Obama Presidency

[Saucer]

Ce que l'on retiendra sous le nom du fameux décret Jack Bauer.

[Domi]

Encore une excellente initiative d'Obama : imposer les politiques anti-étalement urbain dans tous les Etats.

Voir sur objectif liberté :

http://www.objectifliberte.fr/2009/04/obam…iberticide.html

[p.a]

Encore une excellente initiative d'Obama : imposer les politiques anti-étalement urbain dans tous les Etats.

Voir sur objectif liberté :

http://www.objectifliberte.fr/2009/04/obam…iberticide.html

ou comment détériorer la qualité de vie. c'est un boulot à plein temps pour beaucoup.

[Zax]

Ce que l'on retiendra sous le nom du fameux décret Jack Bauer.

Oui, c'est moi.

[Stephdumas]

Encore une excellente initiative d'Obama : imposer les politiques anti-étalement urbain dans tous les Etats.

Voir sur objectif liberté :

http://www.objectifliberte.fr/2009/04/obam…iberticide.html

merci pour le lien par coincidence, j'ai trouvé un autre article récent sur le sujet http://www.suburbainlucide.net/?p=262

et le Québécois Libre a des articles plus anciens

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/001125-3.htm

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/010804-3.htm

[Hobbart]

Pas folichons, les chiffres, après 100 jour de gouvernement :

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con…l_tracking_poll

Le président américain Barack Obama bénéficie, après les premiers cent jours de son mandat, d'opinions plus positives que ses prédécesseurs depuis vingt ans, selon un sondage d'ABC News et du Washington Post.

69% des Américains approuvent son action, ce qui représente le meilleur score en deux décennies. Toutefois, son action est approuvée par 93% des Démocrates et seulement 36% des Républicains. 54% des personnes interrogées estiment qu'Obama fait mieux qu'ils ne l'attendaient, bien davantage que les présidents George W. Bush (39%) et Bill Clinton (35%) au cap des cent jours, qui sera atteint mercredi. 63% des personnes interrogées estiment qu'Obama a déjà accompli beaucoup pendant les trois premiers mois de son mandat. 37% pensaient la même chose de Bill Clinton, au bout de 100 jours. Six Américains sur dix pensent qu'Obama tient la plupart de ses promesses de campagne, contre seulement quatre sur dix pour Bill Clinton. 50% des Américains pensent que leur pays est sur la bonne voie, contre 19% avant l'investiture d'Obama. Le sondage a été effectué entre le 21 et le 24 avril sur un échantillon aléatoire de 1.072 adultes et contient une marge d'erreur de plus ou moins 3 points.

[philippulus]

Mégalobamania sur mon blog!

[José]

Popularité après 100 jours, selon un sondage Gallup :

Reagan '81 = 67%

Carter '77 = 63%

G.W.Bush '01 = 62%

Nixon '69 = 61%

G.H.W. Bush '89 = 58%

Obama '09 = 56%

Clinton '93 = 55%

Barack's in the basement

Obama is less popular than Nixon and Carter

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES | Tuesday, April 28, 2009

President Obama's media cheerleaders are hailing how loved he is. But at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.

According to Gallup's April survey, Americans have a lower approval of Mr. Obama at this point than all but one president since Gallup began tracking this in 1969. The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after trying to force homosexuals on the military and a federal raid in Waco, Texas, that killed 86. Mr. Obama's current approval rating of 56 percent is only one tick higher than the 55-percent approval Mr. Clinton had during those crises.

As the attached chart shows, five presidents rated higher than Mr. Obama after 100 days in office. Ronald Reagan topped the charts in April 1981 with 67 percent approval. Following the Gipper, in order of popularity, were: Jimmy Carter with 63 percent in 1977; George W. Bush with 62 percent in 2001; Richard Nixon with 61 percent in 1969; and George H.W. Bush with 58 percent in 1989.

It's no surprise the liberal media aren't anxious to point out that their darling is less popular than George W. Bush. But given the Gallup numbers, their hurrahs could be more subdued. USA Today's front page touted the April poll results as positive, with the headline: "Public thinks highly of Obama." The current cover of Newsweek magazine ponders "The Secret of His [Mr. Obama's] Success." The comparison with previous presidents is useful because they are usually popular during their first few months in office - and most presidents have been more popular than Mr. Obama.

