President Obama Makes Local Pit Stop for Candy, Ice Cream

When Michael Jackson died, some of his closest friends, brothers, family members, and hired workers say that they have never, ever, ever see Michael behave like he was on drugs. But some has voiced that he was a drug addict, going from cities to cities looking for doctors who would gave in to his addiction.
When Ted Kennedy died, most would say how great he was. But some would say his life contradicts – his drinking, womanizing, disloyalty.
The same will be with Mr. Obama. I would rather have a well-rounded news reporting, than the one-side view.

The President takes his children for ice cream and the anti-Obama types come out of the woodworks.
Always interesting to see how the totally biased ones manage to get in their digs regardless of the story.

The All Barack Channel. All Barack, a;ll day, every day. If he doesn’t do anything meaningful, we’ll talke about his dog or what kind of ice cream he ate today.

President Obama has such good taste. Oatmeal raisin cookies are my favorite too! I’ll never ever be able to eat another oatmeal raisin cookie without thinking of him….sigh…..he is the bestest president we ever had because he eats oatmeal raisin cookies. I bet that nasty old Bush never ate a good oatmeal raisin cookie in his life. Obama is so much better because he eats the best kind of cookies!!!
I think I have to go throw up now.

Why in the H, is this news? This guy has gotten us SO FAR IN DEBT, we’re going to be paying for it in the next century and he stops for ice cream. How sweet. He couldn’t even run an ice cream store.

President Obama is good family man.
We need more of those in this country.
I am glad that despite having to deal with all kind of problems foreign and domestic, he still manages to get quality time with his family.
FYI Bush took the whole month of August his first year in office. Unfortuanately he his administration didn’t take the warnings about Al-Qaeda seriously, that came in while he was on vacation.

Every time Dubya went to Crawford to clean the stables at the fake ranch, which was pretty frequently, we had to hear about it on the news. You think they would’ve found something more relevant to write about than some guy with a fear of horses picking up horse apples at a fake ranch in Tejas.

“Obama’s mobster past”
More nonsense.

I find all this name calling and political verbage your basic crap. How easily everyone forgets how 8 years of Bush ruined our image overseas, doubled our national debt, after blowing through a 500 Billion dollar surplus left by President Clinton, and this is President Obama’s fault, I believe not.

“‘Obama’s mobster past’
More nonsense.”
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Nooo, not nonsense: Giannoulias and Rezko, just for starters. Alas.
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Typing two names and thinking you’ve proved anything is nonsense.

I don’t understand why someone would be critical of a story like this, it’s just an accounting of what happened on a President’s vacation, they run stories like this on all the Presidents, Republican or Democrat.
But, BTW, I love President Obama. Nobody’s perfect, but he genuinely seems to care about his country and tries to come up with innovative and thoughtful ideas.
Posted by: Jen | Aug 30, 2009 2:31:42 PM
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Ditto. Don’t let the haters get you down:>)

I never cared for Ted Kennedy but I will say one thing nice about him. Teddy Kennedy was a real animal lover. Having raised money for animal rescue for 25 years, I just don’t see a love of animals or any ability to relate to them when I look at the dog situation with the Obamas. Let’s just hope someone on the clean-up staff loves Bo.

Does anyone believe that President Obama (or any other President) will be able to beat Bush’s 487 Days At Camp David, 480 days at his Texas ranch and a some extra time at his family’s compound in Kennebunkport? I think not…..
His many vacations kept Bush’s mind sharp as a tack.
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

President Obama is good family man.
Posted by: MrUniteUs | Aug 30, 2009 3:04:29 PM
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Have you any proof of this?

Yesterdays anti-health care rally in Austin:
“I hate that flag up there,” Kilgore said pointing to the American flag flying over the Capitol. “I hate the United States government…We hate the United States!”
Them there’s some news! Chew on that

“Another White House Press release”
Give her a break, first of all, at least it isn’t a press release about something important. On the other hand, it isn’t the usual “Obama champions health care but gives his kids unhealthy candy” kind of crap we usually hear from Jake.

Most Americans are having a hard time understanding why reforms that are favored by up to 80% of the population are considered “impossible to pass” in congress. Obama DOES deserve some of the blame for that.

