100 Days, 100 Mistakes for Obama!!!

POSTED BY: Skywalken
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 04:53
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SKYWALKEN

Sunday, April 26, 2009 1:26 AM

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/100_da
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1. "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said." -- McClatchy, 3/11

2. "There is no doubt that we've been living beyond our means and we're going to have to make some adjustments." -- Obama during the campaign.

3. This year's budget deficit: $1.5 trillion.

4. Asks his Cabinet to cut costs in their departments by $100 million -- a whopping .0027%!

5. "The White House says the president is unaware of the tea parties." -- ABC News, 4/15

6. "Mr. Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the 'teleprompt president' over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech." -- Sky News, 3/18

7. In early February, the 2010 census was moved out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House, politicizing how federal aid is distributed and electoral districts are drawn.

8. Obama taps Nancy Killefer for a new administration job, First Chief Performance Officer -- to police government spending. But it surfaces that Killefer had performance issues of her own -- a tax lien was slapped on her DC home in 2005 for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help. She withdrew.

9. Turkey tried to block the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen as new NATO secretary general because he didn't properly punish the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Mohammed. France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel were outraged; Obama said he supported Turkey's induction into the European Union.

10. . . . and he never mentioned the Armenian genocide.

11. The picture of Obama and Hugo Chavez shaking hands.

12. Hugo Chavez gave him the anti-American screed "The Open Veins of Latin America." Obama didn't remark upon it. At least it wasn't DVDs.

13. Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega went on a 50-minute anti-American rant, calling Obama "president of an empire." Obama didn't leave the room. "I thought it was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought," he said.

14. Executives at AIG get $165 million in bonuses, despite receiving an $173 billion taxpayer bailout.

15. "For months, the Obama administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts. It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back." -- Associated Press, 3/18

16. "After pushing Congress for weeks to hurry up and pass the massive $787 billion stimulus bill, President Obama promptly took off for a three-day holiday getaway." -- New York Post, 2/15

17. SARAH PALIN ON: "I WON" AND THE DEATH OF BIPARTISANSHIP

"Obama soared to victory on the hopeful promise of a new era of bipartisanship. During his inaugural address he even promised an 'end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.'

"Too bad it took all of three days for the promise to ring hollow.

"Start with Obama's big meeting with top congressional leaders on his signature legislation -- the stimulus -- on the Friday after his inauguration. Listening to Republican concerns about overspending was a nice gesture -- until he shut down any hopes of real dialogue by crassly telling Republican leaders: 'I won.' Even the White House's leaking of the comment was a slap at the Republican leadership, who'd expected Obama to adhere to the custom of keeping private meetings with congressional leadership, well, private.

"It's only gone down

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, April 26, 2009 2:19 AM

While I would say a large chunk of these are not mistakes, just whining

Even 100 mistakes is better than Bush and his ilk

" They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson

Lets party like its 1939

KWICKO

Sunday, April 26, 2009 4:14 PM

How many dead American soldiers in Iraq under Bush's watch?

That's 4000+ mistakes right there, all for nothing.

Heckuva job, Bushie!

AURAPTOR

Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
How many dead American soldiers in Iraq under Bush's watch?

That's 4000+ mistakes right there, all for nothing.

Heckuva job, Bushie!

You saying it was for 'nothing' is the real disgrace here.

HKCAVALIER

Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
How many dead American soldiers in Iraq under Bush's watch?

That's 4000+ mistakes right there, all for nothing.

Heckuva job, Bushie!

You saying it was for 'nothing' is the real disgrace here.

Yeah, Kwicko, you shouldn't say it. Shhhhhh!

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

KWICKO

Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:22 PM

Oh yeah - he was an imminent threat, right? Saddam and all his WMD. Oh, wait - they didn't die for WMD. Was it for cheap oil then? Oh, wait - we didn't get cheap oil out of it either.

Oh, I know - they died because Al Qaeda hates our freedom, right? Oh, wait - there wasn't a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

That they died is the disgrace. Admitting it was for nothing is just the blunt truth of it.

Mike

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

BIGDAMNNOBODY

Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:40 PM

If a fire fighter dies while trying to save a building, which in turn burns down, did the fire fighter die for nothing?
If a police officer is killed during a robbery and the robbers get away, did the officer die for nothing?
If a member of Greenpeace drowns while protesting a whale hunt, did the protestor die for nothing?
Does Tianamen Square mean nothing?

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BigDamnNobody:
If a fire fighter dies while trying to save a building, which in turn burns down, did the fire fighter die for nothing?
If a police officer is killed during a robbery and the robbers get away, did the officer die for nothing?
If a member of Greenpeace drowns while protesting a whale hunt, did the protestor die for nothing?
Does Tianamen Square mean nothing?

If a firefighter runs into a building which isn't burning , trips, breaks his neck was it for nothing ?

If a police officer ... well you get my point

" They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson

Lets party like its 1939

KWICKO

Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:17 PM

If the firefighter set the building on fire to try to make himself a hero, and killed over 4000 other firefighters in the process, then yes, it was for nothing.

WHOZIT

Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:58 PM

It's been 100 days....feels longger.

KWICKO

Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
It's been 100 days....feels longger.

Don't worry, WhoZit - only 7 years and 265 days to go, hopefully.

ANTHONYT

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:53 AM

Hello,

After a brief perusal, I can say that items 40 & 41 demonstrate a complete inability to grasp the uselessness of standard US policy towards Cuba.

-Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner