I’m not posting political stuff on LJ anymore.  I’ve moved all my commenting to a new place:

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAKluP7yIwJY
June 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits.
“It makes U.S. jobs ( Read more... )

Well this is interesting.  The most powerful woman in the world (D-Eyelift) is less popular than the left's Darth Vader (R-Wyoming).


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Obama says the US is one of the largest Muslim countries

The president said the United States and other parts of the Western world “have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.”
“And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world,” ( Read more... )

So earlier this week, Obama made his Supreme Court nomination.  Their initial strategy was to play up her personal story.  She’s a Puerto Rican raised by a single mom in a New York housing project, blahblahblah.  She’d be able to augment her legal expertise with “empathy” for the poor and downtrodden, as if that’s relevant at all.  But then details ( Read more... )

So it looks like the Russian “press” has a clearer idea of what’s happening in the states than our own media have.  I mean, if you look past the classic bashing of McDonalds and some of the other Soviet-style cliches and stereotypes about Americans, it’s pretty interesting.  Remember, the Russians have lived under Marxism and socialism.  They know ( Read more... )

Alrighty then.  Obama has nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court:
Sotomayor readily admits that she applies her feelings and personal politics when deciding cases. In a 2002 speech at Berkeley, she stated that she believes it is appropriate for a judge to consider their “experiences as women and people of color,” which she believes should ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's still a Republican, but the party needs to change and be more inclusive.

He endorsed Obama for president.  The most liberal member of the Senate, friend to Marxists, friend to domestic terrorists, member of an America-hating church, and the most unaccomplished person who ever ran for ( Read more... )

Wha?

WASHINGTON - President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private ( Read more... )

Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town- ( Read more... )