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Sarah Palin’s Handler Comes Out For Obama!

Nicolle Wallace served as a senior advisor to the McCain-Palin campaign from May 2008 – November 2008. Prior to joining the McCain campaign, she worked as a political analyst at CBS News.
Republicans Get on Board
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By Nicolle Wallace
No American could watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama this week and not feel pride in the splendor and strength of our democracy. No one watching could miss the drama of this moment of challenge and self-examination for our nation—of seeing a man so well-suited to meet the expectations of the office he fills. The presidency is now within reach for any man who dares to dream big enough. It is no longer an office attainable by members of one race, and, hopefully, in short time, it will no longer be an office available to one gender.
Obama deserves our thanks for letting Republicans root for him, as well. He has created a space within his wide net of support for those of us who fought for John McCain’s candidacy by honoring the McCains at a dinner the night before his inauguration and by listening to McCain’s ideas on national security, climate change, and government reform. The Obamas have also returned the civility and warmth directed at them by president and Mrs. Bush in a way that sets this transition apart from others in recent history. This generosity of spirit has had a ripple effect throughout Republican circles. Two former senior aides to President George W. Bush said to me over the weekend, “I expect him [President Obama] to be there for eight years.” A former senior official of Bush’s re-election campaign predicted that he would contribute to Obama’s re-election effort. When I heard that, I said, “He hasn’t even been sworn in yet.” It didn’t matter. One former White House colleague who I ran into in a greenroom this weekend said, “I’m pleased with everything Obama’s done—it’s the press that’s driving me crazy.”
President Obama was wise to tap into our hunger to be part of the solution. It will most certainly help extend his honeymoon and will prove useful when he seeks to put together bipartisan coalitions to solve big problems like immigration and entitlement reform.
The test is whether the far left can stomach our support. It’s an open question: Will they recognize that Republican support only strengthens Obama, or are they too consumed with anger and hatred for the right to accept our support of this new president? Will they be able to accept a president who listens to us, or will they mobilize, through left-wing blogs, groups like Moveon.org, and their allies in Congress, against any efforts on the part of the Obama administration to forge bipartisan solutions?
There are several issues on the horizon that will force members of Obama’s base to make this choice. Nancy Pelosi voiced her support for repealing the Bush tax cuts before they expire, putting her at odds with Obama’s economic team, which prefers allowing them to expire in two years. The Obama administration prefers a national economic discussion about a balanced package with something for everyone—tax cuts for businesses to win over Republicans and small-business owners, and government spending to win over Democrats and other key members of Obama’s coalition. Some Democrats are intent on investigating members of Bush’s national-security team. The withdrawal of troops from Iraq will likely take place at a much slower pace than Obama’s supporters on the left would like. Finally, the responsible disposition of prisoners at Gitmo will take every minute of the year Obama has promised and possibly longer. In its handling of these issues and many others, the Obama White House could find that keeping its political coalition together will become one of its greatest challenges.

Wild Thing’s comment………
This is written by the same person that arranged the Couric interview , bought the $150,000 clothes,and then reported it!!! Knifed Sarah after they lost. Used to work for CBS.
These people, people who say they are Republicans, are only in the party to take it left. Much like folks who infiltrate other institutions to change them or move to red states to change them. There people ARE NOT US! John McCain is not us. His handler is not us. The Republican party leadership is not us.
This woman is no moderate no RINO. Nicole Wallace is an true leftie. She probably took the job so she could report back to “The One”.
The fix was sooo in for this election. I guess we all knew it going in, but still hoped for the best. There’s got to be a LOT of housecleaning in our party.
I really believe this whole last election was fixed. I have posted in the past how Obama, Hillary and McCain all three had received money from Soros and Soros backed causes. We saw McCain doing all he could to lose the election as Palin was out there doing all she could to win. Sarah was taking on all the things about Obama that people needed to know about, Ayers, Rezko, his stand on abortion etc. McCain was correcting bashing and putting down anyone that suportied him if they used the name Hussein, if they asked about Obama and his Muslim ties, and also made a point ot saying how he felt Obama was a man of honor. Honor is a word that should not even be in the same breath as the name of B. Hussein Obama.
None of the conservatives that were running were promoted by the RNC, they were almost ignored.The RNC wanted Obama and I believe that. If I am wrong then the RNC needs to write to me and let me know with PROOF that I am wrong. But they can’t of course since the RNC leadershiip has given the middle finger to the conservatives. They call and want money and they don’t listen to the why of our reason for not donating. They are not passing on to the higher ups why we are fed up and disgusted with their moving away from the base. The very base that has made our party so much different then the DNC.
If we keep letting the rino’s in any way run our party, we will end up a one party country with no differences at all between the two major political parties. The Republican party is the Democrat party light. It is sad, it is disgusting but that is the truth.
After Nov.4th, McCain would not wait to kiss up to Obama, and seek his favor.

