Jack & Jill Politics

Palin: How she gained control and then lost it
Donald Craig Mitchell
Jul 9, 2009

OPINION: It has been almost a week since Sarah Palin rocked the news cycle by announcing her intention to quit her job as Governor of Alaska. Since then, pundits from Karl Rove on the right to Mark Shields on the left have offered diverse answers to the two questions that every Alaskan has been asking every other Alaskan: Is Sarah Palin really the Whack Job that Tina Fey made her out to be? If she's not, then What Could the Woman Have been Thinking?

Here is what Sarah had to say last Friday at the news conference she held on her lawn in Wasilla about her decision to be the first sitting governor in United States history to walk away. The incoherence is worth the length of the quote:

As I thought about this announcement that I wouldn't run for re-election and what it means for Alaska, I thought about how much fun some governors have as lame ducks . . . And then I thought, "That's what's wrong." Many just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck, and milk it.

I'm not putting Alaska through that. I promised efficiencies and effectiveness. That's not how I'm wired. I am not wired to operate under the same old politics as usual. I promised that four years ago - and I meant it. It's not what's best for Alaska.

I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is unconventional and not so comfortable. With this announcement that I am not seeking reelection . . . I've determined it's best to transfer the authority of governor to Lieutenant Governor Parnell. And I am willing to do so so that this administration - with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future - can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.

My choice is to take a stand and effect change. Not hit our heads against the wall and watch valuable state time and money, millions of your dollars, go down the drain in this new environment. Rather, we know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time, on another scale, and actually make a difference for our priorities. And so we will. For Alaskans and for Americans.

No wonder the pundits are confused.

After watching Sarah think for the past three years, my view it is that her big decision to quit was the logical result of several smaller decisions. Like a Slinky flopping methodically down a flight of stairs, each of those decisions flowed one after the other from Sarah's realization at the conclusion of the 2008 presidential campaign that she had transcended politics. That thanks to media like People Magazine and the National Enquirer, she now is playing way above the rim with cultural icons like Paris Hilton and the recently deceased Michael Jackson, rather than below it with common vote-grubbing politicians like Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.

After watching the Friday news conference, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson said that he thought Sarah "seemed more like a spoiled celebrity than a serious public official."

What Gerson got wrong is that Sarah is a spoiled celebrity. But it's not entirely her fault that she's spoiled. Because the media attention that has swirled around Alaska's governor-girl for the past ten months has altered the brain chemistry of a narcissistic personality that somewhere way back along the line was damaged decades previous.

An Australian friend of mine has theorized that Sarah's odd behavior suggests that she has been afflicted since childhood with Reactive Attachment Disorder, a rare psychological condition that is described in volume four of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders. Many of the symptoms do seem to fit: superficially engaging and charming, lacks cause and effect thinking, inappropriately demanding, engages in lying, lacks a conscience, has poor impulse control, has abnormal speech patterns, etc. But I am not a psychiatrist. So I don't know if that's Sarah's problem.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/palin-watch/1283-...

Oh my I need some water. Alas he has that high pitched Mike Tyson way of speaking so he needs to whisper or just shut up completely as others have pointed out.

Tonight's Conversation:
You Wanna Know Why ACT UP! Has Been On My Mind Lately? http://tinyurl.com/ntdrb2

rikyrah: Callin' it a day:

The Day in 100 Seconds: Judicial Temperament

PRAYIN' 4 her! Feelin' sorry 4 her opposition - - LOSERS!!

+ The Lord Bless You and Keep You :>)

+Now The Day Is Over

God Bless my JJP FAMILY! :>)

GreenLady! What have you been up to these days; are you letting the repugs dance on your last nerve? I am keeping you in prayer.

MoObama: HEEEEEEEY!! :>) So good ta hear from U!! :>)

LOL!!! :>) :>) U know that I CAIN'T be RATTLED!! :>) :>)

THANK U 4 YOUR PRAYERS! LUV YA!! :>)

God Bless U!! :>)

God bless you, too, with abundance of health, love and laughter! I hope you have found the work you needed to support your family with their challenges. I hold you often in my prayers and thoughts.

