Jack & Jill Politics

AFTERNOON THREAD IS UP

I don't listen to (or really give a ****) about Rush Limpballs (compliments to spirit and whoever else came up with that name), but now I hear that Rush is preaching to his fellow Republi-crackas: "I hope he fails." He being President Barack Obama.

CNN (Rick Sanchez) is reporting that Rush Limpballs wants President Obama to fail.

Rush, please go somewhere and overdose on your illegal pain killers. Let this country and her people move forward.

Sanchez, please ignore that ******.

I'm a die hard cynic but after seeing how the general psyche of this country has done a 180 since the election, I'm starting to believe that most folks are tired of tasting haterade and are moving on. These days Rush, Hannity, etc. are the metaphorical 4-year-olds throwing a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store aisle to get attention. I think they're about to find out the hard way that America is tired of dealing with brats so they can grow up and get a clue, or they will start to lose stations one by one.

Dont worry...soon enough he will be exposed and we'll find out why he really takes his "vacations" to the Dominican with a suitcase full of viagra.

EWE!

Webb, I can't take credit for Limpballs; that would be CPL.

Rush Limpballs is a FAILURE. THE END!

Webb: Listening 2!

Ya know, I wish that there was some way to connect "Limpballs" words to his "drugs"!

BUT, just as there is NO PILL FOR RACISM, NO PILL can CAUSE IT.

Sooooo, HE just must B IGNORED and PITIED for having to live with HIMSELF annnnnd, to get PAID "BIG BENJAMINS" for being a "RACIST!"

AAAArrrrrggggg!

As Obama takes office, NFL shows change

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9111012/As-O...

A half-black, half-white American president is stealing the spotlight this week, but Raheem Morris truly pulled off the impossible and proved just how far we've come in terms of racial equality.

Think about it. Barack Obama unseated George W. Bush and whipped John McCain and Paris Palin. That's the equivalent of beating Moe, Larry and Curly in a rigged game of Jeopardy.

Jon Gruden — winner of Super Bowl XXXVII, architect of the last high-quality Oakland Raiders team, consistent playoff-qualifier — was dumped as head coach of the Buccaneers so that the franchise could hire a 32-year-old black kid who was a quality-control assistant four years ago.

Marinate on that for a minute. Gruden basically has the same résumé as Tony Dungy, a Super Bowl winner and the architect of the last high-quality Tampa Bay squad. Imagine Tony Dungy being canned for an unproven 32-year-old white kid who was an intern in 2005.


Barack Obama's ascendence to the presidency is historic, but so is the change that's overcome NFL owners. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)

There would be blood in the streets.






...Don't hold me, GreenLady! Let me at him.....

SAAAAAAA>>>>>LAP

Jason Whitlock is the Jessie Lee Peterson of Sports. He is a waste of cells.

Justice58: ***removing my hands from your shoulders****

You jes' do what you got ta do!!! :>) :>)

BREAKING NEWS! Holder's confirmation HELD UP for a week!

From my understanding, many people wanted Larry Summers to become Treasury Secretary, the issue with him was more an attitudinal problem rather than a tax problem.

So I think what Obama should do is nominate Summers, and put Geithner in place of Summers.

I just wondered if ya'll noticed what I noticed last night. I was watching some of the coverage, and my TV some how got turned to O'Reilly, and he was calling President Obama, Barack Obama. Ya know, "Let's talk about Barack Obama's speech", or "So what did you think of Barack Obama's speech". It really irked me to no end. Maybe I was just sensitive, but it seemed like O'Reilly could not call him President Obama. The reason I ask is because I'm not sure I ever heard anyone of Fox News call GWB anything but President Bush.

Just wondering if anyone else noticed it.

That's standard Fox Noise fare. Nothing they do suprises me or riles me up. I just don't bother to watch.

What I noticed was that Sean Hannity did not air a show last night. Hmmmmmmmm

lamh31: I NOTICE when ANYONE does this, especially the HATAS!! :>) :>)

IFFF O'Reilly could say "BOY" and get away with it, IMHO - - he would!!

BUT, we NOT gonna sweat it. 'cause HE'S going ta B PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA 4 the NEXT 4 YEARS, 1460 DAYS, 35,040 HOURS - - - Well, you get the point! :>) :>)

They betta GET USE TO IT!!!

Make that 8 years! :-)

Against Race Politics: U R correct! I meant to MULTIPLY X2! :>) :>)

Annnnnnnd, I had a slight minor in math! HAH! So much for that! :>) :>)

Yeah I knew not to try the math. My job has given me a complete headache! I was actually at work on yesterday and it went downhill from there!

