An Obama Supporter the night after once he sobered up
Friedrich Merz
2 hours ago
March 3, 2009
Nobamas Next Tax Cheat Is......?
Not another one…
Ron Kirk, the nominee for U.S. trade representative, has agreed to pay about $10,000 in back taxes, becoming the latest top-level appointee in the Obama administration to face the embarrassment of dealing with an income tax problem.
At least Kirk can make use of the classic liberal defense so often heard when Bill Clinton was molesting young girls in the Oval Office: everybody does it.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner owed more than $30,000 in taxes that he paid before he took office. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who owed more than $100,000 in taxes, was forced to withdraw as a nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Nancy Killefer, President Obama's pick for chief performance officer, stepped aside because of tax problems involving less than $1,000.
What's the big deal? It's not like powerful Democrats paying their taxes like the rest of us would put even the slightest dent in the monumental deficits Comrade Obama is using to crush our economy.
Ron Kirk, the nominee for U.S. trade representative, has agreed to pay about $10,000 in back taxes, becoming the latest top-level appointee in the Obama administration to face the embarrassment of dealing with an income tax problem.
At least Kirk can make use of the classic liberal defense so often heard when Bill Clinton was molesting young girls in the Oval Office: everybody does it.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner owed more than $30,000 in taxes that he paid before he took office. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who owed more than $100,000 in taxes, was forced to withdraw as a nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Nancy Killefer, President Obama's pick for chief performance officer, stepped aside because of tax problems involving less than $1,000.
What's the big deal? It's not like powerful Democrats paying their taxes like the rest of us would put even the slightest dent in the monumental deficits Comrade Obama is using to crush our economy.
Russia And Iran: The Missle Shield
Once again, Barack Obama's foreign policy naiveté rears its ugly head.From the New York Times:
President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow by top administration officials three weeks ago. It said the United States would not need to proceed with the interceptor system, which has been vehemently opposed by Russia since it was proposed by the Bush administration, if Iran halted any efforts to build nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.The officials who described the contents of the message requested anonymity because it has not been made public. While they said it did not offer a direct quid pro quo, the letter was intended to give Moscow an incentive to join the United States in a common front against Iran. Russia’s military, diplomatic and commercial ties to Tehran give it some influence there, but it has often resisted Washington’s hard line against Iran.“It’s almost saying to them, put up or shut up,” said a senior administration official. “It’s not that the Russians get to say, ‘We’ll try and therefore you have to suspend.’ It says the threat has to go away.”This sounds great, just great.Sure, why not trust Russia and Iran? Russia will gladly unite with us against Iran. Of course!What is Obama thinking?Good grief.
...Mr. Obama’s letter, sent in response to one he received from Mr. Medvedev shortly after Mr. Obama’s inauguration, is part of an effort to “press the reset button” on Russian-American relations, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. put it last month. Among other things, the letter discussed talks to extend a strategic arms treaty expiring this year and cooperation in opening supply routes to Afghanistan.The plan to build a high-tech radar facility in the Czech Republic and deploy 10 interceptor missiles in Poland — a part of the world that Russia once considered its sphere of influence — was a top priority for President George W. Bush to deter Iran in case it developed a nuclear warhead to fit atop its long-range missiles. Mr. Bush never accepted a Moscow proposal to install part of the missile defense system on its territory and jointly operate it so it could not be used against Russia.Now the Obama administration appears to be reconsidering that idea, although it is not clear if it would want to put part of the system on Russian soil where it could be flipped on or off by Russians. Mr. Obama has been lukewarm on missile defense, saying he supports it only if it can be proved technically effective and affordable.It's bad enough that Obama has done such damage to the economy already.Now, he's going to completely screw up on foreign policy and play right into the hands of Russia and Iran.Wonderful. This change stuff is getting really scary.
President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday.The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow by top administration officials three weeks ago. It said the United States would not need to proceed with the interceptor system, which has been vehemently opposed by Russia since it was proposed by the Bush administration, if Iran halted any efforts to build nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.The officials who described the contents of the message requested anonymity because it has not been made public. While they said it did not offer a direct quid pro quo, the letter was intended to give Moscow an incentive to join the United States in a common front against Iran. Russia’s military, diplomatic and commercial ties to Tehran give it some influence there, but it has often resisted Washington’s hard line against Iran.“It’s almost saying to them, put up or shut up,” said a senior administration official. “It’s not that the Russians get to say, ‘We’ll try and therefore you have to suspend.’ It says the threat has to go away.”This sounds great, just great.Sure, why not trust Russia and Iran? Russia will gladly unite with us against Iran. Of course!What is Obama thinking?Good grief.
