US President Barack Obama would be fine with serving only one term if he achieved some of his most audacious goals, like his embattled health care overhaul, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
"I have heard the president say that, if making tough decisions and getting important things done that Washington has failed to deal with for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he's quite comfortable with that," Mr Gibbs told reporters.
His comments came as some of Mr Obama's Democratic allies are balking at his push to remake US health care, while others are on the fence about his approach to fighting climate change, ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections.
And Mr Obama himself has seen his job approval ratings, and ratings on key individual issues, drop from their sky-high levels when he took office in January.
"The way he approaches this issue, the economy, Afghanistan, Iraq, any of these issues is not in a mode of self-preservation," said Mr Gibbs.
Mr Obama says he wants to take decisions "he thinks are in the best interests of the American people, not what's in the best interest of his personal polling numbers", said the spokesman
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US President Barack Obama would be fine with serving only one term if he achieved some of his most audacious goals, like his embattled health care overhaul, spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Yes, yes of course. Simply give him what he wants and he'll quietly go away, retire to a koffee plantation in Kenya possibly.
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Actually, I could totally get behind the "only serving one term" idea, and I'd even excuse him from the requirement of achieving his most audacious goals. Call me a softie.
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I would be fine with him resigning today.
Uh, darth, think for a minuite. President Joe Biden? or better yet--President Pelosi?
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I've been saying Barak Obama is Muslim for Jimmah Carter for 18 months now, and I believe he will be as gracious and classy a former president as goober boy.
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I suspect that he sees his current position as a stepping stone on the way to his true ambition - Supreme leader of the Universe. So far so good. That is until August 2009 then he wee weed.
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Secretary-General of the UN is the same as ruler of the world, right? I think Mr. Hillary Clinton would have been content with that.
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"US President Barack Obama would be fine with serving only one term": Mr President, at the rate you, Nancy, Harry and Bernanke are expanding the national debt, there will not be a country to preside over in 31/2 years.
The President wants some legislation passed. This legislation is so unpopular that it costs the President a second term. That would sort of seem to indicate that most people did not want that legislation passed.
So why, in a democracy, would you want to pass legislation so unpopular with so many of the people?
Mr Obama says he wants to take decisions "he thinks are in the best interests of the American people..."
Oh. He knows what we need better than we do. Hey, thanks for thinking for me, Obama! Couldn't do it without you.
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He may not get one term. I have stated twice now to my current bunch of Democratic senators and representatives (plus the couple of Repugs that managed to win re-election in 2008) that the ONLY way they will get my vote is to pledge, in writing, to begin immediate impeachment proceedings against Barrack Hussein Obama. If that doesn't work, we're stuck with the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence and the Second Amendment.
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OP: Chill, not going to happen. He was elected by a majority of Americans and has not done anything approaching an impeachable offense (mind-bogglingly stupid, possibly unconstitutional - yes, impeachable - no). And remember he's had lots of help from Pelosi / Reid.
The best we can hope for is the Republicans to take back both houses of Congress in 2010. And hopefully, not screw it up like they did before.
What I'd give for a viable (and libertarian leaning) third party.
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I'm looking forward to the Republican victory in 2004 And the blame the Republicans for everything that will follow (that has already begun actually, but without traction).
Impeachment helped Clinton in the polls by making him a victim. I would hope to avoid that sort of thing and let his record doom him at the polls.
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What's more likely to happen is Fred facing legal action or getting his site shut down because a couple of old war-horses can't be bothered to think before they type.
Via Red State, proof positive that there are some Obama lies so shameless that even the left wont spin them for him. This is Naked Emperor Newss second video on The Ones oh-so-shady backroom deal with the pharmaceutical lobby; the first one was entitled Obamas Mother of All Political Lies, a description I dont agree with but which Air America apparently does. Watching this, its not just the dishonesty of his campaign promises that galls, its the sanctimony he displayed in misleading his cultists to believe things would be drastically different under Hopenchange. The pandering during the Billy Tauzin clip in particular is enough to make you queasy. Like the lady says, a charming liar.
File the fascist bit at the end away for the next time David Letterman or MSNBC or whoever wrings their hands about heated rhetoric at the town-hall protests.
