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“No Deal: Government Shuts Down At Midnight Tonight”

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All nonessential government services — including the processing of IRS refund checks – will cease at the stroke of midnight tonight. The government shutdown will throw millions of people out of work temporarily.

The budget talks between the White House and the Republicans have failed, and now the government shutdown that everyone is dreading looms large.

Troops who protect our homeland will not get paid; social security checks will not go out; libraries, museums, courthouses, city parks and recreational centers will all be shut down. The trickle down theory will go into effect as most major cities are cut off from government funding.

Americans are venting their frustration on networking websites. A facebook group is organizing an event to dump garbage on House Speaker John Beohner’s front lawn. Boehner is the Republican house speaker who is stuck in the middle of this mess.

In the meantime, Obama, 49, and his family will travel to Williamsburg, VA today to unwind and get in a little rest and relaxation.

The FAA has established a no-fly zone over Williamsburg that will remain in effect until the Obamas leave for DC on Monday.

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“Obama’s State Of The Union Address”

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Did you watch President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night? Well the president’s critics are speaking out about his address and their saying that:

He urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other.

Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech. He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and proposed “we redouble these efforts.” He coupled this with a call to “freeze annual domestic spending for the next five years.”

But Obama offered far more examples of where he would spend than where he would cut, and some of the areas he identified for savings are not certain to yield much if anything.

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I’m so tired of President Obama’s critics.

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“President Speaks At Memorial In Arizona”

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Yesterday, U.S. president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a memorial service in Tucson, AZ.  Where the president visited Congresswoman Gifford in the hospital and remembered the 6 people killed, and 14 wounded during a Jan. 8 shooting spree where Gifford greeted her constituents on Saturday.

“Gabby opened her eyes for the first time,” Obama announced to thunderous applause. Obama was referring to Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s, 40, who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt.

“What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another,” said Obama.

President Obama praised Daniel Hernandez for aiding Gifford after the shooting. The 20-year-old intern has only worked for Gifford for 5 days and assisted the congresswoman with his first aid skills after she was shot.

Obama concluded his emotional speech by remembering 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation’s future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted.

I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.

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“It’s Called Divide And Conquer”

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President Barack Obama took full responsibility for the sluggish economic recovery and said that “we have not made as much progress as we need to make”.

The President’s comments came less than a day after the Republicans made historic gains in Congress by riding a tidal wave of voter discontent.

Obama said he was doing “a whole lot of reflecting” following heavy losses across the country just two years after he took office, a repudiation by voters of the president’s policies.

Obama called the losses a “shallacking” during his hour-long news conference, adding that he’ll work with Republicans on an array of policy issues and help jumpstart the stagnant economy.

Either way, Barack Obama will be judged as a President on the bottom line results.

The bottom line to the real bottom line is, the Bush-era tax cuts that will expire at the end of the year unless Congress decides otherwise is the next big issue both sides will have to decide on in the coming weeks.

Obama has sought to make all of them permanent — except for families making more than $250,000 a year or individuals making $200,000 a year — while Republicans want to preserve them for every tax bracket.

So the bottom line is the money for republicans and the tea party activist feel as though they now have the upper hand.

So if the tea party are all republican activist, how come the dems don’t have a coffee clutch party? I thought the Rev. Al Sharpton was leading that fight based upon his march against Beck and the tea party’s rally back in August. I thought Al Sharpton was Barack Obama’s ears in the streets? What the hell happened because based on the results, every single candidate (including Nicole Paultre Bell) lost in yesterday’s election. 

According to one of many phone calls I received this morning, Al Sharpton has lost his street CRED.

What do you think? Who should be doing more to help President Obama and the democratic party?

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“President Obama Appealing To Black Voters”

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President Barack Obama’s name has hit the campaign trail hard because the democratic party desperately needs a win.

So for the first time in 20 months, Obama is reaching out to the black and independent voters whose passion and eagerness to make history, helped propel him into office in 2008.

“We need to finish the plan you elected me to put in place. And I need you. I need you because this isn’t going to be easy,” said Obama at a Congressional Black Caucus’ annual dinner last month. [link]

Obama has made it clear that a loss for the Democrats in November would be a devastating failure for him personally.

“Don’t make me look bad, now,” Obama pleaded at a rally on the campus of historically black Bowie State University last week.

“Two years ago you defied the conventional wisdom in Washington,” Obama told thousands of black supporters Sunday at a rally in Philadelphia. “They said, ‘No you can’t. No you can’t elect a skinny guy with a funny name to the presidency of the United States,’” he added.

But not everyone in the black community hears Obama’s rallying cry. There are some who are suspicious of Obama’s sudden interest in the black community — even if they don’t voice their suspicions out loud.

“We haven’t heard from you in a while,” radio host Tom Joyner said sarcastically to the president at the start of his interview last month. [link]

“You know, I don’t get a chance to do much radio these days,” replied Obama, who records a weekly radio address every Saturday morning.

“We know that people have short memories, but they have to remember that Barack Obama didn’t create this problem,” Carolyn Pinkney, an African-American voter, said at Obama’s rally.

“Of course there’s some disenchantment because the president came in with such high expectations levels,” said Rendell. “But on the other hand there’s still a lot of African-Americans who say, ‘Hey, he’s not superman and he can’t change everything in 20 months.’” [link]