Will Chicago host the Olympics in 2016?

Obama gave a great plea for his city and country but we will not know for a few more hours who will get to host the games. Find out first right here.

joe wilson is

A typical republican sad to say but true. Glen Beck and fatball have made money on showing the rest of us what the republican agenda is all about. STOP Obama at all cost. They hope for us to get killed in a terrorist attack, so we can see Obamas bad. They hope we have a civil war. They hope our President is assassinated. They all ways want to govern so bad but when they have had thier chances they showed they are a backseat driver with 3 DUIs. Everytime we let them drive we end up in a ditch. Whem we let Bush Jr drive he totaled our car after killing 7000 pedestrians. Now they want to drive again but they are no longer asking to drive, they are highjacking us(US). We can not let this happen. Please read, read history, nothing good for working men or women has ever came via Repulicans, only war and rip offs.............PERIOD....

Sonia Sotomayor is a racist

This lady is wrong for Americas highest court, she shouldn't even be a judge. How can she assume she could reach a better conclusion than a white male that she does not even know. She does not know his experiences, in fact this is a hypothetical person, so in her mind it's better to be a minority. It is wrong to assume that being a specific minority could give you better insight than others. She needs to withdraw her name. Obama is starting to disappoint me. I campaigned for him and I hope he realizes white people elected him. These illegal aliens need to be deported, now.

OBAMA V/S CHENEY

Please tell me that you are not falling for Cheney's lies. This is what I gather from the entire situation. Bush was appointed President after a very close and never settled election. This left the country divided and weakened his position. He was focused on Iraq and bringing down Saddam. During this early time he was given information on the domestic threats from Bin Laden, that he ignored, because it did not fit in his agenda. This is where I fail to understand why action to follow up on the Intel was not ordered. I can only assume he did not take it seriously. A few months later on 9-11 it happened. The Bush administration freaked out at first. Then it dawned on them, they better strike while the iron was hot. The torture performed was to create Intel, not acquire. They simply needed a reason to go into Iraq. Now here it is.

This is just speculation so it can be argued, but water boarding someone 83 times in 30 days is torture. The fact that he is a terrorist is not the point, like Obama said "We are America".
What Dick is doing is dirty. You can't set someone up like he has. Its like a pilot who finished his leg of the flight telling his replacement not to crash the plane in front of the passengers. In this case Dick crashed the plane, more than once. Dick Cheney is a scary dude but the scariest part of this whole ordeal is some of you agree with him and Bush.
Liz Cheney and her dad should be ashamed for this. They are trying to sabotage Obama and the USA. This is bulls@!t.
Bush and Cheney have destroyed this country in so many ways. There is not one thing they did that can be looked at as good for the USA without a ton of debate.

Abortion ?

Has everyone forgot how it was when abortions were illegal. Women still had abortions. Except those that were well off could have a doctor come to their home and perform the abortion discreetly. The poor went to back alley clinics where they were lucky if they had a veterinarian performing the abortion. Alot of times there were complications that were fatal. Others had to be rushed to the ER, and were likely to get caught and arrested.
If they had other children they would be taken from the woman. Causing a ripple effect. A more disturbing fact is that some women had no one to turn to so they tried to abort the pregnancy themselves. Young girls, molested or raped or just ashamed for a number of reasons resorted to close hangers and poison many times.
Students at Notre Dame must not understand this or do not really care. They know they would just fly to a state that allowed abortions if they needed to.
See Obama has to approach issues in the real world. Not the fairy tale land where we can cut taxes and cure problems. Because that does not work. Just look at what he faces.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 10 %
2 WARS IN MIDDLE EAST
ROUGE BANKS
CONGRESS AND SENATE OUT FOR THEMSELVES
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
UNSECURED BOARDER
PANDEMICS
TERRORIST
DOMESTIC TERRORIST
DETAINEES
BUSHES TORTURE POLICY
HEALTH CARE
ENERGY GAS
EDUCATION
I CAN GO ON FOR DAYS

Now who wants a crapload of new problems that come with outlawing abortion. And were do you stand on torture. Look what this issue has caused. How can anyone spin the fact that torture is illegal and does not work.

And please remember if Gore would have been Pres. When he won the election but Harris stoped the recount and declared Bush the winner in FLA. There would not be an Obama and maybe we would not be so totally screwed. So shut up if you voted for Bush Because you are an idiot.

I do not like killing unborn babies and never will but I'm a man. Do you believe the drug war works. I want a drug war on persciptions like VIAGRA,ZOLOFT,RIDLIN, ect. Im sure Jesus would agree.

Whats important, Whats realistic, When will China rename my state. How long after that will they rename my kids?

