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Obama has a terrible mean streak.
We've been treated to many glimpses of the real Obama, the very uncool guy.
He's not only arrogant, but he's also cold and cruel.
The president of the United States should not mock Special Olympics athletes. Doing so on national TV during an interview with Jay Leno is inexcusable. He did that in March 2009, just a couple of months into his presidency. He displayed incredibly poor judgment to think that was funny.
The man does and says horrible things. He treats people with such disdain, even his political allies. No one should dare question the great and powerful Obama.
From Roll Call:At a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and House Democrats, Kildee introduced himself as a freshman, to which Obama said, “Wow, you’re really classing up the place then.”
Kildee then proceeded to ask what one person described as a somewhat “long-winded” question about the importance of creating jobs for his economically distraught district.
“I can tell you’re a freshman because you didn’t pay much attention to the State of the Union,” Obama joked. “I talked about that.”
Amid the resulting laughter, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra of California then offered to provide Kildee a printout of the speech.
Obama was referring to his $1 billion proposal for 15 manufacturing “innovation centers,” the details of which are still somewhat hazy.
Actually, though, the joke was on Obama: On Wednesday, Kildee had met with the White House legislative affairs team about the innovation centers proposal, so he was quite familiar with it.
And his question was broader, about what types of reforms are necessary to reform decaying urban centers like Flint, Mich., which Kildee represents.
Bottom line: Obama is not the smartest guy in the room, at least not in that room. Obama is stunningly self-centered. Obama is a jerk. I say that with all due respect.
According to Maxine Waters, sequestration will obliterate American jobs. It's going to be so bad that we're going to lose 30 million more jobs than we have in the first place.
From Breitbart's Big Government: Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) had a dire prediction for America about sequestration, claiming that 170 million jobs would be lost as a result of the across-the-board cuts. But according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only about 140 million jobs in the whole country.
...During a press conference on February 28, Waters told reporters of a visit by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke who told members of congress that sequestration is not the optimal way to cut the federal budget.
Talking of Bernanke's comments, Waters claimed that "if sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these jobs losses, over 170 million jobs that could be lost."
However, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table A-9, Selected Employment Indicators, in January of 2013 there were 141,614 million jobs in the current American economy.
Using Waters' math, the US would lose about 30 million more jobs than it had to start with.
Just a few days ago, speaking abroad on his first official trip as secretary of state, John Kerry touted the democratic institutions in a NONEXISTENT country.
As Kerry said, in America, we have the right to be stupid.
Now, Waters claims budget cuts will mean jobs that don't EXIST will be lost, 30 million of them.
What brilliance!
Here's video of Waters making a fool of herself:
I'm sure Michelle Obama would be the first to admit that her "posterior" is large.
I think she looks great, though sometimes she does make poor wardrobe choices, ones that negatively accentuate the disproportionate size of her behind. Sometimes she hides it well, sometimes she doesn't.
Let's be honest - the physical appearance of any public figure is critiqued. She's a celebrity. She's going to be treated like one.
The Queen of England isn't spared. Why should Queen Michelle?
First ladies don't get a pass. They've all been slammed for the perceived inadequacies of their hair, their bodies, their clothes.
That's what makes the Washington Post article by Krissah Thompson so weird.
She admits other first ladies have suffered the public scrutiny about their looks, but suggests that in Michelle Obama's case, it's racially based.The latest public rant against Michelle Obama’s effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business. And then it quickly found its way around to the first lady’s posterior.
“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” said Bob Grisham, a high school football coach who was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.”
Grisham, who was suspended Monday, is neither the first nor the most high-profile person to feel moved to comment on the first lady’s physique. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly called her Michelle “My Butt” Obama. And Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the Wisconsin Republican, issued an apology after he was caught commenting on her “large posterior.” (Grisham has also said he misspoke.)
Grisham was suspended?
