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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Joseph Lawler
Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While
Rescuing Wall Street
By Neil Barofsky
Neil Barofsky can be forgiven a little posturing. Early on in his short
stint as Special Inspector General for TARP -- the bank bailouts -- he
realized that he had no choice but to set aside bureaucratic caution and
seize the mantle of whistleblower and reformer.
Barofsky, who before receiving an appointment from the Bush administration
had spent his career prosecuting ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 By: John Hayward
8/16/2012 10:17 AM
President Obama loves to tout the General Motors bailout as the signature “
achievement” of his presidency, even though current taxpayer losses on the
deal are estimated at over $25 billion. The exact degree to which the rest
of us got soaked so Obama could give GM to his union allies changes
constantly as the value of the stock held by We the People fluctuates. You
don’t remember being asked if you would like to become a GM stockholder and
willingly acc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 By Patrick Burke
August 30, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – the “supreme leader” of
Iran – praised America’s “Occupy Wall Street” movement on Thursday,
calling it a reflection of people around the world who are “losing their
patience” with the dominance of the United States and Israel in the
international community.
“Everybody has become tired of this faulty international structure,”
Khamenei said in his inaugural address to the Non-Aligned Summit, a
gathering of 120 nations n... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 4 Quote: it puts its promises on the book and call it "records".
But, does he have no record to show after FOUR years?
NO, at least one thing: his ideology.
His extremism on lefts finally has been exposed.
If you have already got used to it, please read
his 2008 speeches and his inaugural speech.
And we, the taxpaper, get to know whatever it takes,
we work to make that not happen again, ever!
On a side note, never ever grab a empty suit street lawyer
from south Chicago with an ugly mad wife to Whi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 5 Despite the GOP’s big talk, historical data shows that private sector job
creation is better when a Democrat occupies the White House. Since President
John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, in fact, nearly two-thirds of the 66
million private sector jobs added to the economy have come under Democratic
presidents, Bloomberg reports:
The BGOV Barometer shows that since Democrat John F. Kennedy took office in
January 1961, non-government payrolls in the U.S. swelled by almost 42
million jobs under De... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 6 Stocks Return More With Democrat in White House: BGOV Barometer
By Bob Drummond - Feb 21, 2012 9:00 PM PT
While Republicans promote themselves as the friendliest party for Wall
Street, stock investors do better when Democrats occupy the White House.
From a dollars- and-cents standpoint, it’s not even close.
The BGOV Barometer shows that, over the five decades since John F. Kennedy
was inaugurated, $1,000 invested in a hypothetical fund that tracks the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) only when ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 By Patrick Goodenough
September 19, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – The first opinion poll to be conducted after last week’s
deadly attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya and a spate of anti-American
protests across the Muslim world has recorded a five-point drop in approval
for President Obama’s handling of foreign policy.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday found the president’s
foreign policy approval among registered voters at 49 percent, down from 54
percent one month earlier.
“The fall was... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 Egypt’s New Leader Spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and STEVEN ERLANGER
CAIRO — On the eve of his first trip to the United States as Egypt’s new
Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi said the United States needed to
fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world, showing greater respect
for its values and helping build a Palestinian state, if it hoped to
overcome decades of pent-up anger.
A former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s first democratically
elect... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 9 I posted a couple weeks ago about the profit and loss in TARP.
basically the original program to stablize banking and AIG dispensed about
340B and so far got back 320B with returned principle plus interest,
dividend and appreciation in the assets purchased. Future returns are
expected. so it is very likely this part of the program as originally
designed by Hank Paulson under Bush with democratic support will break even.
the part that was allocated after Obama came into power to rescue the
autom... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 10 How Stupid is Obama?
By J.R. Dunn
We've long been aware that the One is not quite the superior intellect he
was sold as. Obama, we were told, was the rare possessor of a mind with the
profundity of a Socrates, the breadth of a Goethe, and the penetration of a
Newton. An intellect unrivaled on the current American political scene,
and possibly without equal in this country's politics since the beginning.
