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TIME MAGAZINE 2012 PERSON OF THE YEAR: BARACK OBAMA

December 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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President Barack Obama has been named Time’s Person of the Year.

Managing editor Richard Stengel unveiled the magazine’s choice on Wednesday’s “Today.” He said it was remarkable that the president won two terms with over 50 percent of the popular vote as a Democrat. He also noted that Obama took office in an economic crisis, and credited him with creating a new political “alignment like Ronald Reagan did forty years ago.”

This is the second time that Time has chosen Obama. The magazine said it named him Person of the Year in 2008 for winning against the odds and becoming the first black president of the United States.

“For finding and forging a new majority, for turning weakness into opportunity and for seeking, amid great adversity, to create a more perfect union, Barack Obama is TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year,” Stengel explained in his note this year

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM BARACK OBAMA AND MC HAMMER ON SOCIAL MEDIA

November 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The election is over and Barack Obama has made history once again….And STILL…THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…BARACK OBAMA!! People who know boxing will appreciate that. Regardless of whether you are a republican or a democrat, you have to respect Obama’s marketing campaign throughout this election process. What have we learned from Obama’s campaign? We have learned that the ground game  is the key to victory. The republicans neglected the ground game and that is why they lost.

This is an election for the people, by the people. Therefore, if you get into the heads of the people early on in the game, you place yourself in better position to win. In addition to millions of email messages, tweets, facebook wall posts, the Obama team set up offices on the ground in key states, two years before election day.  Obama’s reps were knocking on doors long before Romney got his bearings together.

Before the existence of Itunes, MC Hammer recognized the importance of the ground game. He did not sit around and wait for a record label to sign him. In the late eighties, MC Hammer hit the ground game hard. He went out and sold hundreds of thousands of records, out of the trunk of his car. This is what helped him sign one of the most lucrative deals in music history.

Here are the top four social media lessons we learned from MC Hammer.
1.)    Innovate – Never think about the “what if’s”, instead take a risk. No such thing as too late or too old in social media. MC Hammer is now 50 years old, and he lectures in Stanford and Harvard about Social Media.
2.)    Perception – MC Hammer tweets about thirty times a day involving his career, business decisions and family. He knows that you will always have control on what others perceive of you. So always be mindful of your tweets and shout outs.
3.)    Dedication – If you embrace on the things that you want to do, then everything comes out naturally. Social media takes a lot of hard work and dedication. If you do it wholeheartedly, then you get more than what you expect.
4.)    Never quit – After his career ended, MC Hammer started showing up online. He had to do something more than just music. He got back up by diversifying and people appreciated him. Because he never quit. So never quit. As what MC Hammer said, “It’s too legit to quit”.

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TOM HEAD, JUDGE IN LUBBOCK COUNTY, TEXAS – OBAMA COULD TRIGGER CIVIL WAR

August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Texas Democrats are calling for the resignation of a Republican elected county judge who warned this week that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected.

“It’s really up to Judge (Tom) Head to do the right thing and resign and stop embarrassing Lubbock County,” said Kenny Ketner, who became the county Democratic Party’s chief Monday.

“I wish we were getting worldwide attention for something better than a crazy county judge,” Ketner told CNN. “But what are you going to do?”

There is no recall process for Head’s office in Texas, Ketner said.

The county’s Republican Party chief, Carl Tepper, accused the Democrats of “opportunism” and said he had called Head and left him a message offering “moral support.”

“I don’t agree with him, but everyone has their opinion,” Tepper said. “I can respectfully disagree with him and he can still be an elected official.”

While Tepper said he had not heard from state Republican Party chiefs, the Texas Democratic Party did weigh in with a statement.

“This nonsense is what passes for mainstream in today’s Republican Party,” the statement said. “It’s not only ridiculous, it’s dangerous. It’s crystal clear that Judge Head should resign.”

In remarks this week, Head called for a well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops that he said Obama might bring in.

The comments by Head, who oversees emergency planning efforts, were broadcast by CNN affiliate KJTV. He made similar remarks on radio station FOX Talk 950.

Saying that as the county’s emergency management coordinator he has to “think about the very worst thing that can happen and prepare for that and hope and pray for the best,” Head told radio host Jeff Klotzman that he believes “in this political climate and financial climate, what is the very worst thing that could happen right now? Obama gets back in the White House. No. God forbid.”

Referring to unexplained “executive orders” and other documents that Obama and “his minions have filed,” Head said, “regardless of whether the Republicans take over the Senate, which I hope they do, he is going to make the United States Congress and he’s going to make the Constitution irrelevant. He’s got his czars in place that don’t answer to anybody.”

