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		<title>David Letterman&#8217;s Unofficial Campaign Ad for Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing missing here is a voice at the end saying &#8220;I&#8217;m Barack Obama and I approve this message.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how kooky Letterman&#8217;s getting: Even Brian Williams tried to walk him back a little at one point: &#8220;What more do we want this man to do for us?&#8221; Letterman&#8217;s question is worded horribly. If [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only thing missing here is a voice at the end saying &#8220;I&#8217;m Barack Obama and I approve this message.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how kooky Letterman&#8217;s getting: Even <strong><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/03/nbcs_brian_williams_bows_to_obama.html">Brian Williams</a></strong> tried to walk him back a little at one point:</p>
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<p>&#8220;What more do we want this man to do for us?&#8221;</p>
<p>Letterman&#8217;s question is worded horribly. If Obama loses in November it&#8217;s going to be for what people want him to <em>stop</em> doing.</p>
<p>Osama bin Laden was killed on Barack Obama&#8217;s watch. <strong>Hooray!</strong> That said, I&#8217;m sorry Dave if I don&#8217;t feel that requires me to support his takeover of the US health care system or his record-setting debt spending.</p>


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		<title>Reason Obama&#8217;s in a Tight Race? His Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama was on The View yesterday (word is that Joy Behar is still stuck to her chair) and The One was asked about the upcoming election being a tight race. Obama replied &#8220;When your name is Barack Obama, it&#8217;s always tight.&#8221; Yes, because the reason he might be sent packing is his name. Please. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>President Obama was on The View yesterday (word is that Joy Behar is <em>still</em> stuck to her chair) and The One was asked about the upcoming election being a tight race. Obama replied &#8220;When your name is Barack Obama, it&#8217;s always tight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, because the reason he might be sent packing is <em>his name</em>. Please. In 2008, the candidate named Barack Hussein Obama got almost ten million more votes than a guy named <em>John McCain</em>.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s already lining up excuses for his November drubbing, and when that happens, the reason given won&#8217;t be an admission that he drove the country into the ground and people had enough of it. The reason Obama (and the media) will give is because we&#8217;re&#8230; say it with me&#8230; <em>&#8220;racist!&#8221;</em></p>
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<p><strong>Related:</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/15/alarm-grows-among-dems-about-obamas-chances/">Alarm grows among Dems about Obama&#8217;s chances</a></strong></p>
<p>Maybe they should get him to change his name. Just don&#8217;t let him change it to &#8220;John McCain.&#8221;</p>


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		<title>President Obama Makes History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I write that President Obama has &#8220;made history,&#8221; I&#8217;m not referring to this obvious historic first or even the that that Obama is the first president to ever to run up the debt over $5 trillion on his watch. Those things are indeed historic, but the history that&#8217;s being made here is in the [...]]]></description>
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<p>When I write that President Obama has &#8220;made history,&#8221; I&#8217;m not referring to <strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-newsweek-obama-first-gay-president-20120514,0,5001068.story">this obvious historic first</a></strong> or even the that that Obama is the first president to ever to run up the debt over $5 trillion on his watch. Those things are indeed historic, but the history that&#8217;s being made <strong><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/15/obama-drops-his-name-into-presidential-biographies/">here</a></strong> is in the very literal sense:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/rorycooper/status/202124615743569921">tweeted</a></strong> that Obama had casually dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan’s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan’s tax reform advocacy with his “Buffett Rule” gimmick. My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t — <strong>it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge</strong> (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford).</p></blockquote>
<p>Check it out for yourself on the &#8220;learn more about each president&#8221; <strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents">page</a></strong> at WhiteHouse.gov. Here&#8217;s one example from the <strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/calvincoolidge">Calvin Coolidge page</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Twitterverse finds this <strong><a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/05/15/all-the-presidents-ego-obamas-inserts-himself-into-other-presidential-biographies-obamainhistory-hilarity-ensues/?tw_p=twt">extremely mock-worthy</a></strong>, and rightly so.</p>
<p>In the Truman <strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman">bio</a></strong>, the administration&#8217;s historians forgot to mention Obama&#8217;s role in the liberation of the Philippines during World War II, but I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll get around to it:</p>
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		<title>Your Stimulus Dollars at Work, Part XXIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m told the administration is filing this under &#8220;erections saved or created&#8221;: The NBC Investigative Unit has raised questions about two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million dollars distributed to the University of California San Francisco. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m told the administration is filing this under <strong><a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Stimulus-Grants-Fund-Erectile-Dysfunction-And-Sexual-Habits-Studies-151195105.html">&#8220;erections saved or created&#8221;</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The NBC Investigative Unit has raised questions about two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million dollars distributed to the University of California San Francisco. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and the accurate reporting of someone&#8217;s sexual history.</p>
<p>This is part of our ongoing series of investigations by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit into who got federal stimulus dollars, and why some projects did not break ground more than two years after receiving the grant.</p>
<p>The Investigative Unit looked closely at the federal government&#8217;s decision to spend nearly $1.5 million dollars of taxpayer money, money that came here to California. Grant number 1R01HD056950-01A2 was among the thousands of grants funded, receiving $1.2 million dollars. This grant studied how to improve the accuracy of how people responded to questions about their sexual history.</p></blockquote>
<p>The government, which consists to a great degree of overweight middle aged men, just happens to throw our money at a study about erectile dysfunction in overweight middle aged men? What a coincidence.</p>
<p>And what&#8217;s with the &#8220;accuracy&#8221; of questions about sexual history? Haven&#8217;t these idiots ever thought to simply apply the <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oVoJMVsKtk">&#8220;rule of three&#8221;</a></strong>?</p>


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		<title>Ron Paul Ends 2012 Campaign in Order to Better Focus on 2016 Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Powers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d forgotten Ron Paul was still even in the race: Ron Paul won&#8217;t campaign in any more primaries, his campaign announced Monday afternoon. A letter sent from Paul to supporters promised to continue the battle for delegates at state party conventions in order to try to influence the party&#8217;s platform, but said the campaign will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d forgotten Ron Paul was still even <strong><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/227227-ron-paul-wont-campaign-in-any-more-states">in the race</a></strong>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ron Paul won&#8217;t campaign in any more primaries, his campaign announced Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>A letter sent from Paul to supporters promised to continue the battle for delegates at state party conventions in order to try to influence the party&#8217;s platform, but said the campaign will no longer try to win delegates in new states — an uphill battle now that Mitt Romney is the presumed nominee and most states have gone to a winner-take-all system of delegate apportionment.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,&#8221; Paul said in the letter. &#8220;Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s okay &#8212; this way he&#8217;ll get a jump on everybody else for 2016. The real world can&#8217;t keep down a man who rocks internet-polls like this forever:</p>
<p><center><img src="http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n271/douggells/Album%20II/ronpaul-1.jpg" alt="null" /></center></p>
<p>At least his campaign stayed around long enough to inspire <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvahywQKeFc&#038;ob=av3e">this &#8220;bad lip reading&#8221; clip</a></strong>.</p>


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