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Further east? I thought Marx was born in Germany.
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I buy the Oprah-like self definition as the "Enlightened One." Clearly he believes that his plan is entirely pre-sold, and the consumers should take delivery. Politics is compromise; Obama believes that is beneath him. I see three and a half years of wheel-spinning.
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Red on Red, or maybe it's Blue on Blue. Either way, you gotta love it.
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I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:49:54 PM by EZ4You2Say
Was sitting here thinking about this election and Governor Palin. I don't know about Ya'll, but I consider Gov Palin one of us. A normal person who has had to work for a living and live a normal life. Someone with the same thoughts, values and upbringing that most of us have had. I think that the clip of her shopping at Walmart for diapers for her baby really caused me to realize what a special lady she is.
Then I started thinking about all of the attacks from the liberals, Obama's campaign and the media on her, her family and her values. That REALLY got me thinking....................and the more I thought about it, the madder I got.
What are they afraid of? What is it about Sarah Palin that frightens the left so much. Then I realized what it was. She represents normal Americans who get up every day, go to work, pay their bills, and do the things that normal Americans do. The ones that go to war and serve in uniform. The ones that take care of the families and are always proud of the fact that they are an American, not proud for the first time as Michelle Obama was......
They are afraid that the silent majority of Americans will realize what they are trying to do. That out of all of the candidates she is the one that represents us the best and that thought scares the crap out of them. She represents everything that is good about America and they absolutely cannot stand it.
After all, they have a candidate that is in effect an empty suit.
He has never worked for a living, never held a real job, has close continuing relationships with known domestic and international terrorists, racists, and known felons.
He has worked hand in hand with a group (ACORN) who is being investigated in several states for vote fraud and that is just the tip of the iceberg....
He has served for 143 days in the Senate Think about this. If you got a job in McDonalds, would they make you a manager after 143 days? If you joined the military, would they make you a general after 143 days? Yet the Democrats are asking us to put someone with absolutely no experience into the most powerful job in the world. Someone who has not hung around with normal Americans but rather some very shady characters.
If Obama had a government job that required a security clearance, he could not get a clearance based on his known associations, but being an elected official he automatically gets one.
Let me ask you this?
What normal person could sit in a church for 20 years listening to the kind of hate that Rev Wright was preaching unless they endorsed the message?
Why would a normal person raise their family in an atmosphere of hate like that unless they believed the message?
Most of us would have gotten up and walked out of that church when we heard the message of hate being served to the congregation. You all have seen the videos. There was agreement to the message. There was rejoicing when Wright said "God Damn America." I am sorry but that is not part of any "normal" America that I have seen. I don't think that you have either. Anyone who thinks like that has an ideology like that is not going to do what is best for this country. I think you would agree with me.
But all of this has been ignored by the main stream media at the same time that the Obama camp and the left-wing media sent Armies of Lawyers and Reporters to Alaska to try to dig up some dirt on a little lady named Sarah who would represent us.
I don't know about Ya'll, but the more I think about this, the madder I get. Think about it, they must think that Americans are stupid to not recognize what they are doing to Governor Palin and to us. They must think that Americans are too stupid to recognize the criminal and terrorist elements surrounding Obama and his campaign. Where has he managed to get so much money that he has outspent not only the clintons but the Republicans also. Where is that money coming from?
I would urge all of you to read this, to forward it and send it around this country. Add your own comments to it about how mad you are and send it on, then on election day, let's show them how mad we are at the polls. Show them that they cannot steal an election with their efforts................Thank you for listening. Jimmy
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Dear George Stephanopoulos had this to say on his blog yesterday:
The biggest problem for President Obama in today's ABC News/Washington Post poll is this: only 49 percent of Americans are confident that he'll "make the right decisions for the country's future" -- down from 60 percent in April.
Voters still like Obama. His overall job approval is steady at 57 percent. But they're screaming "listen to us" and "slow down." And they're worried he's getting in over his head.
[T]he best short term antidote is a solid 2 week vacation. Give everyone a chance to cool down and hope the economy's slow mend continues. More than anything else, that's the key to post Labor Day success.
