Why do presidents use so many pens to sign legislation? White House Staff Secretary Lisa Brown explains.
This is Alan Grayson discussing health care on the floor of the House on 10/8/09. He sends a message to Democrats: No one elected Olympia Snowe President of the United States. And he sends a message to Republicans: No one cares about your feelings.
Alan Grayson: “If the President has a BLT tomorrow, the Republicans will try to ban bacon.”
Stop being against health care.
Saw this at Pastebin through Reddit:
I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? ‘
She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’
Her parents beamed.
‘Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that.. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and rake my yard, and I’ll pay you $50.
Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house. ‘
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘ Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?
I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’
Her parents still aren’t speaking to me.
Source: Pastebin
“This coup has removed a legitimate and constitutional government simply for wanting to carry out a consultation … in Honduras there is only one constitutional government, one constitutional president who should return immediately without conditions to the palace,” Rodriguez said.
Cuba condemns Honduras coup as ‘criminal, brutal’
Cuba on Sunday condemned the military coup in Honduras as “criminal, brutal” and demanded the immediate return to office of deposed leftist President Manuel Zelaya.
The Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him on Sunday in Central America’s first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the military by proposing an extension of his four-year term in office.
“I denounce the criminal, brutal character of this coup,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez told a news conference in Havana.
Zelaya is viewed by Cuba’s communist leadership as a leftist ally and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro had expressed backing for his efforts to hold an unofficial public vote on Sunday to gauge support for his plan to hold a November referendum on allowing presidential re-election.
“This coup has removed a legitimate and constitutional government simply for wanting to carry out a consultation … in Honduras there is only one constitutional government, one constitutional president who should return immediately without conditions to the palace,” Rodriguez said.
Source: Reuter
President Chavez of Venezuela gives his opinion about George W. Bush whom he calls Mr. Danger. This is on his weekly program: “Alo Presidente”
Aló Presidente (English: Hello President) is a talk show hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and broadcast on Venezuelan media every Sunday at 11:00 AM. Of variable format, the show broadcasts each Sunday on state-owned television and radio stations. The show features Chávez addressing topics of the day and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active. The show doesn’t have an official end time—it continues until Chavez is ready to stop, so the program often lasts about five hours. More than 320 episodes have aired. (Source: Wikipedia)
The president counts former Cuban leader Fidel Castro among his heroes, and nearly every week asks “How are you, Fidel?”
When CNN’s Ed Henry presses Obama about why “it took days” for him to express outrage over AIG, Obama hits back, “It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”
President Obama to Reporter: “I Like to Know What I’m Talking About Before I Speak”
Here’s a president who thinks before he speaks. That’s an awesome answer. The reporter just got served.
An angry journalist threw shoes at the US president when Bush declared progress in the war defines his presidency. Bush successfully ducked 2 shoes, gaining him 2 points for this level.
(Animated GIF of video of Bush dodging shoes.)
Bush: Iraq war is not over, more work ahead
BAGHDAD – On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference.
“This is a farewell kiss, you dog!” shouted the protester in Arabic, later identified as Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, an Iraqi-owned station based in Cairo, Egypt.
Bush ducked both shoes as they whizzed past his head and landed with a thud against the wall behind him.
“It was a size 10,” Bush joked later. (Source: Yahoo)
At least he doesn’t seem drunk this time.