[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... repeatedly called British Finance Minister George Osborne "Jeffrey" at the G8 summit, media reported on Thursday.
The U.S. president said three times that he agreed fully with "Jeffrey" during his presentation on G8 host Britannia's plans to crack down on tax evasion, leaving Osborne red-faced.
Realising his blunder afterwards, Obama joked that he had mistaken the chancellor of the exchequer for the U.S. soul singer Jeffrey Osborne, The Sun and the Financial Times reported.
"I'm sorry, man. I must have confused you with my favorite R and B singer," Obama was quoted as saying.
The chancellor, 42, bears little resemblance to Jeffrey Osborne, a 65-year-old African-American hit singer-songwriter known for his 1982 classic "On the Wings of Love".
The singer told Sky News television: "I was really delighted actually. I was really not aware that (Obama) was that much of a fan that he would call the chancellor Jeffrey Osborne.
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I like Madonna, Osama liked Whitney.
I like Ozzy, the Bammer likes Jeffrey.
[REESE'S "YOU GOT CHOCOLATE IN MY PEANUT BUTTER" COMMERCIALS here].
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Yeah, I can see how Obama could be confused, (Light me another Dubbie will ya brother Prez... hey got anymore Coke ? Past life catching up with you, son ?)
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Had Bush committed this gaffe, the press would have been overflowing with more of the "Bush is an idiot" theme. Obama shows all the intelligence of a waffle iron (especially if he is without his teleprompter or goes off his scripted remarks) and yet he gets a free pass from the leftist media. This has got to be remedied - we as a republic cannot continue to exist in liberty without a truly free press. And we no longer have a free press in the so called mainstream media; their self applied ideological shackles seem even more controlling than was the police state of the old Soviet Union.
Want criticism of a president, wait til a conservative is elected. The leftist mass media will go after him or her with the fervor of the SS on the night of the Long Knives, in their pursuit of a one party state and elimination of all dissenting political views.
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When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)
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Ah, Claire Daly, who every day makes Medea Benjamin look likea Ted Cruz acolyte. Unfortunately, she just elevated our little manchild to new heights.
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Obama is going back to his Irish roots? After all, he's denying he was born in Kenya.
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It is good that free speech and debate are alive in the Irish Parliament. I seldom see that in our Congress--Instead, I see a PC-muzzled bunch in the Congress and the press. There has been little to no questioning and debate of policy in an open way.
[NEWS.INVESTORS] The president of the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Teachers Union charges that racism and "rich white people" are to blame for the immense financial and educational crisis facing the Chicago Public Schools.
Tbe Chicago Public Schools (CPS) represent everything that is wrong with public education in America. They are in thrall to the unions that run the system and bankrupt it through bloated salaries and pensions while too many of the students trapped inside graduate as functional illiterates, if they graduate at all.
Poor academic performance generally, a huge budget shortfall and poorly attended schools in declining neighborhoods recently forced CPS to close 49 schools in an attempt to close a $1 billion budget gap. But according to CTU President Karen Lewis, the root cause is not the lack of educational competition or the inability to fire or reward teachers on the basis of student academic performance.
In a speech Wednesday before the upscale City Club of Chicago, Lewis asked, "When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos -- no matter what the parent's income or education level."
She decried members of the "status quo, the people who are running the schools and advising the mayor on how to best run our district, know what good education looks like because they have secured it for their own children in well-resourced, public and private institutions."
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Glad you are in Chicago, but we are waiting for you with open arms, brother.
You seem to be having a bad day. Why don't you step away from the computer for a while? Perhaps you could get in a little exercise, take in a movie, spend time with the family. Then come back when you're calm and refreshed.
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She's right too---if it wasn't for rich white liberals, she'd be a domestic and the kids would have somebody who actually can teach (even if, gasp, it was a white male).
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1 - never ever mention the middle and upper class blacks who took advantage of desegregation to flee the inner cities removing the social lid that had kept self destructive behaviors in check for generations.
2 - never ever mention the destructive effect not just of schools but also major cities of forced busing as people fled the lowering standards of discipline and academics in the education system.
3 - prove, however, that black racist can get away with the most outlandish slanders without consequences.
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"When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos -- no matter what the parent's income or education level."
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Black racists like her will never be held accountable for their racism by the leftist media. That' kind of scrutiny is reserved for enemies of the party.
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Wasting your life in a GUnion screwing with others out of self importance and ignorance. Apparently, the kids are stupid because of stupid people like you.
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Years ago during the years of the '70's, in my days as an educator consultant to elementary schools,(largely funded by federal funds, tho I worked for a private enterprise), Chicago was always a "what next?"
More than once, spent several days sitting, cause teachers were on a "sit-in" for what ever reason..... (Good for me, I got to tour Chicago)
Can't even begin to detail the meetings that were necessary before I was "allowed" to present to teachers.....
Seems nothing has changed since the '70's -- just more money now being spent....
It was in Chicago, in those days, that I had my second introduction to "The Teacher's Union."
The first was during my first teaching job, straight out of college. All this stuff about the state NTA (National Teachers Association) was having it's state conference. Whether or not I wanted to, I had to pay $20, had the day off, but had to attend the state meeting in Little Rock....
Couldn't get any of this "day off that was costing me $20" stuff to make sense to me..... but then again, I was just 20 years old..... with my questions, I learned quickly to "shut it up" and just go....
This same Chicago "leader" seems to have forgotten about The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC)-- a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001 that worked with half of Chicago's public schools and was funded by a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years from the Annenberg Foundation. The grant was contingent on being matched by $49.2 million in private donations and $49.2 million in public money.
On the board of this Annenberg Foundation were Bill Ayers and Obama --- seems no process was the result of these millions of dollars......
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