Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, 44th president of the United States — socialist, radical, and enemy of Americans who believe in the constitution. Here are hundreds of articles on this man.
Sure, the communist nation of China, dedicated to our downfall, is a source of strength. But that damn Fox News, on the other hand, those SOBs are the enemy.
“The rise of a strong, prosperous China,” President Obama said, “can be a source of strength for the community of nations.”
Sure, a communist nation dedicated to our downfall is a source of strength. But that damn Fox News, on the other hand, those SOBs are the enemy.
Lord help us.
Source: Bluegrass Pundit
Just before the Senate’s 60-39 procedural vote in favor of ObamaCare, Harrry Reid bought recalcitrant Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote with a $300,000,000 grant to the state of Louisiana. First, the actual language of the Landrieu amendment and then the translation. Feel free to skip directly to the translation.
Just before the Senate’s 60-39 procedural vote in favor of ObamaCare, Harrry Reid bought recalcitrant Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu’s vote with a $300,000,000 grant to the state of Louisiana.
First, the actual language of the Landrieu amendment and then the translation. Feel free to skip directly to the translation.
SEC. 2006. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENT TO FMAP DETERMINATION FOR CERTAIN STATES RECOVERING FROM A MAJOR DISASTER.
Section 1905 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d), as amended by sections 2001(a)(3) and
2001(b)(2), is amended— (1) in subsection (b), in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘subsection (y)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (y) and (aa)’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:‘‘(aa)(1) Notwithstanding subsection (b), beginning January 1, 2011, the Federal medical assistance percentage for a fiscal year for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State shall be equal to the following:
‘(A) In the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), increased by 50 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5.
‘‘(B) In the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection for the State, increased by 25 percent of the number of percentage points by which the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection.
‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State’ means a State that is one of
the 50 States or the District of Columbia, for which, at any time during the preceding 7 fiscal years, the President has declared a major disaster under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act and determined as a result of such disaster that every county or parish in the State warrant individual and public assistance or public assistance from the Federal Government under such Act and for which— ‘‘(A) in the case of the first fiscal year (or part of a fiscal year) for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year after the application of only subsection (a) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5 (if applicable to the preceding fiscal year) and without regard to this subsection, subsection (y), and subsections (b) and (c) of section 5001 of Public Law 111–5, by at least 3 percentage points; and ‘‘(B) in the case of the second or any succeeding fiscal year for which this subsection applies to the State, the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the fiscal year without regard to this subsection and subsection (y), is less than the Federal medical assistance percentage determined for the State for the preceding fiscal year under this subsection by at least 3 percentage points.
‘‘(3) The Federal medical assistance percentage determined for a disaster-recovery FMAP adjustment State under paragraph (1) shall apply for purposes of this title (other than with respect to disproportionate share hospital payments described in section 1923 and payments under this title that are based on the enhanced FMAP described in 2105(b)) and shall not apply with respect to payments under title IV (other than under part E of title IV) or payments under title XXI.’’
Translation:
“We’ve established what you are, Senator Landrieu, now we’re just haggling about the price.”
– Written by Patrick Michael
The gloves have apparently come off. Obama is fair game. Maybe it took that “under 50% approval” thing for SLN to finally see the humor in this administration.
The gloves have apparently come off. Obama is fair game. Maybe it took that “under 50% approval” thing for SLN to finally see the humor in this administration.
Grammy award-winning musician Stevie Wonder said President Barack Obama’s popularity has been decreasing because “people are afraid of change.”
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Grammy award-winning musician Stevie Wonder said President Barack Obama’s popularity has been decreasing because “people are afraid of change.” Regarding health care reform, Wonder said people are “bickering over something that we should have had a long time ago.”
You’re wrong, Stevie. Come up out of the heavy ganja smoke in which you live and see the reality: People aren’t afraid of change, they’re afraid of socialism and the loss of liberty.
Consider this proof that there are none so blind as those who will not see.
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present Little Stevie Wonder singing “Uptight (Everything’s Alright).” Consider it a reminder that whatever you have now is better than what you’ll have under socialism.
Source: CNSnews.com
A distraught Oprah Winfrey is telling pals her “thank you” for helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back. Michelle Obama is jealous of her.
We’ve been crying our damn eyes out over this one — wishing, hoping, dreaming that it’s not true, but knowing in our heart of hearts that it probably is.
The National Enquirer reports:
A distraught Oprah Winfrey is telling pals her “thank you” for helping Barack Obama win the presidency has been a knife in the back.
A jealous first lady has frozen the talk queen out of the White House inner circle, say insiders. “Oprah is devastated,” revealed a friend.
