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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.

Obama spokesman says the President needs another vacation to rest up from this vacation

White House Spokesman Bill Burton explained to the media that President Obama now needs “a break from his vacation”. So as soon as his sojourn at Marxist Vineyard is over, he’ll rest up at Camp David for a few days before finally heading back to Washington, DC.

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Remember the good old days when we had a manly President who relaxed by clearing brush and chopping logs at the Western White House? Reinvigorated, Ronald Reagan then winged his way back to Washington to beat up on Democrats for fun.

The Obama family admires Old Faithful on August 15, 2009
The Obama family admires Old Faithful on August 15, 2009

Well, strolling on the beach, window shopping, reappointing Federal Reserve chairmen and not visiting dying senators is even more exhausting than chopping logs and clearing brush.

White House Spokesman Bill Burton explained to the media that President Obama now needs “a break from his vacation”.

So as soon as his sojourn at Marxist Vineyard is over, he’ll rest up at Camp David for a few days before finally heading back to Washington, DC.

It appears that the President wants to stay away as long as possible.

The Obamas admires the Grand Canyon on August 16, 2009
The Obamas admires the Grand Canyon on August 16, 2009

His current vacation was preceded by family trips to Yellowstone and Grand Canyon National Parks. And that was preceded by another trip to Camp David that ended on July 20. And, of course, even when he’s in Washington, he gets still manages get away from the house to play 18 holes of golf every week.

We should have anticipated this. You could see it coming a mile away.

You wouldn’t be in a hurry to go home, either, if your mother-in-law lived with you. Or is this simply a case of what psychologists call projection?

CDC says Americans living longer than ever, ObamaCare must be working

The One has only been in office for seven months and American life expectancy is already up 1.4 years. “The 2007 increase in life expectancy, up from 77.7 in 2006, represents a continuation of a trend,” the Centers for Disease Control announced.

74-year old Marietta Savage of Colton, California credits ObamaCare for her youth and vitality
74-year old Marietta Savage of Colton, California credits ObamaCare for her youth and vitality

The One has only been in office for seven months and American life expectancy is already up 1.4 years.

“The 2007 increase in life expectancy, up from 77.7 in 2006, represents a continuation of a trend,” the Centers for Disease Control  announced. “Over a decade, life expectancy has increased 1.4 years from 76.5 years in 1997 to 77.9 in 2007.”

You may scoff and say those results occurred before Obama took office. But we say, nay, doubter.

The One is now The One-Point-Four.

The FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer scares the hell out of Glenn Beck. And us.

Mark Lloyd, the FCC’s new Chief Diversity Officer (whatever the hell that is) is one of Barack Obama’s more frightening revolutionary pals. In this clip, Glenn Beck exposes what he is, what he does, what he wants.

Mark Lloyd, the FCC’s new Chief Diversity Officer (whatever the hell that is) is one of Barack Obama’s more frightening revolutionary pals.

In this clip, Glenn Beck exposes what he is, what he does, what he wants.

Here one quote from Lloyd:

“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”

Here’s another:

“What I do, to make is simple, I’m basically a community organizer inside the federal family.”

We thought we already had one of those.

Source: LiveLink.com

The people of Arkansas apologize for giving us Bill Clinton

Maybe the Razorbacks haven’t exactly gone on an apology tour like Barack Obama did, but they’ve done the next best thing: they responded to a Public Policy poll in ways the leftist polling organization won’t like. Not at all.

Maybe the Razorbacks haven’t exactly gone on an apology tour like Barack Obama did, but they’ve done the next best thing: they responded to a Public Policy poll in ways the leftist polling organization won’t like. Not at all.

Consider these results:

56% of voters in the state disapprove of the job Obama is doing so far as President, with just 40% approving. Those numbers are down from a March Arkansas survey that found the spread at a favorable 47/45. 72% of Democrats, 30% of independents, and 9% of Republicans give him good marks.

On health care, just 29% of Arkansans say they support Obama’s plans with 60% opposed. On that front he has the support of only 54% of Democrats and 20% of independents.

When asked whether they think Obama or (Rush) Limbaugh has a better vision for the country, 55% of respondents selected Limbaugh in spite of the fact only 35% of them have a favorable opinion of him, compared to 44% unfavorable.

“These numbers, taken together, show why Blanche Lincoln’s Senate seat is becoming an enticing target for Republicans in spite of their candidate recruitment issues,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “There are few states that have an electorate more conservative than Arkansas’ and if the GOP can effectively nationalize the race it’ll be close.”

