Based on my recollection of the campaign, here are some expectations of Obama's first 100 days.

  • Troops out of Iraq
  • US friends with all other countries
  • Close the Gitmo terrorist holding facility
  • Government paid mortgages and free gasoline (according to Peggy Joseph)
  • Focus on war in Afganistan
  • Increase transparency and accountability in Washington
  • Eliminate America's use of coal
  • Stop Earth's temperature from rising
  • Kill Bin Laden
  • End partisanship in Washington
  • Stop oceans from rising
  • Lower unemployment
  • Increase value of investments (i.e stock market)
  • Lower taxes


Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Day 71. Off to see the queen

From this aticle...

...
British etiquette says "you may not shake the queen's hand, only tough it briefly" and that if the Queen stops eating then everyone else must stop too, the News reported.
...

Not sure what it means to 'tough' the queen's hand. Hopefully the teleprompter will provide all the other etiquette tips.

I wonder what gifts they're taking. Maybe a clapper?

Monday, March 30, 2009

Day 70. Got my game on

From CNN

(CNN) -- President Obama announced Monday that struggling automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler will be given a "limited" period of time to "restructure in a way that would justify an investment of additional taxpayer dollars."
...
GM's restructuring began early Monday when CEO Rick Wagoner announced his resignation, which he said came at the request of the Obama administration.


That's right, baby. Now you know who is Boss around here.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Day 68. Another Camp David weekend.

The main computer is down...self-inflicted harddrive corruption. If anything like that ever happened to the teleprompter, it would be fun to watch BOTO, uh, st, stuh, stumble through a speech.
Anyway, with BOTO away, not much to report.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Day 67. The teleprompter gets tough on terror

From CNN...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More troops, new legislation, improved troop training and added civilian expertise highlight President Obama's strategy to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This guy is just an embarrassment. That telepromter is running the administration...DON'T WATCH ANY OF THE VIDEO FROM THIS ARTICLE, IT WILL MAKE YOU THROW UP!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Day 66. More war!

From CNN.com...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama plans to send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan along with hundreds of civilian specialists in an effort to confront what he considers "the central challenge facing [that] country," senior administration officials said Thursday.


What!?! Isn't the world supposed to love us now that BOTO won? I hear Smokin' Joe Biden opposed much more involvement.

But, it looks like Obama is going to get his first real test...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Navy ships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles are being moved to the Sea of Japan, a Navy spokesman said.
...
If North Korea launches, the Obama administration may have as little as five minutes to decide whether it is a threat and, if necessary, try to shoot it down.

also from CNN.com
I have very little faith that BOTO will not blink first. I just hope none of our soldiers get hurt.

What do all the anti-war, young, peace-loving social networking folks who joined the online town hall think about all this?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Day 65. Busy @ work.

Hey, somebody has to work (I'm talking about me) to make a buck in this country...there are taxes to be paid!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Day 64. Press conference.

Well the teleprompter president had a press conference tonight. I did not watch it, but I hear he tried to hide his use of the teleprompter by not having the side screens, but a huge LCD! This way he did not have the mechanical side-to-side glances, but stared straight ahead into the cameras. Nice try.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Day 63. Barack who?

What's that? I have not had a chance to look at a paper today...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Day 62. Taking a break.

Your blogger has a really bad case of "Obama-fatigue".

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Day 61. Doing his part

The CNN political ticker has this article

(CNN) — President Obama says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s job is safe, according to excerpts of Mr. Obama’s interview this week with CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

Its nice to see the president bucking up like the rest of us to save the economy. Sounds like Geithner will not be just another unemployment statistic on April 3rd when the March numbers come out.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Day 60. Laying low.

What a week. Good day to lay low while damage control does it's thing today and over the weekend.

The wife planted a garden. Nice and symbolic. I'm guessing the kids won't weed it.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Day 59. See what happens without a teleprompter?

From Political Punch over at ABCNews.com.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.


There is nothing more to say. CNN is even carrying it...wow!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Day 58. 'The (165 million) bucks stop with me'

Now it's cool to be responsible for the AIG bonuses.

(CNN) -- President Obama said Wednesday he'll "take responsibility" for AIG executives receiving controversial bonuses while the company took $173 billion in government bailouts.


I'm guessing the administration got some new focus group results. Chris Dodd is claiming responsibility, too. Will Barney Frank come out tomorrow?

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Day 57. Looking for Hope and Change.

This from CNN...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama urged both Democratic and Republican members of Congress Tuesday to provide him with "constructive alternative solutions" if they disagree with any sections of his 2010 budget proposal.

While I am not a member of congress, I do have a few ideas:

  • Cut taxes on corporations

  • Cut taxes on individuals (that actually already pay taxes)

  • Eliminate earmarks and pork projects

  • Stop trying to grow the government in general.


Furthermore, we could stop giving money to groups like ACORN and continue with our moral obligation to support our injured warriors.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Day 56. Outrage!

From CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama said Monday he will attempt to block bonuses to executives at ailing insurance giant AIG, payments he described as an "outrage."
Maybe its in these people's employment contract?
In the letter to Geithner, Liddy said the unit's 25 highest-paid contract employees will reduce their salaries to $1 this year and all other officers in the unit will reduce their salaries by 10 percent. Other "non-cash compensation" will be reduced or eliminated. But he told Geithner that some bonus payments are binding legal obligations of the company, and "there are serious legal, as well as business consequences for not paying."
So you see, its us hard working people against these rich Wall Steet type. Class warfare! That is how democrats oppress people while smiling and telling them they 'got their sleeves rolled up and are working hard for you'. Open your eyes people! This is pure hypocrisy. "Do as I say, not as I do".

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Day 55. High stakes.

In this article, we have former Vice President Dick Cheney sharing his experience and expertise with us...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration has endangered Americans and opened the country to further attack by reversing Bush administration anti-terrorism policies such as harsh interrogations of suspects, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.

It seems to me that the current administration is rolling the dice (has bought a lottery ticket with our last dollar, is playing with fire, etc.) with the current approach to governing the United States.

Remember September 10, 2001? There were rolling brown-outs in California. We had no idea what was coming the next day. The current economic trouble has our eye off the terrorism ball. God forbid, but an attack now would be devastating to our country.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Day 54. Kumbaya

The administration will soon have all peoples of the world sitting around a campfire singing Kumbaya. This 'earth shattering' event will start with bomber pilots!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Day 53. Happy days are here again

About a month ago, just before the Trichinosis Package was passed, we were in a 'crisis' and a 'catastrophe' was looming. It was 'urgent'. Today March 13th, 2009. It is 'not as bad as we think'. From this article...
"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say," Obama added. "Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They're not as bad as we think they are now."
So this is the program we are on:
  • Claim the sky is falling
  • Spend a lot of money that you don't have to hold the sky up
  • Correct yourself and say it was only a raindrop coming down to help the flowers grow
  • Figure you just saved your 2nd term as president
Now with this program, you are not supposed to look at your 401k statements or read here that about 45% of the world's wealth has vanished. Just look at the pretty flowers. Mmmm, pretty...

Funny thing is, China is not even buying the spin.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Day 52. Double speaking

Reported at cnn.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama took aim Thursday at conservative critics who claim that he is using the economic crisis to ram through an unrelated, expansive domestic agenda.
I listened to part of this on CNBC. What I heard was nothing but double-speak and justification for growing the government and its influence in our (i.e. yours and mine) everyday lives. One minute before, he would say he does not want to increase government's role. He also mentioned that he was always 'optimistic'. Guess he forgot what he read off a teleprompter when the porkulus bill was being discussed. I remember words like catastrophe, crisis, and other gloom and doom terms. Now he is saying it is not as bad as we think!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Day 51. What's for dinner? PORK!

The president is going to sign the $410 billion budget.
(CNN) -- President Obama on Wednesday called for a reform of the much-maligned federal earmarking process. ... His remarks came the day after the Senate passed a $410 billion spending bill that included nearly 9,000 earmarks, which are projects designed to benefit individual legislators' districts. The earmarks in the spending bill are worth nearly $8 billion. Many critics have deemed them as wasteful, and some observers have questioned Obama's pledge to end such spending. Some lawmakers urged Obama to veto the bill -- saying it goes against the president's campaign pledge.
Read all about it here. The budget is full of pork and earmarks. During the campaign, we were promised and end to earmarks and pork. Does this bother you? It does not bother me, because I am not one to believe politicians. Basically we are seeing another example of the old Washing ton rule: 'Say anything to get elected, then do whatever you want.' What is their excuse?
"[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place," Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told CNN's "State of the Union With John King."
Can't wait to see what the excuse will be next year.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Day 50. Education

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama began to flesh out the details of one of his signature campaign promises Tuesday, outlining his plan for a major overhaul of the country's education system "from the cradle up through a career."


This article details the 5 tier plan the administration is floating. It is nice to know that the $787 billion (pork) stimulus bill had $5 billion for the Head Start program.  This will help low-income workers with childcare while they are out digging holes (or filling them in).

Seriously, some of this education stuff sounds OK.  For example, "...the president warned that ineffective teachers should not be allowed to remain on the job.  'If a teacher is given a chance but still does not improve, there is no excuse for that person to continue teaching,' he said. 'I reject a system that rewards failure and protects a person from its consequences.'".  He also mentions longer school calendars and higher standards.  Sure, I can go for that.

Of course the NEA will be reminding him later today (if not already) of their support in the election.  These initiatives will not grow legs and the republicans will be blamed.  Yep, thats how things work in Washing ton.  Hope?, maybe.  Change?, Not at all.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Day 49. The ends justify the means

The Obama administration has started the United States down a slippery slope...
(CNN) -- As President Obama reversed the Bush administration's limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be "based on facts, not ideology."

Read the entire article here.

