card standings


Why do they put that Obama smoking photo in your e-mail? To make him look even more sinister?

 

[diamond]

BVS-

You are a one trick pony.
His association with corrupt organizations, people and ministers, and lack of candor makes him suspect.
But you can continue to bury your head in the sand if you wish.
Republicans call out their own and hold them accountable, Democrats don't.
Btw, I added the picture of Obama.

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[Irvine511]

BVS-

You are a one trick pony.
His association with corrupt organizations, people and ministers makes him suspect.
But you can continue bury your head in the sand if you wish.
Republicans call out their own and hold them accountable, Democrats don't.
Btw, I added the picture of Obama.

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it's true.

ACORN is much, much worse than Enron.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Btw, I added the picture of Obama.

Why, to remind us all what he looks like?

Republicans call out their own?

 

[BVS]

BVS-

You are a one trick pony.

How many ACORN related posts of other people's articles or opinions have you made, now how many real questions regarding those posts have you made?

I see only one pony here, and it's not mine.

Republicans call out their own and hold them accountable, Democrats don't.

No, they just "accidentally" label them 'Democrats'.

Btw, I added the picture of Obama.

Talk about suspect...

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Reminder #2

 

[diamond]

flabby

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

flabby

Really? By your exacting standards, yes I guess. He looks good to me.

As hard as we try we can't all be diamond

 

[BVS]

Anybody remember the pic Diamond took of himself in the mirror?

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

It was eerily prescient of this

 

[diamond]

thats hot

 

[Diemen]

Republicans call out their own and hold them accountable, Democrats don't.

Hilarious!

 

[Dragonfave]

YouTube - VIDEO Of Obama Calling Kanye West A "Jackass"

 

[Diemen]

I like the way he says it, and how he immediately realizes what's gonna happen with what he just said. Awesome.

 

[BVS]

Anybody used to watch West Wing, reminds me of the episode when Bartlett pretended like he didn't know the camera was still rolling and made a comment about the opponents gun control stance.

 

[sdunn]

Anybody used to watch West Wing, reminds me of the episode when Bartlett pretended like he didn't know the camera was still rolling and made a comment about the opponents gun control stance.

One of my favorite shows ever!

 

[indra]

YouTube - VIDEO Of Obama Calling Kanye West A "Jackass"

Pretty much the response everyone else had too.

 

[maycocksean]

Amazing. Definitely the better of the two shows I've seen in my life. I think next time I'll do GA, seeing as I was the only person sitting near me who was singing along to Kingdom, and I'm pretty sure I recognized most of the songs before a lot of the people around me did. Would've liked to hear

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YBR or UTEOTW,

but

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Stuck In A Moment

was a nice addition, and as always,

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Bad

blew me away. Highlights were probably

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NLOTH, Ultraviolet, Bad, and COBL, in my opinion

.

Agreed. The one that blew you away blew me away too. I really wanted to hear them do it again on the second night.

So, as I mentioned a week or so back, there are at least a few things we agree on!

Now, back to business:

I don't see how, in good conscience you can continue to . . . .blah, blah etc etc standard left-leaning opposition to whatever view you are espousing etc etc . . .

 

[maycocksean]

off topic: Wish I could've met you, Sean. Sadly I missed Sunday night, but had an absolute blast Saturday night.

This.

Well, guys. . .I guess we're just going to have to go to another concert. . .

 

[Irvine511]

YouTube - VIDEO Of Obama Calling Kanye West A "Jackass"

oh. my. GOD.

can you believe his arrogance?

Obama saying "cut the president some slack" as if he deserves some kind of PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT or something?

guess that's because he's been getting THAT ever since he was BORN in KENYA.

 

[Se7en]

why is that comment interesting or newsworthy?

 

[indra]

why is that comment interesting or newsworthy?

I think it's just amusing.

 

[Irvine511]

this kind of sums up parts of America right now:

Tea Party Protesters Protest D.C. Metro Service

Brody Mullins reports on money and politics.

Protesters who attended Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington found a new reason to be upset: Apparently they are unhappy with the level of service provided by the subway system.

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

Seriously.

The Texas Republican on Wednesday released a letter he sent to Washington’s Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion.

“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote. “These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.”

A spokesman for Brady says that “there weren’t enough cars and there weren’t enough trains.” Brady tweeted as much from the Saturday march. “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro,” he wrote on Twitter.

Brady says in his letter to Metro that overcrowding forced an 80-year-old woman and elderly veterans in wheelchairs to pay for cabs. He concludes that it “appears that Metro added no additional capacity to its regular weekend schedule.”

i mean, really.

get the government OUT OF MY LIFE, except when i want to get somewhere.