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To: RetiredNow who wrote (560611)	4/13/2010 8:06:07 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1577261

Mindmeld, your first paragraph is pretty good, but your second paragraph is complete nonsense. I like the small, measured steps Obama is making in foreign policy, even if some of the foundation was laid during the Bush years. But Obama's domestic policy is full of hubris and will lead to huge leaps in government bureaucracy and regulation. That will stifle prosperity, not enable it. Tenchusatsu

To: RetiredNow who wrote (560611)	4/13/2010 8:23:23 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577261

A nuclear treaty was signed by the US and Russia, excellent progress has been made for the first time in years against the Taliban with Pakistan's help. A nuclear summit with 47 nations just concluded with excellent results at reducing proliferation. The assumption that a treaty reduces proliferation is not a rational one. It may, it may not. Time will tell. Obama, a grossly incompetent negotiator, has bungled pretty much everything to date, so we'll see on this. China is about to revalue the yuan. What do you think means? Israel is finally learning that to be an ally means they must treat us with respect and that they need to stop building settlements on land that belongs to Palestine if they ever want peace. You aren't paying attention. Israel has learned that today's ally can be tomorrow's enemy. Netanyahu would make a great American president IMO. He has been stabbed in the back by Obama. Iraq has learned that American patients[sic] has limits and that freedom and government is now their responsibility, not ours. GWB taught them that. But most of all, we have an American President that is focused on Americans first and foremost, as opposed to Bush Jr who didn't give two shits about Americans and spent more money nation building in Iraq than he did to help Americans or invest in our future. Obama successfully reversed the tide of an economic meltdown that almost resulted in the Second Great Depression. Obama has passed a health care bill that will ultimately insure 32 million more Americans. He has invested $80B in renewable energy..more than all past Presidents combined. He has increased mpg requirements to 35 mpg, the first increase in decades. And he's made excellent progress towards a comprehensive Energy bill and Financial reform. I'd say Obama has had one hell of a good first year. Obama is, without any doubt, the most incompetent president in our history. Nobody comes close. The Obama economic policy could well bring about the collapse of the entire nation into something that makes the Great Depression look like happy days are here again.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (560611)	4/14/2010 9:10:01 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577261

Sure we signed a treaty and held a summit but 1) an arms race with Russia isn't a big threat anymore and 2) there are NO results at reducing proliferation .... Iran is still developing weapons and yesterday threatened to nuke us if they're attacked. Israel is finally learning that to be an ally means they must treat us with respect and that they need to stop building settlements on land that belongs to Palestine ... That hasn't been determined. Those apartments were in a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem. And why should "land that belongs to Palestine be judenrein? Israel has Arab citizens and Jews have been long time residents of Palestine for centuries. Even were east Jerusalem to be held to be Palestinian territory someday, why couldn't Jews live there ... there's supposed to be peace someday. Iraq has learned that American patients has limits and that freedom and government is now their responsibility, not ours. Obama is following the Bush strategy on Iraq. Now here comes the old GOP IS EVIL mindmelt: But most of all, we have an American President that is focused on Americans first and foremost, as opposed to Bush Jr who didn't give two shits about Americans and spent more money nation building in Iraq than he did to help Americans or invest in our future. Obama successfully reversed the tide of an economic meltdown that almost resulted in the Second Great Depression. Obama has passed a health care bill that will ultimately insure 32 million more Americans. He has invested $80B in renewable energy..more than all past Presidents combined. He has increased mpg requirements to 35 mpg, the first increase in decades. And he's made excellent progress towards a comprehensive Energy bill and Financial reform. All of the things you cite are to one degree or another are false. Those are fantasies mostly. Example .... 32M more Americans ... remains to be seen ... the number uninsured could even increase since there will be incentives to remain uninsured. IE it will be cheaper for some to remain uninsured, pay a penalty and pick up insurance only when needed .... as is happening in MA.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (560611)	4/14/2010 9:40:38 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1577261

Obama's disregard for media reaches new heights at nuclear summit Wow, this is from the Wa Post. By Dana Milbank Wednesday, April 14, 2010; A02 washingtonpost.com World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck. In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press. The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session." Reporters for foreign outlets, admitted for the first time to the White House press pool, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be. Yasmeen Alamiri from the Saudi Press Agency got this lesson in press freedom when trying to cover Obama's opening remarks as part of that limited pool: "The foreign reporters/cameramen were escorted out in under two minutes, just as the leaders were about to begin, and Obama was going to make remarks. . . . Sorry, it is what it is." Alamiri's counterparts from around the world wrote of similar experiences in their pool reports. Arabic-language MBC TV's Nadia Bilbassy had this to say of Obama's meeting with the Jordanian king: "We were there for around 30 seconds, not enough even to notice the color of tie of both presidents. I think blue for the king." The Press Trust of India, at Obama's meeting with the Pakistani prime minister, reported, "In less than a minute, the pool was asked to leave." The Yomiuri Shimbun correspondent found that she was "ushered out about 30 seconds" after arriving for Obama's meeting with the Malaysian prime minister. A reporter with Turkey's TRT-Turk went to Obama's meeting with the president of Armenia, but "we had to leave the room again after less than 40 seconds." Even the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, was more talkative with the press than Obama. Michelle Jamrisko, with Japan's Kyodo News, noted in her pool report that Hu, at his session with Obama, spoke to the Chinese media in Chinese, while Obama limited himself mostly to "say hello to the cameras" and "thank you everybody." Obama's official schedule for Tuesday would have pleased China's Central Committee. Excerpts: "The President will attend the Heads of Delegation working lunch. This lunch is closed press. . . . The President will meet with Prime Minster Erdogan of Turkey. This meeting is closed press. . . . The President will attend Plenary Session II of the Nuclear Security Summit. This session is closed press." Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said these were the most restricted such meetings they had ever seen. They complained to both the administration and White House Correspondents' Association, which will discuss the matter Thursday with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. The restrictions have become a common practice for the Obama White House. When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the White House a couple of weeks ago, reporters were kept away. Soon after that, Obama signed an executive order on abortion, again without any coverage. Over the weekend, Obama broke with years of protocol and slipped off to a soccer game without the "protective" pool that is always in the vicinity of the president in case the unthinkable occurs. Obama joked about it later to Pakistan's prime minister, saying reporters "were very upset." In "bilateral" meetings with foreign leaders, presidents usually take questions, or at least trade statements. But at most of Obama's, there were only written "readouts." Canada: "The president and the prime minister noted the enduring strength of our bilateral partnership." India: "The two leaders vowed to continue to strengthen the robust relationship between the people of their countries." Pakistan: "President Obama began by noting that he is very fond of Pakistan." Finally, away from other leaders, Obama took reporters' questions for 20 minutes. They were tough and skeptical questions that punctured the banal readouts: pointing out that the nonproliferation agreements weren't binding, noting China's equivocation on sanctions against Iran, and pressing Obama on the failure to curb North Korea's weapons. The Post's Scott Wilson asked Obama if he would call on Israel, which skipped the summit, to declare its nuclear weapons. "I'm not going to comment on their program," Obama said. Not surprising. But it's still important that the questions are asked. h/t fubho