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Michelle Obama wants you to send the President a birthday greeting. We’d like you to send one, too.

Please take Michelle Obama up on her request. Send a personal Happy Birthday message for President Obama.

barack-obama-birthday-cake — We're going to give the President exactly what he wants for his birthday - another pound of flesh

Imagine our surprise when we got this very personal email from the First Lady today:

Dear IHateTheMedia:

Every year, our family tries to come up with a fun way to wish Barack a happy birthday.

And this August 4th, when he turns 49, I have something new in mind.

This has been a big — and hectic — year for him. After signing the Affordable Care Act and Wall Street reform into law — and completing his first year as president — I think it’s safe to say we will remember it for a long time.

And I know full well how much he credits this movement, and the work of supporters like you, for the change that we’ve accomplished.

So I’m putting together a birthday card that I would like you to sign. Together with other Organizing for America supporters — and me, Malia, Sasha, and Bo — we’ll wish him a happy birthday and let him know that we’re ready to take on the year ahead alongside him.

Will you wish Barack a happy birthday with me?

This year also brought a lot of surprises — some good and some bad.

Supporters like you have helped him make the best of it — by contacting Congress to help push stalled legislation forward, by re-engaging supporters in the political process, by giving back with service projects across the country, and so much more.

And while we can’t know what the coming year will bring, all of us, working together, will continue pushing forward for change.

Will you help make this a memorable birthday for Barack and wish him a happy 49th?

http://my.barackobama.com/birthday

Thanks so much,

Michelle Obama

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

Please take Michelle up on her request. Go to the birthday website. Leave a personal message for President Obama.

Then copy and paste your birthday greeting into a comment here at IHateTheMedia.com. This should be good for a few laughs.

Top 25 things President Obama is teaching his daughters about money

Starry-eyed ABC reporter Elisabeth Leamy had a chance to interview President Obama and actually asked him, “What are you and the First Lady teaching your daughters about money.

Starry-eyed ABC reporter Elisabeth Leamy had a chance to interview President Obama and actually asked him, “What are you and the First Lady teaching your daughters about money?”

The President is terribly pressed for time what with all the TV interviews and magazine cover photo sessions and golf games and vacations and laser-like focus on the economy and equally laser-like focus on the gulf oil spill, so he didn’t have time to fully answer Leamy’s question. If he had, we’re pretty sure that these are the important life lessons he’s teaching Sasha and Malia:

1. The more ice cream you eat, the less chance there is for poor children to become obese.

2. There’s no shame in being on welfare. That’s how Daddy buys votes.

3. Ask your mother. She makes all the policy decisions.

4. When I was your age, I had to walk to the madrassa uphill. In both directions.
Continue reading “Top 25 things President Obama is teaching his daughters about money”

Obama secretly supported release of the Lockerbie bomber before he publicly opposed it

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

lockerbie bomber muammar ghaddafi — Muammar Ghaddafi greets the Lockerbie bomber after they were set up by matchmaker Barack Obama

Most. Transparent. Administration. In. History.

We ran a story at the time of the Lockerbie bomber’s release in which British officials basically said, “Obama and Clinton are lying sacks of…uhhhh…let’s just leave it at liars.”

We remember seeing an article at the time – but can’t find it now – in which a British official cryptically noted something to the effect that “They know what they said secretly.” We always wondered what that comment meant, but now its meaning has been revealed.

The Australian reports the administration’s disgraceful deception:

THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as “half-hearted” and a sign it would be accepted.

The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future “frank and open communications” with other governments.

Got that? Communications are to remain frank and open. Unless they prove embarrassing to Barack Obama, in which case they can be dishonest and secret.

Source: The Australian

How’s your Recovery Summer going? Only 23% of voters think we’re not in a recession

Just a few weeks ago, President Obama and Vice President Biden foolishly began touring the country and touting what they called “Recovery Summer.” Unfortunately, the economy has refused to cooperate. And the American people are calling it the Horse Hooey Summer.

summer of recovery — Hang ten, Moondoggie. It's Barack Obama's Recovery Summer!

