Quit picking on Obama……

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It is not so much what the market does on a daily basis, it is more how the media and the Stock Market react to what Obama does. Not blaming him for anything because I'm not sure what is happening. Just back tracking a little, seems anytime he does something pretty big like doing what he did (being friendly) at this Pan American conference. Everything seemed to be going well, and the market drops, why? I want this market like everyone else to recover, if something he or someone else is doing to effect it, I would like to know what it is also.
 
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Could President Obama get the power to shut down the Internet?

As if we don't have enough problems, somebody brings up this potential situation. Nothing in the works that I've heard yet though.

Groups Warn New Cybersecurity Bill Oversteps - InternetNews.com
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I think he is just being paranoid. Anyway, if the bill has Republican support in the senate, it will be very difficult to stop it. Democrats need only 1 or 2 Republican senators to reach the magic number of 60.
 
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ironsides said:
Could President Obama get the power to shut down the Internet?

As if we don't have enough problems, somebody brings up this potential situation. Nothing in the works that I've heard yet though.

Groups Warn New Cybersecurity Bill Oversteps - InternetNews.com
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This is nothing new.. I had a thread about this topic back before Obama was President.. Nobody hardly took this seriously.. Now that Obama is President it is an "issue"..

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/computers-internet/80817-did-you-know-microsoft-google.html

Yah ok......
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
I think he is just being paranoid. Anyway, if the bill has Republican support in the senate, it will be very difficult to stop it. Democrats need only 1 or 2 Republican senators to reach the magic number of 60.
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I think the Democrats have over 60 votes without the Republicans, and can do what ever they want.
 
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ironsides said:
I think the Democrats have over 60 votes without the Republicans, and can do what ever they want.
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No they don’t. Currently they have 58. If Al Franken wins in Minnesota (as looks likely), they will have 59. But even then they will need at least one Republican to break the filibuster.
 
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ironsides said:
President Obama is planning on limiting defendants rights rather than expanding them. Allowing police interrogations without defendants lawyer being present. Guess the police would be able to do anything they wanted and who would know.

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Gee... who would have guessed. The Liberals need not fear though... he will most likely only target Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as they seem to be the biggest threat.
 
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Obama on Air Force One debacle: Mistake, won’t happen again

By Jimmy Orr | 04.28.09

President Obama couldn’t avoid a question on the Air Force One jet involved in a photo op yesterday that caused mass panic in New York City.
The president traveled to FBI headquarters this morning and allowed the press one question at the start of his meeting with FBI director Robert Mueller. According to the pool report, the president was asked for his reaction regarding the incident.
“It was a mistake, as was stated … and it will not happen again,” Obama said.
McCain
His former rival, Senator John McCain is apparently zeroing in on the incident as well sending out a Tweet earlier today wondering, “Air Force One flight over NYC, how much $ did it cost the taxpayers?”
“Stay tuned…” he said.
Costs
ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper produced a March 2006 document detailing the costs of “Presidential Political Travel”. That report showed “flight operating costs are $56,518 per hour for Air Force One.”
Whatever it cost, the director of the White House Military Office — who approved the mission — isn’t qualified to remain in his job said President George W. Bush’s former Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend.
“It was crass insensitivity,” Townsend said on CNN. “I’d call this felony stupidity. This is probably not the right job for Mr. Caldera to be in if he didn’t understand the likely reaction of New Yorkers, of the mayor.”
Bush
Speaking of the former president, many on the conservative side of the web are saying what if….
“If this had happened during the Bush administration, one could have expected universal mockery and condemnation of yet another act of incompetence,” writes American Spectator’s Philip Klein.
Blame
That’s what the guys at Newsbusters — a conservative media watchdog group — think too. The media isn’t being harsh enough on President Obama opines Neil Sheppard after examining transcripts of how the story was reported last night by Katie Couric and Brian Williams.
“Is this how the coverage would have went if this incident happened while Bush was in power? Would a totally unknown official in the White House military office been allowed to apologize, and the president gets a pass because he was furious?”
 
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Obama Flubs Teleprompter

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:20 PM

By: Dan Weil President Obama had a little mix-up with his teleprompter at a speech Monday.

In an address to the National Academy of Sciences, Obama announced the formation of a President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

But shortly after specifying who will be on the new council, he started to introduce the names again. His teleprompter was at the wrong place.

Obama looked at his machine and asked for help. Here’s what he said:

“In addition to John – sorry, the – I just noticed I jumped the gun here,” Obama said and then paused several seconds, looking at the teleprompter.

“Go ahead. Move it up. I had already introduced all you guys,” he said, apparently to the prompter’s operator.

The audience reacted with a quiet laugh. POLITICO.com: Single Title Videos
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Imagine what the MSM would have done had W flubbed like this twit.
 
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That was funny. The audience laughed when he said "Move it up". They know he's helpless without a teleprompter.
 
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[SIZE=+1]GDP Down 6.1%, Reflecting Continuing Economic Woes[/SIZE]

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:53:40 AM by pleikumud

The U.S. economy contracted at a steeper-than-expected pace in the first quarter, weighed down by sharp declines in exports and business inventories, according government data on Wednesday that showed the economy was still deep in recession. Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, dropped at a 6.1 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said, after shrinking 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter.


Good start, Irishman.
 
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[SIZE=+1]GDP Down 6.1%, Reflecting Continuing Economic Woes[/SIZE]

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:53:40 AM by pleikumud

The U.S. economy contracted at a steeper-than-expected pace in the first quarter, weighed down by sharp declines in exports and business inventories, according government data on Wednesday that showed the economy was still deep in recession. Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and services output within U.S. borders, dropped at a 6.1 percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said, after shrinking 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter.


Good start, Irishman.
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You mean ‘good parting shot, Bush’ rather than ‘good start, Irishman’. This report was for the first quarter, when Obama just assumed power and had not enacted any legislation.

What we saw in the first quarter was really the final chapter in the economic mismanagement by Bush. Indeed, I can’t recall when economy declined 6.1% in one quarter (during the Great Depression, perhaps?).

This number is really a salutary reminder why Americans voted for a black candidate (which really seemed rather unlikely at the beginning of the campaign) rather than vote for a Republican.

Conservatives talk a good game about economy; they talk of limited government, sound fiscal management, prudent spending etc. However, in recent memory, they have invariably managed to drive the economy into the ditch.

The illness really started with Reagan. While spouting conservative economic rhetoric, he racked up huge deficits and stimulated the economy (he basically did what Bush did and what Obama is being forced to do). Reagan went on spending spree with borrowed money. Bush continued the tradition after Reagan.

In Canada, Mulroney racked up huge deficits. Then sanity prevailed both in USA and Canada, in the form of Clinton and Chrétien/Martin. Unfortunately, that was only short lived. As soon as Bush came into power, he reverted back to Reaganomics. Borrow hugely, give tax cuts mainly to the rich, rack up huge budget deficits, and drive the economy into the ditch.

Bush was a classic economic conservative. The swan song of economic conservatism is what we saw today, a decline of 6.1% in one quarter.
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
This number is really a salutary reminder why Americans voted for a black candidate (which really seemed rather unlikely at the beginning of the campaign) rather than vote for a Republican.
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Hmmm...all this time I thought they voted for a Democrat and here they voted for a black candidate. I guess I really don't understand this "election" thing.
 
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