Wow! what kind of impact will this have on the economy as President Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.Nothing!!

Woodrow Wilson was the last President to win the prize.

President Obama gives his speech on global warming and also accepts the peace prize.

He defends the war efforts now,but he didn't during the running for office debates.

As you can watch and hear him talk,he contradicts his policy's constantly. 

 The dinner the president hosted was unique indeed,with 2 people crashing the party and having their pictures taken with top political leaders,plus another top official from yet another country.

If those people would have been associated with the Bin Laden can,we the people could have been looking at the biggest assasination of all times.

The president,vice president,chief of staff and many other high ranking politicians and leaders would have left us americans with a president,who most likely knows very little about how to run a country.

Thank God the people were just hungry!!!

I have never understood why we go and vote,when it turns out to be up to a bunch of Super Delegates,that will decide whom the President will be.I also can't figure out why the Democratic and Republican party's have such a different view on subjects such as Health Insurance.

I can see now why the Politicians don't do anything about what the people want,because they sit in the White House fighting over what they want.with a bunch of lobbiest's.Then get bought off and spend more Tax Payers money.

(quote)A government big enough to give you what you want,is big enough to take away what you have. Thomas Jefferson..

Another point in this Health Ins.debate is how are you going to make people living on the Streets of America pay a percentage of their Health care costs,when the majority of these folks sell scrap for a living to the Salvage Company's.Have you heard or seen one Candidate down on Skid Row talking to the Homeless people, asking them how America can help them get out of poverty?

Someone needs to ask the Candidate's how they are going to balance a budget that has risen to the Trillion Dollars rank,More than any Country in the World.I bet if you were to look up the Deeds on America's Buisness's you might be surprised who owns our Country!!So much said on this subject!!

The president went and lost the bid for the olympic games in Chicago,costing the tax payer yet more money for his plane trip and protection.

The peoople of Chicago would rather have jobs now than wait around for an olympic game. 

Why the grumbling? The bid's most visible opponents have spent years howling that the Olympics will breed graft and political corruption and bleed an already cash-strapped city dry. Chicago 2016's supporters, by contrast, have argued that the Olympics will improve the city's standing, create jobs, and boost local morale. The debate here wasn't best understood as an honest disagreement over what's best for Chicago. Rather, the rhetoric was indicative of a more fundamental clash: the eternal battle of jocks vs. nerds.

 The government is standing by with stimulus money, banker bailouts, homeowner aid, cash for clunkers, expanded health care and maybe more stimulus money. And most Americans will never have to pay an extra dime for any of this. Somehow, $9 trillion worth of government debt will just become somebody else's problem. And that problem will be our grandchildren's.

When he was campaigning, candidate Barack Obama dabbled with the "personal responsibility" theme, and in his acceptance speech in November he called for a "new spirit of sacrifice." But now that he's in office, there's less interest in such quaint ideas.

At what cost will this sacrifice be?

Starving people,global uprisings,big corporations taking over from other countries.

No health insurance,due to small buisness collapse because of insurance premiums rising for their workers. 

During Obama's prime-time news conference about health care reform in July, a reporter asked the president if ordinary Americans would have to give up anything in exchange for better, more widely available care. Obama's answer: "They're going to have to give up paying for things that don't make them healthier." Hooray! Something for nothing! He may as well have said, "Here's a magic pill that will make all your problems go away."

Like,please drink the magic cool aid folks,it will heal you...!!

President Obama signed the stimulus package today 2/17/09 in Denver,Colorado.

This is a first for Presidents as most bills are signed at the white house.

I read that all retired persons will get a check for $250 if they make under $75,000 a year.This adds up to 2 weeks worth of groceries for 2 people.

$8000 for a tax write off if you purchase a home.

The health bill will not help anyone who doesn't have a job,because they won't be able to make the co-payment if they go to the doctor.

All this money is going towards big spenders who don't care about the less fortunate as America will find out in the long run.