Qunnipiac University has the depressing numbers:

The U.S. remains in a recession, 79 percent of voters tell the independent Quinnipiac University poll, compared to 74 percent who felt that way in May and 71 percent who said so in May of 2008, when the economy began its slide.

American voters say 52 – 44 percent the economy is not beginning to recover. Only 23 percent say the economy is getting better, while 31 percent say it is getting worse and 44 percent see no change. In May, 32 percent of voters thought the economy was getting better, while 24 percent said it was getting worse and 43 percent saw no change.

Summer of Recovery doesn’t seem to be working. And Summer of our Discontent makes a lousy slogan.

It’s a quandrey for the President. What’s a socialist to do?

Source: Quinnipiac

Anthropologist explains why 28% of voters still strongly approve of Obama

If you’re anything like us, you look at the polls and think to yourself, “How can 28% of the voters still think this guy’s doing a great job?”

we love obama — In the immortal words of philosopher Neil Sedaka, "Breaking up is hard to do."

If you’re anything like us, you look at the polls and think to yourself, “How can 28% of the voters still think this guy’s doing a great job?”

Well, here’s the answer. They’re hooked on something as addictive as drugs – love.

New research on the brain shows losing a lover can have the same effect on a person as trying to kick a substance addiction, says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.

She’s studied the brain for 35 years, and says that discovery is the most interesting one yet.

When people have been rejected from love, they pine for it, they whine for it, they live for it, and they die for it, Fisher said on The Early Show.”

“You can’t stop thinking about this person. You crave the person. You do inappropriate things. You distort reality. You lie in bed and cry,” said Fisher.”You drink too much, you drive too fast, you do very inappropriate things when you’ve been rejected in love,” said Fisher.

Sometimes you even feel a tingle going down your leg.

Source: CBS News

Republicans are running against Obama, Democrats are running from him

Roy Blunt, Republican candidate for Senator in Missouri, has officially produced the season’s first campaign commercial that links his opponent to Obama.

“Missourians have a clear choice in this election,” it says. “If they want a rubberstamp for the liberal policies of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama, they should support Robin Carnahan. But if they want someone who will fight for Missouri families and jobs, they ought to support Roy Blunt.”

And then there’s this little gem from the Austin Statesman:

As I reported last night on the Postcards blog, Democratic sources say President Barack Obama will be in Austin and Houston on Aug. 9 for a pair of fundraisers. And Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White doesn’t plan to be there.

Said White spokeswoman Katy Bacon, “That week is jam packed, and he’s not scheduled to be in Houston or Austin at all except for the night of the 12th. In August, Bill will be talking with Texans about the future of our state, laying out his plans for the same.”

The president’s approval numbers aren’t good in Texas, and Gov. Rick Perry has repeatedly sought to link Obama and White.

“Just too darn busy to appear with Obama. Other things to do. Schedule’s packed. The family’s in town. Oh, I thought he was coming in the following weekend. Schedule mix-up. The dog ate my homework.”

What a difference two years makes.

Source: Statesman.com

Top ten reasons Obama’s poll numbers are lower than Al Gore’s tongue at a strip club

obama poll numbers down — The trend is not your friend, Mr. President.

In case you haven’t heard, President Barack Obama’s poll numbers are down. Way down. For example, 54% of the country thinks he’s doing a lousy job on the economy.

This has left the leftist media scrambling. Why are the President’s numbers so low when they’ve done all the could to get him elected and prop him up?

Fortunately, speculation is one thing the mainstream media is good at. Obama’s poll numbers are down because Americans are spoiled little brats. Or, because he hasn’t blamed Bush enough.

