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Barack Obama is Brilliant Thread; HUH?
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Topic Started: Mar 3 2011, 11:12 PM (16,474 Views)
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kbp
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Apr 23 2011, 08:00 PM
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This thread seemed like a record of "brilliant" moves by Obama we could conclude were not that brilliant, I started the "beyond" thread for moves we should anticipate would fit that "brilliant" category. I should have just posted all in this thread, for some are conclusive and may be anticipated for other reasons. Oh well.
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Obama pumps plan to develop renewable energyWASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources. "That's the key to helping families at the pump and reducing our dependence on foreign oil" in the long term, he said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address. Obama raises the issue of rising fuel prices during almost every public appearance and says that he understands the strain higher fuel costs are putting on some family budgets. He announced Thursday during an event in Reno, Nev., that the Justice Department will begin looking for cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets, even though Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind the surging gas prices. As he has before, Obama said Saturday there is no "silver bullet" that will slash gas prices immediately. But he said there are things government can do to help make a difference in the long term. They also include boosting U.S. oil production, rooting out any illegal activity by traders and speculators and ending $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies to oil and gas companies. "Instead of subsidizing yesterday's energy sources, we need to invest in tomorrow's," Obama said snip
Okay Barry! Show me your how that $4 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies redirected will solve this problem!
I say spend it on the candidate opposing you and that will solve it, for the $732+/- billion you spent already solving our problems sure as he!! didn't work.
This plan has evidence of the old "brilliant" moves that failed and a coninuation for them to fail again in the future.
Punch those numbers, Barry, and give us the plan. We all have basic skills in readin', ritin' and rithmatic.
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Apr 23 2011, 09:19 PM
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The only person who believes investing in renewable energy sources will bring down the price of gas any day soon is a complete effing idiot. The people who are promoting bio fuels or solar know that is reality.
My only option is Obama is ignorant or a liar.
Oil Execs Chortle as Obama Admin Promotes Renewables
.....Leaders of two of the world's largest oil and gas companies used their addresses at CERAWeek, a sprawling conference sponsored by energy analysis firm IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, to warn against unbridled optimism about wind and solar energy. Khalid Al-Falih, president and CEO of Saudi Aramco, deemed overreliance on renewable power dangerous, while ConocoPhillips Chairman James Mulva employed sarcasm to compare renewable boosters to those who won't acknowledge climate change.
"We must overcome the opposition of the 'hydrocarbon deniers,'" Mulva said, playing off the term "climate deniers," used to describe skeptics about climate science. Hydrocarbon deniers, he said, are those who "believe that renewable energy will quickly and easily replace hydrocarbons and cure all that ails us."
Mulva, whose company supports mandatory U.S. regulation of greenhouse gases, said renewables cannot develop quickly enough to replace fossil fuels, and he predicted that even in 40 years, most electricity will not come from renewable sources.
"After all, there are only so many places where massive development is economical and publicly acceptable," Mulva said, "and only so much government funding to subsidize the renewable sources."..snipped
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/10/10greenwire-oil-execs-chortle-as-obama-admin-promotes-rene-73770.html
Now I know some will say those are oil men, well to tell the truth they are the guys who know what they are talking about. The engineers & geologists working in the oil business are the best. PERIOD!
Sorry Folks this is Alchemy - the turning of lead into Gold.
I do believe in electric cars, but we are a ways off in battery technology & it will take decades to replace our cars. We need to have a lot more energy, from Nuclear. Natural gas is a bridge, a damn good one. The point is the time he is wasting and the harm he is doing to our country is great.
Obama & his buddies are destroying our economy with this foolishness.
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kbp
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Apr 23 2011, 09:43 PM
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ConocoPhillips Chairman James Mulva ...whose company supports mandatory U.S. regulation of greenhouse gases, said renewables cannot develop quickly enough to replace fossil fuels, and he predicted that even in 40 years, most electricity will not come from renewable sources.
Regulations won;t hurt their business, just add more tax dollars going through their hands.
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Apr 25 2011, 01:42 PM
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Zero is a MUSLIM at heart, no message to the United States on Easter.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/04/25/easter-greeting/
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Apr 26 2011, 10:14 PM
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From the "BRILLIANT" instructor of constitutional law that is runnig our nation...
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Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law'President Barack Obama’s assertion at a recent California fundraiser that Bradley Manning “broke the law” may have run afoul of presidential protocol, according to legal analysts who have been tracking the case of the Army private charged in the WikiLeaks case. “I have to abide by certain classified information,” Obama said on a video that quickly began to circulate among media outlets Friday. “If I was to release stuff, information that I’m not authorized to release, I’m breaking the law. … We’re a nation of laws. We don’t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate. … He broke the law.” snip Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice and military law expert, predicted that before the end of the day, the White House will have issued a corrective statement. “Commenting on Manning’s conditions of confinement is one thing — I would have strongly advised him to not comment about Manning’s guilt,” Fidell told POLITICO snip
He might be a "natural born" Nifong!
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Apr 26 2011, 10:55 PM
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From the "BRILLIANT" instructor of constitutional law that is runnig our nation... - Quote:
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Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law'President Barack Obama’s assertion at a recent California fundraiser that Bradley Manning “broke the law” may have run afoul of presidential protocol, according to legal analysts who have been tracking the case of the Army private charged in the WikiLeaks case. “I have to abide by certain classified information,” Obama said on a video that quickly began to circulate among media outlets Friday. “If I was to release stuff, information that I’m not authorized to release, I’m breaking the law. … We’re a nation of laws. We don’t individually make our own decisions about how the laws operate. … He broke the law.” snip Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice and military law expert, predicted that before the end of the day, the White House will have issued a corrective statement. “Commenting on Manning’s conditions of confinement is one thing — I would have strongly advised him to not comment about Manning’s guilt,” Fidell told POLITICO snip
He might be a "natural born" Nifong! He did the same thing with that GITMO prisoner...
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kbp
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May 10 2011, 04:08 PM
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Obama: Immigration plan is an 'economic imperative'snip Speaking in El Paso, Obama again argued that ongoing improvements to tighten the border should be accompanied by a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million or so illegal immigrants in the USA. " One way to strengthen the middle class in America is to reform the immigration system, so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everybody else," Obama said. "Immigration reform is an economic imperative." snip
Sounds like one of the many reasons we hear about in efforts to deport ILLEGAL immigrants.
Can't wait for him to explain how increasing wages through immigration reform helps our world trade deficit.
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Baldo
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May 10 2011, 05:07 PM
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We spend over 3 Billion every year housing over 100,000 illegal aliens in our California prisons. Our school system is overwhelmed in many districts and the dropout rates are horrendous.. While many come here for a better life, some don't.
Cheap labor for some, votes for others, just politics in all its stinking glory.
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kbp
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May 10 2011, 05:16 PM
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I considered mentioning that about the only positive I see with illegal immigrants is the SS withheld from the paychecks, but the medical expense I suspect outweighs it (along with all just noted above).
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May 10 2011, 05:18 PM
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I considered mentioning that about the only positive I see with illegal immigrants is the SS withheld from the paychecks, but the medical expense I suspect outweighs it (along with all just noted above). It appears they cost us more in crime and medical care then SS paid.
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May 16 2011, 11:38 AM
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IIRC, Michelle is spending billions ($7+/-) to recude the problem of obesity. I'm not sure what the savings will be, but it's looks like it would be more 'brilliant' to concentrate the spending on an economical cure for those who will not jump on her 'eat healthy' program.
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Jun 1 2011, 01:14 PM
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Obama Commerce Nominee: U.S. Has 'Obligation to Lead' on Climate Change Legislation
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was “incredibly important” that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming. “I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead,” Bryson told the U.N. International Energy Conference in late August 2009. “I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change.” Bryson, in stating “in this year,” was speaking about the U.N. Climate Change Conference scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Formerly the CEO of Edison International, Bryson has long been an advocate of some sort of federal plan for regulating greenhouse gasses. While still at Edison, he called for a national cap and trade system. Under cap and trade, in general, the amount of carbon an industry could emit into the air would be capped. For companies that expect to exceed that cap, they could buy (“trade”) carbon credits to supposedly offset their emissions; the money spent for the credit would be redirected to supposedly greener, less polluting companies. “A deliberate and coordinated effort is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the entire energy sector,” Bryson said in a July 2004 Edison press release. “Long term, a reasonable and balanced ‘cap-and-trade’ system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions could be adopted once new carbon- dioxide removal technology has been developed and becomes commercially available.” Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations’ Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming. Bryson’s nomination to head commercemust be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
This guy wanted to see rates increased for all his utility customers by way of supporting cap & trade.
Even those supporting that cap & trade admit it would increase the cost of ENERGY, along with all products that must have ENERGY to be brought to market ...which includes everything.
This is the mindset the Brilliant One has chosen to oversee the commerce in our nation????
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Jun 1 2011, 01:45 PM
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Top down, bottom up, inside out strategy. The man is determined to destroy this country and remake it in the image of the third world and at the same time hold the seat of power indefinitely. If he is reelected in 2012, there will be no more elections in this country. Call me a fool, but I believe this with all my heart.
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Jun 1 2011, 01:52 PM
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Top down, bottom up, inside out strategy. The man is determined to destroy this country and remake it in the image of the third world and at the same time hold the seat of power indefinitely. If he is reelected in 2012, there will be no more elections in this country. Call me a fool, but I believe this with all my heart. I am of the same opinion, that is why I consider the 2012 election the most important of my lifetime. Cap and trade is just another redistribution of wealth programs.
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kbp
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Jun 2 2011, 05:24 PM
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Obama's Commerce Nominee: Cap and Trade Good for ‘Hiding’ Carbon Taxes Wednesday, June 01, 2011 By Matt Cover John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a University of California Berkeley audience in 2010 that a cap and trade system was a good way to hide a carbon tax from the public. Bryson, formerly the CEO of Edison International, said that a carbon tax was the new “third rail” of politics because politicians wouldn’t want to tax energy directly. “I think it’s still unlikely there’ll be a carbon tax bill because I think in the end a very high percentage of the members of Congress think it’s kind of the third rail to support a tax, even if it’s a carbon tax,” Bryson said. “Greenhouse gas legislation, either with a tax or with cap and trade – which is a more complicated way of getting at it but it has the advantage of politically sort of hiding the fact that you have a tax – but that’s what you’re trying to do,” he added. snip
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Obama Nominee: Redistribute Wealth To Keep Poor From Cutting Trees
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 By Matt Cover (CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department, told a UN energy conference in 2009 that a global wealth redistribution program was needed to keep poor people in developing countries from using their own forest resources. “What we’ve got to do is find ways to map out the affected lands, to develop plans for addressing them, find economic models in which the people who are driven to do these things to try to raise the livelihoods of their families, find alternative means,” Bryson said in laying out his vision for stopping people in poor countries from cutting down forests. “Training of peoples, to maybe help in supporting this, development of law enforcement regimes, development of strong governance practices, all of those things have to be done,” Bryson continued. Bryson said that establishing things such as a global forestry law enforcement regime would require substantial “investments” on the part of wealthier countries so that the international community could better control how poor countries use their forest resources. “All those things require, among other things, very substantial financial investments,” he said. “And those financial investments as a practical matter will need to come from the wealthier nations and peoples of the world. And that seems to me right, and proper, and the thing that needs to be done.” snip
Boy, I can think of lots of departments Obama could toss this guy in, but the last department I have in mind would be COMMERCE.
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