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« Reply #25 on: May 15, 2012, 01:09:45 PM »
Obama aide promises $1B in corporate-jet subsidies

by Timothy P. Carney


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Remember when Obama was railing on about "the tax-break for corporate jets," during the debt-ceiling fights of 2011? He repeatedly invoked this "tax break," which was really about how some corporate jets were depreciated over five years instead of seven. The message was clear: Republicans are in bed with corporate-jet owners. His loyal legions on the Left joined the chant.
 
But today, Obama's export-subsidy chief promised a billion dollars in taxpayer-backed subsidies for corporate jets, according to Bloomberg News.
 
Fred Hochberg heads the Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. exports by loaning money or guaranteeing loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Bloomberg reports:
 

Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg plans to provide more financial aid to U.S. corporate jet manufacturers, branching out from a traditional support for Boeing Co. (BA) to help an industry where demand has suffered....

Ex-Im supported $90 million of corporate jet deliveries last year to customers of Textron Inc. (TXT)’s Cessna Aircraft Co, General Dynamics Corp. (GD)’s Gulfstream unit and Hawker Beechcraft Corp. Hochberg said he plans to boost the aid to $1 billion by 2014. The increased focus comes after order backlogs on corporate jets fell by more than half to $40 billion in three years.
 
This might be something for Senators to consider today as they vote on reauthorizing Ex-Im -- do they really want to cut subsidies to the corporate jet makers? Imagine the world with more expensive corporate jets!
 
It also is a perfect microcosm of Obama's approach to industry: Tax them more, regulate them more, and subsidize them more. As little as possible should be done outside the reach of government.


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Re: Obama LMFAO!!!!! What an idiot.
« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2012, 01:46:58 PM »
Picture of the Day: Barack Obama Brandishes a Baguette
By David A. Graham


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/picture-of-the-day-barack-obama-brandishes-a-baguette/257271/#


May 16 2012, 1:03 PM ET372


The president visits a D.C. deli and brings a bite to eat to a meeting with Congressional leaders.
 
Twitter via HuffPostPol
 
Wednesday morning, the president visited Taylor Gourmet, a D.C. sandwich shop, where he conducted a small-business roundtable. (Presumably, his political advisers figured it would be bad economic optics for him to visit the rival Washington deli Breadline.) While there, he also picked up a bite to eat -- and, evidently, brandished it at reporters. Obama's next stop was a meeting with congressional leaders; he quipped, "I'm going to offer them some hoagies." If sharing sandwiches is all it takes to prevent another debt-ceiling showdown, we have some very serious questions about the administration's bargaining strategy last time around.
 
The pool reporter helpfully conveyed that Obama ordered the 12-inch Spruce Street hoagie, which features roast turkey, prosciutto, roasted red peppers, and sharp provolone. It remains unclear what he brought for the congressional leaders, but you can save your jokes about San Francisco's Nancy Pelosi asking for the vegan sub with sprouts. Obama paid $62.79 in total.
 
This photo is already a meme, because of course it is. Here's your bonus picture of the day. Provide your own captions in the comment section.



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Who the fuck is he kidding?

Those hoagies are for Michelle! 
 

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« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2012, 08:02:09 PM »
White House under fire for adding Obama policy plugs to past presidents' bios
foxnews.com ^ | 5/16/12
Posted on May 16, 2012 10:00:19 PM EDT by Justaham

The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama's accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.

The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking "Did you know?" fact boxes to the end of their bios. Those additions were used to plug a host of Obama administration initiatives, ranging from the health care overhaul to the so-called "Buffett Rule" to his green-energy policies.

For instance, the following line was added to the official bio of the late President Ronald Reagan: "In a June 28, 1985, speech, Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multimillionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule."

The White House is coming under heavy criticism from conservatives for the changes, and not just to Reagan's page.

Late Tuesday, the White House defended itself, claiming the staff was merely adding links to other pages.

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« Reply #28 on: May 23, 2012, 10:41:39 AM »
Obama to graduates: `A new feeling about America' [USAF Academy commencement]
 Associated Press ^ | Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:32 PM EDT | KEN THOMAS




COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Barack Obama is telling graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy that they are the first class in nearly a decade to graduate into a world that has no Osama bin Laden, no war in Iraq and no questions about when the war in Afghanistan will end.

The president declared that there is a "new feeling about America." He said the work of ending one war and setting the path to end the Afghan war has set a foundation for what he called "a new era of American leadership."

Obama's commencement speech carried clear themes of his re-election bid.

He asserted that America is exceptional and more respected now. And he reiterated his economic vision of cutting the debt but putting more money into education, science, manufacturing and innovation.

President Barack Obama is delivering his final commencement speech of the season, addressing graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy before pivoting to political fundraising out West.

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Following his speech, the president was headed to fundraisers in Denver...


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What a disgrace.   I would rather have snookie give a commencement than be forced to listen to this kenyan marxist thug

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« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2012, 06:24:22 AM »
Obama Misses His Entrance
by KEITH KOFFLER on MAY 24, 2012, 7:54 AM
President Obama failed to appear on cue last night at the Fox Theater in Redwood, California, a weird lapse for a president who may have been exhausted at the end of a marathon day of speechifying and campaigning.

Pool reporter Peter Baker of the New York Times offers a descriptive take on the scene at the late night fundraiser:

Your pool was brought into the Fox Theater, where the audience was being shown the campaign’s 17-minute promotional film. The movie ended with stirring tones, the lights came up and then … nothing. The stage stood empty for long minutes and no one came out, much less Potus. The crowd grew antsy and began chanting, “Obama, Obama!” Finally a woman took it upon herself to keep the audience busy, shouting, “Fired up,” followed by the crowd responding, “Ready to go.” After a few minutes, that died down. Then a man started chanting, “Four more years,” until that died down too. More minutes drained away with no one on the stage, no one addressing the crowd.

Finally when Potus was announced and entered the stage at 9:45 p.m. local (12:45 a.m. DC time), the crowd jumped to its feet enthusiastically. Potus responded to its energy. “It is good to be back in California,” he said. He then launched into roughly the same speech as in Denver.

At a fundraiser earlier in the day in Denver, Baker reported that “the room at times felt a little flat and Potus seemed a little tired.” What’s more, the crowd at the Denver event was smaller than the Obama campaign planed on, totaling only 550 compared to the 700 who were expected to attend.

Obama’s slog began at around 7:00 am when he departed the White House for Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he gave the commencement address at the United States Air Force Academy. He then staged three fundraisers, culminating in the final one in Redwood city, which ended for him at 10:17 PM  local time, but 1:17 am Obama Time – that is, Eastern Daylight Time.

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Re: Obama LMFAO!!!!! What an idiot.
« Reply #30 on: May 24, 2012, 07:12:01 AM »
So whats the Hoopla about in this thread? Obama said Woman could dress nice and be successful?


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« Reply #31 on: May 24, 2012, 09:45:40 AM »
Obama hypocrisy: Joplin High School commencement address - "Generosity, Selfishness"
 The Obama Report ^ | 5/23/12

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:30:31 PM by Frankusa

Addressing the graduating seniors of Joplin High School during a commencement speech on Monday, President Obama praised the selfless response of the Joplin community, and other kindhearted individuals, in the aftermath of the horrific tornadoes that struck the city last year. But the President cautioned the students that "as you begin the next stage in your journey, you will encounter greed and selfishness; ignorance and cruelty. You will meet people...who believe looking after others is only for suckers."

"But", the President added, "you [the students] are from Joplin. So you will remember, you will know, just how many people there are who see life differently; those who are guided by kindness and generosity and quiet service."

Ironically, the President's response in the immediate aftermath of the tornado clearly fits into the former category of individuals, and not the latter. For indeed, on that very same day, shortly after tornadoes ripped through Joplin Missouri and other parts of the Midwest, the President departed on a week-long trip to Europe. While the victims of the storms were trying to recover from the horrific disaster, Obama had more pressing needs to tend to in Europe - like searching for his Irish roots and finding an authentic Irish pub that serves genuine Guinness ale. [The President knocked down a pint of Guinness ale, but only after he received assurances that the drink was Perfect - the Real Thing.]

161 people died during the tornado, more than 1000 people were injured, and, at the time of the President's getaway, 29 - 40 people were still unaccounted for.

Finally, after returning from his week-long getaway to Europe, the President spoke at a memorial service in Joplin for the victims of the tornado. At the memorial service, the President affirmed his "Love" for Joplin. He didn't need to declare his "Love" for Ireland and for Guinness beer, as, [unlike Joplin], that fact was already well-known.....

City officials estimated at the time that about 8,000 houses and apartment buildings were destroyed by the tornado. That means thousands of Joplin residents were left homeless. And yet, despite all the victims, the injured and the homeless, President Obama departed on his trip to Europe and returned home a full week after the tornado had struck. And of course, not even a peep from the liberal mainstream media; for indeed, the Messiah is above all reproach.....

Yep, the President's commencement address was par for the course; the usual and typical hypocrisy... VIDEO REMIX - LINK


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LOL and obama the communist gay thug has an aunt on welfare, an uncle living on the brink of poverty, and a brother in a hut. 



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Re: Obama LMFAO!!!!! What an idiot.
« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2012, 01:55:24 PM »
May 24, 2012
Obama visiting wind turbine factory where private equity blows gov’t financing away




President Obama, Executive in Chief of criticizing the cruelties of private equity, is more than happy to plead for donations from people who make their money in the industry. During daylight hours, he’s America’s “Robin Hood.” By night, though, he can be found schmoozing people at firms such as Blackstone — a major player in private equity.
 
But here’s where it gets better. Obama is speaking at TPI Composites (a produced of blades for wind turbines) in Newton, Iowa later today. Expect to see him promote clean energy tax credits — and laud himself for pushing public funds to help get these companies get off the ground.
 
(After all, there’s no way they could possibly survive without the government helping them out, right?)
 
Except they can. And they did.
 
It turns out that the bulk of financing ($68 million) for TPI (like most non-Obama affiliated companies in America) has come from private equity. (Source, Source, Source.)
 
In comparison, the nine million in stimulus funds they received is just a small chunk of the pie.
 
Then again, this is exactly what we should expect from a President who provided the best investment we’ve seen in some time, according to the Washington Post’s Marc Thiessen:
 

[A]s Hoover Institution scholar Peter Schweizer reported in his book, “Throw Them All Out,” fully 71 percent of the Obama Energy Department’s grants and loans went to “individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party.” Collectively, these Obama cronies raised $457,834 for his campaign, and they were in turn approved for grants or loans of nearly $11.35 billion. Obama said this week it’s not the president’s job “to make a lot of money for investors.” Well, he sure seems to have made a lot of (taxpayer) money for investors in his political machine.
 

So, President Obama, we’re left scratching our heads and wondering: What’s the truth about your feelings? Is private equity the monster you’re making it out to be, or is it just another part of a healthy capitalist system?


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« Reply #33 on: May 29, 2012, 06:04:23 PM »
President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to ‘Polish Death Camp’(Gov't Rips Obama 'Incompetence'
ABC News ^ | Tuesday, May 29, 2012 | Jake Tapper
Posted on May 29, 2012 8:53:29 PM EDT by kristinn

Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outraged Tuesday at President Obama’s reference earlier that day to “a Polish death camp” — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.

“The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald “Tusk will make a statement in the morning. It’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.”

The president had been trying to honor a famous Pole, awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter who sneaked behind enemy lines to bear witness at the atrocities being committed against Jews. President Obama referred to him being smuggled “into the Warsaw ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself.”

“A Polish death camp” — Sikorski also tonight tweeted a link to an Economist story noting that “few things annoy Poles more than being blamed for the crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers of their homeland.

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It seems likely that a more formal apology will need to be issued. Alex Storozynski, the President of the Kosciuszko Foundation, lauded the president earlier in the day for recognizing Karski, but now says “Karski would have cringed if he heard this…(SNIP)...President Obama’s remarks are already being called ‘scandalous’ by media outlets in Poland. Obama was seen reading this phrase off a teleprompter. The President must acknowledge his mistake and apologize for it. He must do it for Karski and the other Poles that risked their lives trying to stop the Holocaust.”

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« Reply #34 on: May 30, 2012, 04:52:56 AM »
Poles Demand Obama Apology For "Polish Death Camps" Comment
 buzzfeed.com ^ | May 29, 2012 | Rosie Gray

Posted on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:12:50 PM by Free ThinkerNY

The president referred to “Polish death camps” while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance. Poles believe they're blamed unfairly for the Nazi Holocaust, and the Foreign Minister led the outrage in a late night tweet.

