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Barack Obama is Brilliant Thread; HUH?
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History of his brilliant accomplishments

...the brilliance he displayed in WHO he selected to surround himself with.

Of course many of us in Kansas were happy Kathleen Sebelius was gone from our state!
Kathleen Sibelius is the daughter of tax a billion Gilligan - the former governor of the Buckeye State. If Kansans had asked Ohioans, the Buckeyes would have said don't elect a Gilligan!
I posted on the Japan thread the statements of the Surgeon General in the SF Bay Area who thought buying potassium iodine tablets was a good idea while the State of California Health Officials were trying to stop people from rushing out and buying them. It isn't needed as it is 5000 miles to USA from Japan!

Another Obama appointment who wasn't briefed
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Surgeon-General-Buying-Iodine-Appropriate-118031559.html

The incompetence of this Administration grows.
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MAYBE HE IS MORE "BRILLIANT THAN WE GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR!

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Bahrain strife adds to US worries in Mideast

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the threat of Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife as unrest spreads in the Mideast, the Obama administration on Tuesday urged Saudi Arabia not to hold back political reform in neighboring Bahrain, a longtime U.S. friend that is also caught between old loyalties to both majority-Sunni Saudi Arabia and majority-Shiite Iran.

Washington urged the ruling family in Bahrain, home to the Navy's 5th Fleet, to talk to protesters about political reform as reports came in of hundreds of Bahraini demonstrators injured by shotgun blasts and clubs. A Saudi soldier from a large contingent of Gulf troops imported to Bahrain was shot to death by a protester.

Urging restraint, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed alarm over "provocative acts and sectarian violence," and said she telephoned Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud to stress the need for the foreign forces to promote dialogue.
(That would be the "Saud" that openly views Obama as a diappointment)

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With fragile democratic processes struggling to take hold in Egypt and Tunisia, and deadly violence continuing in Libya, Clinton said Bahrain's government and protesters "must take steps now to negotiate toward a political resolution."

The crisis in Bahrain contains ingredients for an explosive regional crisis: an embattled Sunni royal family unable to appease an emboldened Shiite majority, foreign troops deployed to keep order, a state of emergency, a dead Saudi soldier, an angry Iran.

For the U.S., the stakes are high and not just because Bahrain hosts a huge naval base a short distance across the Persian Gulf from Iran. After the collapse of U.S.-allied governments in Egypt and Tunisia, how the unrest plays out in a Sunni-Shiite dynamic could mark a significant shift in the regional balance of power between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which has purchased billions of dollars in American military equipment to counteract the Islamic republic's growing influence.

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...And Iran responded to Saudi Arabia's assistance by declaring the intervention "unacceptable" and predicting it would complicate the kingdom's political crisis.

Iran holds no deep political ties to Bahrain's Shiite groups, but some Iranian hard-liners have hailed their efforts over the years to secure greater rights. Bahrain and Iran do have longstanding economic ties, and Iran has tried to leverage both the sectarian and trading relationships.

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Obama administration officials have been worried about the country, but their response has been uneven. They originally stressed the U.S. condemnation of the monarchy's crackdown on protesters, and then offered praise for efforts to establish a national dialogue. Yet as the U.S. quietly urged longtime ally Mubarak to leave power, and then loudly demanded the same of Moammar Gadhafi after Libya's violent repression of protesters, no similar suggestion has ever been made in Bahrain despite the persistent failure to establish order.

Saudi Arabia's new involvement in the crisis after a long history of tinkering in Bahrain complicates the situation. The Saudi royal family has bristled at U.S. demands for greater democracy throughout the Arab world, opting instead to keep public order in its kingdom by pumping billions of dollars into public subsidies and threatening tough action against perceived troublemakers. It also was unpleased by the lack of U.S. support for Mubarak.

Bahrain's request for Saudi and United Arab Emirates troops could imply that the government isn't serious about changing its fundamental make-up or that the Saudis are determined to maintain order in their backyard. In either of these cases, the motivation would be at odds with the U.S. goal for the region of establishing stronger ties :roflmao: even as countries make greater commitments toward democracy.

