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Obama's Inner Circle: What Do You Think?

Posted April 1, 2009

Presidents don't run the country alone. A host of cabinet officials and high-level appointees influence the president and policy each day. What do you think of the people who make up Barack Obama's inner circle? And how is Obama's administration doing so far?

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UNBELIEVABLE...FOR THOSE IN DENIAL....

NEVER-- EVER FORGET THAT TODAY'S ECONOMY IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THE BUSH/REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION'S GREED, DISRESPECT, AND TOTAL LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA DURING THE PAST EIGHT YEARS-AND THIS DOES INCLUDE THE PEOPLE WHO PUT HIM IN OFFICE FOR THOSE TWO TERMS. THIS MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR THAT PARTICULAR (BUSH/REPUBLICA) GROUP TO ADMIT, BUT BUSH AND HIS CRONIES DID TO YOU AND YOURS JUST LIKE HE DID TO ME AND MINE-

(I DIDN'T EXPECT MUCH FROM HIM, I AM A BLACK WOMAN, A CHRISTIAN, A DEMOCRAT AND I MAKE AN HOURLY WAGE)-BUT YOU THOUGHT BUSH /REPUBLICANS REALLY LOVED YOU. THAT EXPLAINS SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THIS ARTICLE. THEY SEEM TYPICAL OF A REJECTED AND SPURNED LOVER. THE/BUSH REPUBLICANS TOOK FROM YOU, WRECKED THE ECONOMY, LIED AND SENT PEOPLE TO DIE IN WAR, DID I MENTION HE BAMBOOZELED YOU HIS FAITHFUL DEVOTIES; SOOO NEEDY OF SUCH "STRONG AND FEARLESS" LEADERS. THEN THEY TURNED THEIR BACK LIKE THEY NEVER KNEW YOU, GATHERED THEIR MONEY (AFTER ALL-MONEY IS ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS(ITS SO GREEN)-AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANY),THEN THEY MOVED ON TO OTHER THINGS-AND AGAIN SHOWED YOU HOW MUCH HE LOVED YOU BY TRYING TO STOP THE MEDICAL INSURANCE REFORM. I MEAN WHY WOULD YOU NEED MEDICAL INSURANCE? YOUR BUSH/REPUBLICAN LOVER TOOK YOUR JOB, YOUR HOUSE, YOUR SAVINGS. SO HERE YOU ARE, LEFT IN SUCH A STATE OF DENIAL,YOU CAN'T BRING YOURSELF TO BELIEVE YOUR BUSH/REPUBLICAN LOVER DID YOU IN, SO IN YOUR DELUSION AND HUNGER YOU SEARCH FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME. SO OF COURSE, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA WHO IS EVERYTHING BUSH IS NOT-WHICH OF COURSE P OFFs THE DEVIL(I BELIEVE SATAN HIMSELF WROTE SOME OF THE COMMENTS I'VE READ, BUT INSPITE OF SOME OF THOSE MISQUOTES FROM THE BIBLE REAL CHRISTIANS KNOW THAT THE DEVILS END IS NEAR AND IS EMBODIED IN SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS) YOU HAVE BEEN DRIVING (OH I FORGOT, YOUR BUSHREPUBLICAN LOVER MADE YOU LOSE YOUR CAR SO I GUESS YOU'RE ON THE BUS) CORRECTION: RIDING, ON THE EXPRESSWAY THAT HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION FOR THREE YEARS BUT YOU EXPECT OMAMA TO REVERSE YOUR LOVERS MESS IN 10 MONTHS. SICK!!! And the attempt by the media to try to cast fear and dispersions on the members of President Obama's administration in simply an attempt to take America's mind off of the undeniable fact that the greed and mismanagement of America's finances under the Bush administration will cause financial hardship for generations to come. IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL PATRIATISIM AND A LOVE FOR AMERICA

Mixed signals

Our President and his czars and personnel

appointees are so anti-American that they

feel the need to transform our country.

How is it possible for a man to lead a

country when he doesn't like anything

about the country? The leadership of

this administration is sending out so

many "mixed messages" that's it's impossible

to believe anything they say. They're are

both anti-American and pro-American (but

only "pro" if they can completely change it,

which is to say if they can completely

collapse the system of government and remake it).

Can't stand this administration

I hope they all die and go to the hell they obviously do not believe in. I pray for that day to happen soon.

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