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EmailABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:President Obama today will appear with Former President George H. W Bush at Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas. The former President invited Obama to speak at the public service event which will take place at the George Bush Presidential Library Center.
”The event builds upon President Obama’s ‘United We Serve’ call to service challenging all Americans to help lay a new foundation for growth in this country by engaging in sustained, meaningful community service,” The White House says, “It will also celebrate the contributions of more than 4,500 Daily Point of Light award winners and honor President Bush’s legacy of service and civic engagement.
The Daily Point of Light Award – created by President Bush in 1989 – honors individuals and volunteer groups around the country who are helping their communities.
Mr. Obama’s visit has not been without protest. The Texas A & M chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas have been protesting the current President’s visit, for Obama’s “socialist policy agenda.”
Former President Bush has issued a letter to the university’s community stressing that the current President’s visit today “is not about politics.”
Read more from ABC’s Matt Jaffe HERE.
-Sunlen Miller
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Nothing is as pure as the heart of a youngster – as evidenced by the little boy who asked why people hated our President. Unfortunately given the cynicism and vitriol of the republican base – they will say this was staged. What else can you expect from people who want our president to fail. Obama is the best thing that has ever happened to the USA.
Posted by: Carl | October 16, 2009, 10:25 am 10:25 am
Unfortunately given the cynicism and vitriol of the republican base – they will say this was staged.
Carl | Oct 16, 2009 10:25:34 AM
Go ahead and say it WAS staged – what difference does that make? Does it make the question any less true? Or the answer (which was expertly rehearsed apparently, complete with verbal ticks to make it look spontaneous I suppose) any less valid?
Posted by: jhw539 | October 16, 2009, 10:27 am 10:27 am
Two American soldiers were instantly killed and two others died of their wounds after their patrol vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan, military officials said on Friday.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 10:39 am 10:39 am
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 28% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 10:41 am 10:41 am
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 119.15 points, or 1.7%, to end at 7062.93. The blue-chip benchmark ended down 937.93 points, or 11.72% on the month — the worst percentage drop since 1933, when it fell 15.62%.”
It’s happening on the Messiah’s watch…”
Fascist Hyena | Feb 27, 2009 8:02:23 PM
Huh, odd how the Right wing has suddenly moved onto worshiping Rasmussen’s polls rather than the stock market they were blaming Obama for earlier this year.
Posted by: jhw539 | October 16, 2009, 11:05 am 11:05 am
Fascist: While you are persisting with your self-appointed job as Rasmussen reporter we haven’t seen any of your DOW J. reports lately. If I recall correctly they typically went something like: “The Dow was such and such yesterday–investors know.”
Well, do they?
The Dow is back up to around 10,000 again.
Posted by: Skip | October 16, 2009, 11:09 am 11:09 am
Posted by: jhw539
Oct 16, 2009 11:05:24 AM
Obviously you were thinking the same thing I was.
Posted by: Skip | October 16, 2009, 11:11 am 11:11 am
“Huh, odd how the Right wing has suddenly moved onto worshiping Rasmussen’s polls rather than the stock market they were blaming Obama for earlier this year.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 16, 2009 11:05:24 AM”
Awesome…totally awesome.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
“The dollar has hit its lowest point against the euro in a year, falling 18.5% since its peak on October 27, 2008. The dollar’s decline has driven some of the Dow’s rise to 9,748. Since March-market lows, a one-point decline in the U.S. Dollar Index has translated into a roughly 250-point gain in the Dow. At this rate of dollar decline, the Dow would reach a record high of 14,200 sometime during the summer of 2010.”
Keep your eye on the ball.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | Oct 16, 2009 12:39:48 PM”
More selective quoting by a dishonest right winger.
The article is a decent if short one
“However, all of the Dow increase since March is not due to the dollar decline. A lot of it is due to just plain ole investor relief that the Stimulus Package prevented a global economic collapse. Confidence has been restored, but only somewhat. Therefore, the Dow will not continue to rise at its current rate, regardless of what the dollar does.
Second, the dollar will not continue to decline at its current rate, either. A lot of that, too, was investor concern about the dollar’s value given all the monetary and fiscal stimulus. There is still plenty of concern, based on expectations of future inflation. The idea is that when the economy turns around, too many dollars will be chasing too few goods. Hence, inflation. Hence, a cheaper dollar.
But, will the economy really turn around like it did in the past? I don’t think so. Banks are still not lending. They are sitting on the stimulus money. Consumers aren’t purchasing. They are still losing jobs, and they are getting paid less for the jobs they do have.
Bottom line? The economy will continue to go sideways, and perhaps even decline again. Stimulus spending can only hold up the economy for so long. Without bank lending, we may very well see a W-shaped recession. If this happens, the dollar will spike in a flight to safety and the Dow, instead of rising to 14,000, may instead retest its March low in 2010.”