I thought of you and your commitment to your family this week when one of our college mentors came to me to tell me about her troubles. In her fourth year with the program, she is coming back to us from her freshman year studying nursing. She just received a surprising letter from her school saying that her dad has not been making his contributions to her tuition for the past few months and she won't be able to return in the fall without paying back what is owed. So we have been working hard to come up with a plan with extra work for her and getting support from her extended "family" in the program to make sure that she will be able to return. It takes a lot of "family" to get us by together in these troubled times.

I know your family at home must treasure your efforts as much as the JJP family treasures you as well.

zackboston: HEEEEEEY! :>) WHAT SWEET SENTIMENTS!!

How KIND of U & your colleagues on behalf of your student-friend!! I'm PRAYIN' 4 HER & ALL of U! :>)

Ima do what I hafta do 4 FAMILY! God is givin' me strength & surroundin' me with GR8 and ENCOURAGING FRIENDS - - my JJP FAMILY! :>)

LUV U'ALL soooooo much!! :>)

THANK U SOO MUCH 4 YOUR KIND THOUGHTS! LUV U! :>)

God Bless. :>)

Good to see you, Lady!

Hope you feel better!

Love you!

Justice58: HEEEEEEY! :>) GR8 2 C U 2!!! :>)

Farin' betta! :>)

THANK U 4 YOUR KINDNESS. LUV YA!!

God Bless U! :>)

Hello, GreenLadyHere!
I hope you are feeling better.
I'm OK.
Oh...and no matter what Justice58, Spirit, and Miranda say...I didn't do it. :-)

Admiral: LOL! :>) :>) :>) :>) U BRANG JOY!! :>)

"WHYCOME" I don't QUITE believe U? :>) :>)

THEY R TESTIFyin' 'gainst U! :>) :>)

At any rate - - -U R 4-GIVEN!! :>) Jus' DON'T do it[any & all] A-G-A-I-N!! :>) :>) PROMISE?? :>)

THANK U 4 DA LAFFS! LUV YA!! :>) :>)

God Bless U! :>)

Yes he did!!!!

Miranda: LOL! :>) :>)

Yes, Admiral did it, GreenLady!

I'm telling, I'm spilling my gut. Admiral was "bad"!

Send Admiral to the "bad chair" >>>>>>>>in that corner.

Justice58: LOL! :>) :>)

REVERENTLY: Michael Jackson - Bad

GOD BLESS MICHAEL JACKSON! MAY HE REST IN PEACE!

I! MISS! HIM!!

I have spoken 2 ADMIRAL!! :>) :>)

From TOTUS Blog: "I'm Okay"

(I'm surprised our dear Karmi didn't post this first)
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/2009/07...
Remember how I was hoping to take the next couple of days off? Well, that hasn't worked out so well.

My White House designated operator, Felix, clearly has to go. Today, Big Guy and I were scrolling and speaking to an interest group that supported us, and during the middle of the speech, one of my screens collapsed. Turns out Felix didn't tighten one of my screen's bracket rods, and one of my screens collapsed. It was kind of embarrassing, and the accident looked alot worse than the may have seemed on video.

All that said, I think I tweaked something. It may be my ACL, or maybe my MCL, or my "T" joint. Regardless, the Secret Service sent me first to George Washington University Hospital, where there is a special ICU and care facility for senior administration officials. But a good friend of mine, I'll call him Browny for legal reasons, ended up in a coma there after having "minor sinus surgery" if you get my drift, and there was no way in hell, I was going to put up with that.

So off I went to Bethesda Naval, where I figured I'd get looked at and released. But then there were the X-rays, the MRIs, the prodding and poking, the seemingly endless attempts to draw blood where the nurse couldn't find a vein despite my best efforts to explain that I was merely a humble hard-drive. Yet the poking and prodding continued.

Then they discovered that I basically had a limited warranty, and out the door I went. Someone really ought to try to look into this health care thing.

The comments underneath are really sweet /sarcasm

Barney Frank On The Daily Show: Don't Call It Stimulus (VIDEO)

points us to Barney Frank's appearance on the Daily Show last night. Frank was in a jovial mood, even at one point invoking the spirit of Henny Youngman.

Interestingly, Frank told Jon Stewart that he'd been instructed by Washington power brokers to stop referring to the term "stimulus." Here's Frank:

"I'm not supposed to call it stimulus. The message experts in Washington have told us that we're supposed to call it the recovery plan. I was puzzled by that...Most people would rather be stimulated than recover."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/barney...

