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There goes all you Conservatives praise for good ole Ronnie....how good could he have been?? After all......he had to use a TELEPROMPTER....Oooooooooo...could you have been wrong about your hero????

A TELEPROMPTER user......Reagan....How sad I am for you guys!!!!!

A DAMN TELEPROMPTER USER....Bad...really bad!

First President in my lifetime that I have seen use a prompter for EVERY SINGLE WORD he has spoken to the public....

All of them use them, but this one depends on them to be the great orator.

Anyone mind showing me a clip where he has spoken 1 single paragraph of any new conference or speech and not looked left or right?

"STONER BARRY" has to have a teleprompter to feed him answers if he is being queried. Otherwise he demonstrates what a stumbling bumbling clueless boob he really is!
President Reagan may have used a telepromter for speeches BUT not at press conferences. Which "STONER BARRY" avoids like the plague by the way!
President Bush may have mangled words at times but he had definitive answers not evasive erring and aahing lies like "STONER BARRY" has to resort to!

Economy, jobs, war......... the best you can come up with is teleprompter? If you guys scrap that barrel any harder it's going to leak. Somehow it doesn't surprise me the levels you'll stoop to with your smear tactics.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won't just be "one of those Washington gimmicks." Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won't have any teeth.

Obama confronted some tough realities in his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, chief among them that Americans are continuing to lose their health insurance as Congress struggles to pass an overhaul.

Yet some of his ideas for moving ahead skirted the complex political circumstances standing in his way.

A look at some of Obama's claims and how they compare with the facts:

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OBAMA: "Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will not be affected. But all other discretionary government programs will. Like any cash-strapped family, we will work within a budget to invest in what we need and sacrifice what we don't."

THE FACTS: The anticipated savings from this proposal would amount to less than 1 percent of the deficit - and that's if the president can persuade Congress to go along.

Obama is a convert to the cause of broad spending freezes. In the presidential campaign, he criticized Republican opponent John McCain for suggesting one. "The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel," he said a month before the election. Now, Obama wants domestic spending held steady in most areas where the government can control year-to-year costs. The proposal is similar to McCain's.

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OBAMA: "I've called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem. The commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline. Yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I will issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans."

THE FACTS: Any commission that Obama creates would be a weak substitute for what he really wanted - a commission created by Congress that could force lawmakers to consider unpopular remedies to reduce the debt, including curbing politically sensitive entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. That idea crashed in the Senate this week, defeated by equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. Any commission set up by Obama alone would lack authority to force its recommendations before Congress, and would stand almost no chance of success.

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OBAMA: Discussing his health care initiative, he said, "Our approach would preserve the right of Americans who have insurance to keep their doctor and their plan."

THE FACTS: The Democratic legislation now hanging in limbo on Capitol Hill aims to keep people with employer-sponsored coverage - the majority of Americans under age 65 - in the plans they already have. But Obama can't guarantee people won't see higher rates or fewer benefits in their existing plans. Because of elements such as new taxes on insurance companies, insurers could change what they offer or how much it costs. Moreover, Democrats have proposed a series of changes to the Medicare program for people 65 and older that would certainly pinch benefits enjoyed by some seniors. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted cuts for those enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans.

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OBAMA: The president issued a populist broadside against lobbyists, saying they have "outsized influence" over the government. He said his administration has "excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs." He also said it's time to "require lobbyists to disclose each contact they make on behalf of a client with my administration or Congress" and "to put strict limits on the contributions that lobbyists give to candidates for federal office."

THE FACTS: Obama has limited the hiring of lobbyists for administration jobs, but the ban isn't absolute; seven waivers from the ban have been granted to White House officials alone. Getting lobbyists to report every contact they make with the federal government would be difficult at best; Congress would have to change the law, and that's unlikely to happen. And lobbyists already are subject to strict limits on political giving. Just like every other American, they're limited to giving $2,400 per election to federal candidates, with an overall ceiling of $115,500 every two years.

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OBAMA: "Because of the steps we took, there are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed. ... And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year."

THE FACTS: The success of the Obama-pushed economic stimulus that Congress approved early last year has been an ongoing point of contention. In December, the administration reported that recipients of direct assistance from the government created or saved about 650,000 jobs. The number was based on self-reporting by recipients and some of the calculations were shown to be in error.

The Congressional Budget Office has been much more guarded than Obama in characterizing the success of the stimulus plan. In November, it reported that the stimulus increased the number of people employed by between 600,000 and 1.6 million "compared with what those values would have been otherwise." It said the ranges "reflect the uncertainty of such estimates." And it added, "It is impossible to determine how many of the reported jobs would have existed in the absence of the stimulus package."

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OBAMA: He called for action by the White House and Congress "to do our work openly, and to give our people the government they deserve."

THE FACTS: Obama skipped past a broken promise from his campaign - to have the negotiations for health care legislation broadcast on C-SPAN "so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies." Instead, Democrats in the White House and Congress have conducted the usual private negotiations, making multibillion-dollar deals with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other stakeholders behind closed doors. Nor has Obama lived up consistently to his pledge to ensure that legislation is posted online for five days before it's acted upon.

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OBAMA: "The United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the ****hest-reaching arms control treaty in nearly two decades."

