I did change the channel -seeing the dislike

• Check this out.............. sm - m
  • First there's the IPOD incident - me
    • Maybe you should consider jumping into this century...nm - Just the big bad
      • Maybe you should consider jumping into reality - me
        • Well, criminetly - Mythbuster
        • Maybe she wanted an Ipod? LOL...sm - Just the big bad
          • Right - LOL Guess she wanted one for both hands. - me
            • Still low class - me
              • It's not low class to give a gift...(sm) - Just the big bad
                • Can someone please - Trigger Happy
                  • "Cyanide in the kool-aid?"....sm - Just the big bad
                    • Always twisting and spinning - Trigger Happy
                      • That's not twisting and spinning...(sm) - Just the big bad
                        • I was not trying to commit - Trigger Happy
                          • Hmmm......(sm) - Just the big bad
                            • I do believe that it was voted - Trigger Happy
                              • Executive travel - Mythbuster
                            • The real test - Mythbuster
                              • I think he would handle it just fine...(sm) - Just the big bad
                                • Brains is one thing. - Oh please.
                          • Hey - Patty
                • Oh, so clever. And I suggest - Nickname
                • Grasping at straws aren't ya - me
        • And also - me
  • Protocol, etiquette (and plain good sense) - Mythbuster
    • Wrong! If you had seen the entire video, you ....sm - oldtimer
      • Gee....I guess I didn't realize - Trigger Happy
      • The video I saw - Mythbuster
        • Excellent post and observation - me
          • Great! Now I can't get out of my mind the idea - Mythbuster
        • This article says the Queen initiated contact - - Amanda
          • And this article says different - uhhhhhh
          • Hmmmm.... - Mythbuster
            • I read another article about this and it said -= - Amanda
      • Sorry - we didn't elect him to bow to the leader of another country - me
        • We (as in probably not you) elected him....(sm) - Just the big bad
          • He is not restoring credibility to the US - me
      • Obama is doing an awesome job!!!! - Just the big bad
        • I cannot figure what ever caused you to - MTfromLA
        • Agree with you about the - A.Nonymous
        • Perception and spin are so interesting - Mythbuster
          • I would agree that Bush was very...(sm) - Just the big bad
            • So, you are also drinking the MSNBC - koolaid? -not even a legit network.nm
            • There's no difference in what was in there before - uhhhhhh
              • Must point out misattribution of quote - Mythbuster
                • That's right - I was referring to him - uhhhhhh
        • Not...he comes back an embarrassment - me
          • Yes, Obama IS an embarrassment. - It is only going to get worse, unfortunately.nm
          • ROFL.....(sm) - Just the big bad
            • It is funny how you always - Trigger Happy
            • HA! - Mythbuster
            • I did change the channel -seeing the dislike - me

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His arrogance. 

He's a man who knows America does not support his policies and he still flicks us off, even his those within his party who disagree.  *It comes with the territory,* he says still wearing that ridiculous smile.  Now that the unpatriotic threats are not as potent as they used to be, all he can do to save what face he has with the 32% who still think he's doing a good job is say that he is steadfast in his beliefs.  That'll make the 32% proud, but what does it mean. 

Would you rather have a president who

a) Is intelligent enough to reevaluate the situation he has created and think maybe, just maybe I screwed up and is willing to consider other solutions, change the course?

OR

b) One who is willing to stay the course, even if it is a course of failure.  Just for the sake of doing what he said he was going to do and a *to hell with what Americans think about me* attitude.  Can not be convinced in any shape, form or fashion that he has made a mess and may need to go on to plan B, probably because he doesn't have a plan B?

Which one?

Oh, and to the 68% who don't approve, in laymen's terms I think he's saying *screw you,* but that's just my interpretation.

Obama is change you can believe in until you have to take it to the bank.

Our jobs have been offshored until now because of greed.  Under Obama and his taxation of small businesses, they will be offshored not because of greed but because of survival.  

You could make a difference for our country by not voting for Obama, but instead, if you vote for him, you are selling out to deception.  You are embracing a socialist, a communist, a Marxist, a liar, a cheat, and someone who legally cannot run as President of the U.S., much less the Illinois senate.  But, you make your choice.  You believe the consumate liar and his lies who sat for 20 years under the teachings of a black racist preacher filled with hatred for the U.S., whose association with Bill Ayers is recent and documented down to the fact that Ayers himself wrote Obama's best-selling book (best-selling in the eyes of far left liberals that is), who is a documented member of the socialist party, whose friends and close allies are extremists who not only bomb innocent people and are unrepenetent but who intend to eliminate (kill) 25 million Americans who they cannot "re-educate" in communist ideaology (gosh dog it, those dreadful capitalists), who refuses to hand over a certified copy of his birth certificate and educational records (my goodness, don't you have to provide your birth certificate to any number of entities who want to know if you are legal, i.e., social security, DMVs, etc., and your educational records would show if you had received aid as a foreigner and in 1963 would have shown you were a negro instead of an African-American which Obama's falsified record shows, please speck up on history), and who thinks Joe the Plumber is so stupid not to realize that if he wants to achieve the American dream, he is going to achieve it only if he lets Obama take what he makes to give to those WHO WILL NOT WORK.  I'd like to see you, liberals, give a share of your 7.5 cpl to those who don't work as hard as you, but then with Obama, that's what you will have to do.  Don't be fooled by his rhetoric that only those making over $250,00 will be taxed.  We will all be taxed, and there will be no incentive to work for any of us because we will all have to give up a piece of our pie so those who do not work can have a piece of our pie.