This was something Rush Limbaugh said the other day:

“McCain ran a Democrat campaign when it came to illegal immigration, global warming, campaign finance, interfering in the private sector. And this is why McCain is far more comfortable working with congressional Democrats than Republicans, and McCain will be the guy that gets Harry Reid his 60 votes in the Senate whenever Reid needs them.

You Republican consultants, you’re going to have to learn something very fast: Republican voters that you need to win elections think the mainstream media is as much the enemy as any Democrat candidate is going to be. And sidling up and trying to get the approval of a bunch of incompetent boobs who have sided with Democrats for the last 50 years is not the way to engender support, ongoing support and get a mandate. This campaign never had a prayer and everybody knew it from the get-go. It never had a prayer. (sigh) I mean, for crying out loud, McCain became Sominex. There wasn’t any caffeine until Palin came around and it just wasn’t enough. I’m glad that at least he didn’t blame Palin. I think he’s a little off message. The Republican Party’s message is to blame her! Stop and think that. “

Lieberman Urged To Apologize To Obama, Biden
WFSB
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Democrats are calling on Sen. Joe Lieberman to apologize to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for his comments criticizing them during the campaign
The request was made in a Jan. 16 letter from Nancy DiNardo, chairwoman of the state party, on behalf of the Democratic State Central Committee.
It chastises the longtime Democrat, who won re-election in 2006 as an independent, for speaking at the Republican National Convention on behalf of Sen. John McCain.
The letter states that Lieberman’s appearance undermined the efforts of Democratic candidates in Connecticut and across the country.

Wild Thing’s comment………
Fascists !!!!
To apologize for speaking critically? Is there a right to speak freely, or will there be government-imposed sanctions if you don’t apologize for doing so?
What about their criticisms of him , and their their criticisms of Sarah Palin, and their their criticisms of Bush and Cheney which is STILL happening.
Apologize for what? Standing on principle regarding the war against those who want to kill us, and then telling the truth about it? Never, ever, never, not once, no never, I mean never apologize for the truth.
It’s always nice to see the left in full “We shall accept NO individuality!” mode. I thought Obama said he was listening to “especially” those who don’t agree with him? YO homeboy Obama you are a LIAR! But we already knew that.
This is the Democrats’ version of unity – no dissent.
Lieberman should go in front of the microphones live and start reading a written apology: “I regret that I criticized Obama and I would like to take this opportunity…take this opportunity…I can’t make out Rahm’s handwriting here…”

Robert Reich, Obamas economic advisor doesnt want recovery jobs for “White Male Construction Workers”
Charlie Rangel says Middle class wont fight back
Charlie Rangel and Robert Reich are conspiring to ensure SOCIAL ENGINEERING and WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
White male construction workers are not their constituents, but the unemployed, some minorities, and some women are. They intend to build the dependency of these on them.
White construction workers will not be dependent on the DemonRats, so they do not want to help them.
This is about Socialism you understand. (Communism-Marxism-Fascism- Socialism- Liberalism)
These people have designs on this country that most citizens will not believe. For Reich to say, “Jobs should not go to WHITE MALE CONSTRUCTION workers” is quite an admission.
It also shows how supremely confident the libs are that they will not be challenged. UNREAL!

