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State Dept. spends 70 Grand on Obama books
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But out of fairness the article also states
There’s no indication the White House knew about the purchases, which overall represent just a fraction of the nearly quarter-million dollars Mr. Obama donated to charities last year and his more than $1.7 million in overall income. Mr. Clay said book orders are normally made directly by embassies based on “their experience and knowledge on the ground of the intended audience.”
Nevertheless, its stupid spending. I read the book. It sucks. Actually, it is a boring story how this guy really has never kept a friend for very long. If I knew him in high school I probably would have kicked his ass at a party for being a pretentious prick.
The White House may not have known, or they very well might have known about the book purchases. Who really knows? This administration has "fundamentally transformed" lying into an art form. Obama has lied dozens of times about his healthcare scheme, along with HHS Secretary Sebelius. Nevermind all the lies that has been spread through his Czar appointments.
Eric Holder testified in front of the judiciary that he did not know about Operation Fast and Furious, only to find out that he lied when it was made known that he was being briefed dozens of times a year prior on the Fast and Furious operation. The White House knows that they can lie without impunity because the media has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that when it comes to Democrats, all the media does is genuflect.
So, who really knows if the White House knew or not. I do not trust any of the political hacks that currently occupy the White House. But, on the other hand, they may not have known.
But yes, this $70,000 is wasteful spending whether it be a Democrat or Republican administration.
I remember all the flack Newt Gingrich took from the leftists in the media about his book back in 1996. Imagine if Newt would have used $70,000 of taxpayer money for his book. Media orgasms would have erupted from coast to coast. But with Obama, this is barely a blip on the media's radar.
I read a majority of the book, not all. And your spot-on, the book is boring as hell. I got tired of reading it. A high school dropout could have written a better autobiography if he were popping quaaludes and chasing them down with Jack Daniel shots.
It was actually kind of sad in a sense. The fact that his Mother; Anne Dunham, was a flighty socialist/commie, and you couple that with the fact that she hooked-up with radical communists, its no wonder Obama has the political ideology he has. Nevermind one of Obama's mentors in Hawaii, the self-admitted communist Frank M. Marshall who Obama affectionately refers to as "uncle Frank".
The one person Obama should revere is his Grandmother who basically raised him while his mother was running around protesting against America. What does Obama say about her.. " She was a typical white person." What an ingrate. Wonder if that could be construed as racist, inquiring minds would like to know. Again, the complicit media strikes again. Not even a blip, except for talk radio.
It's also no great suprise that he couldn't keep a friend. If he displayed the arrogance, and hubris back then that he displays on a daily basis as president now, who in the hell could have tolerated being around him? If we only hand a nickel for every time he said "I", "Me", or "My" we would be rich.
You ever notice that Obama never talks about greatness of America and the private sector in the same context? With Obama, it's always the greatness of government programs and the private sector benefitting from government. That's backasswards.
He only maintains useful friends. The man is incapable of having a meaningful relationship with a true friend. He has no bridges to return to. Never a good idea. He will die with a stupid self-absorbed book, more stupid self-absorbed books to come, and a failed United States of America presidency to comfort him. As for his family, they will be by his bedside because society dictates it is the right thing to do. There will be no real remorse or grieving. It will be a show. The Clintons as well. It is all robotic maneuvering based on what normal people do. This is what self-absorbed, egotistic, sociopaths do. They watch normal people and imitate.
You tell em "Lamont Sanford", by the way how's Grady and Aunt Ester doing?
In layman's terms: You have your head up your ass. Which is a comfortable place for most complicit liberals concerning communists that existed within the Truman administration. Nothing new.
McCarthyism 101 just for JohnnyR:
The term McCarthyism coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more generally in reference to demogogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character and/or patriotism of political opponents.
So genius, where does your 'McCarthyism' claim fit in with my substantiated accusations on Anne Dunham, Frank M. Marshall, or Obama's daddy?
Better yet, Van Jones. Van Jones was Obama's 'green czar' and a self-admitted Communist.
Your not too good at this politics thing are you?
"as well as public attacks on the character and/or patriotism of political opponents."
I guess you must have missed that bit. You, like McCarthy thinks that anything with the word "socialism" is automaticly communist and that anyone who isn't a card carrying polygraph tested "true Amurikun" shouldn't be allowed to speak up about anything. Nice insults by the way, it's just a shame that I don't honestly care what you think since you show your own ass everytime you post on here.
*sigh* you just don't get it do you? Carry on with your crazy ranting pal. I'm the only one that bothered to reply to your frothing at the mouth and now you are overjoyed to have a punching bag. I made my point and will move on. Please try to do so with your own life.
