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Home Front: Politix
Where Is Waldo Barack Obama?
Like I give a rat's ass - check out the level of whining and utter bullshit in this article - it's awesome, baby!
Just a small taste for you guys...

[MSN]...But the Boy Scouts speech really troubled him. Kids their age are the most impressionable group there is, Obama reminded friends at the time, likening them to sponges. If the president shoves a divisive political argument at them, that’s what they will absorb.
Something he knows all too well...
It was a very Barack Obama thing to get agitated about. Throughout his entire political career, he has attached an unusual degree of significance to storytelling, and he has often spoken of the importance of modeling what it means to be a good citizen. He had recently concluded a two-month stretch full of international travel and was just starting to settle into his post-presidency, and that week was a busy one in Washington ‐ Republicans were zeroing in on a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The Boy Scouts speech was relatively unimportant (mostly improvised, probably something Trump would forget about within a week), but perhaps it presented an opportunity. One of the most potent tools in Obama’s arsenal, as a retired president, is rhetoric. Even if he no longer enjoyed the bully pulpit, he could, if he wanted, fill the vacuum of moral leadership Trump had created (what's that supposed to mean? - ed.) and offer, to not only the Scouts but the entire country, a lesson in civics that no other Democrat is positioned to give.

But then he did another very Barack Obama thing: He decided to stay quiet.
BWHAAA HAAAA HAAA!
Where is Obama? It is a question much of the country has been asking over the last two years, sometimes plaintively. "Come back, Barack," Chance the Rapper sang in a Saturday Night Live sketch. "We all miss him," Kobe Bryant said, speaking for other athletes. Even former FBI director James Comey admitted to German interviewers this spring that he misses Obama.
You get the gist of it by now; the entire article is complete and utter codswallop...
Posted by: Raj || 06/26/2018 01:20 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's likely arranging his affairs to retire to a nice, peaceful country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/26/2018 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I still believe as time wears him down he will miss the power, the limelight. He will if not already turned to his drugs of choice. A confused male Maxine Waters with the very large mouth.
Posted by: Dale || 06/26/2018 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  "Where is Barack Obama?"

Who cares?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/26/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Not in the White House!

Other then that I really don't care.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/26/2018 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  A few blocks from the White House orchistrating the vile attacks against White House staff through out DC while leftist media outlets pump out smoke screen articles like thïs to make ït appear he is not even remotely involved.

These hostilities occured while he was in office and his fingerprints are all over the latest criminal stalking and harrassment activities.
Posted by: Snuting Oppressor of the Trolls6154 || 06/26/2018 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Most likely these hardcore leftists/criminals are exploring places that don't have extradition treaties with the U.S.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/26/2018 10:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Not in the White House!
Now, having said that, I have always seen him as a puppet of the Soros Machine™ and expect him to fade into obscurity as soon as his upkeep exceeds his usefulness. A Cindy Sheehan In Drag, down the Memory Hole with you!
Posted by: magpie || 06/26/2018 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Probably planning out his Netflix/Hollywood future since few will remember his political legacy in a year or two.
Posted by: ruprecht || 06/26/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Netflix where Hollywood paedos go to hide.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/26/2018 19:27 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep Introduces Bill to Abolish ICE
[Free Beacon] Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan (Wisc.) announced Monday that he is introducing a bill to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In a tweet, Pocan called out President Donald Trump "and his team of white nationalists," for misusing ICE so it can "no longer accomplish its goals effectively."

.@realDonaldTrump & his team of white nationalists, including Stephen Miller, have so misused @ICEgov that the agency can no longer accomplish its goals effectively. I’m introducing a bill to #AbolishICE & crack down on the agency’s blanket directive to target & round up people. pic.twitter.com/xhHsOHCdNH

‐ Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) June 25, 2018

"During my trip to the southern border, it was clear that ICE, and its actions of hunting down and tearing apart families, has wreaked havoc on far too many people. From conducting raids at garden centers and meatpacking plants, to breaking up families at churches and schools, ICE is tearing apart families and ripping at the moral fabric of our nation," Pocan said in a statement.

His press office said that his bill would create a commission to provide recommendations to Congress on how the US. can develop a more humane immigration system.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/26/2018 00:58 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His press office said that his bill would create a commission to provide recommendations to Congress on how the US. can develop a more humane immigration system.

How about building a huge fucking wall on our southern border?
Posted by: Raj || 06/26/2018 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Why not also just have a bill to eliminate pay for Americans and make their rent and land costs as high as possible for the benefit of the feudalists?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/26/2018 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't tell me -- he represents either Milwaukee or Madison.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/26/2018 6:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Let us face the rather obvious facts shall we? Our border situation can only be described as a conflict between nations. As in Middle Eastern and African conflicts, be it diamonds, gold, illicit drugs, cheap labor, or oil, the main catalyst is invariably someone's economic gain.

The continuation of the conflict ensures the continuation of economic gain. War and conflict are the business, and business is good.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/26/2018 6:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Madison, Rob.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/26/2018 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Pocan identifies as a progressive Democrat, and is a member of a number of organizations, including Wisconsin Citizen Action, the American Civil Liberties Union, Fair Wisconsin, Midwest Progressive Elected Officials Network, Clean Wisconsin, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades , Sierra Club, Southern Poverty Law Center, Colombia Support Network/Apartado Sister City Organization, and the Human Rights Campaign.

In the early 2000s, Mark Pocan spoke several times at RadFest, an annual Madison Wisconsin gather of communists, socialists, and progressive activists.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 06/26/2018 8:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Why doesn't he just be honest about it and introduce a bill to abolish the border?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/26/2018 10:02 Comments || Top||

#8  While Mexico elects hard leftists as over 100 right wing candidates were assasinated this year.
Posted by: Snuting Oppressor of the Trolls6154 || 06/26/2018 10:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Abolish the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Education AND the BATF First. Then we can talk about... Oh, yes, the DEA, too. Then we can discuss ICE.
Posted by: magpie || 06/26/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Bold talk from a state farthest from the problem.
Getting hoards of boat people from Thunder Bay?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/26/2018 16:07 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu: Character assassination against me and my family
Not just USA
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday blasted media outlets for publishing details regarding the investigations involving he and his wife Sarah.

"Channel 2 News airs false gossip every night and carries out character assassination on me and my family. Bolshevik propaganda that is full of stories from years past that never happened," Netanyahu said.

"For years they hid the wasting of billions by prime ministers and presidents from the left, yet when it comes to me they are conducting a campaign of character assassination over ice cream, take away trays, and false gossip," he continued.

"This demonization is done on a regular basis to the right, to the religious, to the traditional - to anything that is not what they are. It is clear why the public does not buy their nonsense!" said Netanyahu.
Sounds familiar?
Netanyahu's remarks were made following a TV report claiming that the Prime Minister was charged $6,000 for use of the mini-bar at the hotel in which he stayed in Moscow in 2010. The details were revealed in a recording that state witness Nir Hefetz played for police.
But no pissing hookers?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2018 05:45 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  G(r)omgoru, I don’t know if the Israel National News link is correct, but as you provided neither link nor put the source in brackets at the beginning of the article, I did the best I could. This is the other reason why we put the source in square brackets at the top of the text box; we started doing it back when those evil people in Las Vegas were threatening to take everything Mr. Pruitt owns.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/26/2018 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't put the link in? Sorry
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/26/2018 11:25 Comments || Top||



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