"What if Obama can't lead?" :o

[B-Man]

U.N. follies................ 5 years on the job and still no administrative skills.....................

 

Report: Obama offered to meet with Iranian president at UN — and was rejected

A potential encounter at the United Nations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani failed to take place on Tuesday as the Iranians indicated it was too complicated, senior Obama administration officials said.

 

“There will be no meeting,” one official said.

 

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that Obama had been open to a meeting with Rouhani while both were in New York for U.N. activities but the Iranians were not ready to have an encounter at the presidential level.

 

So, once again, instead of keeping its cards close to the vest in order to minimize the risk of embarrassment if things go badly (see, e.g., the “red line”), the White House chatted up the possibility of an earth-shaking face-to-face between O and Khamenei’s new figurehead “president” and now has to explain why Iran didn’t feel like making it happen.

[DC Tom]

U.N. follies................ 5 years on the job and still no administrative skills.....................

 

Report: Obama offered to meet with Iranian president at UN — and was rejected

A potential encounter at the United Nations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani failed to take place on Tuesday as the Iranians indicated it was too complicated, senior Obama administration officials said.

 

“There will be no meeting,” one official said.

 

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that Obama had been open to a meeting with Rouhani while both were in New York for U.N. activities but the Iranians were not ready to have an encounter at the presidential level.

 

So, once again, instead of keeping its cards close to the vest in order to minimize the risk of embarrassment if things go badly (see, e.g., the “red line”), the White House chatted up the possibility of an earth-shaking face-to-face between O and Khamenei’s new figurehead “president” and now has to explain why Iran didn’t feel like making it happen.

 

 

 

It'd be funny if it were someone else's leader.

[Chef Jim]

It'd be funny if it were someone else's leader.

 

Leader.....leader...???? Sorry, I'm not getting it. Who are you talking about?

[GG]

Yeah, but no one threw a shoe at him. I hear that's the worst insult to a global leader.

[Keukasmallies]

I'm worried he isn't even smart enough to follow!

[TakeYouToTasker]

Leader.....leader...???? Sorry, I'm not getting it. Who are you talking about?

From the Democrat Dictionary:

 

leader

 

lead·er

 

noun

1. A feckless figurehead
    
   
2. One who refuses to lead
    
   
3. The back of a horse
   

Edited September 25, 2013 by TakeYouToTasker

[Koko78]

From the Democrat Dictionary:

 

Here's the associated picture:

 

[B-Man]

Delusional..................

 

 

 

Obamacare Has ‘Nothing to Do with the Budget’?

By Charles C. W. Cooke

 

I’m honestly at a loss as to where one might start with President Obama’s healthcare speech earlier. It was so utterly mendacious and cynical as to inspire awe. Perhaps one should begin with the outrageous claim that healthcare is an American “right,” which is not only untrue but was bizarrely allied with the insistence that, before Obamacare came along, health insurance had been reserved to the “privileged few” (also know as 90 percent of the country)?

 

Perhaps one should start with that lawyerly language in which the the president insisted that premiums would be “lower than expected,” an irrelevant, vague and misleading metric that conveniently ignores his specific promise that costs would either go down or stay the same for absolutely everyone?

 

Maybe one should start with the peculiar claim that “there’s no widespread evidence that the Affordable Care Act is hurting jobs”? Or, perhaps, with the president’s singling out of a silly and fringe HuffPo piece that compared the law to The Fugitive Slave Act, which was pulled from obscurity and launched into the mainstream in order to tar all conservatives as extremists and racists?

 

These were all astonishing and infurating in equal measure. But they paled in comparison to the dishonesty of the president’s central claim, which was that the attempt to link defunding to the debt-ceiling fight is illegitimate because Obamacare has “nothing to do with the budget.”

