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Your opinion on the job that President Obama is doing so far (1 Viewer)

Your opinion on the job that President Obama is doing so far

  • strongly approve

    Votes: 43 17.8%
  • mildly approve

    Votes: 43 17.8%
  • mildly disapprove

    Votes: 31 12.8%
  • strongly disapprove

    Votes: 121 50.0%
  • neutral/no opinion

    Votes: 4 1.7%

  • Total voters
    242
Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. Citizen

No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that.

Instead, in Barack Obama's America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens -- and a death penalty imposed -- is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone's guilt as a Terrorist.
 
So the President overruled a guy that is his underling? Interesting take you've got there.Seriously, just sign up with the Jim11 and BGP crew. You're officially a wingnut.
Who are you again to insult other posters?
I am Homer. I'm a big ol' lib'rul but will post in support of Yankee23 in the Chris Christie thread because of the idiocy of the Dems in that state. I'll mock people that fawn over the Palin/Beck/Hannity crowd. I'll mock the LoonyLeft/Daily Kos blogosphere just as soon as I'll mock the NRO/RedState blogosphere. I'm a huge fan of good, responsible governance rather than insane posturing from the right or left. I hate seeing political crap standing in the way of things that are good for the people that are paying these guys' salaries. I'd absolutely love to see an intelligent, fiscally conservative branch of the Republican party actually be able to withstand the populist anti-intellectual crap that seems to be dominating the entire party. I'd love to see a more rational Democratic party that realizes that money won't solve every problem in our society.And if you took a poll on who is more of a wingnut between the two of us, take a guess on who would be judged as more rational.

I am Homer.

 
Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. Citizen

No due process is accorded. No charges or trials are necessary. No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family). None of that.

Instead, in Barack Obama's America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens -- and a death penalty imposed -- is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone's guilt as a Terrorist.
I thought he was a terrorist apologist, and radical, and too soft, and destroying America from within. I'm so confused.
 
So the President overruled a guy that is his underling? Interesting take you've got there.Seriously, just sign up with the Jim11 and BGP crew. You're officially a wingnut.
Who are you again to insult other posters?
I am Homer. I'm a big ol' lib'rul but will post in support of Yankee23 in the Chris Christie thread because of the idiocy of the Dems in that state. I'll mock people that fawn over the Palin/Beck/Hannity crowd. I'll mock the LoonyLeft/Daily Kos blogosphere just as soon as I'll mock the NRO/RedState blogosphere. I'm a huge fan of good, responsible governance rather than insane posturing from the right or left. I hate seeing political crap standing in the way of things that are good for the people that are paying these guys' salaries. I'd absolutely love to see an intelligent, fiscally conservative branch of the Republican party actually be able to withstand the populist anti-intellectual crap that seems to be dominating the entire party. I'd love to see a more rational Democratic party that realizes that money won't solve every problem in our society.And if you took a poll on who is more of a wingnut between the two of us, take a guess on who would be judged as more rational.

I am Homer.
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Voted mildly approve. I vote pro-life so I voted for McCain. But Obama has not done anything to really upset me and I see no better candidate for Potus on either side of the aisle ATM.

 
So the President overruled a guy that is his underling? Interesting take you've got there.Seriously, just sign up with the Jim11 and BGP crew. You're officially a wingnut.
One man's wingnut is another man's patriotWe all want this country to be better. One side feels that individual liberties are an important component of making this country great, and then there's your side.

 
So the President overruled a guy that is his underling? Interesting take you've got there.Seriously, just sign up with the Jim11 and BGP crew. You're officially a wingnut.
One man's wingnut is another man's patriotWe all want this country to be better. One side feels that individual liberties are an important component of making this country great, and then there's your side.
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US sees progress with China, Ukraine as global nuclear summit opens

By Steven R. Hurst (CP) – 49 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Leaders of 47 countries assembled to recharge efforts to keep nuclear material out of terrorist hands as President Barack Obama opened the summit Tuesday by declaring that the risk of an attack has increased.

In his opening address, Obama said the danger came not from an enemy nation but from terrorists, and was on the rise despite the end of the Cold War - a new nuclear reality he described as a "cruel irony of history."

"The risk of a nuclear attack has gone up," Obama said, as terrorist organizations like the al-Qaida network try to get their hands on nuclear materials. Obama called the conference with the goal of locking down all nuclear materials worldwide in four years.

