Check out Obama's magazine (it's GQ with himself on the cover). He doesn't even attempt to hide his narcissism.
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/...i4SPPkxdUCNg--
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Check out Obama's magazine (it's GQ with himself on the cover). He doesn't even attempt to hide his narcissism.
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091121/...i4SPPkxdUCNg--
To be honest, I don't have an opinion on the Afghanistan management, as I don't know all the details. Nonetheless, the irony that Obama will be picking up his Nobel Peace prize while he escalates the war isn't being lost.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...ace-prize-snubQuote:
Nobel peace prize: Norwegians incensed over Barack Obama's snubs
Gwladys Fouché and Ewen MacAskill
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 December 2009 20.00 GMT
Barack Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prizewinner.
Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.
The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.
He has also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway.
According to a poll published by the daily tabloid VG, 44% of Norwegians believe it was rude of Obama to cancel his scheduled lunch with King Harald, with only 34% saying they believe it was acceptable.
"Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. "This is a central part of our government system. He should respect the monarchy," she told VG.
The Norwegian Nobel committee, which awards the peace prize, dismissed the criticism. "We always knew that there were too many events in the programme. Obama has to govern the US and we were told early on that he could not commit to all of them," said Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee.
Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the royal palace.
Peace activists opposed to the Afghanistan war are planning a 5,000-strong protest in Oslo.
The visit will test Obama's rhetorical skills as he seeks to reconcile acceptance of the Nobel peace prize with sending an extra 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan.
White House officials said that Obama, who was planning to work on the final draft of his speech on his flight from Washington to Oslo, would directly address the issue of the irony of being awarded the peace prize while escalating the war.
The Nobel peace committee has been criticised for awarding Obama the prize before he has any major accomplishments in international relations.
A White House official said that it was not necessarily an award that Obama would have given himself.
I continue to just not get Obama's foreign interface strategy. He bows and bungles with those who aren't our allies (i.e. going over to China and getting nothing out of it - looking like a doofus IMHO), and snubs to protocol that creates animosity for no gain. And here we go again.
Not sure why this thread has dried up; Obama is as pathetic as ever. Case in point: http://goo.gl/XItV
I love how Jon Stewart has become one of Obama's most visible critics.
The folks who drank the Kool-Aid are starting to think it tastes bitter.
I've tried hard over the past year to pick out specific points about Obama that I dislike. I've veered away from Congress and such but this one really chaps my hide:
"Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming."
'the wrong direction. We should have spent the 60's on healthcare reform, n increasing national spending, polarizing our government between the political parties, and copyright enforcement. Yes, that would have given the 70's a golden age such as the one we enjoy now, except without microprocessors -- which we don't need.'
Headline on that should be:
Obama cedes high ground to Russia and China.
The teleprompters in the 6th grade class reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQTaWjMoFw
It's been a while since Obama specifically and personally did something I think is wrong for America. Yes, there was healthcare but it was congress that passed this, so everyone is to blame.
However, today Obama passed sweeping Nuclear options for American. "For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack. "
So North Korea could launch a biological attack against the U.S., murdering millions and at no time could a nuclear response be placed on the table. Stupid.
I wouldn't worry about it. Rules come, rules go.
It's a sign of weakness and submission to our enemies. Reagan wouldn't have done it.
No he wouldn't have, but it's easily disposed of if a legit reason arises.
I'm assuming this was some sort of posturing to prevent proliferation. And that this is positioning for some sort of back-room deal to prevent Russia from giving arms to Chavez, or North Korea to control their proliferation. Talk is cheap, so it costs us nothing.
But yes, it does send a message too.
Not saying I agree with it (I don't) but I sure hope there's some unpublished motivation behind it other than just face value.
Consumer Watchdog, a liberal nonprofit, used FOIA to obtain e-mails between White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin and his former colleagues at Google. McLaughlin was Google's head of global public policy and government affairs, up until he joined the White House.
Despite the job title, McLaughlin wasn't a registered lobbyist. Still, ethics rules created by an Obama executive order prohibit McLaughlin from "participat[ing] in any particular matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to" Google. But the e-mails show McLaughlin has been involved with formulating policy that directly affects Google, regularly trading e-mails with Google's "evangelist," and lobbyist.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0rvli0DyZ
"President Obama has abolished the position in his White House dedicated to transparency and shunted those duties into the portfolio of a partisan ex-lobbyist who is openly antagonistic to the notion of disclosure by government and politicians.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op...#ixzz0wVBsMIYp
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It's good to see a leader acting Presidential this week - it's been pretty dry lately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOC_JjNFkVw&hd=1