This as he rains missiles down on Pakistan and Afghanistan while escalating the war on the ground and preparing for war with Iran.
"For Obama, deep anti-nuclear roots; As a student, he sought arms cuts" by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, New York Times | July 5, 2009
NEW YORK - At a dark moment of the Cold War, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear-free world.’’ He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities’’ that “suit the military-industrial interests’’ with their “billion-dollar erector sets,’’ and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced “the twisted logic of which we are a part today’’ and praised student efforts to realize “the possibility of a decent world.’’ But his article, “Breaking the War Mentality,’’ said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.
He's changed, and not in the kind of way we wanted.
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Twenty-six years later, the author, in his new job as president of the United States, has begun pushing for new global rules, treaties, and alliances that he insists can establish a nuclear-free world.
Talk to Israel yet?
“I’m not naive,’’ Obama told a cheering throng in Prague this spring. “This goal will not be reached quickly - perhaps not in my lifetime. It will take patience and persistence.’’
No previous American president has set out a step-by-step agenda for the elimination of nuclear arms. Obama is starting relatively small. In an interview yesterday, Obama stressed that “I’ve made clear that we will retain our deterrent capacity as long as there is a country with nuclear weapons.’’
Hell, we are UPGRADING the god-damn things!!!
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But reducing arsenals, he insisted, would be the first step toward giving the United States and a growing body of allies the power to remake the nuclear world. Among the goals: halting weapons programs in North Korea and Iran, discouraging states from abandoning the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and ending global production of fuel for nuclear arms, a step sure to upset Pakistan, India, and Israel.
I wouldn't be holding my breath on that, seeing as Israel has us up there ass and Ms. Hitlery just cozied up to the Indian program.
Now, PAKISTAN, on the other hand!!!!
Even before those battles are joined, opposition is rising. “This is dangerous, wishful thinking,’’ Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, and Richard Perle, an architect of the Reagan-era nuclear buildup that appalled Obama as an undergraduate, wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal.
So SOME NEO-CON WAR-CRIMINAL S***TER still gets an OP SPACE in AmeriKa, huh?
They contend that Obama is, indeed, a naif for assuming that “the nuclear ambitions of Kim Jong Il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be curtailed or abandoned in response to reductions in the American and Russian deterrent forces.’’
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Of course, that was then, THIS is now.
WASHINGTON - President Obama announced yesterday he will nominate a career international development specialist to be director of the Peace Corps.
Aaron Williams, now the vice president for international business development with RTI International, has 25 years of experience in helping design assistance programs in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. He was a manager at the US Agency for International Development and reached the rank of career minister in the Senior Foreign Service. He served in the Dominican Republic as a Peace Corps volunteer in the ’60s.
“America was built on a belief that the best progress comes from ordinary citizens working to bring about the change they believe in,’’ Obama said.Those are GREAT WORDS -- except they are coming from a SLICK-TALKING FRAUDSTER who DOESN'T REALLY MEAN IT!
Otherwise, HIS GOVERNMENT would EXPOSE 9/11!!!!
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Instead we get: Cheney receives exceptional protection
You think Obama would know better, huh?
"Obama honors science, math educators
He MOST CERTAINLY DOES NOT!!
President Obama honored two Massachusetts teachers and a Bay State organization yesterday among more than 100 nationwide receiving awards for excellence. The Maria Mitchell Association in Nantucket is among those receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, which goes to individuals or organizations who mentor minority students studying science or engineering. Erin Flynn of Roslindale and Deborah Seaver of Milford are among those getting the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, which is given to the best pre-college-level science and math teachers from across the country. The awards will be presented this fall at a White House ceremony.
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And now he's tossing money at this wasted endeavor?
"Obama unveils $12b community college aid package
WARREN, Mich. - Conceding that unemployment will get worse before it gets better, President Obama yesterday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs.
I missed out.
Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy. “I love the folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, ‘Well, this is Obama’s economy,’ ’’ the president told an outdoor crowd at Macomb Community College. “That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and harp and gripe.’’
Well, maybe not now: The Honeymoon is Over For Obama
I mean, they are even blaming Bush now: Biden Passes the Buck Back to Bush
Would you like to revise your statement, counselor?
Obama did not identify his target for those comments, but he has been under increasing fire from Republicans over the pace of the economic recovery and the soaring federal deficit. He brought his message to a state reeling from the loss of auto jobs and with an unemployment rate of 14.1 percent, the nation’s worst.
“The hard truth is that some of the jobs that have been lost in the auto industry and elsewhere won’t be coming back,’’ Obama said. “They are the casualties of a changing economy.’’
What about all the green jobs? The jobs we are training for?
Of course, we all know there is only one avenue for Amerika's kids: military.
To that end, he proposed an “American Graduation Initiative’’ to bolster the two-year community college field that serves millions of students as a launching point for careers or a step toward expanded higher education.
To where? What jobs?
Competitive grants would be offered to schools to try new programs or expand training and counseling.
FOR WHAT? Eating s***?
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High dropout rates would be addressed by designing programs to track students and help them earn an associate’s degree or finish their education at a four-year institution.
My stink history degree is worthless. It's all based on lies, too.
Money would also be spent to renovate and rebuild college facilities, and online courses would be developed to help colleges offer more classes. The White House says the cost would be $12 billion over 10 years; Obama says it would be paid for by ending wasteful subsidies to banks and private lenders of student loans.
A pittance when you consider the loot the banks stole.
Why are they PROFITING at OUR KIDS' EXPENSE anyway?
Earlier yesterday at the White House, Obama said he expected that the nation’s unemployment rate would continue to “tick up for several months.’’
Tick, tick, tick, tik, tick, tick.....
