http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/barackhusseinobama/ en-us Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:36:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265742/posts President Barack Hussein Obama addressed an audience of 2,500 people at Cairo University for 55 minutes, fulfilling a campaign promise to deliver a major address from a Muslim country.Obama’s speech was translated into 13 languages and disseminated by E-mail and Web video worldwide, in “an effort to turn technology, which has been a powerful recruiting tool for radical Islamic terrorists, to a tool of outreach and influence for the U.S.,” notes The Washington Times. Here, nine passages from the speech and what they mean in English... The Stiletto Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2265742/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250765/posts Former Vice President Dick Cheney swung quietly through New York City Tuesday night to watch his daughter, Elizabeth, a former State Department official, argue the conservative side in a debate over American policy toward Iran, and to express his own skepticism of President Obama's promised negotiations. "We fail to recognize the fact that we're alone out there in terms of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up their nuclear weapons," Cheney said at a dinner following the Intelligence Squared debate, in which Elizabeth Cheney and former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor debated former diplomat... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250765/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 14:04:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249405/posts See why the veep thinks his dog is smarter than Obama's and check out our list of must-reads that will have you chatting at the lunch counter, over IM or wherever it is that people actually talk these days. Veep Joe Biden told a group of fifth-graders yesterday that his dog was much smarter than president Obama's. "I got one that lives with me," he said when one student asked whether he had ever petted a dog. "The smartest, coolest dog in the world. His name is Champ. I kid the president that my dog's smarter than Bo, his dog.... NBC News NY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249405/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 18:30:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248892/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — Someone really is reading those comments left on Barack Obama's Web sites: the president himself. The White House on Monday changed the name of a major office to reflect how much the administration is using the Internet to sell its agenda and communicate directly with voters. For a candidate who harnessed the Internet to win the presidency, the move — announced on the White House Web site, naturally — underscores Obama's understanding of new media's power. "This office will seek to engage as many Americans as possible in the difficult work of changing this country, through meetings... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248892/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 00:08:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234283/posts The president's critics ought to lighten up. We should give him credit for not knowing any better. (He was "finished" and "polished" at Harvard, after all.) Barack Obama is an accident of history, a street hustler from the South Side of Chicago with the gift of gab who landed on the world stage like a whale beached at the whim of a storm, the wrong man at the right time...The masses...eagerly stepped forward to take the pledge of the cult. This wouldn't be one of Dr. Freud's difficult cases. He was born to a mother obsessed with the pursuit of... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234283/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:41:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2224908/posts AmericanPowerBlog has an article entitled "Barack Obama's European Apology Tour" that does a fine job of cataloging the sheer number of times Barry Hussein sought to point out what a horrible country we've been. I have my own offering focusing on the irony of Obama going to France of all possible places to apologize for American arrogance. At the same event in which Obama took it upon himself to announce to the famously humble French how profoundly sorry he was for America's past arrogance, Barack Obama also shared his vision for "a world without nuclear weapons." This would possibly be... Start Thinking Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2224908/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 16:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221979/posts WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama increased pressure on North Korea to halt moves toward a weekend test of a long-range ballistic missile, warning Pyongyang on Friday that a launch would be "provocative" and wouldn't go unpunished. U.S. defense officials said, however, there were no signs North Korea was curtailing its test and was instead making final preparations for the rocket shot, which could come as early as Saturday -- despite intensified diplomacy and increasingly strong objections from Mr. Obama and the U.S.'s Asian allies. Speaking at a joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of a North Atlantic... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221979/posts#comment Sat, 4 Apr 2009 01:26:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218153/posts Relatively few recognize that Obama's politics is the product of years of reflection and, as such, possesses a self-consciousness that invests it with a rigor conspicuously absent from the political mental cast of most of his fellow Democrats. Analyses of Barack Obama continue to proliferate, but from what I have been able to canvass, it appears our current President remains something of a mystery to left- and right-leaning commentators alike. Each person's life is a text, I believe, a work of art, and not unlike any other specimen of art, potentially susceptible to a multiplicity of mutually distinct yet comparably... Intellectual Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218153/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211455/posts You don't have to be an old Washington hand to spot the telltale signs of a presidency and an administration in serious trouble. There's nothing new about these clues. The inability to get their stories straight--that's a hardy perennial of high-level officials caught in the vise of political embarrassment. A president who skips town to avoid the White House press corps and speak directly to the American people--we've sure seen that before. So in a sense the AIG mess has touched off nothing more than business as usual. What goes on in Washington usually comes across as background noise to... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211455/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:31:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208057/posts A few days ago I posted about the Obama administration’s plan to rob soldiers of some of their medical benefits. Today the head of the American Legion (the nation’s largest veterans organization) paid a visit to Obama to talk about the issue, and he didn’t leave happy.Normally I am a staunch advocate of limited government and privatization. But in this instance we have troops who served their country, often in awful war zones that left them scarred and maimed, and they did so with the assumption that medical care would be one of the benefits they’d receive as compensation. The... KXnet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208057/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:47:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206499/posts King Obama I thought America elected a new president. But it is becoming increasing clear that in the minds of some, we have elected a king. Any criticism or disagreement with his policies are met with cries of “Off with their heads”. A professor friend of mine perceives President Obama as almost 'god like'; one who has come to save the world. His scariest comment to date is “God will deal with the Fox News channel for their treatment of Obama”. Is my friend a lone nut case or do many view Obama as divinity? For years political correctness has... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206499/posts#comment Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197893/posts By: LarryFebruary 27, 2009Did you know that the Constitutional requirements to be a U.S. Congressman or U.S. Senator are different than the requirements to be U.S. President or Vice President? The requirements may be found at the following website: click here. The Constitutional requirements to become a U.S. Senator or Congressman include having been a U.S. Citizen for a certain number of years. And, in order to be President or Vice President, the Constitution requires that one be a Natural Born Citizen and a resident for a certain number of years. Now is it possible that the terms Citizen and... Natural Born Conservative Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197893/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 04:58:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193033/posts Despite the troubled economy and plunging stock market, voters have put a tremendous level of trust in President Obama to dig them out of the morass. Two new polls show the public gives Obama high marks for his first month in office, putting him in the rare company of three presidents who started off well and all won second terms. Even with the deepening recession, Obama may have the time he needs to offer his solutions and wait for the economy to rebound, the polls suggest. Obama sits at 68 percent approval, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll, or... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2193033/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190909/posts President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said. In addition to tackling a deficit swollen by the $787 billion stimulus package and other efforts to ease the nation's economic crisis, the budget blueprint will press aggressively for progress on the domestic agenda Obama outlined during the presidential campaign. This would include key changes to environmental policies and a major... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190909/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:05:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184302/posts WASHINGTON - Barack Obama honored his hero Abraham Lincoln on the 200th anniversary of his birth Thursday, acknowledging his election as American's first African-American president was part of Lincoln's legacy. "I feel a special gratitude to this singular figure who in so many ways made my own story possible, and in so many ways made America's story possible," Obama said. The bipartisan national Lincoln bicentennial celebration was held in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, which was turned into an Army triage hospital where Union soldiers were treated during the Civil War. Despite the intense negotiations that finally led to... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184302/posts#comment Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:54:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179945/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor unions accused Republicans of seizing on questions about unpaid taxes to stall the confirmation of Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis because they dislike her policies. The nation's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, along with other unions, women's and Hispanic groups, began calling and writing lawmakers Friday, urging them to confirm the California congresswoman. "Enough is enough," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said, warning GOP senators "to stop obstructing and confirm Rep. Solis now." Bill Samuel, the AFL-CIO's legislative director, said the worsening economic climate demands a strong labor secretary. "We've had terrible employment numbers released today and... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179945/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179312/posts President Obama is heading to Virginia Thursday night for a retreat with House Democrats, as Senate leaders on Capitol Hill continue to wrestle with the president's contentious economic stimulus package. But whether they'll be any closer to an agreement on the more than $900 billion bill by the time he gets back is anyone's guess. A couple of senior Democratic aides told FOX News late Thursday final passage of the current bill is very likely Friday despite the efforts of a group of 18 senators who have been negotiating a compromise package to get more senators on board. The group... FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179312/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:00:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178984/posts WASHINGTON (Feb. 5) - President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that failure to act on an economic recovery package could plunge the nation into a long-lasting recession that might prove irreversible, a fresh call to a recalcitrant Congress to move quickly. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, the president argued that each day without his stimulus package, now exceeding $900 billion in the Senate, Americans lose more jobs, savings and homes. He painted a bleak picture if lawmakers do nothing. "This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits.... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178984/posts#comment Thu, 5 Feb 2009 16:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174322/posts (CBS) At first, it might appear conservative firebrand Ann Coulter is at odds with fellow arch-conservative Rush Limbaugh in the talk show host's verbal sparring with President Obama. Limbaugh has said he hopes Mr. Obama will fail in his presidency, and Mr. Obama told congressional leaders at the White House Friday, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." After a glib comment by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Limbaugh suggested Mr. Obama is more frightened of Limbaugh than he is of Republican leaders which, Limbaugh added, "doesn't say much about our party." CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174322/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174210/posts Jon Stewart host of THE DAILY SHOW joked with guest Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist, contributor to "NOVA" on PBS) on January 28, 2009 whether having a black President means an asteroid is on the way. Tyson said there's one due in 2029 projected to come between Earth and it's own orbiting satellites. Even the liberals are getting nervous that reality is going to mimic art, ie. DEEP IMPACT. If you recall the plot of the movie, the President used the coming disaster to execute martial law, round up a select few elites to be saved in underground cities, and leave... The Daily Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174210/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171573/posts CBS) Vice President Joe Biden said that the Obama administration and Congress are "off and running" in getting an economic stimulus package completed and approved with bipartisan support, saying that the goal is to "get money out of the door as rapidly as possible" to speed job growth. However, Biden said he did not want to mislead Americans about the severity of the economic landscape the U.S. is facing: "It is worse, quite frankly, than everyone thought it was, and it's getting worse every day," he said on CBS' Face The Nation Sunday morning - his 53rd appearance on the... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171573/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:23:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169405/posts So does a $170 million price tag buy you the bestest inauguration ceremony in the history of these United States of America? Surprisingly, no. It was a day of mediocrity and mess-ups. Here's an example: Ironically, Rev. Rick Warren was supposed to be “the designated bigot” but his invocation was uplifting, awe-inspiring – and joyous ... Now consider by way of comparison Rev. Joseph Lowery's anachronistic and racially divisive benediction: God of our weary years, god of our silent tears, thou who has brought us thus far along the way, thou who has by thy might led us into the... The Stiletto Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2169405/posts#comment Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:16:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168673/posts This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right. We have been here before. In the spring of 1997, to be precise, when a charismatic, young prime minister entered... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168673/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:04:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168293/posts Obama's Disappointing Speech Posted at: 2009-01-20 14:57:00.0 Author: Michael Sean Winters President Barack Obama’s inaugural address was surprisingly leaden. It did not soar like his "Yes, We Can" speech after losing the New Hampshire primary, nor did it chart his plans for governance as did his convention speech in Denver. Most strangely, it did not seem to capture the history of the moment the way his election night speech did. Part of the problem is with the nature of such an address. This was the speech of a head of state, not a head of government, even though the President... National Catholic Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168293/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:56:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168577/posts "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." - Barack Obama, Victory Speech, November 4, 2008 Yesterday was Martin Luther King's birthday, which is America's only national holiday to honor an American citizen. The day before, which was Sunday, the incoming Obama administration staged an Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial around the theme "We Are One," which was also the theme of... FrontPagemagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168577/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:07:26 GMT