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On 12/5/2011 11:36 AM, Drifter wrote:
On 12/5/2011 9:17 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
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On 12/4/2011 12:42 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:57:10 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:44:26 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:32:36 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:27:58 -0700,
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0bama administration thinks she is a terrorist....white, 85 year
old
female....no hijab either.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...ticle-1.986198


what's funny about this is canuck actually thinks the black,
communist
kenyan was at the airport inspecting this person.

guess he's too stupid to know the TSA was formed by bush

oh well. the klan klown kanuck just keeps showing that his view of
blacks is that everyone should own one


This is an executive branch agency and operates under the rules made
by the current administration. Obama could change the policy with the
stroke of a pen.


ZZZOOOOOMMMM!!! right over his head

the policies were created by the

WHITE

president.

the klan klown kanuck, like you, wants to blame the

black

president for an incident he had NOTHING to do with. why?

because he's an uppity black

If Obama wants to change ANYTHING Bush created it is his prerogative.
They both have exactly the same job and exacty;y the same power. The
problem is Obama is simply Bush 44 and continued virtually every Bush
policy unchanged.

I think you are wrong here. He just doesn't have the initiative or the
balls to change anything...

Really:

I?m sick and tired of people asking ?What has Obama done?? So here?s a
list of things he?s done since he?s been in office. Remember: He was
elected President. He wasn?t elected Jesus!

The list is still growing. Let me know if I missed anything.

1.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-b...firms-14594513


2. ( lets keep this list going)


this took me to a report of American jobs going to China because the
California Govt knows we are going to bail them out anyway... Just more
blue state bull****...

Here you go, but I'm sure you don't want to read it....




List of Obama?s accomplishments while in office


Blatantly stolen from another source. Unfortunately it?s not
attributable. Apparently this is only a partial list too!

Legislative Prowess

Despite the characterizations of some, Obama?s success rate in winning
congressional votes on issues was an unprecedented 96.7% for his first
year in office. Though he is often cited as superior to Obama, President
Lyndon Johnson?s success rate in 1965 was only 93%. http://n.pr/i3d7cY

*Fiscal Responsibility

Within days after taking office, he signed an Executive Order ordering
an audit of government contracts, and combating waste and abuse.
http://1.usa.gov/dUvbu5

Created the post of Chief Performance Officer, whose job it is to make
operations more efficient to save the federal government money.
http://n.pr/hcgBn1

On his first full day, he froze White House salaries.
http://on.msnbc.com/ewJUIx

He appointed the first Federal Chief Information Officer to oversee
federal IT spending. http://www.cio.gov

He committed to phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems,
and also signed the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act to stop
waste, fraud and abuse in the defense procurement and contracting
system. http://bit.ly/hOw1t1 http://bit.ly/fz8GAd

Through an executive order, he created the National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform. http://bit.ly/hwKhKa

*Improving the Economy, Preventing Depression

He pushed through and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
otherwise known as ?the stimulus package,? despite the fact that not one
Republican voted for that bill. In addition, he launched recovery.gov,
so that taxpayers could track spending from the Act.
http://1.usa.gov/ibiFSs http://1.usa.gov/e3BJMk

In his first year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created
and sustained 2.1 million jobs and stimulated the economy 3.5%.
http://reut.rs/i46CEE

He completed the massive TARP financial and banking rescue plan, and
recovered virtually all of its costs. http://1.usa.gov/eA5jVS
http://bit.ly/eCNrD6

He created the Making Home Affordable home refinancing plan.
http://1.usa.gov/goy6zl

He oversaw the creation of more jobs in 2010 alone than Bush did in
eight years. http://bit.ly/hrrnjY

He also doubled funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership
which is designed to improve manufacturing efficiency.
http://bit.ly/eYD4nf

He signed the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act giving the federal
government more tools to investigate and prosecute fraud in every corner
of the financial system. It also created a bipartisan Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission to investigate the financial fraud that led to the
economic meltdown. http://abcn.ws/g18Fe7

He signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure
(CARD) Act, which was designed to to protect consumers from unfair and
deceptive credit card practices. http://1.usa.gov/gIaNcS