Events have certainly demolished that little trope. Within weeks of the
inauguration, some... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Steyn：在加拿大和澳大利亚竞争高技能移民的时候，美国高速引入低技能福利移民；
加利福尼亚拉丁裔人口从1970年占人口10%暴增到2010年的40%，这不自然
To an immigrant such as myself (not the undocumented kind, but documented up
to the hilt, alas), one of the most striking features of election-night
analysis was the lightly worn racial obsession. On Fox News, Democrat
Kirsten Powers argued that Republicans needed to deal with the reality that
America is becoming what she called a “brown country.” Her fellow Democrat
Bob Beckel observed on several occasions that if ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Gun and ammo sales predicted to skyrocket in wake of Obama’s re-election
OKLAHOMA CITY – The morning after President Barack Obama was re-elected,
business appeared to be pretty normal at the very popular and successful H&H
Shooting Sports, with customers looking at handguns and folks getting
something to eat at H&H’s 4U Cafe.But after talking to H&H owner Miles Hall
(he has operated H&H with his wife Jayne for more than 30 years), that
normal mood will likely change to exceedingly busy as people... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Obama’s Now Borrowed More Than All Presidents from Washington to W
By Terence P. Jeffrey
November 30, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - The federal government has now borrowed more money during
Barack Obama’s time as president than it did in the period lasting from the
time President George Washington took the oath office until July 2, 2001,
more than five months into the first term of President George W. Bush.
At the close of business on Jan. 20, 2009, when President Barack Obama was
inaugurated, the nation... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 14 I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary,
around spring of 2007. But unlike so many of his supporters, I never
experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy. I never felt his
election would change everything about American politics or government, that
it would lead us out of the darkness. Nothing Obama did or said ever made
me well up with tears.
Possibly for that same reason, I have never felt even a bit of the crushing
sense of disappointment that at... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 by Jammie
If he was so interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, why did he fly on our
dime to Hawaii last Friday only to turn around and jet back to Washington
now for some photo ops?
President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave
for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished “fiscal cliff”
negotiations with Congress, the White House said on Tuesday.
As the clock ticks toward a January 1 deadline, efforts to avert a sharp
rise in taxes and deep spending cut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 Posted by Jammie on Jan 07, 2013 at 2:21 pm
Well now, this is sure to drive the anti-gun nuts over the edge.
A coalition of gun rights and conservative groups will hold “Gun
Appreciation Day” on Jan. 19 in response to President Barack Obama’s push
for new gun control laws.
Groups are calling on gun rights activists to go to local gun stores,
gun ranges or gun shows in order to send a message to the president and
Congress.
“The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 巴马总统v5:最昂贵选举后的最昂贵就职典礼
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 13 17:29:39 2013, 美东)
【多维新闻】美国总统奥巴在2012年大选中曾筹集7.89亿美元，力压共和党总统候选人
罗姆尼，成为史上最烧钱的总统选举。然而，1月21日，即将巨星的总统就职典礼门票
价格不断高涨，刷新史上最昂贵就职典礼记录。
综合媒体1月13日报道，数亿千计的美国民众将在1月21日前往美国国家广场（National
Mall ）参加奥巴马第二任期总统就职典礼。距离就职典礼广场最近的座位目前售价一
路狂飙。
2009年，奥巴马拒绝个人商业集团出资，其个人出资5万美元用于就职典礼；然而在私
人筹集资金方面，奥巴马收获颇丰。据统计，2009年私人出资募款奥巴马就职典礼的资
金达到5，300万美金，其中大约有1，800万资金来源于参加就职典礼的人们。
此次奥巴马第二任期就职典礼，一些公司已经开始募捐资金。白宫更是积极号召广大民
众慷慨募捐，据... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Hater! CNN Clown Piers Morgan Doesn’t Like Moochelle’s New ‘Do
by Jammie
More straight-up racism from the unhinged CNN carnival barker.
Leave it to Piers Morgan to buck the trend, as during the Inaugural Ball
he informed viewers that he didn’t like the bangs.
“Is it compulsory you have to like the bangs?” asked Morgan, “Because
I’m not convinced.”
