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So Long and Farewell,......

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Please check out The Bitter American for more news,....

As The Courts Demolish ObamaCare,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:20:00 +0000

Just sayin,....

OMG! "The One" Has Become a,..a....REPUBLICAN!!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:04:00 +0000

Obama to Propose Massive Tax Breaks for Businesses to Invest in Growth

President Obama, in one of his most dramatic gestures to business, will propose that companies be allowed to write off 100 percent of their new investment in plant and equipment through 2011, a plan that White House economists say would cut business taxes by nearly $200 billion over two years.

The proposal, to be laid out Wednesday in a speech in Cleveland, tops a raft of announcements, from a proposed expansion of the research and experimentation tax credit to $50 billion in additional spending on roads, railways and runways. But unlike those two ideas, both familiar from Obama's 2008 campaign, the investment incentive would embrace a long-held wish by conservative economists that had never won support from either Republican or Democratic administrations.

"Temporary investment incentives like this can have big effects because they really pull investment forward," R. Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia University School of Business and a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. "This could have a big stimulative effect."

Forget the Birthers, Someone Call Area 51!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:36:00 +0000

The Alien in the White House
The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president's earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.

A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

All His Friends Are Leaving Now,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:06:00 +0000

'Hope' Artist No Longer an Obama Fan
The prez isn't really living up to Shepard Fairey's expectations

How quickly things change. Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster, is no longer feeling quite so smitten with the prez, the New York Post reports. “Washington is too intertwined with corporate America,” Fairey said at a recent show opening. “I had a lot of hope for Obama, but it's not panning out. He's not pushing hard enough.”

But Its Only the Right Who Are Racist, Hmmmm??

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:32:00 +0000

Oh, the hue and cry if a Bush appointee said this!!!

Cantcha Take a Joke?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:11:00 +0000

Obama despised, even in Australia?

Liberal National Party member Nick Sowden expelled for Obama 'monkey' slur on Twitter

THE Liberal National Party has kicked out a student member who called Barack Obama a monkey on Twitter, an action he defended as a political joke.

The tweets, from an account belonging to Griffith University medical student Nick Sowden, began just after 7.30pm (AEST) on Thursday, during Kerry O'Brien's interview with the US President on the ABC's 7.30 Report.

“I'm not sure why they paid kerry to fly to america (sic), if they wanted an interview with a monkey surely a ferry to Taronga would have sufficed,” one tweet said, referring to Taronga Zoo on Sydney Harbour.

“If I wanted to see a monkey on TV I'd watch Wildlife Rescue,” said another.

Queensland LNP state director Michael O'Dwyer told AAP the party did not tolerate such comments.

“I'm disappointed when anybody from the LNP makes comments that put the party into disrepute and of such a personal nature,” Mr O'Dwyer said.

For the record: This blog does not condone the racist statements about the President's race, merely to point out his lack of global popularity.

And the "SS" Didn't Carry out "Nazi" Directives, Either!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:42:00 +0000

Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
AP

The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.

The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.

That shift away from terrorism has been building for a year, since Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, and promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. The White House believes the previous administration based that relationship entirely on fighting terror and winning the war of ideas.

And yet, the ISLAMIC-based attacks and attempts continue unabated! Nice work, O: fiddle while a skyscraper burns!

Obama Loses His Nuts!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:59:00 +0000

ACORN to Shut Down in Wake of Scandal

AP

The liberal group's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the release of undercover videos.

CHICAGO -- The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues -- six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activists that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need," ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said. (Hello? George Soros? MoveOn.Org? Daily Kos? Reap what you sow, f**kers!)

Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal.

ACORN's financial situation and reputation went into free fall within days of the videos' release in September. Congress reacted by yanking ACORN's federal funding, private donors held back cash and scores of ACORN offices closed.

Imperious, Obstinate, and Elitist!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:56:00 +0000

Obama to America -- I Win, You Lose

By Jon Kraushar
- FOXNews.com

"Give me tyranny and give me debt" has replaced “Give me liberty or give me death.”

