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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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The Usurper

 

 
1/20/09 1.  Obama is the second man to occupy the Oval Office that did not meet the eligibility requirements of the Constitution of the United States of America, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5.

2.  Hours after taking office on Tuesday, Obama's first act was to order military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases.
1/21/09 1.  Both Chief Justice John Roberts and Obama stumbled slightly over wording of the presidential oath of office on Tuesday, providing a brief, awkward moment in the inauguration ceremony.

2.  Inauguration day brings to mind the reason I don't read science fiction.  It's never weird enough.  Yesterday, America placed more power than any president in almost has wielded into the hands of a man nobody knows.
1/22/09 1.  Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of "ushering in a new era of peace."

2.  Obama is "reversing a Bush Administration policy to hold terror suspects and accused enemy combatants at a prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and halting military commission trials."  The Financial Times reports Obama is "preparing to sign an order on Thursday that would call for the detention facility in Cuba to be shut within a year."

3.  On his first day on the job, Obama issued an executive order reversing the Bush administration policy that bans the use of federal dollars by non-governmental organizations (NGO)that discuss or provide abortions outside of the United States.

4.  In a new YouTube video produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, dozens of celebrities -- television and movie actors, sports heroes, musicians and more -- describe how they will pledge to "be the change" and "be a servant to our president."  Actors Demibrain Moore and her boy-toy Ashton Kutcher begin the closing scene by saying, "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind."

5.  Obama's presidential campaign inspired millions.  Now, it has inspired a London musical.
1/23/09 1.  A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.

2.  Talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and Democratic firebrand Rahm Emanuel agree on one thing: Barack Obama’s presidency could alter America for decades.

3.  2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives.  Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Obama.

4.  Shortly after being sworn in on Tuesday, Obama ordered all federal agencies and departments to halt pending regulations until they can be reviewed by incoming staff.

5.  Obama’s nominee for CIA Director, Leon Panetta, draws many of his intellectual positions from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party -- most notably in the case of torture, of which he is a strong opponent.  It is for this reason that many in the CIA hesitate to embrace Panetta, who is seen as representing "the left flank of the Democratic Party."
1/24/09 1.  Obama said that by ordering the shutdown of the Cuban prison within a year, he hoped to send a message that the U.S. would pursue the struggle against violence and terrorism vigilantly, effectively and "in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals."

2.  During a morning meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, Obama reminded Republicans that, "I won," and  warned them that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

3.  The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants.

4.  Add heroin to the scores of products that have been branded with Obama's name.  Cops in upstate New York this week broke up a drug ring that allegedly sold heroin under several brand names, including "Obama."
1/25/09 1.  Diplomats and Democrats in Washington have confirmed that Obama wants to persuade the Syrian leader, Bashar Assad, to cooperate with the West, in the hope that he will loosen his country's close ties to Iran, forcing Tehran to the negotiating table as well.

2.  A coalition of the 12-largest Muslim organizations in the US has issued an open-letter to Obama urging him to break away from the policies of President George Bush's administration and to engage the American Muslim community.

3.  While the media goes through a never ending cycle of adoring adulation toward Obama, there are many inconvenient stories that they simply refuse to answer.  One of those stories is the immense number of newly created advisors and envoys.  These advisors appear to have no clear role.

4.  The Oprah Winfrey Show, taped at a Washington restaurant, overflowed with strange and messianic notions about Obama and how the thrill over him is unanimous.  Actor Forest Whitaker summed it up for Oprah: "The light of the New Age is here."

5.  On January 16, 2008, Obama had an approval rating of 83%, which was during the transition, a time when Obama didn't actually do anything.  Today, a week later, he is at 68%.

6.  Michelle Obama’s flair for fashion has captivated Washington and set the hearts of glossy magazine editors aflutter.  She has already eclipsed Carla Bruni, the super-model chanteuse and wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the hyperactive French president. Not since Diana, Princess of Wales, has there been such a glamorous role model at the apex of society.
1/26/09 1.  The idea that Obama is a centrist who wishes to end the culture wars is laughable.

2.  Obama's pledge to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space marks a dramatic shift in U.S. policy while posing the tricky issue of defining whether a satellite can be a weapon.

3.  Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor's fiercest critics, and lawyers who have spent years defining the limits of executive power will now be helping to wield it.

4.  Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emissions and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday evening.

5.  Not everyone was happy with President Barack Obama's nod to nonbelievers and non-Christians in his inaugural address when he said, "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers," and some of the stiff criticism about Obama’s religious inclusiveness is coming from African-American Christians who maintain that no, all faiths were actually not created equal.
1/27/09 1.  Obama says he believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms -- here comes the BUT -- but just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right, in the same way that we have a right to private property but local governments can establish zoning ordinances that determine how you can use it.

2.  Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world in his first formal interview since he assumed office.  He stressed his own Muslim ties and shyed away from any hint of belligerence -- even when asked if he could "live with" an Iranian nuclear weapon.

3.  The United States is set to launch direct talks with Iran without any apparent preconditions, according to President Barack Obama’s new United Nations ambassador.
1/28/09 1.  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, wants Obama to apologize for 60 years of "crimes."

2.  America waits with bated breath while Washington struggles to bring the U.S. economy back from the brink of disaster.  But many of those same politicians caused the crisis, and if left to their own devices will do so again.

3.  Obama began reversing the climate policies of the Bush administration on Monday, clearing the way for new rules to force automakers to produce more fuel-efficient and less polluting cars.

4.  I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him.  At first I was excited to see a black candidate.  He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident -- a wholesome presidential package.  It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed.  It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured.

5.  I find it highly amusing that some of Obama's antics are having the opposite effect of what he intended.

6.  This is cool.  PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our ObamaMeter.  They rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled.  Once they find an action is completed, they rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.

7.  Obama's stimulus package would provide up to a whopping $5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal investigation for massive voter fraud.

8.  The White House is promising new reviews of the "obligations" to the government by broadcasters who "occupy the nation's spectrum" just as the president has targeted conservative talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh for a public attack, raising concerns over the possible restoration of the "Fairness Doctrine," a policy that failed as unneeded and unconstitutional two decades ago.
1/29/09 1.  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.

2.  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.

3.  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."

4.  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.

5.  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.

6.  Obama's illegal alien aunt has enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer to help her win asylum and stay in the United States.
1/30/09 1.  On January 6, 2009, Obama's attorneys filed a "Motion to Dismiss"  -- Civil Action No. 1:08-cv-02254-JR, GREGORY S. HOLLISTER, Plaintiff, v. BARRY SOETORO, et al., Defendants.
1/31/09 1.  In the same week that Obama targeted 5.2 billion in taxpayer funds for his buddies at ACORN, he ordered the  military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion -- a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.

2.  During the campaign, Obama said, "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

3.  "...when I talk about the middle class, I'm talking about folks who are currently on the middle class, but also people who aspire to be in the middle class.  We're not forgetting the poor.  They are going to be front and center, because they, too, share our American Dream.  And we're going to make sure that they can get a piece of that American Dream..."

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