When CNN’s Erin Burnett reacted, Morgan added that “you can’t dislike
anything the First Lady wears, including her hair, because she’s so
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发帖数: 2088 | 21 CNN reporter and anchor Tom Foreman has been writing a letter each day,
every day, to President Barack Obama since he was inaugurated four years ago. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 Can You Guess How Many Straw Man Arguments Were in Obama’s Speech?
Jan. 21, 2013 5:20pm Mytheos Holt
President Obama has an, at times, well-deserved reputation for delivering
his speeches well. Certainly, the president made an impression today when he
delivered his second inaugural address calling for a bolder, more expansive
government that would be committed increasingly to the principles of
liberalism, with characteristic soaring rhetoric.
Unfortunately, another characteristic was also in evi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 24 AP sources: Pentagon opens combat roles to women
FILE - This Jan. 19, 2013 file photo shows Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
speaking during a news conference in London. Panetta has removed US military
ban on women in combat, opening thousands of front line positions. (AP
Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press / January 23, 2013
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Since 1960, entitlement transfers have grown twice as fast as personal
income—to $2.3 trillion annually.
By NICHOLAS EBERSTADT
In President Obama's second inaugural address, he not only outlined an
ambitious agenda for his second term but also seemed intent on shutting down
debate about the social-welfare state and its impact on American life.
"The commitments we make to each other—through Medicare, and Medicaid, and
Social Security—these things do not sap our initiative; they strengthen us... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1509 | 26 Poor girl, why u go to this shit's inauguration. RIP.
Shit, Moron dems. take a look at this poor girl.
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 The Truth About Dorner: Leftism Is Violence
February 10th, 2013 - 4:09 pm
There’s nothing for me to add to the great work already done by
SooperMexican, Mediaite, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity and others critiquing
the media coverage of alleged mad dog cop-killer Christopher Jordan Dorner.
The media has been dishonest in trying to cover up Dorner’s left-wing
views. They’ve been beyond hypocritical in drawing no link between Dorner’
s acts and his politics — after they have repeatedly tried to li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10345 | 28 Janay Mcfarlane Dead: New Mom Shot Just Hours After Sister Attended Obama's
Gun Speech
CHICAGO — An 18-year-old Chicago woman was killed the same day her sister
had sat on the stage behind President Barack Obama, listening to him push
for gun control legislation.
Janay Mcfarlane was shot once in the head around 11:30 p.m. Friday in North
Chicago, Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd told the Chicago Sun-Times ().
Mcfarlane, a mother of a 3-month-old boy, was in the Chicago suburb visiting
friends and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Obama on Skyrocketing Gas Prices: We’re ‘Saving People Money at the Pump’
by Jammie
Let’s overlook the fact gas prices have risen every single day since his
inauguration. Instead, believe the lies, you idiot, low-information voters.
Chard also spoke with President Obama about rising gas prices in
Charleston.
“Gas prices continue to be an ongoing problem,” said Obama. “I’m
proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is higher
than it has been in a decade or more. We hav... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8363 | 30 An anonymous guy claimed that a string of things to happen once gold
and silver are taken down. Now gold and silver are down, and we have
Boston, poisonous letter and Texas happened. Coincident? Probably not.
"I can’t give you a date. I can tell you to watch things this spring.
Start with the inauguration and go from there. Watch the metals, when
they dip. It will be a good indication that things are about to happen."
http://investmentwatchblog.com/dhs-insider-watch-the-metals-whe |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 Governments across the eurozone have again been left counting the human cost
of the financial crisis after news that unemployment in the currency bloc
reached a record high, driven by soaring youth joblessness.
Eurozone unemployment rose to 12.1% for March, an all-time high, according
to Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union. In the wider EU
area of 27 countries, unemployment stood at 10.9%, as the rate increased in
all but eight countries compared with a year earlier.
Economists... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 How Obama Betrayed America
A policy of appeasement and intervention abets our enemies.
By David Horowitz
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see farther into the future.”
