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From Independence, Missouri, in 2008 then-Sen. Barack Obama seeks to reassure voters on patriotism.

Re-posted with Link: Another embarrassing moment: Obama Bows To Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during a visit w/ Senator DIck Lugar

Another embarrassing moment: Obama Bows To Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during a visit w/ Senator DIck Lugar

If someone died as a result of faulty mechanics in a Toyota or Lexus vehicle, then a recall was indeed necessary. But shouldn't the playing field be level for all manufacturers, regardless of whether or not someone died?

Joseph Farrah's speech at this Tea Party Convention this week brought the "Birther Movement" back into the forefront at least for a few days. At the convention Farrah said that the "Birther movement" was a key part of the Tea Party agenda, a thought that seemed to be rejected by most of the people at the convention. After his speech Andrew Breitbart and Farrah had a heated conversation about the speech and Brietbart's correct assertion that the birther argument is "not a winning issue.” (read more about their spat at Hot Air) I guess I can be considered a "reformed...

<p>Washington, DC (AP) - President Barack Obama says the Indianapolis Colts "have to be favored" in the Super Bowl, even though he has a "soft spot" for the New Orleans Saints.</p> <p>Obama's Super Bowl prediction was based on his opinion that the Colts have "perhaps the best quarterback in history."</p>

The tortures included laying a man naked on a freezing cement floor, forcing his legs apart, and then an interrogator stepping on his testicles, applying increasing pressure until the confession surfaced. Imagine the consequences of no surfacing confession. Indeed, many people refused to confess to a crime they did not commit. Daughters and sons were raped in front of their fathers and mothers — for the sake of extracting “confessions.” These are just some of the delicacies that the Stalinist machinery inflicted on its citizenry in the hope of bringing socialism into earthly incarnation. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has shared much of...

Sarah Palin has completely upbraided Barack Obama, strongly exclaiming that many Americans are not in fact going to sit down and shut up in response to his attempt to force nationalized healthcare down the throats of the people. Characterizing Obama's first year as full of "misguided decisions" to say the least, Palin appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace for a 30-minute interview which was quite expansive in scope.

Being a liberal is like being Hitler, murder of over six million human beings, were he to have tsk tsked Pol Pot for being so evil as to have murdered three million Cambodians. There is no sense of shame with a liberal. They have no sense whatsoever that anything they've ever done should temper their reactions to the actions of others. They have no understanding of the old saw of throwing stones in glass houses. Take the latest Huff-n-puff screed by Stefan Sirucek, for instance. Our pal Steffie is all up in arms over the fact that Sarah Palin had...

If you worry about terrorism, worry no more, because after years in hiding, Barack Obama’s true identity has been revealed. His identity is actually codename: Darkshadow—a deep cover operative that strikes fear in the hearts of terrorists everywhere. Obama’s cover was so deep it proves that only Harvard University could produce such a product.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential quips about Washington's supposed lack of winter toughness have disappeared as snow accumulations mounted. Barack Obama had been in office for about a week in 2009 when he expressed disbelief that many schools had canceled classes one day because of ice. "As my children pointed out, in Chicago, school is never canceled," he said then. "We're going to have to try to apply some flinty Chicago toughness." Well, here comes more than a little ice: an estimated 20 to 30 inches of snow in Washington.

Katie Couric, a dutiful White House ally among many in the U.S. media, will do a live interview with President Barack Obama during tomorrow’s Super Bowl pre-game coverage on CBS, bringing together two of America’s most notable megalomaniacs – and forever tarnishing the pure joy that is Super Bowl Sunday. Is nothing sacrosanct? Couric and her crew at CBS are asking viewers, via their website “What should she ask him?” and invite you to email Katie your question.

Having faced pointed and even hostile questioning about its new space policy in the Senate and now in the House, the Obama administration and NASA officials are starting to realize that perhaps the rollout of that policy was flawed.

Barack Obama is hiding from the public scrutiny that only media scrutiny can deliver. In his first year as president, Obama has held much fewer Q&A sessions with reporters including his own White House pool than either Bush or Clinton before him—at least according to a careful study of presidential communication by a political science professor at Towson University. This can only be interpreted one way, says the professor: Obama is obsessed with controlling the message instead of being ambushed by a reporter from the media who may want to ask him a question which is inconvenient or does not...

President Barack Obama has blown $10 million on drunken White House parties, Washington insiders tell GLOBE. This week's Special Report rips the lid off the Commander-in-chief's outrageous antics, including boozy conga lines and dinners featuring $150-a-pound Japanese beef! It's must reading for every American.

Is Toyota Motor Company paying the price today for their executives' failure to support Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign? One might draw that conclusion after examining campaign contribution records on the Federal Election Commission web site.

Please join Phil Berg, Jeff Kuhner and others at 12pm Eastern to hear updates and events surrounding the Constitutional issues regarding Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack H. Obama serving as the President of the United States. Kuhner pre-show trailerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7n_kSVRpBQ

I posted the video of obama demonstrating his reading skills saying "Corpse Man" instead of Corpsman. Moron or disdain for our military?

