Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
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It seems like all of the presidential candidates are taking a page out of Sarah Palin’s handbook because this week, everybody is on a bus.
While the GOP’s top tier members ride through early primary states, President Obama is taking his case to the Midwest .
The bus tour gives the “campaigner in chief” a chance to be seen beyond his day-to-day Washington backdrop.
Of course, not everybody is impressed.
The RNC describes the president’s effort to engage in a public dialogue about job growth and the economy at town halls and economic forums as ‘a totally non-political taxpayer-funded administration event that just happens to criss-cross several battleground states critical to the president’s re-election’ in the Obama critique, which is disguised as a briefing book.”
No word yet on their reaction to Rick Perry’s new ride.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
A-Rod may not have the best poker face.
Moons? That’s some crash.
Forget the Lorax. The Baltimore Grand Prix speaks for these trees.
If you want to have legal trouble, just be the head of the International Monetary Fund. It’s jinxed.
Armadebtdon. It’s the end of the world as we know it, according to Jon Stewart, who was not enthused with the President’s speech last Monday.
After the debt ceiling video debate, (if you want to call two separate speeches a debate— transcripts of the President’s message and Boehner’s response) citizens responded.
Websites of congressmen were flooded with users/citizens outrage. Servers went down as emails of protest overwhelmed the systems.
Some were following Obama’s proclamation:
So I’m asking you all to make your voice heard. If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.
By message did he mean a letter or a tweet?
Twitter reported on the server shut downs and many Congress members took to the social networking site to respond to constituents.
Both speeches acknowledged American frustration with government, without drawn-out apologies, which has been made evident in most citizen interviews.
If you check out this recent Washington Post poll, under question #23, only 30% of Americans would re-elect their congressperson.
So Obama called us out and many Americans took to the online social network. Should they have been marching in Washington?
This may be the beginning of a new era like when FDR called citizens to their televisions with maps in which he said these words:
“It is your problem, my friends, your problem no less than it is mine.Together we cannot fail.”
Obama similarly expressed at the end of his video:
The entire world is watching. So let’s seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth – not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation.
There has been a call for change…a phone call, that is.
College student body Presidents representing over 120 campuses have banded together to ask the grown ups to act their age.
These student politicians are demanding real politicians in Washington place the welfare of the nation before partisan politics and come to some sort of compromise on the debt ceiling.
Their concerns were laid out in a letter read at a press conference, seen here:
Their worries seem well-founded, as Washington remains predictably gridlocked.
President Obama has given their concerns consideration, and took the time to address the student body Presidents on a conference call.
Although the details of the call were not released to the media, participants have described the tone of the call as “engaged”.
Students remain concerned that young people already deeply affected by the recession will bear the brunt of the consequences if a compromise is not reached.
The younger generation has been plagued by high unemployment rates. For June 2011, the national unemployment rate was 9.2%. Yet for 20-24 year olds the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 14.5%, and for 16-19 year olds it was 24.5%.
Carlos Reyes, a Georgetown University graduate who helped draft the letter explained,
“We thought it was important to give a voiceless generation a voice in this process. Washington often kicks the can and the can is usually us, but this time the can is kicking back.”
Thanks to Fox News!
US Government plays the Race to the Bottom of the Debt Crisis.
Athiests ask officials to not display a cross at the World Trade Center Memorial.
Manchester United manhandles MLS Allstars.
Tired of the Debt Drama? We are too.
Sending a “save the date” card is a tradition for large events (re: weddings, parties, etc.) What would the news “Save the Date “cards look like? We’re going to take a crack at it.
July 23, 2011: The Borders “Going Away” sale begins. Yesterday, a federal bankruptcy court approved the companies liquidity plans that will go in effect today. Customers can expect to see discounts on all of their favorite books.
Everyday!: Negotiations about the national debt ceiling continue to collapse as Speaker Boehner and President Obama fail to reach an agreement. The country is nearing the ceiling that will cause the United States to default on its loan. How much longer can this turmoil last?
September 20, 2011: President Obama has set an official date for the abolishment of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” that was passed last December. He is convinced that this can be done without any harm to military readiness, but the Pentagon must work out the logistics.
August 2012: NASA plans to land a rover on Mars. There is a 96 foot crater that could tell us if there is really the potential for life on Mars.
Election Day 2012: Marylanders will have the chance to vote for or against in state tuition for illegal immigrants as a referendum.
Sometime in a two to three year period: Steven Speilburg wasn’t very specific about the legistics, but he has confirmed that a Jurassic Park 4 script is in the works. Keep a look out for more information.
While demonstrations demanding democracy continue in Egypt… some are saying democracy is broken in the United States.
Current discussions about debt, taxes and the US economy have exposed a bitterly polarised Congress.
President Obama is doing his best to pull the two sides together but with little luck.
Is there hope for democracy here and abroad? (cartoon by KAL)