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Category Archives: Barack Obama
President Obama Talks Differently To Black Audiences
Barack Obama has long employed a different accent when he’s talking to blacks than when he’s talking to everyone else. The guy seems like a phony to me and a panderer. Yahoo reports: “The first job of a journalist is … Continue reading →
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Barack Obama Is Not Anti-Israel
On his radio show, Dennis Prager said Barack Obama is not anti-Israel. “He is a man of the left. Everything the left claims to stand for should make them the most powerful advocates of Israel in the world but it … Continue reading →
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Obama Has Produced The Worst Economic Recovery Ever
From IBD: There are 2 million fewer private-sector jobs now than when Obama was sworn in, and the unemployment rate is 1.5 percentage points higher. • There are now more long-term unemployed than at any time since the government started … Continue reading →
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Tagged economic recovery, food stamps, misery index, national debt, unemployment rate
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NYT: ‘In Joplin, Obama Offers Healing Words to Residents’
Here’s the story: “In an emotive speech peppered by biblical homilies and pledges of national solidarity, Mr. Obama praised Joplin residents for coming together in the face of tragedy.” What is Obama? The Messiah? He brings “healing words”? Would the … Continue reading →
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The Difference Between Netanyahu And Obama
When they were in their early 20s:
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Jewish News
President Obama has sided with the Palestinians. Yahoo reports: President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians’ demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before the 1967 Middle East war, in a move that will … Continue reading →
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Should America Intervene In Libya?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “I don’t want any troops in Libya or anything like that. If the French president and the Arab League wants something done and the United States which has the Statue of Liberty … Continue reading →
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Obama’s Bad Luck Bows
Simshalom emails: Remember when Barrack Hussein Obama bowed down to the Saudi king and the Japanese emperor? See the 2 attached pics. Now look at what’s happened to their countries! Good thing he didn’t bow to Israel’s Netanyahu! Have a … Continue reading →
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Yisroel Pensack: Barack and Mubarak Were on Top of the World Trade Center; Mubarak Fell Off — Who Was Left?
In an article on the Egyptian crisis headlined “Obama Presses for Change but Not a New Face at the Top,” David E. Sanger and Helene Cooper of The New York Times report: WASHINGTON — President Obama’s decision to stop short, … Continue reading →
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Tagged american foreign policy, Anwar el-Sadat, carter administration, egypt, Ferdinand Marcos, Hosni Mubarak, Iran's shah, muslim brotherhood, peace treaty, Philippines, power vacuum, Robert M. Gates, World Trade Center
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Obama Falls Flat In State Of The Union
President Obama’s inaugural address was a similar uninspiring mess. DailyCaller.com says: If President Barack Obama was aiming for a “this is our generation’s Sputnik moment,” he aimed too low according to Fox News Channel’s Charles Krauthammer. Immediately following Obama’s State … Continue reading →
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