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| Over the weekend, President Obama celebrated his 17th wedding anniversary. The President celebrated by going out for a romantic candlelit dinner with just his wife and Oprah.
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As Obama Advocates Longer School Year, Teachers' Unions Push for Shorter Weeks
President Obama is pushing for more hours in school, but some of his staunchest supporters are moving in the other direction -- seeking to adopt four-day school weeks as a way to avoid pay cuts and firings in the face of crumbling state budgets.
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Top 10 Reasons Chicago Didn't Get the Olympics
10. Dead people can't vote at IOC meetings
9. Obama distracted by 25 min meeting with Gen. McChrystal
8. Who cares if Obama couldn't talk the IOC into Chicago? He'll be able to talk Iran out of nukes.
7. The impediment is Israel still building settlements.
5. We've been quite clear and said all along that we didn't want the Olympics.
4. This isn't about the number of Olympics "lost", it's about the number of Olympics "saved" or "created".
3. Clearly not enough wise Latina judges on the committee
2. Because the IOC is racist.
1. It's George Bush's fault.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091005/pl_nm/us_obama_environment
This guy is so out of touch. He cant get anything through congress he wants so he will govern by yet another presidential order. He is good at that dictator stuff...
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Saturday Night Live Got it right:
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/obama-address/1163263/
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We could have a problem though. Isn't there a huge Jesus statue looking down on Rio? I guess the ACLU is going to have to get busy getting that thing removed before our athletes will be allowed to carry an American Flag during the opening ceremony.
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Craig wrote: goldrush wrote: The 2016 Olympics . . . the bottom line , , , the agony of defeat.
If ‘bama and the WH made a mistake, it was their boundless faith the ‘bama’s personal popularity would bring home the bacon. The Olympic defeat is testimony to the fact that interests trump charm or likeability. Just 'cuz BHO is black doesn't mean that those black African nations were go against there own self-interests and alliances. Being eliminated in the first round is pretty sorrowful. At least he can’t blame this one on GWB.
Actually they did blame it on GW, saying he alienated all the countries and thats why they didnt bring them here...
They need to let it go.
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goldrush wrote: The 2016 Olympics . . . the bottom line , , , the agony of defeat.
If ‘bama and the WH made a mistake, it was their boundless faith the ‘bama’s personal popularity would bring home the bacon. The Olympic defeat is testimony to the fact that interests trump charm or likeability. Just 'cuz BHO is black doesn't mean that those black African nations were go against there own self-interests and alliances. Being eliminated in the first round is pretty sorrowful. At least he can’t blame this one on GWB.
Actually they did blame it on GW, saying he alienated all the countries and thats why they didnt bring them here...
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The 2016 Olympics . . . the bottom line , , , the agony of defeat.
If ‘bama and the WH made a mistake, it was their boundless faith the ‘bama’s personal popularity would bring home the bacon. The Olympic defeat is testimony to the fact that interests trump charm or likeability. Just 'cuz BHO is black doesn't mean that those black African nations were go against there own self-interests and alliances. Being eliminated in the first round is pretty sorrowful. At least he can’t blame this one on GWB.
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BigSurprize wrote: A message from Michigan...makes sense to me.
http://www.breitbart.tv/gop-democrats-living-on-a-different-planet/
Another outstanding one. It always comes back to that common sense thing doesn't it? In our eyes, it seems so simple. But the libs always want to complicate everything, control it and increase the cost on everything they touch. I agree, I do wonder sometimes if they are living on a different planet than the working folks. 
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A message from Michigan...makes sense to me.
http://www.breitbart.tv/gop-democrats-living-on-a-different-planet/
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Craig wrote: Not a single word, where is the fake outrage...
Apparently loss of life means less when it's under a Democrat's watch. 
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Not a single word, where is the fake outrage...
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It's all about me.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091004/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
Ill tell you what, if this happened on GW's watch, you libs would be nuts right now. But now that your boy is in the office, you seem to have no issues with soldiers dying in the war.