“She had no idea that Michelle was so jealous about the influence she had on Barack. She hated the way her husband would huddle with Oprah over strategy and jump when she called.
“The jealousy and anger was eating up Michelle. During the campaign, she vowed Oprah would not be a part of the new administration.
“Oprah had visions of being a close adviser to the president and a regular visitor to the White House. She was actually planning to redecorate the famous Lincoln bedroom, which is reserved for special guests of the first family.
“But in the first 10 months of the Obama administration, Oprah has visited the White House only twice, and one visit was for a business meeting to do an interview with Michelle for O magazine.
We know what you’re thinking – it’s just the National Enquirer. But these guys were right all along about John Edwards and the baby mama, so who are we to doubt them?
Next week: The Enquirer reveals that Malia and Sasha are the result of Michelle’s encounter of the fourth kind with reptilian aliens.
Source: National Enquirer
Charles Krauthammer is clearly dumbfounded by Obama’s claim that he is the first “Pacific president.”
Charles Krauthammer is clearly dumbfounded by Obama’s claim that he is the first “Pacific president.”
Why so surprised, Charles? After all, this is the same guy who turned the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall into an opportunity to speak about himself.
While we’re not sure that fomenting a civil war in Pakistan was part of the change that President Obama campaigned for, it certainly appears to be the result of his “changed” foreign policy in AfPak.
While we’re not sure that fomenting a civil war in Pakistan was part of the change that President Obama campaigned for, it certainly appears to be the result of his “changed” foreign policy in AfPak.
Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.
Yup, insisting that the Pakistani Army go on the offensive in Wazirastan is having the opposite of the hoped for effect:
The militants have responded with intensified attacks in towns and cities since the offensive was launched, killing several hundred people.
In the latest attack, a suicide bomber in a car set off explosives… in the center of Charsadda, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the city of Peshawar, killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said.”
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq speaking of the offensive:
“They are capturing roads while our people are still operating in the forests and mountains.”
“We have started guerrilla war against the Pakistani army. We’ve carried out several actions against the army and inflicted heavy losses on them,” he said.
Way to go, Team O. Picking up where Team Cheney left off? Escalating it to further destabilize a nuclear-armed nation? Brilliant!
Source: Reuters
How do world leaders greet Emperor Akihito of Japan? Thanks to the University of Connecticut Republicans, you can now see 47 of them in action. Only one bows.
How do world leaders greet Emperor Akihito of Japan? Thanks to the University of Connecticut Republicans, you can now see 47 of them in action. Only one bows.
Source: UConnRepublicans
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that just 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
How about if we just get out of the way and let the pros at Rasmussen tell Obama’s sad tale:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.
Over the past month, the number who Strongly Approve of the President’s performance has generally stayed between 27% and 30% (with one exception in each direction). Today’s drop to 26% matches the lowest level of strong approval yet recorded.
The number who Strongly Disapprove has stayed between 37% and 41% every day for over a month. The only previous time that Obama’s Approval Index rating was this low came on August 23. It remains to be seen whether the current low is just statistical noise or if it is something more lasting.
Just 47% of Democrats now Strongly Approve of the President’s performance. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republicans Strongly Disapprove, as do 43% of those not affiliated with either major political party. These numbers reflect the concern some Democratic analysts are voicing about an enthusiasm gap heading into the 2010 mid-term elections. See other recent demographic highlights.
In the words of Chubby Checker’s immortal Limbo Rock, “How low can you go?”
Source: Rasmussen Reports
Barack Obama not only creates jobs where none exist, he creates entire congressional districts where none exist.
No wonder his admirers think Barack Obama is The Greatest President In History. The guy not only creates jobs where none exist, he creates entire congressional districts where none exist.
“The Obama administration,” ABC News reports, “under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted ‘unrealistic data,’ according to a document obtained by ABC News.”
For example, Alabama’s Talladega County claimed 5,000 jobs had been saved or created from only $42,000 in stimulus funds. Ohio’s Belmont Metropolitan Housing Authority reported 16,120 jobs saved or created thanks to $1.3 million in stimulus money. Alabama’s Shelton State Community College used $27,000 in stimulus funds to save or create 14,500 jobs. And Alaska’s Alkan Builders used $11 mil to save or create 3,000 saved or created jobs.
Unfortunately, the reporting was bogus and all those jobs have been quietly subtracted from the 1,000,000 jobs Obama now claims he’s saved or created.
But the Obama administration, never sticklers for the truth, also claimed that Arizona’s 15th congressional district was able to use $761,420 to save 30 jobs. In one Iowa district, $10.6 million spent to create 39 jobs. And another 25 jobs were created in Connecticut’s 42nd district.