But there have to be other reasons. Which leads directly to our top ten reasons why Obama’s poll numbers are in the basement:

10. Hillary Clinton badmouths Obama at UN every chance she gets.
9. Hollywood celebs refuse to take pollsters’ calls.
8. Bush, Trilateral Commission, and Skull & Bones continue to rig votes at Gallop.
7. One word: white people are Racist with a capital R.
6. Obama’s hypnotic stare now known as just the way he looks when he reads the teleprompter.
5. Did we mention, “RACISM.”
4. Recovery Summer postponed due to oily beaches.
3. Lady Gaga’s failure to appear at White House office party has supporters miffed.
2. Years of poor public education resulted in miseducation. Wait a minute. Scratch that. Teachers unions are on Obama’s side.
1. Near monopoly of pro-Obama media is not total monopoly.

Written by Sven Waring at DotPenn.com

Joe Scarborough rants, “We’re screwed if this administration is afraid of a guy with a chalkboard.”

Joe Scarborough laughs that if the Obama administration is afraid of Glenn Beck, a mere cable TV show host, we are in big trouble.

Joe rants. Joe raves. Joe actually makes us laugh with him instead of at him. And that may be a first.

His point? If the Obama administration is afraid of Glenn Beck, a mere cable TV show host, we are in big trouble.

Unfortunately, Joe is correct on both counts.

Desmond Tutu: Barack Obama hates black people

Kanye West said George Bush hates black people. Desmond Tutu just said the same thing about Barack Obama. Or words to that effect.

desmond tutu aids africa obama — Bono just called and he wants his sunglasses back.

Kanye West said George Bush hates black people. Desmond Tutu just said the same thing about Barack Obama. Or words to that effect.

The New York Times quotes Tutu’s tirade:

HAVING met President Obama, I’m confident that he’s a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world’s poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend less than he promised to treat AIDS patients in Africa.

George W. Bush made an impressive commitment to the international fight against AIDS when he formed the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program. Since 2004, Pepfar has spent $19 billion to help distribute anti-viral treatments to about 2.5 million Africans infected with H.I.V.

Thanks to these efforts — and similar initiatives, like those spearheaded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — the number of African patients with access to AIDS drugs jumped tenfold from 2003 to 2008. Since 2004, the AIDS-related mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa has dropped 18 percent.

Yet President Obama added only $366 million to the program this year — well below the $1 billion per year he promised to add when he was on the campaign trail. (Pepfar’s total budget now stands at $7 billion.) Most of the countries in Pepfar will see no increase in aid.

Back off, Tutu. President Obama is spending all our money on shovel ready projects. He can’t be bothered with Africa’s shovel ready people.

Source: New York Times

You can’t make this stuff up: Obama names his cook the national Food Czar

In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obama’s personal Chicago cook as “Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.”

sam-kass-food-czar — Food Czar Sam Kass knows it pays to have friends in high places

This is one of the strangest stories yet out of the strangest White House yet.

Judicial Watch has the dietary details:

In a comical move even for a czar-happy president who has rewarded dozens of cronies with distinguished titles, the White House has named the Obama’s personal Chicago cook as “Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.”

It’s no joke, even though is sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chef’s rapid ascension, reported this week by a conservative Washington D.C. newspaper, has been kept under the radar for the last month. Sam Kass went from being a 20-something, Windy City gourmet cook—privately paid by the Obama’s to feed them—to big-time White House adviser in a matter of months.

In between, Michelle Obama made Kass a “Food Initiative Coordinator” for her new healthy nutrition program which is supposed to eliminate childhood obesity within a generation, especially in the nation’s inner cities. The First Lady claims that childhood obesity is a threat to national security and a crisis equivalent to AIDS and youth violence.

Because it’s such a dire situation, she has convinced her husband’s administration to spend $400 million a year to bring “healthy foods” to low-income neighborhoods and $10 billion to revise a decades-old federal measure that already feeds tens of millions of poor children at school for free.