The explanation for Mr. Obama's low approval is that he ran as a moderate but has governed from the far left. The fawning and self-deceiving press won't go there. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," host David Gregory asked a panel about critics who "would say one of the things that he's done in 100 days already is expand the role of government, the size of government." Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin claimed, "That's what he ran for the presidency in the first place for."

Perplexed about complaints over Mr. Obama's expansion of government, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham asked: "does no one listen during campaigns?"

It was these pundits who weren't paying attention during last year's campaign. In all three presidential debates, Mr. Obama promised to cut government spending and reduce the size of the deficit. He blamed the economic crisis on excessive deficits. At no time did candidate Barack Obama say that more deficit-spending was the solution.

Mr. Obama's popularity after 100 days is the second-lowest for a simple reason: He is more partisan and divisive than his predecessors - including Richard Nixon.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/2…n-the-basement/

[Brock]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/2…ad-slogan-obama

Can Ahmadinejad copy Obama's election slogan? Yes, he can

Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hopes US leader's winning words will work for him too as he seeks second term

Barack Obama's offer of a hand of friendship to Iran after 30 years of hostility may have met with a sceptical public response from Tehran. But now a rapprochement of sorts may be under way amid evidence that the US president's can-do electioneering tactics have struck a chord with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obama's signature campaign slogan, Yes We Can, has been replicated by the Iranian president in a promotional video issued for Iran's presidential poll on 12 June, when Ahmadinejad is seeking re-election.

The video features a cover picture of Ahmadinejad wearing his trademark white jacket and pointing to the Farsi phrase Ma Mitavanim (We Can) on a blackboard. The film is aimed at students and capitalises on his former status as a university lecturer.

Its release coincides with that of another campaign video apparently attempting to trump Obama by recounting Ahmadinejad's visit to Turkey.

Obama won international acclaim during a visit to Turkey this month for declaring that the US was "not at war" with Islam and stressing that there were Muslims in his family.

Ahmadinejad's visit last August was arguably less successful. The Islamist president was deprived of full state honours after declining to pay homage to the tomb of Turkey's secular founder, Ataturk, in Ankara. He also endured the indignity of Turkey withdrawing from an anticipated lucrative natural gas contract, partly because of American pressure.

There was further discord when Istanbul residents complained of huge traffic jams caused by security measures for the visit.

The films have been distributed during Ahmadinejad's recent public appearances in and around Tehran. Another video focuses on his provincial trips across Iran, a hallmark of his presidency.

Ahmadinejad's surprise election win four years ago was partly attributed to a promotional film that depicted him as a humble man who empathised with the poor.

[Apollon]

Obama's Mexican host dies from 'flu-like symptoms'

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/wor…s-14283252.html

The White House says that Barack Obama is "highly engaged" in monitoring the swine flu outbreak that has spread over the border from Mexico into the US – and well he might. For a while, the President's doctors feared that he may have come closer than almost anyone in the country to contracting the virus.

According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Mr Obama around the city's anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".

Mr Solis met the President at a gala dinner which was held at the museum on 16 April, before Mr Obama travelled on to the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

Yesterday, the museum was shut, in common with most public attractions in Mexico City, and the nation's Health Minister confirmed that Mr Solis had died of pneumonia – but that it was not thought he had contracted swine flu.

In the US, the White House said that the President's doctors had given him an all-clear. Mr Obama showed no symptoms after the usual incubation period, his spokesman said.

[Brock]

apres GW qui organise le 9-11, Bama tente de destabiliser l'Amerique du sud avec un virus destine a tuer les communistes !

encore un coup de la CIA!

[José]

Un sondage sur msnbc - ferme soutien d'Obama pourtant - donne un mauvais bulletin au Messie (plus de 340.000 votes) : http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_question/20…e-him?GT1=43001

[José]

Obama Outsources His Presidency

He may come to regret letting Congress write his major legislation.

[…]

Mr. Obama is a great face for the Democratic Party. He is its best salesman and most persuasive advocate. But he is beginning to leave the impression that he is more concerned with the aesthetics of policy rather than its contents. In the long run, substance and consequences define a presidency more than signing ceremonies and photo-ops. In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124105268584271249.html

[Hobbart]

Le bilan catastrophique d'Obama pousserait les Républicains à revoir leur stratégie et à se tourner vers… le libertarianisme :

Maybe you see a pattern there and maybe you don't. But of the roughly four different pathways the Republicans could take in the post-Obama universe -- toward Ron Paulesque libertarianism, toward Sarah Palinesque cultural populism, toward Mike Huckabeesque big-government conservatism, or toward Olympia Snowesque moderation/ good-governmentism -- the libertarian side would seem to have had the best go of things in the First 100 Days.