He signed the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, expanding on the
Making Home Affordable Program to help millions of Americans avoid
preventable foreclosures. The bill also provided $2.2 billion to help
combat homelessness, and to stabilize the housing market.
http://bit.ly/eEpLFn

Through the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009,
he and Congressional Democrats provided tax credits to first-time home
buyers, which helped the U.S. housing market recovery.
http://bit.ly/dZgXXw http://bit.ly/gORYfL

He initiated a $15 billion plan designed to encourage increased lending
to small businesses.
http://1.usa.gov/eu0u0b

He created a $60 billion bank to fund infrastructure improvements such
as roads and bridges. http://bit.ly/e1SSaQ

He implemented an auto industry rescue plan, and saved as many as 1
million jobs. http://bit.ly/ibhpxr Many are of the opinion that he saved
the entire auto industry, and even the economy of the entire Midwest.
http://bit.ly/gj7mt5

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he saved at least
300,000 education jobs, such as teachers, principals, librarians, and
counselors that would have otherwise been lost. http://1.usa.gov/ez30Dc

Provided funding to states and the Department of Homeland Security to
save thousands of police and firefighter jobs from being cut during the
recession. http://bit.ly/g0IKWR

*Wall Street Reforms and Consumer Protection

Ordered 65 executives who took bailout money to cut their own pay until
they paid back all bailout money. http://huff.to/eAi9Qq

He pushed through and got passed Dodd-Frank, one of the largest and most
comprehensive Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression.
http://bit.ly/hWCPg0 http://bit.ly/geHpcD

He made it so that banks could no longer use YOUR money to invest in
high-risk financial instruments that work against their own customers?
interests. http://bit.ly/fnTayj

He wholly endorsed and supported the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
of 2009 that would close offshore tax avoidance loopholes.
http://bit.ly/esOdfB http://bit.ly/eG4DPM

He made a deal with Swiss banks that permits the US government to gain
access to the records of criminals and tax evaders. http://bit.ly/htfDgw

He established a Consumer Protection Financial Bureau designed to
protect consumers from financial sector excesses. http://bit.ly/fnTayj

*Civil Rights and Anti-Discrimination

He advocated for and signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate
Crimes Prevention Act, which made it a federal crime to assault anyone
based on his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.
http://bit.ly/gsMSJ7

He pushed through and signed a repeal of the discriminatory ?Don?t Ask
Don?t Tell? policy that forced soldiers to lie to fight for their
country, and put our troops at risk by disqualifying many qualified
soldiers from helping. http://bit.ly/fdahuH

He appointed Kareem Dale as the first ever Special Assistant to the
President for Disability Policy. http://1.usa.gov/fi5IY0

He extended benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
http://1.usa.gov/g2RLCj

He?s appointed more openly gay officials than anyone in history.
http://bit.ly/g1lA7D

He signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections
against pay discrimination for women and other workers. This was after
the GOP blocked the bill in 2007. Only 5 Republican Senators voted for
the bill. http://bit.ly/fT3Cxg

He expanded funding for the Violence Against Women Act.
http://1.usa.gov/dSbI0x

*Fighting Poverty

He provided a $20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program (Food Stamps). http://nyti.ms/gfLqyM

He signed an Executive Order that established the White House Office of
Urban Affairs. http://wapo.st/eWECA8

Improved Foreign Relations and American Status Abroad

He visited more countries and met with more world leaders than any
previous president during his first six months in office.
http://bit.ly/hZycda

As he promised, he gave a speech at a major Islamic forum in Cairo early
in his administration. http://nyti.ms/dKvY4g

He re-established and reinforced our partnership with NATO and other
allies on strategic international issues. http://1.usa.gov/e7QuDj

He established a new U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
http://1.usa.gov/eX28DP

He established new, more reasonable policies in our relations with Cuba,
such as allowing Cuban-Americans to visit their families and send money
to support them. http://n.pr/hY3Kwa http://nyti.ms/emQBde

He ordered the closure of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It was
Republicans (and a smattering of Democrats) who prevented him from
following through. http://bit.ly/eW6CVF

Ordered a review of our detention and interrogation policy, and
prohibited the use of torture, or what Bush called ?enhanced
interrogation.? He ordered interrogators to limit their actions to the
Army Field manual. http://bit.ly/g6MTuC

He ordered all secret detention facilities in Eastern Europe and
elsewhere to be closed. http://bbc.in/h6N9ax

He released the Bush torture memos. http://bit.ly/hWJ5z0

On his second day in office, he signed a detailed Executive Order that
banned torture, reversed all Bush torture policies, and put the United
States in compliance with the Geneva Convention. http://1.usa.gov/dL6Zve
http://nyti.ms/hzWWys

*Better Approach to ?Defense?

