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Barack Obama and Government Motors

Monday, June 1st, 2009

As I pointed out on the day of the Sotomayor nomination, President Obama’s C-List administration staff has proven the old adage “As hire As and Bs hire Cs.” However, even the knowledge that a man with as little real accomplishment as Obama would only surround himself with people who make him seem distinguished by comparison [...]

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Via Tim Blair comes this gem:

One of the world’s greatest minds comes up with one of the world’s greatest ideas:

Steven Chu, the Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by US President Barack Obama as Energy Secretary, wants to paint the world white.
A global initiative to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so [...]

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From the department of pathetic ignorance or willfully not getting it (not sure which to file this one in yet) comes this clip of a CNN reporter shouting down a Chicago Tea Party attendee for not displaying the appropriate appreciation and gratitude to President Obama for his gift to the state of Illinois of billions [...]

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Over 11,000 veterans who received routine colonoscopies at three VA health centers are being warned to get blood tests for HIV, hepatitis, and other malignant viral infections in the wake of revelations that government-employed clinic staffers frequently neglected to sterilize the equipment between procedures.
Patients at the Veterans Affairs health centers in question — 3,260 in [...]

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Ordinarily a title like that would be far more attention-getter than accurate descriptor, but what else can we say when we see President Obama so shamelessly yukking it up at the expense of those suffering under his hapless, incapable “leadership” that a CBS reporter is forced to ask if his unseemly behavior is the result [...]

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