Problem is, those congressional districts – and many others listed in the government’s report – do not exist. Well, to be 100% accurate, they do exist, but only in the minds of White House imagineers.
Now that Obama has created these districts, Nancy Pelosi will soon begin crowing that evil Republicans want to deny the districts’ voters their constitutionally-guaranteed rights. The ACLU will rush in to file a suit on their behalf. Dead people from Chicago will move en masse to those districts so they can vote. And the Democrats will gain another ten seats in congress.
The sad part is that you’re wondering right now if that last paragraph is a joke.
Source: ABC News
Anita Dunn said that the White House criticism has been effective in preventing other networks from picking up stories broken by Fox.
Remember when some wit said we should end the war in Vietnam by simply taking the troops home and announcing that we’d won? Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn seems to be using the same philosophy in the President’s War on Fox.
Verum Serum has the details:
[S]he said that the White House criticism has been effective in preventing other networks from picking up stories broken by Fox.
“It did help people get a sense of perspective again,” Dunn said. “People took a step back and said, ‘Hmm, am I really wanting to go chase those stories?’”
Actually, Anita, what people did was take a step back and say, “Hmm, if Obama can figure out a strategy for a war with Fox, why can’t he figure out a strategy for the war in Afghanistan?”
Source: Verum Serum
There’s a very important lesson to be learned from this official White House photo.
There’s a very important lesson to be learned from this official White House photo.
Consider it proof that white guys can’t jump.
Especially if they’re old and fat. Especially if they’re playing basketball against their boss. Especially if that boss is the President of the United States. Especially if the boss brings a basketball emblazoned with his own logo.
Source: Politico.com
Texas Governor Rick Perry didn’t mince words in a recent speech: “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”
Texas Governor Rick Perry didn’t mince words in a recent speech:
“This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”
While American leftists find this comment shocking, foreign leftists seem to agree with Perry.
Breitbart.com reports:
The Chinese have learned English from his speeches and celebrated the way he rolls up his sleeves. Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he’s being greeted with “Oba Mao” T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames.
The Associated Press reveals that Fidel Castro has a man crush on Obama and warmly welcomes him to the ranks of Communist leaders. Or his boudoir. We’re not sure which Castro wants more.
Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor.
And unlike with past American heads-of-state — he slammed President George W. Bush as a genocidal drunk — Castro seems to genuinely like the fresh face in Washington.
Since handing over the Cuban presidency to his brother in February 2008, the 83-year-old has continued to publish his thoughts in essays called “Reflections of Comrade Fidel,” which are dutifully printed in state media and read repeatedly on government-controlled radio and television.
Hardly a week goes by without a mention of his nemesis to the north, the most recent on Thursday. In an opinion piece that took up an entire newspaper page, Castro waxed philosophic about everything from Obama’s Asia trip to his prospects for re-election.
Last month, Castro pronounced it a good thing that the American president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In September, he termed Obama’s call-to-action on global warming courageous.
See, Obama is bringing people together. Who ever thought an evil Republican fascist racist homophobe like Rick Perry would find himself agreeing with Fidel Castro, the wise elder of the “progressive” movement?
Source: Breitbart.com, Associated Press
Thanks to a unique, new economic theory promulgated by the Obama administration, salary increases count as some of those “jobs saved” for which President Obama so proudly pats himself on the back.
Thanks to a unique, new economic theory promulgated by the Obama administration, salary increases count as some of those “jobs saved” for which President Obama so proudly pats himself on the back.
The Associated Press explains President Obama’s unique economic theory as best it can:
President Barack Obama’s economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
The Georgia nonprofit’s inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government’s latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an “extensive review” to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
The story continues:
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
“If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.
And if Rosero parrots this crap convincingly enough, it could save his job.
Source: Associated Press
The media is now reporting that President Obama bowed when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito. But it wasn’t just one bow. It was seven bows. Fact is, he was bobbing up and down like one of those old Happy Drinking Birds.
When President Obama bowed the Saudi King the left leapt to his defense and said he was actually bending over because he was so much taller than Abudllah.
The media is now reporting that he bowed when meeting Japanese Emperor Akihito. But it wasn’t just one bow. It was seven bows. Fact is, he was bobbing up and down like one of those old Happy Drinking Birds.
Look for Happy Drinking Bird to be promoted to the White House Office of Protocol.
Frasier believes that anyone — even a country bumpkin like Woody — can get elected if he’s willing to spout meaningless cliches. His advice to Woody? Don’t say anything specific — just keep repeating vapid slogans like “change.”
This is eerie. Eerie and hilarious.
