“Amazing Grace” by Rev Wintley Phipps

January 21, 2009

Rev Lowery: “when white will embrace what is right”

January 20, 2009

The history of the moment came through Rev Lowery. There was more in his voice than barry could ever write or give a speech about. Video and text of  the Benediction. Rev Lowery began by quoting the “Negro National Anthem” and concluded with the Civil Rights mantra:

When black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.

Why end with those words? I can see his need and right to utter them. But they were an insult to everyone who volunteered, campaigned and voted for barry – the overwhelming majority of whom were white. Not to mention the “brown” and yellow” and the “red man”.

How are those words not denigrating to all non-blacks?

How are those words meant to uplift and inspire?

How are those words moving us toward a More Perfect Union?

I sense it may have been his usual wrap up, but why the need for divisive speech during a benediction meant to begin a post-racial, post-partisanship era?

Why were the last words in a benediction to The American People (and the world) racist ones?

Who is embracing what is right?

Demographics of the black vote: 2000 = 10% 2004 = 11%. 2008 = 13%

Only 2% increase in turnout to vote for Barack Obama. Had only 150K more people shown up to vote in Ohio in 2004, Bush would not have been president. Only a 3% increase in black voter turnout since President Bush was voted into power. Think about that. Eight million black voters eligible to vote could not be bothered to register to vote for the first biracial president. That means 1/3 of the eligible black voting population did not find it important to get out and vote for progress in America.

When will white embrace what is right?

Blacks did not win the election for barry – though they could very well have lost it for him. Blacks, as a whole, did not do what was right and get out to vote. Browns, yellows, reds and whites did. And many browns, yellows, reds and whites marched right along with their black brothers and sisters in the civil rights fight.

Where they embracing what was right?

Did white Iowans embrace what was right?

The demographics of Iowa (2006-2007): 89% white, 2% black (68,442), 5% Hispanic and 3% other. barry won the Iowa caucus at 38%. Barry would not be president, without white Iowans (and the bused-in Chicagoans) embracing him.

How many blacks were embracing what was right before South Carolina?

And what was it that made blacks embrace barry?

Was it the same platform he had the week previous when blacks had not yet embraced him?

No. It was the same tired old argument.

barry’s favorite stump line: “Words don’t matter?”

Yes, they very much do. And Rev Lowery’s words were not acceptable in any fashion – especially in conclusion.

They were a jab to the very people who helped vote barry into office. The young folk who weren’t alive 40 years ago, the immigrants who have sought refuge over those forty years, and the older folk, who after 40 years, very much embraced what was right.

What was the message to be ?

How is diminishing others a benediction?

Did not Rev Lowery watch any of barry’s rallies? Stop by any of his campaign offices?

If he had, he would have seen that the overwhelming majority of folks doing what was right to get barry elected were white. Right along with the “brown, yellow and redman”.

Who finds those terms acceptable?

Acceptable in any utterance, let alone expressed to the entire world?

Who is embracing what is right?

And who is holding on to the fight?

barry chooses to forget, and it seems many other, that he is biracial. He is half-white – his children 1/4 white. Some break it down even further saying he is more Arab than African. Either way, he is genetically 50% white. A half-white president is in the White House. You deny that, you endorse the one drop rule.

What of the twins born of a Anglo mother and a West-Indian father? Both set of twins have one who looks distinctly like their parent: one white, one black.

Yes, barry is technically African-American in that he is first generation African – but he was born a US and British citizen.

So what is he really? Kenyan, Arab, English, American?

He has a white family, who raised him so that he could be President. And as much as barry likes to pretend – he did not get there alone. His father was not a citizen of the United States or even an immigrant – he was an exchange student. He took part in creating barry genetically, but he abandoned barry and his mother for the lure of an Ivy League education and the loins of another white woman.

barry sr did not embrace what was right as a man – black or otherwise. He did not embrace what was right by not telling his American wife that he was already married, having left Africa with his tribal wife pregnant and carrying for their young child. He did not embrace what was right in accepting his responsibility as a father.

But barry’s white mother did embrace what was right by choosing to give birth and raising a darker pigmented child as a single white woman in the 1960′s. And without her embracing, barry would not be standing there or anywhere.

It was a very, very sad, bordering on pathetic, and certainly cliche in a tiresome way, note on which to end.