LMAO!!!

This is an interesting look at current polling data vs. election data by demographic groups; turns out that his coalition is intact and people's opinions of Obama are virtually identical to what they were when they elected him. not sure i entirely agree with the analysis, but it's an interesting take nonetheless.
http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/strategi...

Just got back from Black in America II screening (and preening with preened Roland Martin hahaha). Watching DVDs they sent. Frankly, it's the Jeff Sessions and their constituents who need to see this stuff, not bougie black folks.

really Chambers? should we even watch it?

Please, Sessions and his ilk don't give a flying fuck about Blacks in America. That's why Valley Swim Club is getting their asses sued.

Agree, I have no intentions of watching CNN or the series, NONE WHATSOEVER.

I'll be watching The Lifetime Movie Network:
...Where the women are vicious...and the cops are SO dumb...
Fuck CNN.

LOL....the network where every movie has the word betrayed, trust, honor or love in it.

You aint neva lied about those words, Miranda. LOL!

LOVE, Lifetime though.

Then ordinary white folks. Cublicle slaves, soccer moms. They need to see this stuff, no matter how mediocre it is. LOL

Here's video of Willie Mays on Air Force on the way to the All-Star Game with the Prez. Check out about 1/2 way into the video when he talks about how he felt when Obama won the Presidency.

He "cried all night". It made him feel that what he (Willie Mays) "went through" meant something.

This perfectly illustrates what I was talking about a couple of days ago. Some people of the post-civil rights era just don't get just how closely the pre-civil right, Jim Crow generation is following Obama's presidency, and how much they feel they have invested in the Obama, beyond our political issues here and within both the left & the right blogoshpere.

Check it out:

http://thepage.time.com/video-willie-mays-on-ai...

The lawyer for the soldier who won't deploy is advertising for others to do the same thing because his orders were pulled. He still has a hearing ahead of him in Federal Court but they are claiming victory.

"Taitz proceeds to solicit new birther soldier clients saying, “It’s proof that we have a totally illegitimate commander in chief and they will cave in each and every situation. It means that from now on any member of the military, who doesn’t like any order , needs to call Dr. Taitz, ESQ…”

http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/07/14/birther-sol...

I don't get it; please tell me how this ended up a court case and not a court martial? I am totally twisted this week; the repugs crawling crazy on Sotomayor, now some nut job that doesn't have the brains to AWOL properly…what next?

The action that the Army took to revoke Cook's orders proves nothing. President Obama was sworn in lawfully by the Supreme Court justice and is the commander in chief. As such, he is a lawful commander giving a lawful order.

It seems we have a reservist who like the extra pay, willing to attend and endure the hardships of summer camp and weekend drills but when called upon to do his duty he is crying foul. Maj Cook can resigned his commission at any time and end the drama.

My friend Comedianne Queen Aishah jokes about President Obama . . .

yes she is crazy. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2i0ikXTZmc

Oh see....now I'm gonna go bug these folks at Uptown Comedy to bring her here. My email campaign has commenced.

Vajayjay perculating! BWA HA HA HA!!!!

lol she is crazy. She has been on almost every program, She does the Vagina Monologues, she has been a judge on Oprah, BET, she has been the
host of many comedy programs, the Apollo, she has been a Verizon representive, she has worked with Star Jones, Yolanda Adams, Vanessa Williams, Chuck Brown, visits the troops on the regular to perform and lots more.

Most importantly is she is a great friend and is so down to earth and humble and she has NEVER forgotten a friend. Never. I Love the Queen.
:-)

Have to give her a shout out and provide a link to her site. http://www.queenaishah.com/bio.htm and here is a link to her upcoming performances http://www.queenaishah.com/schedule.htm

Thanks, Val. Love her. I've seen the Vagina Monologues twice with my
daughters; it's POWERFUL!

Appreciate the links too. I'd love to see her if she comes to Minneapolis.

rotflmao!!

oooh, girl. The audio wasn't so good, but I got most of it. (And you know Michelle would be laughing at that too!!!)

July 14, 2009
Want a good laugh? Watch the wise white men question Judge Sotomayor about race


If any of you have watched the questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor by the Senate Judiciary Committee, you could either be ticked off or just laugh your head off at some of the ridiculous questions and comments coming from the nearly all-white male panel.



