President Obama said Friday, March 1, 2013, while defending his efforts to stop the sequester. “I’m the president.”
Obama said there are limits to what he can do to get a deal on the sequester during a press conference in which he blamed Republicans for standing in the way of a deal….
Nixon: “I am Not a Crook” (from HISTORY channel)
Forty years ago, On November 17, 1973, President Nixon gave a nationally televised and broadcast press conference in which he denied his involvement in the Watergate cover-up and stated that he had never profited from his public service. In the speech he made the now infamous reference , ‘I am not a crook.’
Now, 40 years later, March 1, 2013, President Obama, according to ‘TheHill.com;… was responding to a question about why he hadn’t locked the leaders into a room to get a deal. “So ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, ‘I have to catch a plane,’ I can’t have Secret Service block the doorway,” he said.
Obama met briefly with Republican leaders Sen. McConnell (Ky.) and Speaker Boehner (Ohio) before the press conference. He has been criticized by Republicans for not doing more to try to reach a deal. GOP leaders say he has been more interested in blaming Republicans for the $85 billion in automatic cuts set to be triggered on Friday than in crafting a deal.
But Obama on Friday characterized himself as the reasonable party in the talks and someone who couldn’t force Republicans to make a deal.
“I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that’s been floating around Washington that even though most people agree that I’m being reasonable, that most people agree that I’m presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don’t take it means that I should somehow do a Jedi mind-meld and convince them” to agree on a deal, Obama said.
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OBAMA: ‘I Am Not A Dictator’ – Said 40 Years After Nixon’s ‘Crook’
What better way to start off Road To Success’ New Regular Feature ‘THEY SAID THAT’ than with her recent statement on the Sequester
THEY SAID THAT: Congresswoman Maxine Waters ‘170 Million Jobs’ Lost
The only problem is that there are not even 170 million jobs in America, only 134 million. Later, fortunately, for Waters, an aid slipped her a piece of paper with the correct amount of prospective jobs lost, a mere 750,000, with which she corrected herself
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‘Socialism is fine until you run out of other people’s money.’
– Margaret Thatcher
Five years ago President Obama blamed then President Bush for ‘taking out a credit card and running up the debt.’ Of course, Obama promised to lower the debt. Instead of a credit card Obama just uses the good old Gutenberg to print more money when he needs it – as he has RAISED the debt $6 trillion since Bush left office. His promises ‘that things will get better ‘ are usually centered around 2015 or 1016 when he’ll be out of office or close to it.
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi doesn’t think we have a spending problem but rather a budget problem. (Nice turn of words, Nancy) Giving you that, then, why is Obama administration the first one without a budget for an entire term? Nancy’s talking about her own.
Obama probably figures he can sneak in a few more ‘promises’ on his ‘low information’ followers before they finally catch on just as he goes out of office… In his State of Union speech we’ll probably also see some more patented Obama DEFLECTION of the REAL current state, with Obama promising less guns and more entitlements for his flock. Perhaps a little more energy promises, and Obama will remind us that his Obama care ‘will be fine’ but we must be patient for a few years (until he goes out of office).
As usual, he’ll tell us how well things are in this country -(as long as he can continue to raise taxes) just as former Secretary Hillary Clinton praised her administration last week when she left office. It may work for a little while more but people like Dr Ben Carson are starting to say ‘enough already’ and the OPM will dry up. But, by then. Obama’s plan is probably to be out of office. For now he may be able to get away with one more State of the Union speech fairly unscathed , though he better start watching his back with new watchdogs like Dr. Carson, Senators Rand Paul and Marco Rubio coming on, as they attempt to break through the Press Wall, exposing the REAL State of the Union – and it is NOT GOOD!
It will be interesting that the ‘other side’ will get TWO responses to Obama’s speech, one by Rubio and one by Paul. This could be a good national platform for helping to expose the REAL State of the Union.
Dr. Ben Carson Not Politically Correct, Makes Obama Squirm
‘The PC police are out’ said Dr. Ben Carson at keynote speaker of the prayer breakfast , attended by President Obama, as the noted pediatric neuro-surgeon went on to speak his mind, even if it went against ‘Obamacare’ and other of Obama policies.