Especially the lasting image of the laughing, newly-ordained President who had just urged all Americans, no matter the color, to come together.

Was Rev Lowery doing what was right?

President Barack Obama:

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

…But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

…For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.

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Eric Holder: “[The USA] continues to be essentially a nation of cowards”
John Ridley: “Are you black enough to be part of all this”
DL Hughley: “The Republican Convention looked like Nazi Germany”

Cynthia Tucker 45-65 townhallers are racists
Rep Clyburn compares townhalls to 60′s
Rep Scott: “There’s so much hatred out there for President Obama“

Congratulations, President Obama

January 20, 2009

Congratulations, Mr President.

The American People are expecting great things from you.

I hope you are able to lead like you speak and that you do some of the things you have promised.

As you are wont to say – it isn’t about you.

Let us see it.

May God keep you and your family safe.

May He grant you wisdom and kindness.

And may He enlighten you to the power of humility.

Eugene Robinson: “tired old argument of the past”

January 20, 2009

This is what Eugene Robinson heard in the speech. He never got around to mentioning that Rev Lowery brought up that tired old argument mired in the sixties.

MATTHEWS: Eugene Robinson – What you heard from the President of the United States.

ROBINSON: What I heard was a fascinating speech in which he did a lot of things. Number one, he wanted to turn the page from what he called the tired old argument of the past that we have been mired in since the sixties. It was the theme of his campaign. He struck that theme again today.

And Reverend Lowery?

What campaign was Robinson watching? barry used that tired old race card at every turn. He finally had to admit to it when he tried it against McCain but he found the “kill him” myth instead.

When are folks going to see reality as it exists?

What is it going to take?

Inaugural Address video & transcript

Rev Lowery Benediction transcript & video

Sen Ted Kennedy hospitalized

January 20, 2009

According to CNN, Sen Kennedy was hospitalized for recurrent seizures, but is expected to just stay the night.

Before the inauguration, Sen Kennedy walked in, unaided except for a cane, and was smiling and waving. He had on a great black hat and looked completely present. Evidently, at the post-inauguration luncheon, he began to convulse. He was alert just previous and was talking by the time he reached the ambulance. The Secret Service whisked him away while he was still seizing – his wife, Sen Dodd (D-CT) and Sen Hatch (R-UT) by his side. He was evaluated at the hospital by the Chairman of Neurosurgery, Dr Edward Aulisi – who was probably standing by anyway – and his seizure felt to be due to exhaustion. He will stay overnight for hospitalization.

barry had earlier made remarks:

Kennedy “was there when the Voting Rights Act passed. Along with John Lewis, [Kennedy] was a warrior for justice. And so I would be lying to you if I did not say that right now, a part of me is with him. And I think that’s true for all of us. This is a joyous time. But it’s also a sobering time, and my prayers are with him and his family and [his wife] Vicki.

After the seizure, barry reportedly asked for a moment of silence.

Prior to getting into the ambulance, Dodd said Kennedy told him, “I’ll be okay. I’ll see you later.”

And after seeing Kennedy at the hospital, Sen Kerry (D-MA) said:

He has his Irish up.

Ted Kennedy is going to be back in the Senate fighting for the things he cares about.

Senator Kennedy congratulating President Obama at the luncheon prior to his seizure.

Inaugural Address Video

January 20, 2009

Inaugural Address video. Transcript

Part 1

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Part 2

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Reverend Joseph Lowery’s Benediction

January 20, 2009

Reverend Joseph Lowery’s Benediction

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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 light, keep us forever in the path, we pray, lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee, lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee. Shadowed beneath thy hand may we forever stand — true to thee, O God, and true to our native land.

We truly give thanks for the glorious experience we’ve shared this day. We pray now, O Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant,Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration. He has come to this high office at a low moment in the national and, indeed, the global fiscal climate. But because we know you got the whole world in your hand, we pray for not only our nation, but for the community of nations. Our faith does not shrink, though pressed by the flood of mortal ills.

For we know that, Lord, you’re able and you’re willing to work through faithful leadership to restore stability, mend our brokenness, heal our wounds and deliver us from the exploitation of the poor or the least of these and from favoritism toward the rich, the elite of these.

