November 15, 2009
barry merchandise in China include a bronze effigy because he’s “hot” and Oba Mao t-shirts, which the purveyor was told to stop producing.
Wonder why.
Comrade barry
Itinerary includes sightseeing at the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.
He will also meet up with his brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo and his wife.
Popular for his youth and celebrity status not for his views on China
BARRY’S TEAM HAT – one size fits all, including Anita Dunn
May 1, 2009
Justice Souter announces retirement
barry re: Justice Souter’s decision to retire
Court responds to Justice Souter’s decision
Supreme Court Justice David Souter formally announced his retirement today to begin at summer recess - June - by calling and sending barry a letter. barry then rushed t
o Gibbs' daycare -- adoration at all costs -- even better when there's a legitimate reason and gave a mini staged to look spontaneous press conference
This is the judge I couldn't get a bead on. He looks in pain here. Judge Ginsburg was right when she made her proclamation a few months back. He looks like he uses a fountain pen.
Justice David H. Souter, 69 ( CNN)
Dear Mr. President:
When the Supreme Court rises for the summer recess this year, I intend to retire from regular active service as a Justice, under the provisions of 28 US.C. (section) 371(b)(1), having attained the age and met the service requirements of subsection(c) of that section. I mean to continue to render substantial judicial service as an Associate Justice.
Virginia Governor, vetted VP candidate and newly-appointed Chairman of the DNC, Tim Kaine, Monday signed a bill banning the use of state funds for embryonic stem cell research. It doesn’t exactly follow barry, who signed an executive order (3-9 EO 13505), reversing President Bush’s ban (6-20-07 EO 13435) on federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells.
Kaine didn’t stop there. He enacted legislation permitting “Choose Life” license plates, much to the ire of pro-choicers.
Yes, he is a democrat, but a Catholic first, and is retaining his morals while practicing what barry espouses: reaching across the aisle. Complication? He’s head of the DNC - meant to follow barry’s every whim.
But above all, he is a politician - he made sure to pass it before he leaves office next January. His bill DOES allow for funding of adult stem cell research.
CNN’s PETER HAMBY: Lynda Tran, the governor’s communications director, said that Kaine’s decision is “in keeping with his faith and his personal beliefs.”
The governor is opposed to the use of state funds to fund embryonic stem cell research, but he generally agrees with the national platform broadly, that there are scientific values to stem cell research. In Virginia, where there has been strong opposition to embryonic research, he has chosen to focus on other forms of research like adult and placental stem cell research.
His hopeful successors: former DNC Chairman, Terry McAuliffe (deserves to win after the abuse he took for Hillary Clinton), Brian Moran and Creigh Deeds all support use of state funds. Perhaps it was a strategic move to allow them to have a platform on which to run against the Republicans, who also oppose use of state funding.
March 30, 2009
Michael Steele is at it again. Does the RNC want him to keep hanging himself with his crazy words. RNC Chairman thinks abortion is a "personal choice" - how does this speak to the base? And then there's his kowtowing to a radio host. Now he's "done" with barry because of the myth of barry's bipartisanship. Don't blame him. It's a figment of barry's delusional egomania. Look what happened with barry's attempt at bringing on Judd Gregg.
Anyway Steele was interviewed by CNN's Don Lemon. The two other guys are RNC Chair of Florida Jim Greer and Sirius XM radio host Michelangelo Signorelli.
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DON LEMON: OK, well, you know, when I asked him, and I want you to comment on this after Michael, I asked him if he had -- he said he's been trying to reach out to the president for years, President Barack Obama, that there is no professional jealousy when it comes of all -- he said there was a Michael Steele before there was a Barack Obama. So he said he's tried to speak to the president, and I asked him about it.
STEELE: Look, I like the president personally, even though I think he has got a little thing about me, that I haven't quite figured out what that is.
DON LEMON: You haven't spoken to him?
STEELE: No.LEMON: You've reach out?
STEELE: Several times, and I'm done.LEMON: So there is no bipartisanship going on there?
STEELE: Not, not that I know of.LEMON: Is there any professional jealousy?
STEELE: Not on my part. What would I be jealous of?
LEMON: He's the president of the United States.
STEELE: I'm chairman of the RNC, so, what's your point? We both have leadership responsibilities and roles. I'm not equating the two. My point is: you are on your track. I'm on my track. You do your thing. I do my thing.
Don Lemon also asked him if he had considered running for president.
STEELE: No. I'm telling you, I'm looking you in the eye honestly and telling you that, without blinking and without hesitation. Straight up.
LEMON also asked him whether he thought he would have secured his party's chairmanship had he been white.
STEELE: Yes. If my qualifications and my capabilities and my ideas were the same, and the only thing that was different was my skin color, yes. Why wouldn't I be?
