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T.I.- Whatever You Like SPOOF! (OBAMA- Whatever I Like) Three Things to Love (And A Few More to Hate) About Obama’s Jobs Plan. Published: Friday 16 September 2011 Even if Congress passed Obama’s bill “now,” as he demanded, we would be lucky to see even one-third of this money spent in 2012. Resize Text + | - | R President Obama created big expectations last week for the speech where he announced his new jobs plan. Remarkably, his rhetoric came close to fulfilling them. But what about the actual plan he sent to Congress on Monday? On the plus side, President Obama asked for a sizable package. The mix in the plan is also better than might have been expected. President Obama also proposed $80 billion for infrastructure. 30 billion of this is for repairing and renovating schools and $50 billion is for other infrastructure needs.

As always, we must remember infrastructure spending takes time. The package also includes the essential continuation of extended unemployment benefits. First, the tax cut on the employer side is largely a gift to businesses that mostly do not need it. While Hillary makes a joke, Cuomo addresses the 2016 thing like Obama isn't even there. It was less a political development than a political-narrative development this week, as both Hillary Clinton and Andrew Cuomo acknowledged speculation that they might run for president in 2016, positioning themselves for what might be the greatest imaginary primary of all time.

As Maggie Haberman notes in the lead of her Politico-leading article this morning, the secretary of state (and former front-running presidential candidate) joked that that "Time 100" event that she was running for "president of Malta. " Meanwhile, the governor answered—or responded to, at least—a question from YNN's Nick Reisman by saying that he's concentrating on being as good a governor as he can be and that, as he knows from personal experience, it is not a productive thing to engage overtly with speculation about higher office. “I've seen this movie before, actually in this room," Cuomo said, referring to his father's famous Hamlet routine in 1991.

"There's like a whole lot of déjà vu going on for me. Things Obama has done... House G.O.P. Leaders Find Some Things to Like About Obama’s Jobs Plan. Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’ May 25, 2012 12:54pm Young Barack Obama Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale. In his 1995 memoir “Dreams from My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. He would smoke it here and there. Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.

“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.” The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”. “TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Another Obama innovation: “Roof Hits.” Back to the pot smoking.

Three Things To Love (and A Few More To Hate) About Obama’s Jobs Plan. President Obama created big expectations last week for the speech where he announced his new jobs plan. Remarkably, his rhetoric came close to fulfilling them. But what about the actual plan he sent to Congress on Monday? If it were to be enacted in its current form (which it won’t), would it have a shot at turning around the economy? As it turns out, there are definitely some things to like in Obama’s roadmap, even while there are some very big warning signs as well. On the plus side, President Obama asked for a sizable package. The mix in the plan is also better than might have been expected. President Obama also proposed $80 billion for infrastructure. 30 billion of this is for repairing and renovating schools and $50 billion is for other infrastructure needs. As always, we must remember infrastructure spending takes time.

The package also includes the essential continuation of extended unemployment benefits. THE PLAN ALSO includes two interesting labor market experiments. Three things I like about President Obama. 1. He's Black. Or bi-racial, or African-American or Kenyan-American. Whatever you want to call his ethnic background, his mother was Euro-American secularist and his father was a Kenyan Muslim, many of us thought this would never happen in our life time--not even Jesse Jackson or Michelle Obama.

It hasn't improved race relations one iota, but in that sense it's good, because it shows character and politics trump race. Something conservatives had figured out before the election of 2008. Even black Republicans voted for him for that reason--and are now sorry. 2. 3. Our American history, including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers FDR and LBJ were among our worst presidents growing this wet snow ball known as incapacitating entitlements RINOs are not our friends and should be voted out of office for the sin of bipartisanship and "crossing the aisle.

" The role of the Supreme Court in our problems What are our property rights. One Year Later: Ten Things President Obama HAS Done Since He's Been in Office. In 2008, the United States witnessed the people take its government back from ideological tyranny, greed, and anti-intellectualism. The election of President Barack Obama was a worldwide event — a signal to the world that America, at last, had overcome it’s last taboo (at least publicly), race. Graveyards all over America with generations of three centuries of racialized pasts either roared, “Finally,” or rolled over in amazement that this could happen here of all places.

One year later, the nation is a lot more sober with the reality of what change really is, and what was necessary to bring change about. The most amazing thing about the past year is the short memories everybody seems to have about how bad things really were. All guns were pointed at us with no calvary in sight. The ignorant (who are not really ignorant, just still mad), the foolish, and the partisans all want to suggest that President Obama hasn’t done anything in the 10 months since he’s been President. One Thing That I Like About Obama. "Obama Is Stupid": The Stupid Thing Conservatives Love To Say: Death Race 2012: GQ on Politics. Newt Gingrich, the man who might win tomorrow's South Carolina primary, loves to challenge Barack Obama to a series of lengthy, un-moderated Lincoln-Douglas debates, and he did again last night. It's the usual Newt gesture: a grandly empty suggestion that his head teems with policies of such irreducible complexity—"I think grandiose thoughts," as he put it onstage less than 24 hours ago—that they can only be expressed in the same amount of time it takes to cross the United States by balloon.

Newt boasts that these debates will be conducted without teleprompters—a shallow dig at Obama that feeds the president's critics two satisfying lines of assault. For conservatives and liberals infuriated by Obama's measured cadences and insistence on rhetorical balance and compromise, it suggests that his unflappability is all pretense, unsustainable in the real world that real men inhabit, where spitting is permitted and there are Islamofascists to wrestle shirtless. Quick quiz. —Mobutu Sese Seko.