And the leader of the pack is none other than Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, who did his best to grill Sotomayor about her supposed bias. Sessions went on and on about how a judge isn't supposed to take into account their race or gender or biases, and how wrong it is for the first Latino to possibly serve on the Supreme Court.


Sessions may still be ticked at Democrats for blocking him from being appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush.


But folks like Sessions said nothing - NOTHING! - about current Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who said during his confirmation hearings that he would take into account the discrimination faced by his Italian ancestors when they came to America.


So it's cool for the conservative, but not the supposed liberal.


Like it or not, Sotomayor is getting confirmed. She will serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Democrats have the votes, but it's pretty pathetic to listen the wise white men grill her about not having cultural biases, when we see their cultural biases every single day.


http://essence.typepad.com/news/2009/07/want-a-...

They totally disrespected her yesterday questioning her temperament. I question their temperament and intelligence. For any of you from South Carolina and Alabama, what happened you ended up with Idiot as Senators?

I agree, MoObama. When I think of "temperament", I think of a dog. So, them using that word to describe Sotomayor is them trying to dehumanize her and equate her to an animal. Typical white racist bullshyt.

here's video of President Obama at the "bottom of the 2nd" during the All-Star game when he sat in the booth with the FOX Sports Announcers for about 15 minutes just chatting

http://msn.foxsports.com/video/MLB?vid=ff2bc9d6...

Yo! PBO give up props to my Phillies, 2008 World Champions of Baseball!!!

Ryan Howard, and Shane Victorino - The Flyin' Hawaiian, got props from the Pres!! Good scrappy, team baseball!!

WOOOOOOT WOOOOOOOT

*sips hot cocoa from Mets mug*

Whatever.

Yeah, I'm hatin' juss a lil' bit. :P

What's going on in Flushing? The way the guys have been dropping pop-ups lately I thought I was watching the Bad News Bears. I hear the 1962 Mets played like this ;-)

</gloating Yankee fan mode>

LOL! At least our ballpark doesn't give out home runs like gubment cheese. *two snaps and a circle*

:-P

How Obama Wept In Ghana
By Cameron Duodu - The Ghanaian Times

Air Force One has carried President Barack Obama and his family out of the skies of Ghana back to Washington, after a whirlwind visit to the first sub-Saharan country he has gone to since he became the first black President of the USA.

He received tremendous cheers from Ghanaians when, in a speech to Ghana’s Parliament, he acknowledged that yes, the blood of a Kenyan runs in his veins.

But I suspect that in the private apartment he and Michelle Obama shared on board Air Force One. the President would have noticed that; despite their bravery, something other than cheer was present in the psyche of his in his wife and two daughters.

Their unhappiness, not too difficult to decipher, was captured in a photograph which shows a grimfaced Obama with his arms around his eldest daughter, as they emerged from Cape Coast castle.

Why did he take them inside the castle? It is a whited sepulcher that does justice to Christ’s depiction of hypocrisy and true evil.

In there, the President and his family would have undergone the indescribable trauma of having to imagine what conditions were like on the spot where they stood, for millions of African-Americans, who were chained together in the dungeons of the castle - sometimes made to sit in their own excreta, the women washed and raped – before being shipped across the cruel sea, from Ghana to North America and the Caribbean, on a journey that took them into chattel slavery.

A chattel slavery that condemned them to endless labour, planting and harvesting cotton, tobacco, sugar and other crops, on plantations that yielded the wealth upon which the West’s prosperity and industrial might was built.

I am told by one of the Ghanaians who organized the trip for the Obamas that “in the dungeon, the tears of the President of the United States were flowing freely, Michelle Obama just broke down.

I figured the experience had taken her to the lowest point a human being can reach. The kids were asking many questions and registering the answers with shock.

It was a terribly distressing emotional moment for all of them.”

In truth, the slave trade was the most inhuman trade ever carried out in the history of mankind.

And it went on day after day after day for almost 300 years.

Of course, history written by westerners does acknowledge it (even if briefly} as The Atlantic Slave Trade.

But published accounts by freed slaves, such as that by Olaudo Equiano and slave-ship crewmen, such as Robert Barker, show that it was so horrible that descriptions of it were by Europeans, was either muted or suppressed..