There were low expectations for sweeping or major non-proliferation directives when the summit closes Tuesday afternoon, but the high profile gathering will again focus attention on countries like Iran, North Korea and others that are a seen as a threat to the goal of keeping nuclear materials locked up and safe from terrorists.

Obama also is hoping other countries will be inspired to rid themselves of highly enrich uranium as promised this week by Canada, Ukraine and Mexico.

Mexico announced Tuesday it would work with the United States and Canada to convert its highly enriched uranium reactor, removing the potential bomb-making materials. The move is a step toward Mexico's conversion to a reactor that operates on low enriched uranium, a lesser danger for weapons use.

The focus of the summit is tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium are believed to be insufficiently protected from international criminal gangs and terrorist organizations.

With that in mind, European Union President Herman van Rompuy called on all countries to sign and ratify the convention on the 1980 Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, which was amended in 2005 to require states to protect such materials even when not in transit.

"Nuclear terrorism ... represents a most serious threat to international security with potentially devastating consequences to our societies," Van Rompuy said.

Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak also announced that South Korea will host the next conference of this kind in two years. Lee Myung-bak told reporters that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il will not get an invitation until the North gives up its nuclear weapons ambitions.

North Korea's efforts to build a nuclear weapon program kept it out of the Washington conference.

The summit had already paid early dividends on Monday, the first day of the conference: China's agreement to work with the U.S. on possible sanctions against Iran and Ukraine's decision to rid itself of nuclear bomb-making materials.

White House national security aide Jeff Bader said Iran was a major topic of discussion during a 90-minute meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Obama.

"They're prepared to work with us," Bader said, interpreting that willingness as "another sign of international unity on this issue."

The upbeat assessment reflected a recent warming of U.S.-Chinese diplomatic ties. Still, the meeting produced no breakthroughs. And Chinese spokesman Ma Zhaoxu did not mention sanctions in a statement on Hu's meeting with Obama.

In Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said: "China always believes that dialogue and negotiation are the best way out for the issue. Pressure and sanctions cannot fundamentally solve it."

But she added that China supports a "dual-track strategy," combining diplomacy with the possibility of international sanctions against Iran.

In Tehran on Tuesday, Iran expressed doubts that China would back the U.S. push for new sanctions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said he did not think Hu was signalling that with his comments.

Tehran doesn't "consider the statement as approval of the U.S. stance and unfair actions," he told reporters. "Our interpretation is different."

The U.S. already has the robust backing of Great Britain, France and Germany in adopting further sanctions against Iran. Russia, too, has shown a willingness to join the sanctions effort, meaning the required clean sweep of permanent members the United Nations Security Council.

Brazil and Turkey, which both hold non-permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council, are studying an alternative proposal to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear program, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Monday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked about designing a strategy different from sanctions at a meeting Monday, Amorim said.

Amorim told a news conference that Brazil agrees with the permanent members of the Security Council seeking a "diplomatic solution," but has a different perspective on how the issue should be approached.

Erdogan said at a speech on the sidelines of the conference Monday that his country does not want Iran or any other nation to have nuclear weapons.

While the United States worries about Iran's nuclear program, Turkey has its own concerns about Israel's nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opted not to attend Obama's summit, and insiders said he had expected Turkey and Egypt to use the conference as a platform to challenge him over his country's widely assumed nuclear arsenal, which the Jewish state never has acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainians, who gave a major boost to arms control in 1994 when they agreed to surrender the nuclear weapons they inherited in the collapse of the Soviet Union, agreed to get rid of their weapons-grade fuel by 2012.

Some details are yet to be worked out, including how and where the nuclear fuel will be disposed of, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.

The material could be sent to the U.S. or Russia, but he declined to specify the amount, other than to say it was enough to make several nuclear weapons.

The summit ends Tuesday evening with a joint declaration to guide future work toward locking away and cleansing the globe of materials still too easily accessible to terrorists.

Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Anne Gearan and Ana Azpurua in Washington and Edith M. Lederer in New York contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/20...bama_hu_meeting

Inside the Obama-Hu meeting

Posted By Josh Rogin Monday, April 12, 2010 - 10:03 PM Share

The official White House readout of the bilateral meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao focused on Iran, but the real movement in the U.S.-China relationship may come first on the issue of China's undervalued currency.