— Madeleine Albright, secretary of state (1997–2001), Clinton
administration
It is a judgment on Barack Obama’s timorous, apologetic, and irresponsible
conduct of foreign affairs that Madeleine Albright’s words, spoken little
more than 15 years ago, now sou... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 by Jammie
It’s a resounding victory at that considering he and his party’s intention
is fomenting racial hatred and animosity 24/7/365. All you had to do was
watch two minutes of the ugly spectacle in Washington on Wednesday and you
couldn’t possibly come away thinking anything has improved since he’s
occupied the White House.
The nation’s first black president has failed to improve race relations
, with just 10 percent believing that President Obama has helped to foster a
better black-white... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1540 | 34 还让不让人活了，小孩去公园也不安全！
今天芝加哥一公园内发生一起屠杀。一共13人中弹，一名三岁男孩不幸头部中弹。现在
医院危重病房抢救。
芝加哥市区是全美谋杀案率最高的地区。
(CNN) -- A mass shooting at a Chicago park left a 3-year-old boy in critical
condition and returned the spotlight to gun violence in the city with the
nation's highest number of homicides.
The child was among 13 people shot in Cornell Square Park on the city's
South Side late Thursday night. None of the other victims was listed in
critical condition early Friday.
The shooting prompted Mayor Rahm Emanuel to ca... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 By PAUL BEDARD | OCTOBER 9, 2013 AT 2:12 PM
President Obama recently stirred up Redskins fans when he said that he would
think about changing the football team's name if he owned them, joining
several Native American representatives, some in the public and several
Washington Post columnists who think the name is a slur.
Redskins owner Dan Snyder has just answered him — and them. No.
“We are Redskins Nation and we owe it to our fans and coaches and players,
past and present, to preserve that heri... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Meet Maine 's New Governor --- In case you haven't heard about this guy
before, his name will stick in your mind!
The new Maine Governor, Paul LePage is making New Jersey 's Chris Christie
look timid. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks. Judging by the comments,
every time he opens his mouth, his popularity goes up.
He brought down the house at his inauguration when he shook his fist toward
the media box and said, "You're on notice! I've inherited a financially
troubled State to run. Observe..... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner
April 15 is a hard day for many, as their annual federal tax bill comes due.
But it could have been worse.
According to a new report, President Obama has sought 442 tax increases
since taking office, though most have died because of congressional
opposition.
Having included 93 new taxes in his fiscal 2015 budget, the anti-tax
Americans for Tax Reform reviewed his proposals since his 2009 Inauguration
to determine just how tax-friendly the president has been. T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7463 | 38 狠赞
奥宝马大总统，OK！
due.
Inauguration
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 So What Will You Do, Mr. President?
Denunciations won't stop the men who killed James Foley.
Updated Aug. 21, 2014 8:18 p.m. ET
President Obama on Wednesday condemned the made-for-YouTube murder of
American James Foley with as much passion as we've seen from the cool
Commander in Chief.
He said that Foley's killers in the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and al-
Sham, or ISIS, "have rampaged across cities and villages, killing innocent,
unarmed civilians in cowardly acts of violence. They abduct... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Dick Cheney Is Still Right
Obama's return to Iraq reveals how wrong he has been about the world.
Sept. 9, 2014 7:24 p.m. ET
President Obama will lay out his plan to counter the Islamic State on
Wednesday night, and we'll judge the strategy on its merits. But the mere
fact that Mr. Obama feels obliged to send Americans to fight again in Iraq
acknowledges the failure of his foreign policy. He is tacitly admitting that
the liberal critique of the Bush Administration's approach to Islamic
terrorism ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 41 发信人: wyoming1801 (QUO VADIS), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: 奥巴马就职现场提前报导
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 17 17:45:11 2009)
昨天晚上游好泳回家的路上，睫毛上的水汽就结成了冰珠。罕见的作了一次周五的宅
男，今天早上难得的起一早，换上跑鞋，运动衣裤，就往national mall奔去。10分
钟到达lincoln memorial，只见memrial已经被很多临时的电视转播房子和帐篷围拢，
里外好几层，已经很多电台电视台的人进驻，警察看这入口，看来这个inauguration蓄
谋以久，规模很大。中间搭了一个高台，四面大喇叭，剧院灯光等就续，前面的贵
宾看台也搭好了，明天下午2点半，beyonce, bruce springsteen 等将在此免费献
唱。reflection pool已经结了一层冰，两边各一场排的临时厕所，有黄的，有绿
的，相间排列，圣是气派。
一大早就已经很多外地来的游客在mall上晃悠了，很多成群结对的。我沿着平时波光
粼粼的potomac river跑着，河上已经结了厚厚的冰，can... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Those planning to purchase health insurance on the Obamacare exchange will
soon find out how much rates have increased — after the Nov. 4 election.