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Man, this is pathetic. Can you imagine this as a GWB story? NO. He also wouldn't have placed himself in such a weak and vulnerable position and he wouldn't be backing down from our enemies. This is just a sad, sad reflection on who we have as President. I don't want our Country to fail but if this is our leadership, then maybe it has to happen so we can get a real leader in there. This is not the time for experiment folks. Very disturbing. 
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designman124 wrote: Why Do Obamas Have To Lie?
Why do Obamas Have to Lie?
Posted on October 3, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
 Barack “Hessayin” Obama lied repeatedly throughout the campaign and has not stopped as president. And now, even Michelle “Never Been Proud of My Country” Obama is joining him at the liar’s rostrum.
Our favorite watchdog Michelle Malkin caught this little lie in The First Lady’s Olympics pleading.Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.
LIAR!
If Michelle Obama was sitting on her father’s lap watching Carl Lewis perform in the Olympics she would have been a grown woman because Lewis was first in the Olympics in 1984 when Michelle was 20-years-old.
In fact, Carl Lewis wasn’t even born until 1961 so he was a little kid at the same time as Michelle Obama, who was born in 1964.
Why do these people have to lie so blatantly like this?
They learned it from the Clintons. Remember when Hillary said she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the first of two men to climb Mount Everest. Problem is, he did that in 1953 and Hillary Clinton was born in 1947.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp
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designman124 wrote: Why Do Obamas Have To Lie?
Why do Obamas Have to Lie?
Posted on October 3, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Barack “Hessayin” Obama lied repeatedly throughout the campaign and has not stopped as president. And now, even Michelle “Never Been Proud of My Country” Obama is joining him at the liar’s rostrum.
Our favorite watchdog Michelle Malkin caught this little lie in The First Lady’s Olympics pleading.Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.
LIAR!
If Michelle Obama was sitting on her father’s lap watching Carl Lewis perform in the Olympics she would have been a grown woman because Lewis was first in the Olympics in 1984 when Michelle was 20-years-old.
In fact, Carl Lewis wasn’t even born until 1961 so he was a little kid at the same time as Michelle Obama, who was born in 1964.
Why do these people have to lie so blatantly like this?
The Obama's are so used to all the libs, media, and Hollywood buying everything they say w/o question...(makes me wanna puke)...their Olympic experience musta knocked the wind right outta them! I guess Oprah ain't no big thang out in the real world either...O'Bummer!  
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Why Do Obamas Have To Lie?
Why do Obamas Have to Lie?
Posted on October 3, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Barack “Hessayin” Obama lied repeatedly throughout the campaign and has not stopped as president. And now, even Michelle “Never Been Proud of My Country” Obama is joining him at the liar’s rostrum.
Our favorite watchdog Michelle Malkin caught this little lie in The First Lady’s Olympics pleading.Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.
LIAR!
If Michelle Obama was sitting on her father’s lap watching Carl Lewis perform in the Olympics she would have been a grown woman because Lewis was first in the Olympics in 1984 when Michelle was 20-years-old.
In fact, Carl Lewis wasn’t even born until 1961 so he was a little kid at the same time as Michelle Obama, who was born in 1964.
Why do these people have to lie so blatantly like this?
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Razenkn wrote: designman124 wrote: Costly Trip Out Of Your Pocket
Obama's Copenhagen Trip Wasn't CheapFriday, October 2, 2009 6:10 PM
President Barack Obama's failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago cost more than a bruised ego.
Taxpayers shelled out probably $1 million or more for the president, his wife and others to fly to Copenhagen and back to woo members of the International Olympic Committee.
A 2006 congressional study pegged the cost of flying Air Force One at $56,518 an hour. The Pentagon recently said it cost $100,219 an hour to fly the huge, reconfigured Boeing 747 without Obama aboard. The Pentagon estimate included more costs for support needs, such as maintenance.
At those rates, the president's 14-hour trip to Copenhagen and back cost about $790,000 to $1.4 million.