The Obama Administration is sending signals that could prompt foreign manufacturers to shut down their plants in the USA and cost more Americans their jobs. All to help GM, Chrysler and the UAW.

If President Obama has his way, Attorney General Eric Holder will soon be joined at the Justice Department by another terrorist rights advocate, Dawn Johnsen. Obama has nominated her to lead the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Given her opposition to enhanced interrogation of terrorist suspects, she provides yet another example that the Obama administration still views Islamic terrorists as criminal defendants entitled to full constituional protections in civil trials, not as unlawful enemy combatants. As if we needed any more evidence! The New York Times, unsurprisingly, is upset about what its editorial today called ”an unreasonable delay” in...

While speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama mispronounced the word "Corpsman" as "corpse-man."

Almost three years have passed since the day a first-term junior U.S. senator from Illinois used lofty language to announce to a crowd in Springfield, Ill., that he would seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2008. Though much has changed, much of what I observed about that presidential candidate still holds true about President Barack Obama today.

Barack Obama has finally, at long last, admitted that he lied about healthcare transparency as it relates to his much-mocked and much-maligned, empty promise to put on C-SPAN negotiations concerning his ill-fated drive for healthcare "reform." In comments that were very carefully and slyly buried in a long, one-and-a-quarter-hour speech and Q&A session a couple of days ago in Nashua, NH, Obama very briefly touched on his failure to live up to promises to televise all the negotiations regarding healthcare on C-SPAN. When asked by little Ashley Sevins of Nashua High South about the grade he'd give himself regarding transparency...

It's been apparent for quite some time that the Senate is unlikely to follow the House's lead in calling for the creation of an economy-wide market in greenhouse gas emissions. But today, at a town hall meeting in Nashua, NH, President Obama seemed, however reluctantly, to acknowledge the political reality. "The most controversial aspects of the energy debate that we've been having: The House passed an energy bill, and people complained about, well, there's this cap and trade thing, and you just mentioned, you know, let's do the fun stuff before we do the hard stuff," Obama told former New...

Editors note: Doug Edelman argues that while the eligibility question is valid and needs to be resolved, we should shelve the issue until after the 2010 mid-term elections. He believes that the issue could distract conservative from the important job of winning elections. What do you think? Leave a comment. Glenn Beck spent considerable airtime on his January 4, 2010 radio program dismissing and ridiculing the “Birthers” and the idea that President Obama was born in Kenya. Of course this raised immediate ire amongst those who question Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve in the office of President of the United...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. Unfortunately, the president has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Where’s the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither of which was ever fully explained or justified. Obama has merely picked up the sword that Bush left behind in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both wars lack a formal congressional declaration of war. In the struggle against terrorism one might say, "Who cares?" Well, one group that...

Poor President Obama. The sacrifices the man has made. And remember, he didn't get in this for the title, nor for fame and fortune. No, he was motivated only by his desire to fight for the issues. So PBO told Senate Dems at their confab today. Transcript after the jump. View video here.

Appearing on Frank Gaffney’s show on Secure Freedom Radio earlier today, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer delivered the ultimate smackdown of President Barack Obama. The conservative columnist proved he understands Obama completely. As I argued yesterday, conservatives are making a tragic mistake by mistaking the man for a pragmatist. He is not, he’s a leftist ideologue.

Dear Mr. President, We are still a free country with a constitution and our God-given unalienable individual rights. You can't just order people to purchase your health insurance plan. The congress does not have the constitutional authority to enact your socialist health care plan anyway. The federal government has no authority to involve itself in health care issues. And your plan is most definitely socialism whether you care to admit it or not. And it's unconstitutional. But I do love your methodology. No matter what the problem, all we have to do is throw more federal money at it and...

"You don’t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college."

Sometimes, the truth hurts. In the case of an article they published yesterday at 4:04 p.m. Eastern, it appears Reuters editors were afraid writer Terri Cullen's adventure into truthful journalism might hurt their news agency's relationship with President Barack Obama -- so they pulled it.

Poor Barack Obama. In becoming president he inherited the "hollow prize" of the United States of America. That was the astounding theory suggested this morning by Melissa Harris-Lacewell. The Princeton professor of politics and African-American studies bemoaned the president's predicament on Morning Joe today. Apparently this "hollow prize" theory is in vogue in certain circles, used to decry the plight of African-Americans who only rise to powerful political positions in "hollow prize" places like Detroit. View video here.

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey famously said that Bill Clinton was "an unusually good liar. Unusually good." Well, then, President Barack Obama is an unusually bad liar. Unusually bad. Obama said in his State of the Union speech (and similar statements several times since): "By the time I took office, we had a one-year deficit of over $1 trillion and projected deficits of $8 trillion over the next decade. Most of this was the result of not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program. On top of that, the effects of the recession put a...

