According to an account in the New York Post, President Barack Obama yesterday told Republican leaders, “You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.” With George W. Bush now off the stage, it may be that Obama and some of his fellow Democrats view Limbaugh, and not John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, or any other elected official, as the true leader of the Republican opposition. One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama’s ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

ANONYMOUS of 1/20/09, 1:25 PM: There is no argument after that. Any rebuttal comes in the form of hoots, clicks, crackles and other meaningless sounds. The best and really only way of rising above ANY negativity, torment, disrespect,or humiliation, is to better oneself with one’s own accomplishments, self-worth, HARD WORK, and the knowledge that only you are responsible now for your own successes or failures. oh, PS: You hit it right on the headabout clinton. now let’s see if the 21ST CENTURY holds anything better for us who work hard, obey the law, and not try to get anything for nothing - because THAT is more demeaning and enslaving than ANYTHING.

After the meeting, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, questioned the size of the bill, now at $825 billion but expected to grow. “We expressed our concern about some of the spending that is being proposed in the House bill,” he said.” We’re borrowing this money from our kids.”

He said he doesn’t understand, for example, why the bill includes “hundreds of millions” of dollars for contraceptives. “How does that stimulate the economy?” he asked.

SOUNDS LIKE THINGS ARE HEADED DOWNHILL INSTEAD OF UPHILL. SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT.

- hundreds of millions for contraceptives????

Obama revamps rules on detainees
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President Obama signs an executive order closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

WASHINGTON — President Obama unleashed a passionate debate about the treatment of terrorism suspects by ordering sweeping changes in the rules for interrogation and the closing of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Acting swiftly on a campaign promise two days after his inauguration, Obama signed a series of executive orders Thursday that call for closing Guantanamo within a year and moving out its 245 remaining detainees, shuttering CIA prisons overseas, and prohibiting harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which gives the sensation of drowning.

THE OVAL: ‘Values and ideals’ drive U.S. policy

In reversing policies set by the Bush administration, Obama said he wanted to send a message to the world that the United States will pursue the struggle against terrorism “in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals.”

The actions set off a debate in Congress, where Republicans decried the possibility that terrorists such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, would be transferred to military prisons in places such as California and Kansas.

WHAT THE HELL IS OBAMA THINKING? START HELPING US HERE IN AMERICA 1ST, DEAL WITH THOSE SOB’S LATER, OBAMA IS NOT PRIORITIZING, WE SHOULD ALL COME FIRST AND OUR SOLDIERS.

- Obama revamps rules on detainees

Anonymous …. You DUMB sh*t you are not that color that is what I think of “YOU”.

well what do u expect from dave he dropped out in the 8th grade and all he has been doing is pickin’ and a grinnin’ and drinking that moonshine and walking barefoot in the woods. He’s a backwoods person. he’s also a ridge runner and chews redman tobacky and he smokes with a corn cob pipe. his toilet is an outhouse and he’s lucky it is a 2 holer and he uses the sears catalog for toilet paper. we need to give him a break, what a pity.

After reading the previous comments, it tells me that this country is very divided (especially racially…..) so having a black president is not going to change anything….it seems to have made it worse! Remember Bill Cosby’s message to the black men! Obviously they weren’t listening.

Lets all be positive and stop all the negativity. This is a great day!

Hey ANONOYMOUS: the post on 01/20/09 at 2:23 pm… did that statement answer your question.

to the civil rights activist-(01-19-09
if you and others would live in the future instead of the past the world would be a better place you keep bringing up what the whites did ,well there are blacks that are millionares,and they worked hard to get where they are ,the same goes for whites . it all comes down to hard work.every one has a right to work
some do and some don’t, blacks an whites .
we don;t keep you (the blacks down) YOU KEEP YOURSELF down,stop living in the past (get past slavery that was not even our era, live for now the future
the new orleans disaster was gods way
of tell you to wake up ,it was not bush’s fault the leve broke ,it was the mayor an the gov ,they new this was going to happen,but their greed of money,the first thing they fixed was burbon street, because it made them money,where;s all the money that was
made with all the concerds(where is it )/??????????.an as far as the iraqi war
all of the boys volenteer to join-the service, (my son went they all went for their country. i don’t pick between blacks an whites ,but the black have got to live in the future not the past
get over it.the worst president was clinton he had binladin in his hands and
let him go .clinton made a laughing stock out of the presidentse. so grow up
an be in the 20th century.