I saw this last night and Paul Begala was in magnificent shape. Ari Fleischer was just stunned.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Paul Begala serves Ari Fleischer a cup of STFU when it comes to TORTURE from Anderson Cooper, CNN (VIDEO and TRANSCRIPT)
Bush Administration and torture exposed on The Rachel Maddow Show (Video)
Philip Zelikow tells it all.....
This interview is damning towards the Bush Administration and torture.
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Obama invites Middle East leaders to Washington, DC
Yesterday, King Abdullah II of Jordan was in Washington, DC to start the Middle East peace process. Yes, Obama is continuing the "check mark" off the list.
Deepening his direct role in reviving stalled Middle East peace efforts, Mr Obama met King Abdullah on Tuesday and invited Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak for separate talks by early June.
The US president reassured King Abdullah of his commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite reluctance by Mr Netanyahu’s new right-leaning government to support the idea of eventual Palestinian statehood.
In contrast to the more hands-off policy of George W Bush, Mr Obama reasserted his pledge to “deeply engage” in Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy.
“What we have to do is step back from the abyss,” he told reporters after meeting the Jordanian king at the White House.
He said a “sense of urgency” was needed to resuscitate the peace process and said he expected “gestures of good faith” to be made in coming months.
“I agree that we can’t talk forever, that at some point steps have to be taken so that people can see progress on the ground. And that will be something that we will expect to take place in the coming months,” Mr Obama said.
He said he was a “strong supporter of a two-state solution”, adding: “I have articulated that publicly, and I will articulate that privately. And I think that there are a lot of Israelis who also believe in a two-state solution.”
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In case you missed it, Obama's press conference after the Summit of Americas in Trinidad & Tobago (Video)
President Obama sums up and takes questions from the press about his experience at the Fifth Summit of the Americas held in Port of Spain in Trinidad & Tobago.
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It is on.....
Those who had anything to do with the signing off for torture, should be very scared right now.
Let me be clear. Barack Obama stood and still stands with what Rahm Emanuel said on the Sunday talk shows. He would prefer for us to move on past the Bush Administration, however traumatic and ill-advised that administration was. Obama is all about moving forward, but this country is founded on the law of the land and the moving on theme was always going to be a hard sell to the public for Obama.
There is a lot of anger out there towards the former Bush Administration. Anger on the Iraq War, Katrina, the politicized Justice Department, the money thrown away on Iraq and Afghanistan, the economy, the housing mess, China, and the list is endless. But what the Bush Administration did was torture and what they left us is repercussion worldwide.
Sure, I am all for moving on, but I am also for not ever letting this happen again. Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama was wrong for stating that no prosecution will be forthcoming dealing with torture. It is not Obama nor Emanuel's job to say what is going to be prosecuted in this country and what is not going to be, that is left to the United States Attorney General Eric Holder. Obama deserved the backlash from that blanket statement and the walkback is warranted.
The Team Bush brain trust that approved CIA torture techniques faces a roughing-up after President Obama reopened the possibility of investigation - and even prosecution.
Just five days after urging against "recrimination" for the George W. Bush-era torture of terror suspects, President Obama said Attorney General Eric Holder is free to probe the White House higher-ups who authorized the tough treatment.
I know Barack Obama is about consensus, but until we acknowledge and be forth right about what really happened, going forward is not going to be easy. The public deserves the right to know what happened. Transparency is one of the key reasons Barack Obama was elected and though he may not like the criminal road that we are about to walk down, we deserve the right to know what happened, but more importantly to be told the truth after being lied to for eight years.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Unemployment rate is high as hell
For real.
For those bogus governors, like Sanford in South Carolina who attempted to put Obama on blast for the stimulus bill, but the coin was flipped and he is the one on blast in his own state. South Carolina has the third highest unemployment rate in this country and he did not want to accept extension for unemployment for his constituents in South Carolina?
SC, y'all need to get another governor, ASAP.
In March, Michigan again reported the highest jobless rate, 12.6 percent. The states with the next highest rates were Oregon, 12.1 percent; South Carolina, 11.4 percent; California, 11.2 percent; North Carolina, 10.8 percent; Rhode Island, 10.5 percent; Nevada, 10.4 percent; and Indiana, 10.0 percent. Nine additional states and the District of Columbia recorded unemployment rates of at least 9.0 percent.
These numbers are not good, period. As, I have written about the auto industry and the Obama Administration to possibly just let it go bankrupt, I hope he is prepared for heavy criticism in this area. We are talking middle class here, we are talking working folk here, we are talking about the bulk of America here.
NOT WALL STREET
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President Obama signs the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act (Video)
The President has just signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, joined by Senator Kennedy, President Bill Clinton, the Congressional leaders who supported the legislation, and countless others dedicated to passage of the bill at the SEED School, where service is a core part of the curriculum. Appropriately, the President announced a major call to service.
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Stop making excuses for America's bad behavior
Watching morning joke and his sidekick Pat Buchanan on morning joe makes one shake their head.
Today, make excuses why a dose of torture is great?
Overall, pathetic.
Why does anyone think we are in the predicament we are in? Primarily because of these techniques which, overall, did not help us in the War on Terror.