All you need to do is review Japans downfall in the 90s and you will see that this bill will not work unless we keep feeding money to the big companies,and paying higher taxes each year.

The problem here is the children of this great nation will have to figure a better wayout of this mess.

Why should we bail out people who throw parties in Vegas,and fly there in corporate jets,make multiple millions off the tax payers and don't give a damn who they step on.,but turn around and ask us too give them more money,while they are raising your interest rates on everything they can think of.

Ceo's bonus caps are a joke,all they have to do is give there ceo's another title and pay them millions more of your money.

Most home owners who have gone into foreclosure will never get their homes back,due to lost jobs and wages.Banks aren't going to wait for them to make up the back payments without charging them a hefty fee.  

"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.   We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he edited, or a single piece of legislation. He appears to be an empty vessel filled with the wishful thinking of those around him. But there is a real Barack Obama. No man - least of all one abandoned in infancy by his father - can conceal the imprint of an impassioned mother, or the influence of a brilliant wife.   America is not the embodiment of hope, but the abandonment of one kind of hope in return for another. America is the spirit of creative destruction, selecting immigrants willing to turn their back on the tragedy of their own failing culture in return for a new start. Its creative success is so enormous that its global influence hastens the decline of other cultures. For those on the destruction side of the trade, America is a monster. Between half and nine-tenths of the world's 6,700 spoken languages will become extinct in the next century, and the anguish of dying peoples rises up in a global cry of despair. Some of those who listen to this cry become anthropologists, the curators of soon-to-be extinct cultures; anthropologists who really identify with their subjects marry them. Obama's mother, the University of Hawaii anthropologist Ann Dunham, did so twice.   Obama profiles Americans the way anthropologists interact with primitive peoples. He holds his own view in reserve and emphatically draws out the feelings of others; that is how friends and colleagues describe his modus operandi since his days at the Harvard Law Review, through his years as a community activist in Chicago, and in national politics. Anthropologists, though, proceed from resentment against the devouring culture of America and sympathy with the endangered cultures of the primitive world. Obama inverts the anthropological model: he applies the tools of cultural manipulation out of resentment against America. The probable next president of the United States is a mother's revenge against the America she despised.   Ann Dunham died in 1995, and her character emerges piecemeal from the historical record, to which I will return below. But Michelle Obama is a living witness. Her February 18 comment that she felt proud of her country for the first time caused a minor scandal, and was hastily qualified. But she meant it, and more. The video footage of her remarks shows eyes hooded with rage as she declares:

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.