 

 

I struggle to imagine how the president could have kept a straight face when he said this. This is a law, remember, that was crowbarred through Congress with the questionable use of reconciliation, a parliamentary procedure that is reserved exclusively for budgetary matters; a law that was sold as a deficit-reduction measure; a law that contains a significant spending component, including a 5-10 percent increase in the size of the federal budget; and, alas, a law that boasts a central mandate that was upheld (rewritten) by the Supreme Court as a tax, thus ensuring that any changes to the penalties must be approved by the House.

 

“Nothing to do with the budget”? This is what we call a lie, Watson.

 

 

Edited September 27, 2013 by B-Man

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Here's the associated picture:

 

 

Why does he have a picture of Jesse Jackson on one side and a picture of white people on the other?

[Koko78]

These were all astonishing and infurating in equal measure. But they paled in comparison to the dishonesty of the president’s central claim, which was that the attempt to link defunding to the debt-ceiling fight is illegitimate because Obamacare has “nothing to do with the budget.”

 

So, um, why did they have to use a budget provision as legislative trickery to bypass the normal procedures to pass laws, if Obamacare has nothing to do with the budget? Why are their new taxes imposed and tax penalties for noncompliance, if it has nothing to do with the budget?

 

Oh well, only what, a little under 3 and a half years until the next shitstain president?

[Nanker]

Can't wait till the Class-Action trial lawyers get to work on suing the federal government because people's "Rights" have been violated because they didn't get proper healthcare - WHICH IS THEIR RIGHT!

[B-Man]

Russia wins at UN as weak Syria resolution emerges...

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATIRE or REALITY ?

 

 

Obama's 'Fake' Twitter Followers Explained

 

FTA:

The Daily Mail Online has analyzed the numbers and discovered that among U.S. political figures, the four Twitter accounts with the most fake followers -- that is, followers who don't really exist -- are those of Barack Obama (by a landslide), Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, and the White House communications department. Those who would laugh this off as evidence of a pathetic progressive attempt to manipulate public perceptions are perhaps missing the point. Americans who care about the downfall of their country ought to be most concerned about the trend indicated here. A hitherto negligible segment of the population, nonexistent humans, has found in the present U.S. administration a powerful reason to emerge from the shadows at last and become fully engaged participants in the political process. There is no clearer indication of the dangers facing America than this surge in political activity among people who do not exist, especially when one considers that this group vastly outnumbers the existent.

 

But why all this political enthusiasm among the unreal, all of a sudden? The answer is all too clear. In 2008, America elected its historic first fake president, thus giving hope and a lifeline to fakers everywhere: "Maybe I can participate on equal terms with real people, too."

 

Consider the president -- or rather, don't. As a matter of fact, you can't. For all intents and purposes, he doesn't exist. The "first black president" was born of a white mother, and raised by white grandparents. Wonder what courses he took in college? Don't -- you're not allowed to know. How did this self-described drug-addled loafer get into so many top shelf universities, seemingly transferring from one to another in mid-program effortlessly? Don't ask -- his applications and letters of acceptance are apparently national security secrets.

 

He was president of the Harvard Law Review, but never wrote an article for the journal. He was described even in those days as being well-liked and trusted by conservatives, in spite of being ideologically dedicated to destroying everything they believed in. His trajectory-setting first autobiography was a fake, romanticizing a spiritual kinship with a man he barely met, in language he probably couldn't have written himself. His literary agency publicized him as Kenyan-born for sixteen years, using a short author's bio he presumably wrote or approved himself -- until the moment (in 2007) when that biographical detail ceased to function as instant credibility, and instead became grounds for instant disqualification.

 

His friend and colleague, Bill Ayers, was hustled off to the Sesame Street haze of "the neighborhood" when his prominence in Obama's life became uncomfortable. The same goes for the minister who married him, but whom he cast aside easily when the views he learned from that minister became politically embarrassing. And don't bother examining his voting record prior to becoming president. He almost never voted for or against anything. He voted "present" -- that is, he checked his name on the attendance sheet and then slept through class. He ran for president not even knowing how many states are in the Union, although he himself was (presumably) born and raised in the fiftieth and final state.

