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Stop the Presses! Obama Dislikes But Still Uses Media Cycle!

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By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

Peter Baker's piece in today's New York Times is actually pretty interesting, but the headline ("Obama Complains About the News Cycle but Manipulates It, Worrying Some") and lede are a bit goofy. Baker writes:

It has become his common lament. Challenged about difficulties with his economic or legislative programs, President Obama complains about the tyranny of “the news cycle,” pronouncing the words with an air of above-it-all disdain for the impatience and fecklessness of today’s media culture.

Yet after six months in office, perhaps no other president has been more attuned to, or done more to dominate, the news cycle he disparages.

That's the equivalent of saying: Robert Schlesinger complains constantly about the summer heat. And yet weeks into the annual heat wave, no other blogger has used air conditioning as much. Just because you don't like the atmosphere in which you're operating, you're not obliged to operate as if it didn't exist.

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Divide the Illegal population into groups based upon the legal population apportenment of the legal population. Create gov't sponsored work projects that are financed by Obama's Funding. BUT, give the funding to the states for control by the states. The Illegals are taxed. This influx of money will stimulate the local economies.

The Illegals are real people so we can't shoot them or deport them as there are too many. Doesn't matter how or who caused this mess so let's just fix the situation.

HOWEVER, ONE STIPULATION HAS TO BE THAT ONCE GRAMTED AMNESTY, THE FORMER ILLEGALS MUST SPEND THE MINIMUM OF FIVE YEARS IN THE US AS A LEGAL RESIDENT OF THE US BEFORE THEY CAN TAKE THE TEST FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP! THIS PREVENTS OBAMA FROM GRANTING THE ILLEGALS CREDIT FOR TIME SPENT LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AS AN ILLEGAL. This prevents Obama from creating a large voting block that would most certainly

vote for Obama in gratitude. The precident being that Presidents cannot vote themselves a pay-raise while in office.

This way states rights are preserved.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 11:19PM July 13, 2010

Not only does Obama swipe five hundred billion from Medicare and Social Security but then has the audacity to say that this will cause the trust funds to last longer. The unholy trio, Obama, Pelosi and Reid, have planned to fund the illegals with our money that we all worked for. Adding insult to injury, Obama at one of his last speech, Obama also said that the seniors their SS funds to live off of (as he denies the Seniors their SS COLA.) Congrats Mr Obama for screwing up just a few sentences, when you wanted everyone to be able to read 2700 pages of Garbage. When the economy is destroyed, he should be removed from office for not being to support our Constitution. Actually he is performing what he learned at his Father' knee. Maybe he will be made a Sheik in one of Middle Eastern Countries; maybe the one he bowed to, which could explain why he did that.

Cap & Trade..........I thought Obama didn't have the authority to obligate the United States to donate money for global warming BS that Al Gore; rather than have the American Citizens donate their hard earned dollars, why not the millions that Obama and Gore have in their bank accounts. So here we are millions of Americans out of work, illegals working at jobs that Americans could do, Obama is raising taxes, and so on.

It's a good thing that our politicians are working for the good of the country. The question is What country are our politicians working for???

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 12:45AM March 25, 2010

In a previous comment, I referred to the usage of a special Random Number Generator that is under gov't control. The main idea is that when a random number generator is turned on and a seed number is used to start the sequence, it produces the same sequence of numbers every time the same seed number is inserted, i.e., the ninth number is always the same based on the same design of the electronics for that particular random number generator.

An ID Card can be made up with a person's name and a thumb-print. The thumb-print can be broken down to a group of numbers the way the FBI uses to tranmit fingerprint data from one part of the country to another. This thumb-print number can be created and used as another seed number in the above mentioned random number generator. One can use the output number of the random number generator, such as the ninth number or any generated number as determined by the computer operator/

Now, combining the social security number gemeratored with the finger number generator e.g., the tenth number generated from the social securituy number generated; can be combined with the fingerprint number generator output ( THE 100TH REITERATION) WILL ALWAYS PRODUCE THE SAME NUMBER.)

Now combine the two numbers generated from the social security number and the fingerprint number generated from the fingerprint number generator to produce a new number combination of the outputs of the two generators; this resultant is now used as the new seed number which is unique and can not be the same if legitiable social security and fingerprint numbers were used.

Net result is that a counterfeit identity work card will be spotted immediately as an illegal trying to bypass the system; it makes no difference how good the counterfeit is.

If any one reads this, I challange them to disprove my proposal.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 11:48AM March 13, 2010

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of "White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters." E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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