Let's not make excuses for bad decisions by the Bush Administration. Starting at the top with George W. Bush on down to his lackey former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. These folks thought they were end all of be all, but at the end of the day they are standing with egg on their faces.
The Bush Administration former lap dogs should be worried about these torture memos out there, because they lied to the American public's face stating that we don't torture but the memos indicate otherwise. Furthermore, Obama vindicates the agents who were told to torture on the eve of him visiting the CIA. The CIA visit was reinforcement, that the regular joe at the CIA will not have to face any criminal charges, which I don't agree with, but the greater question is what about those who gave the order?
That question has not been answered, yet. And if Obama lets these clowns go scott free, he is going to have a tough time down the road.
So, you see why anyone who was involved in any torture, with any authority, should be worried about these memos out.
No wonder many wanted a pre-pardon from Bush. This story is far from over.
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Wall Street worries about the banks again? And?
I am sorry, but no pity party for banks here.
We can not save the innovation that put America on the map, the auto industry, but we can give more money to banks that put themselves in this predicament because of sheer greed? The same organizations that don't understand that bonuses in the millions to folks that put the economy where it is just is unacceptable, while American families are struggling partly because of their bad decision making?
Puh-leaze. No pity here.
Obama Administration trend very carefully here. If you want the auto industry to go bankrupt, you for damn sure better make sure some of these banks go down the drain, as well. If you don't, many middle class Americans won't get that picture, AT ALL.
Anxiety is growing again over the health of the nation's largest banks, and with Congress hesitant to commit more money, the Obama administration is exploring ways to strengthen them in the face of an unrelenting recession.
Results of the federal government's "stress tests" on big banks are due May 4, and Wall Street is increasingly worried they will show some banks are in worse shape than expected.
The renewed bank fears drove the stock market down on Monday in its worst showing in six weeks. Bank of America stock lost nearly a quarter of its value, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell almost 290 points.
Bank of America reported a first-quarter profit of $2.8 billion, joining other banks whose earnings reports have looked positive at first blush. But some analysts say accounting steps are concealing the depth of the financial industry's woes.
The banks have been helped by income from trading and cheap borrowing, but they are still struggling with bad debt, said Joe Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading LLC.
Investors are "looking at bank numbers and are saying they are not that great," he said.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dick Cheney slams Obama, again on Hannity (Video)
Slick Dick, the last person to give advice or analysis on anything. Here he goes again on the worthless Hannity Show.
It is the constant rhetoric that has turned many from the Republican Party.
Lastly, who wants to take any advice from Dick Cheney? The worst Vice-President in HISTORY.
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Obama, reaching out ot enemies makes sense
YES.IT.DOES.
Defending his brand of world politics, President Barack Obama said Sunday that he is "strengthening our hand" by reaching out to enemies of the United States and making sure that the nation is a leader, not a lecturer, of democracy.Obama's foreign doctrine emerged across his four-day trip to Latin America, his first extended venture to a region of the world where resentment of U.S. power still lingers. He got a smile, handshakes and even a gift from incendiary leftist leader Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and embraced overtures of new relations from isolated Cuban President Raul Castro.
"The whole notion was that if we showed courtesy or opened up dialogue with governments that had previously been hostile to us, that that somehow would be a sign of weakness," Obama said, recalling his race for the White House and challenging his critics today.
"The American people didn't buy it," Obama said. "And there's a good reason the American people didn't buy it — because it doesn't make sense." read more here.....
Obama is making us look weak
Amazing, just amazing that folks like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan can sit up on television and state that Obama is making the U.S. look weak. Shaking hands with Hugo Chavez is a gesture. Remember, George W. Bush said that he could look into Putin's sole and know he is a good man. See how far that got us? At least Obama did not make a stupid statement like that, but acted like a gracious politician that he is.
It is smarmy statements like this that did not help us fight the Iraq War, which bankrupted this country, don't believe it, ask our banker named, China. But the right winged talkers are exploding at the seams because of a handshake.
Concerned troll Buchanan states that Obama is being made a mockery of, accepting the anti-American book by Chavez. What does this mean? Absolutely, nothing. One thing we have learned is that Barack Obama is a gracious man, who is also a hard ball politician. Don't believe it? Ask Hillary Clinton or John McCain, whose dust was left on the election road by Obama. Taking a picture, shaking a hand, means nothing. But being in the room with persons of state who we have direct disagreement and starting dialogue is a beginning.
Concerned trolls Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan seem to have limited memory. Let me refresh it for you. Barack Obama campaigned on retaining our stature in the international arena, it means having conversation with those countries who may hate us. It was the "us against them" attitude that left the United States isolated in the War of Terror.
The former administration left an international mess, besides the domestic one, it is up to our new head of state to push forward the new policy of the United States of America. To say he is a mockery or failure and not even 100 days in is psycho talk, as Ed Schultz puts it.
I guess the only way that conservatives or so called conservatives can go forward is by the daily pounding of images they think they see, instead of being real about it. The Fox News of the world with Nazi images and comparing Obama as one is one of the main reasons that the Republican Party is on the outs right now in this country.
The same old spin, rinse, repeat is all the conservatives have right now.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Back on line tomorrow....
I had personal family business this weekend, just back from Tennessee with a new addition to our family. More on that tomorrow, now catching up on some much needed sleep. In the meantime, talk to you in the am.
Peace.
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