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  • Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/24/2009 9:50:13 AM

    The heck with a conversation with Obama. How about a conversation with Gov. sanford. He snuck off to argentina for 4 days. Why and who with? Did you know that argentina is the world capital for child Sex slavery? Why on earth would anyone hide a trip to south America unless there was something seedy about it? Is this guy a perv?

  • Posted By: Pogi @ 06/22/2009 5:13:42 AM

    "Speak Softly But Carry A Big Stick" The immortal words of Teddy Roosevelt, comes to my mind more frequently now that Mr. Obama is our president. Seeing his decisiveness in sending in Seals to rescue a captain in distress off the African coast, to extending a gesture of willingness to the Iranians to standing firm on his policies in Afghanistan, I feel these words fit him well.These famous words uttered by Teddy Roosevelt and coined to him throughout his presidency were actually derived from a West African proverb that Roosevelt admired.....Fitting.

  • Posted By: brydges @ 06/01/2009 8:59:58 AM

    In a Middle East poll of Muslims Obama came in just behind Hugo Chavez as the most favorable foriegn leader.

    Come on Obama a few more anti-American statements could put you at number 1

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/16/2009 4:03:06 PM

      Hey Stytches;

      Did you ever stop to think how maniacal you sound when you dislike someone so much that you post something like this? You're one of them stytch. A tad nutty.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 05/28/2009 2:09:13 PM

    Obama on his trip to Las Vegas said words to the effect you haven't seen anything yet. This guy needs to be voted out in 2012 before he can do anymore damage. Congress must return to the GOP before all his tax intiatives create chaos and a destruction of our way of life. Democrats need to go!!!! New information reported today shows that all the car dealerships except one that are being forced to close supported republican candidates. This is a crime of the highest nature, immoral, vindictive and certainly shows he has never had nor will he ever be a concensus builder as he claimed while campaigning. HIs entire campaign was a LIE and he is now showing his true colors.

    • Posted By: George Dorn @ 05/28/2009 2:18:49 PM

      "This guy needs to be voted out in 2012 before he can do anymore damage."

      Then maybe you'd better find a candidate people will vote for, instead of relying on a brain-damaged dingbat from Alaska or the congenitally corrupt Jindal, hmm?

      • Posted By: John Dough @ 05/28/2009 3:48:09 PM

        First of all, I am not a republican, although they are by far the lesser of two evils at this time. Obama clearly is heading down the path of socialism/Marxism with an unyielding appetite for our hard earned dollars. His campaign was a lie and everyone can see that. In addtion Palin's IQ is as high as Obama's and Jindal is not a crook - it seems to me that they just voted a bunch of crooks out in Louisiana they were called democrats. I am not a big Jindal fan either. I like Paul Ryan oiut of Wisconsin but he has no name power right now. I also like Sanford S.C., Perry of Texas, Pawlenty of Mn, Huckabee and Romney. On the dems side I like - no one. I'm looking for a strong Independent to whip them all!!!

        • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/16/2009 3:57:46 PM

          This might be a long shot. But I'm guessing you are Republican.

        • Posted By: jnakhoul @ 05/28/2009 4:10:27 PM

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/09/2009 10:59:16 AM

    Liberals are chronic hypocrites, but compared to many Republicans they are at least consistent hypocrites. While bragging about fighting for the poor and middle class, liberals lavishly fund farm subsidies that make food more expensive for the poor and middle class. While forcing the poor into failing and dangerous public schools in the name of supporting public education, they send their own kids to good, safe private schools. In the name of "empowering patients" they propose to ration health care and empower government to make testing and treatment decisions. While making a noisy show of taxing corporations they pretend that this burden isn't passed on to the middle class in higher prices, lower wages and smaller retirement accounts. They stridently defend free speech???unless of course it occurs on conservative talk radio or a college campus. They fight tooth and nail for certain Constitutional rights, including some that do not even exist, except for those pesky 2nd, 9th and 10th amendments. They decry voter ID bills for intimidating voters but want to allow labor intimidation of workers voting to unionize. Once you get rolling on that list, it's hard to stop!

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/15/2009 6:52:26 PM

      Tell 'em John-John. The right always speaks the truth. I can't wait 'til Palin 2012.

      Honesty. Integrity. Fashion.
      Even Newt, after he came back form disgrace, tells the truth.
      GWB is a truth teller akin to Nixon.

      Ollie North never had to come clean.
      Those miserable liberal, life-loving pigs should be made to wear plaid blazers and boots.

      • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/16/2009 12:41:13 PM

        The list of dem liars far exceeds those of the GOP and the most prevelent are The Clinton's, Kerry, Kennedy, Frank, Rangel, Dodd, Gore and now Obama (50 broken campaign promises and counting). Fifty-one if you view his refusal to release White House visitor records as a breach of his so-called transparency of government. He like Bush does want to let you know who is visiting the White House. Bush had a list of Christian leaders among his visitors - I am assuming Obama does not but we will never know as transparency only applies where he wants it to apply. Nothing but the same out of D.C. We need term limits for congress similar to that of the president and V.P. get these bums out after two terms in the senate and a miximum of 6 in the house with no switching from the house to the senate or vice versa allowed.

        • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/16/2009 3:37:21 PM

          Let's measure liars Johnnie. Go get 'em ole dude with those ratios.
          Giv'em hell. Tell everyone that the Republican party line is to say anyone who disagrees is following a party-line.

          Gooooo Johnnie! No one would ever question your beliefs. You're absolute truth big man.
          Stomp all those who oppose you. God will be on your side.

      • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/16/2009 1:38:49 PM

        Facts are facts but I know as a good head bobbling democrat you are just following your party line. Think for yourself ______!!!

  • Posted By: DemocratsAreAjoke @ 05/17/2009 12:49:40 PM

    You forgot to ask him about his birth certificate

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6_k3NtXZs

    why he's a Democrat

    http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/

    or why even Alan Keyes knows that Obama is an ILLEGAL ALIEN, a FOREIGN NATIONAL, a USURPER

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6p3l8BXmhs

    I just have a LOW TOLERANCE for YELLOW JOURNALISM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILWFTU702k

    • Posted By: bkrummel @ 05/17/2009 4:22:55 PM

      The only thing that is a joke is people like you. It's well-known that Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born U.S. citizen. He did release his birth certificate, so stop asking about it. Try to act somewhat intelligent and respectful of our President.

      Moreover, Jon Meacham took the time to bring us this interesting and well-written article. Try to take the time to have an intelligent response relevant to the article.

      • Posted By: John Dough @ 05/20/2009 8:23:42 PM

        That birth certificate was a proven photo shopped fake.

        • Posted By: adfas @ 05/30/2009 7:13:09 PM

          yes it was, proven to be a fake. Not only that the other picture they posted was in weird angles that didnt show vital information. The real certificate has never been seen. WHERE IS YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE OBAMA? Not only that where are the rest of your records? School records, papers you've writen? None of your records are shown anywhere, they are all classified. What happened to transparecy?

          • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/15/2009 7:07:25 PM

            Yeah. And I bet he has hair implants too.
            You guys are right. And together good folks like you make America great.

            I bet he dropped out of second grade. How dare he be president.

          • Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/08/2009 4:31:21 PM

            Are you guys saying the Bush Dept. of justice and the FBI during the Bush years and John McCain and the RNC all were part of the coverup? To even admit that you believe something like that puts your gullibility in plain sight. I really can't believe you're hanging on to that crap. too funny!

        • Posted By: jnakhoul @ 05/28/2009 4:12:53 PM

          everything on the internet is photoshopped. maybe your photoshopped too? hmmmmmmmm

        • Posted By: George Dorn @ 05/27/2009 3:56:06 PM

          You're a nutcase.

      • Posted By: Michael Sheridan - Sacramento @ 05/18/2009 12:43:08 PM

        EVEN Alan Keyes? Why would it be even a little surprising that the views of Alan Keyes include elements of paranoid conspiracy theory? Keyes is to the right of most of the Republican Party and is considered strange by the vast majority of voters (even in his own party). Or are you suggesting that just because both Keyes and our President have dark skin that there is some sort of natural affinity between them that only Keyes' innate truthfulness could overcome?

        For myself, if I were in doubt about a specific point of fact or opinion, knowing that Keyes was a oroponent of one side of the debate would be a strong factor in influencing me the other way. He's nearly as good an indicator as William Kristol in being always wrong.

    • Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/08/2009 5:22:43 PM

      DemocratsAreAjoke. if Democrats are a joke, then what are the Republicans?

  • Posted By: TexGEOas @ 06/09/2009 10:38:17 AM

    I guess... I guess... I guess Obama is some sort of god... or something. Don't take me literally on that. It's not original with me. I heard it some place. Oh, I remember. This was a quote from Evan Thomas, the unbiased EDITOR of Newsweek in a T.V. interview. Nice to know our media is still in the tank... or barrel.

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/15/2009 6:56:01 PM

      Shucks.

      All this time I thought the Republicans were calling Obama "messiah" "chosen one" even "snobby".

