SECRET SERVICE SAYS OBAMA DEATH THREATS ARE THE FAULT OF SARAH PALIN. OH GREAT.
on 11/09/2008 at 04:48 AM
It isn’t the Secret Service - or anyone else for that matter who ‘blames’ Sarah Palin - it is the DNC and their propaganda machine who want to destroy Sarah Palin so that she can’t come back and usher in the next Republican, oops Conservative Revolution. Too bad that the DNC and msm don’t ever bother to study real history - or they would realize by electing a socialist empty suit - doesn’t matter about Sarah Palin - they have created the conditions that will guarantee such a revolution (if not a worse Second American Revolution) with or without her. . .It’s their own damn fault.
Betcha if honest investigative forces were at work here - we’d fine that these weren’t anybody other than hatefilled leftist losers who made the threats - if there were even credible threats made.
Of course that won’t ever happen - they have their story and they will stick to it. It is the new talking point of the day.
Hmm, I guess that means Mrs Palin is first to head for the re-education camps then EH!
And I noticed he managed to include every Palin slur during the campaign in his summery of offenses against the O state.Going to be interesting times ahead for SURE.Do these idiots want a race war or are they just baiting the hook?Oh I am certain there would have been very real threats against not only .O but blacks,
(why can’t we say colored or Negro anymore?)and others.
They’re out there and I think they are a real threat to the USA as well. Some of them might think of themselves as “patriots” but really they aren’t.One of my trumpet coaches many yrs ago what colored. ok,ok. black then. Anyway, he was a SUPER talented player and one hell of a pleasant guy to be around. That’s because he was just a genuinely nice person and smart as well. And btw, he never charged me even though I offered. I guess we had Jazz and music in general, in common.
BUT .. the white supremacists wouldn’t recognize that. They’d do him in if they could, and me as well because I’d defend him. I’m wholly with Drew in his recent comments about those kinds of ppl. So I don’t necessarily think any lefties were behind any threats.
But I don’t believe any comments made by Mrs. Palin were a trigger.The head of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team said Sunday that the incoming administration is conducting an extensive review of President Bush’s executive orders.
President-elect Barack Obama said he intends to move with “deliberate haste” in making appointments.
1 of 3Asked about reports that the transition team already has identified a number of areas where Obama could issue executive orders as soon as he takes office, John Podesta said he would not “preview decisions that [Obama] has yet to make.”
“I would say that as a candidate, Sen. Obama said that he wanted all the Bush executive orders reviewed and decide which ones should be kept and which ones should be repealed and which ones should be amended, and that process is going on. It’s been undertaken,” Podesta said Sunday on “Fox News.”
Podesta pointed out that there is a lot the president can do without waiting for Congress, and voters can expect to see Obama do so to try and restore “a sense that the country is working on behalf of the common good.”
“I think that we’re looking at—again, in virtually every agency—to see where we can move forward, whether that’s on energy transformation, on improving health care, on stem cell research,” he said.
Podesta, chief of staff under President Clinton, is president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank that he founded.
Podesta said Sunday that preparations for Obama’s transition have been in the works since early August.
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Obama named Rep. Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff two days after the election.
Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security, said Friday that he thinks Obama deserves “expeditious handling of his appointments in the Senate of the United States.”
“I would do everything I could to encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle,” he said on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” “It’s a difficult time enough, as it is, with transition. You’ve got 4,000 to 5,000 appointments to fill.”
Podesta said he thinks Obama “intends to move very quickly” in naming other members of his senior leadership.
“I think we’re moving aggressively to try to build out that core economic team, the national security team, and you’ll see announcements when they’re ready,” he said, pointing to Obama’s Friday comments that he plans to move with “all deliberate haste.”
Transition spokesperson Stephanie Cutter said there would be no Cabinet announcements this week.
Podesta said to expect a Cabinet that “looks like the way President Obama ran his campaign.”
“He brought millions of people in. They weren’t all Democrats. He reached out to independents and Republicans. And I think we want to see that reflected at every level of government,” he said.
Obama’s first pick brought criticism from some Republicans who said they thought Emanuel contradicted Obama’s message of change and bipartisan cooperation.
Emanuel insisted Sunday that he would help the president-elect work in a bipartisan fashion, brushing off criticism that he would be a “hyper-partisan” chief of staff.
“President Obama is very clear, as you look at his career, both in the [Illinois] state Senate, U.S. Senate and the campaign, that we have to govern in a bipartisan fashion,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“The challenges are big enough that there’s going to be an ability for people of both parties, as well as independents, to contribute ideas to help meet the challenges on health care, energy, tax reform, education.”
After Obama’s selection of Emanuel, the Republican National Committee put out a press release that said, “Obama’s Broken Promise: After promising change, Obama selects hyper-partisan wedded to special interests.” Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called Emanuel an “ironic choice” for a president-elect who promised to “govern from the center.”
However, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, called Emanuel a “wise choice.”
Graham said he and Emanuel worked together during the presidential debate negotiations, and “when we hit a rough spot, he always looked for a path forward.”
Emanuel, who has a reputation as a tough political infighter, is credited with helping Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in 2006.
He was elected to the House in 2002 and is the fourth highest-ranking member of the chamber’s Democratic leadership. He worked on Clinton’s first presidential campaign and was a White House adviser to Clinton. iReport.com: What’s your message for Obama?
The Chicago, Illinois, politician said Sunday that it will take a joint effort from leaders of both parties to tackle the challenges facing the country.
Emanuel also said he thought Sen. John McCain would be a “partner” in working to solve those problems.
Obama has yet to make any Cabinet appointments, but several names have been floating around as top contenders.
Senior Democrats say Sen. John Kerry is jockeying to be secretary of state—and has a good case after endorsing Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel also may be in the hunt.
Health care is another priority, with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota a possibility. But Democratic sources say Howard Dean, a doctor who had a strong run as the Democratic National Committee chairman, is hungry for the job.
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Podesta would only say Sunday that “there will be announcements forthcoming.” E-mail to a friend | Mixx it | SharePlease dont be offended by this remark ( and if you are get over yourself), but has anyone else noticed how brightly the magic oreo stands out against the brillient whiteness of his primary appointments yet?
Not only the brillent whiteness - but also the absoulutely non-partisan, extreme leftist of them? Yes, Obama is really going to ‘change’ this country - into a socialist disaster. Is there a way to Impeach a President-Elect?
The day after the election I had a Democrat come up to me at work and whisper in my ear: “What do Obama and JFK have in common?”
My answer was ‘They’re both Democrats’?
The Democrat shook it’s head and whispered: “Nothing...yet”
I’m not too certain how to take that, but it was from a Democrat. One of our union stalwarts.
Chris, That element he’s is referring to will always be present, don’t think for a moment that BO did not know this when he made the decision to run for the Position. We are in a very disturbing point in world history right now, I have to think back to WW2 to come up with something as close to this. Maybe that missle crisis with the Soviets in Cuba comes close as well.
11/09/2008 at 07:19 AM