Carson surprised many, especially Obama, not used to squirming as he gimace during the 27 minute address. Carson talked about growing up in poverty and how his mother tried to instill independence in her kids, showing them they had control of their own destiny. He spoke against the ‘entitlement’ society of today while Obama looked down, much like he did during his first Presidential debate in October.
‘We’ve dumbed things down. when people become less informed they become vulnerable,’ said Carson. Carson talked about turning off the TV and our real responsibilities. He spoke about t his hero, Jesus, and how he used parables to put across his points. He spoke about GOOD health care – ‘effecient’ and spending twice as much on health care as any other country; he spoke about a living health certificate where people have control over their own health care, where people don’t go to the emergency room for a quick fix but to a clinic for all their problems.
Carson compared lawyers to policians. The ‘need to win‘ drives both, he said. He spoked sadly as how smart minority kids are looked down uponby their peers where as student athletes are praised and earn big money. Carson started a scholarship program 16 years ago because of the problem.
Catch glimpses of Beach Boys’ Mike Love playing Tanner’s Electro-Theramin in this early, stereo version of the revolutionary ‘Good Vibrations (Listen for the eerie, wavering tones heard more in the latter part of the song)
Dr. Paul Tanner, trombonist with Glenn Miller from 1938-1942, plays the love theme from “The Glenn Miller Story” with the Tex Beneke Orchestra in 1960. The song was written by Henry Mancini.
PAUL TANNER PLAYED WITH GLEN MILLER, BEACH BOYS – HELPED DEVELOPD THERAMIN
Imagine in one lifetime playing trombone with Glen Miller during the Big Band Era of the 1940s , playing 25 years later on the Beach Boys’ No. 1 rock and roll hit, ‘Good Vibrations’ (theramin!) while improving the old theramin instrument you used to hear in scary movies, and then becoming a UCLA professor in the 1970s. Paul Tanner, who passed this week at 95, did all that and more. He helped to improve the unwieldy theramin instrument, which is that odd, eerie, synthesized sound you hear in the Beach Boys’ avante garde recording of Good Vibrations. The original inventor of the theramin, Samuel Hoffman, saw his career effectively end in 1959 when trombonist Paul Tanner invented the mechanical “Electro-Theremin” used in the Beach Boys song. Here the orginal instrument at http://OldiesCountry.com
May I add, that I was a student of Mr. Tanner at UCLA in 1973, where he went on to teach even after making a small fortune from the Beach Boy’s #1 hit record. He taught none else than The Appreciate of Jazz’ and was one of the most popular teachers; it was very difficult to get into his class, where he played and recounted a lot of the old Miller sounds and taught from first hand experience. (One of my other teachers at UCLA was Dr. Demento (‘History of Rock and roll’)
updated 9/24/12
There was none better than news commentator Paul Harvey as a watchdog for our nation. when he first saw things begin to deteriorate following the assasination of President Kennedy, he came out with the original version of ‘If I Were The Devil’ in 1964. Since then the audio has been updated as things have only got worse, with a final version from 2012, perhaps tweaked by Harvey’s son, Paul, Jr. Havey Sr passed several years ago at age 90. If these prophetic words don’t shock the country – or at least those people of old values who really care – then perhaps nothing will.
updated 9/24/12
By Paul Harvey
I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;
I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man’s
effort, instead of God’s blessings;
I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of
the other way around;
I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;
I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to
leadership;
I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;
I would make it socially acceptable to take one’s own life, and invent
machines to make it convenient;
I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are
valued more than human beings;
I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was
grounds for a lawsuit;
I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I
would get sports heroes to advertise them;
I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the
minds of every family member for my agenda;
I would attack then family, the backbone of any nation. I would make
divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so
does the nation;
I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and
movies screens, and I would call it art;
I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their
lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;
I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who
call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically
correct;
I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the
Bible is for the naive:
I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is
not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;
I GUESS I WOULD LEAVE THINGS PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THEY ARE!
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