With his health care holy war, President Obama is sending America at least 10 messages since taking office:

1. I win; you lose.
2. My will; not the will of the people.
3. Government of Obama, by Obama, for Obama; not government of the people, by the people, for the people.
4. Corrupt House rules and autocracy; not play by the rules and democracy.
5. “I’ll tread on you” now steps on “Don’t tread on me.”
6. “I, the president”; not “We, the People.”
7. “All men are created equal” but I am more equal than others.
8. “The dissent of the president” overrules “the consent of the governed.”
9. “Give me tyranny and give me debt” replaces “Give me liberty or give me death.”
10. “That government is best which governs most” supersedes “That government is best which governs least.”

Ow-w-w-w-w! And From You're Own People!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:00 +0000

ACLU Likens Obama To Bush In KSM Reversal

Posted on March 9, 2010

I hate to defend Obama on this one, but, the ACLU has forgotten that KSM and the other 9/11 co-conspirators are NOT American citizens and have no right to a civilian trial. That said, it must give the Left and the ACLU fits that Obama has pretty much been Bush-lite when it comes to Gitmo, terrorists, rendition, as well as expanding the Afghanistan war (which he said he would do time after time on the campaign trail)

Hope Fades,...

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:58:00 +0000

What 'Change'? Young Dem Support Crumbles

AP

A study being released Wednesday highlights the eroding support from 18- to 29-year- olds whose strong turnout in November 2008 was read by some demographers as the start of a new Democratic movement.

WASHINGTON -- Whither the American youth vote? A year after supporting Barack Obama for president by an overwhelming 2-to-1 ratio, young adults are cooling quickly toward his Democrats amid dissatisfaction over the lack of change in Washington and an escalating war in Afghanistan.

A study by the Pew Research Center, being released Wednesday, highlights the eroding support from 18- to 29-year- olds whose strong turnout in November 2008 was read by some demographers as the start of a new Democratic movement.

The findings are significant because they offer further proof that the diverse coalition of voters Obama cobbled together in 2008 -- including high numbers of first-timers, young minorities and youths -- are not Democratic Party voters who can necessarily be counted on.

On the State of the Union,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:40:00 +0000

Take cuts for small businesses to stimulate the economy?? Keeping American businesses IN America? When did the Obamessiah become a "Tea" drinker?

Has He Learned His Lesson Yet?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:45:00 +0000

Or, as his spiritual mentor once said "The chickens have come home to roost!"

Barack Obama: "Raising America’s Debt Limit Is a Sign of Leadership Failure"

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

Massachussett's Brown Turns Obama Blue

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:48:00 +0000

If you're keeping score: that's THREE, now!!

Brown wins Senate seat in epic upset
M.L.

Boston (AP/WBZ Newsroom) -- In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in doubt and marred the end of his first year in office.

The loss by the once-favored Coakley for the seat that the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy held for nearly half a century signaled big political problems for the president's party this fall when House, Senate and gubernatorial candidates are on the ballot nationwide.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Anything for a Vote,....

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:16:00 +0000

Huff, huff, pass?

Amanda Simpson, Transgender Candidate, Appointed To Commerce Post

President Obama has appointed Amanda Simpson, a transgender woman, to be the Senior Technical Adviser to the Commerce Department.

"I'm truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me," Simpson said in a statement. "As one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."

Simpson -- a former test pilot and 2004 YWCA "Woman On The Move" -- has been active in the aerospace and defense industry for the past 30 years. She most recently served as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development for Raytheon, where she transitioned from male to female.

In the past decade, Simpson has been highly active in GLBT issues. In 2005, she successfully worked to have Raytheon adopt gender identity into its Equal Employment Opportunity Policy. That same year, she ran unsuccessfully for the Arizona House of Representatives.

"Reign of Error"

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:15:00 +0000

GOP Chief: Republicans 'Screwed Up' After Reagan

In new book, Michael Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

In "Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda," released Monday by Regnery Publishing, Steele says the GOP should acknowledge where "we most glaringly compromised our principles" in the past decade and hold its elected officials accountable.

Steele focuses much of the book on familiar GOP denunciations of President Barack Obama's overall policies ("a roadmap to failure"), the $787 billion stimulus bill ("a reckless, wasteful, pork-laden spending spree"), liberal views on manmade global warming ("A threat to life on Earth? Depends on whom you ask") and other issues.

To regain the public confidence, Steele says the GOP should, among other things, expose the "reign of error" inherent in liberal policies, contrast conservative and liberal principles, and highlight the damage caused by Obama's policies while explaining conservative solutions.