ARP: C'MON!!! U CAN DO THIS!! :>) :>)

Now U jes' "get back UP that hill!" :>) :>)

'cause there "Ain't no Mountain High Enough"

ENJOY!!! :>) :>)

Hallelujah! I know that I'm sleeping better at night and if you watch me closely, you'll see a little more spring in my step...more bounce to the ounce.

President Obama need to diss all of them at Fox. They don't matter anymore.

I think the President launched an effective Kill-'em-with-Class (pun intended) offensive by reaching out to conservative types like Will, Kristol, Krauthammer, Gigot, et al. In other words, the anti-Sarah Palin/intellectual wing of the GOP.

I mean, it wasn't too long ago that Bill O'Reilly was co-anchoring "Inside Edition" with Diane Diamond, and Sean Hannity is still riding his big break from Fox News.

Feel me??

Justice58: GOT DAT RIGHT!!! :>) :>)

He can just brush his shoulders off !

Against Race Politics: LOL! :>)

What are you most happy about regarding Obama's election and inauguration?

Contribute to our list--

The Good, the Satisfying, and the Joyous of Barack Obama's Inauguration at:

http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/200...

Some examples:

The Good: I am happy about the chance to be mad at, upset at, and disappointed in, Barack Obama. Why? because he is only a Black man who happens to be President, and to be honest, I thought I would never be able to write such a thing in my lifetime.

The Satisfying: Complaining about Barack Obama and raking him over the coals for his decisions, decisions which inevitably may not satisfy me or you. Also, watching the pundits and talk radio crowd second guess him. Why? because that is business as usual for President of the United States.

The Joyous: Liberal disappointment and Conservative damnation. Why? politics is like sausage in that you never want to see how it is made, yet one wants to enjoy and benefit from it. If President Barack Obama can disappoint the Left and provoke the Right, I know he is at least doing half of what he needs to do to be MY president.

rikyrah: Since I can't post/find the Huffpost cover page, I'll just share this:

Today's Front Pages > Wednesday, January 21, 2009: 755 front pages from 73 countries.

Anybody want ta bet that this will CHANGE tomorrow? :>) :>) Oh. well. :>) :>)

rikyrah: A PICTORAL REVIEW:

Barack And Michelle Obama's Inauguration Day PDA (PHOTOS)

Throughout President Obama's Inauguration Day, he and First Lady Michelle Obama rarely stopped holding hands and frequently exchanged whispers and kisses.

From meeting the Bushes at the White House, to the swearing in ceremony, lunch and later the parade, below are photos of them throughout the day. Inaugural ball photos have now been added.

See a slideshow of Sasha and Malia Obama's inauguration

See more Obama Slideshows

SLIDESHOW:

Just so WONDERFUL!! :>) :>)

Michelle was beautiful the whole day and she did it..
without a weave...
without fake nails....
and with all of her original body parts.
And might I add that those parts were covered up.

And she wore hose. Something she usually does not wear.

Now remove alla dat, and you got BEAUTY, BRAIN, BRAWN & BRILLIANCE!!!!!

Right THERE - she's my hero. I swear that's THE reason I don't wear suits to work. Well beside the fact I don't have to... /snicker/. But I know it's THE reason I don't wear dresses anymore. (Summer dresses don't count.)

lmao!

Yes, alla that was refreshing.

OhPuleezee: The FIRST LADY MICHELLE was INDEED BEAUTIFUL!! :>)

Both INSIDE annnnnd OUTSIDE!! :>) :>) [sorry 'bout the incomplete sentence. :>)]

rikyrah: I thought that I would be OFF the "COUNTDOWN TRAIL" after the INAUGURATION.
BUT, after seeing the phrase "The FIRST 100 DAYS", I guess I am "compelled" to follow this thread. :>) :>)

Sooo, I'll try ta post DAILY along the pathway. Aren't you lucky? :>) :>)

1. HIS SCHEDULE: Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009

All Times Eastern

Obama has a video conference with the National Security Council.
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:35 AM

Obama arrives at the Oval Office for his first full day of work. A letter was left for him from President Bush. [NOTE: Shredder puh-leeze! :>)]
8:45 AM

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel discusses today's schedule with Obama.
9:00 AM
9:10 AM

Michelle Obama visits the Oval Office.
10:00 AM

Obama attends a prayer service at the National Cathedral this morning with his family, the veep and other invited guests.
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
2:00 PM

The Obamas host a White House open house.
3:00 PM

2. DAY 1
[NOTE: O.K. I don't know where the FRONT PAGES went. :>) Ms. Technologically-Challenged! :>) Sorry. :>(]

The FRONT PAGES of a lot of newspapers are just soooo positive & exciting!!

3. 100 Days: Obama Begins Day With Prayer At National Cathedral

Obama started the day with a prayer service at the National Cathedral. Watch highlights via MSNBC below.
[ENJOY!!]

