Monday, May 18, 2009

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KNOW OUR LEADERS:RISE OF ONE AND ONLY BARACKOBAMA.

jonah Goldberg devotes a good column to the thesis that Barack Obama believes in nothing more than he believes in himself. He collects quotes that illustrate Obama's adolescent grandiosity, a grandiosity that was dramatically on display in his treatment of Jeremiah Wright.






In a long New Yorker article Ryan Lizza documents the rise of Barack Obama in Chicago from community organizer to United States Senator. Lizza's article coincidentally demonstrates that Obama's grandiosity is a quality that can be traced through his years in Chicago. The entire article is worth reading. Below I've taken the liberty of highlighting excerpts that illuminate Obama's character and self-understanding during these years:

Ivory Mitchell, the ward chairman in Obama�s neighborhood, says of Obama that �he was typical of what most aspiring politicians are: self-centered�that �I can do anything and I�m willing to do it overnight.��

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Many people who knew Obama then remember him for his cockiness.

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{Obama secured the endorsement of state senator Alice Palmer to succeed her while she unsuccessfully sought the Democratic endorsement for a congressional seat and then refused to step aside to let her reclaim her position. Palmer filed a petition for a place on the ballot.] Obama was conciliatory about the awkward political situation, telling the Hyde Park Herald that he understood that some people were upset about the �conflict between old loyalties and new enthusiasms.� Privately, however, he unleashed his operators. With the help of the Dobrys, he was able to remove not just Palmer�s name from the ballot but the name of every other opponent as well. �He ran unopposed, which is a good way to win,� [former D.C. Circuit Judge Abner] Mikva said, laughing at the recollection.

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[Obama confronts welfare reform in the state senate.] In an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, published a few days after Clinton said that he would sign the welfare-reform bill, Obama talked about the Presidential campaign, saying that Bob Dole �seems to me to be a classic example of somebody who had no reason to run. You�re seventy-three years old, you�re already the third-most-powerful man in the country. So why? . . . And Bill Clinton? Well, his campaign�s fascinating to a student of politics. It�s disturbing to someone who cares about certain issues. But politically it seems to be working.�






Soon, Obama began writing a regular column��Springfield Report��for the Hyde Park Herald. In the first one, on February 19, 1997, he wrote, �Last year, President Clinton signed a bill that, for the first time in 60 years, eliminates the federal guarantee of support for poor families and their children.� The column was earnest and wonky. It betrayed no hint of liberal piety about the new law, but emphasized that there weren�t enough entry-level jobs in Chicago to absorb all the welfare recipients who would soon be leaving the system,

The new welfare law was one of the first issues that Obama faced as a legislator. �I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare,� he said, choosing his words with care during debate on the Illinois Senate floor. �Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems. But I�m a strong believer in making lemonade out of lemons.� Perhaps the law�s most punitive aspect was that it cut off aid to poor legal immigrants, a provision that Clinton, in his 2004 memoir, called �particularly harsh� and �unjustifiable.� The law that Obama helped pass in Illinois restored benefits to this group. (In a continuing effort to produce lemonade, Obama�s first ad of the 2008 general-election campaign says that he �passed laws moving people from welfare to work.�)

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[Tony] Rezko was one of the people Obama consulted when he considered running to replace Palmer, and Rezko eventually raised about ten per cent of Obama�s funds for that first campaign. As a state senator, Obama became an advocate of the tax-credit program. �That�s an example of a smart policy,� he told the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin in 1997. �The developers were thinking in market terms and operating under the rules of the marketplace; but at the same time, we had government supporting and subsidizing those efforts.� Obama and Rezko�s friendship grew stronger. They dined together regularly and even, on at least one occasion, retreated to Rezko�s vacation home, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

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In another episode that has Obama�s old friends feeling frustrated, Obama recently blamed his first campaign manager, Carol Anne Harwell, for reporting on a 1996 questionnaire that Obama favored a ban on handguns. According to her friends, Harwell was furious that the campaign made her Obama�s scapegoat. �She got, as the saying goes, run over by a bus,� Lois Friedberg-Dobry said.

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Obama�s subtle understanding of the way the city�s politics had changed�with fund-raising replacing organization as the key to victory�surely encouraged him in his next campaign. Almost as soon as he got to Springfield, he was planning another move. He was bored there�once, he appeared to doze off during a caucus meeting�and frustrated by the Republicans� total control over the legislature. He seemed to believe, according to colleagues at the time, that he was destined for better things than being trapped in one of America�s more notoriously corrupt state capitals.

