Barack Obama, the first non-white President of the United States, has broken many more traditions of the Oval Office in his first 3 weeks there.
On his way to Williamsburg, Virginia to stump for his controversial bailout/stimulus package last Friday, Obama reportedly broke with tradition and shook the hand of Marine standing at attention in front of Marine One, the presidential helicopter. The startled Marine shook the president’s hand, and then went back to his steady salute.
Obama’s vernacular tends towards a more casual and irreverant approach as well. Onboard Marine One, Obama showed off his “spiffy” new jacket, emblazoned with his name and the Presidential Seal. He then referred to Marine One as a “spiffy ride”.
The U.S. Marine Band’s drums, trumpets and tubas, used to introduce the President with “Hal to the Cheif” as he enters an event, have been replaced by a single piano player who perfoms pop and jazz ditties such as Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” and Sting’s Arab-themed “Desert Rose” to usher in and exit Obama.
And of course, Obama has relaxed the dress code of the Oval Office, from requiring people to wear suit jackets before entering the room to wearing rolled-up sleeves and even sweatpants in the Presidential office.
While breaking with old presidential tradtions, Obama is introducing his own to the presidency, such as opening up The White House to a Wednesday night cocktail hour for political friends and foes.
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Too true but (Remember I am a Liberal so not defending the right position) I know it is not going to be all roses. These next few months to a year are going to be tough. I won't talk too much trash about what Obama has done yet.
And the problem with the sales stat is I worry about what the margins are going to be. It is entirely possible for the sales to be much higher and the actual profit from them to be much lower since the stores are given them away to reduce stock and make up some capital to pay some bills.
The illegal alien, Messiah Obama is practicing what is known as “ in your face white America”. This undoubtly come from his anti white feeling toward his typically white grandmother who raised this transmutation.
He is enjoying his season of being the black messiah by performing these acts to slap America in the face, I say let him continue his merry way of showing that he is a street organizer and nothing more. He cares nothing for this country and will do anything like replacing “Hail to chief” with his bar piano tunes, and dressing like a vagabond and the addition of the Wednesday night cocktail hour.
I can say that this comical character is not my president, but a tragic figure in the mode of Jimmy Carter.
He has yet to deal with the world, which is watching him and getting a good read on “Spiffy Obama”.
He has to make a decision regarding the conflict in the Middle East, and here is where “Spiffy” will show what an idiot he is.
This dangerous buffoon is taking America where Adolph Hitler took Germany, to its destruction.
His administration seems to have emulated the Enabling Act of 1933 with executive orders and having by passed congress. (See below)
Enabling Act, passed on March 23, 1933, was the second stepping-stone after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which Adolf Hitler obtained dictatorial powers using largely legal means. The formal name of the Enabling Act was Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ("Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the State"). It carried a four-year sunset clause (and would also have lost force should another government have been appointed) but was renewed in 1937, 1941 and 1944. In contrast to the Enabling Act of 1923, this Act covered changes to the constitution, excepting only the existence of the Reichstag, the Reichsrat and the office of President
Bad news for the republicans. Retail sales up, unemployment down for the month of Jan.
I don't know if Obama can turn things around in 4 years or not, Bush was just so inept.
Still though the one thing that will boost an economy faster than anything is consumer confidence. If people actually believe things are getting better, things will get better.
And don't you love despite the evidence that Obama is a legal US citizen, some don't let facts get in the way of a biased opinion.
It's like with Larry Sinclair, the TRP wants to keep putting on the air a proven a liar, but that doesn't stop them. For those who don't know, Sinclair failed his lie detector test except for the part about doing drugs.
Tony Blankley, that was a legitimate guest. Keep going in that direction instead of putting the screwballs on as guest.
And take some calls with your guest during the shortwave hour.
DA to invoke the name of Hitler with Obama is really a really ironic one indead.
God I can't believe i'm going to do this.
Hitler did a lot to improve the German economy period. He brought unemployment down to virtually zero and took a nation that used its own money to burn because firewood was more expensive that the amount of bills it took to buy to burn the same amount of time. And in just about a decade he took them to being a world power that almost won a major world war.
So if Obama can pull our economy around like Hitler was able to I am all for it, but I am doubtful we can turn around that far since we are not that low to begin with.
Also Ironic is that you say your Hitler/Obama thing and talk about how Obama has not decided on what to do about going to war with the middle east.