Cheers’ bartender Woody Boyd decides to run for the city council. Psychiatrist and barfly Frasier Crane, the bar’s elitist snob, becomes his campaign manager.
Frasier believes that anyone — even a country bumpkin like Woody — can get elected if he’s willing to spout meaningless cliches. His advice to Woody? Don’t say anything specific — just keep repeating vapid slogans like “change.”
Could this episode have been any more prescient?
Source: Big Hollywood
Top ten things overheard while Barack Obama was bowing to Emperor Akihito.
Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in. Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll.
The Greatest Orator In History is having a big impact on the opinions of the American people. But not in the way his handlers expected.
Support for government run healthcare has fallen off a cliff. In fact, more Americans now want the government to butt out rather than butt in.
Here’s how Gallup.com reports its latest poll:
More Americans now say it is not the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a significant shift from as recently as three years ago, when two-thirds said ensuring healthcare coverage was the government’s responsibility.
There’s only one thing you can do to save government run healthcare, Mr. Obama:
Begin speaking in favor of it.
Souce: Gallup.com
Unemployment’s now at 10.2%. And he blames unemployment on employers. What’s the President’s solution? A jobs summit.
Unemployment’s now at 10.2%. What’s the President’s solution? A jobs summit.
Here’s what President Press Event had to say about eeeeeevil employers who are screwing up his dandy economy:
As I’ve said from the start of this crisis, hiring often takes time to catch up to economic growth. And given the magnitude of the economic turmoil that we’ve experienced, employers are reluctant to hire.
Small businesses and large firms are demanding more of their employees, their increasing their hours, and adding temporary workers — but these companies have not yet been willing to take the steps necessary to hire again.
Words fail. Much like Obama’s economic policies.
“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.” – President Obama, November 5. If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.
“It is an indisputable fact that in recent years, lobbyists for major special interests have wielded extraordinary power in Washington DC, resulting in a national agenda too often skewed in favor of the interests that can afford their services. It is that problem that the President has promised to change.”
– White House blog, October 21
“I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA.”
– President Obama, November 5
If you don’t like what the President Obama says, just wait. Won’t be long before he says the opposite.
Source: Wall Street Journal/Best of the Web
Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the National Anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t get it.
Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the national anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t.
Maybe things would have been different if they’d been playing the Kenyan national anthem.
Are we the only ones who thought of Apple’s famous “1984” commercial when we saw Obama’s videotaped Fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall speech? Obama’s speech even comes with the right echo.
Are we the only ones who thought of Apple’s famous “1984” commercial when we saw Obama’s videotaped Fall-of-the-Berlin-Wall speech? Obama’s speech even comes with the right echo.
Kind of eerie, isn’t it?
The war between President Obama and Fox News is over. And it ended exactly as most observers expected: President Obama surrendered faster than the French army. According to Drudge, Major Garrett will conduct the interview next week during the President’s China visit.
The war between President Obama and Fox News is over. And it ended exactly as most observers expected: President Obama surrendered faster than the French army.
According to Drudge, Major Garrett will conduct the interview next week during the President’s China visit.
Oddly enough, this happens the day after White House Propaganda Communications Director Anita Dunn, the Joseph Goebbels of the Obama administration, announced that she was leaving the White House.
But please do not make the mistake of thinking that Dunn’s “resignation” had anything to do with the Fox News dust up that she directed. Of course not.
In fact, she will return to the White House as a “consultant,” which allows the White House to count this as yet another job created or saved.
President Obama still managed to find time to phone in a speech from an undisclosed part of the White House on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But you can bet he won’t be too busy to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in person.
In between whatever he was so busy with, President Obama still managed to find time to phone in a speech from an undisclosed part of the White House on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But you can bet he won’t be too busy to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in person.
During his prerecorded speech, President Obama made this self-referential observation, “Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.”
Few would have also foreseen how the One would deftly work in a tribute to Himself during his tribute to the fall of the Wall. However, Obama’s Teleprompter somehow forgot to mention Communism, the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa or Pope John Paul.
In Obama’s telling, the Wall just got built by itself, and was mysteriously torn down one day for no apparent reason.
Source: HotAir.com
During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.
President Obama is playing Monopoly again. Except this time it’s with 1/6 of the American economy.
During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.
Sure, he stopped short of calling for jail time, but his hesitance to do so is undoubtedly borne out of an intense desire to avoid yet another conservative firestorm.
“What I think is appropriate,” Obama said, “is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”
The only problem with Obama’s version of Monopoly (let’s call it “Obamanopoly”) is that he’s added one new rule:
If he runs out of money, he just takes a little from all the other players.
Source: MofoPolitics.com