...Mr. Obama’s letter, sent in response to one he received from Mr. Medvedev shortly after Mr. Obama’s inauguration, is part of an effort to “press the reset button” on Russian-American relations, as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. put it last month. Among other things, the letter discussed talks to extend a strategic arms treaty expiring this year and cooperation in opening supply routes to Afghanistan.The plan to build a high-tech radar facility in the Czech Republic and deploy 10 interceptor missiles in Poland — a part of the world that Russia once considered its sphere of influence — was a top priority for President George W. Bush to deter Iran in case it developed a nuclear warhead to fit atop its long-range missiles. Mr. Bush never accepted a Moscow proposal to install part of the missile defense system on its territory and jointly operate it so it could not be used against Russia.Now the Obama administration appears to be reconsidering that idea, although it is not clear if it would want to put part of the system on Russian soil where it could be flipped on or off by Russians. Mr. Obama has been lukewarm on missile defense, saying he supports it only if it can be proved technically effective and affordable.It's bad enough that Obama has done such damage to the economy already.Now, he's going to completely screw up on foreign policy and play right into the hands of Russia and Iran.Wonderful. This change stuff is getting really scary.
Nobama Welcomes His Militant Bro To The White House
Barak Obama's older brother Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture." Recently, Barack Obama welcomed his militant Muslim brother Roy Obama to the White House. The Daily Mail reported:
These are the first pictures of Barack Obama inside the White House with his British stepmother. Taken the day he was sworn in as President, they show him giving Kezia Obama and the rest of his extended family a tour of his new home.Embraced by Mrs Obama, who travelled to Washington DC from her council house in Bracknell, the President proudly posed in an official reception for the family.He is also surrounded by his half-brother Abongo, his sister-in-law, niece, nephew and other relatives, who all travelled from Kenya and were in the VIP enclosure for his inauguration in January.Mrs Obama, 66, who was married to the President’s late father, also named Barack, when they lived in Kenya, wore a traditional African outfit made in Tanzania especially for the big day. Previously On Obama's Family:Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist Media Interviews Obama's Younger Muslim Brother in England Surprise!... Obama Breaks Promise to Poor Kenyan Family Members Anti-Trade Obama Has Brother Running Illegal Firm In China Obama's Long Lost Brother Lives In Kenyan Slum Hut Catching Up With Barack's Little Brother George In His Filthy Slum Hut Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt... In a Boston Slum Figures. Obama's Dear Auntie Onyango Is an Illegal AlienBarack Obama: This Isn't the Illegal Alien Auntie I Thought I Knew Obama Knew His Auntie Onyango Was Here Illegally Dope & Change... Obama's Brother George Busted With Pot
These are the first pictures of Barack Obama inside the White House with his British stepmother. Taken the day he was sworn in as President, they show him giving Kezia Obama and the rest of his extended family a tour of his new home.Embraced by Mrs Obama, who travelled to Washington DC from her council house in Bracknell, the President proudly posed in an official reception for the family.He is also surrounded by his half-brother Abongo, his sister-in-law, niece, nephew and other relatives, who all travelled from Kenya and were in the VIP enclosure for his inauguration in January.Mrs Obama, 66, who was married to the President’s late father, also named Barack, when they lived in Kenya, wore a traditional African outfit made in Tanzania especially for the big day. Previously On Obama's Family:Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist Media Interviews Obama's Younger Muslim Brother in England Surprise!... Obama Breaks Promise to Poor Kenyan Family Members Anti-Trade Obama Has Brother Running Illegal Firm In China Obama's Long Lost Brother Lives In Kenyan Slum Hut Catching Up With Barack's Little Brother George In His Filthy Slum Hut Foreign Media Finds Obama's Aunt... In a Boston Slum Figures. Obama's Dear Auntie Onyango Is an Illegal AlienBarack Obama: This Isn't the Illegal Alien Auntie I Thought I Knew Obama Knew His Auntie Onyango Was Here Illegally Dope & Change... Obama's Brother George Busted With Pot
We Have to Live With With Radical Islam??