The Obama presidency: Here comes socialism
by Dick Morris
The Hill
2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives. Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and Reagan, they are aligned for Obama. Simply put, we enter his administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire America. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.
Obama will accomplish his agenda of “reform” under the rubric of “recovery.” Using the electoral mandate bestowed on a Democratic Congress by restless voters and the economic power given his administration by terrified Americans, he will change our country fundamentally in the name of lifting the depression. His stimulus packages won’t do much to shorten the downturn — although they will make it less painful — but they will do a great deal to change our nation.
In implementing his agenda, Barack Obama will emulate the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Not the liberal mythology of the New Deal, but the actuality of what it accomplished.) When FDR took office, he was enormously successful in averting a total collapse of the banking system and the economy.
But his New Deal measures only succeeded in lowering the unemployment rate from 23 percent in 1933, when he took office, to 13 percent in the summer of 1937. It never went lower. And his policies of over-regulation generated such business uncertainty that they triggered a second-term recession. Unemployment in 1938 rose to 17 percent and, in 1940, on the verge of the war-driven recovery, stood at 15 percent.
But in the name of a largely unsuccessful effort to end the Depression, Roosevelt passed crucial and permanent reforms that have dominated our lives ever since, including Social Security, the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, unionization under the Wagner Act, the federal minimum wage and a host of other fundamental changes.
Obama’s record will be similar, although less wise and more destructive. He will begin by passing every program for which liberals have lusted for decades, from alternative-energy sources to school renovations, infrastructure repairs and technology enhancements.
These are all good programs, but they normally would be stretched out for years. But freed of any constraint on the deficit — indeed, empowered by a mandate to raise it as high as possible — Obama will do them all rather quickly.
But it is not his spending that will transform our political system, it is his tax and welfare policies. In the name of short-term stimulus, he will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government. The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, will now grow to a clear majority of the American population.
Will he raise taxes? Why should he? With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression.
Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.
Complete article found HERE

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Like a lot of Dick Morris predictions, I hope he is wrong about these also. But it is a very interesting article and one that I think is important. I never ever want to have my head in the sand or close my eyes to what is happening or mighit one day come to pass. Not when it comes to our country. If we know ahead of time the possibilities both good or bad then maybe we can be prepared in some way, if nothing else how to handle it.
Our best hope I think is his being fooled by the press fawning into overplaying his hand. The sooner the better. And one other thing, there actually are some dems in power that will vote against Obama’s programs and his wanting to spend, spend, spend.
The GOP has ceased to be an effective opposition party and if they don’t get their act together and vote agaisnt all these things that will hurt our country Obama would want to do then when will they, if not now when. They cannot wait till the next election because by then it will be too late.
If a majority of the electorate remains passive and easily dazzled by the celebrity cult they’re promoting, they can keep this going indefinitely no matter what kind of damage they do. It’ll be like Mussolini’s Italy with a smiley face.

….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67

Obama takes presidential oath again after stumble
WASHINGTON
After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House — a rare do-over. The surprise moment came in response to Tuesday’s much-noticed stumble.
Don’t worry, the White House says: Obama has still been president since noon on Inauguration Day.
Nevertheless, Obama and Roberts went through the drill again out of what White House counsel Greg Craig called “an abundance of caution.”
This time, the scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small group of reporters, not the Capitol platform before the whole watching world.
“We decided that because it was so much fun …,” Obama joked to reporters who followed press secretary Robert Gibbs into the room. No TV camera crews or news photographers were allowed in. A few of Obama’s closest aides were there, along with a White House photographer.
Roberts put on his black robe.
“Are you ready to take the oath?” he said.
“Yes, I am,” Obama said. “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”
Roberts then led Obama through the oath without any missteps.
The president said he did not have his Bible with him, but that the oath was binding anyway.
The original, bungled version on Tuesday caught observers by surprise and then got replayed on cable news shows.
It happened when Obama interrupted Roberts midway through the opening line, in which the president repeats his name and solemnly swears.
Craig, the White House lawyer, said in a statement Wednesday evening: “We believe the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. Yet the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of the abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath a second time.”
The Constitution is clear about the exact wording of the oath and as a result, some constitutional experts have said that a do-over probably wasn’t necessary but also couldn’t hurt. Two other previous presidents have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur.

