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• Accepting The Nobel

  —South Florida Daily Blog

  
  
  From President Obama's Nobel Prize acceptance speech yesterday...I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler’s [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:15am EST
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• SHOCK POLL: 44% Want Bush Back Over Obama

  —the B2Journal

  SHOCK POLL: 44% Want Bush Back Over Obama – 11 dec – Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama’s declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they’d rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:03am EST
  by BD Pisani

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• Soaring Realism

  —Bark Bark Woof Woof

  It was interesting to hear the reactions to President Obama's Nobel speech; he garnered praise from people on the right, including Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, and criticism from some on the left who thought he was channeling George W. Bush with his talk about dealing [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:13am EST
  

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• How To REALLY, REALLY P. O. The PrezBO!!!!

  —Pekin Prattles

  Read the new polls....
  One tells PrezBO (& everyone else) that current polling places Obama at 50% and Bush at 44% in terms of which one you'd rather have as the Prez!
  
  When one considers Bush's ratings in his last year in office were somewhere between' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:17pm EST
  

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• Bad News, I Don't See No Bad News.....

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  Jennifer Rubin at Commentary Magazine comments on The Obama Team's tin ear:
  
  "This is not an administration that takes bad news well. Or to put it more precisely, this is not an administration that takes in bad news. The president pretended not to hear the Tea Party protesters outside" [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:13pm EST
  

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• President Obama's Nobel Speech

  —Bark Bark Woof Woof

  Here is the text of the speech President Obama gave at the Nobel Prize ceremony today in Oslo, Norway.
  
  
  Via TPM. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• In Your Face

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  Via FoxNews

  Guess what the White House served at the annual Christmas party?
  

  Any fan of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street knows that “C” is for cookie.

  But at the Obama White House, “A” may be for acorn — as in acorn cookies served at Monday’s annual Christmas [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:21am EST
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• Cheap Gas

  —Bark Bark Woof Woof

  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) was asked by Chris Matthews what he thought about Dick Cheney's reaction to President Obama bowing to the Emperor of Japan.What about Bush Junior? I remember Bush Junior kissing Prince Abdullah on the cheek, and then holding his hand for an extended period of time.' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:25am EST
  

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• Quote of the Day

  —Pushing Rope

  
  
  "You know, look. The purpose of this [the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)] was to stabilize the financial sector, which it did. And then, the intention was that any unspent monies or any money that was returned to the taxpayers would go to deficit reduction. Since President Obama" [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:28am EST
  

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• Obama's Welfare For the Health Care Industry

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  A new CBS poll shows President Barack Obama has a better approval rating on Afghanistan and the economy than for health care.
  
  Obama Approval Poll Numbers
  
  Overall - 50 percent
  Afghanistan - 48 percent
  Economy - 47 percent
  Health care 42 percent
  
  59 percent of [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:40pm EST
  

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• You Vil Haf Climate Control OR Ve Vil Control You Through EPA! Ferstanzie?

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  The American Reichstag is underway. Obama knows NO bounds, and he will have his way as he expands the Executive Branch because HE CAN!!!!! Pelosi/Reid are dumb as doorknobs about this move to take control of the entire government.....and, unfortunately, the GOP is complicit as they hedge their bets to [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  

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• Former Obama Hispanic advisor lands stimulus contract

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  From the Hill: Freddy Balsera, a former adviser to President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign received nearly $70,000 from a federal stimulus bill contract to help alert television viewers in difficult-to-reach communities that their TV's would soon no longer receive broadcast signals.

  "Republicans on Tuesday criticized the federal spending on the advertising'" [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:58am EST
  by Lesley Clark

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• DIVE-DIVE!!! - Obama Ratings Continue to Slide!

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  SURPRISE-SURPRISE!!!!
  
  Ed Morrissey, at Hot Air, TELLS IT LIKE IT IS as another poll sez Obama is in really, really bad territory, ratings wise.
  
  Of course Robert Gibbs is still telling us that Baghdad is safe.....ER, I mean that polls mean nothing!
  
  Yeah, that's it.....Only positive [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:58am EST
  

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• Tiger-Tiger, Burning Bright....Obama, You're Next In Our Sights!

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  Lisa Schiffren, writing at American Thinker, explains the slickly-marketed Tiger Woods, used as much by the major businesses which backed him as he used them to compile a billion-dollar net worth. He is a product of a marketed image, not the picture of a real person.
  
  Now his persona [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:43am EST
  

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• Yoo Hooey

  —Bark Bark Woof Woof

  The Obama administration doesn't want John Yoo, the man who enabled the Bush administration's torture policies, to be prosecuted.Such lawsuits ask courts to second-guess presidential decisions and pose "the risk of deterring full and frank advice regarding the military's detention and treatment of those determined to be enemies during'" [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:36am EST
  

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• Ferre running to Meek's left on Afghanistan

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  Former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, put out a statement today saying he opposes President Barack Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan.

  "It is my judgment this plan for escalation and withdrawal is not worth one" [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:50pm EST
  by Beth Reinhard

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• May Day, May Day....STOP BREATHING!!!

  —Pekin Prattles

  The EPA (Environmental Political Agenda) has FOUND AIR BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH!!!
  
  Yeppers, the same folks who find GW to be upon us, have now found our air so bad we need to find an alternative source of oxygen!
  
  Obama & his friends are marching the lemmings [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:41pm EST
  

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• Teabagger hate splinters GOP

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  As has been well-chronicled here and elsewhere, last April in Pensacola I witnessed the Tea Party (or "teabagger") movement firsthand, up close and personal. Although it was clear that the teabaggers' denials of opposition to President Obama and their insistence that they were "nonpartisan" were utter bullshit,' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  

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• Dec. 7: Jobs Advice Needs To Come From Those Experiencing the Shifts

  —Sunshine Statements

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  By Sylvia Gurinsky
  
  
  It's all well and good that President Barack Obama wants to rely on the sage heads of this country to get people back to work.
  
  
  But his jobs summit last week also needed to feature more of the unemployed - particularly those who [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:37am EST
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• Scionti to leave House seat for defense job

  —The Buzz

  

  
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  State Rep. Michael Scionti, D-Tampa, has been appointed by President Barack Obama to a position in the Department of Defense and will resign his post in the Florida House. His resignation will be effective Dec. 13. The Governor will have to schedule a special election [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:55am EST
  by Janet Zink

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• Rep. Scionti goes to D.C.

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  From a House Democrats' press release:

  State Representative Michael Scionti will not seek reelection to a third term in the Florida House of Representatives for Legislative District 58 and announces that he has been appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intergovernmental Affairs and' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:54am EST
  by Marc Caputo

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• Florida GOP and the whole 'heart and soul' thing

  —Central Florida Political Pulse

  By Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel Political Writer For Republicans, the picture is a political Rorschach test. The photo shows a cluster of Florida Democrats surrounding President Barack Obama this year at a Fort Myers town hall meeting to sell his...

  
  

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:43am EST
  by Aaron Deslatte

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• Short Takes

  —Bark Bark Woof Woof

  Sunday on the Hill: President Obama went to the Capitol to push the Democrats on the healthcare bill.
  
  Massachusetts holds the primary for the election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat tomorrow.
  
  The U.S. forecasts smaller losses from the bank bailouts than previously thought. That's good.
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:17am EST
  

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• No Deadline For Afghanistan Withdrawal

  —Pushing Rope

  Sec. of Defense Robert Gates and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton told Bob Schieffer there is no absolute deadline to pull troops out of Afghanistan. Gates and Clinton do their best to spin. The fact is President Barack Obama said troops will start pulling out in July of [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:42am EST
  

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• Obama Talks to Senate Democrats

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  President Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats to finish work on the health care bill. The President met with Democrats near the Senate floor. Obama did not address controversial issues, such as the House Stupak-Pitts anti-abortion amendment or using cloture. Obama's talk was a pep rally speech that [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  

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• Arm-Twisting/Lies/Collusion/Etc.

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  The current crop of Reid/Pelosi/Obama leaders are determined....no matter the cost....to have SOME eFORM of healthcare voted upon and approved. They care not a lot about the details. They are sold on the idea that if they do not pass said and same healthcare "reform" they fail with their base. [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:12pm EST
  

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• Obama Bombs Once Again!

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  Michael Goodwin states: "Perhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted "present" 130 times in the Illinois Legislature couldn't possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time.
  
  Yet even the pessimists among us are alarmed by the cloud of uncertainty'" [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:07pm EST
  

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• The 12 Days of Copenhagen....

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  Sung to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas....final chorus...liberties taken with the rhyme & meter!!!
  
  1200 Limousines
  1100 Caviar
  1000 Free Hookers
  900 pounds of carbon footprint (each)
  8 lonely protesters
  700 global warming experts (emails & all)
  600 words from Obama
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 5:05pm EST
  

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• Haridopolos could lead a re-shaped 'New Senate'

  —Central Florida Political Pulse

  GAINESVILLE — In a spacious, glass-enclosed office where an autographed photo of President Barack Obama sits on the coffee table, future state Senate President Mike Haridopolos prepares lesson plans, grades papers — and plots the next conservative movement in Florida....

  
  

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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by Aaron Deslatte

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• Democrats Vote To Cut Billions From Medicare

  —the B2Journal

  Democrats Vote To Cut Billions From Medicare – 06 dec – Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Obama planned to [...]

  Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:13am EST
  by BD Pisani

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