Posts about Barack Obama as of August 13, 2009

Rosen: No “right” to health carepatricksperry.wordpress.com
08/13/2009
More discussion on the health care debate. Well reasoned, and logical. Unlike most of what I have read across wordpress, and other blog websites. SOURCE No, 47 million Americans are not permanently unable to obtain health insurance. This oft-cited, sensationalized statistic is a snapshot at any point in time, something akin to saying 50 million Americans may have a head cold at any point in time but soon get over it.
08/13/2009
Press Release from the JISC Collections Archive (note the brief but helpful – not to mention accessible – textual synopses of the posted videos): *** From Gorbachev to global warming: education experts choose images for JISC Collections archive Education experts have taken the first steps towards building a JISC Collections archive containing over 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos documenting modern history.
Once you’re on the merry-go-roundleduc998.wordpress.com
08/13/2009
After the Federal Reserves gallant attempt at telling the market the news it would like to hear regarding inflation, the news in reality still spells serious inflation. Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. budget deficit reached a record for the first 10 months of the fiscal year and broke a monthly high for July as the recession curbed revenue and the government ramped up spending to rejuvenate the economy. The shortfall so far for the fiscal year that ends Sept.
08/13/2009
CBCThe Department of National Defence has sent a surveillance plane to waters off Canada’s East Coast to monitor a pair of nuclear-powered Russian submarines in the area. The attack subs were first spotted on Aug. 5 in international waters off Georgia, according to officials. The presence of the boats was leaked to the New York Times last week by anonymous security analysts.While the subs were off the U.S.
08/13/2009
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Health care Fiasco, Part Twoskepticcon.wordpress.com
08/13/2009
Watching Obama trying to sell his health care bill to the public the other night on prime time TV, I kept thinking of one thing: A sinking ship.  Appeal to emotion is the last bastion of the irrational.  When all else fails, when your argument is as thin as silk, when you have nothing to present but a failed, miserable ideology, you replace thought with wish.
NBC: “YES WE DID”michellemalkin.com
08/13/2009
Last night on Hannity, I reminded folks about how the New York Times made millions selling pro-Obama merchandise. Many other MSM outlets have profited from sales of Obama swag and propaganda.Now, check this out from Joe Luppino-Esposito at the Examiner:Barack Obama’s campaign slogan “Yes we can!” became “Yes we did!” on November 4, 2008, thrilling his supporters nationwide.Evidently, NBC also was quite pleased with the win, and the news network is still celebrating.NBC is selling “YES WE DID” t-shirts online as well as at its Manhattan company store in Rockefeller Center.
08/13/2009
Finally!  We have an opportunity to complain directly to the Obama administration about the failure that is the Santa Ana Unified School District!  “The director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans will lead a town-hall meeting next week at Santa Ana College,” according to the O.C. Register . If you want to ask Juan Sepúlveda why the SAUSD is not using federal stimulus money to rehire laid off teachers, click here to make your reservation.  You can also call 714-480-7450 to make a reservation before 5 p.m.
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Polllornakismet.wordpress.com
08/13/2009
There is nothing concrete that has improved since Barack Obama took office.   ~P.E.R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thursday, August 13, 2009 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 29% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8 (see trends).Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is feeling the heat of the health care debate.
08/13/2009
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!sen. Arlen Specter, facing more jeers and taunts during another town hall meeting Wednesday, sought to defuse tensions about health care reform debate with a few jokes.Discussing people who had also come to Tuesday’s forum in Lewisburg, Specter said, “I consider it a compliment that you want to come back.” At one point, he even jokingly booed himself as a way of poking fun at the reaction he has been getting.Specter,