We thank you for the empowering of thy servant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to believe that, yes, we can work together to achieve a more perfect union. And while we have sown the seeds of greed — the wind of greed and corruption, and even as we reap the whirlwind of social and economic disruption, we seek forgiveness and we come in a spirit of unity and solidarity to commit our support to our president by our willingness to make sacrifices, to respect your creation, to turn to each other and not on each other.

And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance.

And as we leave this mountaintop, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family. Let us take that power back to our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our temples, our mosques, or wherever we seek your will.

Bless President Barack, First Lady Michelle. Look over our little, angelic Sasha and Malia.

We go now to walk together, children, pledging that we won’t get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone, with your hands of power and your heart of love.

Help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid; when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around — (laughter) — when yellow will be mellow — (laughter) — when the red man can get ahead, man — (laughter) — and when white will embrace what is right.

Let all those who do justice and love mercy say amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: Say amen –

AUDIENCE: Amen!

REV. LOWERY: — and amen.

AUDIENCE: Amen! (Cheers, applause.)

Inaugural Address Transcript

January 20, 2009

President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address. Video

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often, the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebearers, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the fainthearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor — who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.

Time and again, these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West: Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter’s courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent’s willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world; duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

“Let it be told to the future world … that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive… that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].”

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested, we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back, nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

May God bless you.

And may God bless the United States of America!

barry’s botched Oath of Office

January 20, 2009

Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits

Our 44th president has just been sworn in. He had difficulty saying the Oath of Office when it got to swearing to execute the Office of the President of the United States. Even though barry had already become president at 12:00.01.

Oath of Office:

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

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CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS: Are you prepared to take the Oath, Senator?

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: Yes, I am.

ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama–

OBAMA: [interrupted Roberts] I, Barack-

ROBERTS: -do solemnly swear,

OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear,

ROBERTS: that I will execute the Office of President to the United States, faithfully,

OBAMA: that I will execute…[Stopped. Nodded to Justice Roberts.]

ROBERTS: faithfully, the pres-The Office of President to the United States,

OBAMA: the office of the President of the United States, faithfully,

ROBERTS: and will to the best of my ability,

OBAMA: and will to the best of my ability,

ROBERTS: preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

OBAMA: preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

ROBERTS: So help you, God?

OBAMA: So help me, God.

ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr President.

OBAMA: Thank you.

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TAKE #2 Oath of Office

Biden’s joke about Chief Justice Roberts’ memory.

Dear barry:

January 20, 2009

You are about to take the Oath of Office for a job you have refused to prove you are constitutionally eligible to do.

You are about to deceive the nation and the world while the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution look on.

And most egregious of all, you are about to desecrate President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible by putting your hand on it and swearing to uphold the Constitution.

May God have mercy on your soul.

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Timeline of Flight 1549 NYPD & FDNY response

January 18, 2009

The smoothest transition ever?

January 19, 2009

Everything barry does is the best ever! He is getting rave reviews for the smoothest transition in history:

Despite his two top aides Valerie Jarrett (talked with SEIU) and Rahm Emanuel (talked with blago multiple times) and barry himself having to be interviewed by the Feds because of their involvement with Blagojevich.

Despite his pick to head the National Economic Council, Larry Summers, who thinks women’s minds are innately defective and not geared to mathematics and the sciences and that it’s ok for pollution to be exported to undeveloped countries because it’s cheaper to treat their potential health hazards.

Despite his pick for Commerce Secretary, Bill Richardson being involved in a federal investigation with more proof at present than blago’s own alleged pay-to-play scheme.

Despite his appointee for National Intelligence Admiral Blair’s questionable involvement in Indonesia.

Despite his Treasury Secretary (who will head the IRS) Tim Geitner – not paying his taxes (“an innocent mistake”) even after he was audited and oh by the way didn’t know that his housekeeper was an illegal alien.

Despite his pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder “forgot” to mention his involvement with blagojevich.

Despite his pick to head the CIA Leon Panetta has no intelligence experience .

Despite his first choice for CIA John Brennan had to bow out because of his – however nebulous – involvement with Bush’s policy on harsh interrogation.

I’m sure there are more. And then there are the lobbyists barry was going to root out!