Julieterra and Alyson, here are some facts:
1. Frank Marshall Davis was Barack Obama’s mentor and father-figure for 5 years during his teenage years. Frank Marshall Davis was a Communist agitator and recruiter.
2. Barack Obama studied for several years under the principles of Saul Alinsky–a Communist/Marxist, the founder of modern community organizing (Obama’s forte!)
3. Barack Obama was mentored by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. for some 20 years–a Black Liberation Theologist.
4. President Obama appointed Van Jones as Green Jobs Czar–a self-proclaimed Communist, who in 1994 formed STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement).
5. President Obama appointed Mark Lloyd as Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC–a Marxist who lamented the fact that non-state-run radio stations prevented Hugo Chavez’s “incredible revolution,” and who stated: “…and came back and had another revolution. And Chavez then started to take the media very seriously in this country.”
Just a coincidence? I think not!

Flash Overide, during the 2008 campaign and even now, Sen. Obama’s rhetoric promotes some of the principles of, at best, Socialism. He supports wealth redistribution. He promotes class warfare. He demonizes Corporate America. He advocated doing away with the “your-on-your-on” society. Actually he eluded to that as an “ownership society,” so one can infer that Sen. Obama might actually lean towards doing away with some forms of ownership. Only time will tell!

A socialist would not advocate the type of health insurance reform that Obama does. A socialist would advocate
-abolishing private health insurance
-giving all health care workers government employment
-opening up the medical schools to all who are capable, for free
-subsidizing physicians so they can afford all needed medical equipment
-taking back all the medical patents funded or developed by the government
-funding massive government efforts to reach people in need of health care

“1. Frank Marshall Davis was Barack Obama’s mentor and father-figure for 5 years during his teenage years.”
James Danley | Aug 30, 2009 8:37:34 PM
You regurgitate garbage for the Obama Nation hit piece book and think that proves anything? Suddenly a friend of Obama’s grandfather becomes Obama’s “mentor and father-figure for 5 years” because you want to push guilt by association? No wonder you take McCarthy’s witch hunt House Un-American Activities Committee as “proof” Mr Davis was a Communist.
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

Rasmussen is the very best in the business at identifying the likely voter. That’s why he was the single most accurate predicter of the 2008 outcome.
But why quibble? Last week Rasmussen and Gallup had identical numbers. Pick any pollster you want–the trends are the same in all of them, and what they show is that Obama has squandered his goodwill while accomplishing nothing but a record deficit that is more than three times the previous record.
I am sorry if Rasmussen’s numbers infuriate some of the more hopelessly besotted Obama cheerleaders. The wiser heads among his supporters pay close attention to them, and they are right to be very concerned.

“Class warfare is killing 20.000 poor people a year by denying them health coverage.”
No one has denied it to them. Period.

Fascist, most of us do not subscribe to your “survival of the fittest” ideology.

“Rasmussen is the very best in the business at identifying the likely voter. That’s why he was the single most accurate predicter of the 2008 outcome.
But why quibble?”
Fascist Hyena | Aug 30, 2009 9:11:05 PM
Because I’m annoyed when you substitute lies for reality. Rasmussen was NOT the most accurate predictor of 2008, you’re repeating a lie started by a preliminary (paid) analysis by a single Fordham professor who looked at a single race. He did not even use the final results, and the final results knocked Rasmussen out of the number one spot (for that single race – of course, anyone who cares about polls looks at there predictive accuracy across the slate of races).
So yeah, lies annoy me.
As for Obama’s drop, it’s on par with Reagan’s (in equivalent or arguably worse financial circumstances). I don’t have a problem with it. I have a problem with people lying about factual information like the most accurate pollsters or what their documented house effects are. (Rassmussen was mediocre at best in their state race polling (beaten by PPP, CNN/Time, Strategic Vision and Zogby (? these guys just got lucky), and Research 2000.)

What truly annoys Mr. 539 is the rapid disillusionment in the electorate with a man in whom fools invested so much hope.
Rasmussen’s uncanny accuracy is well documented, but enen if we discount him altogether the drastic shift in the nation’s assessment of Mr. Obama is quite plainly undeniable.
The Obama supporters seem not only unhappy, but even angry with the way things are going. That’s too bad–I wish they could share my unbridled joy with the current state of play.
Oh, what delight!

Recalling how Mr. Bush was routinely excoriated for taking vacations while the nation is at war, I feel a certain responsibility to point out that this became the deadliest month in the history of the Afghan war while Mr. Obama was gallivanting about in the rich man’s paradise of Martha’s Vineyard. I know that the troops will be inspired.
Remember when things like record war-time casualties were regularly described in the press as “grim milestones” while Bush was in office? We don’t seem to hear that kind of thing these days.
But the people take notice. If you doubt that, check Rasmussen.

