From across the United States, Americans send thousands of emails, letters and faxes to the White House. “Letters to the President” is a behind the scenes look at the process of selecting ten letters that the president reads each day.
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Telegraph: Barack Obama sex doll for sale in China
Blimey! It seems President Barack Obama is so popular in China that some nincompoop thought it would be a good idea to craft a sex doll with his image screen printed on its face.
An Excerpt:
Americans may have fallen out of love with Barack Obama, but the president of the United States is still an object of affection for the Chinese, who have remodelled him as a blow-up sex doll.
A doll wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, and with Mr Obama’s face carefully screen-printed onto its head, was exhibited at the recent 8th Sex Culture Festival in the southern city of Guangzhou.
The doll was photographed by Chinese state media nestling behind several other standard plastic female toys.
President Obama’s Achievements Website
The Obama Achievements website is run by “a team of about 100 volunteers dedicated to countering the constant negative drumbeat of our mainstream media. In the past two years, over 400 steps forward have been taken by the Obama administration, yet the media continues to focus on the negative.”
The website lays out the president’s achievements in categories ranging from Arts and Culture to Transparency and Accountability.
President Barack Obama meets with Cabinet members in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Sept. 15, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Click here to visit ObamaAchievements.org
Rolling Stone Makes The Case for Obama
Tim Dickinson pens a compelling article for the October 28, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone excerpted below.
President Obama photo by Pete Souza
“But if the passions of Obama’s base have been deflated by the compromises he made to secure historic gains like the Recovery Act, health care reform and Wall Street regulation, that gloom cannot obscure the essential point: This president has delivered more sweeping, progressive change in 20 months than the previous two Democratic administrations did in 12 years. “When you look at what will last in history,” historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells Rolling Stone, “Obama has more notches on the presidential belt.”
A Boot to the Head – from Michael Moore
video description by Youtube uploader:
The purpose of this video is to highlight what fear mongering will cause. This does not show gratuitous violence for the sake of showing violence. It shows what we are up against when we express our political ideas, and Lauren, in my opinion, reacted exactly correctly. She didn’t not resist. She did not fight back, she did not escalate the violence. But she will use the full scope of the law to make these thugs pay for their crimes.
More Video of Rand Paul Thugs Stomping Democratic Woman at October 25 debate with Jack Conway
Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org was stomped by a Rand Paul Supporter outside the Jack Conway/Rand Paul debate.
Lauren was there as part of Moveon.org’s latest campaign to present Rand Paul with the Employee of the Month Award from Republicorp™ and several people in the crowd surrounded her, stripped her of a blonde wig and wrestled her to the ground. One man is seen stomping on her head as she lays on the sidewalk.
The man who stomped on Lauren has been identified as Tim Proffitt, Bourbon County Coordinator of the Rand Paul Campaign, and the one doing the wrestling and holding down of Lauren has been identified as Mike Pezzano, Assistant Organizer of Kentucky Open Carry and member of Lexington Rand Paul Meetup.
Wingnuts trying to get this video deleted have failed. It was reviewed and reinstated. If it contains what you believe to be violence too graphic to be seen, what does that say about what your comrades have done?
There she was, thrown to the pavement by a Republican in a checkered shirt. Another Republican thrusts his foot in between her legs and presses down with all his weight to pin her to the curb. Then a Republican leader comes over and viciously stomps on her head with his foot. You hear her glasses crunch under the pressure. Holding her head down with his foot, he applies more force so she can’t move. Her skull and brain are now suffering a concussion.
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Inside the White House: Letters to the President
Every day, President Obama reads ten letters from the public in order to stay in tune with America’s issues and concerns. “Letters to the President” is an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the process of how those ten letters make it to the President’s desk from among the tens of thousands of letters, faxes, and e-mails that flood the White House each day.
Barack Obama chows down at Ben’s Chili Bowl in D.C.
President-elect Barack Obama dropped in at Ben’s Chili Bowl in Washington D.C. where he ordered the house specialty – Chili half-smoke – a quarter-pound half pork and beef smoked sausage on a steamed bun with mustard, onions, chili sauce and some cheese fries.
The 50 facts you might not know about Barack Obama
Barack Man
From the Telegraph U.K.
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t
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Keith Olbermann – Special Comment on Gay Marriage
November 10, 2008 MSNBC Keith Olbermann
Keith Olberman Speaks Out passionately On Prop 8- ask supporters of prop 8 how they can reconcile their actions and beliefs.
Stop Prop 8- www.jointheimpact.com