The 44th President of the United States has been sworn in!
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So what? We prefer to chose our leaders based on who writes a better speech ?
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Congratulations....
but it should be noted that he is not really an African-American, he is actually a Mulatto.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
Now let's wait for the papa and son to invite obama to singapore. time for them to carry to build good rapport, ha ah ha.
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
Was he talking about us?
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Originally posted by Meat Pao:
Congratulations....
but it should be noted that he is not really an African-American, he is actually a Mulatto.
he has got quite complicated background yeah.whatever, if he serves the people of USA and the world well, who cares. Let's watch his performance. Yesterday marks the start of him under close scrutiny.
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Originally posted by seotiblizzard:
He wont last more then 1 term i think.
You want to bet?
If you had read his books you will know that he is a fighter, not a quitter.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
Was he talking about us?
Not talking about us, talking about the old dictator lee, son and Pay and Pay. You miss the first part :To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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Whatever, this obama has more substance than any of the Pay and Pay members. His job is many times tougher than the lee hsien loong, the senile old lee, holely goh and all in Pay and Pay. Sounds a no nonsense man. Will just have to watch how he performs.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
Not talking about us, talking about the old dictator lee, son and Pay and Pay. You miss the first part :To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
I looked at the copious transcript of his speech and wonder how can he memorize all these without prompters.
The other people who can do this are the PRCs, I had PRC classmates who attempted to memorize management essays that are 3 pages long and they need to memorize like 30 answers.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
I looked at the copious transcript of his speech and wonder how can he memorize all these without prompters.
The other people who can do this are the PRCs, I had PRC classmates who attempted to memorize management essays that are 3 pages long and they need to memorize like 30 answers.
It takes one to be sincerely wanting things to happen to speak the way he did. I Obviously, he knows what he wants. I see substance, sincerity from the way he speaks. It also has to do with his background - training in law. do come across people speaking the way he did and personally I know that they really mean it.
Now we will have to watch his performance to see if it matches with what he spoke in the inauguration.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
compare the lee hsien loong and obama. lee hsien loong is no where near obama. lousy performance yet pay himself the highest salary. what a shame! lee hsien loong is the thickest skin pm in the whole world.
Then he is smarter than obama then .* I still stand neutral toward the lee family.
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"...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"?
You mean whatever's left of it?
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Indeed, 'change' we can believe in....
Washington's homeless told to move along for inauguration
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJuMxr4cypQQrwmAm7sZPm0lwC8w
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Before sunrise on Thursday, Frank Mearns will leave the place he calls home, a stone's throw from the White House, and join thousands of others in Washington who are upping sticks and moving out for the presidential inauguration.
But Mearns isn't about to make a quick buck by renting out his pied-a-terre. Nor is he heading out of town on an inauguration escape holiday.
He's one of Washington's army of homeless who are being cleared from the center of the US capital ahead of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama.
"There's a sweep on Thursday at 5:00 am," Mearns said.
"Everyone's got to be out of here and stay out until next Thursday," the 37-year-old said.
"Here" is a space on 14th Street and New York Avenue, in the heart of a zone in the center of Washington that will be closed to traffic and heavily policed during the inauguration.
"Here" is also home to Mearns and a dozen other homeless people each night.
Five of his fellow street dwellers work full-time but can't afford to pay the high rents in the Washington area. Another is a man who was displaced from his home in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. And there are a handful of women in the group.
"There's a lady who's been on the streets for 10 years and been raped seven times. She sleeps next to the guy from Katrina and if he's not here, she sleeps somewhere else. She sleeps here for safety. She doesn't know where she'll go next week," Mearns told AFP.
According to Michael O'Neill of the National Coalition for the Homeless, up to 1,200 people live rough in the security zone, including on Pennsylvania Avenue, the grand boulevard which the inaugural parade will march down.
The effort to clear the streets of Washington of its homeless population was unlike anything that former homeless man David Pirtle has witnessed.
"I was on the streets when George W. Bush had his second inauguration in 2005 and it was nothing like this. There were no large-scale sweeps. I slept on Pennsylvania Avenue the night before and the night after the inauguration," said the 34-year-old who now works for the National Coalition for the Homeless.
"But as hard as the administration is going to try to make this look sanitary, the homeless are not going to be invisible. You can't make 6,000-12,000 people disappear," he said, citing official figures for homelessness in Washington-proper and the greater metropolitan area, including suburbs in Virginia and Maryland.
A dozen shelters will be open round-the-clock in Washington from Sunday until Wednesday, the day after Obama takes office, to provide temporary housing for the homeless.
The shelters will be equipped with televisions, showing live coverage of Obama's swearing-in.
But they have only around 2,800 beds. And "things happen" in shelters, according to Mearns, who will be staying with an activist friend for the week.
Between one and two million people are expected to pour into Washington, a city of 400,000, for the inauguration, some paying tens of thousands of dollars a night for a hotel room and to attend lavish inaugural balls.
Given the huge numbers expected, unprecedented security measures are being put in place to try to ensure that the January 20 inauguration runs smoothly and safely.
