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Topic Started: Sep 2 2011, 02:14 PM (577 Views)
Joan Foster

President Barack Obama will honor NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other Chase drivers from last year in a White House ceremony on Wednesday – but nearly half of the 2010 playoff contenders won't be there.

NASCAR said Thursday that five drivers – Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart – will not be attending the White House visit due to "schedule conflicts."

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http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2011/9/1/2399376/nascar-drivers-decline-president-barack-obama-white-house-invitation-jimmie-johnson-2011
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Joan Foster

This guy isn't either...anymore....

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-tv-obama-boehner-congress-politics-prime-time-20110901,0,6620241.story


"But here's the other observation: Not only isn't Obama the gifted TV performer he seemed to be during the 2008 campaign, TV is now one of his worst enemies.

My first fuzzy notion of this idea came while I watched Obama address the nation after the debt ceiling compromise with its crackpot, kick-the-can centerpiece of a so-called Super Committee. Obama had performed pitifully during the crisis, and yet, here he was on TV thinking he could spin the economic embarrassment as "Good President Battles Bad Congress" or Responsible Adult reins in Mean, Selfish Children."

But as I looked at the screen, I couldn't help thinking how diminished Obama looked and how thin his voice sounded. I wondered if there actually was something happening physically with him.

So, I went back to a DVD I have of him speaking on election night 2008 in Chicago's Grant Park.

Of course, I lost myself in a flood memories as I watched. I remembered how that TV moment sent thousands of college students and others into the streets of Baltimore celebrating. And it was the TV moment, not just the election victory. Young viewers watching him onscreen wanted to share that energy in a communal, physical sense with others.

Viewing him now on TV in his promise-not-realized persona made me both sad for what might have been and angry for letting myself believe in the TV imagery of a night in Grant Park in November.

Knowing something about shared memory and the way the national psyche intersects with media, I believe millions of viewers like me unconsciously associate the Obama they now see on TV spinning and dodging and looking like a worried man with the giant they thought they saw in 2008 -- the one we kept comparing to Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan as great media presidents.

I admit I thought he was a going to be a great TV president -- in fact, the last great TV president, the book end to JFK, given the way media were headed.

But I now know I was looking at neither greatness nor the end of the TV Era.

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Joan Foster
Sep 2 2011, 02:49 PM
This guy isn't either...anymore....

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-tv-obama-boehner-congress-politics-prime-time-20110901,0,6620241.story


"But here's the other observation: Not only isn't Obama the gifted TV performer he seemed to be during the 2008 campaign, TV is now one of his worst enemies.

My first fuzzy notion of this idea came while I watched Obama address the nation after the debt ceiling compromise with its crackpot, kick-the-can centerpiece of a so-called Super Committee. Obama had performed pitifully during the crisis, and yet, here he was on TV thinking he could spin the economic embarrassment as "Good President Battles Bad Congress" or Responsible Adult reins in Mean, Selfish Children."

But as I looked at the screen, I couldn't help thinking how diminished Obama looked and how thin his voice sounded. I wondered if there actually was something happening physically with him.

So, I went back to a DVD I have of him speaking on election night 2008 in Chicago's Grant Park.

Of course, I lost myself in a flood memories as I watched. I remembered how that TV moment sent thousands of college students and others into the streets of Baltimore celebrating. And it was the TV moment, not just the election victory. Young viewers watching him onscreen wanted to share that energy in a communal, physical sense with others.

Viewing him now on TV in his promise-not-realized persona made me both sad for what might have been and angry for letting myself believe in the TV imagery of a night in Grant Park in November.

Knowing something about shared memory and the way the national psyche intersects with media, I believe millions of viewers like me unconsciously associate the Obama they now see on TV spinning and dodging and looking like a worried man with the giant they thought they saw in 2008 -- the one we kept comparing to Roosevelt, Kennedy and Reagan as great media presidents.

I admit I thought he was a going to be a great TV president -- in fact, the last great TV president, the book end to JFK, given the way media were headed.

But I now know I was looking at neither greatness nor the end of the TV Era.

:thud: :thud: :thud:

That is actually coming from a liberal. If his record was not so public, a person might think it was coming from a conservative pretending to be a liberal.

As the Senate and House candidates distance themselves from Obama's failures, it just makes Dems failures ...a no-win situation unless Obama can turn it all around quickly!
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When the ship starts sinking don't be surprised if the supporters abandon ship.
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These comments like the one above seem to be saying that Obama has changed since the election. To me and to many others, he has not dinimished at all -he has always appeared this way.
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He has physically changed a lot in 2.5 years. If you compare his picture and interviews in 2008, he looks a lot older, certainly grayer and with deeper lines around his mouth (probably caused by all the lies he's told).
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Sep 3 2011, 11:19 AM
He has physically changed a lot in 2.5 years. If you compare his picture and interviews in 2008, he looks a lot older, certainly grayer and with deeper lines around his mouth (probably caused by all the lies he's told).
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Sep 3 2011, 11:54 AM
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Sep 3 2011, 11:19 AM
He has physically changed a lot in 2.5 years. If you compare his picture and interviews in 2008, he looks a lot older, certainly grayer and with deeper lines around his mouth (probably caused by all the lies he's told).
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:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:


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Excellent kbp!