4. Obama Promises New Destiny, Work Begins Today

"I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear ..." Well, nothing was more stunning and cathartic than those few words. Not the remarkable American diorama — in all its polychromatic wonder — spread out for miles on the National Mall in Washington. Not the clear, sober cadences of our new President's Inaugural Address. Not the prayers and tears, the unstoppable smiles and barely controlled giddiness of what may have been the happiest crowd ever to grace the nation's capital. A man named Barack Hussein Obama is now the President of the United States. He came to us as the ultimate outsider in a nation of outsiders — the son of an African visitor and a white woman from Kansas — and he has turned us inside out. That he leads us now is a breathtaking statement of American open-mindedness and, yes, our native liberality. Even before his first act as President, and no matter how he fares in the office, he stands as a singular event in our history.

And let it be recorded that Obama's first act as President was to correct Chief Justice John Roberts, who managed somehow to mangle the 35-word oath of office, misplacing the word faithfully, as in "faithfully execute the office of President ..." Roberts then mangled it a second time, Obama raised an eyebrow, and Roberts moved on, a bumpy beginning and something of a metaphor: one of the new President's functions will be to correct the mistakes of George W. Bush's benighted tenure. Obama made that very clear in his sharply worded address, which contained few catchphrases for the history books but did lay out a coherent and unflinching philosophy of government. Nearly 30 years after Ronald Reagan heralded the onset of his conservative age by saying "Government is the problem," Obama announced the arrival of a prudent new liberalism: "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." Conservatives assume such tasks — employment, health care, retirement — are the province of the market. We have had 30 years of paeans to the wonders of free enterprise, but Obama made it clear that markets are not an unalloyed good: "This crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control. The nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous." (See pictures of Obama's campaign behind the scenes.)

THERE IS MORE.

5. Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation

Moments ago, in his first official act since taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation, calling on Americans to serve one another and our common purpose on this National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation. Check it out below, or read it on the WhiteHouse.gov proclamations page.

NATIONAL DAY OF RENEWAL AND RECONCILIATION, 2009

- - - - - - -

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

As I take the sacred oath of the highest office in the land, I am humbled by the responsibility placed upon my shoulders, renewed by the courage and decency of the American people, and fortified by my faith in an awesome God.

We are in the midst of a season of trial. Our Nation is being tested, and our people know great uncertainty. Yet the story of America is one of renewal in the face of adversity, reconciliation in a time of discord, and we know that there is a purpose for everything under heaven.

On this Inauguration Day, we are reminded that we are heirs to over two centuries of American democracy, and that this legacy is not simply a birthright -- it is a glorious burden. Now it falls to us to come together as a people to carry it forward once more.

So in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, let us remember that: "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2009, a National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, and call upon all of our citizens to serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

[NOTE: THIS is President OBAMA's NEW web site! :>)]

6. HE SPEAKETH NOW: 1:19 pm EST

1. PAY FREEZE. 2. EXECUTIVE ORDER ON ETHICS - - CAN'T LOBBY MY ADMINISTRATION!! 3. Ethics Briefing when hired! 4. Transparency insured: Freedom of Information Act - Don't keep unwarranted SECRETS! 5. HE SIGNED ETHICS CODE!!

At his 1:15 ceremony Obama announced salary freezes for all White House employees making over $100,000 a year.
"Some of the people in this room will be affected by the pay freeze, and I want you to know I appreciate your willingness to agree to it," Obama said. “It’s what’s required of you at this moment. It’s a mark of your commitment to public service”
POTUS also outlined ethics restrictions on lobbying and gifts, requiring White House staff to attend ethics briefings and sign agreements restricting their ability to lobby after leaving office." Obama called these restrictions "stricter limits than under any other administration in history."

[NOTE: OOPS! VP BIDEN is going to have to sit in the "BAD CHAIR" for that little quip about Justice Roberts. President Obama DID NOT SMILE!!]

7. Moving fast: Obama called the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority this morning, and Robert Gibbs released a statement saying POTUS called for “establishing an effective anti-smuggling regime to prevent Hamas from rearming, and facilitating in partnership with the Palestinian Authority a major reconstruction effort for Palestinians in Gaza.”

ALSO: AP reports Obama’s team has already drafted an order to close Gitmo and halt all trials within the year.

8. Obama speaks with Abbas: One president at a time

Obama called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and pledged to work toward achieving Middle East peace, Reuters says.

“Obama reiterated that he and his administration will work in full partnership with President Abbas to achieve peace in the region,” a spokesman for Abbas told the news agency.

9. Commander in chief: Saluting the troops

It appears President Obama will adopt a modern tradition as commander in chief that began with Ronald Reagan – the presidential salute.

Obama saluted members of the military while watching the Review of the Troops on the East Front of the Capitol.

