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• 02.09.10
  Mommy, make them stop! They’re imitating me.
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  NY Daily News headline: "President Obama to GOP leaders: Stop 'grandstanding' and get to work on jobs legislation" Next thing you know, President Obama will tell the GOP leaders to quit using teleprompters.
  
  
• 01.24.10
  Public interest ruling
  Free speech, Words from President Obama (0)

  President Obama seems to be confused by the Supreme Court ruling. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday strongly criticized a Supreme Court ruling removing limits on corporate donations for political campaigns, saying it was a major victory for banks and oil and health insurance companies. Yes, it is a victory for those entities, but part of the President's job is to look out for the legal rights of those entities. It's a victory for those of us who aren't banks and oil and health insurance companies, too. It's a victory for all of us. ...
  
  
• 01.08.10
  Fresh and penetrating look
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  Yes! That's what we've been lacking to keep our country safe. We've been lacking a "fresh and penetrating look." If you think the CDN story is intended to make President Obama look like Dilbert's boss's boss, read the directive from the White House. You'll see it could have been worse. The White House could have been allowed to write the story itself. My guess is that Scott Adams and the staff of the Onion were hired as consultants on this project, and CDN was merely trying to do damage control.
  
  
• 12.09.09
  Frightening the American people
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  Headline: Obama to GOP: 'Stop trying to frighten the American people' What the Republicans don't understand is that they are usurping a function that is the sole prerogative of the president. What do they think this is? Health care? Global warming?
  
  
• 10.28.09
  To rush or not to rush
  Health care reform, Words from President Obama (0)

  President Obama says he will not rush the decision to send more soldiers into harm's way. I believe him. This time he has made a promise he will keep. We can believe this promise, even though everything else he wants (e.g. stimulus funding, health care takeover) is an urgent necessity that requires immediate action to avert catastrophe. Now is not the time to debate whether we are sending health care into harm's way. Now is not the time for delay on that front. But now is the time to consider, very ...
  
  
• 09.24.09
  Stop reading
  Free press, Words from President Obama (0)

  And to think, Gibbs works for the guy who is asking for the power to shut down the internet in case of emergency. He tells people what information sources they shouldn't use. "I think this is media generated," Gibbs told reporters on Air Force One. "Stop reading those London tabloids."  [URL here.] There are lots of things politicians can say to deflect issues (or non-issues) like that. Maybe Gibbs ought to try a wording that's a little less thuggish given the sensitivity about Obama's attitude toward free speech.
  
  
• 09.21.09
  Stretching
  Tax policy, Words from President Obama (0)

  This could end up being the equivalent of Jimmy Carter's rabbit.   I literally LOL'd when I got to this part. Mr. Obama: "George, the fact that you looked up Merriam's Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you're stretching a little bit right now. . . ." (URL)
  
  
• 08.08.09
  Shut up while I listen to you
  Free speech, Words from President Obama (0)

  Usually when politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths, they don't do both sides at the same time. But here's what one of our country's political leaders said in a campaign speech last Thursday, as reported by the AP. This must be what he meant when he said, "I have a gift, Harry." Appealing across party lines, Obama told the Democratic audience that leaders must listen to their opponents and disagree with civility. He pointed to Virginia's two most recent governors, Democrats Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, the former now a senator and the latter Obama's ...
  
  
• 08.05.09
  Mission accomplished!
  Stimulus spending, Words from President Obama (0)

  Obama was in Wakarusa today, declaring victory. ("In Indiana, Obama declares stimulus is working") It kind of reminds one of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech. The first part of the week we had been staying in Nappanee, 6 miles to the south, and at breakfast someone had mentioned that it was hard to get around up there because the President was coming. If I had arranged another day of vacation it would have been nice to ride my bike up there with some protest signs and then listen to leftwing operatives explain where ...
  
  
• 07.27.09
  It’s not about them
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  OK, so Google doesn't do it only to Republicans. It now prints goofy photos of the Beloved One, too. But surely the media could just print regular photos that the subjects themselves might approve of. BTW, so what if Gates and Crowley get together over a beer? Even if they shake hands and become best buddies, how is that going to help us have that national dialogue that we're having?
  
  

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