One thing I would like to point out is that all Presidents have graying hair during their administrations. I suspect it has more to do with the reality they are usually around their 50's or older and it is natural to at their age. Obama is just undergoing what most men experience.

Like many myths or excuses they are created to enhance some ideas or PR campaign and both parties do it.
Edited by Baldo, Sep 3 2011, 02:29 PM.
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Baldo
Sep 3 2011, 02:28 PM
Excellent kbp!

One thing I would like to point out is that all Presidents have graying hair during their administrations.
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Yeah, but this is the only one where the citizenry has aged faster than the occupant of the White House.

Jobs, Gasoline, Energy prices, inability to get into Martha's Vineyard.

Very unsettling, indeed.

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Sep 3 2011, 02:40 PM
Baldo
Sep 3 2011, 02:28 PM
Excellent kbp!

One thing I would like to point out is that all Presidents have graying hair during their administrations.
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Yeah, but this is the only one where the citizenry has aged faster than the occupant of the White House.

Jobs, Gasoline, Energy prices, inability to get into Martha's Vineyard.

Very unsettling, indeed.

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:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

The graying in his hair pales in comparison to the damage he has done to our bank accounts & future

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Joan Foster

"I'm looking through..where did you go. I thought I knew you..what did I know?"



President Barack Obama next week finally will be addressing America's jobs crisis. He's been fiddling while the jobs burn.

The U.S. unemployment rate remained stubbornly stuck above 9 percent for July. California's rate is 12 percent. When Mr. Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, unemployment stood at 7.6 percent. He promised that his $767 billion stimulus bill would cap unemployment at 8 percent. All the stimulus did was goose the federal debt, now above $14 trillion – and rising.

Mr. Obama's continued cluelessness is shown by his appointment Monday of Alan Krueger to chair the White House Council of Economic Advisers. During 2009-10, Mr. Krueger served as assistant Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. So, he already is part of the problem, not the solution.

Mr. Krueger worked on Mr. Obama's "cash for clunkers" program. That didn't work. Its main effect was to remove old, cheap vehicles from sales lots, making it difficult for poor people to buy cars. According to the NADA Used Car Guide, the average price of a used car two to five years old soared to $16,765 in April 2011 from $10,000 in January 2009.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Krueger maintains "that increases in the minimum wage don't depress employment." This defies basic economics, in which higher prices reduce demand (in this case, demand for workers).

"Krueger is a champion of the minimum wage – that is, outlawing some jobs – as good for the economy," Lew Rockwell told us; he's chairman of the free-market Mises Institute. "But if orders from D.C. to pay everyone more are a good idea, why not $10,000 an hour? Maybe because there would be 100 percent unemployment. Krueger is the worst sort of authoritarian Keynesian."

Believers in Keynesian economics, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), believe that government can stimulate economic growth through minimum-wage increases, more government spending, inflation and artificially low interest rates. As during the 1970s "malaise" economy, it is just these policies that have been tried under Mr. Obama, and have failed.

Although the economic doldrums began in 2007 under President George W. Bush, Mr. Obama now has had more than two and a half years to get America growing again. By this time in President Ronald Reagan's recovery program – the year 1983 – the economy was roaring, with a 7 percent annual growth rate.

Reagan's polices included curbing inflation under Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, no minimum-wage increase, tax cuts and spending restraint. The Gipper wasn't perfect. His deficits were stubborn. He later admitted he was "snookered" by Congress into tax increases in return for more spending cuts that never materialized. But it's hard to argue with results.

And it's hard to defend failure, as Mr. Obama is finding out.


http://articles.ocregister.com/2011-09-01/news/30107399_1_wage-unemployment-rate-government-spending

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I thought Obama would be a good speaker, but he just never was.

Now he looks like he's been used hard and put away wet. He looks like he's tired of the job.
Edited by LTC8K6, Sep 3 2011, 06:46 PM.
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Frankly - it is the first real job he has ever had! One where expectations and results can be measured.
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LTC8K6
Sep 3 2011, 06:45 PM
I thought Obama would be a good speaker, but he just never was.

Now he looks like he's been used hard and put away wet. He looks like he's tired of the job.

I've said a few times I didn't think he really cared ...the joke is on us, and I halfway expect surprises when he is out of office ...some that could make this nation the laughingstock of the world.

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