Posts Tagged ‘obama’

Right idea but a little shy of the mark

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, tech
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The president’s gift to the queen is getting a lot of flack. An Ipod does seem tacky but they were actually on the right track but they were a bit short.

What they could have done to turn their ipod from kitch into class would have been to have the video not just of her last visit, but of ALL her US visits over the last 50 years. And maybe tack on one or two of her father’s (World War II) wartime speeches.

That way it would have been a technological album of the relationship between the US and England during her reign. That would have been a really cool mix between modern technology and traditional gifts. It would have been classy.

Oh well we have 3 1/2 years or so to do it right.

Let her stay

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Maybe it’s the Sicilian (we are big into family) in me but I think it’s tacky that there are still deportation hearings on the president’s aunt.

Cripes if a local cop and fix a ticket for a friend the president should be able to let his aunt stay, there have to be some privileges for the office.

If it was before he was elected that would be one thing but I think it’s tacky for the president’s aunt to be kicked out.

All of that being said the president should pardon the aunt and be done with it, but if the lawyer for the president’s aunt filed a motion to delay proceedings until after he leaves office I wouldn’t have an issue with it…

…after all why should she escape the miserable condition that her nephew will leave the country in?

Why is morning joe treating the G20 protesters

Posted: April 1, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, opinion/news
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as if they were serious. These clowns protest every economic summit that isn’t held in a country that will crack down (ie china). You have a group of professional protesters and hangers on. Why they treat them as serious I don’t know.

But wasn’t the great power of the love of Obama supposed to cause this stuff to not happen anymore, shouldn’t they be dropping flowers?

And I don’t know what Barnicle has against bloggers but that is one bug he needs to remove from his posterior.

7:39 a.m. These guys are as surprised as I am over Stevens.

7:41 a.m. It is April fools day so we have to be careful on this, but people needs to learn to be polite.

7:47 a.m. Willie asks the why are they protesting Barak the good and is told what I’ve already said, these guys are just background noise.

8:11 a.m. Matthews talks about Reagan as a reader, he never talked like that when he was in the White House.

8:13 a.m. The desire to pretend that George Bush wasn’t a reader and thinker overrides any kind of reality.

8:25 a.m. It is amazing to hear so much BS concerning Israel and Syria at one time. Hamas won? Only an idiot like this guy could say that.

8:28 a.m. Oh boy this guy reveals that Clinton saved the head of Hamas’ life, what a joy. Another reason to love him.

8:36 a.m. If Mark is singing Wooley Booley that is just as interesting as the financial news.

8:53 a.m. Another reason to love Alyssa Milano. Let me stress that Baseball is the most perfect sport there has ever been.

Kaus cuts to the chase

Posted: March 30, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Via Glenn Mickey Kaus bottom lines the political price of the president’s moves at GM and Chrysler.

…won’t Obama now “own” the GM problem? If the company shuts down in the near future, costing tens of thousands of blue collar jobs, it will be under executives implicitly or explicitly chosen by Obama. It will be Obama’s failure, not simply GM’s failure, no? A public sector failure, not just a business failure. Doesn’t that make it harder, not easier, for the administration to walk away and force the company into bankruptcy (if, for example, the company’s plans for “viability” continue to fall short after the new 60-day deadline)? And doesn’t that, in turn, make extracting the necessary concessions (by threatening bankruptcy) more difficult as well?

If you are going to be the man you are going to be the man. Economically this is a really nasty move, politically it is a really risky one, but it is the logical result of companies rushing to take federal dough and the strings that come with it.

Update: Talkleft notices a double standard.

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