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Cramer under Obama's spell....

It seems even Mad Money's Jim Cramer can't even muster criticism of Obama's Treasury choice... CNBC “Mad Money” Jim Cramer host railed against Geithner as a “disaster” and a “total fool” in a blog post on Nov. 7. But after Obama tapped Geithner for Treasury, Cramer retreated to calling Geithner a “smooth hand.”

The Office of the President-Elect?

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There is no such thing! It's just a prop. President-elect Barack Obama is looking very presidential these days. When he makes an announcement, he is ringed by American flags and stands behind a lectern that has a very presidential-looking placard announcing "The Office of the President-Elect." But the props are merely that. Under the Constitution, there is no such thing as the Office of the President-elect. Technically, Obama will not even become the president-elect until the Electoral College convenes after the second Wednesday in December and elects him based on the results of the Nov. 4 general election, as stated in the Constitution.

Obama's "fabulously fit" while Bush fitness is obsessive and creepy;

The media orgasm of the election of Barack Obama continues.  The AP's Deanna Bellandi from a few days ago; Obamas work fitness into daily routine White House offers plenty of places to stay active By DEANNA BELLANDI ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO -- Many women recoil at the thought of baring their arms in sleeveless dresses or blouses, but not Michelle Obama -- half of the fabulously fit new first couple. While in a 2005 Reuters article Bush's fitness program was described thusly; He takes pride in his six-day-a-week workout regimen and last week he showcased the statistics on his heart rate monitor for a group of reporters who rode with him. The monitor showed he burned 1,493 calories in a two-hour ride, also 17 miles. Bush says exercise helps sharpen his thinking. But some of his critics view his exercise obsession as an indulgence that takes time away from other priorities. And from the LA Times ; ..... Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the

And so it begins...

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — An annual parade of boats on a Long Island river that dropped “Christmas” from its name has apparently lost lots of supporters. About 1,000 people showed up Sunday for the Patchogue Boat Parade of Lights. That’s 500 fewer than usually showed up when it was called the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade. Brookhaven-based fireworks company Fireworks by Grucci dropped its sponsorship after the Greater Patchogue Foundation removed “Christmas” from the parade’s name. The change was made after some residents complained the name wasn’t inclusive enough.

In the LA Times of all places, a defense of capitalism...

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In the LA Times ; It was Thanksgiving, and for the first time our whole family was together. By Jennifer James November 23, 2008 It was Thanksgiving, and for the first time our whole family was together. Mom and Dad had to drive all night just to get here, but boy was it worth it! The Grandsters really know how to do it up right. The Grandsters being Grandpa and Grandma. We were all seated at the table, and I couldn't wait to dive into those mashed potatoes and gravy. And the smell of the turkey -- I thought I was going to faint with happiness. "What's that, Mindy?" demanded my little cousin Sam. He can be such a pain. He is 8 years old, two years younger than I am. "What's what?" I asked. He pointed to a little paper cup containing just three kernels of corn beside Grandpa's plate. I opened my mouth to answer and then realized I didn't know. Ugh! How I hate admitting that I don't know something! Grandma answered, "It is to pay tri

Rick Sanchez really is an idiot...

Yesterday Rick Sanchez said that President Bush was snubbed at the G20 when no one would shake his hand and used this video as evidence; But today Jeanne Moos of CNN no less does what Sanchez failed to do, actually investigate the story before making up wild and stupid accusations like Bush has cooties or some other stupid crap. It turns out Bush greeted all of the leaders, shook their hands, twice, and actually posed or pictures with them too!

I thought you guys had all the answers?

When you campaign on hope and change and promise that you have all the answers should you start by having your people go out and say things like this; Obama Advisers Say Public Should Lower Expectations Reporting Mike Flannery CHICAGO (CBS) ― President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July. They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports. A top economic advisor to Obama had a glum warning for the rest of us Thursday morning: Neither the job market nor the stock market will be turning around any time soon. "This might be a long haul," said Robert Reich, who was President Bill Clinton's secretary of labor. "2009 is going to be a very hard year. Some economists say we won't be out of this for two years, others are saying it may be three, or four, maybe five years." N

Al Franken doesn't think this ballot should count...

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AQ didn't get the hope-n-change message

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet   Nov 19 11:12 AM US/Eastern By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH Associated Press Writers CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader. In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—"house negroes." Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves

A voter intelligence test should be required to vote!

From John Zogby, he polled 500 self-professed Obama supporters and the results were appalling; * 57.4 could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) * 81.8 could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) * 82.6 could NOT correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing) * 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing) * 56.1 % could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).And yet….. * Only 13.7% failed to identify Palin as the person their party spent $150,000 in clothes on * Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter * And 86.9 % thought that Palin said th

Ayers: I regret that stupid dedication that I didn't write....

These are the people that elected Obama

This is very sad;

Is it getting warmer or colder?

The latest news ignored by the media... DailyTech - Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record Rapid Rebound Brings Ice Back to Levels from the 1980s. An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. In sharp contrast to the rapid melting seen last year, the amount of global sea ice has rebounded sharply and is now growing rapidly. The total amount of ice, which set a record low value last year, grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979. The actual amount of ice area varies seasonally from about 16 to 23 million square kilometers. However, the mean anomaly-- defined as the difference between the current area and the seasonally-adjusted average-- changes much slower, and generally varies by only 2-3 million square kilometers. That anomaly had been negative, indicating ice loss, for most of the current decade and reached a historic low in 2007. The current value is again zero, indicating an amount of ice exactly equal to the global average

Future schadenfreude

It will be so much fun to watch and experience the rapid fall of "The One" from his lofty perch on high when his robotic followers realize that he is nothing more than just another creepy politician;

Previously thought to be impossible, Franken sinks to new low...

From The Bemidji Pioneer ; A touching story the Franken campaign told at mid-day Thursday about how a Beltrami County women’s stroke-impaired signature led to her ballot being rejected proved flawed. “We are still investigating,” Franken spokesman Andy Barr said Thursday night, adding that while the woman’s absentee ballot was rejected it was not because of her shaky signature as he reported a few hours earlier. The woman’s story was carried by news organizations in Minnesota and beyond. Franken’s U.S. Senate campaign originally said an 84-year-old Beltrami County woman’s post-stroke handwriting did not match her voter registration signature, so election officials rejected her ballot. The county’s top elections official said she told the Franken campaign that was not the case. “Beltrami County does not have one ballot that was rejected because signatures didn’t match and the Franken campaign was clearly told that,” County Auditor-Treasurer Kay Mack said. “I don’

16% of McCain voters say they would have voted for Hillary

So says CBS News ; Interestingly, 16 percent of McCain voters said they would have voted for Clinton, the Democrat, if she had been her party’s nominee . So if Republicans had shown up in equal numbers to 2004 McCain would have won...

The guy in the neighborhood is more than the guy in the neighborhood

But of course we all know that already....well all of us except the MSM; “We had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign,” he writes. But right-wing commentators tried to use those connections to smear Obama, he says. “Obama’s political rivals and enemies apparently saw an opportunity to deepen a dishonest narrative about him, that he is somehow un-American, alien, linked to radical ideas, a closet terrorist, a sympathizer with extremism,” Ayers wrote. Well Bill Ayers is anti-American, radical, a closet terrorist and is a sympathizer to extremism. And what does this mean? Well for one thing, it confirms that Obama is a liar! Ayers is suppose to be on Good Morning America tomorrow morning. My prediction is that Diane Sawyer will not reference this all. And if she does there will be no follow up, not confrontati

Franken makes it clear he will not rest until he steals Minnesota

Using the same illogical approach that Gore tried to use, Franken wants the undervotes counted to his tally . Undervotes are ballots where no choice was made for Senate race. So naturally those voters really wanted Franken so much that in their excitement to vote for Obama they forgot to vote for Franken. An Associated Press analysis of votes in the tight, still-to-be decided race for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota shows that most ballots lacking a recorded choice in the election were cast in counties won by Democrat Barack Obama. The finding could have implications for Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who are headed for a recount separated by the thinnest of margins — a couple of hundred votes, or about 0.01 percent. About 25,000 ballots statewide carried votes for president but not for the Senate race. Although some voters might have intentionally bypassed the race, others might have mismarked their ballot, or optical scanning machines might have mi

Tolerance for me but not for thee...

