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

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.

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.

Post Partisanship from Obama

Remember when Obama was running for President and everyone thought he was going to be the first post partisan President. He'd be the great uniter. I guess Obama's idea of uniting the people is by mocking them.

Obama told a fundraiser in Miami that he's cut taxes, contrary to the claims of protesters.

"You would think they'd be saying thank you," he said.

At that, many in the crowd at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts stood and yelled, "Thank you!"

Not only is he mocking the Tea Party Protesters, who are a group of ordinary citizens who want actual change in this country, he is flat out lying. What taxes have you cut Obama? It won't be long until Obama's approval rating is in the 30s.

All I have to say is Hell No

As much as I like Sarah Palin there is no way in Hell I'd support her if she ran with Mitt Romney. We've tried to run the big government Republicans before. They aren't winning candidates, especially Mitt Romney. I wouldn't mind seeing Palin running for President or Vice President in 2012 but if she thinks a winning ticket is with Mitt Romney I just lost a lot of respect for her.

Conservative superstar Sarah Palin opened the door yesterday to joining forces with Mitt Romney for a 2012 White House run - a hot ticket that has some Republicans licking their chops at the prospect of unseating President Obama.

“Sounds pretty good,” Palin declared at yesterday’s Tea Party Express rally on the Common when asked about pairing up with the former Bay State governor - giving the idea a big thumbs-up as she left the stage after her headline speech.

Last night, as Palin stopped for cannoli at Mike’s Pastry in the North End, she said she was “serious” about the idea.

Hopefully she was just being nice since she was in Boston for a Tea Party Rally.

This country is going to vote for the Constitution this November and again in 2012. Even a recent Rasmussen poll has Ron Paul in a statistical dead heat with Obama right now.

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

I'm not a huge supporter of Ron Paul for President. I think he makes a fantastic Senator and I hope his son Rand Paul gets elected to the Senate too. But this just goes to show you how the public has swayed. We don't have any more big government politicians to run our country.

Obama does it again

I'm not sure about most Americans but I'm for sure sick and tired of him bowing to every foreign leader. He is just showing how week he is every time he bows. American Presidents aren't supposed to bow to anyone. We are the leader of the free world.

Obama is full of crap

He can pretend to be a baseball fan all he wants but he proved he is full of crap in this sound cut.

I'm sorry but if you ask any real baseball fan who his favorite player he'll give an answer with out thinking. You can ask me who my favorite Redsox player from any era and I can give you an answer.

Maybe Obama could take some lessons from these ladies on how to throw out the first pitch too.

This will make our enemies scared

Really Obama? Do you really give that little crap about our national security? Have you ever played poker in your life? You don't show your hand until the end. So what's the point of telling everyone we won't use our nukes against non nuclear states. What if those non nuclear states use biological weapons that kill millions of Americans? This is just showing how weak you are. You are a weak leader with absolutely no backbone to speak of.

President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Korea” that have violated or renounced the main treaty to halt nuclear proliferation.

Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary.

Mr. Obama’s strategy is a sharp shift from those of his predecessors and seeks to revamp the nation’s nuclear posture for a new age in which rogue states and terrorist organizations are greater threats than traditional powers like Russia and China.

It eliminates much of the ambiguity that has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days of the cold war. For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.

Credit where credit is due

There hasn't been much that Obama has done that I've thought was good. Actually the one thing I can think of is when he killed that fly on national tv. Pretty sad huh? But if Obama follows through with his proposal to allow off shore drilling off the east coast.

In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.

Obama's plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have been strident in their opposition to more oil platforms off the nation's shores. Hinted at for months, the plan modifies a ban that for more than 20 years has limited drilling along coastal areas other than the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama was set to announce the new drilling policy Wednesday at Andrews air base in Maryland. White House officials pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs - both politically popular ideas - but the president's decisions also could help secure support for a climate change bill languishing in Congress.

I'm sure this will piss off the majority of the environmental wackos who despise the oil companies but this will do a lot better job stimulating the economy. This will create more jobs than any of the billion dollar "jobs" bills that he has signed.

Drilling is good and the Republicans in the House and Senate should support drilling. But if this is going to be a compromise to get Cap and Trade passed then they better not compromise on that.

Obama getting more aggressive?

How much more aggressive can he get at tearing down the Constitution? He has already signed into law a bill that is blatantly Unconstitutional and he wants to get more aggressive? His disapproval number has hit 50% for the first time in his administration and he thinks this is going to energize people to vote for Democrats?

President Barack Obama, after a year of fitfully searching for compromise, is taking a more aggressive tack with his Republican adversaries, hoping to energize Democratic voters and possibly muscle in some Republican support in Congress.

On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, "Go for it." Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.

At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party's filibuster threat.

On Thursday, Mr. Obama will be in Maine, home state of two moderate Republican senators who opposed his health-care plan, to promote the health law.

This is just further proof to me at least that Obama hates this country and wants to change it into an European style socialist "utopia. "

Blackmail gone wrong

Obama is threatening to not support and campaign for any Democrat who votes against Health Care. If Obama was smart, and he isn't, he would tell Democrats he won't support them if they vote for it. His support didn't help in Mass, New Jersey, or Virginia. It didn't help Chicago get the Olympics. Everything he has supported has lost. So if I was an elected Democrat why would I want his support?

The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill.

A one-night presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds which would otherwise take months to accumulate through cold-calling by campaign volunteers.

Mr Obama's threat came as the year-long debate over his signature domestic policy entered its final week.

Mr Obama is personally telephoning congressmen who are still on the fence this week, in between several personal appearances devoted toward swinging public opinion.

Obama in a nut shell

Admitting he hates democracy.

"I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people."

Does anything else really need to be said?