This culinary revolution no doubt requires a trusted senior policy adviser—like Kass—who is an expert in healthy cuisine. The First Lady refers to her cook as a “partner in crime” and says it’s “just pretty powerful” to see what started out as talk in her South Side Chicago kitchen turn into a major initiative that “hopefully will change the way we think as a country.”

What’s next? Court jester? Oh, wait. We already have Joe Biden.

H/T: JudicialWatch.org

King of the Road: British shocked at size of Obama’s entourage

Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president’s own food and water. 

obama entourage london G20

Here’s a story that seems to have slipped by the rest of the American media. It comes from the G-20 meetings in London a few weeks ago:

Obama arrived with 500 staff in tow, including 200 Secret Service agents, a team of six doctors, the White House chef and kitchen staff with the president’s own food and water. 

And, according to the Evening Standard, he also came with “35 vehicles in all, four speech writers and 12 teleprompters.” For sure, our president is not going to be at a loss for words. 

The press duly reported on Air Force One and all its bells and whistles but also on the presence of the presidential helicopter, Marine One, and a fleet of identical decoys to ferry him from Stansted airport to central London. 

The article concluded with this note:

The president is entitled to all the security, communications and support he feels necessary to do his job but surely, when we’re trying to project a more restrained, humble image to the world, the president’s huge retinue could be scaled back to something less than the triumphal march from “Aida.”

Hey, Scripps, just exactly what are you trying to pull with that Aida reference? Aida is a Verdi opera that takes place in Egypt, which is in Africa. Was that some kind of birther comment?

Source: Scripps News

Obama then: “I absolutely reject the notion that the individual mandate is a tax.” Obama now: “I was lying.”

Obama insisted to George Stephanoplous back in May 2009 that the Obamacare individual mandate was not a tax. Now his administrations argues it is.

Remember this contentious interview President Obama did with George Stephanoplous back in May 2009? The President insisted that the individual mandate called for under ObamaCare was not a tax and Stephanopolous pulled out the dictionary definition of a tax.

Turns out Obama had his fingers crossed, because his administration has now gone to court to defend ObamaCare and the key to their defense is that the individual mandate is a tax.

The New York Times has the details of the deception:

Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.

Under the legislation signed by President Obama in March, most Americans will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” starting in 2014. Many people will be eligible for federal subsidies to help them pay premiums.

In a brief defending the law, the Justice Department says the requirement for people to carry insurance or pay the penalty is “a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes.

Congress can use its taxing power “even for purposes that would exceed its powers under other provisions” of the Constitution, the department said. For more than a century, it added, the Supreme Court has held that Congress can tax activities that it could not reach by using its power to regulate commerce.

Tax everyone! For everything! Tax ‘til the cows come home. Then tax the cows! And their milk! And the cartons it goes in! And then tax the trash you throw the cartons in! And then tax the tax!

Source: New York Times

Obama is Jimmy Carter: Carter’s National Security Advisor confirms it

The scene: Morning Joe on MSNBC. Guest Zbigniew Brzezinski describes the nation’s current state by using the same word that doomed Jimmy Carter’s administration: malaise.

Brzezinski: I think we’re now going through a phase in which there is a sense of pervasive malaise, which affects different groups in society in different ways. So people are dissatisfied; they’re slightly worried; they don’t see a good certain future for themselves or for the country, but in their own narrow sphere. There’s no grand mobilizing idea. And I have a sense that Obama, who started so well, and who really captivated people—he captivated me!—has not been able yet to generate some sort of organizing idea for an age which combines a malaise that’s pervasive and percolating, and complexity…

Buchanan: We need a new paradigm!

Brzezinski: And the President hasn’t articulated it.

Buchanan: No, he hasn’t.

Brzezinski: There goes any further invitation to the White House!

All is not lost, Zbig. White House invitations may be a thing of the past, but we’re betting you can still score an invitation to the Bristol Palin-Big Moron wedding.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Mary Matalin criticizes Obama for oil drilling moratorium. Oh, wait, that’s her husband.