What We've Got Here is,....FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:08:00 +0000

Obama to Receive Report on Failed Airline Attack
FOXNews.com

President Obama is set to receive a preliminary report Thursday detailing what warning signs were missed before a 23-year-old Nigerian who was already on a terror watch list boarded a plane to Detroit armed with explosives.

The president declared Tuesday that a "systemic failure" on multiple levels allowed the suspect to board and said he should have been on a "no-fly" list. The preliminary report is the administration's first step in trying to reform both airport screening and the terror watch list system to prevent a repeat of the Christmas Day incident.

Officials said it was unlikely Obama would speak publicly about the report, although the vacationing president likely would talk several times throughout the day with his national security team.

Obama has demanded answers on why information never was pieced together by the U.S. intelligence community that could have prevented terrorist suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, from ever getting on the plane.

In August, intelligence officials picked up phone intercepts from an Al Qaeda offshoot in Yemen, discussing a plot involving someone they called "The Nigerian." In November, the suspect's father told the U.S. embassy in Nigeria that he was worried about his son's extremist views.

This warning got the suspect's name on the terror watch database -- but officials did not realize he was "The Nigerian" until the attempted attack.

A senior intelligence official said the CIA's Africa desk was also preparing a report on the suspect, but didn't send it to the National Counterterrorism Center because they were waiting for pictures of the suspect.

There are some concerns about the leader of the review. Current and former intelligence officials told Fox News he could face a conflict of interest, since he basically put together the National Counterrorism Center, the agency that manages watch lists.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot of Usama bin Laden's group, claimed it was behind the attempt to bomb the Northwest airliner.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conversations were vague or coded, but the intelligence community believes that, in hindsight, the communications may have been referring to the Detroit attack.

The goal now, officials say, is to do everything the U.S. can to prevent a repeat. Even so, they acknowledge a perfect system is impossible to create and that it will take weeks for a more comprehensive investigation into what allowed Abdulmutallab to get into U.S. airspace.

What Will CLEARLY Define the Administration:

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:35:00 +0000

Homeland chief an airhead
Says security system worked

By JENNIFER FERMINO, MURRAY WEISS and PHILIP MESSING

Last Updated: 5:37 PM, December 28, 2009

Posted: 2:52 AM, December 28, 2009

An al Qaeda bomber stashing explosives in his underwear cakewalked onto a US-bound airliner after averting scans on two continents -- but the federal Homeland Security chief incredibly claimed yesterday that "everything happened that should have."

"This was one individual literally of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who called flying "very, very safe."

"And he was stopped before any damage could be done . . . Once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have."

Napolitano's all-is-well assessment ran counter to that of her boss, President Obama, who called for a total review of procedures at US airports.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told NBC's "Meet the Press" that Obama had ordered a full appraisal of anti-terror flight regulations, "to ensure that there is no clog in the bureaucratic plumbing of information."

Napolitano's astonishing claim in the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed bombing over Detroit led Rep. Peter King (R-LI) to respond, "The fact is, the system did not work."

The latest system failure came last night at La Guardia. The Post learned that the feds questioned a Florida man after ground crew found what authorities called a "pyrotechnic" aboard a US Airways flight from Baltimore. The 4-inch-long, three-quarter-inch-wide explosive was found wedged between two seats. Authorities collared Thomas Ouelette, 67, of Bonita Springs, Fla., before he boarded his connecting Delta flight to Fort Myers, Fla. The feds said is did not appear terrorism was involved, but Ouelette did have two outstanding Florida warrants for "unlawful flight."

Read more here

Clearly, the "H" isn't for "Humble..."

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:09:00 +0000

Looks like a solid B,..M!

Obama Statue Slammed by Facebook Critics

AP

More than 10,000 people join group on social networking site after statue of President Obama as a boy is erected in Indonesia.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A statue of President Barack Obama as a boy erected in a Jakarta park has been targeted in a Facebook campaign by thousands who say it should be removed.

The Facebook group named "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Taman Menteng Park" had attracted more than 10,000 members by Tuesday since the 43-inch statue of 10-year-old Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt was unveiled in the downtown park on Thursday last week.

Heru Nugroho, the group's creator, said he would use the support on the popular social networking Web site to demand that Jakarta Gov. Fauzi Bowo remove the statue.