The remark, which barely drew notice in America, is all over the Polish news today. On the country's largest television station:


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« Reply #35 on: May 30, 2012, 04:54:55 AM »
Barack Obama has insulted 38 million Poles with his crass and ignorant 'Polish death camp' remark
 Telegraph ^ | Nile Gardiner


Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:18:46 AM by

President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish First Lady, and 94 senior officials who perished in the Smolensk air disaster.

Eight months earlier he humiliated Warsaw by pulling out of the agreement over Third Site missile defence installations in Poland and the Czech Republic.

And last night Barack Obama caused huge offence in Poland by referring to a Nazi death camp in Poland as “a Polish death camp” while awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a Polish resistance fighter. As ABC’s Jake Tapper reported:

Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama’s reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.

“The White House will apologize for this outrageous error,” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted. Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk “will make a statement in the morning. It’s a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence.”


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Re: Obama LMFAO!!!!! What an idiot.
« Reply #36 on: May 30, 2012, 04:57:01 AM »
Hey, I've got an idea. Instead of having a job or girlfriend, I think I'll just copy and paste on a bodybuilding message board all day.

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« Reply #37 on: May 30, 2012, 05:17:54 AM »


Polish Premier Demands U.S. Response to Obama Death Camp Remark

 By Piotr Skolimowski - May 30, 2012 7:00 AM ET
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Poland demanded a “strong and clear response” from the U.S. after President Barack Obama’s mention of a “Polish death camp” while honoring a Pole who told the world about the Holocaust.

“We can’t accept such words in Poland, even if they are spoken by a leader of an allied country,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk told journalists in Warsaw today. “Saying Polish concentration camps is as if there was no German responsibility, no Hitler.”

Since, 2004 Poland has sought clarifications from several news outlets for the use of a phrase “Polish concentration camps” that were run by the Nazis during the country’s occupation in the World War II, according to the Foreign Ministry’s website. The government has convinced publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle to stop using the phrase.

The U.S. administration regrets “this misstatement,” the Wall Street Journal’s website cited Tommy Vietor, the National Security Council spokesman, as saying. The text of Obama’s remarks on the White House website hasn’t been corrected as of today.

“The White House will apologize for this outrageous mistake,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on his Twitter Inc. account. “It’s a shame that such a momentous ceremony has been overshadowed by ignorance and incompetence.”

Obama posthumously awarded Jan Karski the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at a ceremony in Washington yesterday, saying the Polish officer “illuminated one of the darkest chapters of history” as he “repeatedly crossed enemy line to document the face of genocide, and courageously voiced tragic truths all the way to President Roosevelt.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Piotr Skolimowski in Warsaw at pskolimowski@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Balazs Penz at bpenz@bloomberg.net


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« Reply #38 on: May 30, 2012, 11:14:44 AM »
'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'
 weeklystandard.com ^ | 5/30/12 | DANIEL HALPER




In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more "about Judaism" than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.

"Obama ... stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it," Haaretz reports. "[He] wondered how come no one asks Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel [sic] about their support to Israel."

Similarly, he said to the group, "I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?"

He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish -


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« Reply #39 on: June 01, 2012, 01:23:16 PM »





Dear God.   We are in worse trouble than anyone can possibly imagine.    What a fool.   

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« Reply #40 on: June 01, 2012, 03:55:56 PM »

Campaign Holds 'Obama Shabbat' Across Washington, D.C.


1:38 PM, Jun 1, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

The president is out of town tonight, spending the night alone at his home in Chicago after a day filled with six fundraisers. But his campaign in Washington, D.C. continues.

An events list found at BarackObama.com reveals that eight "Obama Shabbat" dinners will be held this evening, here in Washington, to observe the Jewish sabbath and to "organize our community to help reelect President Barack Obama." The Jewish sabbath is observed from sundown Friday evening to sundown Saturday night.
 
The descriptions for the dinners are formulaic, sounding mostly the same. "On Friday, June 1st Jewish Americans across the District of Columbia will gather in their homes to celebrate Shabbat and organize our community to help reelect President Barack Obama," one reads. "Please join us at the home of Hannah Malvin to learn more about how you can help reelect President Obama."
 
