January 29, 2009
 

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Obama's sister, Maya said,

"There was always a joke
between my mom and
Barack that he would be
the first black president."

 

Now the joke's on us.
 


 

 

 

 

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Obama Accuses US Of Colonialism When Al Arabiya said to Obama that America "was the only Western Power that was not colonial." Obama simply said "Right."  You would think a patriot like Obama would have said "Excuse me, but the United States still isn't a colonial power."  If such a statement had occurred I would be here applauding Obama.

Instead he took his rant about the United States being a colonialist imperialist power, one step further.

Obama: "We sometimes make mistakes.  We have not been perfect.  But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that."

Apparently, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush (since 20 years we have been Colonial powers according to Obama) are all Colonialist Imperialist evil geniuses.

Is this the "Unified America," Obama always talks about?  Accusing past presidents of colonialism?  Does he even know what Colonialism means?
Not So Fast On January 9th, 2009, Obama said, "There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."

However, that statement is false.

Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.  More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.  More government spending did not solve Japan’s "lost decade" in the 1990s.  As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.  To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.  Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.

Signed by 200 academic economists, including three Nobel prize-winners.
Reparations By Another Name In this transcript of a 2001 radio interview, Obama advocates redistribution (as in "stimulus package") as reparations for slavery and other injustices towards "previously dispossessed peoples."

MODERATOR:
Good morning and welcome to Odyssey on WBEZ Chicago 91.5 FM and we’re joined by Barack Obama who is Illinois State Senator from the 13th district and senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago.

OBAMA:
If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples.  So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.

But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.  And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical.

It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.  It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.  And that hasn’t shifted.

One of the, I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.
Billions For Pork Will Slash Defense Defense spending...is going down and the Obama administration is preparing to make hard choices to end programs that exceed their budgets, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

"The spigot of defense funding opened by 9/11 is closing," Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

The demands of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with the nation's economic crisis, require military planners to separate "those things that are desirable from those things that are truly needed" in the way of new weapons, Gates added.

He suggested that the new administration will avoid across-the-board spending reductions, "which inefficiently extend all programs," and will try to save money by eliminating unneeded programs.
Shared Sacrifice Michelle Malkin asks if the Obama administration be anymore tone deaf?  After pushing his $1.1 trillion Generational Theft Act of 2009 through the House last night, the White House apparently decided to throw itself a swank cocktail party.  According to ABC’s Jake Tapper, the menu included alcoholic beverages (vodka martinis are an Obama favorite, reportedly) and wagyu steak.

Yeah, "wagyu steak."  I had to look it up, too.

On the heels of the most expensive inaugural celebration in American history and passage of a trillion-dollar spending binge that will saddle future generations with unprecedented debt, perhaps President Obama might consider cutting back on such indulgences.

Or is the White House exempt from "shared sacrifice," Mr. President?

"New era of responsibility?"

Not so much.
Aunt Seeks Asylum Obama's illegal alien aunt has enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer to help her win asylum and stay in the United States.

Margaret Wong and Associates is representing Zeituni Onyango, the 56-year-old Kenyan half-sister of Obama's deceased father, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Onyango and her lawyer are scheduled to attend an immigration hearing in Boston on April 1.

"The judge will be looking at evidence that they may not have been aware of four years ago," Michael Rogers, spokesman for Wong, told the newspaper. "Wong is optimistic. We would have preferred to not conduct this case in the media spotlight, but that's not going to happen."

Onyango, revealed in November to be dwelling on Flaherty Way in a South Boston slum, has been living in the United States illegally, refusing to leave the U.S. for her Kenyan homeland after a judge rejected her request for asylum in 2004.

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