In Cape Coast castle, everything that was bestial The Atlantic Slave Trade comes together – there is a door there labeled

“The door of No Return’, which was the slaves’ last exit from Africa.


http://www.modernghana.com/news/227274/1/how-ob...


sorry if this is a repost

Wonderful article rikyrah, thanks.

Just thinking here: Why would the Obama's bring the girls- now? I mean anyone born of the Middle Passage, in my opinion, has to make peace with that history and visit to just acknowledge its existence. Our history books work hard to not acknowledge it. But just now, reading this piece I have have to believe that the Obama parents HAD to make REAL what their lives are committed to correcting.

It all started THERE. What they inherited (among many things,) is a legacy for Black people that goes back to the foundation of our nation. Slavery. How can they really explain the level of hate some people have for their family without going back THERE of all places. Sasha and Malia must have a foundation for understanding how their father is revered and also hated by so many people. Why there is such a fear for their little lives? They cannot do what they used to do. It is impossible not matter how hard they try.

Slavery. You can read about it, hear about it- but there is nothing like being there. You feel dread, fear, anger, sadness, and even gratitude for our ancestors who endured and willed themselves to survive. Their family made that trip together- what a blessing to get to share that moment.

I have to think this castle visit HAD to happen for their girls. This trip, this experience will truly and unequivocally unite them as a family and it will provide those beautiful baby girls a foundation for understanding the sacrifices and opportunities that will be before them.

This is beautiful writing.

Thank you.

Thank you Craig.

Very insightful and moving post Evita.

Well said, with depth and feeling.

evita, you articulated this in a way that I couldn't. Thanks.

Here is another article....

http://dailyguideghana.com/newd/index.php?optio...

"Mrs. Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother, was very emotional when she reached the ‘Door of No Return’ at the Cape Coast Castle in the Central Region of Ghana.

Mrs. Robinson, whose great grandfather was among the slaves who were transported from the shores of Cape Coast to Virginia, could not hide her feelings when she recollected the pains African Americans in the diaspora went through since they were taken from their original homes."

No wonder their faces were so grim, watching their Grandma CRY?! What grandchild can handle that?

"although Sasha, 8, was too young to understand what was happening around her, her 12-year-old sister, Malia with her sense of cognition, asked questions about how the women and children were treated and kept at the female dungeons in the Castle."


Goodness....oh my goodness...do not wanna even know what the answer was...I certainly hope it was censored for her youth.

Weeping as I read this. We saw the pictures. We knew the entire Obama family grieved during that tour.... We felt the emotional toll... WE KNOW.

God Bless them all for their courage and strength.

Al Rodgers over at DKOS has more on Obama at the All-Star Game


Obama At All Star Game

Aww! PBO was adorable last night! He was like a little kid!

Love these pics. Thanks, lamh32.

Where's GreenLady, she loves PBO in his jeans.

spirit: LOL!! :>)

HERE

I


AM!! :>) :>)

I 4-got ta put on my "OXYGEN MASK!!" :>) :>)

But, I have my "CHURCH FAN" :>) :>)

Ima get up now!! :>) :>)

LOL! Easy, GreenLady, you know the Prez is too cool for school. :-)))

Is that a pic of Ali and Cos at this game?? I got to give it to Cos..he is sporting that Homestead Grays uniform of the Negro League! I love that!!

Can't say Beckham ever did much for me.

For me he's great to look at, but his voice leaves much to be desired. I don't mind the accent, actual think the British accent is pretty sexy (Idris Alba...anyone). I like my guys like Vin Diesel, built with deep voices, and dumb as a doorknob (allegedly)

LOL

Yeah, I was shocked that Beckham sounded like a member of the Lollipop Guild.

Now, Idris.....whoo chile!

he doesn't have to say a word...IF you know what I mean..

BWA HA HA HA HA

Whew Lawd...

Are you being "bad"?

LOL! Know whatcha mean!

Sessions Treats White Male Nominees Differently Than Female Latina Nominees
By Big Tent Democrat Tuesday Jul 14, 2009 6:00pm

For Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, white men deserve preferential treatment. Given his stated sympathies for the KKK, this is hardly surpising. But it is worth noting. In his opening statement, Sessions said, Sessions said:

I will not vote for — no senator should vote for — an individual nominated by any President who believes it is acceptable for a judge to allow their own personal background, gender, prejudices, or sympathies to sway their decision in favor of, or against, parties before the court.

