Posted on 02/08/2009 12:17:47 PM PST by EveningStar
In classical Athens, hubris was a crime and considered the greatest sin in Greek society. In American society it is simply defined as an arrogant self-confidence, an overweening excessive pride. As most Americans know by now, you’re most likely to see it displayed on Wall Street, in Hollywood, or in the nation’s capitol where Wall Street and Hollywood collided with a vengeance during the most recent election. As we’ve now seen with “the stimuli,” including the current bill in Washington, there are a great many people in D.C. who want all our money and that of future generations to use as they please right now, because they don’t think we’re terribly smart and only they can save us.
President Obama - technically the first President created by Hollywood beginning with Oprah Winfrey declaring him “the one” - made plans to have three one-hour TV sessions on all the major networks over the course of the next three weeks in order to pitch Americans on the “glories” of the economic stimulus bill whose popularity fell with the public with each passing hour. As TV columnist Lisa de Moraes pointed out in the Washington Post, this presidential posturing could cost the networks millions and millions of dollars. One must wonder what he has to say that is so lengthy it can’t be said in one broadcast? And with a deal on the current stimulus bill, will he still hold forth on TV?
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
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
Third week in office
Obama changes the setup of the National Security Councel by executive order
Great list!!
It has been a lOOOOng 3 weeks.
Remember to add to your list the USS Cole issue...insulting the families of the men and women killed by not talking to them before issuing his decision not to pursue charges.
"I'm getting something here....something about something goeth-ing before a fall..."
I will never put the word “President” before his name. In my history book he’s community organizer 44
Great List!!!!
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For...
...the Enemy is now within
...and always has been.
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"It's not that our Liberal friends are ignorant -- it's that they know so much that isn't so."
LOL! Indeed
"In American society it is simply defined as an arrogant self-confidence, an overweening excessive pride. As most Americans know by now, you’re most likely to see it displayed on Wall Street, in Hollywood, or in the nation’s capitol where Wall Street and Hollywood collided with a vengeance during the most recent election."
Serving $100 steaks, going on weekend retreat to a spa, while telling Americans
to tighten their belts and take pay cuts.
Aka, alien-in-chief
PROPHET OF DOOM
Fast start for dismantling our Republic. Got to hand it to him. All this without a squawk from the MSM. You go Barry!
I see that the Media are once again adding the word President before the Presidents name. Hey what happened?
He behaves more like the antichrist than POTUS.
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