Here is the dividing line, folks.  We are at a crossroads in our history.  The Lord Jesus puts it this way, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction; and there are many who go in by it."

Choose which gate you enter, the wide or the narrow.  It not only determines your eternal destination, but it determines the destination of this country.  If anyone here calls themself a Christian and can vote for Osambo, I daresay you are a liar and cheat just as he.  One cannot be a Christian and vote for a party and a political candidate who is in total rebellion to God's Word.  That is a fact, and if you think any differently, then you, too, like the Obamanation, call God a liar.  May He have mercy upon your soul.  As He makes the rain fall on the just and the unjust because He is no respector of persons, we will all suffer as this country is destroyed and our Constitution that guarantees our freedoms is trampled just as Bill Ayers is pictured standing upon our flag in total disrespect, and we will thank you liberals that we are all in bondage, reduced to third world status, just as the Israelites were in Egypt.  Only Obama ain't no Moses but a Muslim and has no favor with God, and there will be no one to lead us to the Promised Land coming from the Democratic party. 

it's kinda to pre-record live news coverage.  Probably nothing major will happen today, but who knows?  Your scraping the bottom by criticizing a live news channel for having live coverage.

I wrote down what I could fast!

The Arrows: Wieden and Smith from Oregon wanted this.

Film & TV Production: $10M. Sherman and Schiff from (where else?) California.

Exxon Valdez earmark: Young Alaska

Mental Health: Ramstad.

Rum: Businesses - Baccardi and others.

Racing: NASCAR

The Samoa debacle: WHO ELSE BUT PELOSI!!!!

What a ripoff. These were put in to sway the votes. Politics as usual.

often very factual. I watch it a lot.

I would love to see the John Adams program but I gave up HBO. They didn't seem to have very good programming for a long time, movie-wise, and a lot of the series were on too late for me, so I gave HBO up (after 15 years).

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRxZox4GFoIweckPDP1oRhKBlHOwD94CCDU00

This is what I am talking about.  Somebody from the INSIDE, a congressman sees our new change coming.  This is NOT THE CHANGE I opted for. 

War Crimes Even Helen Keller Could See
By Mickey Z.

In a textbook example of whitewashing, if today's America knows Helen Keller (1880-1968) at all, it's the easy-to-digest image portrayed in the 1962 film, 'The Miracle Worker.' Brave deaf and blind girl 'overcomes' all obstacles to inspire everyone she meets. 'The Helen Keller with whom most people are familiar is a stereotypical sexless paragon who was able to overcome deaf-blindness and work tirelessly to promote charities and organizations associated with other blind and deaf-blind individuals,' writes Sally Rosenthal in Ragged Edge.

But, in 1909, Helen Keller became a socialist. Soon after, she emerged as a vocal supporter of the working class and traveled the nation to voice her opposition to war. 'How can our rulers claim they are fighting to make the world safe for democracy,' she asked, 'while here in the U.S. Negroes may be massacred and their property burned?' Of course, as a woman with disabilities, she was patronized by the same mainstream media that previously championed her as a heroine. The editors of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote: 'Her mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her development.'

Keller minced no words in her responses...one of which appeared in newspapers across America: 'So long as I confine my activities to social services and the blind, the newspapers compliment me extravagantly, calling me an 'arch-priest of the sightless' and 'wonder woman'. But when I discuss poverty and the industrial system under which we live that is a different matter.'

As the militaristic frenzy spread across America, Keller appeared at New York City's Carnegie Hall on January 5, 1916. 'I have a word to say to my good friends, the editors, and others who are moved to pity me,' she said. 'Some people are grieved because they imagine I am in the hands of unscrupulous persons who lead me astray and persuade me to espouse unpopular causes and make me the mouthpiece of their propaganda. Now, let it be understood once and for all that I do not want their pity; I would not change places with one of them. I know what I am talking about. My sources of information are as good and reliable as anybody else's. I have papers and magazines from England, France, Germany and Austria that I can read myself. Not all the editors I have met can do that. Quite a number of them have to take their French and German second hand. No, I will not disparage the editors. They are an overworked, misunderstood class. Let them remember, though, that if I cannot see the fire at the end of their cigarettes, neither can they thread a needle in the dark. All I ask, gentlemen, is a fair field and no favor. I have entered the fight against preparedness and against the economic system under which we live. It is to be a fight to the finish, and I ask no quarter.'