Flash Override:
—abolishing private health insurance
Many of us believe that a public option will eliminate the private sector. But this belief is not limited to Conservatives:
*Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) speaking before an audience on April 18, 2009 said: “And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance public option saying, ‘It wouldn’t let private insurance compete. That a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single payer.’” To which the crowd erupted into a huge applause. She then followed with, “He was right. The man was right.”
*Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said on July 27, 2009: “I think if we get a good public option it could lead to single payer and that’s the best way to reach single payer.”
—giving all health care workers government employment
If the private sector is eliminated leaving the public option as the sole healthcare provider being run by the federal government, then ALL health care workers would end up being government employees.
—opening up the medical schools to all who are capable, for free
I’m not aware of this in any of the current healthcare reform plans.
—subsidizing physicians so they can afford all needed medical equipment
I’m not aware of this in any of the current healthcare reform plans.
—taking back all the medical patents funded or developed by the government
I’m not aware of this in any of the current healthcare reform plans.
—funding massive government efforts to reach people in need of health care
HR 3200 mandates everyone have healthcare insurance. It could take “massive” funding to enforce this.

Numeros, the reason I don’t do as you suggest is that doing so would not seem to make sense.
I find it surprising that you purport to know whether or not I had a problem with some unknown thing done by someone I have never heard of.
Just read Rasmussen. The numbers speak for themselves.

Top Headlines……….Obama makes pit stop for ice cream and candy…My god when the heck is he going to get to work getting american’s back to work so we can have a pit stop for ice cream and cany with our children .Obama doesn’t seem to be worried that american’s are losing their jobs and theri homes , Will he ever get it, I really don’t think he will, This country is going down and going down fast since he’s been in office…God help and God bless america from this man.

James Danley:”Many of us believe that a public option will eliminate the private sector. ”
That simply speaks to the bedrock ignorance Republicans count on to stay in power. There are public insurance options in many other countries that HAVE NOT eliminated private options.
The Right’s cliche’ doublethink is so strong that I have seen a single post both insist a public option will kill private options AND argue the rise of private options in the past few years in Canada is ‘proof’ the public option does not work. Think about the absurdity of that for a moment!
FedEx, UPS, US Post Office is another classic example of REALITY that shines a light on the Right’s fantasy world.

“FedEx, UPS, US Post Office is another classic example of REALITY that shines a light on the Right’s fantasy world.”
Yes, let’s sink into JHW’s world of “unassailable reality” and find out just how well his “smoking gun” proof holds up when strung out in light of all the facts.
Per a New York Time’s article on 8/7/09 regarding the USPS:
“But the last few years have been brutal. The Postal Service lost more than $5 billion in 2007, and another $2.4 billion in 2008. And, of course, it is on track to lose that whopping $7 billion in the current fiscal year. (Its fiscal year ends in September.) The amount of mail being sent is dropping like a stone — it will be down to 175 billion pieces in 2009. Mr. Potter has reduced the Postal Service’s head count to 650,000, from 800,000, almost entirely through attrition. He has cut costs every way he can think of. And still the losses mount.”
So we take the amount of debt the USPS is in and then add in a fair multiple amount for what the health care boondoggle would look like against the much smaller relative cost of his example (1/7 of the U.S. Economy vs. the USPS) and we are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars of loses per year. Yup, those Republicans are such “illogical liars.” But hey, why worry about true reality when calling Republicans stupid is way more cool and holding blindly to your ideology is way more comforting.

“BH seems to have totally missed the point. jhw was responding to this statement …”
Not at all. I was just pointing out how jhw, in true liberal fashion, fails to account for his example in all facets of an argument. Sure, his examples works for debunking the myth he was referring to and I don’t begrudge him that, but in doing so, he opens the door to the reckless fiscal irresponsibility his ideas and ideology invites.

If you’re looking for a detailed discussion of how long the Post Office loses money and why the Post Office loses money, I’m sure there are many reports that could be fruitfully researched and cited.

Uh, JHW. I did a 10 second search on Google and found no less than 50 scathing articles from various MSM sources about Bush’s vacations. I tried posting a great deal of them for you, but that post was deleted.
Nevertheless, your propensity to sling around the “liar label” makes you look really silly to anyone who knows how to use Google.

“Why does Mr. Obama oppose our Democratic ally Honduras’s efforts to enforce its own laws?”
Like almost all of the other democratic country in the world, the United States (and President Obama) opposed the military overthrow of an elected President and the removal of that President into exile by military force.