James Carville, of all people, is fed up with the Obama administration. Sounding as if he’s channeling his inner Mary Matalin, Carville said, “The federal government let us down…they’re killing the economy here.

James Carville, of all people, is fed up with the Obama administration.

Sounding as if he’s channeling his inner Mary Matalin, Carville said, “The federal government let us down…they’re killing the economy here…the federal government is about to kill us with their levies and their regulatory taxes.”

So after spending what passes as the best years of his life getting the Democrat agenda shoved through, Mr. Carville is now seeing the whole picture from the “receiving end”.

One word of advice, James:

There are some petroleum-based products that might help with your current position. Oh, and welcome to the common citizenry.

Democrat Party turns into Donner Party, begins eating its own

There’s absolutely nothing more fun than watching Democrats turn on Democrats.

As NewsBusters.org so aptly put it:

Drudge has links up about the White House waving the white flag, having a “credibility crisis,” and hitting the panic button. This evening’s Ed Show gave another hot and salty taste of the Dem meltdown, as Ed ripped Harry Reid for calling Pres. Obama, in Schultz’s words, “a big wimp.” In a formal TV interview, Reid has accused PBO of being insufficiently “firm” and “forceful,” describing him as “a person who doesn’t like confrontation.”

Lib talker Bill Press also hit Harry, but at the same time effectively agreed with Reid’s critique, saying that Obama had been too nice to Republicans and that “nobody in this town is afraid of Pres. Obama.” Schultz, meanwhile, accused Reid of being a weak leader.

If he keeps this up, Ed Schultz may finally pick up a few viewers.

H/T: NewsBusters.org

“Yes we can” becomes “Yeah, yeah, we’ll get to it eventually”

According to the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of conservative viewpoints, the Obama administration is not doing well with it’s crazy freakin’ liberal base.

barack obama sad — Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

According to the Los Angeles Times, not exactly a bastion of conservative viewpoints, the Obama administration is not doing well with it’s crazy freakin’ liberal base.

The Times explains:

“When he ran for president, Barack Obama attacked the George W. Bush administration for putting political concerns ahead of science on such issues as climate change and public health. And during his first weeks in the White House, President Obama ordered his advisors to develop rules to “guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch.”

Many government scientists hailed the president’s pronouncement. But a year and a half later, no such rules have been issued. Now scientists charge that the Obama administration is not doing enough to reverse a culture that they contend allowed officials to interfere with their work and limit their ability to speak out.”

So basically, liberals are saying that despite all the “hopey changey” campaign rhetoric, the reality is that Obama is just as guilty of choosing politics over science as the Bush administration was ever accused of being. In fact, the article goes on to say:

“We are getting complaints from government scientists now at the same rate we were during the Bush administration,” said Jeffrey Ruch, an activist lawyer who heads an organization representing scientific whistle-blowers.

But interviews with several scientists – most of whom requested anonymity because they feared retaliation in their jobs – as well as reviews of e-mails provided by Ruch and others show a wide range of complaints during the Obama presidency.

What a bunch of cry babies these scientists are. Of course, the Greatest President in the History of the World will fulfill his promises just as soon as he:

Stops the leak in the Gulf
Gets Unemployment under 8%
Closes Gitmo
Saves the whales
Gets the broom stick of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gets the C-SPAN coverage of all his backroom meetings going
Shuts Blago up once and for all
Shuts Joe Sestak up once and for all (Where did he go, anyway?)
Shuts Andrew Romanoff up once and for all
Closes down the State of Arizona
Gets the New Black Panthers to puh-leeze stop talking to the media
Gets Eric Holder to puh-leeze stop talking to the media
Figures out a word that sounds better than Socialism

Then, scientists – after the great and powerful Obama squeezes in one last round of golf – he will no doubt focus his laser-like Presidential vision on your petty little problems.