"Everybody knows that Obama is a world leader, but he is not our national hero who deserves to be awarded a statue," Nugroho said.

"This has hurt our national pride because there are many Indonesian figures who gave worthy service to this nation but no statue has been built for them," he added.

Many Indonesians are proud of the fact that Obama lived in Jakarta from 1967 to 1971 with his American mother, his Indonesian stepfather and his half-sister.

He went by the name "Barry," attended the local elementary school near where his statue now stands and owned a pet monkey.

Peace: An Opportunity Missed?

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:25:00 +0000

As Obama stood today and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, his chance to cement a real reason to deserve such an award is slipping away.

In Iran, the seething anti-theocracy revolt hasn't died down, but instead has percolated below the surface at a slow, rolling boil.

The Basiji and Revolutionary Guard are backing down from confrontations with the Green's leaders, and the movement teeters on a breakthrough.

And when a few words of support from the Obama administration could rally them to a final victory, he remains silent.

This is not some craven crowd of dissidents! The Persians are highly-intelligent. They're well-organized and tech-savvy. They're plugged into the internet, Facebook and Twitter. They know to hit-and-run often enough to confound and confuse the Ahmedinejad regime.

And the White House silence is deafening!!

Is the Obama administration so overly-engrossed in revamping our healthcare system to pay any attention to Iran (witness his dithering over Afghanistan and McChrystal's request)?

Could it be any regime change in Iran the results in a westward-oriented government would be a vindication of Bush's street-level efforts and the left's hatred for anything Bush-positive has blinded them to an opportunity akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Maybe the Nobel people should have waited a year before giving their golden boy his laurels.

Help is Coming? So is CHRISTmas!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 07:03:00 +0000

The only ones with more employment were the photographers at this photo-op!

WHITE HOUSE TO MAIN STREET TOUR
Obama at LCCC: Help coming America, but it will be awhile

ALLENTOWN | - With a wide-ranging and fast-moving visit to the Lehigh Valley, President Obama kicked off a national tour intended to highlight ways to create jobs in an economy no longer built on the historical bedrock of manufacturing.

Obama said the economy's modest recent upward trend, including a positive jobs report today, is not nearly enough to restore a sense of confidence and security.

"I consider one job loss one too many," Obama said to roars of approval from a crowd of 1,000 at Lehigh Carbon Community College. "Good trends don't pay the rent. We have to grow jobs and get America back on track as soon as we can.

"In the two years since this recession began, too many members of our American family have felt the gut-punch of the pink slip," the president said. "Everyone one of us knows [them]."

The president spent about six hours here, departing at 3:50 p.m.

He stopped first at the Allentown Metal Works -- home to some of the Valley's last steelworkers -- before heading to LCCC.

ANOTHER Epic Failure

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:46:00 +0000

Not even President for a full year,.....(HT to Wyatt)

Change! Somali Terrorists Use Obama Portraits For Target Practice

Isn’t this racist?
Somali terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda are using portraits of Barack Obama for their target practice.

Radical Islamist Shebab members ride horses in Mogadishu in September. Al-Qaeda and Islamists fighting to topple Somalia’s government provide “mutual support” to each other, the head of the African Union peacekeeping force has told AFP in an interview. (AFP/Mustafa Abdi)

More "O" Oops!

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:30:00 +0000

Party Crashers Met Briefly With Obama

FOXNews.com

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach

A reality TV hopeful and her husband who crashed a presidential dinner met President Barack Obama in the receiving line, the White House said Friday, as a "deeply concerned and embarrassed" Secret Service acknowledged its officers failed to check whether the couple was on the guest list.

The controversy over state dinner crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, has prompted the White House to order a "full review" of the incident to find out how the Secret Service allowed such a security breach.

The White House said Friday it supported the Secret Service and its employees -- but also demanded answers.

"The White House asked the United States Secret Service to do a full review and they are doing that," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said. "The United States Secret Service said they made a mistake and they are taking action to identify exactly what happened and they will take the appropriate measures pending the results of their investigation."

The White House has insisted that the Salahis were not invited to Tuesday's dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, despite contrary claims by the couple and their lawyer.

Scenes from the Obama Apologia World Tour

noreply@blogger.com (TheBitterAmerican) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

HT to Tony Phyrillas: