Thursday, April 21, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, April 21, 2011


The thing about Newsbites theme songs... ya never know what you're gonna find!
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William R. Barker said...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/21/obama-has-okd-use-of-drones-in-libya-gates-says/

President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

* WITH CONGRESS - BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS - STILL M.I.A.

April 21, 2011 at 5:36 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/obama-mistakes-cant-think-any

Seven years ago, in April 2004, then-President George W. Bush held a formal news conference in which he was asked, "What would your biggest mistake be…and what lessons have you learned from it?"

Bush's hemming and hawing answer - in several minutes of flailing about, he never managed to come up with a single mistake to cite - was widely criticized in the days that followed.

* I'M SURE WE ALL REMEMBER THIS - RIGHT?

On Wednesday, President Obama held a town hall at the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, during which he was asked, "If you had to do anything differently during your first four years, what would it be?"

Obama, it turns out, is no better at analyzing his own missteps than Bush.

The president began his response haltingly, pointing out that he has actually been in office just two and a half years, and "I'm sure I'll make more mistakes in the next year and a half."

But what mistakes has he already made?

"There are all sorts of day-to-day issues where I say to myself, oh, I didn't say that right, or I didn't explain this clearly enough," Obama said, "or maybe if I had sequenced this plan first as opposed to that one, maybe it would have gotten done quicker."

But the president mentioned no actual mistakes.

* DAMN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR NOMINATING THAT FOOL MCCAIN IN 2008! DAMN THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSES OF 2001 THRU 2006 FOR BLOWING IT SO BAD THAT THE COUNTRY FINALLY GAVE PELOSI AND REID's DEMOCRATS A CHANCE... (*PAUSE*)... WHICH THEY USED TO MOVE US FROM THE FRYING PAN RIGHT INTO THE FIRE.

* AS FOR OBAMA... (*PAUSE*)... I NEVER IN MY WILDEST NIGHTMARES IMAGINED A PRESIDENCY MORE CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT THAN THE CARTER PRESIDENCY... TILL OBAMA CAME INTO OFFICE!

April 21, 2011 at 6:17 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0d1a8b5a-6c13-11e0-b36e-00144feab49a.html#axzz1KCOso7SU

The number of people claiming unemployment benefit stayed above 400,000 for the second week in a row, according to the latest U.S. labor department figures.

First-time claims for jobless benefits...403,000 in the week ending April 13...

The less-volatile four-week moving average rose slightly to 399,000.

* WOW... OBAMANOMICS IS REALLY WORKING WONDERS, HUH?!

April 21, 2011 at 6:25 PM

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