http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2…ibertarian.html

[G7H+]

Le bilan catastrophique d'Obama pousserait les Républicains à revoir leur stratégie et à se tourner vers… le libertarianisme :

Je reviens d'un rassemblement où les républicains militants étaient fort nombreux. Deux choses que j'ai entendu :

- ils sont obsédés par 'Reagan', ils en cherchent un nouveau, viiiiite mais j'ai l'impression qu'ils ne définissent pas vraiment de quel Reagan ils parlent…

- un speaker a présenté de façon convaincante l'idée suivante : il faut que le prochain candidat républicain joue à fond sur la nouvelle frontière, qu'il donne aux américains un horizon à dépasser (façon Kennedy ou Reagan) et qu'il cible les groupes électoraux suivants sur la ligne droite-gauche :

bisounours

contribuables X

patriotes X

croyants X

Façon Reagan, quoi. Le speaker a en effet dit que si Obama a gagné, c'est parce qu'il a tenu un discours 'tous-ensemble-vers-demain-dans-l'effort-mais-on-va-gagner-youpi' et qu'il a bien entendu gardé les gauchistes démocrates mais aussi qu'il a rassuré les milieux d'affaires durant la campagne.

[José]

U.S. May Revive Guantánamo Military Courts

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.

[…]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/polit…;pagewanted=all

[mazeppa]

Pendant que les Républicains semblent chercher un nouveau Reagan, les Démocrates, eux, "s'européanisent" (cf. une note récente de Guy Sorman):

http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/…115706775ab970b

ça craint du boudin, mais je m'imagine quand même mal les Américains se ruer vers les fiat Panda ou les Peugeot 205.

[h16]

Un débouché pour Peugeot ? Franchement, ce serait inédit.

[Jefferson]

http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/20…l#xtor=RSS-3208

[Brock]

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressReleas…E5464DP20090507

Obama seeks to double tax law enforcement budget

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed on Thursday nearly doubling funds to enforce U.S. tax laws next year, with an aim of more than quadrupling funding for tax compliance to $2.1 billion within five years.

The budget plan seeks $12.1 billion for the Internal Revenue Service, responsible for collecting and enforcing individual and corporate tax laws, for fiscal 2010, which begins October 1. That amounts to a roughly 5.2 percent increase over the IRS budget for 2009, which was $11.5 billion.

The budget proposal, which must be approved by Congress, includes a $890 million request to boost tax enforcement, including in the international arena, an increase of $400 million from 2009.

Underreporting of income by individuals and businesses led to a "tax gap" of $345 billion in 2001, the most recent year available, according to the government. Of that, corporate income tax and employment tax underreporting made up about $84 billion, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.

The Obama administration said it would use the funds to further expand its efforts to boost compliance outside the U.S., "placing greater scrutiny on cross-border transactions and tax issues."

Earlier this week, Obama unveiled a series of proposals to overhaul mainly corporate tax rules and close loopholes in an effort he said would raise $210 billion over 10 years.

Included was a proposal to tighten rules on financial institutions which hold money abroad for U.S. citizens.

The U.S. government is currently suing giant Swiss bank UBS AG to get the names of thousands of mostly wealthy U.S. clients who may be trying to evade tax laws by keeping their money overseas.

ah j'avais pas vu la news de jefferson.

[mementopratique]

Le bilan catastrophique d'Obama pousserait les Républicains à revoir leur stratégie et à se tourner vers… le libertarianisme :

C'est leur seule alternative d'opposition possible.

Pour ce qui est de la candidature républicaine en 2012, il y a fort à parier que les néocons' seront toujours là pour prêcher leur interventionnisme. Il faudra attendre l'échec de l'intervention en afghanistan et ensuite attendre encore quelques années pour voir la tendance s'inverser…

[Tortue joviale]

Obama veut renforcer la réglementation anti-monopoles

lefigaro.fr | JDF | 11.05.2009 | Mise à jour : 18H49

Le gouvernement américain va supprimer une disposition introduite par l’administration Bush qui rendait quasi-impossible les poursuites contre les groupes bénéficiant d’une position dominante.