Another event notice states, "On Friday, June 1st Jewish Americans across the District of Columbia will gather in their homes to celebrate Shabbat and organize our community to help reelect President Barack Obama. Please join us at the Home of Veronica Weiss to learn more about how you can help reelect President Obama. This home is not Kosher, but if you are looking for a Kosher Obama Shabbat please let us know and we will help you find one."


The dinners come the same week President Obama told a group of 20 Jewish leaders that, according to several reports based on notes taken at the meeting, he "probably knows about Judaism more than any other president" and that "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish." This comments were met with much criticism from the pro-Israel community.
 
The addresses on the events list reveal that six of the eight "Obama Shabbat" dinners will be held in Northwest Washington, where the 1 percent of the District of Columbia reside. The hosts appear to be campaign volunteers.







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« Reply #41 on: June 01, 2012, 05:32:51 PM »
'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'
 weeklystandard.com ^ | 5/30/12 | DANIEL HALPER




In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more "about Judaism" than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.

"Obama ... stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it," Haaretz reports. "[He] wondered how come no one asks Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel [sic] about their support to Israel."

Similarly, he said to the group, "I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?"

He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish -


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Obama’s Historical Chutzpah


Does the president really know more about Judaism than John Adams and James Madison did?

 By Charles C. Johnson|May 31, 2012 4:18 PM|46comments
 
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Clockwise from top right: Presidents John Adams, George Washington, Ulysses Grant, James Madison, Calvin Coolidge, John Quincy Adams, and Harry Truman. (Collage Tablet Magazine; original images, clockwise from top right, via Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, and Library of Congress)




The Most Anti-Israel President

 Obama has bullied the Jewish state more than any president in history, according to op-ed pages and partisans. They said the same about Reagan.

By Yair Rosenberg

It’s hard to know where to begin with Barack Obama’s recent pronouncement to a group of Conservative Jews that he “probably knows about Judaism more than any other president.” So, why not start at the beginning, with George Washington? It’s only by looking at the past that the scope of Obama’s historical chutzpah becomes clear.
 
Washington knew the Old Testament well. His favorite book was Micah; his favorite verse 4:4—“But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it”—appears no fewer than 11 times in his diaries. He invoked it again in his famous letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport in August 1790. “May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid,” he wrote. He grounded America’s experiment in religious freedom in republican theory. “The Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.” In so doing, Washington became, as scholar Harry V. Jaffa has pointed out, the first secular ruler to call Jews his countrymen.
 
Washington’s principal adviser, Alexander Hamilton, whose Jewishness is a subject of historical dispute, publicly extolled Jews, under whom he studied as a boy on the island of Nevis. He saw in their suffering and success evidence of “some great providential plan.” To “discredit them” would “destroy the Christian religion,” Hamilton later argued in a debate.
 
President John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams agreed with Hamilton, writing separately and favorably of Jews and a Jewish state long before it was fashionable to Mordecai Manuel Noah, America’s first Jewish consul, founder of New York University, and his day’s most famous Jew. “I will insist that the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation,” John Adams wrote to F. A. Van der Kemp, a Dutch-born Enlightenment thinker, condemning the anti-Semitism of Enlightenment writer Voltaire. “If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilization the nations. … [Jews] are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.” To make sure that Jewish influence would be felt more widely, Adams, a polyglot, even translated the Old Testament into English.
 
President James Madison also studied Hebrew, electing to spend an additional, post-graduate year to focus on it. During the Revolution, Madison turned to Haym Salomon, a Polish-born financier who offered loans well below market rate to members of the Continental Congress. Writing to fellow Virginian Edmund Randolph in September 1772, he praised Salomon’s generosity: “The kindness of our little friend in Front Street (Salomon) near the coffee-house is a fund which will preserve me from extremities, but I never resort to it without mortification as he obstinately rejects all recompense.” Salomon was captured by the British and condemned to death, but he escaped by bribing the guards with gold.
 