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Tolerance fails T-shirt test -- chicagotribune.com John Kass November 13, 2008 Catherine Vogt, 14, conducted an experiment in political tolerance at her Oak Park middle school and learned some valuable lessons. (Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / November 12, 2008) As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we're all united now, let's consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment. Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park. She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching "inclusion," and she decided to see how included she could be. So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then br

Dennis Miller on why lefty women hate Sarah Palin

Look, she's a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the Left hate her. I think the Left hate her; mostly women on the Left hate her, because to me from outside in it appears that she has a great sex life. Alright? I think she has hot erotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side their husbands haven't been aroused since... the early 70's. So they hate her. I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me and that's why people are fascinated by it...

From the mind of....

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And amazingly they are ALL Franken votes...imagine that!

FOXNews.com - Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud - Opinion Minnesota Ripe for Election Fraud Monday, November 10, 2008 By John R. Lott Jr. Minnesota is becoming to 2008 politics what Florida was in 2000 or Washington State in 2004 -- a real mess. The outcome will determine whether Democrats get 58 members of the U.S. Senate, giving them an effective filibuster-proof vote on many issues. When voters woke up on Wednesday morning after the election, Senator Norm Coleman led Al Franken by what seemed like a relatively comfortable 725 votes. By Wednesday night, that lead had shrunk to 477. By Thursday night, it was down to 336. By Friday, it was 239. Late Sunday night, the difference had gone down to just 221 -- a total change over 4 days of 504 votes. Amazingly, this all has occurred even though there hasn’t even yet been a recount. Just local election officials correcting claimed typos in how the numbers were reported. Counties will certify their results today, and their final results will

Good for Google! A Veterans Day logo...

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They MUST be kidding....or just stupid.

No bias in media coverage of election, says Reuters...I know, I couldn't stop laughing either... Media bias largely unseen in US presidential race | Reuters Thu Nov 6, 2008 4:45pm EST By Steve Gorman - Analysis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At times during this year's U.S. presidential race, it seemed that supporters of Republican John McCain bashed journalists covering his campaign almost as hard as they did his Democratic rival, Barack Obama. McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, famously stoked anti-media catcalls and boos by Republican delegates at the party's national convention. And as recently as this past weekend, a crowd of McCain backers at a rally in Virginia turned to the press stand and chanted: "Tell the truth! Tell the Truth!" McCain partisans were roused to anger by a perception that mainstream news organizations routinely gave Obama preferential treatment en route to his election as the first black U.S. president. But media scholars, inc

NY Times still fighting against America...

Wonder how President Obama would handle this kind of "reporting"? That is of course assuming Obama would have the balls to authorize this kind of strategy. I know, stupid me... Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries - NYTimes.com By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI Published: November 9, 2008 WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials. These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war wi

Perfect example of the MSM going down the toilet...

The desire to slime Sarah Palin outweighs the need to get anything right in Newsweek; Too dumb to be Veep...    [ Mark Steyn ] ...but perfectly qualified to work at a big-time news weekly. As John McCormack points out , just about everything in this Newsweek sentence is wrong: The day of the third debate, Palin refused to go onstage with New Hampshire GOP Sen. John Sununu and Jeb Bradley, a New Hampshire congressman running for the Senate, because they were pro-choice and because Bradley opposed drilling in Alaska. :John Sununu has a 100% pro-life record. Jeb Bradley was not running for the Senate; he was Congressman for the NH First District until 2006 and was seeking to get his old seat back. And a dummy who doesn't even know Africa's a continent supposedly is fully up to speed on a Congressional candidate's views on abortion?

The worst school teacher ever!

What an outrage...this woman should be fired! Update on Diantha Harris who works in Asheville, North Carolina.

Not black enough...literally.

This is despicable ...from CNN pop culture correspondent Toure; One cannot also help but wonder if maybe Obama’s success will quietly, unwittingly, ruffle some deep feathers by recalling some color issues within the black community. His election may serve to highlight, once again, the color biases of white people (at least in the electoral realm). The three biggest elected offices in America are president, governor, and senator, and all the black men who have held those offices are light- skinned—Obama, Deval Patrick (current governor of Massachusetts), David Paterson (current governor of New York), Doug Wilder (former governor of Virginia), and Edward Brooke (former senator from Massachusetts). Even the black man who’ll go down in history as the one who could have been president if only he’d found a fire in the belly, Colin Powell, is very light-skinned. These color issues matter only because there are long-held stereotypes attached to them that have no relevance or integrity today, b

Change you can believe in!

Obama campaign workers want their money!

So now that it looks like its President O, is he gonna pay my mortgage and gas too?

Looks like President Obama

God help us...

Which is less, 39.6 or 28?

Senator Menedez is either stupid, an idiot or just dumber than a rock. He keeps talking about the capital gains tax when that was never the topic being discussed. First he says he's talking about income taxes and then he shifts to capital gains taxes. He either knew he couldn't defend Obama's awful tax plan and figured he could spin away the interview or he really is the stupidest man on earth.

"As I've clearly said repeatedly..."

I question the timing...

I am sure glad they got this out in a timely fashion... New Troopergate report clears Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin | adn.com New Troopergate report clears Palin By LISA DEMER | ldemer@adn.com Published: November 3rd, 2008 03:46 PM Last Modified: November 3rd, 2008 03:50 PM A new report just released -- hours before the polls open on Election Day -- exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the Troopergate controversy. The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature. Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Obama flips off McCain...

Ok...when he did it to Hillary I thought ok maybe it was just a slip-up but now he does it again with the same hand and again while speaking about his opponent. What a true leader he is...

The most out of context candidate ever!

Yeah...that's right, see here .

New from Oliver Stone....

NY times brings back the Jesse Macbeth lie in a piece that praises Media Matters

Media Matters Attacks ‘Conservative Misinformation’ - NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — They are some of the more memorable slip-ups or slights within the news media’s coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign. A Fox News anchor asks whether Senator Barack Obama and his wife had greeted each other with a “terrorist fist jab.” Rush Limbaugh calls military personnel critical of the war in Iraq “phony soldiers.” Mr. Limbaugh and another Fox host repeat an accusation that Mr. Obama attended a madrassa, or Islamic school, in Indonesia. The NY Times again tries to promote the lie that Rush Limbaugh called soldiers who criticize the war in Iraq phony soldiers. He did no such thing. He has proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt be replaying the audio of the conversation he was having with a caller when this comment was made. He was talking about Jesse Macbeth the convicted and admitted phony soldier. How many times does the Times plan on lying this? Even Wikipedia, not the most reliable source of

And now for something completely different...

New Queen + Paul Rodgers! Damn good! Kinda reminds me of someone...

Kirsten's hope is dashed...

Actually Kirsten the move is totally consistent with the guys record over the years for anyone with the desire to actually do some background checking... A NIXONESQUE MOVE FROM TEAM OBAMA - New York Post A NIXONESQUE MOVE FROM TEAM OBAMA * Comments: 10 * Read Comments * Leave a Comment By KIRSTEN POWERS Last updated: 5:40 am November 1, 2008 Posted: 5:00 am November 1, 2008 TEAM Obama veered off message yesterday, kicking off the campaign bus reporters from three newspapers deemed unfriendly to the campaign - The New York Post, The Dallas Morning News and The Washington Times. This is bipartisanship? The move is utterly at odds with a central part of Obama's message: the idea that he's a different kind of candidate - one who won't demonize opponents or critics, but will instead work hard to bring people together.

To borrow from Ace "Hey Dude, where's my head?"

This is big news...so of course you don't really hear about it... Al-Qaeda propaganda chief killed in Pakistan strike: officials An Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative -- described by the United States as the terror network's propaganda chief -- was killed in a missile strike in Pakistan, security officials said on Saturday. Abu Jihad al-Masri was among several rebels killed when two missiles fired by a suspected US spy drone hit a truck in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Friday night, they said. The United States has offered a one-million-dollar bounty for the death or capture of al-Masri, who has appeared in an anti-Western video introduced by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two. "The strike was aimed at a vehicle carrying Abu Jihad and two others. The target was successfully hit and all three people were killed," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. His death came in one of two separate missi

Well, you are running for president you know...

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Obama has testy moment with the media Oct 31 06:55 PM US/Eastern By BEN FELLER Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama got annoyed with the media Friday as he tried to walk down a Chicago street with his 7-year-old daughter, Sasha, who was dressed up in a shiny costume for Halloween. A pool of national photographers, reporters and a video crew traveling with Obama quickly covered the spontaneous moment. "All right guys, that's enough," said Obama, wearing a casual outfit and sunglasses in the early evening. He and his daughter were walking right toward the media on a public street. "You got a shot," he told the photographers. "Leave us alone. Come on, guys." He told the media to get back on the bus, referring to the vehicle where the traveling press pool often waits for him. Obama then crossed the street with Sasha. At least one video cameraman who