I have a question and I need a damn answer from the Obama administration. Who the hell is Leon Panetta and why the hell does he get to head the CIA? You’d think that in a time of global unrest Obama would use those elephant ears of his and listen to the war drums over in Russia, Iran, Palestine and choose someone who carries at least a little intelligence experience.
I commend him on keeping Gates as defense secretary and while his first pick for the head of the CIA was not perfect it was still a lot better than this idiot who we’re gonna have to trust. Its funny that everyone blamed Bush for not finding WMD’s (when they were obviously moved from Iraq to Syria) and while other things are to blame the major blame goes to faulty evidence by the CIA. You’d think Obama would take heed and make sure he gets someone who can at least read a classified document and know how to shut up his mouth and when to open it.
Well I’m not sorry for the morons who voted this joker in office. Your pay day has come.
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In just another case of how brazen Blagojevich is, he has gone through with appointing General Roland Burris to take Barack Obama’s seat in the senate. Just how far will this man go? And I expected better General Roland Burris. I don’t see what the hell is wrong with the politics in my home state.
I would say more but I’ll let the General himself explain why he has accepted the seat even though the guy who has appointed him is under federal investigation for corruption charges.
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Take offense, call me racist, frankly I don’t give a damn. This world is too up tight. Had this video been done about Condi or Powell half those who are making a fuss about it now would have kept quiet. So say what you will its useless.
BTW you can view the video below.
UPADTE: The original video was deleted by YouTube so I found another version. Song is identical but the pictures are different.
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Obama may leave office as being one of the greatest President’s of all time (I’m hoping that will be the case) but there is one thing people need to get straight; Obama is not, and I repeat, NOT Abraham Lincoln.
When Lincoln came to Washington he was an outsider and many claim Obama is an outsider also. The reason why this cannot be true is within the year or so that his name has shot up to fame Obama has chosen some of the most corrupt people in Washington to be his aides and advisors.
Most importantly just because he is a lawyer and Lincoln was does not make them equal. May I remind you that Clinton was a lawyer before he moved into the White House (need I say more). More importantly Lincoln was driven by a moral compass, there is nothing moral about having connections to terrorists or those who preach hate from their church pulpits or worse a wife who hates the US.
I’m not saying Obama is an exception to Washington politics. All I’m saying is that he cannot be compaired to Abraham Lincoln.
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Say what you will but I already warned you that I really don’t have anything nice to say about any politician. So my following words should be no surprise. Obama is form the Chicago machine and although the days of Al Capone are long gone the system still runs the same way. From Blagojevich all the way down, sad to say but my home state is pretty darn corrupt in the area of politics.
Yet Obama sees teh need to go back there for all his job postings. Please tell me why Arne Duncan is so good for education? Why not pick someone like Michelle Rhee? I’m telling you, for a candidate who is all about change, Obama is sure not shacking things up when it comes to his cabinet. Almost every single person in his cabinet has questionable associations or connections.
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Its obvious that the Democrats get into just as much scandals as the Republican’s but its quite odd when you hear that the scandal involves a state governor and president-elect. Worse of all it involves the guy who is supposed to bring “change” to America. He sure has brought change alright, first president-elect to be involved in more scandals than most President’s are in their lifetime (unless you’re Clinton for that matter) Nixon did way less and was almost empeached and Reagon had a one minor mishap and that was blown up.
I’m sure you guys have all heard what happened to Rod Blagojevich. But I bet you haven’t heard about the Obama connection (special thanks goes to the media for this one). Obama has said in no uncertain terms that he has no connection with him and the scandal laden governor. Yet papers and transcripts say other wise.
Obama endorsed Blagojevich in 2002
Blagojevich returned the favor in 2004
But what is most incriminating is the words from Obama’s senior administration adviser on David Axelrod on November 23.
I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.
I’m not saying Obama has done anything wrong here but I’d like to see what those talks were that he and Blagojevich carried on behind closed doors (or secure phone lines).
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You might have remembered that two days ago I had blogged about how this dude from Philadelphia City Paper said that Obama owns a Zune. Well a spokesman from the Obama campaign has swiftly rebuffed the allegation and has said in no uncertain terms that the “The President-elect uses an iPod.”
My only contention with the fact is that the dude never said he does not own one. All the spokesman said is that he uses an iPod which means there is a good possibility that he does own a Zune. And that is exactly what the writer who originally reported the story is saying.
I vividly remember Obama pulling out an MP3 player with his left hand while exercising on the machine. It had a dark case protecting it and from what I saw, he was using a Zune.
I’ve seen a Zune in action. I know what it looks like.
But you know how politicians worse their spokespersons are. Always lying.
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Well it looks like the candidate of change was true to his word as he uses the Microsoft Zune. I’ve always been a fan of the Zune (even before it had sex appeal) because of what it could do and not how it looked (now you see why I was rooting for McCain). Now I’m begging to wonder if I should be proud or indignified that President elect Obama shares my Zune love.
In case you have not noticed, Zune kicks iPod butt in features and thanks to my new Zune Pass I keep 10 of the songs I download every month forever (and no Microsoft does not support this blog).
Anyways if you’re wondering how the president-elect owns a Zune and he uses Mac, wake up. Obama was only using his Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and Mac thing to “get the younger vote” which didn’t really help him much. If you haven’t notcied already Washington either uses Linux (first on the list) and secondly Microsoft. There is no change when it comes to Washington tech so wake up and grab a Carona…or not.
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FDR revolutionized the Presidency (in terms of communication) when he began his weekly radio messages telling the American people exactly what he was doing to fix the Depression and WWII. Now Obama has taken that a step further with his use of YouTube. Obama will be giving his weekly address and fireside talks via the radio (as usual) along with a YouTube video cast in which he will basically do the same thing FDR did.
Of course half that will be said will just be PR and help with his reelection bid but on the other hand it does seem like the biggest step ini terms of communication between the President and his people since FDR. Oh well the first video can be viewed below.
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They say all is fair in love and war, so I’m guessing that this also applies to politics. Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Likud Party leader and Prime Minister hopeful) knows that all too well.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery,” noted Ron Dermer, one of Mr. Netanyahu’s top campaign advisers. “We’re all in the same business, so we took a close look at a guy who has been the most successful and tried to learn from him. And while we will not use the word ‘change’ in the same way in our campaign, we believe Netanyahu is the real candidate of change for Israel.
So obviously the Netanyahu campaign is not denying it. What is striking is how this has suddenly become a political discussion by the media who think Mr. Netanyahu does not represent the change for Israel as Obama represented it for America citing such things as his wanting to cut off peace talks with the Palestinians.
The only notable differences in the layout of both sites is that in Hebrew everything is read from right to left. Good luck interpreting the site.
I should point out that the pictures and website link I have are the Russian version (thus reads from left to right). The Hebrew version can be found HERE.
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