Salomon wasn’t alone among Jewish patriots. Indeed, it’s fair to say that Jewish finance underwrote much of the cost of the American Revolution, something the unjustly neglected President Calvin Coolidge noted with favor in a dedication of the Jewish Community Centre on May 3, 1925. Their generosity, often never repaid, came because “the Jewish faith is predominately the faith of liberty,” Coolidge declared. “From the beginnings of the conflict between colonies and the mother country, they were overwhelmingly on the side of the rising revolution.” He listed the merchants—overwhelmingly Jewish—who cast their lot with the colonists in signing the non-importation resolution of 1765, also known as the Stamp Act, which directly taxed American colonists by restricting their freedom of commerce. “Hebraic mortar cemented the foundations of American democracy,” Coolidge said. “[T]he patriots who laid the foundation of this Republic drew their faith from the Bible. … Every inheritance of the Jewish people, every teaching of their secular history and religious experience, draws them powerfully to the side of charity, liberty, and progress.”
 
The list of pro-Jewish statements evincing serious thought about Jews could go on and on. “I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now,” President Truman declared 60 years ago last week on the occasion of David Ben-Gurion’s visit to the White House. “I believe [Israel] has a glorious future before it—not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.” With words like this, there could be little doubt as to Truman’s position on Israel—but just to be clear, he made sure that America was the first nation to recognize it.
 
To all of this, Obama might say: I hosted the first White House Seder; I knew the late Arnold Wolf, the controversial Chicago rabbi; I am friends with Bettylu Saltzman, who works with J Street; and I’ve read Philip Roth. But intimate knowledge of the milieu of Hyde Park Jewry does not mean fundamentally understanding Judaism.
 
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Charles C. Johnson is author of the forthcoming Coolidge: Then and Now.


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Obama, Clinton to Headline Trio of NYC Fundraisers

The presidential duo will speak at a high-dollar fundraiser at a private home, then headline a gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel
Monday, Jun 4, 2012  |  Updated 11:34 AM EDT
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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at a campaign event at Chicago Cultural Center, Friday, June 1, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Celebrities: An Olsen...More Photos and VideosPresident Barack Obama is getting a little help from former President Bill Clinton at a trio of campaign fundraisers in New York.

The presidential duo will speak at a high-dollar fundraiser at a private home, then headline a gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Obama and Clinton will end the night at an event dubbed "Barack on Broadway" at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Monday's trip is Obama's first of two fundraising blitzes in New York over the next two weeks. He will return to Manhattan next week for a fundraiser at the home of actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

Obama is seeking to persuade voters that he is still the right steward for the economy following a dismal jobs report out last week that showed an uptick in the unemployment rate.

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Obama, Clinton to Headline Trio of NYC Fundraisers

The presidential duo will speak at a high-dollar fundraiser at a private home, then headline a gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel
Monday, Jun 4, 2012  |  Updated 11:34 AM EDT
AP

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at a campaign event at Chicago Cultural Center, Friday, June 1, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rock Stars: Then and Now

Celebrities: An Olsen...More Photos and VideosPresident Barack Obama is getting a little help from former President Bill Clinton at a trio of campaign fundraisers in New York.

The presidential duo will speak at a high-dollar fundraiser at a private home, then headline a gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Obama and Clinton will end the night at an event dubbed "Barack on Broadway" at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Monday's trip is Obama's first of two fundraising blitzes in New York over the next two weeks. He will return to Manhattan next week for a fundraiser at the home of actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

Obama is seeking to persuade voters that he is still the right steward for the economy following a dismal jobs report out last week that showed an uptick in the unemployment rate.

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Wheres the beef?

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Wheres the beef?

LMFAO - the level of loyalty you clowns have for this pathetic con man based solely on racial solidarity is hilarious. 



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LMFAO - the level of loyalty you clowns have for this pathetic con man based solely on racial solidarity is hilarious. 




No.. because if criticized the president enough..

But where is the beef in the article you posted above... please tell me.. without bullshit.. tell me what is wront in the above posted article

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No.. because if criticized the president enough..

But where is the beef in the article you posted above... please tell me.. without bullshit.. tell me what is wront in the above posted article


"Barack on Broadway"



Case closed.  as our nations' fiscal situation is a DISASTER - you think this is funny?   



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"Barack on Broadway"



Case closed.  as our nations' fiscal situation is a DISASTER - you think this is funny?   




So he is in new york at a fundraiser (which is what you do in American politics)... and he named it Barack on Broadway... so again.. whats the problem.

