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May 11, 2009 04:45 PM EDT

are the remarks the same? different? Limbaugh? Pelosi?

What do you think about CBS Sports Golf Analyst David Feherty's comment/"joke" about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi? (click here) ....and Wanda Sykes comment/"joke" about Rush Limbaugh? (click ... read more


May 11, 2009 02:58 PM EDT

Latest from WH Press Secretary

May 9, 2009 11:02 AM EDT

campaigning v. governing

The article below is sure to upset many environmentalists ...I am posting it only to show you how different (easy?) it is to campaign for votes than to actually govern. The article below is sure to disappoint many who voted for President Obama and expected a different result on this issue. I am not posting this to provoke a debate on polar bears but rather to point out the difference between ... read more


May 9, 2009 09:09 AM EDT

campaigning v governing

First, by blogging about Gitmo, I don't mean to suggest I have the answer. I do not (I am also not the President and I have created no expectations or made promises, either.) Second - on President Obama's first or second day of office he suspended for 120 days the Gitmo military commissions. During the campaign he said, "by any measure our system of trying detainees has been an enormous failure." ... read more


May 8, 2009 04:50 PM EDT

the resignation letter

May 8, 2009 04:25 PM EDT

DIRECTOR OF WHITE HOUSE MILITARY OFFICE RESIGNS!

Louis Caldera, Director of White House Military Office, resigns over the low flying VC-25 (Air Force One when President is in it) and 2 F-16's! But this is a bit curious....Secretary Gates wrote a letter answering some questions Senator McCain had asked of him....and guess what? According to the Secretary of Defense, this was planned in March 2009 and many, many, many others knew about it and ... read more


May 8, 2009 11:59 AM EDT

President Obama - we want to take you up on the offer

May 8 - I am re posting this blog entry...still no response from the White House. Let me repeat, I would like to give the President a serious interview on health care. He said that he wanted to do that...so, let's do it! I hope he accepts. ------------- May 5 - The below blog entry was posted yesterday. We still have not gotten a yes or no to our acceptance to President Obama's offer to have ... read more


May 7, 2009 03:45 PM EDT

Just received an email with this statement from Rev Al Sharpton

Subject: STATEMENT BY REV. SHARPTON ON HIS MEETING TODAY WITH PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN I felt it very noteworthy that the President of the United States would agree to meet on an issue of such great importance as the race and economic gap in public education. We had asked for such a meeting after the White House sent Vice President Biden to address our ... read more


May 7, 2009 03:43 PM EDT

IS FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY GOING TO RUN FOR SENATE?

As you know, Senator Specter has switched parties and there is a big debate who will run for US Senate in Pennsylvania ......one of the suspects was Tom Ridge...is he going to run ? read Carl Cameron's email: From: Cameron, Carl Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:43 PM To: Subject: Ridge statement Statement from Tom Ridge: After careful consideration and many conversations with friends and ... read more


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