Haro sur les monopoles. Le président américain Barack Obama a indiqué vouloir durcir la règlementation en vigueur contre les tentations monopolistiques des groupes. Il envisage pour cela de retirer une disposition mise en place depuis septembre 2008 sous la présidence de George W. Bush jugée trop laxiste en matière de limitation. Selon le département américain de la Justice, elle érigeait «trop d’obstacles aux efforts du gouvernement en matière d’anti-trust». Pour preuve, d’après le New York Times, aucune plainte relative aux questions de monopole n’a été engagée pendant les huit années de l’administration Bush. Celle-ci reposait en effet sur la croyance en une autorégulation des marchés même dans le cas de positions dominantes.

Un changement de philosophie

Le retrait de cette disposition renforcera donc l’autorité de la cellule anti-trust du département de la Justice. «Elle engagera des poursuites avec détermination quand des monopoles tenteront d’utiliser leur domination sur le marché pour étrangler la concurrence et nuire aux consommateurs» souligne Christine Varney, adjointe du ministère de la Justice en charge des dossiers de concurrence.

Dans la décennie 90, certaines des décisions les plus spectaculaires concernant la défense de la concurrence aux Etats-Unis, comme les jugements à l’encontre de Microsoft et d’Intel, l’avaient été à l’initiative du département de la Justice.

[Nick de Cusa]

J'ai enfin compris le malentendu qui l'a poussé au pouvoir.

Les gens ont cru que c'est un pacifiste, qui va maximiser la paix pour l'Amérique, mais en fait il avait dit passifiste : ce qu'il veut c'est maximiser le passif de l'Etat américain.

[john_ross]

Je pensais que les américains le croyaient pacifique car né dans une île du Pacifique et que c'est pour cela que l'on se posait la question de son lieu de naissance.

[José]

Rhôôô…

Obama reverses on releasing detainee photos

In a dramatic, high-profile reversal for his young administration, President Barack Obama is seeking to block the release of 44 photographs depicting abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[…]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22470.html

[Sous-Commandant Marco]

C'est sans doute pour éviter de distribuer des images pédophiles:

"Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape"

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/200…?source=refresh

[Brock]

abu ghraib c'est disneyland compare aux autres toles du coin…

[Sous-Commandant Marco]

abu ghraib c'est disneyland compare aux autres toles du coin…

Disney Land, la version Michael Jackson?

[Brock]

Disney Land, la version Michael Jackson?

voila

visiblement Oby n'aime pas Wacko Jacko:

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNew…E54C54Y20090513

Obama opposes detainee abuse photo release

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a reversal, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he would fight the release of dozens of photographs showing the abuse of terrorism suspects, over concern the images could ignite a backlash against U.S. troops.

The decision was a blow to some liberals in Obama's Democratic Party who see the photos as part of a broader effort to investigate Bush-era officials and cleanse America's image abroad.

Just last month the Obama administration had said it would comply with a court order to release the pictures by May 28, saying legal options for appealing the case had been limited.

But Obama shifted gears after senior military commanders and some members of Congress expressed misgivings about the potential for the photos to generate violence against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama defended his decision, saying publication of the photographs "would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals."

"In fact, the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in greater danger," Obama told reporters. "Moreover, I fear the publication of these photos may only have a chilling effect on future investigations of detainee abuse."

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration is likely to seek a court order aiming at blocking the release of the photos, which had been expected within weeks.

Gibbs was peppered with questions about Obama's shift in course. He said Obama, who has seen some of the pictures, told his legal team last week that he did not feel comfortable with releasing them.

'MAKES A MOCKERY'

The American Civil Liberties Union, which argued for the photos' release, expressed outrage and said the decision "makes a mockery" of Obama's campaign promise of transparency.

"It's absolutely essential that these photos be released so the public can examine for itself the torture and abuse that was conducted in its name, and so that high-level officials who authorized or permitted that abuse can be held accountable," ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said.

The human rights group Amnesty International said it was disappointed.

"Human beings have been tortured and denied basic rights. The American people have been lied to, and government officials who authorized and justified abusive policies have been given a pass," said the group's executive director, Larry Cox. He said the full story had not been told.

But the shift was welcomed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent, who said Obama "did exactly the right thing."

"The fact that the president reconsidered the decision is a strength not a weakness," they said in a statement.

Strategiquement, Obawan Barkobi a raison.

Une preuve de plus que faire son progressiste ne sert a rien dans un monde qui reconnait le haut et le bas bien mieux que les electeurs des democrassies.

[Jesrad]

Join the Army ! Defend your country ! See the world ! Rape little children !