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So he is in new york at a fundraiser (which is what you do in American politics)... and he named it Barack on Broadway... so again.. whats the problem.

 ::)  ::) 

Yeah - real Change you can believe in right there. 

I actually feel bad for people like you who actually still believe in this con man.   Come November 8, you are all going to be in for a rude awakening. 

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'Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President'
 weeklystandard.com ^ | 5/30/12 | DANIEL HALPER




In the meeting, Obama reportedly boasted about his knowledge of Judaism, telling the leaders that he thinks he knows more "about Judaism" than all past presidents. He said he gained this knowledge of Judaism from reading.

"Obama ... stressed he probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it," Haaretz reports. "[He] wondered how come no one asks Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner or Senate minority leader Mitch McConnel [sic] about their support to Israel."

Similarly, he said to the group, "I [am] not going to tell you again how I even feel about Israel, but why [are] we still talking about it?"

He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because "all his friends in Chicago were Jewish -


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The Vetting: Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf, the Socialist, anti-Israel Rabbi Who Taught Obama What He 'Knows' About Judaism
 

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Last Tuesday, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported that President Barack Obama told a group of visiting Jewish leaders that he "probably knows about Judaism more than any other president, because he read about it." While that is certainly untrue, Obama continued, suggesting that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish.”
 
That might very well be true. The question is which Jews? Meet Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf.
 
Author Peter Beinhart, an Obama admirer and critic of Israel whose wife works as Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to the President, and who recently declared Obama to be "the first Jewish president," discusses Obama's immersion in Rabbi Wolf's Jewish radical fringe in his book The Crisis of Zionism:
 

But Obama was not embedded in the Jewish world; he was embedded in one specific Jewish world — a world of Jews who in the 1960s had opposed segregation and the Vietnam War and after 1967 applied the same liberal democratic principles when it came to Israel. Woven into the life stories of many of the Jews who most influenced the young Barack Obama was a bitter estrangement from the see-no-evil Zionism of the American Jewish establishment. In Chicago, those Jews constituted a geographic and moral community, a community that bred in Obama a specific, and subversive, vision of American Jewish identity and of the Jewish state. And at the heart of it all was Arnold Jacob Wolf.
 
A Reform rabbi, Wolf spent 20 years as the leader of K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple, which is located across the street from the Obamas' home in Chicago.
 
Rabbi Wolf subscribed to the "blame Israel first" policy of American Progressivism, and like the future president was active with the Democratic Socialists of America.
 
According to Wolf, he joined domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn as one of the first to host “coffees” introduce 1996 candidate for Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama, to the community:
 

"I was certainly (hosting) one of the first," said Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, rabbi emeritus at Chicago's KAM Isaiah Israel--located across the street from the Obama home.
 
"There were several every week," he recalled on Tuesday night when we spoke. "I remember what I said to him: 'Someday you are going to be vice president of the United States.' He laughed and said, 'Why not president?''
 
Upon the death of Rabbi Wolf in December 2008, President Elect Obama wrote:
 

I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who was not just our neighbor, but a dear friend to Michelle and me. We are joined in this time of grief by the entire Hyde Park community, the American Jewish Community, and all those who shared Rabbi Wolf's passion for learning and profound commitment to serving others. Today we bid farewell to a titan of moral strength and a champion of social justice...
 
Before his death, Rabbi Wolf spent much of his career leading organizations seeking to criticize, and even delegitimize, the Jewish State of Israel.
 
For example, along with radical MIT professor Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Wolf helped found the Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East (CONAME) a philosophical grandparent to today’s faux pro-Israel group J Street.
 
CONAME was described by Time magazine as one of a number of Arab or pro-Arab organizations working in the United States.  An investigation by the Near East Report revealed that CONAME’s signature appeared on telegrams urging Congress to send no arms to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel was attacked by Syria and Egypt on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
 
In 1974, Rabbi Wolf joined his friend from the anti-war movement, self proclaimed rabbi Arthur Waskow, on the executive board of a new organization called Breira, according to Beinart:
 

In fact Breira’s literature and activities have been directed single-mindedly to urging Israel to accept and the United States to pressure Israel to accept a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. According to Breira’s Mark Bruzonsky, writing in December, 1976, in The Nation, “Breira’s only hope is so to weaken American support for Israeli policies as to force policy changes, by U.S. imposition if necessary.
 
