Helen Thomas: Press Needs More Time With Obama
By Jessica Rettig, Washington Whispers
Having stared down every president since JFK, columnist Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps, isn't about to go soft on President Obama. "He has not taken a stand on anything," says the outspoken scribe, who just cowrote a new book with pundit Craig Crawford called Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do. While left leaning, Thomas is not a big fan of Obama. She wants action on the wars and healthcare. And she wants more Obama-time, arguing that he needs to do more press conferences. "I think the press is very confused about who is Obama. What are his convictions? Why doesn't he fight?" she asks. For her part, Thomas says she has firm convictions and thinks she could even do a better job in the Oval Office. "If elected, I will serve," she says with a smile.
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Obama a do nothing?
Contrary to the pabulum that Barack Obama is a do nothing President:
President Barack Obama has signed into law equal pay regardless of gender, race, or age(S.181), the Stimulus bill; expanded National and Community Service (H.R. 1388); attacked securities and commodities fraud and financial institution fraud (S.386); reduced no-bid defense contracts and improved the organization and procedures of the Department of Defense for the acquisition of major weapon systems (S.454); signed the Credit CARD Act of 2009 (H.R.627); Cash for Clunkers; Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009; and has been fighting for Health Care Reform for months and will probably get something.
He repealed previous Executive Orders removing barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells, disallowed unrelated add-ons in government procurement, revoked Executive Orders concerning the detention and interrogation that undermined the laws of the United States and the Geneva Conventions, and has instituted a policy (by Executive Order) whereby every appointee in every Executive branch agency has to sign an Ethics contract banning Lobbyist gifts and barring appointees from coming from, leaving to, and contracting with Lobbies for 2 years.
He has begun dismantling the detention center at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, he has begun rotating troops and equipment out of Iraq to back home or forward to Afghanistan, and he seems to have been extremely busy for the last few weeks carefully coordinating an Afghanistan strategy within the military and among our allies. I am confident that he will lay out the direction he is zeroing in on when he gets back from his high level talks in Asia. So far, his international diplomacy has mended strained relationships with our allies, cornered our enemies, and has Heads of State around the world talking about a new era of multilateralism; which has resulted in the exposure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility, better cooperation from the United Nations and NATO with Afghanistan and Iraq, and a Nobel Prize.
And he’s done all this while, presumably, improving his golf game, bowling average, and basketball game, and opening the White House itself to American families and children on an almost unprecedented scale.
What did your favorite President accomplish in his first 3 quarters?
we will never know him!
We will never know this guy, because he wants to get re-elected too badly
Who Is Obama?
First of all, he MAY not be a qualified US citizen. The SCUS(Supreme Court US)has agreed to hear one of several suits alleging that he is NOT eligible based on his original citizenship (Indonesian). While Democrats, Socialists, Communists, and other folks ponder this conundrum, the fact remains that he supposedly had about (100)days as a US Senator prior to campaigning for President. Who really knew who he was? NOT most of the nation. Even if his citizenship is validated, he is an inexperienced clod who lets Nancy Peolosi attempt to allow illegal aliens healthcare benefits, while he smiles. What a fraud! Wake up America, and toss this small fish back.
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