How blind are folks? A

nd barry’s famed reaching across the aisle that he has no personal history of doing? He’s laying the load on Sen McCain should something fall through and of course he needs McCain in the Senate, since McCain has a proven track record of acting and making a deciding vote.

Everything barry does is politically expedient. The only way the proobamedia is going to see that is when he actually has to act. So far he has been consistently “redefining” his view on almost everything.

Does anyone know his views on illegal immigration?

What’s his latest on Iraq? Taxes? Guantanamo Bay?

And many many more.

Yes, he has sought McCain’s counsel – but has he publicly apologized for his comment in the debate–the last thing the electorate heard–that McCain’s supporters were yelling “kill him”? It was a complete falsehood. But how are people to know that when the MSM is ignorant of the facts – still. And did barry ever make a stand on Rep Lewis’ comments comparing McCain to George Wallace? No.

Uniter? Transcender of Race? Mr Transparency?

Right.

Who still is buying that?

And the release of his birth certificate? A list of his donors? His school and medical records?

How is that anything but a typical barry obamanation?

What is it going to take folks?

Barry’s first unilateral decision with consequences will be as Commander in Chief and may very well be at 3am on 1/21.

You ok with that?

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barry’s judgment on display:
Smoothest transition ever?
Cabinet defector #1: Gov Bill Richardson
Geithner: TurboTax made me do it
barry re: tax cheat #1: Tim Geithner
Daschle apology letter
Cabinet defector #2: Tom Daschle
barry re: tax cheat #2: Tom Daschle
barry cabinet defector #3: Nancy Killefer
barry’s tax cheats go free – Phelps’ friends go to jail
barry cabinet defector #4: Sen Judd Gregg
barry tax cheat #4: Ron Kirk
Dr Sanjay Gupta won’t be Surgeon General
barry cabinet defector #5: Charles Freeman

VP Cheney to be in wheelchair tomorrow

January 19, 2009

Supposedly VP Dick Cheney “pulled a muscle in his back while moving”. So his physician recommended he use a wheelchair for the Inauguration. It has nothing to do with the shortness of breath he has had in his recent interviews? Congestive heart failure? Or the poor circulation in his legs?

No Inauguration for Govs Palin & Blagojevich

January 19, 2009

Governors Palin and Blagojevich will not be at the Inauguration. Hard to believe Gov Palin would miss a photo op. This most likely explains the situation. She was not invited to a ball in honor of Senator McCain whose ear barry has been bending overtime. The recent release of snippets of her interview with the documentarian John Ziegler where she ripped Katie Couric “Katie you’re not the center of everybody’s universe” (3:30) and continued to complain about her handlers might have a lot to do with it.

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From flap at flapsblog:

According to McAllister , Palin will spend next week in her home state preparing for the legislative session, which begins on Tuesday, and for her State of the State address on Thursday.

Was she even invited? “I don’t know if she was invited,” McCallister says. Don’t know? How could that be? It’s hard to miss an invitation from a presidential inauguration committee. For its part, Obama’s inaugural committee has declined to say whether an invitation was sent to Palin. Repeated phone calls to its press office produced no answer to this simple question.

As for blagojevich, he wasn’t allowed to do much at the Convention before he was impeached so does there really have to be a statement? Spokesperson Lucio Guerrero:

He doesn’t want to be a distraction from Obama, and unfortunately he thinks (his presence) would be.

And what about the adulterer John Edwards who made barry’s win in Iowa possible?

Bush commutes sentences of border guards

January 19, 2009

President Bush commuted the two border guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were imprisoned in 2005 for shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler. He didn’t die (he was shot in the buttocks) but the guards tried to cover it up. Bush believes they received due process but felt that the sentences were too harsh. They have served two years of their ten year sentence and will be released in March. They will be supervised for three years and are required to pay the fines.

Background of case

He made the same deal for Scooter Libby.

Captain Sullenberger no show on The Today Show

January 19, 2009

Stacy Peterson

January 19, 2009

Really sweet post (6-22-08) by Delilah on Stacy Peterson from the standpoint of her as a missing mother. Worth a read after hearing the lecher and alleged murderer drew peterson talk about the “harmonious bliss in the Peterson home”. He is a textbook narcisisstic sociopath who preys on young impressionable, vulnerable women. He needs to be stopped before he does something else to Raines or the children.