      All this time it was the democrats. Go figure.

  • Posted By: ben nevis @ 06/11/2009 1:19:16 PM

    I knew Meacham's article would be a load of KRAP when I read "...he was SLATED to STRIDE STRAIGHT..." gad what sloppy writing!
    Followed by more krap like "... a fatherless childhood will fill one with confidence and self-reliance." Meacham is a bumkisser. Shame on NEWSWEEK.

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/15/2009 6:48:48 PM

      Yeah. None of that stuff is true.
      He walks crooked, and his father was always there.
      He should be impeached. People like you should run for office.

      You'll find that lost birth certificate.

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/10/2009 3:19:37 PM

    Welfre was going to end poverty in the United States too when LBJ started the program - 9 trillion dollars later the poverty level is virtually the same as it was then. Welfare is an absolute failure. World hunger will not end either no matter how much money is thrown at it because facist/dictator run governments will continue to operate unethically taking food staples and in some cases starving off those perceived to be rivals for power. A change in the human condition is necessary to effect change and I do not see that coming anytime soon. The population of North Korea is starving to death while their lunatic leader squanders billions building nuclear weapons and missle technology. Therein lies the problem power and control by the facists and t heir supporters.

  • Posted By: atsegga @ 06/10/2009 1:16:14 PM


    The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.

    $30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
    $550 billion: U.S. Defense budget

  • Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/08/2009 4:46:06 PM

    I went to a graduation in florence Alabama last weekend . the guys there want to do unpleasant ting to richard steele.

  • Posted By: I'm all in @ 06/08/2009 4:42:18 PM

    President Obama is succeeding in pakistan against the taliban. Oh yeah, well Kerry threw away his medals. President obama is starting to see positive change in the economy. Oh yeah, Jimmy Carter was terrible. President Obama has locked in the hispanic vote. Oh yeah, well Bill Clinton cheated on hillary. President obama and the Dems. have destroyed the GOP. Oh yeah, well Arlen specter is a turncoat.

    This is the comeback of the GOP. Ultra hilarious!

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/08/2009 3:54:39 PM

    Here is a conversation for Obama he should hear loud and clear!!! Do not DO NOT tax employer heatlh care benefits to pay for health insurance for the uninsured. Many of them can afford to buy some type of coverage but choose to go without for whatever reason(s). This would be an unfair tax for those who have insurance and like most policies say mine for example I pay 3K a year in premiums, deductables, co-pays, none covered care and drug co-pays already and now you want to tax me on the portion my employer pays SCREW YOU AND YOUR PARTY!!! Time to get the GOP back in control!!!

  • Posted By: John Dough @ 06/01/2009 2:29:37 PM

    Everything Barack Obama, the Federal Reserve, and Congress are doing was predicted in startling detail almost two decades ago by a famous Nobel Prize-winning economist.

    His name was Milton Friedman.

    Though he passed away in 2006, in his prophetic book, Friedman showed how, facing massive deficits, the U.S. government would dramatically increase the money supply; why foreign countries would stop buying our debt; how the Fed would start buying our Treasury bills; and why this would call cause massive inflation.

    He even predicted that our officials would claim inflation was no problem at all.

    Amazingly all of this is coming to pass!

    Make no mistake about it ??? the Obama administration is embracing massive inflationary deficit spending.

    In just 100 days, Barrack Obama has more than doubled the U.S. money supply . . . committed the government to at least $7 trillion in new spending . . . and warned the American people to expect trillion-dollar deficits for the foreseeable future.

    While the media has been falling over itself to praise Obama's "bold initiatives," the question no one has been asking is, "Where is all of this money coming from?"

    Decades ago, Milton Friedman answered these questions clearly and precisely in his insightful ??? and very topical ??? book, Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History.

    In Money Mischief, Friedman even warned that the coming inflation could "destroy" our country.

    Here's what he wrote: "Inflation is a disease, a dangerous and sometimes fatal disease that, if not checked in time, can destroy a society." (Money Mischief, Page 191)

    You see the end result of that process in countries like Zimbabwe today, where prices double every day, and it now takes a $10 billion Zimbabwe note to buy a single loaf of bread - assuming you can find one.

    Could America suffer the same fate? Friedman wrote ominously, "The fate of a country is inseparable from the fate of its currency."

    Even Warren Buffett recently admitted on CNBC that the only way for the U.S. to solve its woes was to inflate the currency.

    There is little doubt that Obama's massive deficit spending will doom the dollar and our economy.

    You need to find out what is really happening to our economy and your wealth and get a copy of Milton Friedman's pathbreaking book, Money Mischief.