I'm thinking the word "Occupy" and the phrase "Down with Capitalism" along with blocking a USA sovereign port. No, wrong. It's not the Tea Party. You have got to watch this hilarious video. SNL couldn't have thought this one up. :) I think the cock-eyed girl is the main one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL5427DD460803821B
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Just seen your post Lamont. Watched the video. It was funny. Yeah, I saw the cock-eyed chick, she looked like a fat version of Jeanene Garafalo. Now that shit was funny, I don't care who ya' are!
THAT FUCKING CHANTING and repeat after me crap! Man wasn't that just down right creepy? The "Reverend" Jim Jones and the Guyana kool-aid!...HELLO!.. Did you notice the glazed over look on most of their faces? Weird shit man.
Poor John Lewis; he came all the way out there to stoke his socialist comrades only to be ignored. Funny as hell! Those occutards must be racists :-) Well, if not racist, definitely anti-Semetic. They talk alot like Nazi's.
Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlRQCPJcew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMjm4LxFa1c
This is simply nothing more than an Anarchist movement at this point. And the sad thing is that Obama, Pelosi, and prostitute patron Eliot Spitzer the ex-democrat Governor of N.Y.
At this point, it's obvious that they were seriously lacking in 'community organizing' skills.
The Hell's Angels are going to end up kicking somebody's ass in Oakland.
They really don't have a platform do they? I wouldn't even consider it a grass roots thing either. They start fucking around with the infrastructure like blocking ports and shit and somebody is going to end up in a world of hurt I don't give a shit what they want. I'm just waiting for cholera to break out. You want to see massive people get quarantined? I just know something bad is going to happen.
For the life of me... Why in the hell is it so hard to to wrap a quote unlike other forums?? It was much easier before Stereophile decided to "improve" the forum.
When it comes to computers, I haven't a clue.
It need new code is all. Admin will read this and put in a request.
eh? all you gotta do is click "quote" on the post you are trying to quote and it should quote it no problem.
Test..test..
test test
Well, it works this way, but if you want to break down the quote to answer several different questions within a quote, it still takes the WHOLE quote.
Oh well, I tried. :-(
No, not the quote button at the bottom...
quote
It is the "block quote" code in the source section while posting. You know. The bold, italic, spelling tool, and so forth. The block quote function should work like the quote button at the bottom of a posted post without showing the source of the quote. Like this...
"The fucking block quote sucks"
instead of...
All the block quote function is doing is changing the margin. I guess you can make it useful by turning on the block quote and changing the format like italic or enclosed in double quotation marks but it defeats the purpose of convenience. It should format it in a meaningful way for you.
sorry Lamont - i just want to make sure i'm understanding you correctly. you wish for the block quote feature to "bold" or "italic" instead of blocking the quote (which is bascially indenting it, what it means to block a quote)?
Yeah, the only thing I would like to see is a formatting change of the text so it looks like a quote rather than just an indention change and so forth. Something like this....
Thanks for the reply!
Do you use the WYSIWYG editor or do you do your html manually each time?
WYSIWYG editor
hmmm
ok -- i hate to ask so many questions, i just want to be 100% sure i understand your issue/suggestion
1. you are using the WYSIWIG
2. you are using the blockquote html tag.
Question: how are you getting the blockquote html tag to work within the WYSIWYG? I was not able to get it to work (ie it just looks...
[blockquote]
like this
[/blockquote]
No problem. I just click on the double quotation button and it starts the indention for the block quote. It looks like this...
As you can see it just moves the text to the right a little. BTW, once you click on that double quotation button it will turn blue and stay blue and your typing will continue in the double block quote format until you hit that double quotation mark again.
i do believe
now
so you want this text to be bolded as well?
Sure, what ever looks good to you is fine with me. Just so we can distinguish it is a quote within the post.
i'll check, but i'm pretty sure that this is gonna stay the way it is just b/c the block quote function does exactly what its supposed to do, which is block the quote (indent it) -- a blocked quote technically should never really be under 4 lines (otherwise you should just use quotation marks), so if you block something a little longer it should still look like a quote.
also, i believe the functions of the WYSIWYG are built in (unchangeable)
Do you use the blockquote function for quoting other members? or to quote separate sources?
also, you could just bold it using the Bold feature
Yeah, I was using it to quote other members rather than quoting their entire post. I also use it to quote other sources. Thanks for checking it out. I can make it work for me with a little formatting like you suggested.