http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hypocrite/ en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:49:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281814/posts <p>The Obama administration worked in recent days to prevent President Manuel Zelaya's ouster, said a senior U.S. official. The State Department, in particular, communicated to Honduran officials on the ground that President Barack Obama wouldn't support any nondemocratic transfer of power in the Central American country.</p> Nasdeq/WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281814/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:49:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279673/posts I'm just a wondering soul, but has Obama signed a living will for himself deferring the extraordinary care that he spoke of in his house media interviews? Does the lad know how to lead by example? Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279673/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279250/posts President Barack Obama has admitted he has not completely given up smoking. BY PAUL THOMPSON Despite signing the toughest anti-tobacco bill in over 25 years, he confirmed that he still lights up – but never in front of daughters Malia and Sasha. "There are times where I mess up," Mr Obama said at a White House news conference. "As a former smoker I constantly struggle with it. Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No. I don't do it in front of my kids. I don't do it in front of... The Telegraph, London, UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279250/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277758/posts The cap of an entertaining, wide-ranging press conference that included a spirited defense of the public health care option: A carefully-framed, detailed question from Obama on his smoking habit. "You just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking," he told the reporter, before conceding that he has "fallen off the wagon sometimes." "Am I a daily, a constant smoker? No," he said. "I don't do it in front of my kids. i don't do it in front of my family." Obama said he was "95% cured" and compared himself to a recovering alcoholic. "Once you've gone down this... Politico.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277758/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:40:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277299/posts President Barack Obama's job approval rating fell to 58% in Gallup Poll daily tracking from June 16-18 -- a new low for Obama in Gallup tracking, although not dissimilar to the 59% he has received on four other occasions. Thirty-three percent of Americans now disapprove of the job Obama is doing as president, just one point shy of his record-high 34% disapproval score from early June. AOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277299/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:21:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274112/posts And lo it came to pass that in the last month of the last year of the second millennium, God sent Algor into the wilderness to receive The Word and bade Algor to write God’s Words in a tome of Truth. God gave to Algor a terrible vision of melting glaciers, of oceans rising to inundate great cities, of storms raging across the land in the expression of God’s True Wrath. “Why, O Lord, are you choosing to punish mankind with such terrible plagues, causing the land to heat, the ice caps to melt and the oceans to drown all... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274112/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:39:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272709/posts A memoir by George Obama, the president's half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama—20 years apart in age—did not grow up together and did not meet as children. George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children and was born six months before his father died. Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled "Homeland" and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama's... AP / Brietbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272709/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:12:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267804/posts On May 30th The Obama’s hit Manhattan for dinner and a Broadway show as the First Couple had a date night. Michelle Obama’s fashion sense is understated and never obvious so when she touched down in NYC, style watchers clamored to find out what she was wearing. All the talk has been about the bold, statement clutch she carried because it was GORGE! Obama accessorized her formfitting, ruffled black sheath with a VBH Ballerina Clutch in shocking Colbalt Blue. The clutch retails for $1500 famespy.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267804/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262878/posts LONDON -- President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful. SNIP SNIP "What I do believe is that Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations," Obama said, adding that the international community also "has a very real interest" in preventing a nuclear arms race. washingtonpost.com Via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262878/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:45:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262455/posts It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife out for dinner and a show once the election was over. So on the weekend he booked a babysitter, asked Michelle to put on a little black dress and swept her off for a date. The President picked up the tab for a meal at a low-key restaurant, Blue Hill, that specialises in locally grown dishes. He had also paid £60 apiece for two tickets to Joe Turner's Come And Gone, a play about a man coming to terms with the history... http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262455/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261838/posts Noted environmental activist and Chilmark seasonal resident Laurie David has been cited and fined by the Chilmark conservation commission for fresh violations of the state Wetlands Protection Act. The property owned by Ms. David off North Road was the subject of a series of wetlands violations in 2005, when construction of a stone fire pit, barbecue grill area and wooden stage for a children’s theatre with seating was begun in a wetland without a permit. The new infractions occurred during the construction of a tennis court. Workers installed a makeshift road with boards and stones and drove heavy machinery across... Martha's Vineyard Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261838/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:41:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261600/posts Two martinis, a swank restaurant, a Broadway show President Obama really knows how to treat a First Lady. "I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished," the president said yesterday after touching down at JFK for an intimate night on the town. The first couple left their girls, Sasha and Malia, behind at the White House yesterday afternoon, taking two helicopters and a small Air Force jet to make their way to Manhattan. The Obamas were dressed to... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261600/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 14:10:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261454/posts Putting it in the vernacular of little people everywhere: “The worst has happened”. The 4th Annual New Hampshire Live Free or Die Rally is quickly sinking into a quagmire of bureaucratic red tape, and with no 11th hour reprieve on the horizon, chief organizer Jean Coutu may have to cancel. Billed as the All Free, Only TRUE First Amendment Rally in the U.S., this years Live Free or Die Rally is scheduled for August 21, 22 and 23. “It looks like it’s finally over. Not just for us, but for the right to assemble, Coutu wrote Canada Free Press (CFP)... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261454/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 02:26:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260032/posts President Obama hit a home run with his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court -- and not just because she's the "woman who saved baseball" by ending the strike in 1995, nor simply because she would be the first Latina ever to serve on the high court. It was a home run because in her three-decade career as a prosecutor, judge, private litigator and law professor, she has time and again earned bipartisan praise as one of America's finest legal minds. And it was the right choice because Judge Sotomayor -- herself born and raised in a... Unwanted solicitation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260032/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 19:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259615/posts Daddy's taking the muscle-car culture away. How long before the midnight drag races return on dark and dusty roads? When Barack Obama announced that the government will use its fist to wave onto the highways of America cars that get 39 miles to a gallon of liquefied switch grass or something, he said, "Everybody wins." Everybody? What country has he been living in? This marks the end of the internal combustion engine as we knew it, and it is the way Americans have defined, designed and literally driven much of the nation's culture for as long as anyone can remember.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259615/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 05:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259346/posts DESTIN - Local defense attorney Robert Scott Whitehead was arrested and faces multiple charges in connection with two motor vehicle accidents in Destin on Saturday night. Whitehead, who is 38, was charged with DUI with property damage and personal injury, refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test and leaving the scene of a traffic crash. This was the second time he has been charged with refusing to submit to a blood alcohol test, according to an Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office press release. Investigators say Whitehead, of Furling Lane in Destin, hit a car at the intersection of U.S. Highway... www.nwfdailynews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2259346/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 21:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259319/posts President Obama's Notre Dame speech on abortion was applauded by the mainstream media, quoting his call for more "open hearts, open minds, fair-minded words." But except for the pro-life, and some conservative forums, there was no mention of Obama's omission of his own documented, chilling record on abortion that proves what he also said on that Sunday: "No matter how much we want to fudge it … the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable." I watched the full-scale coverage of the speech on Fox News; and the reporting, before and after, did... Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259319/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 20:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259042/posts Much of the Obama administration’s rationale for bailing out GM is that such actions will save American jobs. This is just one of the many unfortunate fallacies that stem from our century-old fiat money system. Prior to the formation of the Federal Reserve System the American populace would have scoffed at such nonsense that the government can or even should tax all Americans in order to save the jobs of some Americans. It would have been apparent to anyone in the age of the gold standard that the government can give away only what it takes from someone else, exacting... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259042/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255704/posts This just gets worse and worse, folks. Except for a few of us, no one out there seems to be reporting the facts. Fear of the Dictator Obama (he appears to be more like Stalin than Hugo Chavez) is on the rise. Soon to be Obama-owned (under the cover of his government-takeovers) private sector business executives, workers, small business owners and even elected Congressional representatives and senators--from both sides of the aisle--are running scared of the despot-usurper. As it becomes more obvious that the Obama is--in fact--destroying the country to rebuild it in his own image (with all of us... canada free press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255704/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 19:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255264/posts The Obama administration’s proposed mileage standards that were announced may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War — his signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016 — four years earlier than the same standard imposed by the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007. As discussed in my new book Green Hell, the only way for carmakers to meet these standard is to make smaller, lighter and deadlier cars. The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000 deaths per... canada free press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255264/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 04:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251268/posts Obama’s position of the consummate US dictator is not truly being challenged by many—if any—of our elected officials. This administration’s gutting of US resources and wealth is historically unprecedented. It was designed and is being implemented by the political power elite to impoverish the American people—via stealing all of their now former wealth—and create a single proletariat (worker) class that is dependent upon Obama’s “benevolence” (for those who support the secular messiah--or malice toward those who do not). And Obama’s new energy policy is designed to increase utility rates to a now projected increase of more than $3,100/year/US household. The... canada free press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251268/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 02:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249993/posts The Obama administration’s witch hunts against Bush administration lawyers involved in writing legal opinions supporting enhanced interrogation techniques suggest Barack Obama and his people are willing to do almost anything for political advantage and political revenge and for the purpose of pleasing their radical left-wing base. Republicans and most decent Americans would not play this game of banana republic, Soviet-style harassment of an outgoing administration, but the Democrats should realize they are playing a dangerous game, which they may one day be the target of. In fact, if someone wants to demonstrate the folly of the Democratic gambit, they don’t... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249993/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 14:38:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249445/posts Megan Fox has revealed she’s bisexual. The actress — who is currently dating former Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Brian Austin Green — says she’d happily have a relationship with a member of the same sex, but insists she would never consider dating another bisexual female because she wouldn’t want a male’s “dirty” leftovers. “I have no question in my mind about being bisexual,” the 22-year-old Transformers star tells Esquire magazine. “But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never... Showbiz Spy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249445/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 19:14:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2247899/posts The Deficits keep rising, unemployment figures are out sight, the talking heads keep smirking and the thuggery continues. After the Obamamessiah Hope and Change Express threw the Fifth Amendment and billions in taxpayer money out the window, so his UAW union backers could take over a major American automaker and insure their cushy featherbedded jobs will took anything from Serta and Sleepys… The ride continues as Obama does more traveling around the world, as if he had bet Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg that he could race him around the world, while humiliating himself and America in the process. Unlike Geert... All the Change That’s Fit to Hope For http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2247899/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 05:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2246923/posts The United States of America has been the greatest, strongest and most compassionate country in the world for many years now. Much of that favorable notoriety is the result of the often brilliant, but then sometimes, just barely adequate leadership of our ship of state. Sadly, it now seems that our leadership has fallen into the less than adequate and just slightly above apocalyptic failure. We have now, a man that was elected by 69 million citizens (minus the many challenges of multiple votes, votes from ineligible aliens, and outright fraud.) And even he himself appears to be unqualified in... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2246923/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 14:44:56 GMT