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POPSWhat Barack Obama Inherited
He inherited the responsibility to continue the philosophy and the tradition of a country founded on Judeo-Christian morals, ethics, and principles. He inherited the Constitution of the United States. He did not claim the right to remake it, to rewrite it, to change it. He swore to uphold it. And he's in the process of wreaking as much damage to the Constitution as he can get away with, with nominations like Sonia Sotomayor, as he is wreaking damage to the US economy. Barack Obama did not inherit a mess. He leads a mess. He inherited the United States of America, where anything is possible. And greatness has been delivered to the world time after time in the form of private sector inventions, innovations, advancements in products that improve people's lives for over 200 years. He inherited a country of individuals energized by their liberty and strengthened by their character. Barack Obama inherited the leadership of the greatest collection of human beings in the history . . .
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POPSSNL: Obama Accomplishes "Diddly-Squat" FRED ARMISEN AS BARACK OBAMA: There are those on the right who are angry. They think that I'm turning this great country into something that resembles the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, but that's just not the case. But when you look at my record it's very clear what I've done so far and that is nothing. Nada. Almost one year and nothing to show for it. As a checklist of his agenda items during the campaign appeared on the screen -- global warming, immigration reform, gays in the military, limits on executive powers, torture prosecutions, closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, healthcare reform, etc. -- Armisen accurately commented on how they weren't accomplished: So Far I've Accomplished Nothing! Nada! http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/10/04/snl-skewers-obama-so-far-ive-done-nothing-president
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POPSThere's good news about racism in America When a Boston cop refers to Gates as a "banana-eating jungle monkey," when a town hall protester rips up a picture of Rosa Parks and the crowd cheers, look up! There's a reason racism is angry: it's losing ground.
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POPSScott Wheeler Discussing Obama's Czars on Fox & Friends Scott Wheeler: Special Election in New York, Why Obama Lost Video: Government Spending Out of Control Press Release: TARP Repayment Funds Should Not Be Used as a Political for Obama To Repay His Supporters Scott Wheeler: President Barack Obama Returns to His Muslim Roots Video: Conservatives Gear Up for Supreme Court Fight Video: Supreme Court Battle Lines Drawn Video: Sotomayor Viewed as Threat to Constitutional Law Video: Scott Wheeler: Sotomayor is the Wrong Nominee Video: Scott Wheeler Aggressively Confronts Liberals on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show”
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POPSNew Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor questions corporate personhood Wow. What a fantastic thing it would be to have the whole "corporate personhood" thing reexamined. Especially since "corporate personhood" arose via dictum in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad — it was never argued as a legal matter before the court, it was merely asserted as an "oh, by the way".
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POPSGlenn Beck, Van Jones and Race Regarding Obama, he has had immense difficulty seeing past the president's skin. He said Obama was elected because of race instead of his policies. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906080010 He has portrayed the Democratic health care reform effort as "the beginning of reparations." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907220015 He has said that Obama plans to "settle old racial scores through new social justice." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240012 So it should have come as no surprise when Beck, who believes it is actually Obama, not himself, who "has real issues with race," http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270045 said the president had "exposed himself as a guy" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008 The next day, he said "I think the president is a racist." http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907290012 The Color of Change boycott started soon afterward. http://colorofchange.org/beck/
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POPSWhite House Uses Taxpayer Dollars To Send Spam E-Mails on Health Reform It is still unknown how much taxpayer money the White House provides to Govdelivery for its services. "This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration's rabid campaign to jam its radical health care scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary," Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement. Govdelivery sent hundreds of e-mails from senior adviser David Axelrod asking supporters to help rebut criticism of Obama's health care plan circulating on the Internet. It also sent e-mails highlighting Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo and the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee. On Monday, the White House implemented several new changes to its Web site, apparently aimed at reducing the number of people who receive unsolicited e-mails and at fighting charges that it's collecting personal information on critics. The White House also pulled the plug on a controversial e-mail address, flag@whitehouse.gov . . .
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POPS Busted! WH Confirms Using Contractor to Send Axelrod E-mails "This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration's rabid campaign to jam its radical health care scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary," Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement. Govdelivery sent hundreds of e-mails from senior adviser David Axelrod asking supporters to help rebut criticism of Obama's health care plan circulating on the Internet. It also sent e-mails highlighting Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo and the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee . So we have an outfit using your taxpayer money to send unsolicited emails to opponents of Obama's government takeover of our healthcare system. And these people have the audacity to accuse others of Astro-turfing. If the GOP did this there'd already be hearings underway.
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POPS"Stupidest Summer Ever" (by a former Republican) He concludes: I'm not trying to say that Democrats have a sparkling clean record or that this is anything particularly new. I expected to see a good deal of partisan sniping like we saw against Bush or Clinton during their administrations. But the level of stupidity on display this summer is just relentlessly, head-clutchingly astonishing.
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POPSRepublicans see themselves in the backseat for YEARS to come. More: Recently named counselor to the Senate Republican leader, Martinez has been a factor in GOP leadership meetings. As the lone Hispanic among Senate Republicans and, briefly, as chair of the Republican National Committee, he tried to move his party toward adopting a policy of comprehensive immigration reform, without success. On Thursday, he was one of only nine Republicans to vote to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the first Hispanic to serve on the high court.
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POPSHispanic Woman Confirmed to U.S. Supreme Court It's great to see so many aspects of our USA government, even hard-to-change institutions like the courts, start to reflect more accurate the composite of the country....a multicultural, secular nation. It makes us much stronger. Prejudice, discrimination, racial hatred are a real drag on a society, holding it back, pulling it down.
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POPSObama's Great Race to Change America By Victor Davis Hanson But he has earned almost no bipartisan support for his proposed legislation. After six months in office, he still blames George Bush for much of the country's problems. When Attorney General Eric Holder called Americans "cowards" for not discussing race honestly, when Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor claimed Latina judges would make wiser decisions than white male judges in some cases, and when the president himself said police had "stupidly" arrested his friend Henry Louis Gates, the public saw more of the old tired identity politics. And despite promises of a new ethics in Washington, there are still tax avoiders and revolving-door lobbyists in the Obama administration just like in any other past presidency. Third, there is a vague sense of foreboding about the future and the direction the country is going. The amount of money George Bush proposed the government borrow at the end of his presidency now looks small. "Trillion" has replaced "billion" as the common . . .
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POPSNRA Senators resist NRA extremes Most NRA members are not as extreme as NRA leadership; Senators of both parties who are on the NRA's A-list decided the lobby was wrong on Sotomayor.
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POPSWhy Political Gaffes are Benificial "The more concerned you are to avoid saying anything wrong or offensive, the less likely you are to say anything inspiring or true." If Sotomayor has been hyper vigilant about not making a gaff she would never have inspired many a young woman with her wise Latina remark.
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POPSRachel Maddow Takes Down MSNBC's Resident Racist, Pat Buchanan
Needless to say, conservatives were far more concerned with rolling back the rights of women and minorities than offering policy solutions that truly helped low-income white men. In the past few months, conservative griping about the oppression of white men has come back with a vengeance. Lacking any real material with which to attack judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Republican lawmakers and media conservatives have mightily struggled to paint Sotomayor as an unqualified affirmative-action candidate -- one committed to using the law to erode the rights of while males. Sotomayor was absurdly attacked as a "reverse racist"; she was accused of gaming the system to get ahead; her temperament, educational achievements and judicial history were slimely undermined despite ample evidence that she is more than qualified to serve on the Court. Some of the most vicious attacks have come from Pat Buchanan, a conservative extremist who for mysterious reasons still enjoys a spot on MSNBC
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POPSSotomayor not getting Grassley's vote As a native Iowan, this really is disappointing from someone who has always struck me as a reasonable senator. This article makes it sound like Grassley can't set aside his person biases either - like feeling burned by Souter - whatever the hell that has to do with Sotomayor! Come on Chuck! You can do better!
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POPSNo Medical Care for Those Who Are Not “Participating Citizens” less than fools . Whereas thousands are fleeing the natural paradise of California for the arid deserts of no-tax Nevada, there is no Nevada to the United States . . . The New York Times (again) quoted a credit analyst at Hexagon Securities named David Havens in a story on CIT this financial firm trying to find financing saying, “ he only game in town right now is the government.” Sometimes I don’t even care. No one else seems to care. Certainly no one under 35 cares. No one stood up against Sotomayor who should have. I feel like I’m shooting myself in the foot here to prove some point before an implacable unstoppable force of history (A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,/ Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it/ Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds), and it’s totally not worth it. I just don’t care. Rahm Emanuel’s Brother and Obama’s Top Health Advisor: While I’m not caring, Rahm Emanuel’s brother, who is,
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POPSRachel Maddow exposes Pat Buchanan as a LIAR Click through for the video. Buchanan's a foul bigot who depends on a casual acquaintance with the facts to sway the like-minded. This is why I love the intarwebz: Because you just can't spout bullshit and expect to not get called on it anymore
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POPSPat Buchanan and Revisionist History Ratings aside, I can't believe that Pat Buchanan is allowed to speak in public. What is worse is that people espouse his opinions as if they are thoughtful and informed.
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POPSJudge Sonia Sotomayor Denied My Appeal and I Spent 16 Years in Prison For a Crime I Didn't Commit I defended my innocence before the New York Appellate Division, raising such proof as the fact that the physical evidence found did not match me and arguing that the police violated my rights by coercing a false confession from me at the age of 16. The court ruled against me 5 to 0, concluding that there was nothing wrong with my interrogation and stating that there was "overwhelming evidence of guilt," despite the fact that there was no evidence beyond my forced confession. In truth, the DNA and the hairs found on the victim's body were evidence of my innocence. Read full article:
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POPSAmerica's Whole Racist Enchilada Grande
One of the things I love about my country is it's humor. (Note: the "whole enchilada," is a common, Hispanic-flavored term meaning: the whole ball of wax (!?)...the whole messy, crazy situation.) On this clip page is a John Steward comedy video insulting a U.S. Senator (who is insulting the Hispanic woman nominated for our Supreme Court....big job). Building up his insults (like the Senator was doing to the Hispanic woman nominee), Stewart ends by calling the Senator an old lesbian." Another Senator on this approval committee strikes me as an "effeminate counterfeit Confederate." The candidate made the mistake of saying a "wise Latina," might make a better judicial judgement than while male. Negroes (according to Richard Nixon) make terrible spies while Jews are born spies. (this came up). So we have blatantly waded in to every racist attitude imaginable. White people appear Very Touchy about being treated inferior. A court case of such "reverse discrimination," ha
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POPSFranken, Sotomayor and Perry Mason ... before wrapping up his question time, Franken returned to "Perry Mason," posing to Sotomayor the only question that has stumped her so far during the Judiciary Committee hearings. Franken asked Sotomayor the name of the one case where Mason’s client was actually guilty. But Sotomayor, for all her knowledge of real-life cases, couldn’t come up with the answer, prompting mock surprise and disappointment from the senator. “Didn’t the White House prepare you?” ... Sotomayor assured the panel that “I watched it all of the time” but could not remember. Posted by Moneyrunner
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