The desperation, frustration and disappointment visible on Michelle Obama's face are not new to the candidate's wife; as Steve Sailer, Rod Dreher and other commentators have noted, they were the theme of her undergraduate thesis, on the subject of "blackness" at Princeton University. No matter what the good intentions of Princeton, which founded her fortunes as a well-paid corporate lawyer, she wrote, "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."   Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama's campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. "I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There's Barack Obama the phenomenon. He's an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right? And then there's the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy's a little less impressive," she told a fundraiser in February 2007.   "For some reason this guy still can't manage to put the butter up when he makes toast, secure the bread so that it doesn't get stale, and his five-year-old is still better at making the bed than he is." New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported at the time, "She added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she'd like to meet him sometime." Her handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.   "Frustration" and "disappointment" have dogged Michelle Obama these past 20 years, despite her US$300,000 a year salary and corporate board memberships. It is hard for the descendants of slaves not to resent America. They were not voluntary immigrants but kidnap victims, subjected to a century of second-class citizenship even after the Civil War ended slavery. Blackness is not the issue; General Colin Powell, whose parents chose to immigrate to America from the West Indies, saw America just as other immigrants do, as a land of opportunity. Obama's choice of wife is a failsafe indicator of his own sentiments. Spouses do not necessarily share their likes, but they must have their hatreds in common. Obama imbibed this hatred with his mother's milk.   Michelle Obama speaks with greater warmth of her mother-in-law than of her husband. "She was kind of a dreamer, his mother," Michelle Obama was quoted in the January 25 Boston Globe. "She wanted the world to be open to her and her children. And as a result of her naivete, sometimes they lived on food stamps, because sometimes dreams don't pay the rent. But as a result of her naivete, Barack got to see the world like most of us don't in this country." How strong the ideological motivation must be of a mother to raise her children on the thin fair in pursuit of a political agenda.   "Naivete" is a euphemism for Ann Dunham's motivation. Friends describe her as a "fellow traveler", that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero. It is unclear why Soetero's student visa was revoked in 1967 - the fact but not the cause are noted in press accounts. But it is probable that the change in government in Indonesia in 1967, in which the leftist leader Sukarno was deposed, was the motivation.   Soetero had been sponsored as a graduate student by one of the most radical of all Third World governments. Sukarno had founded the so-called Non-Aligned Movement as an anti-colonialist turn at the 1955 Bandung Conference in Indonesia. Before deposing him in 1967, Indonesia's military slaughtered 500,000 communists (or unfortunates who were mistaken for communists). When Ann Dunham chose to follow Lolo Soetero to Indonesia in 1967, she brought the six-year-old Barack into the kitchen of anti-colonialist outrage, immediate following one of the worst episodes of civil violence in post-war history.   Dunham's experience in Indonesia provided the material for a doctoral dissertation celebrating the hardiness of local cultures against the encroaching metropolis. It was entitled, "Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia: surviving against all odds". In this respect Dunham remained within the mainstream of her discipline. Anthropology broke into popular awareness with Margaret Mead's long-discredited Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), which offered a falsified ideal of sexual liberation in the South Pacific as an alternative to the supposedly repressive West. Mead's work was one of the founding documents of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and anthropology faculties stood at the left-wing fringe of American universities.   In the Global South, anthropologists went into the field and took matters a step further. Peru's brutal Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerilla movement was the brainchild of the anthropologist

Efrain Morote Best, who headed the University of San Cristobal of Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, between 1962 and 1968. Dunham's radicalism was more vicarious; she ended her career as an employee of international organizations. Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. In the Muslim world of the 1960s, nationalism rather than radical Islam was the ideology of choice among the enraged. Radical Islam did not emerge as a major