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Obama made a serious misstep when, visiting his grandmother in Hawaii, he missed a crucial vote on gun-control legislation in Springfield. Even worse, on the day of the vote a column by Obama about how the gun bill was �sorely needed� appeared in the Hyde Park Herald, under the headline �IDEOLOGUES FRUSTRATE GUN LAW.�

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[Obama helped design his new senate district running from the South Side to the North.] The new district was a natural fit for the candidate that Obama was in the process of becoming. �He saw that when we were doing fund-raisers in the Rush campaign his appeal to, quite frankly, young white professionals was dramatic.�

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In the end, Obama�s North Side fund-raising base and his South Side political base were united in one district. He now represented Hyde Park operators like Lois Friedberg-Dobry as well as Gold Coast doyennes like Bettylu Saltzman, and his old South Side street operative Al Kindle as well as his future consultant David Axelrod. In an article in the Hyde Park Herald about how �partisan� and �undemocratic� Illinois redistricting had become, Obama was asked for his views. As usual, he was candid. �There is a conflict of interest built into the process,� he said. �Incumbents drawing their own maps will inevitably try to advantage themselves.�

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[Lizza reports that Obama supporter Bettylu Saltzman sought to recruit University of Chicago "Israel Lobby" Professor John Mearsheimer to the 2002 antiwar rally in downtown Chicago at which Obama was to speak. Mearsheimer was otherwise engaged. Obama spoke at the rally.] �Let me begin by saying that although this has been billed as an antiwar rally, I stand before you as someone who is not opposed to war in all circumstances,� he told the crowd. He then went further, defending justifiable wars in almost glorious terms. �The Civil War was one of the bloodiest in history, and yet it was only through the crucible of the sword, the sacrifice of multitudes, that we could begin to perfect this union, and drive the scourge of slavery from our soil. I don�t oppose all wars. My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton�s Army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow-troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain. I don�t oppose all wars.� It took some nerve to tweak the crowd in this way. After all, it was unlikely that many of the protesters knew who Obama was, and in a lengthy write-up of the event in the Chicago Tribune the following day he was not mentioned. Yet the speech reads as if it had been written for a much bigger audience.

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hot entertainment news!!!





Britney Spears answers the question on everyone’s minds in an exclusive interview with MTV: What the hell was she thinking?

The answer: Apparently she doesn’t know either.

“I sit there and I look back,” she says, continuing, “I’m a smart person, what the hell was I thinking?”

Britney opens up to MTV about the past two years in a 90-minute documentary tentatively titled For the Record.

“So much has gone on over the last couple of years and there’s a lot that people don’t know about me that I want them to know,” Spears told MTV News in a statement about the special. “I wanted to make this film because I started to feel like I wasn’t being seen in the light that I wanted to be seen in. This is an opportunity to set the record straight and talk about what I’ve been through and where I’m headed.”

Britney shares personal stories along with behind-the-scenes footage as cameras follow her to rehearsals, recording studios, press tours, her hometown, and the video shoot for her latest single,”Womanizer.”

For the Record airs Sunday, November 30 at 10pm ET on MTV, two days before the release of Spears’ sixth album, “Circus,” on December 2, her 27th birthday.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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Solar Chargers: A Green Energy Gadget Wonder

solar charger
With all of the innovations in today, it is very important for us to use the resources that we have to the fullest. That’s why one of the energies that we should utilize is solar power. If you plan to recharge your solar-powered device, then the Sunlinq is probably a good way to start.
The Sunlinq charger is very slim, with a measurement of about 13mm only. It is also lightweight compared to the other solar chargers available in the market, so one does not need to worry when he needs to recharge his gadget anytime of the day. The Sunlinq charger can easily be strapped to your car or bike, and you are ready to go.
Experts say that despite the compact size of the Sunlinq charger, this one still works just as good as other brands of solar chargers. There are some things worthy to take note of, though. This solar charger does not have any indicator that it is generating power while you are using it. Also, you can only use the charger whenever the sun is shining, since there are no batteries available with the solar charger which can store the energy that it accumulates whenever it is used. However, despite these problems, the Sunlinq solar charger is still a hit when it comes to campers, which has always been the target audience of the product. Known for its portability, this gadget will be of good use for those who are always out of town.

The one thing good about this is that its cost is only 95$.wow!!!!!

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HOLLYWOOD THIS WEEK!!


hey guys here are the top 10 movies of this month:


Title
1

Star Trek
Weekend gross: $75.2M

2

X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Weekend gross: $26.4M

3

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Weekend gross: $10.3M

4

Obsessed
Weekend gross: $6.5M

5

17 Again
Weekend gross
: $4.2M

6

Next Day Air
Weekend gross: $4.1M

7

The Soloist
Weekend gross: $3.9M

8

Monsters vs. Aliens
Weekend gross: $3.3M

9

Earth
Weekend gross
: $2.7M

10

Hannah Montana: The Movie
Weekend gross
: $2.2M


singh is king !!

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Only second indian PM to retain post


With the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) retaining power in the General Elections, Manmohan Singh has achieved the distinction of becoming the first Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to be returned after completing a full term in office.

Even as the politically underrated Manmohan Singh, equanimous in victory, spoke at the 10 Janpath residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, thousands of frenzied supporters shouted slogans, danced and exploded firecrackers on the streets.


"We have an obligation to the people of India to provide a stable and secular government," he added, underlining the two core themes that helped the Congress retain power in one of most fiercely fought electoral battles since independence 62 years ago.

He attributed the victory to the "visionary leadership" of party president Sonia Gandhi and to the hard work put in by Rahul Gandhi.

Gandhi, in turn praised Singh's leadership and lost no time in reaffirming that he would head the new government which is expected to be sworn in early next week.



Saturday, May 16, 2009

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