Obama should take his own advice

Obama tells high school grads not to make excuses for their failures and to take responsibility for their own actions. I think it's time Obama takes his own advice and stops blaming everyone else for his own short comings.

President Barack Obama is telling high school graduates in Michigan not to make excuses, and to take responsibility for failures as well as successes.

In excerpts of remarks to be delivered Monday evening at Kalamazoo Central High School, Obama said that it's easy to blame others when problems arise. "We see it every day out in Washington, with folks calling each other names and making all sorts of accusations on TV," the president said.

He said the high school kids can and have done better than that.

The 1,700-student high school in southwest Michigan landed Obama as its commencement speaker after winning the national Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. It was among three finalists picked through public voting on the schools' videos and essays, and the White House made the final selection.

Since Obama has been elected everything that has gone wrong has been everyone else's fault. What ever happened to the buck stops here Mr President? You've been President for a year and half yet the economy is still Bush's fault? Sorry Obama, but you own this economy. It's your failed socialist policies causes this prolonged recession.

Imagine if a Republican...

Used a slur when talking about a group opposing him. How would the media treat Bush if he used the "N" word while talking about Jesse Jackson and his flock? Granted calling the Tea Partiers tea-baggers isn't quite the same. But this just shows how classless Obama is. Obama is supposed to be the President to the country not just to his special interest groups. Degrading a group of Americans like this is just something a President should never do.

The term "tea-bagger" is like uttering the "n" word, some say. Though he aspires to promote civility, evidence has surfaced thatPresident Obama has added "tea-bagger" to his public lexicon, though it's considered a cheap and tawdry insult by "tea party" activists. Watchdogs at Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) barked when they saw the proof, tucked in a sneak peak of Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," to be released May 18. Indeed, it appears the president joined certain partisan critics and the liberal media, and took the tea-bag plunge

This is exactly why I'm pro-life

Not because of any religious affiliation. I've never gone to church and while I think there is a God, or at least some higher power, I don't exactly worship anyone or anything. I'm pro-life because I think it is cruel. Especially when I hear stories like this.

The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled

However, the infant survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, and was left by doctors to die.

He was discovered alive the following day – some 20 hours after the operation – by Father Antonio Martello, the hospital chaplain, who had gone to pray beside his body.

He found that the baby, wrapped in a sheet with his umbilical cord still attached, was moving and breathing.

The priest raised the alarm and doctors immediately arranged for the infant to be taken to a specialist neo-natal unit at the neighbouring Cosenza hospital, where he died on Monday morning.

Italian police are investigating the case for "homicide" because infanticide is illegal in Italy.

The law means that doctors have had an obligation to try to preserve the life of the child once he had survived the abortion.

I know the Feminazi's will say this is no big deal and abortion of demand is all that matters. But how can any sane person say this isn't cruel?

Imagine if a Republican...

Obama said he is counting on the young, blacks, latinos and women for votes in November. I guess us white males mean nothing to him. Now imagine if Bush said I'm counting on you white males to get me elected. Totally ignoring another race or all other races. The racism cry would never end.

But Obama is basically saying he doesn't care about white males and no one bats an eye. Of course this is nothing new with the liberal media. Supreme Justice Sotomayor made a racist comment that she can make better decisions because she is a wise latino and no one in the media cared. But of course if Justice Roberts would have said he can make better decisions because he is a white male that would have automatically disqualified him from service.

Obama will never raise taxes on those of us making less than $250,000

What a load of crap. What does he think a Value Added Tax would be? It would raise the tax of everyone, including the poor. So if he was honest, which we all know he isn't, VAT wouldn't still be on the table.

President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an interview with CNBC, "I want to get a better picture of what our options are."

After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding "sense of the Senate" resolution that calls the such a tax "a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America's economic recovery."

Obama is trying everything he can do to cripple the American economy and to keep everyone miserable. I really don't think Obama has ever taken a basic economics class. What does he think will happen if they enact a VAT? Prices for everything will raise. Most companies add any expense on to their product. But I think Obama knows this and wants this. He wants everyone to be equally miserable...it's the socialist way.

Real leadership the GOP can believe in

I really hope Chris Christie puts his hat in the 2012 Presidential election. I've said this a few times and I'll keep on repeating myself. This is the kind of leadership we need.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said voters next week should reject school budgets in districts where teachers refuse to accept pay freezes.

Employees in 11 of 588 school districts have so far agreed to accept no increase in wages, Christie, 47, told reporters today in Princeton. The governor has urged the concessions as one way to offset $820 million in education cuts in his proposed state spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

“I just don’t see how citizens should want to support a budget where teachers do not want to be a part of the shared sacrifice,” Christie said. “That’s my view on it.”

New Jersey is one of the bluest states in the Union. Not only did he urge the districts to reject the budgets they listened in an overwhelmingly margin.

New Jersey voters took a stand on school spending and property taxes Tuesday, rejecting 260 of 479 school budgets across 19 counties, according to unofficial results in statewide school elections.

In the proposed state budget he unveiled last month, Gov. Chris Christie slashed $820 million in aid to school districts and urged voters to defeat budgets if teachers in their schools did not agree to one-year wage freezes. The salvo ignited a heated debate with the state’s largest teachers union.

New Jersey, like many states and the nation, are in a financial mess. Obama is spending money like it is going out of style. Our national debt is out of control and the budgets just keep on rising. This country needs a leader like Christie who isn't afraid to cut the budget and control spending. This is a very rare trait that no liberal has and only a very few Republicans have.

This would have solved a lot of the problems

But to me this is like voter fraud. I think when you go in to vote you should at the very least have to show your id. I know the liberals think that is "racist" or some whatever ism they want to attach to a common sense idea they can't argue against. Liberals are only good for a couple things, raising taxes, growing government and calling people names they know they can't win against.

I for one don't think Obama is a Kenyan. I think he is naturally born US citizen and as such he should have no problem showing his birth certificate and so doesn't the Arizona Legislature. They just passed a bill that would require any US presidential candidates to prove they are a US citizen to be on their ballots.

The Arizona House on Monday voted for a provision that would require President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate if he hopes to be on the state's ballot when he runs for reelection.

The House voted 31-22 to add the provision to a separate bill. The measure still faces a formal vote.

It would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

I can't wait to hear how racist they are. How discriminatory this is. But this doesn't effect just Obama. People on the left were questioning McCain's naturally birth citizenship because he was born in an army base in another country. But because it was an army base technically that's US soil.