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Barack and Michelle Obama go to Washington.
It seemed like a good day to share a number of photos I have taken of President Obama over the years. Several more below, none of which I shared before today.
28 responses to “Obama Loving the Electorate”
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I like this sneak shot I took of Obama, with the camera in my outstretched hand…
And here is the flickr set of my prior Obama photo posts, from private meetings and public spectacles.
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These are fantastic photos! We’ll be so fortunate to have him for four more years.
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obama’s speech tonite was stellar. I hope he meant everything he said. and I hope that the other guys don’t put up 4 more years of blocking him.
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I am really happy. At least the sinuous Romney isn’t going to be president… At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms… At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court… and at least a hundred “at leasts” that we might not even imagine till they happened, but which wont happen because Romney and the Tea Party, and the Koch brothers and Shelden Adelson and Rupert Murdoch and a cast of one-percenters have lost…
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> Seatonsnet – and the murder of people from a Kill List with no judicial oversight or possibility even of a writ of habeas corpus can also continue undisturbed.
woo hoo!
congratulations!http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/opinion/the-permanent-militari...
"Uncritical support of all things martial is quickly becoming the new normal for our youth. Hardly any of my students at the Naval Academy remember a time when their nation wasn’t at war. Almost all think it ordinary to hear of drone strikes in Yemen or Taliban attacks in Afghanistan. The recent revelation of counterterrorism bases in Africa elicits no surprise in them, nor do the military ceremonies that are now regular features at sporting events. That which is left unexamined eventually becomes invisible, and as a result, few Americans today are giving sufficient consideration to the full range of violent activities the government undertakes in their names.
Were Eisenhower alive, he’d be aghast at our debt, deficits and still expanding military-industrial complex. And he would certainly be critical of the “insidious penetration of our minds” by video game companies and television networks, the news media and the partisan pundits. With so little knowledge of what Eisenhower called the “lingering sadness of war” and the “certain agony of the battlefield,” they have done as much as anyone to turn the hard work of national security into the crass business of politics and entertainment."
Aaron B. O’Connell, an assistant professor of history at the United States Naval Academy and a Marine reserve officer, is the author of “Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps.”
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] Obama is not "magic", just wonderful when compared to Romney and the Tea Party. I agree with all your criticisms of him. But that was all there was on the menu. American politics is like Woody Allen’s famous restaurant: "Such bad food! Yes, and such small portions!"
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> seatonset – no one forced Obama to jettison the principles underlying the establishment of this country.
no one forced him to adopt the Rule of Person as opposed to the Rule of Law.
it is his proactive action alone.
it was not just the only option on the menu.
🙁if by menu you mean the choices before the voter, abstaining is always an option.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/07/obama-progre...
"Consider the very first controversial issue Obama is likely to manage, even before the glow of his victory dims, literally within the next couple of weeks. It is widely expected – including by liberals – that Obama intends (again) to pursue a so-called "Grand Bargain" with the GOP: a deficit- and debt-cutting agreement whereby the GOP agrees to some very modest tax increases on the rich in exchange for substantial cuts to entitlement programs such as social security and Medicare, the crown legislative jewels of American liberalism.
Indeed, Obama already sought in his first term to implement sizable cuts to those programs, but liberals were saved only by GOP recalcitrance to compromise on taxes. In light of their drubbing last night, they are likely to be marginally if not substantially more flexible, which means that such a deal is more possible than ever.
In other words, the political leader in whose triumph liberals are today ecstatically basking is likely to target their most cherished government policies within a matter of weeks, even days. With their newly minted power, will they have any ability, or even will, to stop him?"
nope!!
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clearly they haven’t been paying much attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/president-obama-be...
"Speaking for Republicans after a conference call with his Congressional colleagues, Mr. Boehner said he was ready to accept a budget deal that raised federal revenues, but not the top rates on high incomes. And the deal, he said, also would have to overhaul both the tax code and programs like Medicare and Medicaid…"
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] You must remember that after decades of Cold War and the military-industrial complex, that the United States is a "regime", but just like in the Soviet Union some leaders are better than others, Khrushchev was to be preferred to Stalin, if you get my drift. Obama’s victory has spared us the Tea Party packing SCOTUS, but the negotiations of the "fiscal cliff" are where we are going to find out if Barack Obama has any spine at all… and I’d like to see Nate Silver handicap that one.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex] the repubs (Mr. Boehner, here) are still sticking to their ‘ultra rich should not have to pay more’ derp?
the greed in that party makes me nearly physically ill. how can you be so benefitted by society and yet turn your back on what helped make you great? its quite sad how greedy the extreme rich are and how they’ll go to great lengths to avoiding kicking some back into the socially responsible pool. I know that not everyone who has that kind of wealth feels that way, but why is it that those in power seem to bring this old chestnut out again and again? wealth disparity is shameful at its current level and yet those at the top still refuse to pay their rightful share? wow ;(
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> seatonsnet – i understand the realpolitik aspect and the resignation 🙁
obama has no spine. medicare is doomed.
it is totally untrue that the medicare trust fund is in dire jeopardy.
the cost of healthcare is not going up.
the cost of hospital care is going up.
and given the huge clout of the american hospital association over obama there is no hope for meaningful change.people need to be very clear on the difference between doctors and hospitals.
it is the same difference as pilots and airlines.a book worth reading is "U.S. Health Care and the Future Supply of Physicians" by Ginzberg and Minogiannis
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sorry, but the whole cost of healthcare is constantly going up. I pay for my own (private insurance, lucky me, huh?) and even though I’m not going to the hospital or even the doctor, my monthly rates are still climbing every single year.
nice try blaming it on ‘hospitals’ but its really much wider spread than that.
they charge a lot – because they can get away with it! its just that simple.
and until we put limits on how much these insane companies can charge, we won’t have any real fixes that matter for the average consumer’s wallet.
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> linux-works
which insane companies are you referring to?
as for physicians, you will surely be disappointed to learn, well after Obamacare has become law, that the total payments to physicians is not going to go down, it is merely being redistributed from specialists to primary care physicians, because the salaries of primary care physicians are too low to attract enough new doctors.
so, no one is going to be "controlling costs" in Obamacare by reducing payments to physicians.
the opposite is happening. the SGR Formula is going to go away along with the annual Doctor Fixes and there is going to be an annual 1.2% INCREASE in payments set into law.
and that is on top of an immediate 30% increase in Medicaid payments to physicians.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-obamacar...
one more beauty in a 906 page Act that no one ever read…..
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I am hoping that Obama might cut government spending more than Romney.
Historically, what actually happens is the opposite of their party rhetoric.
Since the beginning of recorded data by the OMB, government spending (Federal+State+City) as a percent of GDP goes down during Democratic presidencies and goes up during Republican presidencies, with a few years of exceptions. It you dollar weighted the generalization with Bush Jr data, it would be staggering. And it cannot be explained by lag effects because there are 4,8,12 and 16-year runs of Democrat vs. Republican.
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and 10 years have passed. Here is a repost of the comment from above (now hidden by flickr). I like this sneak shot I took of Obama, with the camera in my outstretched hand…
And here is the flickr set of my prior Obama photo posts, from private meetings and public spectacles.
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