Hey, these people were considered progressive geniuses when they gave us America’s First Black President. How’d they turn into such unlightened boobs now that we have another First Black President?

Source: Public Policy Polling

President Obama moves his lips when he reads

The media is all atwitter over the books taken to Martha’s Island by President Obama, anointing him not only The Greatest President In History, but now The Most Literate President In History. Only one problem. Either the guy needs a quick refresher course at Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics.

It takes Barack Obama longer to read a book than it takes an author to write it
It takes Barack Obama longer to read a book than it takes an author to write it

The media is all atwitter over the books taken to Martha’s Island by President Obama, anointing him not only The Greatest President In History, but now The Most Literate President In History.

Only one problem.  Either the guy needs a quick refresher course at Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics or he needs to spend more time reading books and less time reading the greens out on the golf course.

Our point? The Most Literate President in History is a very slow reader.

Back in June Obama told a British interviewer that he was reading a book titled Netherland. We pointed out that he’d previously told another interviewer that he was reading the same book in three months earlier.

Now the media has announced that the Commander in Chief’s list of beach books includes Thomas Friedman’s “Hot, Flat and Crowded.” Good lord, the President claimed to have read the same book almost a year earlier and even quoted it at a rally in Flint, Michigan eleven months ago. Yet the same book has shown up again on the list of books Obama plans to read on his current vacation.

To review: It took him three months to finish the 270-page Netherland and a now it’s taken nearly a year for him to finish the 448-page “Hot, Flat and Crowded.”

Lord help us if he ever attempts to read his own 1018-page healthcare bill.

Source: New York Post

The Greatest President In History continues the same rendition policy he condemned while campaigning

Once again, President Obama is at odds with candidate Obama. “The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation.” How is this possible? How could the Greatest President In History continue a program that’s so hated by his most ardent supporters?

Which Obama do we get today?
Which Obama do we get today?

Once again, President Obama is at odds with candidate Obama.

“The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation,” the New York Times reports, “but will monitor their treatment to ensure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.”

How is this possible? How could the Greatest President In History continue a program that’s so hated by his most ardent supporters?

It’s Bush’s fault.

Source: New York Times

Obama’s vacation schedule for Wednesday, August 26

The White House has released President Obama’s official activity schedule for today, August 26, 2009. Here’s the breakdown, hour by hour.

When people ask the President what his handicap is the honest answer would be, "A misguided philosophy and a complete lack of experience."
When people ask the President what his handicap is the honest answer would be, "A misguided philosophy and a complete lack of experience."

The White House has released President Obama’s official activity schedule for today, August 26, 2009.

8:00 am – Walk all over the beach with Malia and Sasha
8:30 am – Walk all over Constitution with Harry and Nancy
9:00 am – Get in another 18 holes of golf
1:00 pm – Get America in an even bigger financial hole
1:30 pm – Lie in the sun
2:00 pm – Lie to American people
2:30 pm – Take siesta to sympathize with plight of illegal aliens who desperately need amnesty
3:00 pm – Go fishing
4:30 pm – Intercept fishy emails
5:00 pm – Go shopping for T-shirt that says, “Marxist Vineyard”
6:00 pm – Sip on a pina colada while watching the sun go down on the American empire
8:00 pm – Sit on the porch with Michelle and talk about the good old days, AKA February.

Obama’s cutting the deficit by hiring one guy to fill two jobs: Green Jobs Czar and Black Power Czar

Until now the media has paid almost no attention to Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar.” Now the big guns of Glenn Beck are trained squarely on the only member of the Obama administration willing to admit he’s a communist.

Until now the media has paid almost no attention to Van Jones, President Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar.”

Sure, we ran the story Obama’s “Green Jobs Czar” is admitted communist about Jones last month, but we’re small potatoes. Maybe even small potato. But now the big guns of Glenn Beck are trained squarely on the only member of the Obama administration willing to admit he’s a communist.

Welcome aboard, Glenn.

Hmmm. President who appointed tax dodgers to his administration plays golf with king of tax dodgers

Barack Obama is in Martha’s Vineyard vacationing. One member of it foursome is very interesting: Mr. Robert Wolf of UBS, most recently in the headlines for the ongoing case in which it’s accused of helping wealthy clients evade taxes.