political force until the nationalism of a Gamal Abdel Nasser or a Sukarno failed. Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States. There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. America has the great misfortune to have encountered Obama at the peak of his powers at its worst moment of vulnerability in a generation. With malice aforethought, he has sought out their sore point. Since the Ronald Reagan boom began in 1984, the year the American stock market doubled, Americans have enjoyed a quarter-century of rising wealth. Even the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 did not interrupt the upward trajectory of household assets, as the housing price boom eclipsed the effect of equity market weakness. America's success made it a magnet for the world's savings, and Americans came to believe that they were riding a boom that would last forever, as I wrote recently [1]. Americans regard upward mobility as a God-given right. America had a double founding, as David Hackett Fischer showed in his 1989 study, Albion's Seed . Two kinds of immigrants founded America: religious dissidents seeking a new Promised Land, and economic opportunists looking to get rich quick. Both elements still are present, but the course of the past quarter-century has made wealth-creation the sine qua non of American life. Now for the first time in a generation Americans have become poorer, and many of them have become much poorer due to the collapse of home prices. Unlike the Reagan years, when cutting the top tax rate from a punitive 70% to a more tolerable 40% was sufficient to start an economic boom, no lever of economic policy is available to fix the problem. Americans have no choice but to work harder, retire later, save more and retrench. This reversal has provoked a national mood of existential crisis. In Europe, economic downturns do not inspire this kind of soul-searching, for richer are poorer, remain what they always have been. But Americans are what they make of themselves, and the slim makings of 2008 shake their sense of identity. Americans have no institutionalized culture to fall back on. Their national religion has consisted of waves of enthusiasm - "Great Awakenings" – every second generation or so, followed by an interim of apathy. In times of stress they have a baleful susceptibility to hucksters and conmen. Be afraid - be very afraid. America is at a low point in its fortunes, and feeling sorry for itself. When Barack utters the word "hope", they instead hear, "handout". A cynic might translate the national motto, E pluribus unum, as "something for nothing". Now that the stock market and the housing market have failed to give Americans something for nothing, they want something for nothing from the government. The trouble is that he who gets something for nothing will earn every penny of it, twice over. The George W Bush administration has squandered a great strategic advantage in a sorry lampoon of nation-building in the Muslim world, and has made enemies out of countries that might have been friendly rivals, notably Russia. Americans question the premise of America's standing as a global superpower, and of the promise of upward mobility and wealth-creation. If elected, Barack Obama will do his utmost to destroy the dual premises of America's standing. It might take the country another generation to recover. "Evil will oft evil mars", J R R Tolkien wrote. It is conceivable that Barack Obama, if elected, will destroy himself before he destroys the country. Hatred is a toxic diet even for someone with as strong a stomach as Obama. As he recalled in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama idealized the Kenyan economist who had married and dumped his mother, and was saddened to learn that Barack Hussein Obama, Sr, was a sullen, drunken polygamist. The elder Obama became a senior official of the government of Kenya after earning a PhD at Harvard. He was an abusive drunk and philanderer whose temper soured his career. The senior Obama died in a 1982 car crash. Kenyan government officials in those days normally spent their nights drinking themselves stupid at the Pan-Afrique Hotel. Two or three of them would be found with their Mercedes wrapped around a palm tree every morning. During the 1970s I came to know a number of them, mostly British-educated hollow men dying inside of their own hypocrisy and corruption. Both Obama and the American public should be very careful of what they wish for. As the horrible example of Obama's father shows, there is nothing worse for an embittered outsider manipulating the system from within than to achieve his goals - and nothing can be more terrible for the system. Even those who despise America for its blunders of the past few years should ask themselves whether the world will be a safer place if America retreats into a self-pitying shell.

 Now the issue on health insurance.

Americans who are making a decent living by running their own buisness,will be going abroad if this health plan the president is propossing becomes law.

There is no way a small buisness can pay out more health coverage then they profit from their own sales.

For middle-class Americans, health insurance offers little protection. Most of us have policies with so many loopholes, co-payments and deductibles that illness can put you in the poorhouse real fast.

Say you get cancer and can't afford therapy,well there goes your home first and then all your worldly possessions next.Then the spouse or child passes,and all you have is the streets to live on.

And most generally no one gives a care about your well being from here on out.

You are just another floor mat for people to walk on.

San Diego - Hispanic voters are being courted with

unprecedented vigor ahead of November's presidential

election, amid rising prospects that they could be the

decisive bloc in several key battleground states.

Barack Obama and John McCain both seem keenly aware

of Hispanics' political growth spurt and of their potential to

turn the election, opening offices in Spanish-speaking

neighborhoods, trying to win over advocacy groups, and

targeting ads to Hispanics. Each is slated to talk to the

largest Hispanic rights organization in the US, the National

Council of La Raza (NCLR), during its annual convention

Sunday and Monday in San Diego.

"It's going to be a historic election ... because Latinos are

responding in an unprecedented manner to take part," says

Clarissa Martinez De Castro, director of immigration and

national campaigns for NCLR. "You can't get to the White

House anymore without building a relationship [with] and

being concerned about the Latino community."

While the political attention is generating a mix of excitement

and hope among Hispanics, many NCLR attendees wonder

if anything will change as a result. Will it ultimately bring

about immigration reform allowing for eventual citizenship

for many illegal immigrants, put more Hispanics in high-level

administration positions, help end discrimination, or ease the

plight of hard-working families coping in tough economic

times?

