http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bho44/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:11:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418197/posts White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched This afternoon, on arguably one of the slower news day of the year, the Obama White House released another document dump of “visitor records.” According to the White House, today’s batch total more than 25,000 records, covering meetings between September 16-September 30th. ACORN.Bertha.Lewis You can scroll through the list of records on the White House site OR you can download the raw data. Interestingly, the full download uncovers almost 30,000 records, including many from outside the mid-September time-frame detailed on the White House site.... biggovernment.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418197/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418164/posts The political war over the failed Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner showed no signs of abating Wednesday as leaders of both parties escalated their attacks, employing fiery rhetoric in assessing blame for the Detroit incident. Former vice president Richard B. Cheney led a GOP offensive to assail President Obama's leadership on national security, charging that the American people are less safe because, Cheney believes, Obama is "pretending" that the United States is not at war with terrorists. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418164/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418148/posts WASHINGTON - If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive. In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing "medical countermeasures" to biological weapons because of its "capacity for rapid residential delivery." While most likely unrelated, the release of the executive order comes less than a week after a man with alleged ties to al-Qaida tried to bring down a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner. In recent... NBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418148/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:36:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418138/posts They’ll love him as the messiah. They and their next generations will vote for him and his party. Whatever, Barack Hussein ObamaHussein Obama is for votes. He got them when mob hysteriacs kissed him into office. Then he declared, “I won.” Allvoices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418138/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:21:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418173/posts HONOLULU (AP) -- President Barack Obama has rejected his first piece of legislation from Congress, a stopgap spending bill that never had to take effect. The White House on Wednesday said Obama exercised his right to send back to the Capitol a temporary appropriations bill that lawmakers passed in case a winter storm about two weeks ago would have prevented them from approving a final measure to fund the Pentagon next year. The Dec. 19 blizzard didn't keep them away from the Capitol and they approved the $626 billion defense spending bill before the previous budget expired. The White House... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418173/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:35:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418172/posts No despot fears the president, and no demonstrator in Tehran expects him to ride to the rescue. With year one drawing to a close, the truth of the Obama presidency is laid bare: retrenchment abroad, and redistribution and the intrusive regulatory state at home. This is the genuine calling of Barack Obama, and of the "progressives" holding him to account. The false dichotomy has taken hold—either we care for our own, or we go abroad in search of monsters to destroy or of broken nations to build. The decision to withdraw missile defense for Poland and the Czech Republic was... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418172/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:34:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418091/posts Ambitious Republicans should resolve to run for office next year. President Obama not only left Washington, D.C., for the holidays, but the lower 48 as well. So I thought I'd offer a few New Year's resolutions for him and others to come back to in the coming year.First, to Mr. Obama's staff: The Norwegian Nobel Committee didn't want to wake the president to tell him about his prize earlier this year, but there shouldn't be any reluctance to reassure the nation after a terrorist attack. Also, why not resolve to have a few less "historic" moments? How many can one... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418091/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418095/posts Returning Gitmo's detainees to Yemen defies common sense. President Obama has belatedly declared that the near miss above Detroit constituted "a catastrophic breach of security" and ordered a review of America's intelligence efforts. We're glad to hear it, but let's hope the Commander in Chief also rethinks his own approach to counterterrorism.Recent events have exposed the shortcomings of treating terror as a law enforcement problem and rushing to close Guantanamo Bay. A new wave of jihadists is coming of age, inspiring last month's deadly attack at Ft. Hood and nearly bringing down Northwest Flight 253, and next time we may... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418095/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:42:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416419/posts Date: 12-30-09 Host: Art Bell Guests: Art Bell hosts Part I of his Annual Predictions Show, with callers invited to share one event they see coming in 2010. Date: 12-31-09 Host: Art Bell Guests: Art Bell hosts Part II of his Annual Predictions Show, with callers invited to share one event they see coming in 2010. Predictions Special 2010 Date: 01-01-10 Host: Ian Punnett Ian Punnett hosts Coast to Coast AM's annual prediction show featuring psychics and futurists on what they see looming for the new year, 2010. Coast-2-Coast AM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416419/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418090/posts WASHINGTON, DC, December 30, 2009 (ENS) - President Barack Obama today ordered federal agencies to establish a national system for dispensing medical countermeasures in the event of a large-scale biological attack, "with anthrax as the primary threat consideration." The U.S. Postal Service would be responsible for delivering the medical countermeasures, such as antibiotics, to residents for self administration across all communities in the United States, according to the President's Executive Order issued today. Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which can cause human disease through ingestion, through the skin, and by inhalation. Although... ens-newswire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418090/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418131/posts HONOLULU (AP) - Using the White House's blog, a top aide to President Barack Obama on Wednesday dismissed former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism about Obama's approach to dealing with terrorists as "the typical Washington game of pointing fingers and making political hay." Cheney was taking part in the "same old Washington blame game" when he questioned Obama's actions after an attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said. The Republican former vice president said Obama was "trying to pretend we are not at war" with terrorists. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418131/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:46:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417878/posts White House today released more than 25,000 records of visitors who came through the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this year. Check out the names here, and TPMDC will update readers as we go through the names. TPM Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417878/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418120/posts As the government reviews how an alleged terrorist was able to bring a bomb onto a U.S.