The President cautions the media not to mention who was in his foursome
The President cautions the media not to mention who was in his foursome

Sometimes it’s the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated items that makes a third item pop out. Here’s what we mean:

News item #1: In the early months of his presidency, everyone President Obama tried to appoint to his administration had tax evasion problems.

News items #2: The IRS has forced UBS, the Swiss banking giant, to reveal the names of its American clients with secret Swiss accounts.

News Item #3: While vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, the President is playing golf.

The fact that the president is playing golf is unremarkable in itself, but one member of his foursome is very interesting. Here’s how Politico.com reports it:

[Obama] played some tennis with the First Lady, is going to hit the links today with Congressman Clyburn, Mr. [Robert] Wolf of UBS, and Marvin Nicholson of the White House.

Wolf is the president of UBS, most recently in the headlines for the ongoing case in which it’s accused of helping wealthy clients evade taxes. Which is to say that this new foundation stuff has its limits.

… Wolf is not only President of UBS Americas Group, he is also Obama’s biggest campaign bundler. And yet, just last week the IRS Commissioner said on television that UBS “was facilitating tax evasion.” This seems like one of those cases where the media would have some questions if Obama were a Republican.

No wonder Obama didn’t want the press taking any photos of his vacation.

Source: Politico.com

The Incredible Shrinking Presidency, starring
Barack Obama as the President

It just seems so appropriate that a black American communist singer should be combined with a demonstration of Russian nesting dolls in a heartfelt salute to the incredible shrinking presidency of the most leftist American leaders in history.

The training wheels are coming off the presidential bicycle. All the polls – Zogby, Gallup, NBC, Pew – show Barack Obama’s popularity hitting new lows.

ObamaCare is in intensive care. Cash-for-Clunkers was a lemon. Amnesty is going south. His agenda is falling apart faster than a General Motors car.

With that in mind, we present the Russian song “Shiroka Strana Moya Rodnaya” (“My Spacious Homeland”) performed in Russian by Hollywod Communist Paul Robeson.

It just seems so appropriate that a black American communist singer should be combined with a demonstration of Russian nesting dolls in a heartfelt salute to the incredible shrinking presidency of the most leftist American leader in history.

Dosvedanya, Comrade Obama.

Biden admits that Obama ignores him

You know, there are times we almost feel sorry for Joe Biden. The poor guy just doesn’t seem to get any attention from his boss President Obama.

"Joe, if you make one more stupid comment I'll send you on another fact-finding mission to Baluchistan."
"Joe, if you make one more stupid comment I'll send you on another fact-finding mission to Baluchistan."

You know, there are times we almost feel sorry for Joe Biden. The poor guy out-doofuses Al Gore, which isn’t easy.

The Veep spoke about the Bush administration during a recent fundraiser in Florida. After another speaker suggested that former President Bush had leaned heavily on Vice President Cheney for guidance, Biden set the record straight.

That’s not how the Obama administration works, he told the crowd.

“He’s the president, I’m the vice president. We’ve got the pecking order in this administration right,” Biden said.

The way we interpret that comment, Bush listened to advice from his vice president, but Obama doesn’t give Biden the time of day.

First thing this administration’s done that makes any sense.

Source: FoxNews.com

How low can it go? Latest Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll has Obama at -14

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14.

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What could be better to accompany this story than this lovely rendition of “How Low Can You Go” by the Honeys.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President. The previous low of -12 was reached on July 30.

Prior to today, the number who Strongly Approved of the President’s performance had never fallen below 29%. Some of the decline has come from within the President’s own party. Just 49% of Democrats offer such a positive assessment of the President at this time.

At the other end of the spectrum, today’s total for Strongly Disapprove matches the highest level yet recorded. The 41% mark was reached just once before and that came one week ago today. Seventy percent (70%) of Republicans now Strongly Disapprove along with 49% of those not affiliated with either major party.

Enjoy your vacation, Mr. President.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Three states got 66% of bailout money, five states got 84%. How badly did your state get screwed?

Can’t wait to hear the Obama administration explain this: the top three states took home 66% of bailout dollars and the top five nearly 84% of the total, which leaves a paltry 15% to be divvied up between the remaining 45 states and territories.

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Can’t wait to hear the Obama administration explain why the bailout is overwhelmingly concentrated in a small handful of states.

According to the ProPublica data, a total of $476.5 billion in bailout money has been doled out so far. New York, has garnered $175 billion, more than one third of the total. Michigan walked off with $80.7 billion, North Carolina netted $56.3 billion, Virginia totaled $54.9 billion, and California picked up $34.4 billion.