Wild Thing’s comment………
It looks odd without the Bible, more like a high five.
Lincoln wasn’t too happy with his Bible being used. Otherwise saying the oath would had gone smoothly. heh heh

PLEASE CLICK HERE…… if you would like to thank President Bush.

…”On Sept. 11, 2001, Murtha represented Shanksville, Pa., where one of the four hijacked planes crashed.”….

Murtha Says He’d Take Guantanamo Prisoners in His District
Rep. Jack Murtha volunteers to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his Pennsylvania district, as President Obama prepares to order the shut-down of the facility.
FOX News
Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he’d be willing to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional district if President Obama makes good on a plan to close the U.S. prison there.
Murtha only has a minimum security prison in his district. But he says he’d have no reservations about holding detainees there in a maximum security prison.

“Sure, I’d take ’em,” said Murtha, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. “They’re no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo.”

Murtha added that there was “no reason not to put ’em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners.”

But that idea disturbs House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

“Most communities around America don’t want dangerous terrorists imported into their neighborhoods,” Boehner said in a statement.

“The key question is where do you put these terrorists?” Boehner asked.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, is introducing a bill that outlaws the release of a known terrorist into the U.S. Smith, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said it would be appalling to close Guantanamo.

“If terrorists suddenly get the same rights as citizens, then we’ve turned the world upside down,” Smith said. “We don’t think there should be a limit to their detention as long as they are a clear and present danger.”

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Mo., had hoped the president would close Guantanamo Bay. But he said he didn’t know how best to handle the prisoners.
“They’re very unsavory,” Skelton said. “I don’t know where you put them.”
However Skelton didn’t object to them staying in U.S. prisons so long as they weren’t housed together.
For his part, Murtha was encouraged by Obama’s proposal.

“I have said for two years that we should close down Guantanamo. Close it down. It’s a sore in the United States’ moral standards. What they have done there has hurt us,” he said.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Murtha represented Shanksville, Pa., where one of the four hijacked planes crashed.

Wild Thing’s comment……….
Murtha belongs in a cell at Guantanamo. He is working on a special place in hell for the many things he has said and done.

Kennedy cites ‘personal reasons’ for dropping Senate bid
CNN
Caroline Kennedy has given up her bid for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.
In a one-line statement citing personal reasons, the widely considered front-runner said Thursday she told New York Gov. David Paterson a day earlier that she was no longer interested in the job.
“I informed Governor Paterson today that for personal reasons I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate.”
The statement, provided by Kennedy’s press person Stefan Friedman, was issued after hours of divergent reports Wednesday evening.
The 51-year-old daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy has been involved in education reform and women’s issues, but she never has held public office and mostly has stayed out of the public spotlight.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Good, it will be a dem either way, but God help us from any more of the Kennedy’s!
I for one have had my fill of them. She has barely voted in the last how many years and she can’t speak. She uses as many UH-ER-UH’S as B.Hussein Obama does. And because she is a Kennedy she would ba asked to be on all the political talk shows as the media will over due their invites to yet another Kennedy. God help us from all of that.

The OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE GOVERNMENT SITE
http://www.whitehouse.gov:80/
Politico
The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama’s team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
Under the “agenda” portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads:

“President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal government will never again allow such catastrophic failures in emergency planning and response to occur.”