The level of expectation for movement on those issues, dear

to the heart of a majority of the Latino community, is likely to

determine whether Hispanics vote in larger-than-usual

numbers - and for whom. So far, say many NCLR

conference-goers from across the US, this election year is

ushering in a new era of Hispanic involvement in the political

process.

"This is a community that has matured and has the potential

to bring out people who any elected official would be

interested in," says Lori Saldaña, a member of California's

state Assembly and an Obama delegate to next month's

Democratic National Convention. Still, she says, the full

potential of the Hispanic vote is not yet realized because

many citizens aren't registered to vote. The community is

starting to stir politically, she says, but has yet to fully wake

up and be heard.

About 45.5 million Hispanics live in the United States,

making up 15 percent of the population. But because many

are not American citizens and cannot vote, they will amount

to about 9 percent of eligible voters in November, according

to a Pew Hispanic Center report from December. If earlier

voting trends hold, Hispanics will comprise only 6.5 percent

of overall turnout, the study found.

Despite the low number, this potential swing vote is

concentrated in a few hotly contested states.

Senator Obama last week was blunt about Hispanics'

importance: "This election could well be decided by

Latino voters." In the 2004 election, 40,000 Latinos

registered to vote in New Mexico didn't turn out, and

Democrat John Kerry lost the state by fewer than 6,000

votes.

A Hispanic surge for Obama could help deliver heavily

Hispanic Western states to him, says Matt Barreto, a

political scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle

who researches voter behavior.

A survey of 800 Latino registered voters in 21 states in early

June, which Mr. Barreto helped to conduct, found that 60

percent planned to vote for Obama, while Senator McCain

garnered 23 percent. The rest were undecided. A June 24

Associated Press-Yahoo News poll showed Obama leading

McCain among Hispanics, 47 to 22 percent, with 26 percent

undecided.

Presidential candidates paid little heed to Latino voters until

2000, when George W. Bush spent more to reach them than

did his Democratic challenger, Al Gore, Barreto says.

That election was the "turning point when both campaigns

and candidates did major and aggressive Latino outreach,

" he says. "Before, it was sporadic. It would happen here and there."

Immigration issues are not the most pressing ones for Hispanic

voters, says Barreto. His survey put immigration third on

their list of important issues, trailing jobs and the economy

and the war in Iraq.

"It's the economy, it's healthcare. These are the issues we

care about," says Reynaldo Casas, a public-relations director

with the Spanish music channel MTV Tr3s during an

NCLR panel on Hispanic youths, the media, and the coming

vote.

On those issues, McCain can make strides with Hispanic

voters, says Bob Pacheco, McCain's Latino coalition

chairman for California. His message about supporting

small-business owners and working to improve the economy

resonates throughout the Hispanic community, which is

hurting amid high gasoline prices and the housing crisis,

he says. "One thing that is very important in the Latino

community is jobs, having a small business, and taxes."

The Hispanic community is also religious - and often very

traditional on social issues, says Mr. Pacheco. McCain's

conservative message will win over this subset of Hispanics,

he predicts. President Bush won about 40 percent of the

Hispanic vote in 2004.

Still, immigration policy is a concern to many Hispanics,

who want the next administration to address it head on.

Assemblywoman Saldaña says McCain will have to

"dance a very interesting two-step to serve both his ...

Republican base and Latino families who are concerned

about raids and deportations."

Last month, during separate appearances at a conference of

the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed

Officials, McCain and Obama each pledged to make an

overhaul of US immigration policy a priority. McCain said he

wouldn't pursue the enforcement-only approach sought by

hard-line conservatives, while Obama accused McCain of

walking away from comprehensive immigration reform.

President Obama's ratings are dropping as his stimulus ideas are not working,and A.I.G. says they will give their ceo's a multimillion dollar pay raise again.

All this nonsense needs to stop before America goes down the tubes.

There are many more people walking the streets and many more people without jobs.

Now Obama wants to give more aid to Africa,I wonder where all this money is coming from.