Update: Delilah at peace4missing.ning.com is collecting recipes in Stacy’s name to raise money for domestic violence organizations. 100% of the proceeds will be donated. See post for details.

video sim of flight 1549 + hijacked Ethiopian flight 961

January 19, 2009

barry’s birth certificate: Lightfoot v Bowen docket

January 18, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits

No. 08A524
Title:	Gail Lightfoot, et al., Applicants v. Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State
Docketed:
Lower Ct:	Supreme Court of California

Case Nos.:

(S168690)

~~~Date~~~	~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dec 12 2008	Application (08A524) for a stay pending the filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, submitted to Justice Kennedy.
Dec 17 2008	Application (08A524) denied by Justice Kennedy.
Dec 29 2008	Application (08A524) refiled and submitted to The Chief Justice.
Jan 7 2009	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 23, 2009.
Jan 7 2009	Application (08A524) referred to the Court.
Jan 13 2009	Suggestion for recusal received from applicant.

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~~Name~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Attorneys for Petitioners:
Orly Taitz	26302 La Pa
Counsel of Record	Mission Viejo, CA 92691
Party name: Gail Lightfoot, et al.

barry comments re: Captain Sullenberger

January 18, 2009

Bill Anderson’s brief re: barry’s eligibility

January 18, 2009

Birth certificate posts

Well here’s the amicus curiae “friend of the court” brief from Bill Anderson accepted by SCOTUS when they denied Berg v Obama on 1-12-09.

If I understand it correctly, Anderson is an outside agent who has an interest in the case and believes SCOTUS needs to look at aspects of the case that have not previously been examined. It doesn’t mean SCOTUS has any obligation to do anything further except read it. They’re just covering themselves. I have a post about the meaning of “standing” – the major hurdle in these cases – which I have to find amongst the over two thousand drafts we have.

Basically, to challenge the constitutionality of something the plaintiff has to prove that some harm will come about. That harm has to fulfill three criteria and then on top of that there are three more judicially imposed criteria. Strangely, from what I grasp, all US citizens have the true potential of harm if barry is ineligible, but a single citizen does not have standing because the harm is not limited to them.

That is the difference in the Hollister v Soetero case. The retired, but subject to recall at any time by the Commander in Chief, Col Hollister will be directly affected where Berg is not. Berg is acting as an interpleader. Col Hollister’s potential further actions in the USAF would directly hinge on the orders of the CIC. If barry is not eligible – is Col Hollister bound to obey or disobey direct orders? That is his standing.

Lightfoot v Brown has a different twist and involves citizens, military members and election officials. Another post.

Caveat: This is just my understanding of it. You asked – I provided. Anyone who knows please comment and I’ll append it to the post. I know it’s a totally useless cause, but we, like you, will not have been taken by obamahoax. The truth will be known one day no matter how the Secret Service and other government agencies have tried to hide it. That’s another post I need to find.

Has anyone noticed how chipper barry has been lately? Besides getting his fix of robamabot adoration, he and Biden met with SCOTUS on January 14th. I imagine that had they had reservations, they would have asked him outright for evidence. I imagine they didn’t, which explain would then explain his chipperness.

A snippet of Anderson’s brief:

The amicus is a citizen of the State of Arizona [Bill Anderson] and an elector of that state for elector for President of the United States. He voted in the general election held by the State of Arizona on November 4, 2008. This Court has in fact recognized that the amicus has an interest in this type of case.

Your amicus submits that it will not be possible for this Court to dispose of this case properly without considering the following points which either have not been brought to the attention of this Court by the parties or which have not been adequately discussed:

1.) This Court is not facing a question of the constitutional aspects of standing, but a question pertaining to the prudential considerations only; and,

2.) The lack of an adequate remedy following the inauguration of Barack Obama, 2 and the potential civil and military crises which could arise therefrom, crises that could not be readily addressed by the ordinary processes of the law, must be considered in addressing the prudential aspects of standing; and,

3.) With respect to the prudential considerations of standing, certain aspects of this case are analogous to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.

