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White House under fire for adding Obama policy plugs to past presidents' bios
foxnews.com ^
| 5/16/12
Posted on 05/16/2012 7:00:19 PM PDT by Justaham
The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama's accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.
The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking "Did you know?" fact boxes to the end of their bios. Those additions were used to plug a host of Obama administration initiatives, ranging from the health care overhaul to the so-called "Buffett Rule" to his green-energy policies.
For instance, the following line was added to the official bio of the late President Ronald Reagan: "In a June 28, 1985, speech, Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multimillionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule."
The White House is coming under heavy criticism from conservatives for the changes, and not just to Reagan's page.
Late Tuesday, the White House defended itself, claiming the staff was merely adding links to other pages.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhowhitehouse; mememe; narcissists; presidentsbios
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:00:27 PM PDT
by
Justaham
To: Justaham
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:05:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Justaham
Nobama looking to his rational base to get the facts out, and burn down a local depository. FUBO you bunch of MoonBat derelicts. Nobama is nothing more than butthurt.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:09:59 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
To: Justaham
Says the Malignant Narcissist:
“It’s all about me.”
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:10:28 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Justaham
That’s inexcusable. These people have no shame.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:13:32 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: eyedigress
Sorry, but..........what the hell did you just say?
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:14:10 PM PDT
by
RightOnline
(I am Andrew Breitbart!)
To: Justaham
Drop the turd in the Jimmy Communist Carter punch bowl, Mayby the gay Johnson unit. Maybe even FDR or the other communist believers. But, don’t mention the Marxist Zerobama in the same sentence with any past presidents who valued freedom for US CITIZENS!
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:15:11 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(To the left wrong is right, down is up and backward is "Forward")
To: smokingfrog
Those bios are all evolving.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:16:25 PM PDT
by
getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
(chirping birds + basket weavers who sit + smile + twiddle their thumbs + toes They're coming to take)
To: Justaham
I went to whitehouse.gov to see for myself, and I found something interesting about the entries in question. The "Did you know?" bullet points were between the actual bio and the author's credits at the very end, giving the impression the biographers wrote the bullet points. My 10th Grade English teacher would have flunked me, for the term, if I did that in ONE term paper for false attribution.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:16:54 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: RightOnline
The last six words will do....
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:17:57 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: Justaham
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:18:03 PM PDT
by
Jedidah
("In those days Israel had no king. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.")
To: Jedidah
You gotta love Michelle Malkin's @michellemalkin Triplegigglesnort.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:30:27 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Justaham
Obama created the Earth and the heavens
Obama said let there be light
Obama won the revolutionary war
Obama freed the slaves
Obama completed the transcontinental railroad
Obama invented radio
...
never ends
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:32:15 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Justaham
In an effort to assist in community organizing, President Barack Obama invented the internet.
Oh wait...
To: Cyber Liberty
Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes . You know that's why the Good Lord made your eyes. So, plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize!
Tom Lehrer - "Lobachevski"
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:37:06 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: Justaham
The affirmative action token knows that his reign will be viewed as a non-period between presidents that mattered; he has nothing to distinguish himself (especially if the disastrous ObamaCare is tossed - bad publicity is better than no publicity for this fake).
To: Justaham
At least he hasn’t put his head on all the busts of past Presidents yet.
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:38:49 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: Norm Lenhart
OMG! He’s a bigger narcissist than Al Gore!
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posted on
05/16/2012 7:39:19 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: Justaham
In a successful environmental marketing campaign, Barack Obama hand painted the spots on a limited number of owls in the Pacific Northwest. Larger owls immediately collected the entire set.
To: reg45
President Barack Obama has an unknown writing credit for “Love Story” starring Al and Tipper Gore.
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