No, it's the policies; however, with the whole world kind of falling apart....
Change? What change?
"Obama on fund-raising trip before Vineyard vacation
WASHINGTON — President Obama is heading into another intense round of fund-raising — a three-day, five-state swing to raise money for Democratic candidates on the ballot in November. Starting Monday, Obama will make stops in Wisconsin, California, Washington state, Ohio, and Florida....
Yeah, THANKS for pitching in on that global-warming, 'bama!
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I'd rather my tax dime not be spent on political plane rides.
"Obama sharpens message for fall election" by Associated Press | August 17, 2010
MILWAUKEE — Flying thousands of miles to reap millions of dollars, President Obama is dashing across the country to help his party retain power, essentially offering one familiar argument: Republicans don’t solve problems.
This as YOU are SUFFERING SO MUCH, America!!
All so POLITICIANS can FETE FAT CAT CONTRIBUTORS!!
See: Democrats Caught With Drawers Down
Readers, they are ONLY PAYING for their OWN PARTIES!
“Don’t give in to fear,’’ Obama said yesterday, urging voters to turn back GOP efforts to gain control of the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections. “Let’s reach for hope.’’
I will when YOU quit TALKING TERROR and the "homeland" and START SERVING AmeriKa not Israel, sir!!
Obama has settled on his message for the elections, which means what he said yesterday in Milwaukee will sound like what he says today in Seattle and tomorrow in Miami.
More HOT GAS that will not help the global warming problem he cares so much about.
He is covering more than 8,000 miles in three days, the kind of personal attention that gets donors to the door.
I'm sorry, America, but are YOU getting PERSONAL ATTENTION (and I do NOT MEAN some photo opportunity for the campaign)?!
Despite deep voter impatience over the sickly economy, the White House is betting people will stick with Democrats if the choice is framed as one between those who act and those who obstruct....
As it is now I WANT OBSTRUCTION! It seems to be the ONLY TOOL AVAILABLE to the AmeriKan people at this point. All our victories are REAR-GUARD ACTIONS -- like halting the carbon tax and amnesty bills for the year!
Of course, if the masters really wanted it to go through....
Obama has advanced all the big parts of his agenda — the massive stimulus spending bill, the health care overhaul, the rewriting of rules for Wall Street....
Yeah, that is why his party is going to take a beating at the polls.
Related: New Unemployment Claims SURGE, Hit Highest Level Since November 2009
Not going to help them.
Obama’s official agenda each day is to underline his efforts to jump-start the lumbering economy....
Bull-oney!
The White House and MSM are trying to make the election about race, mosques, and immigration.
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"Vineyard buzzes less for Obamas’ second visit; Many say they’ll leave family alone" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | August 18, 2010
OAK BLUFFS — As Martha’s Vineyard prepares for the first family’s visit tomorrow — their second summer stay here since President Obama took office — the excitement that marked last summer’s arrival of the fresh-faced commander in chief seems to have ebbed like the tide.
Also see: Obama's Weekend Get-Away
Obama, now a tested president burdened by war and economic upheaval, may well get the peace and quiet he has been seeking as he settles in for a 10-day stay....
Yeah, I hope he can find some peace and quiet.
Pfffft!
Maybe he will LAY OFF the MISSILE ATTACKS for the next ten days.
It was only a year ago that the president, a superstar after his historic election, rode a wave of popularity to The Rock....
Riding a wave of anger this year.
But in the final days before his second visit, some residents say the excitement has waned along with Obama’s popularity after two years in office....
One barometer of the plunge in excitement has been the sale of Obama-themed T-shirts, which designers had been banking on after the craze of last year.
Awwww.
Clothing labeled with the president’s name sold by the thousands, helping to salvage a tough economic year for the island.
Then the RIGHT GUY is VISITING!
But this year’s T-shirt sales are much less brisk, merchants say.
“Last year, Obama gave you goose bumps, but I don’t think you’re going to see that this year,’’ said Alex McCluskey, co-owner of the Locker Room, who sold more than 4,000 “I vacationed with Obama’’ T-shirts last year. But so far this year, he said, his hot item is T-shirts of former President Bush asking, “Miss me yet?’’
NOT a GOOD SIGN for Democrats -- or the nation!
Residents have also noticed a drop in the number of stores with Obama posters on their front windows and homes with signs that welcome the first family....
Of course, even with the change in vibe this year, no one could deny they would appreciate a presidential visit. A fund-raiser is being held for Governor Deval Patrick Saturday at the Edgartown home of Boston businessman Richard Friedman, and the question on the island is whether the president will show up....
Why am I NOT SURPRISED at that?
And don't worry, I'm SURE he will BE THERE!
Related: Slow Saturday Special: Obama's Day Off
What you guys have to look forward to the next two weeks.
"In Ohio backyard, Obama talks of an uptrend; Assures 1 family economy is better" by Ben Feller, Associated Press | August 19, 2010
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Admittedly wary of losing touch, President Obama returned to the comfort of backyard politics yesterday, assuring a polite gathering of middle-class neighbors that the economy is coming around “slowly but surely.’’
He's lost touch!
At the brick-and-shingle house of the Weithman family, Obama’s questioners showed no interest in the divisive midterm elections or other matters gobbling up the political debate. They wanted to know what he was doing on jobs, health care, pensions, and child care.
That is what WE CARE ABOUT, world!
We want and END to the WARS and the government to TAKE CARE of OUR TROUBLES and LEAVE YOU ALONE to live your own lives in peace!
In turn, Obama got what he wanted: a sunny platform to engage voters and promote his agenda.
Well then, everyone is happy!
Obama had not left the property, though, before he was sent off-message by answering a reporter’s shouted question about a national controversy: plans for a mosque and community center near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York....
Oh, for CRYING OUT LOUD!!
Sorry, but that is DOWN on the LIST of CONCERNS -- just as is race and immigration!
THIS ELECTION is going to be about the ECONOMY and the WARS!!
In the midst of a fund-raising tour that has generated more than $3 million for Democrats, Obama seemed refreshed to be having his chat in the Weithman family’s backyard.
So that they can spend it on campaign contributors at lavish parties.
The neighbors sat scattered in lawn chairs and picnic tables. The president held forth with a microphone, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, as though he were talking with old friends. Reporters were packed in all the way to the tomato garden.
We are NOT FOOLED!
“Look, I’ll be honest with you,’’ Obama said....
Oh, NO HE WON'T!
See: Obama's Gulf Swim Was Fake
That is NO CHANGE at all -- unless it is FOR the WORST!
In every stop, Obama has been trying to convince people that his efforts to improve the economy will take time and that matters would be disastrously worse without the steps his administration has taken.
Too late, liar!!!
Yet those, too, are often underwhelming political arguments for the millions who have been out of work long term and want faster results.
As if you are what, impatient America?
BANKS got THEIR MONEY within a WEEK and WARS are ALWAYS FULLY-FUNDED!
In the setting of the Weithman yard, Obama took a break from his standard campaign speech. Gone, at least for one event, was his contention that Republicans offer the country nothing but fear, cynicism, and recklessness.
But the partisan words returned quickly. He was back to his oft-repeated view that Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch as he spoke at a fund-raiser for Ohio’s Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, who is fighting for reelection.
The president was capping his three-day, five-state trip with a fund-raiser in Miami for Florida Democrats. He plans to vacation with his family in Martha’s Vineyard, beginning today.And WHAT was the CARBON FOOTPRINT on all that?
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Related: 2006 All Over Again
Sure feels like it.
Same kind of reporting, too.
And I find this bloody shirt waving disgusting, folks -- especially since it reinforces the lie that Muslims were responsible for 9/11.
"GOP candidates assail president over N.Y. mosque comments
WASHINGTON — Republican candidates around the country seized on President Obama’s support for the right of Muslims to build a mosque near ground zero, assailing him as an elitist who is insensitive to the families of the Sept. 11 victims.
That is a characteristic of MOST if not ALL politicians!
From state houses to state fairs yesterday, Republican incumbents and challengers unleashed an almost unified line of criticism against the president....
This is DISGUSTING!
Recalling the emotion of that deadly day, Republicans said that while they respect religious freedom, the president’s position was cold and academic, lacking compassion and empathy for the victims’ families.
Yeah, then you CAN'T THINK, America!
“He is thinking like a lawyer and not like an American, making declarations without America’s best interest in mind,’’ said Andrew Harris, a Republican running for Congress in Maryland against first-term Democratic Representative Frank Kratovil.
Our best interest lies in the TRUTH and ceasing to serve Iz-ray-HELL!