Clinton said she told the Saudi foreign minister that "everyone needs to be promoting the dialogue between the parties." Yet, illustrating the primarily problem in Bahrain, she said the U.S. calls "on all sides to immediately begin that dialogue."


With exception for a few bows, I have not seen anything that indicates we will ever develop stronger "ties" in the region, especially if that plan starts by alienating all the ties we presently have. What country in the Middle East do we have left besides Iraq and maybe some of Afghanistan???

The ONLY dominant leaders the Shi'ites have are all extremists, wanting to kill Jews and all non-Muslims.

Maybe our Emperor is more brilliant than we dreamed he could be, sorta like an enemy from within.
Edited by kbp, Mar 16 2011, 03:29 PM.
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I Get a Kick from Bahrain

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
By Rich Galen
Headline: Saudi Troops Enter Bahrain to Help Put Down Unrest

Come with me into the Wayback Machine.

Back in the day, I worked for a company called EDS which had been founded by a guy named Ross Perot. Perot was gone in the mid-90s when I was there and got involved with what I'm about to describe to you.

There came a time when I got a call from a very senior executive at EDS to meet with a man who was coming to visit the campus north of Dallas from a place called Bahrain.

I had never heard of Bahrain.

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… I went to Bahrain and fell in love with the people.

Bahrain has been governed by the al-Khalifa family since 1783 when they kicked the Persians (now Iranians) out.

It had some oil when oil was new, but not enough to make a living at it and so it became a trading center. Movements of goods from the Middle East to Asia went through Bahrain. During the Cold War, when western airlines couldn't overfly Soviet airspace, Bahrain became a refueling stop for planes from Europe heading for India and further east.

Beirut was the banking center for the Middle East but, during the civil war in Lebanon in the late 70s and 80s, the financial industry looked for a safe haven and they chose the relatively sleepy, safe, western-facing Bahrain.

Hence, the visit to EDS in 1993 by the Deputy Director of the central bank of Bahrain followed by the visit to Bahrain by the Director of Emerging Markets.

Bahrain has been a model of modernity in the region. Women were given the right to vote in 2002. The U.K. Guardian wrote: “Bahrain took the first step towards overturning 30 years of autocratic rule yesterday when it became the first Gulf state to hold truly democratic parliamentary elections in which women enjoyed equal voting rights with men and were allowed to contest national posts.”

Unlike the overthrow of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and the attempted overthrow of a dictator in Libya, the unrest in Bahrain is sectarian: Shi'ite v Sunni.

Saudi Arabia is overwhelmingly Sunni. Bahrain is overwhelmingly Shi'ite. The differnce is important.

Remember that the Thirty Years' War began in 1618 and the "Troubles" in Ireland finally ended with the Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement in 1998.

You think 380 years of violence among Christians is so very different?

I am a fan of Bahrain. I understand there are inequities, but there are inequities between the residents of Beacon Hill in Boston and people who live in East Los Angeles.

Although officials are loathe to say it, I have little doubt that Iran -- a Shi'ite country -- is, at a minimum, encouraging the unrest in Bahrain if not sending in agents provocateurs to provide guidance (if not direction), support (if not money), and people to provoke sectarian hostility (if not violence).

I have no idea how this is going to turn out, but my heart is with the Bahraini government.

I like Bahrain. I like the people. I think some of them like me.


"Unlike the overthrow of dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and the attempted overthrow of a dictator in Libya, the unrest in Bahrain is sectarian: Shi'ite v Sunni."

The troubles in Egypt and Tunisia has Shi'ites at the heart of it, I'm not sure about Libya.
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Reading through this thread tells me that Obama is starting to figure out that being POTUS is a lot more difficult then being a "community organizer". Obama as community organizer relied on the advice of Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, the Midwest Academy, to name a few. Now as POTUS, he has appointed as Czars or advisors, people that think like Davis, Ayers and Wright. People like Obama feel comfortable in the socialist community of his mentors and their element of community organizing, who want redistribution of wealth. Obama as persident only wants to represent the socialist in our society, not America as a whole, so what do we end up with a divided nation socialist v capitalist. What made America a great nation, I don't believe it was socialism. IMHO, Obama wanted to be president for the power, priviledge and entertainment, not to take on the responsibilities of the office.
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One of Zero's brilliant underlings, Gaitner.