The president could be seen saluting again after he was inside his heavily armored limousine. On the reviewing stand, he saluted passing troops – but seemed to be following the lead of military officials at his side.

Obama first attempted the salute while on vacation in Hawaii over the holidays, briefly lifting his right hand to his forehead to acknowledge a couple of uniformed Marines as he left the gym on a Marine Corps Base.

It was unclear how Obama would handle the hand salute. After that one time after the gym, he resorted back to the civilian hand wave.

And the president saluting members of the military is not without controversy.

The practice was started by Ronald Reagan. Critics say that although the Constitution designates the president as "commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States," he is a civilian officeholder who does not wear a uniform and, as a result, should not use the military gesture.

But the hand salute has been used by every president since Reagan – including, it seems, President Obama.

10. Sasha Obama Congratulates Her Dad On Being President (VIDEO)

We all know Sasha Obama is cute, but millions missed her cutest line yesterday when it was buried in the screams and cannon-fire following her father's oath. Watch the video here when Sasha turns to her father and says "Daddy, you're now, officially the President!"

President Obama was/is SERIOUS about CHANGE!! :>)

He has done SO much on DAY 1 :>) God Bless him!! :>)

Thanks for all this. You are ambitious as hell.

As for that adorable Sasha.... one thing I notice about the Obamas and noticed in this clip is how as soon as one of those girls say 'dad' 'mom' - their attention is on them. It's so normal; it's so beautiful. It just reminds me of how we were with our kids and how our kids are with their kids. It doesn't mean they're spoiled; it means they're loved and respected for who they are.

Wordsmith: My pleasure! :>) :>)

YES on the "family dynamics!" :>) "LOVED AND RESPECTED!" :>) :>)

Annnnnd, this RESPECT transfers to OUTSIDE the family. I watched very intently as to how PRESIDENT OBAMA responded/reacted to VP Biden's statement - on Justice Richards. Annnnnnnd, so were all the CAMERAS!!

IMHO, had he laughed, THAT would have made headlines and re-shaped some people's negative attitude against him. HE KNEW!!!

Hence, his "disapproval-face" was CLEARLY EVIDENT!!

YOU gotta KNOW that HE KNOWS!! :>)

LAWD HA'MERCY!! :>)

HE IS DA MAN!! God Bless him!! :>) :>)

Say it, GreenLady!

Justice58: :>)

Thanks, GreenLady, for bringing it.

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA TCB!!!

PEACE BE STILL

spirit: My pleasure! Thank you.

Co-sign on the "TCB!" :>)

GLH - Thanks for all your reports. Change comes in many forms. some things we like and some we don't. However, he is off to a good start.

SDG: HEY! :>) My pleasure. :>)

Good analysis of CHANGE! :>)

Co-sign! :>)

Oh yeah!

America Is Finally Growing Up

Miss Re--I love her--but she occasionally misfires trying to one-up people thinking that she can do it all.

Marian Anderson was a coloratura soprano.

She tried to do Pavarotti's "Nessun Dorma" once when he bowed out because of illness.

Now if she had treated the occasion like church, she could have done Mahalia Jackson's "How I Got Over," which was sung at the March on Washington, and on the occasion of Obama's Inaugural would have been apt for the multitude (some of whom were vets of that previous occasion).

She's been 'threatened' by the likes of Dusty Springfield, the White Queen of Soul, and by Roberta Flack and Dionne Warwick in her time. All Miss Re needs to do is just be herself--singular, inescapably unique, and wonderful.

Especially that part when Mahalia sang, I feel like shouting.

I think the whole crowd would have been in various stages of ecstasies by then.

Miss Aretha's performance was excellent, but it did not do it for me. I agree with you, that yesterday was shoutin' time. "How I Got Over" was definitely in order, but if Miss Aretha had done it, Mother Robinson may have broken out her Holy Dance, and we know that America is not quite ready for that.

I loved her rendition yesterday. My mom said it was moanin time after that...LOL

She was right.

The older folks could do it too.

I made a boo-boo. Marian Anderson wasn't a coloratura, she was a contralto.

It was a good job, but I wanted to see girlfriend in full flight.

To me, the only moments that really mattered were Barack's being sworn in, his Inaugural address, Elizabeth Alexander, and Reverend Lowery.

Thanks MsKitty!

I saved that one.

MsKitty: OMG! GREAT FIND! :>) Thank you! :>) :>)

What would MLK say about gay rights?
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-w...

Get to know me first, ad campaign for marriage equality.
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2009/01/get-to...

When (not if) Barack's reelected, can we have regular folks--soldiers brought home, single moms, firefighters who've saved elderly victims--speak and/or introduced people and songs etc at concerts, events...even balls?

I'm a little, well, shell shocked by celebrities who invaded DC. I dont need Steve Carrell and Jamie Foxx teaching me about Abraham Lincoln. I don't need Nick Cannon. I don't need Hummer limos pulling up to supposedly "green" or green-invoking balls.