“Recalling how Mr. Bush was routinely excoriated for taking vacations while the nation is at war,”
Fascist Hyena | Aug 30, 2009 10:12:30 PM
BH – The specific issue was Bush being excoriated for taking vacations during WAR – not just Bush being chided for taking vacations. (Of course Bush was criticized for his vacation time – he set new records!)
Quit distoring things to make a false point.

“BH – The specific issue was Bush being excoriated for taking vacations during WAR – not just Bush being chided for taking vacations.”
We’re not at war any longer? Really? Al-Qaeda surrendered and our troops are home? Who knew? Oh yeah, we have a President pretending we’re not at war…that’s it….

I thought it was kind of funny how much criticism the leader of the party of ‘do nothing’ government got for taking vacations. It reminded me of that Far Side cartoon where the crocodile confesses in court: “-of course I did it in cold blood you idiot, I’m a reptile.” Instead of sitting around in Washington not doing what he was supposed to be not doing he went and got some chores done at the ranch.

“Asserting Bush was fair game for taking a vacations during a time of war cannot be applied to the current President for taking a vacation during a time of war”
No BH – you went off in search of criticism of Bush taking holidays and found lots – because he took so many holidays. Bush got criticized for taking SO MANY holidays – not for taking “a vacation during a time of war”.
That you can’t see the distinction says a lot about you, not much about the President.

Julieterra wrote: “The point goes to jwh since he illustrated clearly that private enterprise (FedEx, UPS) has been able to survive abundantly in the face of a ‘public option’ (Post Office).”
Except that FedEx and UPS are barred from providing first class mail.
Now if Congress forced FedEx and UPS to have every package insured to a minimum of $100.00; and at the same time Congress raised taxes in order to have tax payers not only cover the insurance on all packages for USPS customers, but tax payers would also subsidize 25% of the cost of mailing a package by USPS. That would undercut FEDex and UPS who would loose customers.
That is no different than Congress banning annual and lifetime caps and banning discrimination of existing conditions forcing the private sector to greatly raise their premiums. Yet at the same time, since the public option is a non-profit entity their costs would already be much cheaper before the private sector raised their premiums because of the mandated changes. The private sector will be unable to compete.

“Yet at the same time, since the public option is a non-profit entity their costs would already be much cheaper before the private sector raised their premiums because of the mandated changes. The private sector will be unable to compete.”
This is really and excellent point here and a death blow to the liberal thinking that believes that the “public option” (government option is more accurate) will just operate in a vacuum, a parallel universe or on some planet where we’ll all have infinite choices with no price increases and/or rationing of care.

First Class Mail — Postcards, letters, large envelopes (flats) and small packages.

Do we really need to know every minute detail of the Obama’s lives? I don’t see why the media feels the need to inform us every time the president takes his daughters out for ice cream! It’s boring and it’s ridiculous!
Another thing thing that I think is even more ridiculous, though, is the fact that the Obamas are going to spend the weekend at Camp David after spending all summer on vacation, most recently over a week at the $50,000.00 a week estate on Martha’s Vineyard. When is the president going to spend time in Washington doing the job he was elected to do and is being paid to do?

“That is a straight lie.”
No, it’s a crooked lie.

From what I have read, it’s illegal for the delivery of most types of mail, include letters, postcards, catalogs, magazines and bills other than through the USPS. The only exception is for “urgent” mail (the law requires that what you send must be “urgent”). However, the delivery charge must be at least $3.00 or offer the service for free.

As Charles P Pierce has noted in his book titled Idiot America : “the Internet, far from letting information be free, has devolved into a chaotic forum where ignorance spreads like a virus. The culture wars are over. The idiots have won.”

“the president told his daughters they could get “only one treat.”
Anyone else feel like the same sort of thinking applied by The One to Sasha and Malia is also applied by him to us humble taxpayers? I certainly do…particularly with regards to his advocacy of a single-payer health care system.

“I find it curious that whenever Bush went on vacation, Cindy Sheehan would continue protesting outside his vacation spot. The media loved it.”
The media covered it the first time she did so in 2005, not so much thereafter.
“When Obama goes on vacation, Cindy Sheehan still protests, same as when Bush was president, but the media ignores it”
It was written about on this very blog.
But facts seem to provoke an allergic reaction in right wingers.

I feel that the President should be entitled to go on a holiday to Hawaii without criticism. It is too much.