Geithner says Congress must raise debt limit


(Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that there was no alternative except for Congress to raise the debt ceiling so that the government can keep borrowing.

"Congress has to do it. There's no alternative," he said in response to questions at a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee.

He repeated a warning that it would be have "catastrophic" consequences for the economy if the debt ceiling was not raised and the country defaulted on its debt obligations.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-usa-treasury-geithner-debt-idUSTRE72F7WQ20110316
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Obama the invisible
Anti-leadership amid world crises

Where is the president? The world is beset. Moammar Khadafy is moving relentlessly to crush the Libyan revolt that once promised the overthrow of one of the world's most despicable regimes.

So where is the president?

Japan may be on the verge of a disaster that dwarfs any we have yet seen. A self-governing nation like the United States needs its leader to take full measure of his position at times of crises when the path forward is no longer clear.

This is not a time for leadership; this is the time for leadership.

So where is Barack Obama?

The moment demands that he rise to the challenge of showing America and the world that he is taking the reins. How leaders act in times of unanticipated crisis, in which they do not have a formulated game plan and must instead navigate in treacherous waters, defines them.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

It is not merely that he isn't rising to the challenge. He is avoiding the challenge. He is Bartleby the President. He would prefer not to.

He has access to a microphone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If he tells the broadcast networks in the middle of the day that he has a major address to deliver on an unprecedented world situation, they will cancel their programming for him.

And yet, since Friday and a press conference in which he managed to leave the American position on Libya more muddled than it was before, we have not heard his voice. Except in a radio address -- he talked about education legislation.

And he appeared at a fund-raiser in DC. And sat down with ESPN to reveal his NCAA picks.

He cannot go on like this. Niall Ferguson, the very pessimistic economic historian, wrote the other day that the best we can now hope for is that Obama leaves the country in the same kind of shape that Jimmy Carter left it in....snipped

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obama_the_invisible_Ass40MBstf15MAr9DYAORK


We have a big problem!
Edited by Baldo, Mar 16 2011, 06:12 PM.
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retiredLEO
Mar 16 2011, 05:50 PM
One of Zero's brilliant underlings, Gaitner.

Geithner says Congress must raise debt limit


(Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that there was no alternative except for Congress to raise the debt ceiling so that the government can keep borrowing.

"Congress has to do it. There's no alternative," he said in response to questions at a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee.

He repeated a warning that it would be have "catastrophic" consequences for the economy if the debt ceiling was not raised and the country defaulted on its debt obligations.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-usa-treasury-geithner-debt-idUSTRE72F7WQ20110316
As inflations builds up and dollars keep flowing, the ONLY hope they have is for tax revenues to increase and/or spending drops.

As for defaulting on debt obligations, Ben has that covered even if the tax dollars left without increased debt is not directed to cover such. He has already told us he is fabricating $600 billion to buy Treasury's with, and those notes can be new US debt for sale or previously issued that is traded every day.

If our debt is not raised, Ben can ONLY buy previously sold notes, even as they mature.
Edited by kbp, Mar 16 2011, 06:42 PM.
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Clinton pushes for jobs, reform in transitioning Tunisia



At least somebody in that BRILLIANT administrationis working on JOBS!

...for some reason I suspect this involves OUR tax dollars paying for stimulus!

Edited by kbp, Mar 17 2011, 01:27 PM.
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OH, HILL NO!
"...Clinton revealed her desire to leave yesterday in an interview with CNN’s
Wolf Blitzer, responding four times to his questions about whether she would
accept a post during a potential second Obama administration with a single word: “No.”"


A little more on the brilliance at work. It's worth the time to read, and while doing so recall that former President Bill Clinton has been making a few remarks lately that are not showing much support for Obama.
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State monitor orders Asbury's Barack Obama School closed

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ASBURY PARK — The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1.

Students next year will go to the district's two other more modern elementary schools -- Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side.

Bruce Rodman, the monitor, made the decision after the school board in recent weeks failed to support a plan by Schools Superintendent Denise Lowe to reconfigure elementary grades to create early childhood learning centers in the district, a plan which would have kept the Obama school open.

Officially renamed early in 2010 after the president, the building was known as the Bangs Avenue School since it was built a century ago. The state School Development Authority had planned to build a new school to replace the historic building, but has pulled back and Lowe said recently the state would not build a new school....snipped
http://www.app.com/article/20110317/NJNEWS/110317060/State-monitor-orders-Asbury-s-Barack-Obama-School-closed


Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama


Everyone sing along!

Seems a long time ago doesn't it? It was Sept 2009.. 18 months ago
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Mar 17 2011, 08:49 PM
State monitor orders Asbury's Barack Obama School closed

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ASBURY PARK — The state fiscal monitor who oversees financial operations in the school district Thursday morning ordered the closing of the Barack H. Obama Elementary School as of July 1.

Students next year will go to the district's two other more modern elementary schools -- Thurgood Marshall on the east side and Bradley on the west side.

Bruce Rodman, the monitor, made the decision after the school board in recent weeks failed to support a plan by Schools Superintendent Denise Lowe to reconfigure elementary grades to create early childhood learning centers in the district, a plan which would have kept the Obama school open.

Officially renamed early in 2010 after the president, the building was known as the Bangs Avenue School since it was built a century ago. The state School Development Authority had planned to build a new school to replace the historic building, but has pulled back and Lowe said recently the state would not build a new school....snipped
http://www.app.com/article/20110317/NJNEWS/110317060/State-monitor-orders-Asbury-s-Barack-Obama-School-closed


Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama

He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama


Everyone sing along!

Seems a long time ago doesn't it? It was Sept 2009.. 18 months ago
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No you did''ent.

You will surely be on some kind of list now.

State Priorities
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1) Honoring the One.

2) Doing it for the children.


You are in trouble.


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European life expectancy rising despite obesity

(Reuters) - Life expectancy in Europe is continuing to increase despite an obesity epidemic, with people in Britain reaching an older age than those living in the United States, according to study of trends over the last 40 years.

In a report in International Journal of Epidemiology, population health expert David Leon of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said the findings counteract concerns that the rising life expectancy trend in wealthy nations may be coming to an end in the face of health problems caused by widespread levels of obesity.

They also suggest that simple factors like how rich a nation is and how much it spends on health care do not necessarily correlate with its people's lifespans.

Despite spending more per head on health care than any other country in the world, life expectancy in the United States is at the same level as the lowest of any Western European country -- Portugal for men and Denmark for women -- and the rate for women is increasing at a much slower pace than Western Europe.

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I guess that tosses Mrs. Obama into this thread also.

Can't wait to read about Democrats using this to justify doing less health care for a higher cost - you'll live longer!
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Might there be a correlation with the fact that people in Britain walk a lot more than in the US. That's my impression, and not something I can verify by fact. But in the cities and in the countryside, people tend to walk wherever they can.

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Mar 19 2011, 10:32 PM
Might there be a correlation with the fact that people in Britain walk a lot more than in the US. That's my impression, and not something I can verify by fact. But in the cities and in the countryside, people tend to walk wherever they can.

Perhaps comparing the life expectancy of Britons with the life expectancy of Americans of British ancestry could be revealing. Or Swedes in Sweden vs. Swedes here - or some such politically incorrect thing. :think:
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Most of tax cut going down workers' gas tanks

Which will we hear first?

1. ‘with the deep economical recession that I inherited ‘
2. ‘it would have been much worse’
3. ‘the necessity for a bipartisan …being ignored’
4. 'the additional stimulus needed'


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