When Hu finally agreed to attend the 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit, which officially began today in Washington, there was widespread speculation that in exchange, the Obama administration had agreed to delay a Treasury Department report that was scheduled for an April 15 release and would have weighed in on whether China should be labeled a "currency manipulator" because its currency is artificially pegged to the U.S. dollar and greatly undervalued.

Not so, say our well-placed diplomatic sources, who described a more complex and nuanced set of interactions that include but aren't limited to the U.S. pressuring China to let its currency float, even a little, toward a more equitable rate.

The Treasury Department wouldn't have delayed the report (indefinitely) unless it had received some serious assurances from the Chinese side that some form of currency movement was being considered for announcement soon, our sources said. Following Monday's meeting, U.S officials feel confident that movement is in fact coming.

The question going forward is how soon ... and how much.

And when the announcement comes, the Chinese will want to explain it as a domestic necessity. Their economy is beginning to overheat, they will say, making a small currency adjustment prudent. They can't very well be seen as bowing to U.S. pressure, especially considering their view of how the United States has handled its own economy.

Inside Tuesday's Obama-Hu meeting, Obama "reaffirmed his view that it is important for a global and sustained and balanced global economic recovery that China move toward a more market-oriented exchange rate," Jeffrey Bader, the NSC's senior director for Asia, said after the meeting. "The president also noted his concern over some market-access issues, market-access barriers, in China and the need to address them as part of the rebalancing effort."

Our sources said the U.S. officials at the meeting came out with a positive reaction, feeling that the meeting went much better than Obama's last bilateral with Hu in November in Beijing.

Robert Hormats, the U.S. under secretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, was in Beijing this week and called for a "rebalancing" of the Chinese economy. "We need more consumption from the Chinese side and more saving and exports from the U.S. side," he said.

Hormats spoke about Chinese market protectionism, intellectual property, innovation, and a host of other economic issues, but did not mention currency once in his April 9 speech at a Chinese think tank -- showing the sensitivity and private approach the administration is taking with China on the issue.

On Iran, Bader said of the Chinese, "They're prepared to work with us."

"The two presidents agreed that the two delegations should work on a sanctions resolution in New York, and that's what we're doing."

Many reports depicted that as some sort of shift, but as Bader noted, the Chinese had already agreed to work with the P5+1 countries at the U.N., and those talks are ongoing. China agreed to no specific commitments or deadlines within the meeting, our sources relate.

Obama was very tough and resolute when talking about the Iran issue to Hu and said he wanted to see some progress by the end of April, we're told. Meanwhile, the Chinese, while not making any specific promises, are accepting the principle of a dual-track approach toward Iran, mixing engagement with pressure, and are working with the other countries in good faith, our sources report.

As one put it, "They're coming around."
Getting #### Done
 
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So the President overruled a guy that is his underling? Interesting take you've got there.Seriously, just sign up with the Jim11 and BGP crew. You're officially a wingnut.
Who are you again to insult other posters?
I am Homer. I'm a big ol' lib'rul but will post in support of Yankee23 in the Chris Christie thread because of the idiocy of the Dems in that state. I'll mock people that fawn over the Palin/Beck/Hannity crowd. I'll mock the LoonyLeft/Daily Kos blogosphere just as soon as I'll mock the NRO/RedState blogosphere. I'm a huge fan of good, responsible governance rather than insane posturing from the right or left. I hate seeing political crap standing in the way of things that are good for the people that are paying these guys' salaries. I'd absolutely love to see an intelligent, fiscally conservative branch of the Republican party actually be able to withstand the populist anti-intellectual crap that seems to be dominating the entire party. I'd love to see a more rational Democratic party that realizes that money won't solve every problem in our society.And if you took a poll on who is more of a wingnut between the two of us, take a guess on who would be judged as more rational.

I am Homer.
:lmao:
:lol: :goodposting: My mancrush grows.

 
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I can't even imagine the frenzy the press would be in if this had happened during Bush's term.

 
Obama divulges nuclear secrets to our enemies

US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

WASHINGTON – The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and "several thousand" more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.

The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.

"We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons.

The U.S. has previously regarded such details as top secret.

The figure includes both "strategic," or long-range weapons, and those intended for use at shorter range.

The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.

A rough count of deployed and reserve warheads has been known for years, so the Pentagon figures do not tell nuclear experts much they don't already know.

Hans Kristensen, director of Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said his organization had already put the number at around 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents.

The import of the announcement is the precedent it sets, Kristensen said.

"The important part is that the U.S. is no longer going to keep other countries in the dark," he said.

Clinton said the disclosure of numbers the general public has never seen "builds confidence" that the Obama administration is serious about stopping the spread of atomic weapons and reducing their numbers.

But the administration is not revealing everything.

The Pentagon figure released Monday includes deployed weapons, which are those more or less ready to launch, and reserve weapons. It does not include thousands of warheads that have been disabled or all but dismantled. Those weapons could, in theory, be reconstituted, or their nuclear material repurposed.

Estimates of the total U.S. arsenal range from slightly more than 8,000 to above 9,000, but the Pentagon will not give a precise number.

Whether to reveal the full total, including those thousands of nearly dead warheads, was debated within the Obama administration. Keeping those weapons out of the figure released Monday represented a partial concession to intelligence agency officials and others who argued national security could be harmed by laying the entire nuclear arsenal bare.

A senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the overall total is still classified, did not dispute the rough estimates developed by independent analysts.

Exposure of once-classified totals for U.S. deployed and reserve nuclear weapons is intended to nudge nations such as China, which has revealed little about its nuclear stockpile.

"You can't get anywhere toward disarmament unless you're going to be transparent about how many weapons you have," said Sharon Squassoni, a nuclear policy analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Russia and the United States have previously disclosed the size of their stockpiles of deployed strategic weapons, and France and Britain have released similar information. All have signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which is the subject of the U.N. review that began Monday.

The U.S. revelations are calculated to improve Washington's bargaining power with Iran's allies and friends for the drive to head off what the West charges is a covert Iranian program to build a bomb.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamadinejad spoke ahead of Clinton at the conference, denouncing U.S. efforts to pressure his regime to abandon its nuclear program.

The U.N. conference will try to close loopholes in the internationally recognized rules against the spread of weapons technology.

Independent analysts estimate the total world stockpile of nuclear warheads at more than 22,000.

The Federation of American Scientists estimates that nearly 8,000 of those warheads are operational, with about 2,000 U.S. and Russian warheads ready for use on short notice.

The United States and Russia burnished their credentials for insisting that other countries forgo atomic weapons by agreeing last month to a new strategic arms reduction treaty.

The New START treaty sets a limit of 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear warheads for each side, down from 2,200 under a 2002 deal. The pact re-establishes anti-cheating procedures that provide the most comprehensive and substantial arms control agreement since the original 1991 START treaty.
 
Yeah....about that budget

(Reuters) - The United States posted an $82.69 billion deficit in April, nearly four times the $20.91 billion shortfall registered in April 2009 and the largest on record for that month, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

It was more than twice the $40-billion deficit that Wall Street economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast and was striking since April marks the filing deadline for individual income taxes that are the main source of government revenue.

Department officials said that in prior years, there was a surplus during April in 43 out of the past 56 years.

The government has now posted 19 consecutive monthly budget deficits, the longest string of shortfalls on record.

For the first seven months of fiscal 2010, which ends September 30, the cumulative budget deficit totals $799.68 billion, down slightly from $802.3 billion in the comparable period of fiscal 2009.

Outlays during April rose to $327.96 billion from $218.75 billion in March and were up from $287.11 billion in April 2009. It was a record level of outlays for an April.

Department officials noted there were five Fridays in April this year, which helped account for higher outlays since most tax refunds are issued on that day.

But for the first seven months of the fiscal year, outlays fell to $1.99 trillion from $2.06 trillion in the comparable period of fiscal 2009, partly because of repayments by banks of bailout funds they received during the financial crisis.

Receipts in April -- mostly from income taxes -- were $245.27 billion, up from $153.36 billion in March but lower than the $266.21 billion taken in during April 2009.

Receipts from individuals, who faced an April 15 filing deadline for paying 2009 taxes, fell to $107.31 billion from $137.67 billion in April 2009.
 
An almost perfect encapsulation of Obama's "presidency".

Obama signs "Press Freedom Act", refuses to answer questions from the press afterward

There was some rich irony at the White House today -- President Obama signed the Press Freedom Act, and then promptly refused to take any questions.

The new law expands the State Department's annual human rights reports to include a description of press freedoms in each country. It seemed a good opportunity to showcase press freedom in this country.

Recall that last Friday the president refused to take any questions after delivering his angry statement on the oil spill in the Rose Garden. And he has not held a prime-time White House news conference in many months, despite much pleading from pundits and members of the media.

So after he signed the bill, and as the press "wranglers" began aggressively herding us out of the room, I asked if he still has confidence in BP. He ignored the question so I tried this: "In the interest of press freedom, would you take a couple questions on BP?"

That did elicit a smile, and he told me I was free to ask questions. Someone else shouted, "Will you answer them?"

He said he's not holding a press conference today as we were escorted out the door.
 
[placeholder - if the press ever gets around to commenting on the slow response of the administration to the BP oil spill]I can't even imagine the frenzy the press would be in if this had happened during Bush's term.
Seems like the press is finally starting to hold Obama's feet to the fire a little bit. Thought it would take longer.Also seems like they're giving a little attention to the Sestak thing. Good for them.
 
[placeholder - if the press ever gets around to commenting on the slow response of the administration to the BP oil spill]I can't even imagine the frenzy the press would be in if this had happened during Bush's term.
Seems like the press is finally starting to hold Obama's feet to the fire a little bit. Thought it would take longer.Also seems like they're giving a little attention to the Sestak thing. Good for them.
The honeymoon is coming to an end. The press that cover Obama on a day to day basis are on to his game. It is the national press that cover from afar that still show some infatuation.Even Chris Matthews showed some disgust with Obama last week. It was sad to watch. Matthews looked like a jilted lover.
 
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It's been a long standing tradition of American Presidents to honor our service men and women at Arlington National Cemetary on Memorial Day...until NOW!

Just didn't fit into Obama's vacation schedule.

 
It's been a long standing tradition of American Presidents to honor our service men and women at Arlington National Cemetary on Memorial Day...until NOW!Just didn't fit into Obama's vacation schedule.
Storm cancels Obama's Memorial Day speechAt the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Illinois, the president tells spectators, 'We are … concerned about lightning. This may not be safe.' Later, he delivers the speech in Washington.By Stacy St. Clair, Chicago TribuneJune 1, 2010Reporting from Elwood, Ill. —A violent thunderstorm forced President Obama to cancel his Memorial Day address Monday at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Illinois, where he took to a rain-soaked stage and urged the thousands of spectators to seek shelter."We are a little bit concerned about lightning," he told the crowd. "This may not be safe. I know that all of you are here to commemorate the fallen. ... What we'd like to do is, if possible, have people move back to their cars, and if this passes in the next 15 to 20 minutes, I'll stick around."The White House said Obama made the decision to halt the event.Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Burleson, an Illinois National Guardsman, was sitting to Obama's left in a tent with other dignitaries."He was just really worried for the people sitting out there in an open field," Burleson said. "He had reason to be."The event was soon canceled, and the president climbed aboard two buses filled with relatives of fallen troops and thanked them for their sacrifice.The president's choice to commemorate the holiday in Illinois instead of at Arlington National Cemetery had angered some veterans groups, who saw the decision as a sign of disrespect. Vice President Joe Biden participated in ceremonies at Arlington.Obama eventually delivered his Memorial Day remarks Monday evening after returning to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
 
It's been a long standing tradition of American Presidents to honor our service men and women at Arlington National Cemetary on Memorial Day...until NOW!

Just didn't fit into Obama's vacation schedule.
Yeah, I was pissed about that too...until I did a little research.http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/memorialday.asp

In 2002, President George W. Bush was in France on Memorial Day and participated in ceremonies at Normandy (site of the D-Day landings) honoring the U.S. soldiers who fought and died in World War II.

President George H.W. Bush (himself a World War II veteran) attended no ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery during his four years in office. From 1990 through 1992 he spent the Memorial Day weekend vacationing in Kennebunkport, Maine, while Vice-President Dan Quayle laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

President Ronald Reagan was away from Arlington on Memorial Day on four occasions during his eight years in office.

 

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