-bound plane and try to blow it up on Christmas Day, the Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident. TSA special agents served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott, demanding that they reveal who leaked the security directive to them. The government says the directive was not supposed to be disclosed to the public. Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents Tuesday night at his Connecticut home for... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418120/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418089/posts It’s been a tough first year for President Obama, as critics throughout the body politic bemoan that Mr. Change-We-Can-Believe-In is looking more and more like Mr. Politics-As-Usual. With the coming new year, however, POTUS has a prime opportunity to regroup, reload, and revamp his image. He could start by ditching golf. Seriously. Its venerable White House history notwithstanding, golf is a dubious pastime for any decent, sane person, much less for this particular president. Why would a leader vowing to shake up Washington--to alter the very nature of politics--sell his soul to a leisure activity that screams stodgy, hyperconventional Old... THE NEW REPUBLIC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418089/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:26:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417165/posts Whoa boy! Somebody in Denmark is gonna have some 'splainin to do to St. Peter one day. Jim Geraghty reports on an editorial in a Danish newspaper says that Obama is greater than Jesus. This is not a paraphrase folks, this is what they said. From the start, Obama’s critics have claimed that his supporters have idolised him as a saviour, thus attempting to dismantle the concrete hope that Obama has represented for most Americans. The idea was naturally that the comparison between Jesus and Obama – which is something that the critics developed themselves – would be comical, blasphemous,... CMR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417165/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418062/posts More government releases sneaked out as the country begins to celebrate the New Year. Today, the White House has posted 25,000 additional records of those visiting the White House. It's all about investment bankers, union leaders and climatologists, judging by the visitors of President Obama and the President's chief economic advisor Larry Summers. According to AP: General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt visited roughly a dozen times. Climate change expert Jonathan Lash visited as did Paul Hanrahan, the chief executive of major energy company AES. Further research shows that Goldman Sach's CEO Lloyd Blankfein pretty much spent the entire day... Economic Policy Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418062/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts ...a sign when President Obama delayed his Hawaiian vacation until the Senate passed the healthcare bill: There wasn’t going to be a whole lot of relaxing going on this Christmas. Sure, there’s been the requisite Hawaiian vacation activities -- golf, basketball, tennis, picnics and snorkeling, but for every minute of fun, the president has had hours and hours of briefings and secure conference calls. SNIP Even without politics, Obama’s days are frenzied. He works out at the Marine Corps Base before dawn every morning, including Christmas Day. On Sunday, a day many people might watch football and sleep in, Obama... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:53:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418000/posts The Oval Office, December 29, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) The White House http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418000/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:52:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416349/posts It occurs to me that if the top Obama Outrages of 2009 are not gathered together and documented in one place, they will as if they had not occurred at all. Outrages that should make the list, I think, should be major demonstrations of stupidity, deceit, treason, or ineptitude (or combinations thereof). I admit to not even being able to start a list because these events, unlike say arguably misspelling potato, are so quickly erased from the public consciousness. Several things that I might nominate include giving an iPod as a gift to the Queen; inserting himself into the Cambridge... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416349/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:12:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418054/posts <p>The Transportation Security Administration is going after bloggers who wrote about a directive to increase security after the incident.</p> IBD's Capital Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418054/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:28:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418050/posts Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of Sept. 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate. That stands in sharp contrast to the withering criticism President Barack Obama has received from Republicans... http://news.yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418050/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:23:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417841/posts Much has been written recently since ThreatsWatch first broke the story of President Obama’s stealth Executive Order (EO) rendering an international police force immune from the restrictions of the Constitution and American law. Reports are focusing on the ramifications of the EO to U.S. sovereignty and the potential surrender of Americans to war crime tribunals in the International Criminal Court (ICC). But is the President using the 2(c) provision to sidestep Constitutional law and place the U.S. under the jurisdiction of the ICC without ratification of the UN Treaty by 2/3 of the Senate? Or is he granting unrecognized authority... NewsReal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417841/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:51:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417894/posts Cheney Rips Obama: President 'Trying to Pretend' U.S. Is Not at War Former Vice President Says Obama's Approach to Terrorists Makes U.S. 'Less Safe' DEVIN DWYER WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2009 One day after President Obama called the "human and systemic failures" leading to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest flight 253 "totally unacceptable," former Vice President Dick Cheney is accusing the president of being part of the problem. Gibbs fires back: The "VP was for seven years not focused on Afghanistan.""We are at war, and when President Obama pretends we aren't, it makes us less safe," Cheney said in... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417894/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:25:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417994/posts Why not? What do they have to lose? They’ve already pissed away independents and re-energized conservatives thanks to ObamaCare. Might as well use next year to check as many boxes left on their agenda as they can before they take their beating. Amnesty, cap-and-trade, transferring Gitmo detainees to the U.S.: Pour it on and hope that progressives and Latinos will react by turning out in numbers just high enough to keep the House in Democratic hands. Even if it backfires, how bad can the damage be? They lose 35 seats instead of 30? In fact, this may help them pass... HotAir http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417994/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:48:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts ...“I hope the terrorists don’t think this is a good time to attack,” I said, looking protectively at the White House, which always looks smaller and more vulnerable and beautiful than you expect, no matter how often you see it up close. I thought our guard might be down because of the holiday; now I realize our guard is down every day. ...Before he left for vacation, Obama tried to shed his Spock mien and juice up the empathy quotient on jobs. But in his usual inspiring/listless cycle, he once more appeared chilly in his response to the chilling episode... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:08:06 GMT