Obamanation
After the CIA director apparently told The New Yorker that he thinks the former vice president is crossing his fingers for another attack on America, Dick Cheney says he hopes his "old friend" didn't really say those words.... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called on Panetta to "retract immediately" his statement, arguing that the director crossed the line....
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the economic stimulus, but he defended the administration's spending [Of course he did!]
CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects. [Right... so when they attack, we can blame Cheney. IMPEACH!]
President Barack Obama said on Friday he was hopeful the robust debate taking place in Iran's presidential election would advance his administration's efforts to engage longtime US rival Tehran in new ways. [IMPEACH!]
President Obama, who said as a candidate that he would seek repeal of a law denying federal recognition of same-sex marriage, has angered gay rights groups with court arguments portraying the law as a nondiscriminatory measure that "preserves scarce government resources." [IMPEACH!]
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. [HELP! HELP! WON'T SOME GEORGE BUSH INVADE AMERICA AND TOPPLE THIS CREEP!]
There are a number of unanswered questions today about President Obama's abrupt decision to fire the inspector general of the AmeriCorps program... Inspectors General Reform Act... [co-sponsored by] then-Sen Barack Obama... requires the president to outline the cause for his decision to remove an IG. Beyond saying that he did not have the "fullest confidence" in Walpin, Obama gave no reason for his action.... Republican Sen. Charles Grassley... suggests that the White House first tried to muscle Walpin out of his job without having to go through the 30-day process. It was only when Walpin refused to resign that the White House then notified Congress of the president's intention to fire Walpin....
Too many analyses of the speech have ignored the fact that it was addressed primarily to the Muslim world, and was delivered in Egypt. And in that setting, Obama insisted that the US-Israel relationship could not be upended. He mentioned the Holocaust, (implicitly) berated Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his Holocaust denial, quoted the Talmud and called on Hamas to recognize Israel and abandon violence. Not bad. To be sure, it was not the speech that many Israelis would have written. Obama's articulated position on Iranian nuclear power is unacceptable, just as an absolute freeze on natural growth in "settlements," even in places where settlements are essentially cities, is both unfair and thoroughly unrealistic. And linking Israel's right to exist to the Holocaust is a significant intellectual and moral mistake.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that civilian casualties in Afghanistan must be reduced as every casualty is a defeat for NATO and the U.S. troops fighting in the country. [A DEFEAT?!?!!? THIS IS THE US DEFENSE SECRETARY SAYING EVERY CASUALTY BY NUTBALLS IS SOMEHOW A DEFEAT FOR THE GOOD GUYS?? Not even barely good hyperbole! What an abysmally defeatist thing to say. What a maroon! What a poltroon! What about charging him with GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY?]
I apologize to the Jewish community and all others who were offended by the way in which I framed my comments. I misspoke. [Translation: He spoke at all]
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry.... [We're GM... We don't care. We don't have to!]
Snapshot Shows President With Feet On His Desk During A Phone Call With Netanyahu
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says "them Jews" are keeping him from speaking to President Obama, according to the Daily Press newspaper of Virginia.
the Politico newspaper reports in a June 9, 2009 article titled "Obama Invokes Jesus More Than Bush," that the current president has actually spoken about his faith far more frequently... Yet, the Politico says that atheists who railed against President Bush are giving president Obama a free pass.... [Surprise!]
The Obama numbers are pure fiction.... the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being 'saved....' Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama's jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one -- not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- actually measures "jobs saved." As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama's jobs claims are "based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs." Nice work if you can get away with it....
When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, "So, stop it all of you!" He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about. Well, what politico wouldn't want that? OK, dad. We'll behave. And according to a new Pew Research Center poll, we are behaving...like fans....
BALL -- 'Where's the Birth Certificate?' is the cryptic message on an electronic billboard at the corner of Tioga Road and U.S. Highway 165.
In his major address to the Muslim world last week, President Obama quoted a verse from the Quran that is interpreted as urging Muslims to follow Muhammad in waging jihad against nonbelievers. The context of the verse first noticed by Rober...
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials have labeled deadly jihadists as heroes and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization....
When it comes to evaluating and discussing transparency in government, one issue and one issue alone has been deemed out of bounds by a White House website: President Obama's continued concealment of his birth record.
President Barack Obama wants Congress to consider taxing the wealthy instead of workers to pay for a health-care overhaul, as House Democrats discuss a plan to require health insurance for most Americans.
candor and diplomacy are not synonymous, and if Mr. Obama were to apply the same approach to thorny problems like Iran and North Korea, it might not produce the intended desirable results, according to foreign affairs experts. Some say he risks forsaking the advantages of "constructive ambiguity,"
A US "taster" tested the food being dished up to President Barack Obama at a dinner in a French restaurant, a waiter said on Sunday. ... "They have someone who tastes the dishes.... It wasn't very pleasant for the cooks at first, but the person was very nice and was relaxed, so it all went well...."
A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect illegal structures in the West Bank, building a new outpost on Friday morning between Migron and Kohav Ya'akov. Settlers dedicate a Torah scroll in the West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, which has been dismantled and rebuilt several times in recent weeks. Photo: AP SLIDESHOW: Israel & Region | World At the outpost, named Oz Yehonatan, the settlers built a wooden structure they mockingly called the "Obama Hut," saying it was a sign of appreciation for the US president for his actions that had led to a dramatic rise in the number of outposts.
The Obamas turn up in Paris this evening, but have declined a dinner invitation from the couple next door: the Sarkozys. President Obama's reluctance to spend more than minimum time with the French leader on his visit for the D-Day anniversary has come as an embarrassment to the Elysée Palace.
The Obama administration plans to create a position to ensure that companies receiving federal-bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines.
A rift has quietly opened up between Germany and the United States, marked by official statements of harmony and private grumbling. It is not an outright crisis in relations, but there are underlying tensions and disagreements on matters ranging from the global economic crisis to the future of inmates held at Guantánamo Bay. On a more basic level, there is a sense that the Obama administration is ignoring the needs and counsel of longtime allies.
The policies of the US president on the Palestinian issue are identical to ours, says Kadima MK Boim.... "Obama shockingly equated the destruction of European Jewry to the suffering Arabs brought upon themselves when they declared war on the nascent state of Israel," National Union MK Arye Eldad said. "If he doesn't understand the difference, perhaps he will when he visits the Buchenwald concentration camp [on Friday]. And if he still won't get it then, the Muslims will teach him a painful lesson that his predecessor learned on September 11."
Protests include demonstrations outside US consulate, posters showing president in a kaffiyeh.
US President Barack Obama sought a new beginning between the United States and Muslims in a speech on Thursday but offered no new initiative to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,
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