No Obama, Thankfully that's how it works.

Obama finally smartening up about Khalid Sheik Mohammed

Instead of a civilian trial advisers to Obama are going to recommend a military tribunal.

President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.

The president's advisers feel increasingly hemmed in by bipartisan opposition to a federal trial in New York and demands, mainly from Republicans, that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some terrorism suspects in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.

If Obama accepts the likely recommendation of his advisers, the White House may be able to secure from Congress the funding and legal authority it needs to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and replace it with a facility within the United States. The administration has failed to meet a self-imposed one-year deadline to close Guantanamo.

This sounds great, but why the change? I for one don't exactly trust Obama.

I don't think this is a national security decision. If Obama actually cared about National Security he would have never let the idea of trying KSM as a civilian. It would have been a military tribunal from the word go. I think this is all political.

Obama knows the majority of the people care about America. They care about our national security. And they think that trying KSM as a civilian would make a spectacle of the Islamic terrorists.

It's a good thing Obama finally made the right decision regarding KSM. It just shouldn't have taken him this long.

These the back door deals Obama promised

Wouldn't happen under his administration? Obama's newest judge appointment just happens to be the brother in law of a Democrat who voted against the Health Care bill.

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

10 buck says he changes his vote this time.

So much for the most open administration

Another broken promise from Obama.

President Obama, who pledged to establish the most open and transparent administration in history, on Monday surpasses his predecessor's record for avoiding a full-fledged question-and-answer session with White House reporters in a formal press conference.

President George W. Bush's longest stretch between prime-time, nationally televised press conferences was 214 days, from April 4 to Nov. 4, 2004. Mr. Obama tops that record on Monday, going 215 days - stretching back to July 22, according to records kept by CBS Radio's veteran reporter Mark Knoller.

The president has seemingly shunned formal, prime-time sessions since his last disastrous presser, when he said police in Cambridge, Mass., "acted stupidly" by arresting a Harvard professor who broke into a home that turned out to be his own. The off-the-cuff comment took over the news cycle for a week, overshadowing his push for health care reform, and culminated in a White House "Beer Summit," where the president hosted white police officer James Crowley and the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr.

"He does seem a little snakebit on the whole presser thing," said Julie Mason, a longtime White House reporter and board member of the White House Correspondents' Association.

"At his last big press conference in July, he lost control of the message with his response to the Gates question, and then returns six months later with an unannounced, five-question avail in the briefing room - on a snow day. Was it something we said?"

Maybe, just for fun, Obama should actually keep one of his promises. Sadly he isn't capable of keeping all his promises, it is a hard thing to do when you promised everything to everyone. This is just one example of many of his dishonesty.

Obama is the great campaigner of our time. His teleprompter can make most people believe his lies over and over again. But when it comes to actually delivering on his promises he has failed just about every time.

Imagine if a Republican...

Was President. This would be front page news over every news paper through out the country. The TV anchors would start their programs off with "are the Republican policies causes homelessness in America?" But because Obama "cares" and "hopes" and "change" the media loves him.

Homelessness in rural and suburban America is straining shelters this winter as the economy founders and joblessness hovers near double digits—a "perfect storm of foreclosures, unemployment and a shortage of affordable housing," in one official's eyes.

"We are seeing many families that never before sought government help," said Greg Blass, commissioner of Social Services in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island.

"We see a spiral in food stamps, heating assistance applications; Medicaid is skyrocketing," Blass added. "It is truly reaching a stage of being alarming."

The federal government is again counting the nation's homeless and, by many accounts, the suburban numbers continue to rise, especially for families, women, children, Latinos and men seeking help for the first time. Some have to be turned away.

It's pretty sad that homelessness is only a problem when a Republican is in the White House.

Maybe when things get so bad that the media can't ignore it anymore we can get the old Jimmy Carter misery index back.

Obama was against bonuses before he was for it.

More wishy washy double speak from liberals. Although I expect Obama to flip flop on issues wherever it might help him. But it's still fun to point out his hypocrisy. It was only last March when Obama said bank bonuses were a violation of our fundamental values.

Now fast forward a year later and this is what he has to say about big bonuses.

“I know both those guys; they are very savvy businessmen,” Obama said in the interview yesterday in the Oval Office with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “I, like most of the American people, don’t begrudge people success or wealth. That is part of the free- market system.”

Sounds like a total 180 to me. I wonder why he has had such a huge change in thought? Maybe he is starting to understand that you have to pay to get the best. But I think it is a lot more fickle than that. Since Obama has been trashing the banks they haven't been donating to Democrats. And why should they?

I think this is all about campaign money. Obama isn't a principled person the media would have you believe. All he cares about is power and how him and his party can get more of it at any cost. The willing media will comply and not call him on his hypocrisy because Obama is one of the "special" people.

Imagine if a Republican...

President and the Press Secretary openly mocked a private citizen. Just imagine if Tony Snow or Ari Fleischer went in front of the press and mocked Chris Matthews or any one private citizen not in government. The media would be calling for the press secretary's resignation. Would be calling for Bush's impeachment. The talking points would all be about how childish the Bush's administration is. But of course if Robert Gibbs openly mocks Sarah Palin, who is a private citizen now. She isn't even elected as a dog catcher any where right now. She isn't running for anything at the moment. She is just a private citizen who the President is so afraid of he is having his press secretary mock her in front of the press.

At yesterday's daily briefing, the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs said he also had written some things down on his hand. Breaking off from a question on health care reform, he said he planned to make pancakes for his son if the snow in Washington continued. "I wrote 'eggs', 'milk', 'bread', but I crossed out 'bread.' Then I wrote down 'hope' and 'change', in case I forgot."

But when you are one of the elitists you get special treatment.