Background and updates

Capt Sullenberger to appear on Today Show (1-19)

January 18, 2009

Just an FYI. Capt Sullenberger will appear on the Today Show tomorrow morning (1-19). Matt Lauer will interview him from Washington. It will be his first interview. President Bush and barry have both congratulated him and the Sullenberger family was invited to the Inauguration.

UPDATED: Before, during, after, wife video Flight 1549

January 17, 2009

Drew Peterson: “I am the most beautiful man”

Updated: Drew Peterson posts (5-9)

January 16, 2009

Transcript of interview

All I can say is somebody better intervene on Drew Peterson to save Stacy’s children. His new “fiance” and her children are another matter. Her father is concerned enough to ask the police to make checks – but he doesn’t stop her from moving into a house of a murder suspect? What has he been doing all her life? Normal 23 y/o girls don’t hang out with sociopaths who are their father’s age. Especially one who has been married four times, which includes one murdered and one missing wife. If she had a loving father, one would think she wouldn’t still be looking for one. Anyway. Scumbag is still out making the rounds. His new set of quotes will make you vomit.

He did a radio interview (1-15) with WBBM 780 radio’s Steve Miller (who needs to work on his interviewing skills). Peterson needed his 15 second fix. Miller asked about his engagement, engagement ring, marriage, living together, divorce from Stacy, whether “Chrissy” is afraid of him and what she thought about the investigations involving Kathleen Savio and Stacy. Note how there is no mention of Stacy and that he refers to the children as “his”. He mentions Chrissy’s problems with the father of her children and her ex-boyfriend – the alleged stalker.

DREW PETERSON: We have a harmonious bliss at the Peterson home. We got two new kids. There 4 and 5 years old and they’re meshing well with my kids….Whenever you get two new families meshed together it’s like a box of baseball cards and you just rattle everybody into place.

Miller asked him if Christina was scared moving in. Just look at the words he uses. Young girl?

Any young girl that’s thrown into this all of a sudden – it’s a very scary thing. That one particular time it scared her off all together but subsequently we just got back together and decided to be together.

So he must have been abusive toward her somehow if she got scared off all together. Now is the time to talk to her. Something happened. Not worth looking for because it’ll happen again and for sure it’s happened to her with all the other men in her life. He evades the follow up. Listen to the change in his voice. He’s guilty.

You know this was, uh, during the month…over a month’s period.

Asked if they’re doing to get married. He hasn’t given her a ring “not as of yet” and “we’ll see how it goes” and “we’ll cross this bridge when the time comes” and laughs like yeah right. How are they engaged? She’s living in his house. He has no intention of getting married. Listen to him. She’s a media pawn. And her children? Stacy’s?

When he was asked if he asked Chrissy to get married – he laughed and said that “she asked him and then he asked her”. And that they “basically agreed that down the road we will get together and get married.” And when will that be? “We’ll have to see how life holds out. No definite plans or any dates set or anything.”

That was a chilling selection of words. As far as a divorce from Stacy:

“That’s something going to be in the hands of my legal team. And when they decide when it’s time to do that – we’ll do that.”

Is Chrissy afraid of the whole situation?

Scared to death. She’s not scared of me. She’s very comfortable in our home. She’s basically scared of the media.

And he calls her a “victim” of the media and misrepresentation. He seems to have no awareness that he could end it. But if she’s not scared – he has no control over her. He is a sick twisted pervert. She may be of legal age but he refers to her as a “young girl.”

Asked what she’s going to do, he then laughs and says:

“She’s working and I’m the housewife.” and that “he devotes all his time to his children.”

About her ex-boyfreind and father of her two children. His tone of voice is very telling at the end.

Yeah, two different guys. Both have been abusive to her in the past…and subsequently now she’s with me!

Asked if Chrissy was worried about being with him because of Kathleen and Stacy:

I think she was early on. But after she got to know me, she looked at me and said ‘No way. No way.’

No way, what?

That I was responsible for her missing and Kathleen’s death.

Must be a lucky guy?

I think so! I’ve been lucky, uh, lucky in cards and lucky in love, I guess.