Created a comprehensive new strategy for dealing with the international
nuclear threat. http://1.usa.gov/gDX1nE

He authorized a $1.4 billion reduction in Star Wars program in 2010.
http://1.usa.gov/gLFZl2

He restarted nuclear nonproliferation talks and built up the nuclear
inspection infrastructure/protocols to where they had been before Bush.
http://lat.ms/gkcl3i

He signed and pushed to ratification a new SALT Treaty.
http://bit.ly/f3JVtw

He created and executed a plan to end our involvement in Iraq in a
responsible manner, and followed through. http://nyti.ms/fHTfrJ

Through the Defense Authorization Act, he reversed the Bush
Administration and committed to no permanent military bases in Iraq.
http://bit.ly/hk73OJ

He developed the first comprehensive strategy with regard to Afghanistan
and Pakistan designed to facilitate the defeat of al Qaeda and the
withdrawal of most troops, as well as the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
http://wapo.st/ee4Xcs

*Treating Soldiers and Veterans with Respect

He made sure that families of fallen soldiers could be on hand when the
body arrives at Dover AFB, by providing funding for it. He also ended
the media blackout on coverage of the return of fallen soldiers.
http://nyti.ms/glqN66 http://bbc.in/gWSSkA

He funded Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with an extra $1.4 billion
to improve veterans? services. http://1.usa.gov/huhqfo

He provided the troops with better body armor. http://bit.ly/hzSv2h

Created the Joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record program for
military personnel, in order to improve the quality of their medical
care. http://1.usa.gov/f4yaxW

He supported and signed the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and
Transparency Act, which made more money available to enable better
medical care for veterans. http://1.usa.gov/fN4ur1

He ushered through the largest spending increase in 30 years for the
Department of Veterans Affairs for improved medical facilities, and to
assist states in acquiring or constructing state nursing homes and
extended care facilities. http://1.usa.gov/gY8O3x

He created the Green Vet Initiative, which provided special funding to
the Labor Department to provide veterans with training in green jobs.
http://bit.ly/epwUQY

He oversaw a $4.6 billion expansion of the Veterans Administration
budget to pay for more mental health professionals. http://bit.ly/gjzTxX

*Education

He has repeatedly increased funding for student financial aid, and at
the same time cut the banks completely out of the process.
http://bit.ly/gYWd30 http://bit.ly/e9c7Dr http://bit.ly/eEzTNq

Completely reformed the student loan program, to make it possible for
students to refinance at a lower rate. http://nyti.ms/dMvHOt

He passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which
provided an extra $12.2 billion in funds. http://1.usa.gov/dQvtUe

*Greater Transparency and Better Government

He signed an order banning gifts from lobbyists to anyone in the
Executive Branch. http://bit.ly/fsBACN

He signed an order banning anyone from working in an agency they had
lobbied in previous years. He also put strict limits on lobbyists?
access to the White House. http://nyti.ms/gOrznV

He held the first-ever first online town hall from the White House, and
took questions from the public. http://bit.ly/gVNSgX

The Obama White House became the first to stream every White House
event, live. http://1.usa.gov/kAgOP5

He established a central portal for Americans to find service
opportunities. http://www.serve.gov

He provided the first voluntary disclosure of the White House Visitors
Log in history. http://1.usa.gov/hQ7ttV

He crafted an Executive Order on Presidential Records, which restored
the 30-day time frame for former presidents to review records, and
eliminated the right for the vice president or family members of former
presidents to do the reviews. This will provide the public with greater
access to historic White House documents, and severely curtails the
ability to use executive privilege to shield them.
http://1.usa.gov/gUetLb