F the banks, credit cards, big business, and stockmarket

When will someone stand up for the little guy. I am so sick of hearing bankers, pundits and politicians explain how poor people are to blame for the worlds trouble. This is so false. Anyone who argues these points are either lying, stupid or both. Poor people can only do what they are allowed. We have been sold out period. Look around and you can see. The have's take from the have nots.
The bailouts 1,500,000,000,000 went to the banks credit cards and God Knows where else. They have used our money in a fight to continue screwing us daily. You can not stop it. If we stop doing business with a company like Citi bank and they lose money they will pay off the politician's so they get bailed out. If you want something done by a congressman try "donating" money to them, this is what happens, except they pay off everyone. This is why credit cards charge 30% interest and why we now own AIG, GM, CITI, and the list continues. And when I say we own them it actually means they own us. So don' t expect any real change.

Torture persecution

Should we prosecute those who ordered detainees to be tortured?

The recent evidence released by Obama proves we did in fact torture over the past eight years.
Water boarding and different psychological fear based tortures are among the few outlined in the memo's.
The legal memo's also refer to one detainee, Kalied Shake Mohamad who had been water boarded over 200 times.
Mohamad was one of the main conspirators behind 9-11.

Many on the left are screaming for blood over the newly released information.
President Obama has made it clear that there will be no indictments for soldiers carrying out torture practices that they were ordered to perform.
The lawyers who wrote the legal memos claim the methods we were using were not torture.
Despite how absurd their opinions were they broke no laws, since this was just their opinion.

The buck ultimately stops with the president, vice president, his cabinet, advisers and staff.
There is no way in hell the United States, any other country or legal body can try the executive branch of the United States. There is classified information strategies, tactics, knowledge and general practices of operations that would prevent any trial from taking place. It would be a legal nightmare.

Also, doing so would tie up our entire judicial system. It would be a huge distraction that would be prolonged for years to come. This is one case that may never be resolved completely. This could cause serious division among Americans. The crippling effects would be devastating. This is not a time that we can afford to waste energy chasing our tail.

There is no good that could come from indicting G. W. Bush, Cheney or the rest of the idiots that got us into this mess. Although they deserve to be punished for their actions. The truth is America voted twice to elect G.W. and we knew what we were getting. Our hands are also dirty. Although I did not vote for Bush on either occasion we are all Americans. We all share the responsibility in one way or another. If for no other reason than the fact that these actions were committed in our name.

The thing is you can't change the past, what's done is done. It's unfortunate that President Bush chose to ignore the morals and standards that IS, America.
America has always promoted humane treatment for prisoners. In fact we demanded it. It's in our constitution, it defines our freedom and our ideals. There is no good ending to this chapter of American history.

Our focus should be on the future. We have a new administration whose plate is absolutely full. If your upset with our government, get involved.

"We do not torture"

That's something we can never say again.

UNC, Wins another 1

UPDATE


UNC beat Michigan st. to win the National Championship of College BB. Obama picked them to win.

Obama, Arives at G20 amid protest

President Barack Obama landed in Europe earlier today. He has a full itinerary, including the much anticipated meeting with, Queen Elizabeth. Obama makes the 11th sitting American President to have the pleasure of meeting Her Majesty. The last, President GWB kissed the queens hand which is a no-no. Lets hope Obama has improved his own etiquette. He recently shocked a marine, as he stood guard near Air Force One, by shaking his hand instead of the customary salute. He also gave British Prime Minister a DVD box set as a gift. Not only was this a lame gift, they will not play on British DVD players.
Obama has bigger fish to fry. No disrespect to Her Majesty, but the worlds economy is in the dumps. France is demanding a world financial regulation body. Which, will not happened. The US can not allow our financial system to be regulated out side our borders. A NWO of any kind is not acceptable by no means.
Obama also has needs. He wants Europe to match our stimulus package, considering most of the money we spend benefits the rest of the world. This has the potential to be huge for our economic recovery.
There is also a large protest taking place at the G-20 summit. The protesters are mainly fired up over the bailouts in England. One small group stormed a bank and set it on fire.
The fire was extinguished very quickly. These types of protest are common in Europe. I am surprised we haven't seen this type of behavior in the US considering the amount of corruption in our own financial industry.

update
( Obama gave the Queen an I-Pod.) Will someone please inform the President he lives in a museum, all he has to do is close his eyes and pick something. Rich white people, like old shit.

