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President Obama Admits He’s Become Part of the Problem

From Liberty.com: President Obama conceded yesterday that it was “fair” to say that his government takeover of health care was written in “a very political manner, that is papered over a foundation that is corrupt.”  This admission, made during an appearance onThe Daily Show, was stunning coming from a president who promised on his first full [...]

Obama Issues Fake Terror Alert On Eve Of Elections

From Prison Planet: Establishment media fearmongers about “mail bomb plot” despite no bombs being found, Obama contradicts his own federal security apparatus Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, October 29, 2010 UPDATE: As this contrived scare unravels, Obama has given a press conference reversing earlier announcements that there were no explosives in the packages found on [...]

Rangel plan gives prez ‘civilian security force’

From World Net Daily: When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he visited Colorado Springs and said he wanted to create a “Civilian National Security Force” as big and well-funded as the $650 billion-plus U.S. military, a mysterious campaign promise ignored by virtually the entire media except WND. Now Charlie Rangel is proposing that [...]

Obama: My name’s not on the ballot this fall, but my agenda is

From The Hill: The president suggested the outcome of key elections next Tuesday could determine the fate of his legislative priorities. The president stopped short of saying next week’s election is a referendum on his policies, but suggested the outcome of key elections next Tuesday could determine the fate of his agenda. “My name may [...]

Obama Sets Muslim Outreach for Indonesia Trip

From NewsMax.com: * Major outdoor speech, large crowd expected * Obama popular in Indonesia, where he lived as child * US and Indonesia to announce new partnership on trip By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will visit Indonesia’s largest mosque and make a major outdoor speech directed at the global Muslim community [...]

Obama changes slogan to ‘Yes we can, but it’s not going to happen overnight’

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel, hosted by Jon Stewart, came as he prepared to embark on a last-gasp dash around the country to prevent what polls indicate is likely to be a Republican landslide. The midterm elections are likely to see the Democrats losing its 39-seat majority [...]

Boehner: ‘No Compromise’ on Stopping Obamacare

From NewsMax.com: If US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes win next week’s elections, they will spare no effort to beat back his signature health care overhaul, the party’s leader in the House said Wednesday. “This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles,” Republican [...]

Small Businesses Across the Nation Speak Out Against Obama Admin’s Job-Killing Agenda

From Liberty.com: According to Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki, President Obama will be in Rhode Island today “talking about the choice that people must make, broadly on many issues, including small business.”  Indeed, the choice could not be more clear.  While Republicans have called for immediate action in the current Congress on specific [...]

Congressional Report Casts Doubt on Constitutionality of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

From CNSNews.com: A report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) casts doubt on the two main arguments used by the Obama administration to defend the individual insurance mandate that is the central component of the controversial health “reform” law. Published on October 15, the CRS report examines the arguments both for and against the constitutionality [...]

Barack Obama’s poor economic policies are playing into China’s hands

From Telegraph.co.uk: He may have a while to wait before his tables are full again. The regulars keep coming but a return to the bustling peak of the last boom, which started to topple over in the final quarter of 2007, seems a long way off. Americans are approaching next month’s mid-term elections experiencing a [...]

Seven Months of Obamacare: Raising Costs, Jeopardizing Coverage & Making it Harder to Create Jobs

From Liberty.com: It has been seven months since President Obama signed the job-killing government takeover of health care into law, and since that time the devastating consequences of ObamaCare have continued to buffet American families and small businesses.  Earlier this year, Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) issued a report entitled ObamaCare: Three Months of Broken Promises.  [...]

Congressional Spending Since Obama – $200,000 for Capitol Hill Bottled Water?

From Townhall.com: The Congressional Budget Office just reported that in the past two years since President Barack Obama took office, federal spending is up 21.4 percent. The national deficit was $1.29 trillion in 2010 (second to the $1.4 trillion in Obama’s first year in office, 2009), which means that for every $1 the federal government [...]

Why the US has turned against Obama

From Telegraph.co.uk: Why have American voters gone so sour on Barack Obama’s Democratic party? It’s a question that must puzzle many in Britain who – Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem – welcomed Obama’s election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands. But now it [...]

Obama Plays Voters’ Psychiatrist-in-Chief on Trail

From Newsmax.com: According to President Barack Obama, Americans are angry, frustrated, scared, anxious, uncertain, nervous, discouraged and shaken up. They’re also confused and not thinking clearly. Heading into critical midterm elections, Obama has been freely sharing this gloomy diagnosis on the campaign trail, at times sounding more like a psychiatrist than a politician. He usually [...]

Obama: Republicans Are “Threat to our democracy.”

From Townhall.com: Two gems from Obama’s message-machine today — the first, a campaign mailer: Right now, the same special interests that we’ve fought for two years are flooding the airwaves with negative ads. They don’t have the courage to stand up and disclose the identity of their donors. They could be insurance companies. They could [...]

Barack Obama’s Indian delegation ‘books 800 rooms in Mumbai’

From Telegraph.co.uk: The president, who is scheduled to set off on a twice-postponed Asian tour with his wife Michelle after next week’s midterms, has reportedly block-booked all 570 rooms in the Taj Mahal hotel as a security measure. On top of that, US navy ships will also be deployed, as the president is staying in [...]

Obama’s Failure Agenda

From Intellectual Conservative: How’s that stimulus package working out. Normally, we assume that anyone who runs for and assumes the office of president has an agenda intended to succeed and thereby ensure that history will look favorably on his accomplishments. The men who served in that office craved success and loathed failure. Barack Obama didn’t [...]

$7,500 Per Person for **Dinner With Obama (**Dinner With Obama Not Included)

From Michelle Malkin: Preparing to host a dinner for the President of the United States is a huge undertaking, as one wealthy Rhode Island woman discovered when she decided to host a $7,500 a seat DCCC fundraising dinner featuring Barack Obama. In the days leading up to last night’s fundraising dinner, the Providence Journal outlined [...]

Man fired for Bush sweatshirt at Obama rally

From World Net Daily: Wearing a Bush sweatshirt and cap has gotten a man fired from his work building a stage for an Obama rally. But the Bush on the clothing worn by Duane Hammond had nothing to do with politics; it honors USS George H.W. Bush, the 10th and final Nimitz-class supercarrier in the [...]

Poll: Obama Approval Rating Hits New Low of 39%

From NewsMax.com: A new Gallup Poll released Thursday shows President Barack Obama’s approval rating at a new low. Only 44.7 percent of Americans approve of the job the president is doing in office, according to the poll conducted Oct. 14-17, down more than two percentage points from the most recent quarter. Only 39 percent of Americans [...]