Barack Obama's favorite foreign policy author Fareed Zakaria says its time we lived with radical Islam: “Radical Islam is A Fact of Life. How To Live With it” Fareed Zakaria makes the controversial case for why the West needs to adopt a more "sophisticated strategy" toward Radical Islam.This is the same guy who Obama looks to for guidance.Barack Obama was reading, studying, and planning to be the leader of The Post-American World during the campaign.The book was written by Zakaria.Obama is mentioned on page 255 of the book.Maybe a 9-11 attack every few years is not such a big deal after all?
March 2, 2009
The Current Civil War
Larry Kudlow on the CNBC website:
Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama’s State of the Union speech and his budget.
He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which make absolutely no sense at all — either for this recession or from the standpoint of expanding our economy’s long-run potential to grow.
Raising the marginal tax rate on successful earners, capital, dividends, and all the private funds is a function of Obama’s left-wing social vision, and a repudiation of his economic-recovery statements. Ditto for his sweeping government-planning-and-spending program, which will wind up raising federal outlays as a share of GDP to at least 30 percent, if not more, over the next 10 years.
This is nearly double the government-spending low-point reached during the late 1990s by the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton administration. While not quite as high as spending levels in Western Europe, we regrettably will be gaining on this statist-planning approach.
Study after study over the past several decades has shown how countries that spend more produce less, while nations that tax less produce more. Obama is doing it wrong on both counts.
And as far as middle-class tax cuts are concerned, Obama’s cap-and-trade program will be a huge across-the-board tax increase on blue-collar workers, including unionized workers. Industrial production is plunging, but new carbon taxes will prevent production from ever recovering. While the country wants more fuel and power, cap-and-trade will deliver less.
The tax hikes will generate lower growth and fewer revenues. Yes, the economy will recover. But Obama’s rosy scenario of 4 percent recovery growth in the out years of his budget is not likely to occur. The combination of easy money from the Fed and below-potential economic growth is a prescription for stagflation. That’s one of the messages of the falling stock market.
Essentially, the Obama economic policies represent a major Democratic party relapse into Great Society social spending and taxing. It is a return to the LBJ/Nixon era, and a move away from the Reagan/Clinton period. House Republicans, fortunately, are 90 days sober, as they are putting up a valiant fight to stop the big-government onslaught and move the GOP back to first principles.
Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner.
There is a growing sense of buyer’s remorse.
Well then, do conservatives dare say: We told you so?
There it is, out in the open. The American system of free market Capitalism is hateful to Obama and the other Marxists who run the Democrat party (and make no mistake they are Marxists). They hate Capitalism because it places too much freedom in the hands of individual citizens and not enough power in the central state. They hate Capitalism because what drives and directs it is the individual rather than the collective.
The "Market" is nothing more than the aggregate of the individual self-interested economic decisions of millions of free individual actors. Their decisions as to how to spend their money on their individual wants and needs interacts with the factors of scarcity and abundance to create the pressures of supply and demand which in turn establish the price of goods and services. And price is the piece of information which is most critical in informing producers how they need to invest their productive resources.
Because the market provides this real time picture it is vastly more efficient than any form of central planning could ever hope to be. Therefore planned economies will always be far less capable of meeting the needs of their citizens and those citizens will consequently have to endure a diminished standard of living compared to persons in free market nations.
The reason that Marxists like Obama find this situation of maximum abundance anathema is that the citizen is not (and knows that he is not) beholden to the government for such plenty. The government contributes to this prosperity by simply getting out of the way. By not erecting barriers of excessive taxation or regulation to hamper economic activity and by not creating perverse incentives to non-productive economic activity (like arm-twisting lenders to provide mortgages to people whose credit history suggests that they will be unable to repay the loans).
Barack Obama and his fellow left-wing Democrats want the American people to receive whatever they have from the hand of the federal government. That doing things this way means that the average American will have a great deal less than he would have in a free market system is of absolutely no concern to them. As long as they can engineer things in such a way that it is the government which provides the people with jobs, housing, health care, transportation and even food and water people like Obama will be able to enjoy the naked exercise of raw power while still casting themselves in the role of enlightened benefactors.
To wield the power of Joseph Stalin while wearing the mask of Mahatma Gandhi is the holy grail of the left-wing elites. To those who hold this dream the destruction of the greatest engine for the production of wealth and freedom the world has ever seen is a small enough price to pay.
Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama’s State of the Union speech and his budget.
He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which make absolutely no sense at all — either for this recession or from the standpoint of expanding our economy’s long-run potential to grow.
Raising the marginal tax rate on successful earners, capital, dividends, and all the private funds is a function of Obama’s left-wing social vision, and a repudiation of his economic-recovery statements. Ditto for his sweeping government-planning-and-spending program, which will wind up raising federal outlays as a share of GDP to at least 30 percent, if not more, over the next 10 years.
This is nearly double the government-spending low-point reached during the late 1990s by the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton administration. While not quite as high as spending levels in Western Europe, we regrettably will be gaining on this statist-planning approach.
Study after study over the past several decades has shown how countries that spend more produce less, while nations that tax less produce more. Obama is doing it wrong on both counts.
And as far as middle-class tax cuts are concerned, Obama’s cap-and-trade program will be a huge across-the-board tax increase on blue-collar workers, including unionized workers. Industrial production is plunging, but new carbon taxes will prevent production from ever recovering. While the country wants more fuel and power, cap-and-trade will deliver less.
The tax hikes will generate lower growth and fewer revenues. Yes, the economy will recover. But Obama’s rosy scenario of 4 percent recovery growth in the out years of his budget is not likely to occur. The combination of easy money from the Fed and below-potential economic growth is a prescription for stagflation. That’s one of the messages of the falling stock market.
Essentially, the Obama economic policies represent a major Democratic party relapse into Great Society social spending and taxing. It is a return to the LBJ/Nixon era, and a move away from the Reagan/Clinton period. House Republicans, fortunately, are 90 days sober, as they are putting up a valiant fight to stop the big-government onslaught and move the GOP back to first principles.
Noteworthy up here on Wall Street, a great many Obama supporters — especially hedge-fund types who voted for “change” — are becoming disillusioned with the performances of Obama and Treasury man Geithner.
There is a growing sense of buyer’s remorse.
Well then, do conservatives dare say: We told you so?
There it is, out in the open. The American system of free market Capitalism is hateful to Obama and the other Marxists who run the Democrat party (and make no mistake they are Marxists). They hate Capitalism because it places too much freedom in the hands of individual citizens and not enough power in the central state. They hate Capitalism because what drives and directs it is the individual rather than the collective.
The "Market" is nothing more than the aggregate of the individual self-interested economic decisions of millions of free individual actors. Their decisions as to how to spend their money on their individual wants and needs interacts with the factors of scarcity and abundance to create the pressures of supply and demand which in turn establish the price of goods and services. And price is the piece of information which is most critical in informing producers how they need to invest their productive resources.
Because the market provides this real time picture it is vastly more efficient than any form of central planning could ever hope to be. Therefore planned economies will always be far less capable of meeting the needs of their citizens and those citizens will consequently have to endure a diminished standard of living compared to persons in free market nations.
The reason that Marxists like Obama find this situation of maximum abundance anathema is that the citizen is not (and knows that he is not) beholden to the government for such plenty. The government contributes to this prosperity by simply getting out of the way. By not erecting barriers of excessive taxation or regulation to hamper economic activity and by not creating perverse incentives to non-productive economic activity (like arm-twisting lenders to provide mortgages to people whose credit history suggests that they will be unable to repay the loans).
Barack Obama and his fellow left-wing Democrats want the American people to receive whatever they have from the hand of the federal government. That doing things this way means that the average American will have a great deal less than he would have in a free market system is of absolutely no concern to them. As long as they can engineer things in such a way that it is the government which provides the people with jobs, housing, health care, transportation and even food and water people like Obama will be able to enjoy the naked exercise of raw power while still casting themselves in the role of enlightened benefactors.
To wield the power of Joseph Stalin while wearing the mask of Mahatma Gandhi is the holy grail of the left-wing elites. To those who hold this dream the destruction of the greatest engine for the production of wealth and freedom the world has ever seen is a small enough price to pay.
Dow Down Again-Nobama The Cause
This is not a good way to start the week.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen below 7,000 Monday for the first time in more than 11 years as investors grow even more pessimistic about the health of banks, and in turn the economy.
...Those worries pushed the blue chips below 7,000 for the first time since Oct. 28, 1997. The credit crisis and recession have now slashed half the average's value since it hit a record high over 14,000 in October 2007.
