What the hell is Obama's presidency for? Ascent had meaning, but now his interventions are too rare

The Guardian ^ | February 23, 2014 | Gary Younge

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A few days after John F Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson sat in his kitchen with his key advisers working his first speech to Congress. It was the evening of Kennedy's funeral – Johnson was now president. The nation was still in grief and Johnson, writes Robert Caro in The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, was not yet able to move into the White House because Kennedy's effects were still there.

He had been a hapless vice-president; now he had to both personify and project the transition from bereavement to business as usual. In the midst of the cold war, with Vietnam brewing, the Kennedy administration had been trying to get civil rights legislation and tax cuts through Congress. There was plenty of business to attend to. Johnson's advisers were keen that he introduced himself to the nation as a president who could get things done.

For that reason, writes Caro, they implored him not to push for civil rights in this first speech, since it had no chance of passing. "The presidency has only a certain amount of coinage to expend, and you oughtn't to expend it on this," said "one of the wise, practical people around the table". Johnson, who sat in silence at the table as his aides debated, interjected: "Well, what the hell's the presidency for."(continued)

[DaveA37]

“Judge Jannine Pirro — “Did Obama Lie His Way into the White House?”..

I like her and the “in your face” way she tromps on odumbo at every opportunity. She nailed it in the video, that’s for sure. Odumbo continues to lie and has lied his way all along. A lot of his “worshipers” still believe everything he says. Stupid, stupid people!

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Add to that, he’s most likely the one who masterminded JFK’s assassination. Read Cairo’s book and you’ll see the Kennedys, especially RFK, had him on the skids and he was likely to be criminally prosecuted in addition to being removed from the 1964 ticket.

[DownInFlames]

$800b in freebies under a so called stimulus package w no controls or oversight.

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Try as I might I could only get through about half of the article.