Come on DM, he doesn't care about silly old stuff like wasting taxpayer money. He thinks he deserves to spend what he spends. After all, it's just those evil rich folks money, what's the big deal? So he wastes some of it, he and Michelle are "entitled" to a little fun aren't they? And let's face it, who could possibly pass up the chance to hang with the girls??? Valerie, Oprah, Michelle......oh, my. You do have to wonder who the numskull is that miscalculated the premise of "having it in the bag" though. They might be sitting in a hot seat right now cause let's face it, they spread egg all over Barack Hussein Obama's face on this one, not just at home but abroad as well. Kind of skewed that aura a little. Egg just isn't his most attractive look is it? We can only HOPE this will be a wake up call to President Ego and he will let some of that go and start doing his real job. Taking care of business at home.
Maybe the numbskull is the same one who "underestimated the budget by 2 TRILLION dollars" or the same numbskull who "underestimated the recession and missed the mark of 9.8% unemployment", maybe they need to start cleaning house of some of those cronies and start getting some qualified people in there that isn't 60's agenda riddled and really wants to get our Country back on track, not implode it.
Actually the real number is around 17% unemployment. This includes those but no limited to who just gave up looking, who took part time jobs because they ran out of unemployment money to get by which really isn't helping them any. Anybody who has a job is very fortunate because it will get much worse as long as Obama is in the Oval Office trying to tax and spend! I really want him to succeed as long it is not his socialist government he wants to pass. I don't like hearing that more Americans have lost their jobs and can't find any work and about to lose everything they have. We are in the middle of a severe crisis and the Dems seem to care about raising our taxes and lying to us about the Health Care bill that they themselves don't even want. The madness they are creating has to STOP!
My one question for the Liberals on this blog is if he is doing so well why his poll numbers is dropping like a brick in water going straight to the bottom?
All the bloviating he has done is only creating more uncertainty in the minds of Americans. He is already a lame duck and he is only 9 months in his term. It's sad that a Black man may never even make it on a Presidential ticket because the people will reject him outright before he even gets started. A good example is Michael Steele who is the GOP Chairman. I'd vote for this guy in a heart beet but he will never have a chance at winning even a nomination. It's really sad that Obama tried to take full advantage of what clout he had and now he most likely spoiled it for everyone who is not white.
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designman124 wrote: Costly Trip Out Of Your Pocket
Obama's Copenhagen Trip Wasn't CheapFriday, October 2, 2009 6:10 PM
President Barack Obama's failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago cost more than a bruised ego.
Taxpayers shelled out probably $1 million or more for the president, his wife and others to fly to Copenhagen and back to woo members of the International Olympic Committee.
A 2006 congressional study pegged the cost of flying Air Force One at $56,518 an hour. The Pentagon recently said it cost $100,219 an hour to fly the huge, reconfigured Boeing 747 without Obama aboard. The Pentagon estimate included more costs for support needs, such as maintenance.
At those rates, the president's 14-hour trip to Copenhagen and back cost about $790,000 to $1.4 million.
Come on DM, he doesn't care about silly old stuff like wasting taxpayer money. He thinks he deserves to spend what he spends. After all, it's just those evil rich folks money, what's the big deal? So he wastes some of it, he and Michelle are "entitled" to a little fun aren't they? And let's face it, who could possibly pass up the chance to hang with the girls??? Valerie, Oprah, Michelle......oh, my. You do have to wonder who the numskull is that miscalculated the premise of "having it in the bag" though. They might be sitting in a hot seat right now cause let's face it, they spread egg all over Barack Hussein Obama's face on this one, not just at home but abroad as well. Kind of skewed that aura a little. Egg just isn't his most attractive look is it? We can only HOPE this will be a wake up call to President Ego and he will let some of that go and start doing his real job. Taking care of business at home.
Maybe the numbskull is the same one who "underestimated the budget by 2 TRILLION dollars" or the same numbskull who "underestimated the recession and missed the mark of 9.8% unemployment", maybe they need to start cleaning house of some of those cronies and start getting some qualified people in there that isn't 60's agenda riddled and really wants to get our Country back on track, not implode it.
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Costly Trip Out Of Your Pocket
Obama's Copenhagen Trip Wasn't CheapFriday, October 2, 2009 6:10 PM
President Barack Obama's failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago cost more than a bruised ego.