The Dow is down 225 at 6,837. (12:16 PM US/Eastern)
The Standard & Poor's 500 index is down 26 at 708.46, and the Nasdaq composite index is off 38 at 1,338.
This is awful.
Barack Obama has done absolutely nothing to ease fears. Last Tuesday, when Obama addressed the nation, Dem mouthpieces in the lib media praised Obama's speech.
Ron Fournier, AP's Washington bureau chief, declared:
President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again.
After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing his $787 billion stimulus plan through Congress, the president used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to tap the deep well of American optimism—the never-say-die spirit that every president tries to capture in words. And great presidents embody.
Apparently, a lot of investors didn't get the memo that it's time to hope again.
Investors are looking ahead. They're looking at Obama's vision for America, and it's hostile to capitalists.
Look at the markets. I'm not picking up the "audacity to hope again" vibe.
As the economy tanks and Obama seizes the opportunity to "reform" the country, meaning push panicky Americans to accept socialism, Obama ramps up entertaining at the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.
Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday.
A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city.
Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.
Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration's first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire. And a conga line.
The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas' promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone.
WHAT?
Obama is keeping his promise "to make the White House a more open place for everyone"?
EVERYONE?
Darlene Superville, AP writer responsible for this article, has got to be kidding.
I'm seeing our savings and our material wealth disintegrate, and my misery isn't being alleviated by joining a conga line at the White House.
The governors' dinner was "a great kickoff of what we hope will be an atmosphere here in the White House that is welcoming and that reminds everybody that this is the people's house," Obama told the state chief executives after they had dined on Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and citrus salad.
"We are just temporary occupants. This is a place that belongs to the American people and we want to make sure that everybody understands it's open," he said.
At the dinner in the State Dining Room, the Obamas looked comfortable, chatting and smiling with their guests. Afterward, they escorted the governors down the hall to the East Room, which had been arranged with few tables and chairs to encourage dancing to "September," "Boogie Wonderland" and other hits from a musical group Obama listened to growing up.
The conga line formed after the media were escorted out and, apparently, after Obama had called it a night.
"Thank you also for waiting until I had left before you started the conga line," the president told the governors the next morning. "I hear it was quite a spectacle."
Some Obama guests say he immediately puts them at ease. He indulges them and serves cookies, too.
...Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., was among those invited for the Super Bowl. He said Obama, an avid sports fan, joined his guests for most of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and ultimately triumphant Pittsburgh Steelers.
"It wasn't a circumstance where he came in and said 'Hi' and then left," Franks said. "He actually stayed and watched the game."
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said Obama was very cordial, and he and the first lady made guests feel comfortable. The president talked to everyone before the game started, she said, including a 12-year-old boy who asked Obama where the bathroom was.
"My favorite part was when he personally served us cookies—oatmeal raisin—when we were watching the game," she said.
No, no, NO.
This is BS.
AP writer Superville can create this image that Obama is the most engaging, down to earth host-in-chief, serving cookies to his guests.
He's not serving cookies to me. He hasn't opened the White House to me.
When do I get my invitation to the White House? When can I have some fun?
I like oatmeal raisin cookies. I want Obama to serve me an oatmeal raisin cookie.
While I await my invitation from Obama, I'll pass the time watching the markets plummet and monitor the fruits of all our hard work, sacrifices, and financial planning evaporate.
Frankly, I don't feel like partying with Obama. All the oatmeal raisin cookies in the world can't give us back what Obama and the Democrats are taking away.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average has fallen below 7,000 Monday for the first time in more than 11 years as investors grow even more pessimistic about the health of banks, and in turn the economy.
...Those worries pushed the blue chips below 7,000 for the first time since Oct. 28, 1997. The credit crisis and recession have now slashed half the average's value since it hit a record high over 14,000 in October 2007.
The Dow is down 225 at 6,837. (12:16 PM US/Eastern)
The Standard & Poor's 500 index is down 26 at 708.46, and the Nasdaq composite index is off 38 at 1,338.
This is awful.
Barack Obama has done absolutely nothing to ease fears. Last Tuesday, when Obama addressed the nation, Dem mouthpieces in the lib media praised Obama's speech.
Ron Fournier, AP's Washington bureau chief, declared:
President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again.
After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing his $787 billion stimulus plan through Congress, the president used his address to Congress on Tuesday night to tap the deep well of American optimism—the never-say-die spirit that every president tries to capture in words. And great presidents embody.