He starts laughing. How is one lucky in love when his children have one dead and one missing mother? Lucky in that he is rid of them. He’s a beast.

I’ve done all right for myself. I’ve worked hard through the years. Always been a good provider for my family…so it’s like, uh, to have the love of a young, beautiful woman is a very special thing.

Concerned that State’s Attorney might be closing in?

[Serious] I’ve always been concerned about that. It’s like, uh, but I know I’ve not done anything wring. I can rely on my legal team to protect me false accusations. And that’s what we’ll do.

What would Chrissy say about you?

I am the most beautiful man she has every met in your life!

Laughs. He is beyond delusional. He actually believes it. He said your life – not her life. Someone please help those children and put an end to this madness.

Dr unknowingly treats dying father

January 16, 2009

It can’t be much worse than this. A physician treating a badly beaten man in the ICU at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu didn’t recognize him to be her own 54 y/o father. The last time she had seen him was July 2008. His injuries proved fatal. She didn’t discover it was her father until the next day when her brother told her.

Source: AP/FOX

The hospital should sound familiar as it is one of the hospitals barry and his sister Maya have claimed he was born. Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children another.

Sleepwalker freezes to death

January 17, 2009

What wakes you up?

Cold water? Ice cold water? How about -20?

A 51 y/o man in northern Wisconsin walked out of house wearing only underwear and a fleece shirt and froze to death. Last summer he drove his truck into the side of his own garage and into a tree. He didn’t know what happened the next morning. He had been taking Ambien, which can be associated with sleepwalking. It appears he was still on it. Autopsy showed he died of hypothermia. Toxicology pending.

barry on Burris: “That is a Senate matter”

January 7, 2009

barry’s public statement on Mr Burris. Of course it’s a senate matter.

CBS

That is a Senate matter. But I know Roland Burris. Obviously, he’s from my home state. I think he is a fine public servant. If he gets seated, then I’m gonna work with Roland Burris just like I work with all the other Senators to make sure that The People of Illinois and the people of the country are served.

Gitmo: what’s barry saying lately?

January 17, 2009

barry’s doppelganger?

January 16, 2009

What do you think? Chicago native Reggie Brown, 28, gets mistaken for barry and is working on a career. MARCUS RILEY article. His body type is just as important but I can’t find any other photos of him. Does the Secret Service hire doppelgangers? Can’t imagine barry has many googglegangers.

REGGIE BROWN

www.senate.gov
barack-obama.gemzies.com

Chi-Town Kids: “Blagojevich”

January 14, 2009

Here’s a blago rap by Chi-Town Kids named Blagojevich. Also mentions Drew Peterson. More power to them. Listen.

blagosong

Blagojevich Lyrics:

Chorus:

Rod Blagojevich you’ll be doin’ time
Rod Blagojevich wish i had your hairline
Rod Blagojevich you look young but your old
Yo I’ve got this thing and its fucking gold

Rod Blagojevich jogging down the road
Rod Blagojevich wont get that senate senate seat sold
Rod Blagojevich your hairs a jell-o mold
Yo I’ve got this thing and its fucking gold

He’ll drop the f bomb right in front of your mom, and now we’ll run him out of town like Rashan Salaam
We gave them a chance to play but they couldn’t hold on, if i bought him a cinnabon with a whole bunch of cinnamon,
Yeah he would give me that vacant senate seat, put my feet up think and repeat that you needed to be impeached,
We need a leader one whose not gonna end up cell mates with Drew Peterson, he had his fun now its done and he’s got nowhere
to run
Judy Barr Topinka “What is she thinking”, probably i told you so Milorads deceiving,
But soon he will be leaving and he wont be back again while Lt. Gov. Quinn begins to grin

[Chorus]

Why these governors always lyin’, Rod Blagojevich and George Ryan
Its like these fools ain’t even tryin’, always sellin’ never buyin’
Senate seats, bribery, corruption, Chicago machine
I’m worried about the state of Illinois, we got a governor acting like he’s a little boy
Can’t keep his mouth shut even when the phone is tapped, he’s probably yappin’ while this song is being rapped
Bribing and thieving and stealing and lying and creeping and lying and stealing and thieving and bribing and cheating
Rod Blagojevich now your telephone snitched, we need a governor switch, real quick you son of a……..

[Chorus]

Bridge-

Running past the press in your best spandex, said running past the press in your best spandex
Ya your gonna go to jail ya that’s whats next, now running past the press in your best spandex

© Chi-Town Kids 2009

Source: NBC Chicago (MARCUS RILEY)

UPDATE: Tonite (1-27-08) Featured on NBC 5 10 o’clock News