LEMON: I asked him if Dr. King would be proud of him, or would think that he realized a dream? And he said yes, I think, absolutely he would. Look, we have two black men or African-American men at the pinnacle of political power in this country. He said one was Barack Obama, the other was Michael Steele.
When Steele was on DL Hughley he said:
STEELE: There was a Michael Steele before there was a Barack Obama.
LEMON asked Steele if he felt like he was on the wrong side of history.
STEELE: Is that how that works? So where was all the support for me when I was running for lieutenant governor of Maryland? Where was all of the support for me when I was running for the U.S. Senate as potentially the first black senator from Maryland? I didn't see a whole lot of, you know, being on the right side or the wrong side of history there. So if I looked at it in that context, I would be stunted in my abilities to do anything. I would become frustrated, angry, to the point where I just give up and go away. And that's just not how I do things. So this isn't about being on the right side or the wrong of anything.
What made this all the more interesting is Jonathan Capehart's pronouncement on Morning Joe. Mika and Joe are looking dumbfounded as to why the question was asked all the while knowing it was a black thing. Mika was waiting for Capehart to say something as the only black on the panel and he obliged.
CAPEHART: They're not even on the same level - Micheal Steele and Barack Obama - what the questioner was trying to imply was that there was some, you know, black male jealousy going on between the two.
Mika looks utterly shocked - bad actor and Joe goes off.
JOE: If I had a bell I would ring. Ding! Ding! Ding!
March 22, 2009
The Supreme Court is awfully busy these days with low-tar cigarettes and movies - too busy it seems to chat about whether barry is eligible to be president. They're looking at the "movie" Hillary and yet Justice Scalia doesn't recall Orly Tait's Lightfoot v Bowen case that he had supposed conferenced. What exactly has Danny Bickell done? I know I read something somewhere that he admitted he was a barry fan. Not that it isn't obvious.
David Bossie was hired as chief investigator for the Whitewater hearing and was then fired at the insistence of Newt Gingrich, who found that Bossie had demanded that certain film be edited so that it portrayed Clinton staffer Webster Hubbell in a negative light. Scumbags being scumbags. He went ahead anyway.
From Wiki:
Remarks that indicated Hillary Clinton did no wrong were left out of the initial release. In several instances the transcripts did not match the actual recordings, and these errors seemed almost willful, as if they were intended to unfairly implicate Hubbell and the Clintons.
His organization Citizens United inspired Rep strategist Roger Stone to establish the 527 group Citizens United Not Timid which of course means nothing other than CUNT. And you can figure out who it was directed at. These beasts have a lot of imagination, don't they?
Bossie was caught in his own hypocrisy when he went after Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 as violating McCain-Feingold (this is x and I approve this message) and then tried to use Hillary: The Movie during the election. And in a very sweet revenge of castration anxiety he told Politico last June:
We spent 18 months and millions of dollars making 'Hillary The Movie,' We're incredibly proud, but the problem is the film has no relevance anymore.
Hillary Clinton was out before he even got to release it. Foiled again.
The progression of the case:
After the project was denied the right to advertise its eventual release Bossie and Citizens United brought suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., arguing that the film (released Jan. 16, 2009) was exempt from McCain-Feingold restrictions on advertising since it was not released to influence the outcome of a particular candidate or election. They also argued that the free speech of Citizens United had been infringed upon. Ultimately the federal court ruled against them, issuing the opinion that the 90-minute film "is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous plance in a President Hillary Clinton world, and that viewers should vote against her." Upon appeal, the case reached the Supreme Court of the United States.
The issue before the Supreme Court: whether campaign-reform laws unconstitutionally restrict ads for political documentaries. Is it just a nasty documentary or is it what it is: a political attack ad that has to be regulated by campaign finance laws.
Some of the Justices comments from AP's :
Justice Stephen Breyer:
It's not a musical comedy.
Justice Anthony Kennedy:
If we think that the application of this to a 90-minute film is unconstitutional, then the whole statute should fall.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Just for example, it concludes with: These are things worth remembering before you go in potentially to vote for Hillary Clinton. Now, if that isn't an appeal to voters, I can't imagine what is.
When questioned about the 22 previous decisions they've made on McCain-Feingold, John Paul Stevens responded:
Maybe those cases presented more difficult issues than this one.
Justice Scalia focused on the First Amendment:
Not only would the government be preventing the movie's producers from getting their movie out, they would be blocking someone who specifically wants to see that movie from getting it. Isn't that a heightened First Amendment?
Ginsburg countered that they never made that argument before the lower court, so they can't really consider it now.
Dick Morris, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton who is now a Clinton critic said Hillary Clinton is:
the closest thing we have in America to a European socialist.
And barry?
David Bossie (AP/EVAN VUCCI)
Just look at this crazy effer. It's a movie about "Hillary" and he puts his constipated, castration anxiety-enraged, gyne envy face on it. Looks like somebody's squeezing his micronads with a Hillary nutcracker.