Not a gripe. Just a thought. I don't mean ostracize Kanye West or Susan Sarandon or . I mean minimize the swirl of focus on them.

I totally get what you're saying.

MSNBC's guest- Jonathatn Turley, Constitutional Lawyer says Obama should retake the oath of office

Constitutional Law
Law Profs Advise Obama to Take Oath Again Due to ‘Faithfully’ Flub (Take Our Poll)
Posted 5 hours, 19 minutes ago
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Is Barack Obama really president, or did his error in reciting the oath rob him of the office?

Because that question could dog Obama for the next four years, he should take the oath again, law professors told the Washington Post. They believe the error is "insignificant" and Obama really is the president, the story says, but they suggest a do-over couldn't hurt.

It wouldn’t be the first time a president took the oath a second time in private because of legal questions, the story says. Calvin Coolidge and Chester Arthur also opted for a do-over.

Obama should have said he will "faithfully execute the office of president of the United States" but following Roberts’ lead, he moved “faithfully” to the end of the phrase.

"Out of a super-abundance of caution, perhaps he should do it again,” Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar told the Washington Post.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley agreed.

"He should probably go ahead and take the oath again," Turley told the Post. "If he doesn't, there are going to be people who for the next four years are going to argue that he didn't meet the constitutional standard. I don't think it's necessary, and it's not a constitutional crisis. This is the chief justice's version of a wardrobe malfunction."

http://www.abajournal.com/news/law_profs_advise...

Obama OFFICIALLY became President of the United States at noon--BEFORE he took the oath of office.

NMP: Co-sign. I heard K.O. announce that at precisely 12:00 NOON!! :>) :>)

"He should probably go ahead and take the oath again," Turley told the Post. "If he doesn't, there are going to be people who for the next four years are going to argue that he didn't meet the constitutional standard. I don't think it's necessary, and it's not a constitutional crisis. This is the chief justice's version of a wardrobe malfunction."

And that's when REAL journalism should kick in and put a stop to that bs, and point out that as of 12pm on 1/20/2009, Obama was officially POTUS with or without the oath.

And the Dems should follow with "Florida '00 and Ohio '04! Don't start none, won't be none!"

Okay!

I understand the reasoning of Turley's suggestion. I don't know that I agree. I mean - I could give a sh*t myself. Obama is president. It was CJ-Stevens who screwed up the oath, not the president. Obama knew what he was to say. He paused to let Roberts "fix it" - which he kinda did - and then President Obama (cheezy grin) just went with it.

The results of the election have been entered into the congressional record. I saw THAT on C-SPAN. Cheney presided.

But there's the wingnuts on the right, the racists, the Clintonistas, the PUMAs, (and whoever else I missed) that will challenge the validity of Mr. Obama's presidency. It's always some small turd isn't it?

P.S. Can I just say how much joy I get out of writing "the president" and NOT have it mean numb nutz Bush!?

Millions of people watched President Obama take the oath in Washington, and many millions more watched it on television and the internet throughout the world--including the chief justice who originally goofed its administration.

That's going to be one hell of a courtroom they'll have to build when the 'legal challenge' comes.

Jeffrey Rosen, a US constitutional law expert and professor at George Washington University in Washington, said stumbling over the oath has "no impact. News flash: He's president."

Rosen pointed to the 20th amendment of the US Constitution, which provides that the president and vice president's term begins at noon on January 20th.

"Lots of people have flubbed the oath, perhaps most memorably Chief Justice (William Howard) Taft, who sort of riffed and then made up his own" upon swearing in then-president Herbert Hoover, said Rosen.

Where the oath calls for the president to pledge to "preserve, protect, and defend" the constitution, Taft said "preserve, maintain and defend" -- injecting an entirely new word, while Roberts merely got the order wrong.jit-lc

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...

And then the wingnuts who will pretend like he's not president right now will say it doesn't count because its not Jan 20th....since this game involves a constantly moving goalpost, I say lets not play this game.

On top of it, most people know Roberts was wrong, wrong, wrong, and blame him for the flub. Roberts was trying to trip him up. I sense this was like Alito not attending Obama and Biden's visit because Obama didn't vote for either Roberts or Alito.

Jerks. Give him an excuse to fill their seats, Universe.

Agree, Miranda. Did you see the CNN clip with Roberts and President Obama? I think Rebecca is right, in that he's probably already worked this out.

Moving forward with our 44th POTUS!

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/...

I believe Roberts was intending to trip President Obama up and maybe it's why he trying to race through it.

Kinda hard to believe a Chief Justice doesn't get it right.