Keller's critique of the government propaganda campaign to stir up Americans to support U.S. intervention in the war remains more germane than ever. 'Every modern war has had its root in exploitation' Keller said. 'The Civil War was fought to decide whether the slaveholders of the South or the capitalists of the North should exploit the West. The Spanish-American War decided that the United States should exploit Cuba and the Philippines. The South African War decided that the British should exploit the diamond mines. The Russo-Japanese War decided that Japan should exploit Korea. The present war is to decide who shall exploit the Balkans, Turkey, Persia, Egypt, India, China, Africa. And we are whetting our sword to scare the victors into sharing the spoils with us. Now, the workers are not interested in the spoils; they will not get any of them anyway.'

She urged workers-the ones who do the fighting and dying-to strike at the heart of America's drive toward war. 'Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought,' she declared. 'Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.'

Excerpted from the soon-to-be-released '50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism.' 

I should probably refrain from any dialogue and perhaps just correct posts that are obviously erroneous (like the one about poverty in the U.S.).  Correcting factual errors on their posts would probably be a full time job.  Besides I enjoy the research and learn lots!!

Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments.

If Barack Obama is a reformer, he could be the first one ever to become President of the United States having done almost nothing different in the name of reform.  Consider:  What has really changed?  In a positive way? 

He did not change politics in Chicago.  By endorsing crooked machine politicians who reward their campaign donors and door-knockers with a government salary.  By backing a mayor whose aids and appointees sell city contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.  By endorsing an alderman who pulls a gun on her colleagues.  By failing to endorse the rare candidate who has a chance to win and change something in Cook County.  By covering up the excesses of the Chicago Teachers Union, knowing just how abysmal the city's public education is.  By earmarking funds for a radical Catholic priest who ecourages blacks to hate whites.

Obama did not change politics in Springfield.  You can't reform a state like Illinois by voting present 130 times to avoid controversial issues.  By teaming up with a state Senate Majority Leader whose main concern appears to be placing every member of his family somewhere on the state payroll.  By backing for statewide office a financier whose family bank lends money to organized crime.  By negotiating to minimize the impact of welfare reform.  By writing letters to get state grants for someone who just paid you $112,000.   By co-sponsoring nearly any bill that helps Tony Rezko and his friends make money from taxpayers for building uninhabitable slums where rodents roam and sewage backs up in kitchen sinks (Obama said he did not know the condition of the buildings; however, all reside in his senate district and it had been well reported in the media). 

Obama has certainly not changed politics in Congress.  You can't reform Washington by earmarking a million dollars for your wife's employer after they double her salary (this can be verified on line...I was amazed!!...if I were him I would back off the earmarks thing and lamblasting Sarah Palin...this one could come back to bite him big time).  By voting to throw away money on ethanol, farm subsidies, and the Bridge to Nowhere while much of New Orleans was still under water.  By reaching across the aisle on ethics reform, only to pull your hand back and bury it in your pocket.  By earmarking funds for your campaign contributors.  By suddenly deciding its time to leave Iraq when you start running for President.

It's not that Barack Obama is a bad person.  It's just that he's like all the rest of them.  Not a reformer.  Not a Messiah.  Just like all the rest of them in Washington.  Just like all the other liberals. Well, that is not entirely true. Most liberals in Congress know more about foreign policy and how diplomacy works than Obama.  And most of them, nearly ALL of them...believe that babies born alive have a right to medical care.

Obama's radical ties don't make him a radical.  His ties to Communists don't make him a Communist.  His ties to a terrorist don't make him a terrorist.  But his continued relationships throughout his public life show an important influence in his public career.  What ideas are so important to Barack Obama that he desperately seeks the approval of Black Commentator and the New Party, but drops the Democratic Leadership Council as it if were a molten porcupine?

These connections do not disqualify Obama from the presidency.  But they do raise questions about his judgment.  By what criteria does a man choose his friends and end up with the likes of Tony Rezko,Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers?  How does he choose his advisors and end up with people who chat with terrorists, advocate reparations for slavery, and praise Hugo Chavez a a champion of democracy?

What sort of nominations does such a man make as President?  What kind of diplomacy does he pursue, give that so much of diplomacy consists of reading, understanding, and judging others' intentions and character?

That is why these ties deserve scrutiny.  If Barack Obama becomes President, his good judgment, or the lack thereof, will affect the entire country.

--From "The Case Against Barack Obama"