“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina,” the statement on the site continues. “Citing the Bush Administration’s ‘unconscionable ineptitude’ in responding to Hurricane Katrina, then-Senator Obama introduced legislation requiring disaster planners to take into account the specific needs of low-income hurricane victims.”

The site also points out that Obama “visited thousands of Hurricane survivors in the Houston Convention Center and later took three more trips to the region” and worked with the Congressional Black Caucus to help rebuild in the aftermath of Katrina.
In interviews prior to leaving the White House, Bush defended the federal government’s response to the hurricane.

“The truth of the matter is the response was pretty darn quick if you think about the fact that the Coast Guard and a lot of brave kids were pulling 30,000 people off of roofs as soon as the storm passed, as soon as they found people on those roofs,” Bush said during an interview with CNN last week.

Bush also said his lowest point in office came when he heard “people saying George Bush is a racist because of the response” to the hurricane.

Wild Thing’s comment………
ENOUGH !
He is a classless thug and a marxist punk, and now it is under his watch what happens to our country. He needs to learn like yesterday that his blaming Bush stops the moment he took his messed up oath.
Obama’s hate just keeps on coming!
For this type of politicized wording to be part of the official White House website, is schockingly unreal. So totally ‘un-Presidential’.
And another thing, Katrina was the biggest disaster on American soil and was due to Democrat corruption that caused the levies to never be fixed!!!!
Obama just started the fight today with his classless speeches, his attacks against Bush and his sorry assed supporters booing President Bush at his inauguration!
The Democrats are disgusting and the O leads the way.
Every time the O says “coming together “…… he should choke on those words. He is so full of it.
Bush cared a lot for what happened and went there several times. Plus all he did for Africa and other places. What the heck has Obana done for anyone EVER. His own brother lives in a HUT for pete’s sake. Plus where the heck was his grandma from Kenya yesterday. Why wasn’t she up in the seats on the main platform.
A government website is no place for partisan politics. Let alone, the White House web site. We the people PAY for that site, got that Kenya breath!!!
I found this absolutely disgusting…I guess I might have to get used to that feeling.
OK my rant is done, but later today I am doing extra time on the treadmil, haha I have to get this anger out of me. Till then. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
“President Obama swiftly responded to Hurricane Katrina”
LIES from OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this……………
McCain, Obama snubbed Gulf Coast after Katrina
The Hill
09/01/08

John McCain and Barack Obama are offering any help they can on Hurricane Gustav, but neither visited the Gulf Coast until well after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area in 2005.

On the six-month anniversary of Katrina striking the Gulf Coast, 39 senators said they had visited the area while 37 senators – including Obama – had not viewed firsthand the ruins that the hurricane left in its wake. Twenty-four Senate offices – including McCain’s — did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment, according to a 2006 survey conducted by The Hill. There were no media accounts of McCain traveling to the Gulf Coast before he went there in the spring of 2006.

Obama did visit Houston’s Astrodome to meet displaced hurricane victims in the fall of 2005.

That is the reason Obama says he is not traveling to the regions that are in Gustav’s path.

Yet, Obama did not visit the Gulf Coast until nearly a year after Katrina hit, becoming the 55th senator to go there, according to a tally kept at the time by Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office.

Obama said then, “There was no magic reason why now instead of earlier. We didn’t want to come down here unless there was something concrete and productive to do.”

In describing his rationale for not visiting the Gulf Coast this week, Obama said the “tail” of his staff, traveling media, Secret Service and local authorities could get in the way of hurricane-relief initiatives.

Megyn, was at the CIC Ball, and is reporting the military people had told her just earlier that Bush was a great friend of the military, they really liked him and would miss him.

And this from US camp Phoenix base in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009
US soldiers stand, as they watch a television broadcast live from Washington, showing the inauguration of Barack Obama.

Wild Thing’s comment………
Extra prayers for our troops!! It is a sad day for America to have Obama as CIC and President. I pray God will forgive our nation and have mercy on us.
I have heard from some in the military and they are not happy about this, at one of the military family forums I go to. One used the word devastated.