FOXNews.com – White House’s Acorn Cookies Surprises Republican Lawmaker

By Chad Pergram
Lawmaker sees ’stark symbolism’ in White House’s Christmas cookies shaped like nut sharing name with controversial community group

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“Bill Clinton redefined a two and a three-letter word,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said, a reference to Clinton’s denial of the Lewinsky scandal . “But from the man who wrote ‘The Audacity of Hope,’ we were [...]

White House Compares Gallup to ‘a 6-Year-Old with a Crayon’ Following Drop in Approval Ratings

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“I tell you, if I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said of the influential polling organization, according to Politico.
“If you look back, I think five days ago, there was an 11-point spread, now there’s a 1-point spread,” he continued. “I mean, I’m sure a 6-year-old [...]

My Big Fat Government Takeover – WSJ.com

Rule by the best and the brightest.
William McGurn:
Some mistakes are so big that only smart people are tempted to make them. One is the faith in Big Government.
We’ll see that in full force today, when Barack Obama gives another major address on the economy. On the generalities, there won’t be much real disagreement. But at [...]

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Subject: WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out !

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never [...]

‘Overexposed’ Obama begins to duck the WH press corps – Washington Times

By Joseph Curl
After months of what some critics called overexposure, President Obama has of late avoided questions from the White House press corps at large, closing the Oval Office to traditionally informal question-and-answer sessions with reporters and pulling back from the fast pace of news conferences he established when taking office.
The president, whose job-approval ratings [...]

7 stories Obama doesn’t want told – Yahoo! News

John F. Harris
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were [...]

Big Hollywood » Does Oprah Want to Be Vice President?

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She became the country’s first Black Billionaire, she has maintained the crown of Queen Of Daytime for the last 23 years, she’s built schools in Africa and convinced Americans to read whatever book she suggests, no matter how ridiculous. She even started her own magazine appropriately called “O” during a time when the [...]

Obama’s Unprecedented Regard for His Presidency – Politico

By: Carol E. Lee
The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”
Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action.”
What has followed is [...]

Obama: First Pacific President? | Newsweek

George F. Will:
Barack Obama’s irresistible, or at least unresisted, propensity for self-aggrandizement bubbled up yet again during his recent trip to the Far East when he proclaimed himself “America's first Pacific president.” Hearing this, Asians may have muttered about inscrutable Occidentals. Obama’s exercise in rhetorical grandiosity, while hardly his first, was exquisitely meaningless.
More: Newsweek.com.

Obama leaves WH clutching GQ mag — featuring himself…

H/T: Drudge
nar⋅cis⋅sism
- [nahr-suh-siz-em] –noun

1.
inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

2.
Psychoanalysis. erotic gratification derived from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.