Posts about Barack Obama as of August 17, 2009

08/17/2009
By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, Aug 17 – Liberal Democrats warned President Barack Obama on Monday that a retreat on support for a government-run health insurance plan could endanger passage of major healthcare reform in Congress this year . In t …
What Could POSSIBLY Go Wrong?deepbraindiary.com
08/17/2009
Totin’ firearms to public meetings?  Heck, folks!  That there’s the AMERICAN WAY!  What could POSSIBLY go wrong when right wing Americans show up to protest a President they believe to be a foreign-born usurper out to destroy the very fabric of the imaginary country they believe they love so much, if it actually ever existed, which it doesn’t and never did? Armed men, irrationally believing that Obama is a communist Marxist Nazi will ALWAYS behave with the utmost restraint we’ve always seen from right wing morons — like Timothy McVeigh, abortion doctor murderers, clinic bombers and the guy who shot up the Holocaust Museum.
08/17/2009
Gov. Jim Doyle, who says that he plans to serve out his second term as governor of Wisconsin, specifically denies any intention to join the administration of the man he supported early and aggressively for president, Barack Obama.
08/17/2009
President Obama’s Opening Statement At Grand Junction, Colorado Health Care Town Hall – 08/15/09… Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
08/17/2009
SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS admitting his Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS HEATH CARE GOAL IS A PUBLIC OPTION THAT WILL ULTIMATELY ELIMINATE PRIVATE EMPLOYER PROVIDED INSURANCE (Obama SEIU forum on health care 3/24/07, Barney Frank, Jan Schakowsky all admitting a public option will put the private [...] Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
08/17/2009
In Aiken, SC, Barack Obama tells the story about Edith Childs, a councilwoman from Greenwood, SC, who gave him the chant “Fired up, ready to go!” Then the leads the cheer…. Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
08/17/2009
(8.6.09) — NOTE: Both ACORN and SEIU union members were reportedly in the building. We do not know which group was doing the ‘muscling’ here, and that is why the title reads as it does. UPDATE: See the footage from right before this scene: UPDATE: This same strand…… Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
08/17/2009
‘He Ventured Forth to Bring Light to the World’…A Satirical Look at the way Barrack Obama is portrayed by the media & society as a whole. Gerard Baker shares a look at Mr Obama’s trip through the Middle East & Europe (7-2008). This is a fictional portrayal or is it??!!… Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
08/17/2009
I’m going to open the floor to my readers, who are always free to comment.  This time, I’m actively soliciting some comments from you.  What do you think about Obama and his medical “co-ops”? I’ve heard it several ways now.  It’s a surrender.  It’s a trial balloon.  In my opinion, it’s Obama trying to take the [...]
08/17/2009
[Guest post by DRJ] The L.A. Times interviews Roger Boesche , one of Barack Obama’s professors at California’s Occidental College, who gives us a very brief glimpse of Obama’s early college years: “Over the years, Obama has cited Boesche as one of his most influential teachers, but the two had had only sporadic contact via e-mail. Thursday they met again at the president’s invitation. Boesche, back in his Eagle Rock home Saturday, said Obama jokingly recalled that pesky “B” Boesche had given him on a paper on European political thought.