(Our thanks for thesaurus.com for the assistance with the previous paragraph).

That means the top three states took home 66% of bailout dollars and the top five nearly 84% of the total, which leaves a paltry 15% to be divvied up between the remaining 45 states and territories.

That should be just enough for a road sign in your neighborhood that says, “This construction project paid for by The Greatest President In History and the generous benefactors of the Democrat-controlled Congress of the United States.”

No construction projects, mind you, but some very nice signs.

h/t: NewsMax.com

Two sources of hot air blowing into Martha’s Vineyard on Sunday

What rotten luck. Now it looks like Hurricane Bill may blow ashore ion Martha’s Vineyard at about the same time the President touches down for his sorely needed vacation. Weather forecasters say this double onslaught of hot air is unprecedented.

Picture 2 What rotten luck. Now it looks like Hurricane Bill may blow ashore on Martha’s Vineyard at about the same time the President touches down for his sorely needed vacation.

Weather forecasters say this double onslaught of hot air is unprecedented.

Come with us now on a trip to the future of ObamaCare, AKA the post office

The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.

Take a number. Get in line. Shut up. We'll get to your heart attack when we're good and ready.
Take a number. Get in line. Shut up. We'll get to your heart attack when we're good and ready.

The Greatest President In History recently said that ObamaCare could end up just like the post office. That he should use the post office as a success story boggled the minds of even his supporters.

Ray, who frequently comments on stories here at IHateTheMedia.com, lives in Orange County, California. He sat down and dashed off this email after visiting the post office in his upper middle class planned utopia:

“Went to the post office today. Took a number. There were about 20 people in front of me. Only two windows open out of five. One person behind a kiosk to sell postal paraphernalia with no one buying. The local postmaster was out front asking people if he could help. One employee standing behind the two windows just watching (he looked totally stoned). People with lots of little packages, lots of questions, or couldn’t speak English, so each person took loads of time.

“Tempted to go “postal” and ask why they just didn’t open up more windows. Took 35 minutes of standing around before I could mail my package. Should have gone to UPS or FedEx and paid the additional charge.

“Another time I was in line at the main Irvine post office on Sand Canyon. Standing in a long line when all but two clerks decided to go on break at the same time. Then one of the remaining clerks closed her window and proceeded to change the ink cartridges in all the pens which are attached by little chains.

“Saw the future of Obamacare.”

But did they offer end-of-line counseling, Ray?

Obama courts the NASCAR crowd, invites top drivers to White House

When the NASCAR’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan. On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with them.

NASCAR may be the architect of the entire Obama administration


Who does the president think he’s kidding? He knows more about bowling than he knows about NASCAR. And he’s already demonstrated that he knows nothing about bowling.

Nevertheless, when the sport’s top drivers show up for a photo op at the White House today, The One will undoubtedly attempt to convince them that he’s the sport’s number one fan.

On second thought, perhaps the Obama administration does have a lot in common with NASCAR drivers:

They both go as fast as possible. They both consistently turn to the left. And they both crash and burn far too often.

Source: LA Times

6% of American voters believe in unicorns think they’ll get a tax cut under Obama.

The number of Americans expecting a tax cut has fallen to 6%. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut.

Three American voters who still believe President Obama will cut their taxes
Three American voters who still believe President Obama will cut their taxes

Hmmmm. How best to sum up the results of the latest research from Rasmussen Reports. How’s this?

The latest research from Rasmussen Reports seems to indicate that 6% of American voters are possibly deaf, dumb and blind. And morons. They’re likely morons, too.

Just six percent (6%) of voters nationwide now expect their own taxes to go down during the Obama years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% expect their taxes to go up while 40% expect little change. Another 12% are not sure.

This is the first time since last November’s election that the number expecting a tax cut has fallen to single digits. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. When he was elected, 22% expected a tax cut. That number has been trending down ever since.

Maybe we’re being too harsh. Maybe we’re wrong.

Nah. They’re idiots.

Source: RasmussenReports.com

Obama’s Director of New Media blames email hullaballoo on “sinister conspiracy theories”

In keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself of blame for the White House email snaufu and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”

What lesson can be learned form this episode? Never trust a guy who looks like that guy from SuperBad
What lesson can be learned form this episode? Never trust a guy who looks like that guy from SuperBad

After warning that mysterious third-party groups could have been responsible for the snafu in which White House e-mails were sent to people who never signed up for them, President Obama’s new media director decided to clear up the confusion. Personally. Right there on the WhiteHouse.gov website.