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
“The dollar’s decline has driven some of the Dow’s rise”
If so why not continue to report on the rise of the DOW? It’s just hard to make the rise of the DOW sound bad isn’t it? -And making it sound bad is what it’s really all about.
Posted by: Skip | October 16, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
“Huh, odd how the Right wing has suddenly moved onto worshiping Rasmussen’s polls…”
I’ve been reporting them for many months, as you know.
Fox News/Opiniion Dynamics today: 51% of Americans prefer the current healthcare system to the Dem proposals; 34% prefer the Dem proposals.
And they think they’re going to ram this through without electoral consequences?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
“More selective quoting by a dishonest right winger.”
The additional parts that were quoted are for the most part accurate. It’s a sensible forecast of what Obamanomics has in store for us.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
George Soros evaluates Obamanomics:
“NEW YORK – Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros said on Thursday that the U.S. economy is going to act as a drag on world growth. Speaking at conference sponsored by the Economist magazine, Soros, who runs Soros Fund Management, said ‘The world economy is going to have some growth, but we are bound to be flat.’ He also said the U.S. is going to be a drag.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
“Fox News/Opiniion Dynamics today: 51% of Americans prefer the current healthcare system to the Dem proposals; 34% prefer the Dem proposals.”
They seem to be oversampling Republicans and undersampling independents.
Also I thought you were against polls that were for registered voters as opposed to a strict likely voter model.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
George Soros evaluates Obamanomics:”
ROFLMAO!
As told through the dishonest right winger’s filter.
Other thought by Soros that make his thoughts cleaer
“Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros said on Thursday that the world’s current “currency arrangements” are fraught with danger and that the world needs global regulation. Soros, who runs hedge fund firm Soros Fund Management and has made his reputation with bold currency bets, said the U.S. dollar ought to be falling in value against the Chinese currency to allow the United States to contain its current account deficit.”
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
“More selective quoting by a dishonest right winger.”
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Yes indeed and I see it continues on and on uninterrupted by any attempts to honestly or fully provide quotes in context . .. a typical right wing tactic.
Sleazy.
Posted by: julieterra | October 16, 2009, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
WASHINGTON– The federal budget deficit has surged to an all-time high of $1.42 trillion as the recession caused tax revenues to plunge while the government was spending massive amounts to stabilize the financial system and jump-start the economy.The imbalance for the budget year ended Sept. 30, more than tripled last year’s record. The Obama administration projects deficits will total $9.1 trillion over the next decade unless corrective action is taken.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
I have nothing whatsoever against polls of registered voters, nor against polls of adults. I just know to acertainty that the latter are the least reliable in gauging the sentiment of the electorate. The former are more reliable for that purpose, though nevertheless less so than polls of likely voters.
These elementary facts seem very difficult for some leftists to grasp, perhaps because likely voters are generally more conservative than the adult population as a whole, withe registered voters in between. As a result, the arasmussen polls tend to bring the goofballs depressing news, and being generally dim of wit they attack the messenger and accuse him of bias. That is of course their right; no one has a duty to have common sense.
I see nothing at all in the additional quoted Soros remarks that changes one iota the import of what I quoted.
One must in any event always be careful of what Mr. Soros says about currency; he has made his vast fortune in the currency trading business (most of the time, an occupation that is anathema to the goofballs–who are always willing to abandon principle if ther is a buck or two in it). Recall Mr. Soros’s surreptitious role in the destruction of the pound sterling.
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm
Think “likely voters”:
“Republicans won a pair of special elections on Tuesday in Tennessee and Oklahoma, picking up seats held by Democrats for decades. Combined with this month’s capture of the Albuquerque mayor’s office by a Republican for the first time in 28 years, Democrats have reason to be nervous about the approaching November 3 off-year elections. Given their lackluster performance in these races, they could face serious turnout problems that will boost GOP performance.”
(Perhaps the folks who counted the votes were over-sampling Republicans.)
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | October 16, 2009, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
“As a result, the arasmussen polls tend to bring the goofballs depressing news, and being generally dim of wit they attack the messenger and accuse him of bias.”
Because he does have bias.
He oversamples Republicans.
And he touts a study based on cooked numbers to market himself.
He’s a dishonest pollster.
Just like you’re a dishonest right winger.
Who cares what a right winger like John Fund who spins Palin quitting her job as a great move.
Pointing to state legislative races in OK and TN neither of which had more than 10,000 voters total as evidence of a GOP resurgence isn’t just dishonest…its a little pathetic too.
The funniest being is the TN Dem ran as a conservative even garnering Pro Life endorsements.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
“He oversamples Republicans.”
That should read overweighs not oversamples.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm