If I Had Subpoena Power: Five Questions for Obama

W.W.B.D. ... WHAT WOULD BUSH DO. I BET YOU WOULD NOT ASK BUCH THEM QUESTION , AND IF YOU DID HOW FAR DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD GET.. BUSH HAVE SO MARY QUESTIONS UNASWERED THAT YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK , AND HE HAVE SO MANY LAW BREAKER IN HIS OFFICE THATWE CAN'T COUNT ... WHY NOT GO AFTER TO REAL LAW BREAKER IN BUSH'S OFFIE AND I DON'T HAVE TO NAME THEM . THIS IS JUST A WAY TO BLAIND SIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE UNTIL THE REAL CROOKES GET OUT OF OFFICE.LEAVE MR. OBAMA ALONE AND LET HIM CLEAN UP THE MESS THAT MR. BUSH AND HIS LAW BREAKER MAKED.

Every day Isikoff, we ask you to answer the questions about where you were when Bush/ Cheney were destroying our country at home and reputation abroad. Yet you refuse to speak. Where were you these last eight years?

Well Isikoff. Your silence is deafening. You have proved you are unprincipled. Unaccountable. A drive-by, cheap shot PUNK. But then, you are part of a tradition.....yellow journalism. Pathetic.

THERE ARE MANY OF US OUT HERE WHO WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HEAR ANSWERS TO YOUR FIVE QUESTIONS. kEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

AS I WOULD SAY TO MY BOYS' AS THEY WERE GOING UP,ON DAYS WHEN THEY WOULD FIGHT OVER NONSENSE.
NOCK-IT-OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at some of these posts. It is crazy what some of the people who are grateful for this insipid article believe about Pres. elect Obama. Why are you adding fuel to the fires of ignorance and stupidity?

Isikoff, I knew there was something I didn't like about you. Now I know what it is; you are petty. You are picking on petty details that are not going to pan out just to have something to write. You are a p8nk @ss. I am tired of reporters doing this. Newsweek is just a rag if this keeps up. I am surprised Meacham lets you get away with this crap. I guess he's busy writing a book and is not paying enough attention. For gods sakes get your head back into the light and write about something that matters. Public health? the food supply? and expose on some infrastructure that needs improvement? the greening of cities? a need to hire urban planners? what will they recommend??

This Blagojevich story is nothing. I don't care about his association with Blago. I want to know what Obama's association with Satan. While we are on the subject of Obama's non-transparency, several persons have made allegations that he is the antichrist (Lisa Miller et al). He has refused to answer that questions to the dismay of everyone. I want him to answer those specific allegations, with proof. I want a full body search for the "666" birthmark, either on his forehead or in his hand. I also want DNA evidence that he is, in fact, not the son of Satan. I also want a Federal investigation into his alleged association with Satan.

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: ???Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope????

In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites.

And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.

He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the Taliban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.

And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.

From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.

Cont.

And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.

And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.

From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered ???Hosanna??? and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.

In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.

As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.

And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.

The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.

And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.

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Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.

And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.

Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.

But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.

And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.

Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.

On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.

And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: ???Yes, We Can.???



Gerard Baker-TimesOnline(UK)

You ask "Are there any records in your possession relating to your contacts with Rezko that you have not publicly released?" Are you referring to the Abrogation Agreement the sellers recorded while Obama had the house under contract?

You ask "Are there any records in your possession relating to your contacts with Rezko that you have not publicly released?", are you referring to the Abrogation Agreement recorded by the sellers of the house?

Wow! It sounds like the campaign is still raging on. Your questions are unauthentic. I'm not saying that anyone should just blindly trust any of our leaders, but Blago even laid out where Obama stood. If the tone of your article was less incendiary you might seem more objective/credible.

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WOW. If we give you some more whole cloth what else can you make? Here there is absolutely nothing, no probably better than that...it seems that we have this scandal because Obama's people did the right thing and turned in this corupt Gov. to the US Atty, (You can even see this *&^% Gov getting upset becaue Obama's people would give him nothing but appreciation...ie they weren't going to pay for a Senate seat and let the US ATTY know that these were the terms the GOV was expecting) and you are trying to turn it against him!!?? The campaign is over. You can stop being the attack dogs for a while. Or at least wait until he makes a major mistake. Or wait until he is actually in office for a decent period of time and then attack him for making a major mistake. Just like the "4th branch of Govt" did it's job so well when our last Prez made the worst foreign policy blunder in the countries history and you guys were all over him... like lapdogs. Um...why the double standard here? This white guy can only think you guys feel somehow that Obama doesn't deserve the same respect as Bush...why would that be? Please tell me it isn't race.