Hard Truths at the Outset

By David Ignatius
Wednesday, January 21, 2009; Page A11

The great danger for Barack Obama, with his natural charm and grace, is that he will try to please everyone. But he began his presidency with no glad hands -- avoiding the easy applause lines and instead telling people things they might not want to hear.

There is more.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

Looks like he may have to take the oath again....but he might have already done this...to be sure they can't say he is not the president...ugh! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...

To be honest, he became President at 12 noon eastern time, yesterday, with or without the oath so that's a none issue.

Exactly.

Lawd have mercy...will this be the new talking point? For heavenssakes.....next they'll proclaim he didn't say his name exactly like it is on the birth certificate that they already think is fake. I swear.........where the hell is the goalpost now? I cant even see it anymore.

Miranda: the goalpost?

It appears ONLY 2 B visible to those who wish ta MOVE IT!! :>)

I'm just sayin'. . . . . :>)

I KNOW!

Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Lawer and MSNBC guest says Obama should retake the oath of office.

Constitutional Law
Law Profs Advise Obama to Take Oath Again Due to ‘Faithfully’ Flub (Take Our Poll)
Posted 4 hours, 42 minutes ago
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Is Barack Obama really president, or did his error in reciting the oath rob him of the office?

Because that question could dog Obama for the next four years, he should take the oath again, law professors told the Washington Post. They believe the error is "insignificant" and Obama really is the president, the story says, but they suggest a do-over couldn't hurt.

It wouldn’t be the first time a president took the oath a second time in private because of legal questions, the story says. Calvin Coolidge and Chester Arthur also opted for a do-over.

Obama should have said he will "faithfully execute the office of president of the United States" but following Roberts’ lead, he moved “faithfully” to the end of the phrase.

"Out of a super-abundance of caution, perhaps he should do it again,” Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar told the Washington Post.

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley agreed.

"He should probably go ahead and take the oath again," Turley told the Post. "If he doesn't, there are going to be people who for the next four years are going to argue that he didn't meet the constitutional standard. I don't think it's necessary, and it's not a constitutional crisis. This is the chief justice's version of a wardrobe malfunction."

http://www.abajournal.com/news/law_profs_advise...

World Celebrates Obama's Inauguration

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/20/eveni...

(CBS) In Kenya, the land of his father, they sang Barack Obama's name.

In Donegal, Ireland, they cheered in what claims to be the land of his distant cousin, and wrote new lyrics. "There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama!"

They rang the ceremonial bell in the town in Japan that bears his name. Yes, it's called Obama, Japan.

Never have so many felt so close, from so far away, CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips reports.

In Russia, one man said, "all of a sudden we have this smart guy running the United States."

The world seemed to stop to watch the man many see as their new leader too.

"Barack Obama really does seem to be the first American president who is also in many ways quite genuinely the world's president," said Constanze Stelzenmuller of the German Marshall Fund.

And he will inherit the world's problems. But Obama, perhaps more than any before him, is being carried along on a river of good will.

McGruder's NDS (Negro Disappointment Syndrome) is apparently on full display.

Now - I think many recognize the level of expectation placed by some folks on Obama is unreasonable...

But it seems to me, McGruder's position is a bit like Lucy snatching the football away from Charlie Brown.

Insofar as Obama not being "black"...

McGruder is badly in need of a History Lesson.

Let's pretend Barack Obama were not President. Instead, he is some guy who unfortunately gets caught up in a drug sweep in say, E. St. Louis. Will the cops:

A) Let him go on his merry way because he is not the descendant of African slaves.
B) Taze the living shiat out of him, cuff him, then taze him again.

We are waiting for your answer Mr. McGruder!

I'll go with B!!.....Obama would be blacker than Shaft

Imma go with B too, exotrip.......And Obama would be blackler than SAMBO.

Just sayin

I feel for these people-purple tunnel of doom- because I knew the crowd was going to be bigger than anticipated:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61444130820

...But what they didn't know, was that their lives had been changed forever because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man.....

I hadn't made that connection but now I gotcha. A fitting homage to Marian Anderson indeed!

I actually visited the Mall on MLK, Jr. Day (after completing my Day of Service project) to take in the energy and excitement of the crowd. And though I watched the Inauguration ceremony from home, I still felt emotionally connected to the thousands I'd mingled with the day before.

The First Couple looked fabulous on the ball circuit last night. I know they're exhausted! Welcome to Washington LOL ;-)

Finally, how 'bout that FOINE Secret Service agent escorting "The Beast" along the parade route yesterday?? The lean brotha with the wind blown coat, crisp white shirt, and the " I-got-this !!" swagger! Yeah, him!!! Lawd hamurcy!!

I felt that homage to Marian Anderson during the Lincoln Memorial one of the best. Eleanor Roosevelt was so outraged at the Daughters of the American Revolution for their bigotry in denying Anderson to sing, Eleanor resigned from the group and got Marian a larger place to sing, the Lincoln Memorial. History.....

