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America -- what have you done
The Spectator ^ | 2/7/09 | Melanie Phillips

Posted on 02/07/2009 9:06:30 PM PST by Nachum

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1 posted on 02/07/2009 9:06:30 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZWYmxr8XE&feature=related


2 posted on 02/07/2009 9:06:52 PM PST by Nachum (Obama theme song: Ball of Confusion by the Temptations)
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The List

First president not to attend The Inaugural Medal of Honor Ball
5 exectutive orders the first week in office
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the SCHIP bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy" Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote
Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri

3 posted on 02/07/2009 9:07:56 PM PST by Nachum (Obama theme song: Ball of Confusion by the Temptations)
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Did you see this? Obama Invites Hamas Terrorists to America
4 posted on 02/07/2009 9:18:49 PM PST by Hildy
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To: Nachum

Keep the list... it’s going to have many infamous additions.


5 posted on 02/07/2009 9:19:35 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: Nachum
As a result of lurching to the Far Left instead of governing from middle, Obama's once sky high approval ratings have plummeted to 37%, a hair above the departed Bush's last recorded approval rating. It must take a lot of work to turn you deeply unpopular with the American people in just under two weeks in office!

Keep up the good work, Barry. You're doing a heckuva job!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 02/07/2009 9:24:46 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Nachum

Is that all?


8 posted on 02/07/2009 9:27:06 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: A_Former_Democrat
This man makes Jimmy Carter look moderate. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

9 posted on 02/07/2009 9:28:35 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Nachum

Nice work Nachum. Pingo!


10 posted on 02/07/2009 9:29:24 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Hildy
Yes. It is indeed worthy of the list.

Here is the corrected version.

The List

First president not to attend The Inaugural Medal of Honor Ball
5 exectutive orders the first week in office. Including one that allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States.
Insults China
First interview, with foreign news outlet- for Muslims
Talks about his muslim family
Picks fight with Limbaugh
Won't take question from press
Allows to FDA approve first human embryonic stem cell safety trial (3 days after Pres. Bush left)
Excludes any compromise with GOP on Stimulus bill Massive pork in stimulus bill
5% of stimulus bill to actually go to infrastructure
Offers to negotiate directly with Iran
Puts 5 millionairs on his cabinet
Makes a tax cheat the Sec. of the Treasury
Bombs Pakistan
Argues with the Pope on abortion
Signed the SCHIP bill, that gives health care to illegals
Won't allow a video of his retaking of the oath of office
Ordered the closure of Gitmo
Halts all pending Bush regulations
Second week:
Appoints extremist Samantha Powers to head foreign policy team
Secret nuke talks with Iran/Syria
Appoints tax cheat for commerce secretary
Illegal alien aunt, granted a "stay" of deportation Daschle the tax cheat/lobbiest proposed as secretary for health care
Nancy Killefer for candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for federal government fails to pay household help taxes ...withdrawn
12 lobbyists (or more) appointed to high gov't positions within the first 14 days of his administration (up to 17 by another source)
Administration demands defense cuts of 10% during wartime
Obama envoy George Mitchell tells Palistinians " they believe can extract from Israel concessions reaching "much further" than during talks held under the previous administration
The European Union warns the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting Obama's “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war Obama immediately backs down from policy
After stating her priority would be "mum-in-chief", Michelle Obama goes on listening tour and then makes political speeches with her husband not yet one month in office...
George Mitchell resigns from a Saudi Lobbying firm, two weeks into his appointment as "Special Middle East Envoy" Obama administration says it will cancel 77 drilling leases near Utah parks
Ogden, President Obama's pick for deputy attorney general, used to represent Playboy
Steven Chu, Obama's secretary of energy (not a climatologist) states: California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming
Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat Ron Simms to the #2 position in HUD
Hilda Solis, Obama's pick for labor secretary's husband is found to be a tax cheat just before the confirmation vote
Directed military prosecutors to revoked charges pending against mastermind of USS Cole bombing: Al Nashiri

11 posted on 02/07/2009 9:31:11 PM PST by Nachum (Obama theme song: Ball of Confusion by the Temptations)
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To: Nachum
Obama was chosen to alleviate white America's guilt. And some of those who voted for him have a case of buyers' remorse.

America, what have you done, indeed!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

12 posted on 02/07/2009 9:37:38 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Nachum
[E]mpirical studies have found few differences between minors aged 14-18 and adults in their understanding of information and their ability to think of options and consequences when asked to consider treatment-related decisions. These unvarying and highly significant findings indicate that with respect to the capacity to understand and reason logically, there is no qualitative or quantitative difference between minors in mid-adolescence, i.e., about 14-15 years of age, and adults...this is BS - if you want to talk about "empirical studies", then remember that we now know that the human frontal cortex - the seat of logical and moral reasoning - is not fully mature until the mid twenties. That's why it's also empirically obvious to most people with even a smidgen of life experience that teenagers are unreliable at best and most often poor in making effective life decisions and judgments. It's silly to claim that somehow their ability to understand and think of consequences of "treatment-related decisions" is significantly better than they are in any other area of life. Ogden is either too stupid or too dishonest to be in any high government office......
13 posted on 02/07/2009 9:48:14 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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>>>approval ratings have plummeted to 37%, a hair above the departed Bush’s last recorded approval rating.

No, but the misunderstanding isn’t your fault. The posts on this have been misleading.

The 37% is just subtracting the Strongly Disapprove from the Strongly Approve. Going by the conventional 1 to 100 approval scale, Obama scores 60% approval, which not many presidents would say was bad. Still this is down from the mid 80s approval of a few weeks ago.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_approval_index


14 posted on 02/07/2009 10:08:59 PM PST by tlb
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To: Nachum

Please post your comment over on Dan Riehl’s site, he has this article up.

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/


15 posted on 02/07/2009 10:09:07 PM PST by diefree
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To: Nachum

Excellent thread! This needs to have all the ping lists pinged!

If you start a ping list, to notify us of additions to your list, please add me to it.

Bump!


16 posted on 02/07/2009 10:10:17 PM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Don’t blame me, I voted for Sarah Palin!


17 posted on 02/07/2009 10:15:54 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Nachum

ping me


18 posted on 02/07/2009 10:19:20 PM PST by free-n-TX (He's NOT MY PRESIDENT!)
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Barack Obama is nothing but a tool. Of course he is an anti-American Marxist, but he is in the White House because of the efforts of the people who have been working for over a century to destroy this nation. They brought this guy from nowhere, helped him get into Harvard and into the Illinois legislature.

From there he went to Congress and then, astonishingly, into the most powerful office in the world. Now that he is there it is becoming clear that he is a buffoon who steps in it every time he makes a move.

He can’t put a cabinet together without embarrasing himself. He doesn’t know that he should not be acknowledging the existence of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, not sniveling about them publically.

Obama is incapable of being president. Pelosi and Reid do not respect him. Hillary hates his guts and the American people are becoming aware, after just weeks of his presidency, that he doesn’t know what he is doing.

He can and he will damage America severely. He is anti-American and resentful of the role America has played in world affairs. Remember that Obama spent his formative years in the third world.

I don’t know whether America will survive this guy. I do know that this country is in grave danger with him in the White House. Hey! I wonder what David Rockefeller is up to these days.


19 posted on 02/07/2009 10:20:31 PM PST by SkipW
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To: SkipW

yep. well said.


20 posted on 02/07/2009 10:23:40 PM PST by GOP Poet
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