Enrollment on the Healthcare.gov website begins Nov. 15, or 11 days after
the midterm vote, and critics who worry about rising premium hikes in 2015
say that’s no coincidence. Last year’s inaugural enrollment period on the
health-care exchange began Oct. 1.
“This is more than ju... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 43 It's Time for the Other 13 Candidates to Drop Out
By Ann Coulter
At what point in Donald Trump's inaugural address do you figure the GOP
establishment will finally grasp what's been happening?
The establishment -- not "elites," because they're mostly bland
functionaries who went to third-rate schools -- have thrown absolutely
everything they have at Trump. I've never seen so many Republicans featured
on MSNBC.
At least no one will be able to say the Republican National Committee didn't
give it t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 44 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 三德的新罕布什尔州的胜利演说：可怕
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Feb 10 09:45:24 2016, 美东)
Bernie Sanders's New Hampshire victory speech: Terrifying
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/bernie_sanderss_new
Yes, Sanders is right that "The System" is rigged in favor of "special
interests." But he's not talking about "reform"; he's talking about
transforming the federal government into Robin Hood.
If Sanders ever read the Fifth A... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 45 The president warned the country is threatened by a “poisonous political
climate,” acknowledging many of the problems he pledged to address in his
2007 campaign announcement remain unsolved.
President Obama on Wednesday returned to Springfield, Ill. — where he
launched his first White House campaign nine years ago — to call for the
unity and civility in politics that has eluded his presidency.
Obama’s speech to the Illinois State Assembly comes amid a torrid political
season, in which firebrand ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5443 | 46 MICHAEL WANG, a young Californian,
came second in his class of 1,002 students;
his ACT score was 36,
the maximum possible; he sang at Barack Obama’s inauguration;
he got third place in a national piano contest;
he was in the top 150 of a national maths competition;
he was in several national debating-competition finals
But when it came to his university application he faced a serious
disappointment for the first time in his glittering career.
He was rejected by six of the seven Ivy League colleg... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8869 | 47 和谁当总统无关，这是美国military-industrial complex的本质。OBAMA够爱好和平的
，诺贝尔和平奖得主，还跑到广岛发表了悲天悯人的人道主义关怀，但是动用无人机杀
人绝对不手软。
“A new study has revealed that the Obama administration has carried out ten
times more assassination drone strikes than the Bush administration which
preceded it.”
“And the covert Obama strikes, the first of which hit Pakistan just three
days after his inauguration, have killed almost six times more people and
twice as many civilians than those ordered in the Bush years, the data shows
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发帖数: 6571 | 48 Obama provides some information on his Islamic background in his two books,
Dreams and The Audacity of Hope (2006). In 2007, when Hillary Clinton was
still the favored Democratic candidate for president, a number of reporters
dug up information about Obama's time in Indonesia. Obama's statements as
president have provided important insights into his mentality. The major
biographies of Obama devote little attention to this topic, both the
friendly ones (such as those by David Maraniss, David Mend... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 881 | 49 In this present crisis,
government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem.
- Ronald Reagon
First Inaugural Address
West Front of the U.S. Capitol
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发帖数: 2865 | 50 Dan Rather
No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about
the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today. When he
suggested that "The Second Amendment People" can stop Hillary Clinton he
crossed a line with dangerous potential. By any objective analysis, this is
a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics
.
This is no longer about policy, civility, decency or even temperament. This
is a direct threat of violence agai... 阅读全帖 |
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