"I don't fault the people who are putting this together for trying to make it a safe event because if there are a couple of million people crammed into the middle of Washington, it could be a target for something," Pirtle said.
"But you can do it and work with the community," he added.
Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty has estimated that the inauguration will cost the city some 47 million dollars (35 million euros), while Maryland and Virginia have estimated their outlay at 12 million and 16 million dollars respectively.
"We are showing our priorities as a nation: throwing a multi-million dollar party while trying to shovel our poor and our homeless under the carpet," Pirtle said.
"It's an inauspicious start to our new administration of hope that Obama wants to work for," he added, blaming city and security officials rather than the president-elect, who he said was "stuck in the middle.
Presidential Inauguration Committee spokesman Kevin Griffiths said he would "check what our interaction has been with the local authorities about the homeless," and stressed that the organizers have been at pains to make the historic investiture as inclusive as possible.
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Originally posted by Meat Pao:
Congratulations....
but it should be noted that he is not really an African-American, he is actually a Mulatto.
Whats a Mulatto?? Is it decaf?
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History tell us that most ,if not all,of US President were facing
down hill rating!!Can Obama escapes from this pattern?
inspired by
http://www.murdoconline.net/
sources--
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-presapp0605-31.html?r
Individual assessment of past Presidents are here.
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I must salute to Clinton who suffered minor rating ,after
teaching Intern smoking cigar in his own office!!
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wow--\
Cut!Cut! CUT!
Swear the Oath again,please,Mr President!!
Obama Takes His Oath of Office Again | 44 | washingtonpost.com
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Obama Takes His Oath of Office Again
Updated 8:31 p.m.
By Anne E. Kornblut and Michael D. Shear
President Obama took the oath of office -- again -- on Wednesday, out of what a White House lawyer described as "an abundance of caution.""We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday. But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time," said White House Counsel Greg Craig in a statement issued early Wednesday night.
Obama and Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts had both seemingly stumbled over the 35-word oath during Obama's swearing-in as president on Tuesday, leading some to question whether he had properly committed the Constitutionally-mandated speech act that made him president of the United States.
A president is required by the Constitution to say: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
At the inaugural, Roberts had mixed up the words, saying instead: "...that I will execute the office to President of the United States faithfully..."
And so, at 7:35 p.m. today, according to the White House pool report, Roberts re-administered the oath in the Map Room of the White House.
"We decided it was so much fun -- " the first time, Obama joked while sitting on a couch.
Obama stood and walked over to make small talk with a reporter as Roberts donned his black robe.
"Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts asked.
"I am, and we're going to do it very slowly," Obama replied.
The private swearing-in ceremony took 25 seconds.
After a flawless recitation, Roberts smiled and said, "Congratulations,
again.""Thank you, sir," Obama replied, to a smattering of applause.
"All right," Obama said. "The bad news for the pool is there's 12 more balls."
Posted at 7:56 PM ET on Jan 21, 2009 | Category: Barack Obama
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The retake Oath shall be posted in you tube!
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
This is obama telling the dictator lky and son, warning them. Hope he knows what LKY said about him not having the experience to be the President and how the old evil dictator view and comment on the west.
LKY'v view is outdated....just like an old dictionary......sorry to say that.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
CNN said that obama is very involved in writing his own speech though there is someone writing for him.
Typically there are speech writers that gather the first final draft. Sort of pen the ideas. But I believe all those domestics issue and the last part where he mention his father could not be served in the same resturant 60 yrs ago. these are injected personally. -
Originally posted by Arapahoe:
LKY'v view is outdated....just like an old dictionary......sorry to say that.
I absolutely agree with you. His views, style, thinking, attitudes are backdated. He is more of a liability to sg now though he contributed in his early days. He takes so much more away from the people than he really deserves. He turns greedy and evil.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
Typically there are speech writers that gather the first final draft. Sort of pen the ideas. But I believe all those domestics issue and the last part where he mention his father could not be served in the same resturant 60 yrs ago. these are injected personally.
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
You want to bet?
If you had read his books you will know that he is a fighter, not a quitter.
yes, I have observed him during these 2 yrs. this guy is freaking competitive. He literally strive on Challenges . A basketball player
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Originally posted by redDUST:
something totally unrelated; but interestingly, a snr perm sec here in sgp makes more $ in salary than the prez of the usa.
guess obama won't be going to any cooking school anytime soon....
You have to understand all the candidates that ran for US Presidential election they were already making millions before they joint public office. So they are not looking for $Dinero $Dinero to be in the White House.
The US President draws about US$400,000 a year before Tax.
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
So what? We prefer to chose our leaders based on who writes a better speech ?
You are missing the point.......that is why you end up with PAP that asked its citizens zillions...... -
Originally posted by Arapahoe:
You are missing the point.......that is why you end up with PAP that asked its citizens zillions......Heh. Or perhaps i understand the point more than you think.
LKY will die sooner or later, that's a biological fact. PAP will crumble sooner or later, history has proven no exceptions.
Will you be happy with whatever government we will get then? Hell no.