However, in keeping with the administration’s philosophy of never accepting the blame for anything they do wrong, Macon Phillips absolved himself and put the blame for the screw up squarely at the feet of “outside groups of all political stripes.”

“An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo,” he wrote on the official White House blog. “Despite reports by some bloggers and others in the media that have invoked a variety of sinister conspiracy theories, more people signed up for updates last week than during the entire month of July.”

Quick. Close the drapes and take cover, Macon. Those black helicopters are circling the White House again.

Source: WhiteHouse.gov

Democrat calls for “immediate action” to repair the immediate action Democrats took last month

Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.

Joe Sestak paused while trying to ram ObamaCare through Congress to complain about the last program the Democrats rammed through congress
Joe Sestak paused while trying to ram ObamaCare through Congress to complain about the last program the Democrats rammed through congress

Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up.

Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action” from President Obama to correct the problem that Democrats themselves caused by rushing the Cash-for-Clunkers fiasco into law.

According to Sestak, only 2% of claims have been paid and 80% of the applications have been “rejected for minor oversight.”

Auto dealers across the fruited plain are pissed that the government’s Cash-for-Clunkers reimbursement payments are taking far longer than had been promised. Sestak says those complaints aren’t isolated incidents.

One billion dollars down. Another two billion to go. Ain’t big government great?

Source: FoxNews.com

College student goes mano-a-mano with Obama at Colorado town hall

Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.

If you’re President Obama, you show up at a town hall event confident that your people have packed the audience with friendly faces. And then some damn college kid stands up and asks an Econ 101 question that exposes you as the fraud you are.

That’s exactly what happened at President Obama’s Town Hall Meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado when Zack Lane, a polysci major at asked the University of Colorado Bolder not only hit the President with a tough question, but challenged him to go mano-a-mano in an Oxford-style Debate.

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49% of registered voters tire of all-Obama-all-the-time on television

49 percent of Americans say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously. We fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.

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The results of a new Fox/Opinion Dynamics poll cannot be encouraging for The Cult of Obama:

“With the president traveling the country to discuss health care and the economy, almost half of Americans (49 percent) say they would like to see less of Obama on television, up from 36 percent who felt that way previously (3-4 March 2009).”

Unfortunately, we fear that the brain trust at the White House will read that 49% want to see less of Obama and interpret it to mean that 51% want to see more of him.

Source: FoxNews.com

Oh, the humanity. ObamaCare goes down in flames.

The Democrats have filibuster-proof majorities in the house and the senate and yet ObamaCare died a deserved death yesterday because it was so abhorred by the American people.

The Democrats have filibuster-proof majorities in the house and the senate and yet ObamaCare died a deserved death yesterday because it was so abhorred by the American people.

Senator Kent Conrad, one of one of the lead Democrat negotiators trying to hammer out a bipartisan compromise on the Senate Finance Committee, called further work on a government-run healthcare plan a “wasted effort.” He said the so-called public option doesn’t have enough votes to pass.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggested the White House is ready to accept a health care reform package without it. 

Even President Obama raised the white flag when he casually mentioned that the single payer option was never something he insisted must be in the final bill.

Sure, the Democrats will attempt to get something passed to placate their far left base, even if it bears no resemblance to the socialized medicine program they wanted. But no one will be fooled.

You just can’t reinflate the Hindenberg.

America’s first media whore president now granting interviews to children

Reporter Damon Weaver sat down with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. Nothing odd about that. Except for one thing: Damon is an 11-year old sixth grader from Florida.

Reporter Damon Weaver sat down with President Obama at the White House on Thursday. Nothing odd about that. Except for one thing: Damon is an 11-year old sixth grader from Florida.

According to the Palm Beach Sun-Sentinel, “Damon has been angling for an interview with Obama since before the election. He was in Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration in January, and then again in June to accept a Shortie Award, in an international competition honoring student film and news productions. While there, he toured part of the West Wing of the White House and received a congratulatory letter from Biden.”

Now that Obama is wearing thin on the major TV networks, he has moved his charm offensive down the demographic ladder in an attempt to appeal to voters who won’t be able cast their ballots until he runs for his third term in 2016.

The man has never met a camera he didn’t love.

Source: Sun-Sentinel

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