He improved aspects of the Freedom of Information Act, and issued new
guidelines to make FOIA more open and transparent in the processing of
FOIA requests. http://1.usa.gov/gjrnp2

*National Safety and Security

He?s restored federal agencies such as FEMA to the point that they have
been able to manage a huge number of natural disasters successfully.
http://bit.ly/h8Xj7z

Has repeatedly beefed up border security http://bit.ly/mMYB4i

Killed Osama bin Laden. http://bit.ly/jChpgw

*Science, Technology and Health Care

He created a Presidential Memorandum to restore scientific integrity in
government decision-making.
http://1.usa.gov/g2SDuw

Opened up the process for fast-tracking patent approval for green energy
projects. http://bit.ly/j0KV2U

He eliminated the Bush-era restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
He also provided increased federal support for biomedical and stem cell
research. http://bit.ly/h36SSO http://ti.me/edezge

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he committed more
federal funding, about $18 billion, to support non-defense science and
research labs. http://nyti.ms/fTs9t7

He signed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, the first
comprehensive attempt to improve the lives of Americans living with
paralysis. http://bit.ly/fOi2rb

Provided financial support for private sector space programs.
http://bit.ly/fn8ucr

He oversaw enhanced earth mapping, to provide valuable data for
agricultural, educational, scientific, and government use.
http://bit.ly/dNTRyP

He ushered through a bill that authorized the Food and Drug
Administration to regulate tobacco products. http://on.msnbc.com/fiKViB
As a result, the FDA has Ordered Tobacco Companies to Disclose Cigarette
Ingredients and banned sale of cigarettes falsely labeled as ?light.?

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he provided $500
million for Health Professions Training Programs. http://bit.ly/ecQSgA

He also increased funding for community-based prevention programs.
http://bit.ly/frMPG3

He oversaw a 50% decrease in cost of prescription drugs for seniors.
http://bit.ly/e5b1iq http://1.usa.gov/fVNkt9

He eliminated the Bush-era practice of forbidding Medicare from
negotiating with drug companies on price. http://bit.ly/fOkG5b

Two weeks after taking office, he signed the Children?s Health Insurance
Reauthorization Act, which increased the number of children covered by
health insurance by 4 million. http://bit.ly/fDEzGv

He held a quick press conference, and urged Congress to investigate
Anthem Blue Cross for raising premiums 39% without explanation. Rep.
Waxman responded by launching a probe, and Anthem Blue Cross put the
increase on hold for two months. http://yhoo.it/e8Tj9C

Ushered through and signed the Affordable Health Care Act, which
expanded health insurance coverage to 30 million more people, and ended
many common insurance company practices that are often detrimental to
those with coverage. He also established http://www.healthcare.gov/

Through the Affordable Health Care Act, he allowed children to be
covered under their parents? policy until they turned 26.
http://nyti.ms/fNB26V

Through the Affordable Health Care Act, he provided tax breaks to allow
3.5 million small business to provide health insurance to their
employees, and 29 million people will receive tax breaks to help them
afford health insurance. http://nyti.ms/fNB26V

Through the Affordable Health Care Act, he expanded Medicaid to those
making up to 133% of the federal poverty level. http://nyti.ms/ekMWpo

Through the Affordable Health Care Act, health insurance companies now
have to disclose how much of your premium actually goes to pay for
patient care. http://nyti.ms/fNB26V

*Strengthening the Middle Class and Families

He worked to provide affordable, high-quality child care to working
families. http://bit.ly/fNfidS

He cracked down on companies that were previously denying sick pay,
vacation and health insurance, and Social Security and Medicare tax
payments through abuse of the employee classification of independent
contractor. http://nyti.ms/fOGLcj

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , he cut taxes for
95% of America?s working families. http://bit.ly/eSEI4F

Under Obama, tax rates for average working families are the lowest
they?ve been since 1950. http://bit.ly/f74pD8

He extended and fully funded the patch for the Alternative Minimum Tax
for 10 years. http://bit.ly/eFeSdP