(Emphasis supplied.) Yet, Sessions voted for Samuel Alito, who testified in his confirmation hearings that he does take his own personal background and sympathies into account as a judge.

Sessions demands preferential treatment for white men. He clearly applies a stricter standard to persons who are not white men. Given his history, this is hardly surprising. But it is also the perfect embodiment of the Republican philosophy.

http://thirdbranch.crooksandliars.com/big-tent-...

The First Lady told the POTUS he looks cute in his White Soxs jacket....AWE.

Yes he does look cute!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/w...

Where?
Wher you hear/see/read that Spirit?

You gotta stop treating me this way.

LOL! I'm watching the MLB All-Star game on the Fox channel.

He's sitting in the play call (announcer's) box, and the guys were admiring his BB jacket. He made a point of saying, "my wife told me I looked cute in it."

Here's the video of the first ptich. BB hall of famer Stan Musial handed him the ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGK3QfcEqw

Obama's surgeon general pick will be grilled on 'life issues'

Some Catholic health care voices are delighted with President Obama's pick for Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, but there are already rumbles of concern in the Catholic blogosphere over her stance on life issues.

Benjamin was named just days after Obama's audience with the pope (who gave him a copy of the church's latest statement on bioethics). But Obama has many abortion-rights supporting Catholics in his camp including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who attends Mass weekly.

However, it seems Benjamin may hew to Church teachings. One clue: Benjamin, who founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama in 1990 -- and rebuilt it twice after hurricanes -- was awarded a medal for her work by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006.
Full Story: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religio...

Oh, she'll be grilled alright.

Already know what theyare thinking; that clinic is really a cover for those pro choice women.

LOL! Now if we's just gone be shallow for a lil while....
http://www.washrun.org/clubnews/news/terrell_ow...

and I think he's a whiny drama queen...but damn...those abs...those pearly whites.....mercy

That's a work of art right there; yes it is.

He's a chocolate bar.

Terrell is gorgeous, yes yes yes. But the lies about his suicide attempt left a funny taste in my mouth. I understand the need for privacy, but he could have helped more people (in my opinion) by being honest if it was going to come out anyway. But he do got body. Mmm.

I like Donovan McNabb's smile and hair more. It's too bad those two couldn't be two Nubian god-kings on the field coming up on their third superbowl or whatever, instead of hating on each other.

Donovan does nothing for me at all....now that Adrian Petersen? Lawd have mercy.

Is that Beckham's wing wang??!

Excuse me? Cook volunteered on May 8, 2009, months after Obama was sworn in and now refuses to serve? He has to be a mental case, not fit to serve, probably a birther who planned the whole scenario, wants his 15 minutes of fame. What a flamer.

what a moron. is he mental? whatever happened to 'respect the office'? a freeper (yes, I know .. and his/her fellows fought him) made a good point this morning about how this is on the same level as someone claiming Bush was not the legitimate Commander in Chief and refusing to uphold the oath they made -- throw them in the brig.

this is the kind of crap that leads to idiots pulling oklahoma cities.

Regardless of what you (or me, FTM) believe about the two "wars" - Bush was commander-in-chief. Now soldiers could, and did, deny to follow specific orders such as deploying to Iraq and/or Afghanistan.

Their oath is to uphold and defend the Constitution.

This jackass is headed for trouble.

PBO is throwing out the first pitch @ the All Stars Game. He brought Willie Mays w/ him on Air Force One.

Sweet!

Jul 14, 2009 8:45 pm US/Eastern
Obama Throws First Pitch At All Star Game

Pics
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/obama.all.star.2.1...

Niiiiiiiice!

Girl you wrong for that DBeck pic.

I'll admit, I love DBeck he is definitely at WGILF (White Guy I'd Like to...)

Yes. That picture is sinful!!

It is, but one thing bout DBeck I can't stand is his voice. It's not the accent, cause I think tha British accent is kinda sexy (although that Irish/Scottish brogue of Colin Ferrell and Gerard Butler aka "300" I find extremely sexy too), but DBeck's voice is actually not as deep as I like. It's not MJ high or nothing, but it sure ain't that deep Idris Alba British accent that's for sure.

BWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!