    Its insights are so relevant and shocking ??? it reads like it was just published for our times!

    Friedman also tells how the U.S. and the West could still avoid hyperinflation, even with unbacked paper currency.

  • Posted By: Apolitical @ 05/19/2009 1:31:20 PM

    It is indeed comforting of Jon's validation that we have an intellectual as a president. Of course, the Republicans will still try to trip him -- not because they want the best for the country -- but for the sheer envy and racism that a Democrat and a lowly black is holding the reigns of the presidency and doing well at that.

    • Posted By: adfas @ 05/30/2009 7:32:25 PM

      Obama is an intellectual? Oh, that's right I forgot, while running for president he read on the trail to the White House:"Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria

  • Posted By: adfas @ 05/30/2009 7:08:11 PM

    He is bankrupting Americans and using the money to pass laws that will ensure the enslavement of every American. Obama has fired CEO's of private companies, he is now forcin Crysler dealerships that didn not support his candidacy to close, he ordered the closing of GITMO on his first day in office without even reading what entailed in making that a secure place to place those who work to kill us, he now cleared the Black Panthers who harrassed, intimidated, and attempted to prevent voters from reaching the polls, not to mention vowing down to the Muslim's leaders and appologizing for America...there's more but you all get the point.

    Obama has no idea what it takes to defend America, is cluless about foreign relations and has demonstrated this by his treatment of England, and his policies and those of his liberal teamates will take this country not only into a depression, but bankrupcy, and endagerment of its citizens. All is left is praying for a miracle for we are now less safe than we have ever been.

    Mean while the liberal press keeps talking about how articulate he is, even though he just said the Constitution was pened '20 centuries ago' and while runing for President he said he had visited 57 of all the American States. This is without mentioning that every time he talks withough a teleprompter he bearly gets through 3 words withouth saying 'hmmm' or 'ehhh' or what ever two letters he chooses to make a sound with while stalling because he cant finish the sentence. It is going to be a long 4 years. Let us hope by the end of them we are not fully bankrupted and living under our enemies rule. Oh and by the way his plan to bring medical help to all is nothing more than socialism...but that is also in the HR1388 law that was presently passed.

  • Posted By: PacificGatePost @ 05/30/2009 5:00:33 PM


    Obama???s ideology is blinding him, and much of America is not paying attention. His dearth of understanding on economic matters is harmful to the nation, and the manipulation is pathetic to watch.

    http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/05/obamas-not-so-private-economic.html

    Wall Street is quietly cheering and encouraging the moves of a neophyte CEO. You would too, if you controlled the game.

  • Posted By: Valdez @ 05/19/2009 4:57:39 PM

    We need to put things in perspective. Being leader of the free world is a very difficult job. Having said that, George Dubya was an awful president. Obama is an improvement. MAJOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: exceltoexcel @ 05/29/2009 8:03:24 AM

      SUre he is.... Supporting the patriot act of gwb, Not giving the gitmo prisoners a fair trial like GWB, trying to ship them off to other countries, supporting military units to act as police in america just like GWB, not bringing the troups home just like bush, taking what troups are leaving Iraq and putting them into afghanistan one illegal war for another, bailingout banks and GM following GWB failed economic policy, increasing the deficit by almost $8 triliion dollars, expanding goverment to be even larger than GWB

      obama = GWBII

  • Posted By: Smilin bob @ 05/28/2009 1:59:51 PM

    This is my latest NYT posting. Hope this finds all well here. President Obama has used his usual, in you face approach, with the Judge Sotomayor nomination. This highly successful approach that defeated the MCCain hate machine continues to devastate the GOP. Even Sen Jeff Sessions has thrown in the towel on this one. It appears that the Republican party of hate is finally resigned to it's minor role in future politics and has focused on trying to hole on to as many white males as possible. this is the only demographic that they led in last year and even those white male moderates have deserted the party. This is of course a disaster for shock jocks like rush limbaugh and the Fox News wack jobs who rely solely on this group to fund their foolishness. Obviously the "reverse discrimination" mantra could only be aimed at White men. I post as bella12 at NYT if anyone drops in to say hello.

    • Posted By: John Dough @ 05/28/2009 2:40:48 PM

      GFee smiling Bob you must not have seen the latest poll showing dems and Goper's at 32% each and Independents such as myself as the majority at 34%. We will decide the next elections and for now the GOP is a must to prevent a tax rate that will utterly destroy our way of life. As for a brain dead Alaskan Palin's IQ is as high as Obama's so please keep buying the left wing media hype. She would be a better choice then this current cast of clowns

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