Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Why Desiree Rogers had to get the boot.
Many have said that Ms. Rogers should not have been relieved of her duties, but the fact is that she never should have been hired for this position.
When you upstage the First Lady of the United States, pose constantly for various high class magazines, seen viewing the runways during New York Fashion Week, then do not perform your job for the Obamas first State Dinner, what else can be expected?
Remember, the Secret Service fell on the sword and took one for the White House in regards to the debacle of the State Dinner and the uninvited guests that just walked on in. The reality is that Social Secretaries do not put themselves on a guest list for a major event, they WORK THE EVENT at the door. That is why Desiree Rogers was quietly told to resign as it should be.
Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her.
Ms. Rogers had appeared in another glossy magazine, posing in a White House garden in a borrowed $3,495 silk pleated dress and $110,000 diamond earrings. But if the image was jarring in a time of recession, Mr. Axelrod was as bothered by the words and her discussion of “the Obama brand” and her role in promoting it, according to people informed about the conversation.
“The president is a person, not a product,” he was said to tell her. “We shouldn’t be referring to him as a brand.” read more here...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
President Obama's Weekly Address, March 13, 2010 (video, transcript)
The President discusses his blueprint for an updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act to overhaul No Child Left Behind, the latest step from his Administration to encourage change and success in America’s schools at the local level.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, "No Public Option" in the reconcilation bill
The White House is silent. Why? The White House NEVER WANTED a public option, even though the polling on it is the highest for this part of the legislation. Where is the competition? Where is the cost savings? What happened to "health care like congress?" Folks, the White House must protect their deals that was cut. In doing so, torpedo the public option. Well, if you want Democrats to be fired up this sure is not doing so. We have sat and watched Barack Obama save the auto industry, the corrupt banks and Wall Street, every one else, but us, nah, we don't need a bail out nor a public option. And let us not talk about the mandate to MAKE US, YOU AND ME, purchase insurance or a hefty fine on us!! And the big hook, the insurance companies get in the tens of millions new customers!!! And we should trust this crooked industry to do the right thing in pricing? Health care will be chopped up like auto insurance, those who are older, need more coverage it will cost a whole lot, others who are young will pick the very minimum. Is this what it should be? But in this bill, are any premium and cost caps there? Of course not, this is an insurance "love fest" of a bill, all about them!!!!
President Obama you are really bogus here, to the utmost.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that she would not include a public option in a health care reconciliation package that the House will send to the Senate.
"We're talking about something that is not going to be part of the legislation," Pelosi said, noting "with sadness" that the public insurance option won't be part of legislation. "I'm quite sad that the public option is not in there," she said.
Earlier Thursday, a spokesman to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Majority Whip, said Durbin would "aggressively whip" a health care bill that included a public option.
Pelosi, however, put the onus back on the Senate, saying that the chamber didn't have the votes needed for it.
"I'm not having the Senate, which didn't have a public option in its bill, put any of that on our doorstep," she said. "It did not prevail. What we will have in reconciliation will be something that is agreed upon, House and Senate, that they can pass and we can pass... It isn't in there because they don't have the votes."
Politicans only care about the next election, not us, including those at 1600 PA AVE, Washington, D.C.
WORD.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
FLOTUS, Michelle Obama donates inaugural gown to Smithsonian (Pictures)
First Lady Michelle Obama with dress designer Jason Wu during an event where she donated her inaugural gown to the Smithsonian Museum of American History on March 9, 2010 in Washington, DC. Mrs. Obama continues a long tradition of first ladies who have donated their inaugural gown to be on display at the Smithsonian.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Obama's greatest failure was to explain health care insurance reform to all of us (Video)
"....looking for people to blame because they don't want to blame Obama himself...."
That is the problem. Who put the Obama White House together? Who hired all these people? Barack Obama. In the end, if the Democrats lose in November, it will all be laid at his feet and to keep it real, it should be. Barack Obama wasted all his political capital and 2009 on doing nothing in regards to health care, jobs. He has saved everyone but us, the people out here with no jobs, health insurance, etc. Wall Street and the banks made more money from our money than ever before, but they sure as hell are not hiring or lending to us, are they? This is a real problem out here and why many independents are very skeptical about Barack Obama right now, and they should be.
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President Obama on "America's Most Wanted" (Video)
President Obama sits down with John Walsh for the 1,000th episode of "America's Most Wanted."
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
President Obama's Weekly Address, March 6, 2008 (Video, Transcript)
In his weekly address, President Barack Obama said that Congress owes the country an up-or-down vote on health reform and he described how more American families will have more control over their health care this year after health reform passes. The proposal the President has put forward includes tax credits for small businesses to purchase coverage, making it possible for people with pre-existing conditions to purchase coverage, and stopping insurance companies from imposing lifetime caps or annual limits to the amount of care people receive, among other reforms.
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Flip/Flop, Obama now pulling rug from under Holder's feet, no to courts, yes to military tribunals
Obama is caving on this issue. He is. One thing I like about our president is that he understands the LAW. Instead, again, of going out and explaining to the American public why trials is the road we should walk, he caves to the continued whine of the right and now it looks like tribunals for KSM. Sigh, the Obama White House communication is one of the worse that I can remember. For such a prolific orator, his White House surely is not.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
President Obama wants an up and down vote on health care (Video)
It is about time.
Finally, a call to action that should have been done at least six months ago. The White House has been dragged by a noose by the demoralized, now envigorated Republican Party and their constant WHINE while eating their cheese.
Health care reform, a basic moral RIGHT to all Americans has been successfully demoralized thanks to the obstruction of the Republican Party, with ample help of the Tea Baggers. While President Obama sat on his heels for a full year and said barely ANYTHING.
Sure, he gave speeches, but right now who in the hell is listening? At this point, many Americans craved this action a long time ago and are very skeptical of this leadership from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave through the halls of congress.
It took losing the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat for this White House to get fire lit under their asses. They got scurred. And still, President Obama is trying bipartisanship by inputting things that the Republicans want in the bill, even though he KNOWS, he will not get ONE VOTE.
When this tale is written, it will be AFTER the November mid-term elections. If the Democrats lose either or both houses of congress, the so-called "dithering", "slowness", "aloofness" and "arrogance" attached to the Obama White House will be unleashed in full force.
Barack Obama knows that he must hold onto both houses in congress, if he does not, very little of any BOLD agenda will be passed going forward. I guess he may be relegated to tackle the tiny things like Bill Clinton did in "school uniforms for public schools".
That is not what the voters went to the polls for in 2008 and many have every reason to be just angry and exhausted by this White House and lack of movement from leadership in Washington, D.C.
So, finally, President Obama calls for an up and down vote on health care, while many Democrats wished to God he had been focused FULLY on getting Americans back to work, because that is the real reality out here for many unemployed. November is going to be rough for the Democrats.
President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.
"I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system.
The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote — invoking rules that deny Senate Republicans the right to block it through endless stalling debate. Obama specifically endorsed that approach GOP leaders were unmoved, despite Obama's declaration that he had incorporated a few of their proposals into his revised legislation.
The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said a decision by Democrats to invoke rules that bar filibusters would be "met with outrage" by the public, and he said Obama was pushing a sweeping bill that voters don't want.
"They've had enough of this yearlong effort to get a win for the Democratic Party at any price to the American people," McConnell said on the Senate floor.
This is what things come to, when you do nothing, the other party hijacks your beloved message and destroys it.
Is it about time for this action? Absolutely, but for some Americans Obama and the Democrats maybe just too late.
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