In other words, his advice to the president is to do absolutely nothing until the situation fixes itself, lest Mr. Obama turn off the voters even more.
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Via Red State, proof positive that there are some Obama lies so shameless that even the left won't spin them for him.
Uh, no.
The clowns at Air America are only annoyed that Obama's backroom deals are with people they hate (capitalists). If he'd cut a deal with the UAW, say, that would have been okeydoke.
Rory Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has some serious ground to make up in the Nevada governor's race, according to a new poll released by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The younger Reid, who serves as the Clark County commissioner, trails in the 2010 Democratic primary in a two-way race and a three-way race by 21 points respectively. The Senate majority leader, who also faces an election next year, also has poor poll numbers. But the GOP has yet to attract a top-tier recruit to face the well-financed Reid.
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Not to be combative, USN Ret., but I think the "Three Bag" (one for you, one for me, and one for us to throw up into) rule was prolly enacted for Rory's conceptive genesis....
Gov. Paterson blamed a racist media Friday for trying to push him out of next year's election - launching into an angry rant that left even some black Democrats shaking their heads. "The whole idea is to get me not to run in the primary," Paterson complained on a morning radio show hosted by Daily News columnist Errol Louis.
He suggested that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the country's only other African-American governor, also is under fire because of his race. "We're not in the post-racial period," Paterson said. "The reality is the next victim on the list - and you can see it coming - is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than trying to reform a health care system."
Nothing more? Boggle.
Paterson said the campaign against him is being "orchestrated" by reporters who would rather make the news than report it.
But critics said the governor should blame his own blunders. "He's given the media more than enough to feed on with the incompetence shown in his administration," said state Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn), an African-American. "To quote Michael Jackson, he should start with the man in the mirror," Parker said.
Even state Sen. Bill Perkins (D-Harlem), a black supporter of the governor, urged him to be more like Obama by staying "focused on the message."
Paterson has been the target of Democrats who fear his low approval ratings - 18% at their lowest and about 30% now - will endanger the party next year if he decides to run for his first full term as governor.
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No. Actually people hate you because of the rumors re Freemasonry.
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For narcissists, it is genuinely unimaginable that they are responsible for their own failures. There must be some external force at work. Since they are narcissists, they think there's some conspiracy to keep them down. Actually, nobody cares.
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Actually its because of that letter you have at the end of your names ... "D".... and the policies your "D" proposes for in New York, Massachusetts and the USA. I would say the "D" stands for DONE.
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Come on Davey, you can do it. Show those guys you've got what it takes to stand up to the machine and win! Damn the torpedoes!, remember the Maine! uh ya' know, onward and upward!
If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.
"Those who resell recalled children's products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children's lives at risk," said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or increasingly digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.
Staffers for the federal agency are fanning out across the country to conduct training seminars on the regulations at dozens of thrift shops.
"Even before this law, we had good mechanisms in place for pulling recalled products," said Jim Gibbons, the chief executive of Goodwill. "The law just kicks it up a notch, so Goodwills around the country will continue to improve our process."
Goodwill uses $2 billion in annual sales at its 2,300 thrift shops nationwide to pay for its job-training and employment placement programs.
Gibbons said the nonprofit group was accustomed to inspectors from the Consumer Product Safety Commission making unannounced visits to its stores.
Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the agency, said it wouldn't be dispatching bureaucratic storm troopers into private homes to see whether people were selling recalled products from their garages, yards or churches.
"We're not looking to come across as being heavy-handed," he said. "We want to make sure that everybody knows what the rules of engagement are to help spur greater compliance, so that enforcement becomes less of an issue. But we're still going to enforce."
The agency is working with eBay, Wolfson said, to help the online sales giant install software filters that will flag auction items subject to manufacturers' recalls.
The commission's Internet surveillance unit is monitoring Craigslist and other "top auction and reselling sites" for recalled goods. If the agency discovers that a recalled product has been sold online, it will try to find and inform the buyer, Wolfson said.
To kick off its Resale Roundup, the federal agency released a list of the 11 most dangerous previously recalled children's products.
