Zitat von Skynews

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Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar.

It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: "That\'s your speech."

A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party.

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Zitat von Washington Post

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Disclosure forms filed with the Secretary of the Senate for Barack Obama's final year as a U.S. senator show that, as he spent 2008 campaigning for president, he earned nearly $2.5 million in royalties from the sale of his books.

And he added $500,000 more on Jan. 15, just before taking office as president...

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Zitat von New York Times, 31.12.1994

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Responding to criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, the incoming House Speaker, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, today announced that he would forgo a $4.5 million book advance to avoid the appearance of cashing in on his party's victory in the November elections.

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Zitat von Fox News

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The president jokes about being a bad bowler during his appearance on the 'Tonight Show' and ends up insulting the disabled. "It's like the Special Olympics," he quipped.

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Zitat von Washington Times

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Unlike President Bush's White House communications team, which usually timed press conferences abroad to coincide with the U.S. morning programs, the Obama operation kicked off the president's first day in Britain while most Americans were still asleep. What's more, the president banned most reporters from nearly every event he held on a day busy with bilateral talks with foreign leaders, and even held cameras at bay for his visit to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen.

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Zitat von Gorgasal

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Zitat von Washington Times

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Unlike President Bush\'s White House communications team, which usually timed press conferences abroad to coincide with the U.S. morning programs, the Obama operation kicked off the president\'s first day in Britain while most Americans were still asleep. What\'s more, the president banned most reporters from nearly every event he held on a day busy with bilateral talks with foreign leaders, and even held cameras at bay for his visit to Buckingham Palace to meet the queen.

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Zitat von Reuters

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Lawmakers who spoke with Obama said he was "matter-of-fact" about the decision to seek Wagoner's resignation.

"The president said he had decided to do that. He wasn't asking for opinions," said U.S. Sen Carl Levin, a Michigan democrat. "There wasn't much point in arguing whether it was fair or unfair, wise or unwise."

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Zitat von Wall Street Journal via seekingalpha

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In session after session in a warren of offices at the Treasury Department, the team has sat through tutorials on dealer financing, studied basic data and debated the future of U.S. car sales. They have spent days trying to understand the complexities of the hundreds of companies that supply the car companies with axles, seats and other parts.

Steven Rattner, a former journalist-turned-investment banker, was picked last month to head the team. ...

“It’s like a Rubik’s cube, trying to untwist it and trying to get all the colors to line up,” he said in an interview. “So we’ve learned a lot about how car dealers work, and how companies get paid when they sell a car to a dealer, and why there are a certain number of dealers more than are optimal. Have we learned everything? Of course not, but I think we are learning what we need to learn to do this job.”

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Zitat von neo-neocon

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This post isn’t about whether Wagnoner needed to go or not. I’ve read opinions on both sides; I really don’t know. It’s about the process by which that happened and Obama’s imperial style, and really astounding hubris.

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Ich monopolisiere diesen Thread schon ein wenig... Aber das gönne ich mir.

Immerhin auf die deutschen Linken kann man sich verlassen, dass sie Obama ähnlich (geschmacklos) behandeln wie George W. Bush:

Zitat von FAZ

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Was aber tun mit Obama? Der neue Präsident passt nicht zum Feindbild des kulturlosen Amerikaners. Und im Gegensatz zu seinem Vorgänger kann man Obama – das verbietet die politische Korrektheit – nicht mit Hitlerbärtchen und Seitenscheitel ausstatten oder in ein Fadenkreuz montieren. Doch die Linke arbeitet auch an dem ersten schwarzen Präsidenten Amerikas ihre antiamerikanischen Stereotype ab.

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Zitat von Gorgasal

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Immerhin auf die deutschen Linken kann man sich verlassen, dass sie Obama ähnlich (geschmacklos) behandeln wie George W. Bush.

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Zitat von politico.com

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Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, pulled in more than $2.7 million in speaking fees paid by firms at the heart of the financial crisis, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America Corp. and the now-defunct Lehman Brothers.

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Thomas E. Donilon, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was paid $3.9 million last year by the power law firm O’Melveny & Myers to represent clients, including two firms that received federal bailout funds: Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. ...

And White House Counsel Greg Craig last year earned $1.7 million in private practice representing an exiled Bolivian president, a Panamanian lawmaker wanted by the U.S. government for allegedly murdering a U.S. soldier and a tech billionaire accused of securities fraud and various sensational drug and sex crimes.