I would rather have us not meddle around in the middle east since anything that we do is bad one way or the other. But that eventually will need us to help so we may as well make an educated decision. And having a few months to gameplan on a mess that has been going on for thousands of years (especially when we have a huge crisis with out economy) doesn't seem like such a bad thing to me.
p.s. Hitler was an evil human being. And I feel dirty even putting some kind of positive spin with his time alive. But damn if he didn't turn the economy around.
Alright DA, you got stabs at Obama for being an unpatriotic- Neo-Hitler-black racist-drunken hobo-illegal immigrant with mommy issues. Just add Muslim terrorist-baby killer-socialist and you can work for FOX news.
Some people are so ludicrous that it makes me want to jab a fork in my eye.
I had this nice long thing wirtten with some wit, but figured why.
Obama has at most 8 years to be our president. If in that time he can get the schools fixed up to help educate our masses, fix some roads, maybe close a couple corporate loopholes, and keep us out of unessecary wars, and actually win the ones we do have to fight, it will be a success. The stimulus package is basically an attempt to get it all done before his next election and provide a boom to the economy.
The reason why all the crazy crap your paranoid about won't happen is because we want to get the religious nuts out of our homes not bring them in closer.
You most likely won't get why this irks me but on Fox News they were all worried that a new U.S. elementry history book didn't have any mention to Jesus.
Now seriously what does Jesus have to do with American History in an elementry book. They don't need to know the complexity of the religious beleifs of the puritans, that is college level stuff.
They need to know about the facts and have fun pictures to keep them excited about the education. They need to know the timelines of different major events, not how many times people turned to Jesus to have a reason to hate and pursicute people.
Anyway Obama is a push back against the religious right, who want to strip away every issue that they can bastardize the bible into supporting.
Hell if you can talk about condoms in sex ed, but you can own as many guns as you want. The logic is rediculous.
NotCrazy,
I can’t help myself either. This week I’m apparently on a media fixation, and remember the Mel Brooks movie, ‘Spaceballs’ in wishing you and your fellow travelers, “May the Schwartz be with you!”
It’s curious how you from the left duck and dive with the language, so that it is a virtue to put the past behind us and not play the blame game for the financial meltdown when the trail leads to Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, but at the same time fair game to blame the Bush administration for everything including your acne and poor quality weed.
Yeah, B.O. hasn’t had a chance yet to impose his program to redistribute the wealth, except in spending our money to lard up programs for the Democratic constiuency. His campaign and the company he kept are warning enough to convince conservatives that this is a guy who has not earned their trust and bears watching.
Surely there are some left wing sites in which you’d feel more welcome, but thanks for spending time here. It makes our lives more spicy to realize that there is darkness after daylight.
Bar sinister boys,
The Prophet Frank has enlightened us that fascism and communism are just mirror images of totalitarian philosophies. Fascists control the means of production, communists own it. Fascists have a committee of one discerning the will and needs of the people, the communists a polit bureau. Socialism eventually and inevitably devolves into repressive government because speech running counter to the truth of their vision is a threat to implementation of the vision. And as humanism fills the hole in an atheist’s soul, criticism of his program is blasphemy and not to be tolerated. Conservatives are the torch bearers of democracy because we know that you of the left are self deluded fools swept along in the tide of emotions. You will be passive when government incrementally represses personal freedom and the freedom to be wrong, (not to vote, punished in some European countries, e.g.), all because we are stupid sheep who don’t know what’s in our self interest. Without conservative ideology as a counter to the religion of the left, you would, as you have in the past, enslave yourselves to a Hitler or Mao.
Here is something that would make a sane man or woman cringe…
http://www.alanstang.com/index.php?/site/comments/sieg_heil_mein_fuhrer/
@Quartermain
People are going a bit overboard with Obama, but it is also the complete opposite with the people that don’t like him. You all are just as bad thinking he is the devil.
Ever wonder why a first grade kid is already so warped to say he doesn’t want to go back to school because there is a picture of the new President of the United States on the wall?
Could it be that he heard mommy and daddy saying how dangerous and scary he is?
The dude has only been in office a couple weeks and people are flipping out. If anything you only have his senate record to go on which will point more towards a lazy senetor that doesn’t want to piss anyone off.
People need to lighten up.
NotCrazy
I didn’t say Obama was the devil or anti-christ. Right now it not Obama I am concerned about.
It’s the fanatic following him that I call Obamammedans.
They are of the same vibe, same personality, as the Reaganites on the college campuses in the 1980s.
Same cult of personality and same extreme adoration.
Now I have looked at all of Obama’s predecessors with a skeptical, critical eye. I am not going to discriminate against Obama in that regard