If there is one thing I admire about Obama it is his tech-savvy. He may not be the Steve Jobs or Google guys but he does have his name in history as being the most technologically advanced president-elect in US history, unlike his opponent who thought 1080i refereed to a BMW model.
Well turns out that the device that said opponent ”created” won’t be allowed in the oval office. Obama has always been a fan of Blackberry’s (which is quite obvious looking through photos on his campaign trail). But according to the Presidential Records Act which requires correspondence between him and his cabinet in the official record and ultimately up for public review it looks like Obama’s Bold won’t be graduating with him to the Whitehorse in the next 65 days.
Mind you, Mr Obama was not the only one who faced this predicament. Eight years ago when Bush was sworn in he sent out an email from his than email address g94b@aol.com telling his 42 friends the following:
Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace
I’m just wondering if Obama will be able to get around this loophole? I guess when you’re a Barack anything is possible although his advisors don’t seem that optimistic about the situation.
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Even Barney the first dog doesn’t like the treatment of his master President Bush by the media. In the above video you can clearly see him take out his anger on a Reuters reporter who fails to ask his permission before petting him.
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Image by Brian Hathcock via Flickr
I was listening to Bill O’Reilly yes the guy you liberals cannot stand because he is not in bed with Barack Obama, and he said something real interesting. Do not vote out of fear or hatred because you are going to put someone into office who you will later regret.
I can’t tell you how many people I know who are voting for Obama just because they hate Bush and think McCain is too close to him. McCain is not Bush and his policies differ vastly from those of the current administration. If you’re voting for a candidate vote because you agree with what he stands for. I’ll say the same thing to McCain voters, do not vote for McCain just because you fear Obama. If you have fear of him let it be for his policies and not because he is democrat or black. Because I guarantee you that if you make this mistake (as many American’s are doing) you are going to regret it.
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Democrat journalist Orson Scott Card
Finally someone got it right. Orson Scott Card has finally said something that every major news network (with the exception of Fox) was not willing to say. You will find the letter below.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans. …
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed. …
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
- Orson Scott Card
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Welcome to part six in our popular series that covers media and political bias. Last episode we covered the big hoopla the media made when they found out that Joe the Plumber’s real name is Samuel. This episode also has to deal with Joe the Plumber and Barack Obama.
The news media sees it fit to dig up the back taxes of Joe the Plumber. Yet Barack Obama has admitted to using illicit drugs. Yet the media won’t ask him where these drugs were bought or if he ever sold them? On the other hand they tried to destroy Bush in 2004 over a drunk driving record that was from his teenage days.
I say this every time, but only because it is worth asking. Is it just me or am I sensing some extreme bias here?
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Rush Limbaugh has been hammered by the media for daring to say that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was based on race and deep down inside Colin Powell is nothing but a liberal in Republican disguise. Well I’m sorry to break it to you but if you have not already noticed this than you must not have been paying attention to the news. Why else would Bush have to relieve him of his duties back in ‘04?
Not only that but he is pro-abortion, pro-affirmative action and not to mention his lunatic ideas about having talks with known terrorists. Not only that but he claims that his main reason for his Barack Obama endorsement is because Sarah Palin is not qualified to take over if McCain should pay the ultimate price. Well face it Mr. Powell, Barack Obama has just as much experience on foreign policy as Palin. And unlike Barack Obama who could become the most powerful man in the world in a few days Palin will not.
I was going to make this number 6 in our “double standard” series but I guess this goes into the whole racial issue which is a different class by itself.
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The video for the third and last presidential debate can be viewed below. The entire debate was focused on the economy except for a few remarks about foreign policy. Its quite funny how watch candidate kept interrupting each other during the first half of the debate and how many times Obama kept pinning President Bush to John McCain with John finally saying “if you wanted to run against Goerge Bush, you should have run four years ago.”
Other than McCain being his usual self and Obama doing the same old damn thing there isn’t much except for Joe the Plumber who gets his name mentioned over two dozen times.
After you finish watching it, you can read my analysis of the debate as well as who won.
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Welcome to a new series here on Norton Release. For the most part I will leave commenting on the cartoons to the minimum.
![Political Cartoons [episode 1]](http://nortonrelease.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/political-cartoon-1.jpeg "Bush & McCain")
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Is Vladimir trying to send Bush a subtle message not to f*** with him and his men in Georgia? I’m not sure that this lunatic believes that this will actually give him some credence, but in any case its quite interesting.
If you’re interested, view the video below.
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I am pissed at Congress. No I am not mad at the President or Barack or even McCain. But the freakin’ idiots that we have up there. We just experienced the greatest one day lost on the DOW and all I can hear the dumbass democrats up in Washington do is blame the Republicans for not passing the bill.
You called their commander in chief a fucking idiot for crying out loud and you expect them to vote with you? If your bill is so grand, why not pass it yourself, after all you have all the votes to do so. Pass the damn bill and take all the credit for it. I’m sure it will suite you well in the upcoming elections.
Oh wait I forgot its the crappiest bill ever thought of in a long time. You’re telling me that a bill that gives over $20 billion to liberal organizations is such a good idea? All you idiots want is the Republicans to put their signatures on that thing and than you (along with the drive by media) use it as a beating stick in their back sin a couple days.
I thought this was supposed to be the Congress that fixed the problems we had when the Republicans were in a few years ago? So much for all your good plans. And don’t tell me its because of the President. Because the President backed allot of this bill and people were still outraged about it. So he was on your side for once and you still missed by a mile. Heck crude oil has dropped $11 today but it doesn’t even make sense cause half the people are more concerned about keeping their car than filling her up at the pump.
Yes we lost more in one day ($1 Trillion) than this bailout would have cost us ($700 billion), but guess what, these greedy banks and loan sharks need to pay for their crimes. I don’t care if its gonna cost us 10 years before we have another record day on Wallstreet. But giving the banks nearly $1 Trillion to deal with the problems they created is just as bad as giving your teenager a gun to fix the problems he started.
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