Wow. The "public rant" wasn't all that public if it "was surreptitiously recorded by one of his students." It wasn't appropriate for a high school authority figure to make rude comments about Michelle Obama's weight, but suspension seems rather harsh, unless the school has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to commenting on others' physical appearance.
If Michelle Obama didn't lecture everyone in the country about our eating habits and shove her will on us, I think there would be less focus on her size. Michelle Obama obviously is not the first first lady to be subjected to criticism for the way she looks. Hillary Clinton was accused of having “cankles” — slang for chubby ankles. One of her predecessors was immortalized in song by the group Mission of Burma: “I’m haunted by the freakish size of Nancy Reagan’s head /No way that thing came with that body.”
But what is it with Michelle Obama’s critics and the fixation with her derriere?
“We have a history in this country of white people not showing adequate respect for and devaluing the bodies of black women, and this most definitely falls in line with that,” says Ayana Byrd, the co-editor of the anthology “Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts.” (Grisham, Limbaugh and Sensenbrenner are white men.)
...Her presence as first lady challenges the historic view of a black woman’s place and notions of beauty, says Michaela Angela Davis, a fashion expert who has campaigned for more positive images of black women in the media. “Michelle is black from a distance. She’s a real black girl,” Davis says. “A lot of people have tried to make diversity into this weird beige thing. Her presence is just really powerful to interject into the global consciousness.”
The first lady’s critics “are reacting to the culture in which they’ve grown up or they are using it as a code to racialize Michelle Obama and remind people that she’s black,” says Andra Gillespie, an associate professor of political science at Emory University. “It is unreasonable to expect a nearly 50-year-old woman to have the body of a 25-year-old. She looks great for her age.”
With all due respect, this is a load of crap.
The fact that Michelle Obama carries some extra weight in certain areas of her body and the fact that people comment on that reality have nothing to do with her race.
She's a very attractive woman, but not flawless.
Are we not allowed to speak the truth?
Certainly, making negative comments about how the first lady looks is impolite. In my opinion, apologies are in order when such comments are made in a public forum for public consumption. People should be held accountable for their remarks.
However, are we really to conclude that Wisconsin's Jim Sensenbrenner was using "code to racialize Michelle Obama and remind people that she’s black"?
That's just idiotic.
Listen to Charlie Sykes interview Paul Ryan.Congressman Paul Ryan reflects on his bid to become the next Vice President of the United States and offers his perspective on the fiscal cliff negotiations, in which he is a key cog for the GOP.
Hearing that Paul Ryan has come to terms with the results of the election makes me realize that I haven't.
I still feel sick when I think about what almost was and what is.
Instead of fearing the future under Obama, I would be hopeful and anticipating the new administration.
So many of my family's economic decisions would be different if Obama had lost and change for the better was a reality.
Still, I'm thankful Paul Ryan remains in Washington, working to improve our country.
I'm sick that the smug Obama is playing politics with our lives.
"Fiscal cliff" this, Obama.
Tammy Baldwin is an extremist. She is out there on the fringe Left.
Most Americans oppose ObamaCare and want it repealed.
Baldwin believes the job-killing, massive tax that limits your health care choices and its quality didn't go far enough.From Media Trackers:Rep. Baldwin voted in favor of Obamacare but argued that the new law did not go far enough. On July 31, 2009, Rep. Baldwin spoke on behalf of a single payer healthcare system before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Obamacare did not go so far as to create a single payer system of healthcare, but Rep. Baldwin with no eye towards any notion of a limited roll of government said that a “single payer health system is the best way to comprehensively and fairly reform our healthcare system.” Rep. Baldwin went on to say that she is one of the many who believe “healthcare is a right for all.”
In my opinion, Baldwin's position on government-run healthcare is reason enough to vote against her.
Do you want the authoritarian IPAB making health care decisions that will impact you and your family?
Baldwin's saturation ad campaign is pushing the absurdity, "Tommy Thompson - He's not right for you anymore."
FALSE.
Baldwin is not right for Wisconsinites. Her views do not reflect ours.