Apparently, a lot of investors didn't get the memo that it's time to hope again.
Investors are looking ahead. They're looking at Obama's vision for America, and it's hostile to capitalists.
Look at the markets. I'm not picking up the "audacity to hope again" vibe.
As the economy tanks and Obama seizes the opportunity to "reform" the country, meaning push panicky Americans to accept socialism, Obama ramps up entertaining at the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.
Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.
The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday.
A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city.
Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.
Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration's first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire. And a conga line.
The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas' promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone.
WHAT?
Obama is keeping his promise "to make the White House a more open place for everyone"?
EVERYONE?
Darlene Superville, AP writer responsible for this article, has got to be kidding.
I'm seeing our savings and our material wealth disintegrate, and my misery isn't being alleviated by joining a conga line at the White House.
The governors' dinner was "a great kickoff of what we hope will be an atmosphere here in the White House that is welcoming and that reminds everybody that this is the people's house," Obama told the state chief executives after they had dined on Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and citrus salad.
"We are just temporary occupants. This is a place that belongs to the American people and we want to make sure that everybody understands it's open," he said.
At the dinner in the State Dining Room, the Obamas looked comfortable, chatting and smiling with their guests. Afterward, they escorted the governors down the hall to the East Room, which had been arranged with few tables and chairs to encourage dancing to "September," "Boogie Wonderland" and other hits from a musical group Obama listened to growing up.
The conga line formed after the media were escorted out and, apparently, after Obama had called it a night.
"Thank you also for waiting until I had left before you started the conga line," the president told the governors the next morning. "I hear it was quite a spectacle."
Some Obama guests say he immediately puts them at ease. He indulges them and serves cookies, too.
...Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., was among those invited for the Super Bowl. He said Obama, an avid sports fan, joined his guests for most of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and ultimately triumphant Pittsburgh Steelers.
"It wasn't a circumstance where he came in and said 'Hi' and then left," Franks said. "He actually stayed and watched the game."
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said Obama was very cordial, and he and the first lady made guests feel comfortable. The president talked to everyone before the game started, she said, including a 12-year-old boy who asked Obama where the bathroom was.
"My favorite part was when he personally served us cookies—oatmeal raisin—when we were watching the game," she said.
No, no, NO.
This is BS.
AP writer Superville can create this image that Obama is the most engaging, down to earth host-in-chief, serving cookies to his guests.
He's not serving cookies to me. He hasn't opened the White House to me.
When do I get my invitation to the White House? When can I have some fun?
I like oatmeal raisin cookies. I want Obama to serve me an oatmeal raisin cookie.
While I await my invitation from Obama, I'll pass the time watching the markets plummet and monitor the fruits of all our hard work, sacrifices, and financial planning evaporate.
Frankly, I don't feel like partying with Obama. All the oatmeal raisin cookies in the world can't give us back what Obama and the Democrats are taking away.
Nobama Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Of course. Barack Obama was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.Via PL ForumBut for what?-- Defeating Hillary Clinton?-- Running a spectacular political campaign?-- Bankrupting America his first month in office?-- Spending more money than any human being in the history of earth?-- Apologizing to Muslims for the liberation of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan from brutal Muslim regimes?What?UPDATE: Here's a few reasons.
March 1, 2009
Nobama Congratulates Chavez Along With The Commie Homo Lovers
Two weeks after the Obama State Department broke precedent and congratulated the Venezuelan regime for the "democratic" elections that will keep Marxist Hugo Chavez in power for decades, he took control of the rice plants.
No wonder those commie homo-lovers are so infatuated with the Marxist ruler.
Chavez with fan club members Penn, Glover, Campbell, & Spacey.
The BBC reported:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered the army to take control of all rice processing plants in the country.
Mr Chavez accused some firms of overcharging by refusing to produce rice at prices set by the government.
He warned that some companies could be nationalised if they tried to interfere with supplies of the grain.
Mr Chavez - who has nationalised large swathes of Venezuela's economy - did not say how long the government intervention would last.
Major rice processors in the country include the US-owned giant Cargill and Venezuela's main food company, Polar.
Last year, Venezuela seized control of plants and offices belonging to Mexican cement giant Cemex.
In 2007, the government said it had taken control of the massive Orinoco Belt oil projects as part of President Chavez's nationalisation drive.
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