Source: Los Angeles Times

A quick visual to explain why the Obama administration didn’t prosecute the New Black Panther Party

If you were baffled by the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, let us clear it up for you. Or to be more accurate, let the Party’s fan page from President Obama’s official campaign website clear it up for you.

black panther obama fan page

In case you counted yourself among those who were baffled by the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, let us clear it up for you. Or to be more accurate, let the Party’s fan page from President Obama’s official campaign website clear it up for you.

Make no mistake about it, the New Black Panther Party is part of Obama’s team. Is. Was. Always has been.

Note that in the right hand column, under Friends, it says “O.” Apparently, this screen cap was taken before Eric Holder had a chance to sign up.

H/T: Weasel Zippers

Who’s to blame for Obama’s collapsing poll numbers? Spoiled Americans like you.

Well, whatever you do, don’t blame Obama’s plunging poll numbers on his failed policies. Blame spoiled, idiot Americans like lib talker Bill Press does.

Press: I think this says more about the American people than it does about President Obama. I think it just shows once again that the American people are spoiled. Basically, spoiled– as a people, we are too critical. We are quick to rush to judgment, we are too negative, we are too impatient. Especially impatient. We want it all solved yesterday, and if you don’t, I don’t care who you are — get out of the way. And again, basically spoiled. To the point where it makes me wonder if it’s even possible to govern today. I gotta tell you, I don’t think Abraham Lincoln — who certainly didn’t get everything right the first time — could govern today. I’m not sure Franklin Roosevelt could govern today, the way we are again. Just about like spoiled children. And it’s Americans, and it’s the media, and if we don’t get instant gratification, then screw you is basically our attitude.

Press is right. Americans are too damn spoiled to know what’s good for themselves. That’s why it’s good that socialists like Press and Obama are willing to make those decisions for them.

H/T: Radio Equalizer

Desperation: Juan Williams tries to find good news in Obama’s poll numbers

Juan Williams sees Obama’s dropping poll numbers as a repudiation of Republicans.

Uh-oh. A new ABC/Washington Post poll says that 57% of American adults answered “Some” or “None” when asked how much confidence they had that Barack Obama would make the right decisions for the nation’s future.

Now that might sound bad to us. It might even sound bad to you. But that Juan Williams, he’s a glass half full kind of guy. He sees this poll as a repudiation of Republicans, too.

Mort Zuckerman, Part II: Editor of U.S. News & World Report admits he wrote an Obama speech

Mort Zuckerman, self-made billionaire, owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, is at it again. Now he’s confirmed the close link between the President and the Liberal Media by admitting to Neil Cavuto that he helped write one of Obama’s speeches.

File this in the “Surprised, But Not Surprised” folder.

“On every single statistical measurement, the Democrats are in more trouble today than they were in July 1994.”

Pollster Frank Luntz delivered another dose of bad news to the Democrats this weekend. Despite Obama’s attempt to spin his horrible economic performance as something worthy of your vote, Luntz said it ain’t gonna work.

“On every single statistical measurement,” he insists, “the Democrats are in more trouble today than they were in July 1994 when they lost control of the House and Senate.”

Question: Now that Peter Jennings is dead, who gets assigned to say, “The American people had a giant temper tantrum” this November?

Obama schedules another vacation, this one as far from the friggin’ Gulf Coast as possible

The First Family has scheduled another getaway. And in order to show their solid support for the people of the Gulf Coast, they’re going to Maine.

obama-vacation-maine-oil — President Obama will undoubtedly continue his attempts to plug the damn hole while vacationing in Maine

The First Family has scheduled another getaway. And in order to show their solid support for the people of the Gulf Coast, they’re going to Maine.

The Bangor Daily News reports the holiday hijinks:

The first family will spend next weekend vacationing on Mount Desert Island, according to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree.

President Barack Obama and his family are scheduled to arrive Friday, July 16, and stay through Sunday, July 18.