Co-sign, iceberg. I think the video was posted a month or so ago, but here it is. Sweet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQnzb0Jj074

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Ava Maria (Shubert) Marian Anerson- Heavenly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR95d7yP2Ig

LOL!

.S. Supreme Court
One of History’s Unusual Pairings: Chief Justice Swearing in Obama
Posted Jan 20, 2009, 07:46 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Barack Obama will be sworn in today by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., a man whose confirmation to the high court he once opposed as a U.S. senator.
The New York Times calls the event one of history’s unusual swearing-in pairings. Roger Taney swore in Abraham Lincoln four years after writing the Dred Scott pro-slavery decision. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist swore in Bill Clinton a week after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against the president. And Rehnquist swore in George W. Bush six weeks after the high court decision that ended Al Gore’s quest for the presidency.

The Times contrasts the two men’s backgrounds. Both were on Harvard Law Review, Roberts as managing editor and Obama as president. After law school, Roberts took a more traditional path, clerking for a federal appeals court judge and then Rehnquist. He went on to work at the Justice Department and a large law firm.
Obama, on the other hand, was a community organizer and law professor before he went into politics.

Yet both men “will be very much entwined with each other’s future,” the Times notes. The Washington Post makes a similar observation in an article about the two men, saying their two careers will become “intertwined.” Both articles say any appointments that Obama makes to the court will likely be more liberal than Roberts.

The Times goes on to note that when the two men met last week, they were “dwarfed by a huge portrait of Chief Justice William Howard Taft—the only president ever to become a Supreme Court justice. Even if President-elect Obama were to serve two terms, he would be only 55 when he left the White House. Is it completely implausible to suppose that the Roberts Court lies in this onetime constitutional law teacher’s future in more ways than one?”

http://www.abajournal.com/news/one_of_historys_...

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Aretha makes my Spirit soar! I weep like a baby.


Love her.

Amen! I love when they rock the ballerina bun and ribbon do! Adorable!

Uhm, with all due respect, is there a new link posting policy here? Hollah at me, please :)

I love that Malia and Sasha are always dressed as girls...not miniature women, but GIRLS. I pray their image sets a trend.

Exactly! My sister-in-law is soooo relieved that my niece has ditched Miley Cyrus and Rihanna and Beyonce for the Obama girls. The limited choices of pop icons for little Black girls have been over-sexualized white teenagers, grown women or stereotypical sassy 'grown ass" little black girls

I hope Michelle allows one of the doll companies to create dolls of them.

AMEN!!! They look like little girls every time I see them. Especially when they rock the ballerina bun and ribbon do! I love it.





http://images.inmagine.com/img/imagesource/is68...

I like that, too.

Tim Geithner is on the tube begging for the job of Treasury Secretary. I can't see giving him the job despite is on the ground knowledge of the situation. The simple reason being if you realize that as head of the NY FED his office is directly responsible for many of the large multi and national banks that have brought us to this crisis, he failed to prevent this.
Secondly, I'm waiting to see if he denounces the current smoke screen regarding TARP money, i.e. it is to be used to create a bank to hold bad assets. This is a bad idea because the people responsible for this mess will still retain their jobs if the banks are recapitalized and kept as stock companies. The government in holding these assets will not be stopping the continuation of the worst assets; credit swap deriatives regardless of what prices they can receive for them. So is he willing to let these banks be liquidated-that is let the market price these bad assets and buy them at risk to the new owners and transfer the depositers funds to various solvent banks.

Who is lined up if this guy doesn't make it?

It's 11:38am
Sen ? ,(R)is up in Geithner's business and holding him accountable for past policies(CNBC)
I do not know whom is the back stop. I'd take a look at the FED members in Chicago as they have responsiblity for the commodity markets and main equity option exchange giving them first hand knowledge of credit deriatives, etal

He will unfortunately be confirmed. Frankly, Joseph Stieglitz should have been nominated. He foresaw the problems we're having right now.

id probably say Larry Summers, who is the head of baracks economic council

This is just what my husband said, he was part of the problem and why we are in the financial situation that we are in now.

*looks at watch* Well, it didn't take long.......

Cartoonist 'cautiously pessimistic'
Some audience members outraged by comments about Barack Obama

BY RACHEL E. SHEELEY • STAFF WRITER • January 20, 2009


"The Boondocks," comic strip and animated series creator Aaron McGruder entertained, intrigued and outraged his audience at Earlham College on Monday night.

McGruder launched the comic strip, "The Boondocks," in 1999 and it is now an animated series on the Cartoon Network.

Appearing at the college for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, McGruder answered questions posed by the audience and by associate professor James Logan.

Mixing political opinion and satire is hard to do in comics and cartoons, he said. "It's not having a statement, it's entertaining people so they listen."