 

But all of this was merely the preamble to his more impressive incarnation as the historic fake president. There were traces of a man -- a man in hiding from adult reality -- in all the fakery of his life prior to 2008. Not so after that point. For as president he became perfectly immersed in the machinery of the world's first successful fake political philosophy, namely progressivism, which is what tyranny began calling itself when tyrants finally got over the primordial vanity of needing everyone to know the identity of their oppressor and to fear him, and realized that bloodthirsty power lust is served more effectively by a simple mask of lies.

 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/09/obamas_fake_twitter_followers_explained.html#ixzz2g6JTQ8qa

Edited September 27, 2013 by B-Man

[Joe Miner]

pathetic progressive attempt to manipulate public perceptions are perhaps missing the point

 

 

Holy alliteration Batman!

[B-Man]

N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens.

 

“Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.”

 

 

 

Gee............that kind of information could come in handy................if you wanted to win an election or something.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

Obama Pledged Before Election Never to Bargain on Debt Ceiling Again

 

According to John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, President Obama told him that he would never again bargain with Republicans to extend the debt limit. Podesta said that the 2011 Budget Control Act, which ended the debt ceiling debate two years ago, “sent a signal that this was fair game to blackmail over whether the country would default. He feels like he has to end it and end it forever.”

 

Obama has taken a no-negotiations stance on the debt ceiling debate, sending the true signal to the market that he is willing to default on debt if Republicans do not fund the government in accordance with his wishes. Podesta said that Obama will “be viewed as a guy who you can hold up” if he gives any concessions at all on the debt ceiling.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/11/Podesta-Obama-debt-ceiling

 

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[GG]

Obama Pledged Before Election Never to Bargain on Debt Ceiling Again

 

According to John Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to President Clinton, President Obama told him that he would never again bargain with Republicans to extend the debt limit. Podesta said that the 2011 Budget Control Act, which ended the debt ceiling debate two years ago, “sent a signal that this was fair game to blackmail over whether the country would default. He feels like he has to end it and end it forever.”

 

Obama has taken a no-negotiations stance on the debt ceiling debate, sending the true signal to the market that he is willing to default on debt if Republicans do not fund the government in accordance with his wishes. Podesta said that Obama will “be viewed as a guy who you can hold up” if he gives any concessions at all on the debt ceiling.

 

http://www.breitbart...ma-debt-ceiling

 

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This is the original article that Breitbart.com should source, which I found very infuriating when I read it.

[3rdnlng]

What is this oft repeated nonsense about defaulting on the debt? The interest on our debt is 20 billion a month. We bring in well over 200 billion a month in taxes. The administration is obligated by the Constitution to pay interest and pension contributions first. How long is the media going to let this charlatan get away with an obvious lie?

[GG]

What is this oft repeated nonsense about defaulting on the debt? The interest on our debt is 20 billion a month. We bring in well over 200 billion a month in taxes. The administration is obligated by the Constitution to pay interest and pension contributions first. How long is the media going to let this charlatan get away with an obvious lie?

 

It's not a lie. While a default isn't likely on Oct 17, it would be almost certain by Nov 15. Those tax payments are lumpy. November is a bigger month for outflows than inflows, so that will lead you to the default.

 

Seems like you bought into the story that the default risk has been made up. It has not, which is a completely different argument from how did they even get to this situation, which is what the Bloomberg article discusses, and the main premise of this thread.

[B-Man]

Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama

 

PBS's Tavis Smiley made a comment Thursday that every African-American as well as liberal media member should sit up and take notice.

Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, Smiley said, "The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category"

 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2hRQmbEWP

 

 

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Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama

 

PBS's Tavis Smiley made a comment Thursday that every African-American as well as liberal media member should sit up and take notice.

Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, Smiley said, "The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category"

 

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2hRQmbEWP

 

 

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And like a loyal lemming Smiley still supported Obama in 2012 and will continue to be among the Obama cheerleader squad when he leaves office

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