Information about where the family would stay and the sights they might take in while visiting Maine was not available Friday night. The visit is a personal family vacation and no public appearances are scheduled, Pingree said.

“What an honor that the Obama family has chosen Maine for vacation when they could have gone anywhere in the country,” she said. “I think the Obamas will really enjoy the quiet woods, beautiful coast, wonderful people and everything else that brings thousands of families here every year.”

The people of the Gulf Coast will surely be happy to note that President Obama is resting up in Maine after a busy schedule of not resting until the damn hole is plugged.

H/T: Bluegrass Pundit

Obama supporters may have sipped the Kool-Aid, but Democrat governors refuse to drink the hemlock

Democrat governors did their best to explain the facts of life to President Obama this weekend. They told him his suit against Arizona is “toxic” to their chances for reelection.

democrat governors grim Arizona toxic — Have you ever seen a group of politicians grimmer than these Democrat governors?

Democrat governors did their best to explain the facts of life to President Obama this weekend. They told him his suit against Arizona is “toxic” to their chances for reelection.

The august New York Times reports their poisonous opinions:

In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.

While the weak economy dominated the official agenda at the summer meeting here of the National Governors Association, concern over immigration policy pervaded the closed-door session between Democratic governors and White House officials and simmered throughout the three-day event.

At the Democrats’ meeting on Saturday, some governors bemoaned the timing of the Justice Department lawsuit, according to two governors who spoke anonymously because the discussion was private.

“Universally the governors are saying, ‘We’ve got to talk about jobs,’ ” Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, a Democrat, said in an interview. “And all of a sudden we have immigration going on.”

He added, “It is such a toxic subject, such an important time for Democrats.”

Too late, gentlemen. Polish up your resumes, because you’ll all be in need of new jobs come November.

Source: New York Times

“How can you vote for a man who considers a Marxist to be his spiritual mentor?”

Charles Gasparino: They thought he was a moderate. You know what I said to these guys when they told me that? I said, “You ever heard of Jeremiah Wright?” I mean Jeremiah Wright, his racist rhetoric is there. But, he’s also a Marxist. He teaches liberation theology. How can you vote for a man who considers a Marxist to be his spiritual mentor?”

Charles Gasparino was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on the Fox Business Channel when asked a pretty damn good question:

Carlson: All of these guys (business leaders) voted for Obama. What was the moment they changed their mind?

Gasparino: It wasn’t one moment but occurred over the course of the year… They thought he was a moderate. You know what I said to these guys when they told me that? I said, “You ever heard of Jeremiah Wright?” I mean Jeremiah Wright, his racist rhetoric is there. But, he’s also a Marxist. He teaches liberation theology. How can you vote for a man who considers a Marxist to be his spiritual mentor?”

Or in the words of Barbra Streisand, “What? You mean he wants my money, too?”

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Lord help us all. Obama says we’re moving in the right direction.

All the road signs say, “Bridge out ahead”, but President Obama wants to step on the gas and race down the road even faster.

bridge-out-obama-economic-theory — Obamanomics explained in one simple photo

All the road signs say, “Bridge out ahead”, but President Obama wants to step on the gas and race down the road even faster.

The Associated Press reports the President’s delusional economic outlook:

President Barack Obama implored heartland voters Thursday to believe his economic policies averted impending disaster, pushing a hard-to-swallow message to people whose support Democrats need this November.

“What is absolutely clear is we’re moving in the right direction, we’re headed in the right direction,” Obama said at an electric truck factory here, before a pair of campaign appearances for Senate Democratic candidates in Missouri and Nevada.

Obama jabbed Republicans who are threatening to swamp his party in the upcoming elections, though none by name. “There are some people who make the political calculation that it is better to say no to everything than lend a hand,” he said.

Seems to us that the Democrats have become the Party of No: No compromise. No rational economic theory. No listening to the American people.

Source: Associated Press

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