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Zitat von Daily Mail

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Chris Sommers, 33, jetted into Washington from St Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with a suitcase of dough, cheese and pans to to prepare food for the Obamas and their staff.

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Zitat von Cato Institute

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To a roar of approval, President Obama pledged on the campaign trail: “[W]hen there is a bill that ends up on my desk as a president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government’s doing.”

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Of the eleven bills President Obama has signed, only six have been posted on Whitehouse.gov. None have been posted for a full five days after presentment from Congress.

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Zitat von New York News (Absätze umsortiert)

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An Air Force One lookalike and F-16 buzzed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in the morning, halting work on nearby construction sites, causing residents and office workers to flee their high-rises and giving thousands of people in downtown Manhattan and New Jersey a major fright.

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[T[he White House Military Office told the Federal Aviation Administration that it periodically updates file photos of Air Force One near national landmarks, like the statue in New York harbor and the Grand Canyon.

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The Pentagon did tell local authorities about the startling fly-over that sent a Boeing 747 and a F-16 fighter screaming over New York's scarred skyline, but officials said they couldn't share the information with the public. They couldn't even share the information with the mayor.

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Zitat von Dan McLaughlin

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Michelle Obama, February 2008:

Zitat von Michelle Obama

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Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”

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Michelle Obama, April 2009:

Zitat von NY Daily News

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Michelle Obama has taken casual to a haute new level.

While volunteering Wednesday at a D.C. food bank, the First Lady sported her usual J.Crew cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a sneaky splurge: trainers that go for $540.

That’s right: These sneakers - suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps - are made by French design house Lanvin, one of fashion’s hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions, and have been a brisk seller all spring.

They’re out of stock at posh Meatpacking District boutique Jeffrey, and Barneys New York boasts a limited selection of the sneaks, which are a cult favorite among fashionistas.

It’s likely Michelle got hers through Ikram, the Chicago retailer that often outfits her.

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It goes without saying that a Republican First Lady who showed up at a food bank during a recession wearing $540 sneakers would never hear the end of it, let alone one who had lectured voters on learning to make do with less.

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Zitat von Yahoo News

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Obama joked that it was "Cinco de Cuatro," botching a play on the Spanish word for "four" when he meant to say "Cuatro de Mayo," or the Fourth of May. He tried again, but he still did not get it right.

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Zitat von Mary Katharine Ham im Weekly Standard

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I like to note these little incidents when they happen, not because I think it makes Obama an idiot because he occasionally stumbles over his words, but because his somewhat overblown reputation as the most cerebral, eloquent, utterly erudite president of all time could really use a pricking every now and then.

Also, because if Bush had made such a blunder, it would have been the basis of a four-part MSNBC investigative series on the malapropism's deleterious effects on the Republican Party's attempts to woo Hispanic voters, Mexican-American relations, and our "place in the world."

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Zitat von Gorgasal

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[quote="New York News (Absätze umsortiert)"]An Air Force One lookalike and F-16 buzzed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor in the morning, halting work on nearby construction sites, causing residents and office workers to flee their high-rises and giving thousands of people in downtown Manhattan and New Jersey a major fright.

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Zitat von New York Post

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The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.

"We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.

The sole purpose of the secret photo-op, which sent thousands of New Yorkers running for cover, was to take new publicity shots of the presidential jet over the city.

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Obama war an Bord des Flugzeuges?

Zitat von Aaron Belkin

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Dan Choi, a West Point graduate and officer in the Army National Guard who is fluent in Arabic and who returned recently from Iraq, received notice today that the military is about to fire him. Why? Because he came out of the closet as a gay man on national television.

Some readers might think it unfair to blame Obama. After all, the president inherited the "don't ask, don't tell" law when he took office. As Commander-in-Chief, he has to follow the law. If the law says that the military must fire any service member who acknowledges being gay, that is not Obama's fault.

Or is it?

A new study, about to be published by a group of experts in military law, shows that President Obama does, in fact, have statutory, stroke-of-the-pen authority to suspend gay discharges. Obama could simply invoke his authority under federal law (10 U.S.C. §12305) to retain any member of the military he believes is essential to national security.

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Zitat von Greg Mankiw

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From a Obama-Biden campaign position paper:

In Antwort auf:

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Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all large corporate polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away for free to coal and oil companies.