Understand that Breira’s calls for Israeli concessions to the PLO occurred long before the terrorist group renounced terrorism. 
 
In March of 1973, Wolf described Israel as:
 

...frightened and thus, inevitably, trigger-happy, besieged yet somehow also haughty, developing nation. Is this what a hundred years of Zionism has led to: more danger to Jews than in the golah [Jewish exile] itself, more recklessness and violence than in all of our long diaspora history?
 
A 1979 article in Sh’ma, the journal Rabbi Wolf established, showed Obama’s rabbi friend to an intellectual antecedent of Norman Finklestein, as he charged that today’s Jews are misusing the memory of the Holocaust to excuse Zionist aggression:
 

It takes the Shoah as the model for Jewish destiny and, in struggling against it, takes arms against all humanity. It accepts all the worst accusations of the anti-Semites and builds upon these canards a new, angry and militaristic pseudo-Zionism. In order to survive, we shall assume power in the only ways power can be achieved - at the end of a gun-barrel or by Machiavellian manipulation of other groups for our own interests. There is no shame in proclaiming ourselves to be our ultimate concern. "Never again" means nothing more or less than. "Jews first - and the devil take the hindmost."
 
In another piece, he argued that Israel’s primary reason for self-defense was to humiliate the Palestinians:
 
"Some Israeli actions in the past (and, perhaps, even now) were designed specifically to demean Arabs. The deep penetration into Egypt, the destruction of the Beirut airport, the denial that Palestinians even exist: all these are, I believe, violations of the Jewish tradition, and they have cost our people dearly.
 
It is important to understand that in the article above, written the year after the Yom Kippur War, by “deep penetration into Egypt” Wolf is complaining about how the IDF crossed the Suez Canal at the end of the Yom Kippur War--an essential thrust that restored Israel's self-defence capacity and set the stage for peace negotiations. And notice that Wolf doesn’t even mention the Palestinians' quest to destroy the Jewish State.
 
In 2000, while his friend Barack Obama was still toiling in the Illinois State Senate, Rabbi Wolf was busy labeling Israel as a human rights violator. His proof? Everybody says so:
 

The Lebanon War was wrong. Continuing the occupation is wrong. The first Intifada softened Israel’s conscience; this one is hardening our hearts. Peace is not only a goal; it is the only way to the goal. Peace requires justice. If Amnesty International and the United Nations think Israel is repressive, they are not wholly wrong. If human rights leaders in Israel detail over and over again how the government has failed its Arab and Palestinian citizens, we must pay attention. We cannot avert the gaze of our conscience.
 
Even after his retirement in 2000, Rabbi Wolf stayed involved with his favorite radical causes. He was a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a group that says its mission is "to educate and mobilize American Jews in support of a negotiated two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” In actuality, it took a one-sided anti-Israel stance.
 
For example, Brit Tzedek defined “terrorist violence” as part of a pattern of Arab “resistance,” implying some measure of approval, or at best a lack of distaste.
 
The group also helped to make Rachel Corrie's a "martyr" for pro-Palestinian activists, even though videos show Corrie was 'playing chicken" with the bulldozer and could not possibly have been seen by the driver.
 
In its August 2003 bulletin Brit Tzedek v'Shalom bragged:
 

Similarly, freshman Congressman Rahm Emmanuel signed on the resolution asking for an investigation of the death of Rachel Corie, an international peace volunteer, non-violently attempting to stop an IDF house demolition in the West Bank.  These are among the signs that Jewish politicians are feeling they can safely deviate from the usual conformist stance.  We need to endorse these little steps and work to convince them to take others.
 
Looking into the positions of Rabbi Wolf gives great insight into President Obama's attitude towards Israel. Many of the President’s positions on Israel, including his rifts with Netanyahu can be seen in Wolf’s writings.
 
If Obama knows more about Judaism than any other president, that is because--to quote Ronald Reagan--he, like many others on the left, knows "so much that isn't so."


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/04/Rabbi-Arnold-Wolf-Socialist-Anti-Israel-Rabbi-Taught-Obama-Knows-More-About-Judaism