Oama, late night gaffe on Leno

Obama committed a late night no-no!
When he did not make the news, he became the news. He has shown exactly why no sitting president has ever done late night or any talk show for that matter. This is Obama's style, off the cuff. The vibe is laid back and you can get to comfortable in the one on one casual setting, it's the chance you take. It is my opinion that he should stay out the public's eye for a while. I love Obama but I'm starting to suffer from Obama overload. When used the phrase "Special Olympics" I reached for my laptop then stopped not really knowing which way this would go. I should have known how, this was the story. Guess I'm still learning. Let's face it, this is not the worst that could have been said, and many of us has probably used similar terms or cracks on people as well.

Ironically, this is a good thing for the Special Olympics, the publicity will shed light on the dire straights the organization is going through. Plus what ever they want they will lickely get for awhile. IF you watched the clip, as soon as he uttered the word Olympics, you could see him say to himself "Oh f*#@!" . Everyone knows he's a nice guy, he didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. Obama's just trying to be too cool. I hope the president takes some advice and lay low, and hang with the Family for awhile.

Will UNC make Obama look good?

I,m picking UNC.

Who do you think

will take the

crown? Can the

SEC show up?

I believe at least

1 SEC team will

make final four.

How much pressure

is on UNC? Will a

mid-major make

Elite eight?

VOTE !!!!!

Stop Blaming President Obama

Stop blaming Obama and start pitching in!



Have republicans lost it? First they pick a red neck Governor from the Ice age to be Vice President. Then they loose the election in a landslide. Next They nominate Micheal Steele to head the party. He immediately went after the "hiphop vote". Excuse me. I'm Steele laughing about that idea. The man is a train wreck, he shouldn't where shoes as often as he eats his feet. He will resign within six months or less.
This brings us to Rush Limbaugh of conservative talk radio.


Rush has been nominated head of the GOP by his base, bigots, rednecks and the misinformed. He uses their fear and anger to lead them. The man will say, anything to make money. But hoping Obama fails? That's insane! What do people get from this fat clown. You should always pay attention to how someone takes care of themselves, it tells you about the person they trully are.


But now they are blaming Obama for everything. If Planet Nibru comes they will blame that on the President also. The republicans think we are stupid as hell. They want us to get entangled in this AIG bonus bull.This would be counter productive, there's no real recourse. Although it makes for good television.


AIG can not go under they're too crucial to the world of finance. So get over it, we shouldn't be surprised anyway. This is what happens every time those that have, take from those don't. When allowed to, that why we should set strict rules with vigorous oversight. Simultaneously breaking the company down. Not all the way, but at least to the point where they no longer control the world markets.



The truth is Obama's plans are working and the economy IS going to pick up. He has a strong plan for housing that should start showing positive affect this year. The stimulus package, if handled correctly by the states (SOUTH CAROLINA) should spark a dramatic spike in the job market. Especially in construction and services. The biggest problem is the banks, they must lend money. We must do whatever it takes to help them become solid again. There's one thing I would like Obama to address and that's credit ratings. Certain debts should not count against you, like medical bills. Somethings you can't control. Besides, YOUR taxes fund state hospitals that foot the bill for illegals that dont have a credit score.



Don,t pop the Champagne yet. The republicans want us to forget about the last 8 years. We can't let that happened. Don't forget: 2 wars, touchier, Katrina, a war with no plan, Cheney, and the economy. This is a fraction of the known Bush failures. The republicans were with him lock and step.


So quit blaming Obama. Grab a hose or get out the way.

Is AIG to big to fail?

YES, AIG is that big. They are also to involved. I mean they have their hands in the most crucial elements of our financial industry. They are an insurance company for banks . What AIG does is insure loans and loans and loans on more diced up loans. A bank can take more than 1 loan and divide it into 3 4 5 or more parts. Mix the loan parts with other loan parts to create a new Frankenstein loan. That's the loan AIG insures. Now the bank borrows 40 dollars for every 1 dollars and invest it in to the housing market. If AIG goes under the the loans go under and not just the bad loans. A lot of the them are mixed together these loans are securities. So when the housing bubble burst AIG had to pay more than they had so they couldn't meet their debts. this is when Bush gave them 150,000,000,000 dollars. the problem with this is there was no strings attached a blank check. So far they have taken more than 200,000,000,000 dollars. Obama isn't going to let them keep operating business as usual. I expect massive change in the way we do business. This is not his fault but is his problem. And he will correct the problems, they cant continue to operate this way.
In one year AIG's stock has dropped from the high 70s, to a buck, although it's been moving up the last day or two. Look for this stock to continue to rise for at least while. I don't believe it will top 15 dollars any time soon but who knows anymore. Its probably a good time to buy, AIG stock is worth more than 2 dollars.
Here's the kicker AIG also sets the credit ratings.