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To: bentway who wrote (540033)	1/1/2010 2:41:22 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577883

>> You're just SO BITTER Maybe, I'm not sure if bitter is the right word. I do believe that liberals have destroyed the future of the country. But I remain optimistic in a sense, as Obama has so damaged the liberal brand that it will be a very long time befor America elects another one. And when they do, it will be because the extremism of Obama/Reid/Pelosi have been purged from the D. party. Sometimes it is necessary for us to suffer some pain before people understand how bad Democrat leadership can be. As the terror trials begin to unfold in NYC and angry NYers react, that really should be the final straw for the Obama presidency.

To: bentway who wrote (540033)	1/1/2010 2:48:38 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577883

PRUDEN: Obama has little to show for '09 By Wesley Pruden OPINION/ANALYSIS: The bad news for Barack Obama is that everyone, even here in Baghdad on the Bay, Ground Zero of Dreamland, says he must improve his performance in the new year. The good news for Barack Obama is that there's lots of room for improvement. The president graded himself the other day, telling Oprah that he thinks he deserves a B-plus for his first year, and if he gets ObamaCare through Congress, he should get another full grade. He may be the only man in America who thinks he's an A-minus president. But Mr. Obama grew up in the era of grade inflation, and he no doubt aced his course work in Self-Esteem 101. California, as every Californian will tell you, is the origin of the fads and fancies that inevitably spread across the continent; San Francisco is where the Pied Piper of Southside Chicago might have led the cult to a suitable jumping-off place. This is where the true believers of the left exude the most noxious fumes. Where better to spend Christmas, er, the Holiday, with all the fruits and nuts to plumb the depths of what remains of ObamaLove. Nagging doubt, if not yet disillusionment, lurks in unexpected nooks and crannies. Everyone here expected to be married to his plumber, electrician or mechanic by the end of year 0001 A.O. (anno obamanie). Man would make love, not war; all disease (including cancer, high cholesterol, Christianity and unregistered guns) would have been banished; every bathhouse would be crowded again; every Guantanamo prisoner rehabilitated and settled with 40 acres and a mule; the globe would be cooling; immigration abuses resolved; and best of all, the works of the evil Texas cowboy would be but a distant, fading memory. Didn't happen, except for the global cooling, which turns out to be the work of a Force greater than even Barack Obama. Everyone here works to keep the chatter confined to the latest hot movie, restaurant, art gallery or other shrines to the immediate gratification that is the all-consuming goal of the Good Life. When a visitor from the real world introduces the name of the president and his works, there's an embarrassed mumble, shuffle and shrug, and the embarrassee darts away to look for a carrot stick to stir in the avocado dip. A skeptic with a conservative bent has never had such Christmas fun. But the season, like the year, has been no fun for the president, who is beginning to look a lot like George W. Bush to the Nancy Pelosi red-hots. Even the Detroit underwear bomber stinks in these precincts. Suspicion grows that Mr. Obama's attempt to love-bomb the Muslims in the Middle East into clasping the hand of friendship is not working. Events have mocked the frilly Valentine the president dispatched to Arabia in his inaugural address: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect ... we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." A hail of insulting sticks and stones came flying back at him. A spokesman for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sneered the ultimate insult, that the new president was no better than his predecessor: "Obama is the hand of Satan in a new sleeve. The Great Satan now has a black face." This might have deterred Harry Truman or Ronald Reagan, but Mr. Obama merely ordered more love-bombing. He begged for engagement "grounded in mutual respect." He wrote love letters, one to Khamenei himself, full of schoolboy pleading as if begging someone he met on the Internet to go to the senior prom with him. When it became clear that the Ahmadinejad regime had stolen the national election, there was nary a discouraging word from the White House. Soon it was off to Cairo for the promised Arabian Apology Tour, to admit that America was at fault for all the misunderstandings and hurt feelings. He promised America would do better. He even stopped off in Saudi Arabia to bow deeply to the king. If he thought this would bring the terrorists to the mourner's bench, he didn't accomplish anything. Neither did his warning to Americans not to "leap to conclusions" after a Muslim officer drunk on sentiments of jihad killed 13 innocents at Fort Hood, Texas. What is abundantly clear at the end of Obama Year One is that the radical Muslims who have sworn to kill us still want to kill us. Mr. Obama imagined his honeyed words would invite an unclenched response. All he got last week, obvious even to a San Francisco Democrat, was an answer in a terrorist's dirty underwear. • Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times.

To: bentway who wrote (540033)	1/1/2010 2:52:27 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Hardball: Joan Walsh Calls Republican Critics of Obama 'Un-American' and 'Traitorous' By P.J. Gladnick (Bio \| Archive) January 1, 2010 - 12:02 ET Remember when dissent was supposed to be patriotic? Well, it seems that only applies when a Republican is president. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, criticism of him is "un-American" and "traitorous." This new "tolerant" view of dissent comes from Joan Walsh of Salon.Com as you can see in this Hardball video from Wednesday. Below is the Walsh money quote but please be sure to also watch the video since it is important to watch as she drops any facade of liberal tolerance and lets her true dogmatic soul reveal itself in both her face and voice which seems to border on dementia: The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this president. And it‘s actually un-American. It‘s traitorous, in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to our enemies? Continue to treat this president like he wasn‘t elected and he doesn‘t know what he‘s doing! He knows what he did. He knows what he‘s doing. I‘m proud of him. I believe that he has the stalwart, resolute nature to get this done... newsbusters.org

To: bentway who wrote (540033)	1/1/2010 3:04:34 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1577883

Colorado transportation worker investigated for work email depicting Obama shining Palin's shoes 9News.com • December 30, 2009 coloradoan.com DENVER - It's a reminder that the emails you send at work, can sometimes come back to haunt you. At least one Colorado Department of Transportation employee is being investigated for sending an inappropriate email featuring President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. When we got our hands on the email Tuesday, we immediately contacted CDOT. They tell us at least one employee could be fired for this. "We're taking this very seriously," said Mindy Crane, Spokesperson for CDOT. The title of the email is "Picture of the year" and the photo of Obama and Palin inside may be considered as racially charged and offensive. The one liner in the email says "It appears he has found his niche," referring to President Obama. The attachment is a photo-shopped picture of President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The sender of the email is a 73 year-old CDOT supervisor. "It's certainly an inappropriate email to begin with, but its the fact too that it's being sent on state time and using state resources and for that we find that very unacceptable," Crane said. CDOT says its IT department is looking into how many employees may have forwarded the email. "It's very disappointing for us that employees are taking advantage of those resources available to them," Crane said. The employee supervises one other person and is a step above an administrative assistant. Because no official disciplinary action has been taken against the employee, 9NEWS is not releasing her name, but it does not appear she created the attachment. According to voting records, the woman is a registered Democrat, although it's unknown if she voted for Obama. Politics aside, CDOT says employees who misuse company email could be suspended or even fired. "We have a very clear policy at CDOT that states state resources cannot be used for personal use, and that includes internet, computers, and email." The employee did meet with CDOT's top directors late Tuesday afternoon regarding the incident. We emailed the employee and left business cards at her home to get a comment, but so far we have not heard back from her.