The argument used here is that they are separating science from politics. Now that sounds innocent, right? But think, how will we continue to make scientific and medical advances? What price will we pay? What means will justify the end? There were medical experiments carried out during the holocaust. For example they wanted to simulate combat wounds of German soldiers. Is stem cell research any different? Really? We have good intentions, sure. Where will the next level of tolerance for destruction of human life be?

What, no who will WE sacrifice?

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Day 48. It's a start!

I forgot this the other day and since Sunday is usually slow...

President Obama traveled to Columbus, Ohio, on Friday to hail the swearing-in of 25 new police officers who had been told after their training that the city did not have enough money to hire them.

Read it here...

This means the jobs loses since Feb. 1, 2009 is only 650975 (-651,000 + 25).

THANK GOD Barack Hussein Obama was elected president!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Day 47. Hope and Change?

Quoted in this article, the president said...

"From the day I took office, I knew that solving this crisis would not be easy, nor would it happen overnight," Obama said in the weekly address. "And we will continue to face difficult days in the months ahead. But I also believe that we will get through this - that if we act swiftly and boldly and responsibly, the United States of America will emerge stronger and more prosperous than it was before."

Now that he spent trillions of dollars that still need to be printed, is he moving away from gloom and doom and returning to a message of hope? There is more evidence here.
Surely it is a fine line to balance on to frighten people enough to get your socialist programs passed, yet not too much so they lose confidence in you. If only someone in the media would track down Peggy Joseph and see how she is doing?



Is he worried about losing her with sky-rocketing unemployment and a lead balloon stock market?

This thing with British PM Gordon Brown is really embarrassing...read this article by Mark Steyn. So much for making nice with all the peoples of the world.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Day 46. President Barack Huessein Obama

How low will the DJIA be on day 100? How high will unemployment be on day 100? I am tracking them here.

People are starting to hurt in their wallets and pocketbooks. That is not good news for BOTO.

Finally, I came across this clever diagram:



You can find more of these at 4-Block World. Bookmark it!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Day 45. Will he or won't he?

The president is getting some pressure from a couple of senators in his own party to veto the newest pork bill. Apparently BOTO (Barack Obama, The One) believes that people have short memories, or don't care as long as they get their piece of the pie. It seems arrogant to me, but then as he said to congressional republicans, "I won.".

Will breaking a campaign promise come back to hurt him in 2012? Time will tell.

Others are picking up on my annoyance with Obama's crutch, I mean teleprompter. The guy can read like nobody else, but the way his eyes drift so awkwardly. Yikes. Its embarrassing that the leader of the free world can not talk without this device. With this behavior, he is "dumbing-down" the presidency...and I don't like it.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Day 44. Oh no! Going gray.

Left, Stephen Crowley/The New York Times; Doug Mills/The New York Times
Senator Barack Obama in 2007, left, and on Tuesday.

I guess this is all the news thats fit to print...



Wait, there's more...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Day 43. It's true...

...this guy has no clue about what he is doing.

First...tax dodgers
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's Treasury secretary says the administration will unveil a series of rules and measures in the coming months to limit the ability of international companies to avoid U.S. taxes.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday that Obama will propose legislation to limit U.S. companies' ability to shelter foreign earnings from taxation in the U.S. He also said the administration will try to limit wealthy Americans' ability to use tax havens to avoid taxation.

He did not immediately provide details.

I will give you the details, they will be appointed to cabinet positions in the administration like Geithner was. This has a feeling of, oh I don't know...hypocrisy.

Then he snubbed our best ally the, British Prime Minister...
Barack Obama lavished praise on the 'special relationship' between Britain and America last night - but only after giving Gordon Brown a distinctly muted reception.

The Prime Minister's first official meeting with the new President fell short of the lavish welcomes laid on in recent years.


Secretly cozying up to the Ruskies...
Russian President Dimitry Medvedev's comments came in response to a New York Times report that US President Barack Obama had written a secret letter to his Russian counterpart offering to halt the planned missile shield, which would be located mainly in Poland and the Czech Republic, in return for Moscow's help in stopping Iran from developing long-range nuclear weapons.

So much for transparency in this administration...

Damage control was on in full force again after attacking critics from the media like Santelli, Limbaugh and now Cramer...

Finally, the One showed his ignorance on things economic...

HT -> gordon gekko

Isn't it apparent that the country (i.e. the media) was drunk on making history?

Monday, March 2, 2009

Day 42. Hang on.

You've seen what the DJIA is doing? So what else is going on?


  • National security
    MOSCOW, March 2 (RIA Novosti) - Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran's nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources.

  • Nationalizing Healthcare

  • WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has been vague about details of his healthcare reform efforts, but he provided a hint on Monday of one direction he could take -- community health centers.

  • Evil plans

  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. companies, consumers and communities may grow so addicted to government financial help that cutting them off could trigger another recession soon after the current one ends.

  • Hire another tax cheat

  • WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Dallas, Texas, Mayor Ron Kirk, who is President Obama's nominee to be the U.S. trade representative, owes nearly $10,000 in taxes. He's the fourth Obama pick that has come under fire for tax issues.

  • Par-tay (We won!)

  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.

    Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Day 41. See Day 40.

Sucker.