Glenn Beck said one conclusion he drew from President Obama’s State of the Union address was that “the president thinks you are stupid.” In an apparent reference to the defeat of Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate race and in the governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia, Beck said on his TV show: America sent a clear message to Washington in recent months, and his response wasn’t a message of slowing down, cutting back or listening to the people. What we got last night was, “Keep your mouth shut and fall in line!” or, “I’ll give another speech because you...

AP: U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.

When it comes to economic policy, there's stupid, breathtakingly stupid — and liberalism. Thursday, in another mind-numbing display of ideology-driven stupidity, Senate Democrats passed new budget rules only a liberal could believe will make it harder to run up the deficit: they will make it as difficult as possible to extend the current tax cuts, or enact new ones. This is precisely what happens to people suffused with an ideologically-inflamed sense of superiority. They truly believe that both common sense — and historical evidence — are irrelevant considerations with respect to economics. For example, it doesn't matter one iota that...

Tougher Jon Stewart jokes against Obama may just signal the collapse of the remaining vestiges of support the president usually enjoys. Normally popular among his ferociously committed, liberal base that is represented among the late-night riffraff and their bizarre audiences (who can't even tell that hosts like Jon Stewart aren't really newscasters), Obama of late has come in for slightly more-heavy-than-normal ridicule among hosts like Jon Stewart, who mercilessly (and some would say traitorously) delighted in eroding war support for eight years under Bush by continually making fun of Iraq's progress. To be clear, though, while the "tougher" barbs from...

Like all radicals in positions of power, President Obama’s army of citizen volunteers, Organizing for America, is recruiting high school students as interns to organize the President’s agenda in the 2010 election cycle. I quote, “Organizing for America, the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda” Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs reports on students at Perry Local High School in Massillon, Ohio who were given propaganda recruiting papers in government class to enlist students to sign up as interns...

Sarah Palin is a fighter, a barracuda or a pitbull, with lipstick of course. She is on the prowl for Obama. More than anyone else, she is responsible for the decline in the prospects, for not only Obamacare but for Obama’s presidency as well. Palin endeared herself to conservatives because she took on Obama in her acceptance speech. Unfortunately McCain didn’t have the stomach for it and muzzled her instead. Now she is calling the shots. By repeating her mantra in every speech or comment she makes, she is branding herself. She presents her policies as axiomatic, requiring no proof...

Appearing on the Ed Schultz Show last night, Rep. Alan Grayson (D) displayed the turmoil and progressive dysfunction associated with failure to pass the leftist agenda. Erupting in cognitive confusion Grayson lept over the edge of reality as he reacted to President Obama’s appearance before the House Republican Conference, declaring Obama and Democrats ”have been held hostage” by Republicans this past year!

President Obama at the Duke vs. Georgetown game.

Verne Lundquist, closet Republican? The sports announcer got in a bit of good-natured trash talking while interviewing Pres. Obama during this afternoon's game between Duke and Georgetown in DC that PBO attended. In a basketball-politics double entendre, Lundquist asked the left-handed Obama "do you have any problems at all going to your right?" When the president made his way to the announcers table during the second half, he, Lundquist and Clark Kellogg engaged in some b-ball banter. At the very end, an obviously nervous Lundquist hit PBO with his cheeky question. View video here.

President Obama addresses the GOP in Baltimore, MD.

Is the expected Obama space policy, which cancels the space exploration program started by President George W. Bush and begins a commercial space flight initiative actually a "conservative" policy?

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "The last thing I will say, though -- let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues. If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to...

On Wednesday night, the president asked us to “let him know” if we had any better ideas, and today John Boehner handed him a compilation of the policy alternatives that have been advanced over the past year. These are ideas that deserve to be considered to turn down the volume on the rhetoric and use common sense. Please take a look at Solutions.GOP.gov. You can read the compilation of policy alternatives, called “Better Solutions,” here. - Sarah Palin

We know that people are souring on President Barack Obama, and that even some of his fans and allies have started to doubt whether he’s change they can believe in after all. But the latest case of dissent may be one of the most surprising. Speaking to Sean Hannity last night, Amber Lee Ettinger—the star of 2008’s popular “Obama Girl” web videos—said that the magic is gone: I just don’t have that big crush like I used to…yeah, I mean it was two years ago, and if I had this crush on him the same way as I did in...

Harvard Law School’s answer to Huey Long unmasked himself during a joint session of Congress two days ago. At the State of the Union address on Wednesday President Obama conducted himself like a chest-beating Latin American caudillo when he took the unprecented unusual step of dressing down the black robed Supreme Court justices seated in front of him. Interrupted by obnoxious Democratic cheers, America’s first socialist president tried to intimidate the high court that had the nerve to defy him. “With all due deference to separation of powers last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I...

President Obama answers a question about the Middle East in Tampa.

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama was roundly criticized -- especially by those on the right, including yours truly -- for relying upon a teleprompter while speaking at an elementary school.