Taxpayers shelled out probably $1 million or more for the president, his wife and others to fly to Copenhagen and back to woo members of the International Olympic Committee.
A 2006 congressional study pegged the cost of flying Air Force One at $56,518 an hour. The Pentagon recently said it cost $100,219 an hour to fly the huge, reconfigured Boeing 747 without Obama aboard. The Pentagon estimate included more costs for support needs, such as maintenance.
At those rates, the president's 14-hour trip to Copenhagen and back cost about $790,000 to $1.4 million.
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It didn't take long...hot of the press. Ouch!
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| Obama has spent almost $1.5 Million in legal fees so far. Why would he if he is a legal citizen? Seems like a fair question to me... If he was a Republican then the Libs would be all over it like flies on doodoo and their question would be answered in record speed!
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If this continues to keep coming back does that mean there is something to it??
That moment will come at 8:30 AM on Monday, October 5.
That is the time that the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division, will hear a Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss a lawsuit that we've recently become a part of, demanding Barack Obama release records that could prove –- or disprove -– his U.S. citizenship.
You read that right! With very little warning, we have just learned that the DOJ has been granted a hearing that could result in this new case over Obama's citizenship being thrown out of court! The DOJ's motion claims that our clients have no "standing," that the Federal Court does not have "jurisdiction" to hear this case, and that the matter is "political."
But, if we as citizens of the United States have no "standing" to verify the citizenship of the man occupying the White House, who does? If our Federal Courts have no jurisdiction to hear this case, who does? It's not a "political" question, it's a CONSTITUTIONAL question!
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| If one has certain characteristics, power leads to total breakdown of morals, ethics and responsibility. Obama is obsessed with himself and his desire to rule the world through guile and constant falsehoods. It is scary that he is stacking the deck through the use of czars and the flunkies in the house and senate. Even more frightening is the ignorance of the general population as Obama prepares to cut their financial throat.
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| President Obama coming under fire because he has only spoken to the U.S. commander in Afghanistan once in the last six months. Whose fault is that? If the general wants to talk to Obama, get a talk show. That’s how it’s done.
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Time to Act Like a President
Obama, still in campaign mode, must learn to mean what he says
By Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.
Take last week's Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh. There, the candidate-in-full commandeered the television networks and the leaders of Britain and France to give the Iranians a dramatic warning. Yet another of their secret nuclear facilities had been revealed and Obama, as anyone could see, was determined to do something about it -- just don't ask what.
The entire episode had a faux Cuban missile crisis quality to it. Something menacing had been discovered -- not Soviet missiles a mere 100 miles or so off Florida but an Iranian nuclear installation about 100 miles from Tehran. As befitting the occasion, various publications supplied us with nearly minute-by-minute descriptions of the crisis atmosphere earlier in the week at the U.N. session -- the rushing from room to room, presidential aides conferring, undoubtedly aware that they were in the middle of a book they had yet to write. I scanned the accounts looking for familiar names. Where was McNamara? Where was Bundy? Where, in fact, was the crisis?
In fact, there was none. The supposedly secret installation had been known to Western intelligence agencies -- Britain, France, the United States and undoubtedly Israel -- for several years. Its existence had been deduced by intelligence analysts from Iranian purchases abroad, and it was pinpointed sometime afterward. What had changed was that news of it had gone public. This happened not because Obama announced it but because the Iranians beat him to it after discovering that their cover was blown. They then turned themselves in to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna and, as usual, said the site was intended for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. These Persians lie like a rug.
No one should believe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran seems intent on developing a nuclear weapons program and the missiles capable of delivering them. This -- not the public revelations of a known installation -- is the real crisis, possibly one that can only end in war. It is entirely possible that Israel, faced with that chilling cliche -- an existential threat -- will bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. What would happen next is anyone's guess -- retaliation by Hamas and Hezbollah, an unprecedented spike in oil prices and then, after a few years or less, a resumption of Iran's nuclear program. Only the United States has the capability to obliterate Tehran's underground facilities. Washington may have to act.
For a crisis such as this, the immense prestige of the American presidency ought to be held in reserve. Let the secretary of state issue grave warnings. When Obama said in Pittsburgh that Iran is "going to have to come clean and they are going to have to make a choice," it had the sound of an ultimatum. But what if the Iranians don't? What then? A president has to be careful with such language. He better mean what he says.
The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health-care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would.
Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health-care legislation -- "Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town . . . " -- and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence -- meet it or else.
Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was, and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.
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designman124 wrote: 
That's sad but true. Did you know that Barack Hussein Obama removed funding for the dirty bomb detection technology devices in NYC? President Bush had $70 Million earmarked for it and when this administration took over, they removed it from the budget. So now NYC is vulnerable again. Do you just get the feeling this Prez doesn't have a real grasp on our National Security issues? Of course, he does have Janet leading the way and we all know how good she is (winky, wink). It really doesn't matter who he has in there, he probably doesn't have time to talk to her either.
Now that portions of the Patriot Act are due to expire, will this Administration have the courage to continue them?? The DEMS are currently trying to overturn the decision to not go after the Communication Industry for allowing warrantless wiretapping to listen in on terrorist plots so that those who they listened in on can sue them. Well, who will pay for that boondoggle? We will. Both in increased prices and in no more access to vital information making us less safe. Why is it the American people always end up paying the price for these do-gooder elitist liberals in Washington that are completely disengaged from reality? We are the end result of their lunatic decision making and we get slammed into a wall with each and everyone of them.
Aren't there any responsible Dems in Congress anymore who have the guts to stand up and say "this is just insanity"? Where are these people? And why do you keep sending them back to make more stupid decisions for us?? Get them the hell out of there before they get us all killed.
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Gates: Setting Afghan Withdrawal Deadlines, Exit Strategies Would Be a Mistake
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says 'the notion of timelines and exit strategies' for the war in Afghanistan 'would all be a strategic mistake.'
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it's a mistake to set a deadline to end American military action, as some liberals have sought, and that a defeat would be disastrous for the U.S.
In a stern warning to critics of a continued troop presence in Afghanistan, Gates said the Islamic extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda would perceive an early pullout as a victory over the United States as similar to the Soviet Union's humiliating withdrawal in 1989 after a 10-year war.
"The notion of timelines and exit strategies and so on, frankly, I think would all be a strategic mistake. The reality is, failure in Afghanistan would be a huge setback for the United States," Gates said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
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Uncle Jay Explains - 9/28
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UncleJayExplains
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designman124 wrote: 
There should be a recording......We cannot come to the phone right now...The Prez is too busy making his travel plans, sorry fellas -- you're on your own.
He and Michelle have to make a trip to Copenhagen to pitch their home town Chicago (cronies) for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Apparently BHO didn't think she could do it on her own so he needs to go too. Nothing going on here at home, so why the heck not make it a date trip?? I hear Copenhagen is really nice this time of year. What's that going to cost us?
Is there no one else in this administration up for this job?? How about one of his CZARS? We don't have a "Commander in Chief" we have a "Community Organizer in Chief". If this were GWB the headlines would read "NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME" or "PRESIDENT NOT BEING PRESIDENTIAL". He really does view himself as the "SALESMAN" and that's fine but perhaps he should find another line of work.
American's need a strong and decisive leader, not a fairy tale character. He needs to keep his behind in the WH sitting in the Oval Office and making decisions for our National Security. He has only spoken to General McChrystal once during the past 70 days. Why? Does he think if he ignores the problem it will go away or is it too hard for him? He needs to snap out of the campaign mode and start being the President.
Also, I wonder what other major cities think about the President of the entire Country only pitching his City? Such a colossal disconnect.
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| I find it amazing that according to President Obama's words we have a economic crisis, we have a health care crisis, etc. and what does our President do - he is going to go to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics for Chicago. Makes you wonder!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_more_school
Obama needs more time to indoctrinate you kids...
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Gates said "it's going to be tough" for the president to meet his goal of shutting the prison in January. He said there are difficulties in completing the lengthy review of detainee files and resolving other issues. Duh
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Gates: Closing Gitmo More Difficult Than Anticipated
The Defense chief said trying to close down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay has proved more complicated than anticipated
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