THE FACTS: Despite insisting early last year that they would complete the negotiations in time to avoid expiration of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in early December, the U.S. and Russia failed to do so. And while officials say they think a deal on a new treaty is within reach, there has been no breakthrough. A new round of talks is set to start Monday. One important sticking point: disagreement over including missile defense issues in a new accord. If completed, the new deal may arguably be the ****hest-reaching arms control treaty since the original 1991 agreement. An interim deal reached in 2002 did not include its own rules on verifying nuclear reductions.

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OBAMA: Drawing on classified information, he claimed more success than his predecessor at killing terrorists: "And in the last year, hundreds of al-Qaida's fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed - far more than in 2008."

THE FACTS: It is an impossible claim to verify. Neither the Bush nor the Obama administration has published enemy body counts, particularly those targeted by armed drones in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region. The pace of drone attacks has increased dramatically in the last 18 months, according to congressional officials briefed on the secret program.

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CNN Fact Check: The administration posts White House visitors online

From CNN's Emma Lacey-Bordeaux

Claim: For the first time in history - my administration posts our White House visitors online.

Verdict: The Obama administration did make history by posting its logsonline. You can browse them yourself here.

But the release of these logs came only after a legal challenge by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group filed suit seeking the logs related to the visits by certain groups. When the Obama administration settled the suit it went further, agreeing to post the logs of all visitors from September 15 onward.

While this seems like a big win for transparency, Melanie Sloan, the executive director of CREW, says because the administration voluntarily agreed to release the logs, the administration could later decide to reverse this decision. Additionally, nothing compels the next administration to take the same course. Nothing besides the promise that a reversal would provoke a resumption of legal action!

Bottom line: The Obama administration did pioneer new transparency in visitor logs but it took outside pressure to get there.

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To this point "STONER BARRY" has been walking in fdr's footsteps. Now he has jumped into lbj's with his $8,000,000,000.00 dollar hi-speed rail boondoggle!
In 1965 lbj and the socialist donkies passed an $8,000,000,000.00 hi-speed rail program, how many dollars is that in todays money, and the entire $8,000,000,000.00 was pissed away without a single hi-speed train to be seen anywhere!
Another prime example of, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result!"

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Wonder if the supreme court is a little sore today????

"STONER BARRY" is the one that read bald faced lies from his teleprompter and he has zero leverage on the Supreme Court!
The Supreme Court on the other hand could very well be the deciding factor in any number of "STONER BARRY's" bungling escapades!

That decision gave our electoral process the chance to be completely financed by a terrorist, communist or any other entity. That decision puts our politics on a 4x7 table at a global YARD SALE!

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The foreign corporations being able to directly contribute to candidates is another red herring floated by the leftists as is the overturning of a 100 year old elction statute!
Besides why is "STONER BARRY" whining about foreign money in campaigns!
Reputable estimates are "STONER BARRY" got about $66,000,000.00 in untraceable foreign campaign contributions in 2008!

OK....How will those contributions come in now that the Supreme Court has laid a welcome mat at the front door for every unsavory character out there who has a few bucks.

Need I remind you that Osama bin Laden is a Multi-Millionaire ????

Contact George W. Bush for an exact total.

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That decision gave our electoral process the chance to be completely financed by a terrorist, cimmunist or any other entity. That decision puts our politics on a 4x7 table at a global YARD SALE!

Mike, you may want to do some research on this subject because obama lied again!! Foreign money is still prohibited. Remember when Clinton took money from the Chinese?

http://online.wsj.com/article/...031423261840744.html

Try this:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/pro-con-is-the-285259.html

And further more I don't think Clinton should have been allowed to accept foreign money to get elected.

But this decision by the court opens up the corruption factor in politics to new levels. They don't even need to TRY to hide their bribing of American politicians.

The FREEKIN highest court in the land says it's OK to bribe them now.

By the way ...who appointed the sitting justices?
Alito....George W. Bush
Ginsberg......Bill Clinton
Kennedy.....Ronald Reagan
Stevens.....Gerald Ford
Chief Justice Roberts....George W. Bush
Scalia.....Ronald Reagan
Thomas....George H.W. Bush
Breyer......Bill Clinton
Sotomayor....Barrack Obama

Six nominated by Republicans...and three by Democrats

Five voted to open up the flood gates for foreign money...I don't think Ginsberg, Breyer and Sotomayor make a majority...do you?

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Try this:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/pro-con-is-the-285259.html

Thanks Mike for helping make my point. No where in your link did it mention foreign money.

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By the way ...who appointed the sitting justices?
Alito....George W. Bush
Ginsberg......Bill Clinton
Kennedy.....Ronald Reagan
Stevens.....Gerald Ford
Chief Justice Roberts....George W. Bush
Scalia.....Ronald Reagan
Thomas....George H.W. Bush
Breyer......Bill Clinton
Sotomayor....Barrack Obama

Six nominated by Republicans...and three by Democrats

Five voted to open up the flood gates for foreign money...I don't think Ginsberg, Breyer and Sotomayor make a majority...do you?

Thats the point these far right extremists can't seem to put into their pea sized brain.

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President Obama announced Thursday that the federal government will spend $8 billion developing a nationwide high-speed train system -- an investment the White House says is needed to help spur long-term economic growth.

Obama announces $8 billion investment in high-speed train system







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Thats good news investing in infrastructure.

The "Do Nothing Repubs" are looking bad.
They have nothing to offer except "lip service".