The oldest is the March 10, 1993, recall of 11,600 portable cribs sold as Playskool Travel-Lite Play Yards and made by Kolcraft, an Aberdeen, N.C., firm that's the nation's largest crib manufacturer.
Adele Meyer is the executive director of the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops, which represents more than 1,100 store owners.
"Even before it was criminal to resell recalled goods, our members have always been diligent because children's safety is always foremost in their minds," she said. "But having consumers look out for recalled products that are sold at garage sales and flea markets, that is a problem, and hopefully this law will help."
Nancy Lothrop, a mother of two in Monroe, Wash., was surprised to learn that she might be violating the law by selling about $200 worth of Polly Pocket dolls and accessories on Craigslist that her 12-year-old daughter no longer wants.
In two large recalls from November 2006 to August 2007, the El Segundo, Calif.-based Mattel asked consumers to return 9.7 million units of several dozen different sets of Polly Pocket dolls.
The recalled dolls and accessories, made for Mattel in China, had tiny magnets that could become loose and then swallowed or inhaled by young children. The magnets have caused three serious injuries intestinal tears requiring surgery that the Consumer Product Safety Commission knows of.
Lothrop's daughter, Laura, was upset about four years ago when Mattel changed the clothing for many of the Polly Pocket dolls from a rubber-type material to plastic and inserted small magnets to hold it on the figures.
Laura didn't like the new material or the way it fit her dolls. So, at 8, she e-mailed a complaint to Mattel. The toy giant never responded.
Now, Nancy and Laura Lothrop must do a painstaking inventory of her collection, searching for tiny model numbers to see whether they match any of the recalled items. If they find matches, they'll pull the recalled dolls and accessories from the group that they're selling.
Nancy Lothrop, though, doesn't quite understand why the dolls are being singled out.
"Many toys have small pieces that could be dangerous," she said. "My son played with army men, Lego blocks, all kinds of things with little parts. A toddler can put anything in his mouth. Parents need to have common sense. Ultimately, the parent needs to really evaluate and be watchful of what the child is playing with. We as consumers have to be careful. It really comes back to us."
The Resale Roundup is being enforced under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law last year.
The law has a number of other beefed-up consumer protections, including much tougher standards for selling products that contain lead or lead-based paint. After stalling for years, the legislation gained new life after widely publicized massive recalls of Chinese-made dolls and toys with lead paint that started in late 2007.
The law also restored the full five seats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission for the first time in a quarter-century.
President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders are crafting an appropriations bill that would boost the agency's funding next year by more than 11.4 percent to $117 million and it's already hiring new inspectors and other employees in anticipation of the funding infusion.
Don Surber calls it The Friday Afternoon Bombshell:
"Friday afternoon is when Washington dumps its bad news.
This week, the bad news is that President Obama plans to borrow $9 trillion over the next 10 years.
I guess he is about as familiar with the 22nd Amendment as he is the 2nd Amendment.
Money is power and Barack Obama wants all the power now, all the power of the past and all the power of the future.
I WON!
Reuters reported that the White House upped its estimate of how much this guy was going to cost Americans by 28%. Reuters reported: The White House took heat for sticking with its $7.108 trillion forecast earlier this year after the Congressional Budget Office forecast that deficits between 2010 and 2019 would total $9.1 trillion.
And Democrats complained about President Bushs spending?
Hah!"
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Offer expires at midnight. Order yours today.
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Expect a mathematical progression on it to continue till the Fed bond market goes zero and, as the Fed simply prints more money instead, watch inflation return to that which was ignited in the Carter years.
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I'm surprised anyone is surprised. This is a step right out of the Communist play-book: cause hyper-inflation until all "old" wealth is destroyed, while taking control of every instrument of gaining new wealth. Once the "old" wealth is gone, the communists institute a "new" currency, which they control, preventing people from accumulating any significant wealth. They tried it in Germany during the Weimar Republic, but got Adolf Hitler, instead of a Communist. Following WWII, they used this strategy in the Eastern Bloc of nations, especially in Hungary, which had inflation to equal the German Weimar era.
BTW, that thing that "looks like somebody giving you the "finger"" is a stone statue of a fish eagle, the symbol of Zimbabwe.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Don Surber calls it The 