He extended discounted COBRA health coverage for the unemployed from 9
months to 15 months, and he?s extended unemployment benefits several
times. http://aol.it/evtVxD http://nyti.ms/emrqKJ http://bit.ly/hOtIpg
http://bit.ly/fTT7kz

*Environment and Energy

He fast-tracked regulations to allow states to enact federal fuel
efficiency standards that were above federal standards.
http://nyti.ms/e8e94x

He fast-tracked increased fuel economy standards for vehicles beginning
with the 2011 model year. It was the first time such standards had been
increased in a decade. http://politi.co/hiaPKM

He oversaw the establishment of an Energy Partnership for the Americas,
which creates more markets for American-made biofuels and green energy
technologies. http://bit.ly/lZp73y

He ordered the Department of Energy to implement more aggressive
efficiency standards for common household appliances.
http://1.usa.gov/g3MTbu

He ordered energy plants to prepare to produce at least 15% of all
energy through renewable resources like wind and solar, by 2021.
http://reut.rs/fV155p (As you can see, Republicans are trying hard to
kill it.)

He oversaw the creation of an initiative that converts old factories and
manufacturing centers into new clean technology centers.
http://bit.ly/mjnq2R

Bypassed Republican opposition in Congress and ordered EPA to begin
regulating and measuring carbon emissions. http://bit.ly/froaP5

He doubled federal spending on clean energy research.
http://bit.ly/iN0sCE

He pushed through a tax credit to help people buy plug-in hybrid cars.
http://bit.ly/j8UP5Y

He created a program to develop renewable energy projects on the waters
of our Outer Continental Shelf that will produce electricity from wind,
wave, and ocean currents. http://1.usa.gov/fgfRWq

He reengaged in the climate change and greenhouse gas emissions
agreements talks, and even proposed one himself. He also addressed the
U.N. Climate Change Conference, officially reversing the Bush era stance
that climate change was a ?hoax.? http://bit.ly/dX6Vj3
http://bit.ly/fE2PxK http://nyti.ms/hfeqvv

He fully supported the initial phase of the creation of a legally-
binding treaty to reduce mercury emissions worldwide.
http://bit.ly/eJ6QOO

He required states to provide incentives to utilities to reduce their
energy consumption. http://bit.ly/lBhk7P

Created tax write-offs for purchases of hybrid automobiles, and later he
and Democrats morphed that program into one that includes electric cars.
http://bit.ly/glCukV

Mandated that federal government fleet purchases be for fuel-efficient
American vehicles, and encouraged that federal agencies support
experimental, fuel-efficient vehicles. http://bit.ly/h5KZqy
http://1.usa.gov/fLWq5c http://1.usa.gov/hmUSbk

He strengthened the Endangered Species Act. http://bit.ly/hscjsH

Through the EPA, he took steps to severely limit the use of antibiotics
in livestock feed, to increase their efficacy in humans.
http://bit.ly/fBuWd2

He increased funding for National Parks and Forests by 10%
http://bit.ly/fbJPjY

*Other Stuff

He has expanded trade agreements to include stricter labor and
environmental agreements such as NAFTA. http://bit.ly/etznpY

He oversaw funding of the design of a new Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History, which is scheduled to open on the National
Mall in 2015. He protected the funding during the recent budget
negotiations. http://on.fb.me/fD0EVO http://bit.ly/ff5Luv

Oversaw and passed increased funding for the National Endowment for the
Arts. http://bit.ly/dFb8qF

He nominated Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Justice in the court?s history, and the
women represent only the third and fourth women to serve on the court,
out of a total of 112 justices. http://huff.to/eOChg6
http://bit.ly/i02wgP

He appointed the most diverse Cabinet in history, including more women
than any other incoming president. http://bit.ly/dX6vNB

He eliminated federal funding for abstinence-only education, and he
rescinded the global gag rule. http://bit.ly/eCFAI1 http://bit.ly/f92drF

He loosened the rules and allowed the 14 states that legalized medical
marijuana to regulate themselves without federal interference.
http://huff.to/eQfa7j

Ushered through and signed national service legislation, increasing
funding for national service groups, including triple the size of the
Americorps program. http://bit.ly/idgQH5