On the eve of President Barack Obama's inauguration, McGruder is "cautiously pessimistic" about the presidency.

"I don't think you're going to see any dramatic change from Barack Obama," said McGruder, who wore a "Boondocks" T-shirt over a black long-sleeve shirt and jeans. "I'm hoping he proves me completely wrong."

McGruder bases his opinions of the U.S. presidency on the 2000 election and how nothing has been done since then to change the election system. "It was a sham then ... It's got to still be a sham," McGruder said. "I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but it's what I tend to do."

On the topic of race and ethnicity, McGruder said that to him, Obama is not black because he is not a descendant of a slave.

"The person who is one of us in the White House is Michelle Obama and her momma," McGruder said.

His comments outraged Dionne Robinson, 44, of Richmond.

"I want my $5 back," she said. "It's one thing to have an opinion, but he doesn't have any facts. He needs to go back to college."

Robinson said that people were enslaved in many parts of the world, not just in America.

Her son, Zane Robinson, 14, of Richmond watches "The Boondocks," but was disappointed by the show's creator.

"He's nothing like his show," Zane said. "I thought it was kind of boring. His answers were long and they didn't make any sense."

Like his mother, Zane -- who wore a sweatshirt that celebrates Obama's presidency -- didn't like McGruder's comments about Obama. "He didn't seem to know what he was talking about," Zane said.

On the other hand, "Boondocks" fan Tristian Gregory, an Earlham senior from Evansville, Ind., said McGruder "fulfilled my expectations.

"He mentioned some things that are off-the-wall to some ... I think he's very skeptical," Gregory said.

Gregory said he supports McGruder's idea of waiting to support Obama when he's seen what decisions the president makes.

"That's pretty amazing coming from a strong African-American and I definitely agree with him," Gregory said.

Let me first say that I love "The Boondocks", both the strip and the animated show. Both have been entertaining, and more than often, brilliant.

But, I had suspected Aaron McGruder might have overestimated his gangsta with hot mess like the videos found on Boondocksbootleg.com. I won't tell you to watch the "Black Jesus" videos other than to imagine every ignorant stereotype about black men and apply it to the adventures of one with long hair and a beard.

But McGruder's assessment of Obama's blackness is particularly ignorant, and stupid. Not even you gets to make that kind of call, Aaron. It's one thing to be skeptical of Obama's politics and all politicians, but to hold some narrow standard of what constitutes African-American ethnicity is no less dangerous (IMO) than other's outmoded ideas of racial purity--of which none exists.

And now I have easy reasoning to hold lowered expectation of your new Boondocks episodes and comics (the latter for which I don't think you've actually the time for). Entertainment producers are influenced by money and fame just as politicians are, if not more so.

I will speak up for a fellow writer and Marylander. Aaron's a tortured genius type. And yes, he's gotten a little flaky since he left the east Coast's more reasoned bosom. Look--Picasso was an asshole, Faulkner was a drunk. Even Charles Schulze wasn't Linus as an adult. So we cut him a break. But we still need to wake him up.

(rolls eyes)...................knee-grow puhleeze.

SAAAA>>>>>>LAP!

Do it again!

As I said, he's gotten even MORE flaky.

I'm rolling my eyes as well...

I won't say what I'm thinking tho.

doesnt that sound like the 1980's arguement of not black enough or not real black as if black is about color not about experience. barack may not be a descendant of american slaves but i dont know how many have researched kenya during the 40's but there was a lot of civil unrest and genocide that baracks dad went through. racial litmus test still in the black community

I look at it like this: If your azz would've been sold on the auction blocks back in tha day --- you black.

Sepia: "WHYCOME" YOU just "TRANSLATED" in so few words? :>) :>)
YOU BLACK!! LOL! LOL!! :>) :>)

No genetic tests NEEDED!! :>) :>) ***shakin' my head***

There!

I actually like McGruder and his comic strip and show. However he does say some off the wall stuff sometimes. I don't think I have ever heard that definition of black before. Wondering where he heard it.

Wondering where he heard it.

Perhaps his Filipino girlfriend?

You mean Mr. Blacker-than-thou isn't with a Sista?


LOL

mmm I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Seems like The Negro Police are back in effect. I wonder how brilliant one must be to decide who is Black and who isn't?

/snark aimed at McGruder

So McGruder is the Soul Patrol?

LOL!!

Amnesty International has issued a challenge to Barack Obama for his first 100 days.

The Historic Inauguration: Looking Southward With Envy: A Canadian perspective on the Obama presidency and what it means for blacks globally.

When Punishment Is Cruel and Unusual: Looking at the denial of medical treatment to transgendered individuals in prison.

Celebrating President Obama in the AfroCarribean community in London, courtesy the Times of London;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_...