That line — emerging as a boilerplate attack — forced the endangered Democrat to respond.
“I mean, it seems to me those are issues related to local zoning laws and so forth, and that’s a decision that they’re going to have to make, but I don’t see the federal government having any role in that,’’ Kratovil said.
That's why Democrats suck. They are so spineless!!!
It was a MOSSAD JOB with help from the CIA and BUSH administration and the dual national Israeli neo-cons that have infested this government.
In Ohio, where the president was headed today as part of a three-state political swing, Republican congressional candidate Jim Renacci took issue with Obama’s position and challenged his opponent, first-term Democrat John Boccieri, to do likewise.
“Just because we may have the right to do something, doesn’t necessarily make it right to do it,’’ Renacci said.
The Boccieri campaign and his congressional office didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Republicans who weren’t on the ballot this year — but possibly looking ahead to challenging Obama in 2012 — sought to make it a political issue....
Yeah, THANKS, MSM!
Obama isn’t worried about the furor unleashed by his comments, a spokesman said yesterday.
Then WHY did he move into instant backpedal mode?
He’s also not dismayed that the Senate’s top Democrat, majority leader Harry Reid, now opposes the idea, said deputy press secretary Bill Burton.
“This is an issue people are going to come to with strongly held convictions,’’ Burton told reporters aboard Air Force One, as Obama flew to an appearance in Seattle. “He’s happy our thriving democracy is continuing to produce vigorous debate.’’
The LYING NEVER STOPS!!
Nor does the agenda-pushing BS:
"N.Y. mosque raises worry for some Muslims; Islam’s image in US a concern" by Rachel Zoll, Associated Press | August 19, 2010
NEW YORK — American Muslims who support the proposed mosque and Islamic center near ground zero are facing skeptics within their own faith — those who argue that the project is insensitive to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and needlessly provocative at a time when Muslims are pressing for wider acceptance in the United States.
They remind me of Uncle Tom or the Jewish collaborators of the Warsaw ghettos.
“For most Americans, 9/11 remains as an open wound, and anything associated with Islam, even for Americans who want to understand Islam — to have an Islamic center with so much publicity is like rubbing salt in open wounds,’’ said Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic studies at American University, a former Pakistani ambassador to Britain and author of “Journey Into America, the Challenge of Islam.’’ He said the space should include a synagogue and a church, so it will truly be interfaith.
Aren't there enough of them in AmeriKa already?
And the wound is open, but not for the reason he thinks.
Abdul Cader Asmal, past president of the Islamic Council of New England, an umbrella group for more than 15 Islamic centers, said many Americans have genuine, understandable questions about Islam and extremism.
The same as we have concerns about Zionism and its war-criminal extremism.
In light of those fears, and the opposition of many relatives of 9/11 victims, Asmal said organizers should dramatically scale back the project to just a simple mosque, despite their legal right to construct what they want.
Yeah, KNUCKLE UNDER to the FASCISTS!
“Winning in the court of law is not going to help improve the image of Muslims nationwide,’’ said Asmal, a Massachusetts physician. “You have to win the hearts and minds of the ordinary American people.’’
Oh, isn't THAT a SWITCH, Americans!!??
I think they had me at hello.
Related: Sharp Drop In US Support For Israel, New Poll Shows
I don't think Muslims need be worried; America is WAKING UP and Israel is destroying itself!
Few American Muslims who lost relatives in the terrorist strikes have spoken out, but those who have are also divided.
Talat Hamdani, a Muslim whose son Mohammad Salman Hamdani, a New York emergency medical technician, was killed, supports the proposal. “I’m not fighting for a mosque. I’m fighting for my rights,’’ she said.
Neda Bolourchi of Los Angeles, a native of Iran whose mother was on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center, opposes the plan, saying she fears it could come under the sway of fundamentalists.Sigh.
What, now Iran had something to do with 9/11?
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Related: 9/11: Mosques and Memories
For your further consideration:
"For many presidents the traditional August retreat has been a time for major events to strike with uncanny bad timing."
TERROR ALERT, AmeriKa!!
TERROR ALERT!!
FALSE FLAG ATTACK in the works!!
Maybe something like this to be blamed on them?
Related: Lady Liberty In Israel's Sights
Also read: THE BIG BANG MEANS ...
Bye-bye, Obomber!
