“I have to tell you that, as I said yesterday, my impression of him was that he was a outstanding police officer and a good man, and that was confirmed in the phone conversation. And I told him that.” President Barack Obama on Officer Crowley, White House Press Briefing, July 24, 2009 There once was a man named Skip Gates, a close friend of the President of the United States, whose front door was damaged after someone tried to break in. For some reason the door wasn’t fixed, or fixed improperly.

WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Barack Obama cited a report released this morning by the Council of Economic Advisors in explaining how health insurance reform will strengthen small businesses in America. With small businesses paying up to 18 percent more for health insurance than large businesses, too many small businesses are forced to cut benefits, law off workers, or close down entirely. Health insurance reform will support small businesses by allowing them purchase plans through an insurance exchange and by providing tax credits to help them provide benefits.

For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat’s health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years. More on Barack Obama

BOSTON — Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he is ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to use the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not about me at all.” After a phone call from President Barack Obama urging calm in the aftermath of his arrest last week, the black professor said he would accept Obama’s invitation to the White House for a beer with him and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley.

Lost amid the overblown controversy surrounding the arrest of a Harvard professor this week were the words that could eventually define the Obama presidency. During an interview with ABC News, the President said that ‘victory’ was not necessarily the goal of the United States in Afghanistan. I wonder what effect Barack Obama’s words are having on Steve and Lisa Xiarhos of Cape Cod. As the Commander in Chief of the U.S.

Surely as soon as the words came out of his mouth, the West Wing must have smacked his foreheads.  Commenting on the controversial arrest of an African-American scholar with a literal Ph.D. in being black in America, Barack Obama committed a rare indulgence of language.  The usually careful professor-in-chief reacted to the police incident involving Henry Louis Gates Jr. with an appropriate amount of candor – the kind unfit for the highest office in the land.  “Stupidly,” this young administration would discover this week, may be the kind of truth unwelcome in politics.

Barack Obama makes Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton look honest by Bill Levinson We previously cited a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that openly, albeit politely, contends with evidence that Barack Obama is lying about his health care reform proposal. We have since then seen three additional opinion pieces, all in the prestigious Wall Street Journal, that use language like “obfuscate” and “simply not credible” to describe the President’s statements.

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Submitted by: Elaine Karsner Who was ‘stupid’ in the Gates arrest? By Rich Lowry                 http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Henry Louis Gates Jr. just got the subject for his latest PBS series, and it’s not going to be a history of the woeful consequences of yelling at cops. The Harvard scholar was arrested for disorderly conduct at his Cambridge, Mass., home in an incident that has earned the Cambridge police a rebuke from the president of the United States.

AP – A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds. Go to Source