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From today's newspaper:

In Antwort auf:

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Under the House bill, only 15% of the emission permits will be auctioned initially. The rest of the permits will be given away -- 2% to oil refiners, 5% to free-standing "merchant" coal plants, 9% to regulated natural-gas distributors, and so on.

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So, Mr President, the bill now being considered in Congress is in direct contradiction to your campaign pledge. Will you now please stand up for principle and issue a veto threat?

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Obama hat seine Frau ausgeführt, das ist nett. Weniger nett ist, dass er dafür für einen Abend nach New York geflogen ist - mit drei Flugzeugen, man muss ja auch Mitarbeiter und Reporter mitnehmen.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...5-000-bill.html

Ein sehr schöner ruhiger Kommentar dazu hier:

Zitat von neo-neocon

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I’ve always assumed that, be they Republican or be they Democrat, Presidents mostly work very hard while at these “vacation” places. Getting there involves flying and expense and all that. But this sort of getting away from it all and yet continuing to work seems necessary for presidents’ mental and physical health, and not wasteful because they usually are away for quite a while.

But for a president to fly from DC to New York for an evening of pleasure seems to have no precedent (at least none I can recall) on either side of the political spectrum. It somehow seems excessive for a short-term treat that is available right in Washington with much less bother and expense. But instead of going to the Kennedy Center, the Obamas flew to New York complete with entourage and press for a single night’s activity that could be more or less duplicated at home in DC. And for the Obamas to do this now, with the economy as it is, seems especially tone deaf and narcissistic.

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Zitat von President Barack Obama

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If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.

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Zitat von Noah Pollak

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Obama is right — we’re one of the largest, only outranked by Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia, Russia, Yemen, China, Syria, Malaysia, Tanzania, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, Somalia, Guinea, .....

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Zitat von Newsweek

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As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases.

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Zitat von NYT

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Mr. Obama has seemed tired here, several times fumbling the pronunciation of Mr. Medvedev’s name and Mr. Putin’s title. Beginning a speech here, he mistakenly said he first met his wife in school instead of at the law firm where they actually met. And he misstated his younger daughter’s age.

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Zitat von TJIC

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If it was Reagan, it would be proof of senility.

If it was Bush, it would be proof of stupidity.

…but since it’s Obama, it’s just proof that he’s working so very very hard to build a bright, glorious socialist future for all of us.

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Zitat von Barack Obama in Moskau

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Along the way, you gave us a pretty good deal on Alaska. Thank you.

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Zitat von Reuters

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Czar Alexander II's sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867 for $7.2 million in gold, around 1.9 cents per acre, was regarded by Russians as a national disgrace -- particularly once it became clear that the province was rich in oil.

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Zitat von Moe Lane

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Contra Reuters, this was not a “pointed quip” (as Ed Morrissey notes, it only works as one if you assume that the President wanted to insult his hosts): it was a “somebody didn’t read the briefing materials (particularly the bits about Vladimir Zhirinovsky) gaffe.” What’s next? Thanking the Chinese for their involuntary help with training up our Navy during the Boxer Rebellion? That should go over well: they’re even touchier about their history than the Russians are.

And I actively dread thinking about what the current President is going to say, the next time that he visits Japan.

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Gibt es eigentlich im Web Sammlungen von "Obamisms" à la "Bushisms"?

Ich nehme an, er hat sich in dem bisherigen halben Jahr mehr geleistet als Bush in einem Jahr.

Vor ein paar Tagen in der New York Times gelesen: Obama hat in Moskau von "Präsident Putin" gesprochen, sich dann aber verbessert. Dazu die NYT: Er sei von der langen Reise und den anstrengenden Gesprächen übermüdet gewesen.

Hat man dergleichen Entschuldigungen je über Bush gelesen?

Herzlich, Zettel

Zitat von Zettel

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Gibt es eigentlich im Web Sammlungen von "Obamisms" à la "Bushisms"?

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Zitat von Zettel

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Ich nehme an, er hat sich in dem bisherigen halben Jahr mehr geleistet als Bush in einem Jahr.

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Zitat von Zettel

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Vor ein paar Tagen in der New York Times gelesen: Obama hat in Moskau von "Präsident Putin" gesprochen, sich dann aber verbessert. Dazu die NYT: Er sei von der langen Reise und den anstrengenden Gesprächen übermüdet gewesen.
Hat man dergleichen Entschuldigungen je über Bush gelesen?

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