Fuck Obama

[ninakat]

[8bitagent]

From the State of the Union bullshit:

“Of course as we speak, al Qaeda and their affiliates continue to plan attacks against us.”

“Our purpose is clear, by preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, we will deny al Qaeda the safe haven that served as a launching pad for 9/11.”

What a lying piece of shit.

Hey, well now gays can officially be cannon fodder, so alls good now! Time to let the CIA/army/etc at every college campus, time to rev up covert strikes worldwide, etc

[Simulist]

Well done.

Wading through Obama's State of the Union address would have required me to suspend disbelief beyond all limits, so I watched a rerun of LOST instead.

[freemason9]

if i was president
and the congress would call my name
i'd say "who do . . .
who do you think your're fooling?"
i've got the presidential seal
i'm up on the presidential podium
my mama loves me
she loves me
she gets down on her knees and hugs me
and she loves me like a rock
she rocks me like the rock of ages
and she loves me
she loves me, loves me, loves me, loves me

[Pele'sDaughter]

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewN ... sor_110208

Why Did Obama Choose Outsourcing Champion Jeffrey Immelt as Jobs Advisor?

President Barack Obama’s choice of Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to chair the newly-created President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness has drawn criticism for many reasons.

GE is a model for what’s wrong with corporate America these days, writes Shahien Nasiripour at The Huffington Post. It’s a company “that’s hoarding cash, sending jobs overseas, relying on taxpayer bailouts and paying less taxes than envisioned.”

On the issue of shipping jobs overseas, GE’s actions are particularly glaring. The company regularly tops the list of transnational corporations ranked by the size of their foreign asset holdings, as it receives more of its revenues and profits from abroad than from its U.S. operations. Also, the majority of its 304,000 employees are based overseas.

Between 2005 and 2009, the U.S. employee share of GE’s total workforce dropped from 51% to 44%. In 2009 and 2010, GE shuttered 28 manufacturing plants in the U.S.

Dave Lindorff at This Can’t Be Happening says GE “is not an American company. It is a foreign company that happens to be headquartered in the U.S.”

Last year, GE paid taxes at a rate of only 14.3%.

[Nordic]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/obam ... publicans/

Obama seeks longer PATRIOT Act extension than Republicans

By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011 -- 1:26 pm

Faced with a looming vote on a planned one-year extension of special powers authorized in the USA PATRIOT Act, the Obama White House did not object or propose reforms, as the president vowed to do as a candidate.

The Obama administration instead asked Congress to grant those powers for an additional three years.

As a US Senator and candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama never actually argued for a repeal of the Bush administration's security initiatives. Instead, he's consistently argued for enhanced judicial oversight and a pullback on the most extreme elements of the bill, such as the use of National Security Letters to search people's personal records without a court-issued warrant.

While many in his own party opposed the PATRIOT Act outright, as president Obama has said repeatedly that the emergency measures remain a valuable tool for law enforcement engaged in national security prerogatives.

On Tuesday, ahead of a House vote to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act for another year, the White House did something unexpected: they asked for even more.



A prepared statement issued Tuesday afternoon said that President Obama "would strongly prefer enactment of reauthorizing legislation that would extend these authorities until December 2013."

The move was likely aimed at avoiding the potential conflation of national security legislation and an election year's hyper-partisan atmosphere.

The House voted last night 277 to 148 in favor of the single-year PATRIOT Act extension, falling 23 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass it. Some two dozen tea party-backed Republican freshmen ended up joining with a majority of Democrats in voting against it.

The power-shift caught Republican leadership off guard. Even after keeping the 15-minute vote open far longer than the rules permitted, they did not have a two-thirds majority.

Some suggested that the House's most liberal member, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), might have played a role in the sudden spurt of rebellion. He issued a challenge on Tuesday aimed at Tea Party Caucus members in the House, urging them to join him in standing up for civil liberties by resisting the PATRIOT Act's extension.

"I am hopeful that members of the Tea Party who came to Congress to defend the Constitution will join me in challenging the reauthorization," he wrote.

While the brief alliance might not be enough to stave off the extension, as the PATRIOT Act was expected to return after its unexpected defeat, it could be the first inklings of a political common ground between libertarian-leaning tea party Republicans and progressive Democrats, especially since both groups are largely seen as disillusioned with the two-party system and partisan gridlock.

The only significant proposal to reform the PATRIOT Act came from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who proposed last month that Congress add greater judicial oversight to the bill. Leahy's bill would have also extended the PATRIOT Act's powers until 2013, shifting the extension away from 2012's election season.

When the act was first signed into law, "sunset" provisions were employed to quiet the concerns of civil libertarians, who were largely ignored once Congress set about on their successive extensions of the emergency powers.

Unfortunately, the concerns of civil libertarians proved to be well founded, and a 2008 Justice Department report confirmed that the FBI regularly abused their ability to obtain personal records of Americans without a warrant.

The only real sign of strong opposition to the act was in 2005, when a Democratic threat to filibuster its first renewal was overcome by Senate Republicans.

[Jeff]

Following upon that $700 billion tax cut for the richest Americans:

AP sources: Obama to propose cuts in heating aid

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 10, 2011; 12:26 AM

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wants to cut $2.5 billion from a $5 billion home heating aid program for the poor, two people familiar with his 2012 budget proposal said Wednesday, halving the popular fund as he looks for places to rein in federal spending.

The proposal would cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to its 2008 level of about $2.5 billion.

The individuals, including a congressional aide who was briefed on the proposal, discussed the details on condition of anonymity because Obama's spending plan has not been issued. It was being released on Monday, and covers the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

...

Obama has said tough choices must be made about how to spend scarce federal dollars to rein in spending and reduce the budget deficit and the nation's mounting debt.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05470.html

[freemason9]

Following upon that $700 billion tax cut for the richest Americans:

AP sources: Obama to propose cuts in heating aid

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 10, 2011; 12:26 AM

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama wants to cut $2.5 billion from a $5 billion home heating aid program for the poor, two people familiar with his 2012 budget proposal said Wednesday, halving the popular fund as he looks for places to rein in federal spending.

The proposal would cut the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program to its 2008 level of about $2.5 billion.

The individuals, including a congressional aide who was briefed on the proposal, discussed the details on condition of anonymity because Obama's spending plan has not been issued. It was being released on Monday, and covers the budget year beginning Oct. 1.

...

Obama has said tough choices must be made about how to spend scarce federal dollars to rein in spending and reduce the budget deficit and the nation's mounting debt.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05470.html

yes, and until you fuckers are willing to pay more in taxes, this will continue

please note that i said "you"

[82_28]

What exactly does that mean? Who is "you"?

[thurnundtaxis]

Instead of cutting heating aid programs, why not cut drone bombing programs?

[freemason9]

What exactly does that mean? Who is "you"?

not me

[Nordic]

When I worked at the base procurement office in a major army base for a summer job years ago, I was surprised to find that the U.S. taxpayers were buying Playboy and Penthouse magazines for the soldier's barracks.

Maybe they could cut that, and keep the heat on for the poor people.

[DoYouEverWonder]

The Medal of Freedom for the biggest war criminal on the planet. Way to go Obombya.

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Obama honors ex-President George H.W. Bush with Medal of Freedom

15 February 2011



WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama honored former President George H.W. Bush this afternoon with the nation’s highest civilian award, the Medal of Freedom, at an emotional White House ceremony.

“His life is a testament that public service is a noble calling,” Obama said. “We celebrate an extraordinary life of service and of sacrifice.”

Bush, 86, smiled and wiped his eyes a few times during the ceremony in the East Room, packed with cameras, senators, Cabinet members and most of Bush’s immediate family, along with friends and family of other medal recipients.

Obama spoke of Bush’s “humility and decency” and a career of service that spanned seven decades, from “decorated Navy pilot who nearly gave his life in World War II to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations , from CIA director to U.S. envoy to China to the vice presidency.”

The Democratic president lauded Republican Bush’s presidential accomplishments, noting that he “expanded America's promise to new immigrants and people with disabilities. He reduced nuclear weapons. He built a broad international coalition to expel a dictator from Kuwait.”

Former first lady Barbara Bush sat with first lady Michelle Obama.

The guests included all of the Bush children other than the 43rd president, Dallas resident George W. Bush , and his wife, Laura: former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Neil Bush , Marvin Bush, Dorothy Bush Koch, and their spouses.

Other honorees included poet Maya Angelou ; Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon from Georgia ; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; artist Jasper Johns; baseball great Stan Musial; basketball star Bill Russell; Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett; and longtime union leader John Sweeney.

The 44th and 41st presidents visited privately in the Oval Office beforehand.

Earlier, at a news conference, Obama defended his own “calibrated” approach to Egypt’s recent revolution, and he seemed to have that in mind as he offered open admiration for Bush’s leadership during another tumultuous time.

“When democratic revolution swept across Eastern Europe, it was the steady diplomatic hand of President Bush that made possible an achievement once thought impossible — ending the Cold War without firing a shot,” Obama said.

Although Obama has often criticized the economic and foreign policies of George W. Bush, he has been reverential toward the elder Bush before. In fall 2009, Obama traveled to the elder Bush’s presidential library at Texas A&M to celebrate his advocacy of volunteerism.

“This is a gentleman, inspiring citizens to become points of light in service to others,” Obama said, noting that in recent years Bush had teamed up with the man who defeated him in 1992, Bill Clinton, to champion relief for victims of an Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

Bush, who often walks with a cane, entered the East Room on the arm of a Marine. Obama and the officer steadied him when he stood later for Obama to place the medal around his neck.

An hour or so after the ceremony, Jeb Bush tweeted: “Just left White House where the President honored my dad with the medal of freedom. Wow!”

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/national-politics/20110215-obama-honors-ex-president-george-h.w.-bush-with-medal-of-freedom.ece

[Jeff]

“His life is a testament that public service is a noble calling,” Mr. Obama said of the 41st president before tying the blue-and-white ribbon and medal around his neck. “Like the remarkable Barbara Bush, his humility and his decency reflects the very best of the American spirit. This is a gentleman.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011 ... ss&emc=rss

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths.... I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch [George] suffer?"

"So many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

[82_28]

Has anybody said "fuck obama" yet? Just disgusting. I saw that shit on the "news" tonight. Just disgusting. What the fuck is a motherfucking "medal of" fucking "freedom". What a goddamn scam. Just pure scam. My entire life has been living within a scam.