Look At Me!

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Obama names 8 citizens to highlight his successes

President Barack Obama is featuring eight Americans as “citizen co-chairs” of his inauguration, a new role created to highlight his first-term accomplishments with examples of lives that have either been improved by his actions or inspired his presidency.

The honorees announced Thursday include a woman with a brain tumor who no longer is denied health care for a pre-existing condition; an autoworker who got her job back after the General Motors bailout; and a gay pilot-in-training kicked out of the Air Force before the president repealed the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

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So Obama picks 8 people to honor himself. Saddest case is the guy who lost all four limbs from a land mine explosion in Afghanistan and was “inspired” when Obama personally pinned a purple heart on him. Those of you with any memory cells left will recall that Obama opposed the lawsuit to strike down DADT and finally agreed to repeal it when the lawsuit was successful.

It’s gonna be a long four years.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. – Ecclesiastes 1:2

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Bad Dawg!

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Politico:

This Day in Politics, Jan. 17, 1998

On this day in 1998, the Drudge Report carried an item on its website alleging that Newsweek magazine was sitting on a story exposing an affair between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern.

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I remember where I was when I heard the news. I had just stopped by my buddy’s house after class when he told me “You gotta hear this” and dragged me in front of his television. My first thought was “They finally got him”.

After five years and $70 million worth of relentless investigation the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy finally had proof that Bill Clinton lied about getting a blow job. Those were uplifting and enlightening times.

Late night comics had a field day. John Goodman played Linda Tripp on SNL. The media was openly speculating what Al Gore’s administration would look like, but when the smoke cleared the only guy who lost his job was Newt Gingrich.

BTW – When the affair took place Monica was no longer an intern.

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Prissy Brit Bully Gets Pwned

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The Right Scoop:

Piers Morgan continually tried to get Dana Loesch and Scottie Hughes to say they had a right to a tank, trying to use an extreme example to make both of them look extreme. And in response Loesch continually said the 2nd amendment protects our right to bear firearms – and if a tank is a considered a firearm then sure. Obviously it’s not, but what Morgan was trying to do was to make her admit that she’s ‘interpreting’ the Constitution to make his point that if you don’t need a tank, then why do you need an AR-15 or something.

And it went on from there. Dana even tried to explain to Piers a thing or two about ‘assault rifles’ – or rather why they aren’t assault rifles but Piers just kept wondering why she ‘needs’ something that can shoot 100 bullets in a minute.

All in all Dana Loesch and Scottie Hughes stood their ground as Piers tried to bully them through the whole interview.

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This clip epitomizes why I hate these so-called “news” shows. What’s the point of inviting guests on the show if you aren’t going to let them answer your questions? Kudos to both of those women for standing up to Morgan’s attempted bullying.

Piers Morgan moved to the United States because he could use his accent to pass himself off as a respectable journalist. The Brits know better – he’s just a tabloid hack.

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