Obama, Head said, will “try to give the sovereignty of the United States away to the United Nations. What do you think the public’s going to do when that happens? We are talking civil unrest, civil disobedience, possibly, possibly civil war. … I’m not talking just talking riots here and there. I’m talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms, get rid of the dictator. OK, what do you think he is going to do when that happens? He is going to call in the U.N. troops, personnel carriers, tanks and whatever.”

Head vowed to personally stand “in front of their personnel carriers and say, ‘You’re not coming in here.’ And I’ve asked the sheriff. I said, ‘Are you going to back me on this?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to back you.’ Well, I don’t want a bunch of rookies back there who have no training and little equipment. I want seasoned veteran people who are trained that have got equipment. And even then, you know we may have two or three hundred deputies facing maybe a thousand U.N. troops. We may have to call out the militia.”

Sheriff Kelly Rowe told KJTV there had been no conversation about such a civil war scenario. The two have discussed contingencies for emergency management, he said.

KJTV reported that the warning was linked to taxes. Head “indicates a tax increase is needed to shore up law enforcement to protect us,” the station reported, adding that a tax increase is under consideration that “would largely benefit the district attorney and sheriff’s offices. But the emphasis is more on salary competitiveness than doomsday scenarios.”

Head made his controversial remarks Tuesday.

On Wednesday at a county commissioner meeting, he emphasized that his remarks were about “worst-case scenario in my opinion,” and added, “Do I think those are going to happen? Probably not.”

Also Wednesday, he told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, “I cannot divorce my theology and my philosophy from me, from my office, you know? I am pro-life, I am pro-gun rights, and if you’re going to vote for me and say you don’t believe in gun rights, you don’t want me in office, so you won’t vote for me.”

County Commissioner Gilbert Flores told KJTV he was “ashamed” of Head’s remarks, and told the judge, “I think you better plan to go fishing pretty soon.”

Attorney Rod Hobson jokingly put up U.N. flags outside his Lubbock office, KJTV reported. “When I saw the story I thought, once again, Lubbock is going to be the laughingstock of the entire nation,” Hobson said. “What makes it so sad is he is our elected county judge, who is in charge of a multimillion-dollar budget. That is scary. It’s like the light’s on, but no one is home. … I’d just like to think he’s off his meds.”

But video from the Wednesday meeting showed at least one citizen supporting him. “Judge Head, thank you, and God bless,” the citizen said.

Head did not respond to e-mail or phone calls to his office on Thursday.

Both Ketner of the county Democratic Party and Tepper of the county Republican Party said they have received calls from people on both sides of the issue.

While many callers to Ketner have asked if there is any way to boot him from office, some have said they support the judge, Ketner said.

Tepper said Republicans are split over the issue. “There’s quite a divergent mix of views” within the party, he said. “Some people are very staunch defenders of Judge Head. And some people don’t appreciate how he said what he said.”

Democrats are pushing for members of the public to show up Monday to a county commission budget meeting. “Normally, nobody shows up,” Ketner said.

But given the attention Head’s remarks are getting, this meeting just might draw a crowd, he said.

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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS OBAMACARE!: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU?

June 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the controversial health care law championed by President Barack Obama in a landmark decision that will impact the November election and the lives of every American.

The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act means that the predictions about how it will affect all Americans remain in place.

Here are some highlights:

The uninsured

The decision leaves in place the so-called individual mandate — the requirement on Americans to have or buy health insurance beginning in 2014 or face a penalty — although many are exempt from that provision.

In 2014, the penalty will be $285 per family or 1% of income, whichever is greater. By 2016, it goes up to $2,085 per family or 2.5% of income.

The insured

Because the requirement remains for people to have or buy insurance, the revenue stream designed to help pay for the law remains in place. So insured Americans may be avoiding a spike in premiums that could have resulted if the high court had tossed out the individual mandate but left other requirements on insurers in place.

Young adults

Millions of young adults up to age 26 who have gained health insurance due to the law will be able to keep it. The law requires insurers to cover the children of those they insure up to age 26. About 2.5 million young adults from age 19 to 25 obtained health coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Two of the nation’s largest insurers, United Healthcare and Humana, recently announced they would voluntarily maintain some aspects of health care reform, including coverage of adult dependents up to age 26, even if the law was scrapped.

People with pre-existing conditions

Since the law remains in place, the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing medical conditions remains active.

The law also established that children under the age of 19 could no longer have limited benefits or be denied benefits because they had a pre-existing condition.

Starting in 2014, the law makes it illegal for any health insurance plan to use pre-existing conditions to exclude, limit or set unrealistic rates on coverage.

It also established national high-risk pools that people with such conditions could join sooner to get health insurance. As of April, a total of only about 67,000 people were enrolled in federally-funded pools established by the health care law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

More than 13 million American non-elderly adults have been denied insurance specifically because of their medical conditions, according to the Commonwealth Fund. The Kaiser Family Foundation says 21% of people who apply for health insurance on their own get turned down, are charged a higher price, or offered a plan that excludes coverage for their pre-existing condition.

All taxpayers

No matter what the Supreme Court had decided, it would have been a mixed bag for all Americans when it comes to federal spending. There is heated dispute over what impact the health care law will have on the country over the long term.

The federal government is set to spend more than $1 trillion over the next decade to subsidize coverage and expand eligibility for Medicaid. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the law could reduce deficits modestly in the first 10 years and then much more significantly in the second decade.

The CBO said a repeal of the mandate could reduce deficits by $282 billion over 10 years, because the government would be subsidizing insurance for fewer people. But the nation faces costs in various ways for having people who are uninsured. The Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center estimated that without a mandate, 40 million Americans would remain uninsured.

Meanwhile, the Flexible Spending Accounts that millions of Americans use to save money tax-free for medical expenses will be sliced under the law. FSAs often allow people to put aside up to $5,000 pre-tax; as of 2013, they were to face an annual limit of $2,500.

Small business owners

The rules and benefits small business owners face as a result of the health care law remain in place.

As CNN has chronicled, the law brought a mix of both. The director of the National Federation of Independent Business is one of the plaintiffs who pushed the court to strike down the law. Meanwhile, a group called Small Business Majority fought to protect the law, saying its loss could be a nightmare.

As of 2014, under the law, small firms with more than 50 full-time employees would have to provide coverage or face expensive fines.

All Americans, in lesser known ways

The massive health care law requires doctors to report goodies they get from medical supply companies; demands more breastfeeding rooms; requires all chain restaurants to list calories under every menu item, and includes numerous other provisions, which now remain in place.

Doctors and other health care providers

Health care providers have already begun making changes based on the 2010 law, and in preparation for what will go into effect in 2014. Those plans continue.

In the short term, doctors avoid “chaos” that may have resulted from the law suddenly being dropped or changed, according to Bob Doherty, senior vice president of governmental affairs at the American College of Physicians, who wrote a blog post on the website kevinmd.com this spring.

Medical groups have disagreed over the law.

From CNN.com

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BARACK OBAMA REACTS AS SUPREME COURT STRIKE’S DOWN ARIZONA IMMIGRATION LAW

June 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Both President Obama and his critics found things to like about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Arizona immigration ruling, and both said it points to the need for new national legislation on the issue.

In a statement saying he is pleased, Obama cited the fact that the court struck down most of Arizona’s law, including a provision that allowed police to stop people on suspicion of being illegal immigrants.

“What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform,” Obama said. “A patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration system — it’s part of the problem.”

In another statement, Gov. Jan Brewer, R-Ariz., praised the part of the court’s decision upholding a provision allowing officers to check the papers of suspected illegal immigrants, calling it “a victory for the rule of law.

“It is also a victory for the 10th Amendment and all Americans who believe in the inherent right and responsibility of states to defend their citizens,” Brewer said.

The court ruled in the midst of a presidential campaign in which immigration — and the growing Hispanic vote — is playing a major role in the race between Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Romney, who is doing fundraising in Arizona today, said the decision underscored the need for a new immigration law, something he said Obama has failed to deliver. He did not address the specifics of the Supreme Court ruling.

“I believe that each state has the duty — and the right — to secure our borders and preserve the rule of law, particularly when the federal government has failed to meet its responsibilities,” Romney said.

Obama has said that congressional Republicans, pushed by their Tea Party allies, have blocked a comprehensive immigration bill.

On a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court objected to a part of the law that had given police officers wide latitude to stop people suspected of illegal immigration.

The justices did uphold an Arizona provision that said police officers must check the immigration status of people they detain or arrest before they can be released; the court also said this rule could be subject to future challenges if it is enforced in a discriminatory manner.

The court struck down parts of the law requiring all immigrants to carry registration papers, making it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job, and allowing police to arrest people without warrants upon suspicion of being illegal immigrants.

Justice Elena Kagan — appointed by President Obama — did not participate in the decision because she had been involved in the case as Solicitor General.

The Obama administration sued Arizona over the law, variations of which have been passed in five other states: Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.

The Arizona law intensified a political clash over immigration policy.

One side — including many Republicans — want to tighten border protection; the other — including Obama — wants to combine tighter borders with a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already in the United States.

The law also produced a highly publicized, finger-wagging dispute between Obama and Gov. Brewer, who signed the Arizona immigration plan into law.

Obama said immigration problems require a comprehensive national approach, rather than a piecemeal, state-by-state approach such as the one in Arizona.

Brewer and other proponents of the law said Arizona had to act because the federal government has shirked its responsibilities.

Earlier this month, Obama said his administration will stop deportations of the children of illegal immigrants.

Romney, who backs many of the GOP calls for an enforcement approach, has not said whether he would repeal Obama’s order, saying he would pursue a complete overhaul of immigration policy.

From USA Today

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ANN COULTER: THE MOST VILE WOMAN ON EARTH

June 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

There is politics and there are areas that just a no-go. I found this article a little while ago on Veracity Stew, and although it is one person’s opinion, I can’t help but agree. Young children are off limits when it comes to political battle.

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Let me just start by saying that Ann Coulter is one of the most vile human beings walking the earth. The woman is so full of hate and spite, and her latest comments are indicative of the pure blackness that inhabits the area where a soul should be.

Speaking on Sean Hannity’s program Coulter suggested that President Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, should become targets for the Romney campaign:

HANNITY: I don’t think that it’s ever funny to make fun of — like your buddy [Bill] Maher did — the children of Rick Santorum or Gov. Palin in the manner he did.

COULTER: That’s right, and they do go after the children. I just say that going after the children generally ought to be off limits. It has not been off limits for Republicans, though, conservatives have taken the Obama children off limits.So maybe it’s time to start imitating liberals in another way and go after the Obama children. By the way, that has been done grotesquely and viciously over the years by the left.

This coming from the side that feels it’s acceptable to call women sluts and prostitutes, from the side that spits on African-American lawmakers, and from an anchor, Hannity, who’s defended some of the worst and most violent hate speech against the president. Both Hannity and Coulter have defended this kind of behavior from people like Rush Limbaugh, who has already made a habit of attacking the Obama girls:

In June 2010, Limbaugh mocked Malia Obama, and in an apparent attempt to imitate her, asked: “Daddy? Did you shake down BP yet, Daddy? Are you going to make them pay, Daddy?” Limbaugh was referring to a remark Obama made during a May 2010 press conference, in which he said that Malia had asked him of the Gulf oil spill: “Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?”

A month later, Limbaugh did it again. Affecting a child’s voice once again, Limbaugh mocked Malia Obama, saying, “Daddy, Daddy, did you plug the leak, yet, Daddy? Did you plug the hole?” 

Ultimately, this is par for the course for Coulter. She’s attacked people like the 9/11 widows, she’s advocated for murder in order to intimidate liberals, and she is simply a horrible, atrocious, despicable human being.

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VIDEO: BARACK OBAMA FIGHTS BACK: SAY’S TO INETRRUPTER – DON’T ASK A QUESTION WHEN I’M TALKING!

June 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

President Barack Obama did not respond kindly Friday to an interruption during his Rose Garden announcement of new immigration rules, telling the man shouting that it was neither the time nor the place to field questions.

The reporter, who was wearing a temporary press badge, was identified as Neil Munro from the conservative website the Daily Caller. He later told CNN, “I have to ask the questions you all won’t ask,” referring to the reporters gathered who regularly cover the White House. –

“Excuse me sir, it is not the right time for questions sir,” Obama said as Munro shouted questions. “Not while I’m speaking.”

“The next time I prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask your question,” Obama said later in his remarks. “I didn’t ask for an argument, I’m answering your question.”

Munro asked Obama, “What about American workers who are unemployed while you employ foreigners,” suggesting the policy change would lead to the employment of illegal immigrants.

“Here’s the reason: because these young people are going to make extraordinary contributions, and are already making contributions to our society,” Obama replied at the end of his remarks. “I’ve got a young person who is serving in our military, protecting us and our freedom. The notion that in some ways we would treat them as expendable makes no sense. If there is a young person here who has grown up here and wants to contribute to this society, wants to maybe start a business that will create jobs for other folks who are looking for work, that’s the right thing to do.”

When the president finished his comments, he turned and headed back into the Oval Office ignoring any further questions.

In statements published together, representatives for the Daily Caller portrayed the incident in several ways. Munro wrote that he miscalculated the ending of Obama’s speech, while the site’s editor-in-chief and publisher praised their reporter for his dogged attempt at an answer.

“I always go to the White House prepared with questions for our president,” Munro wrote. “I timed the question believing the president was closing his remarks, because naturally I have no intention of interrupting the President of the United States. I know he rarely takes questions before walking away from the podium. When I asked the question as he finished his speech, he turned his back on the many reporters, and walked away while I and at least one other reporter asked questions.”

Tucker Carlson, the conservative cable news pundit who in the Daily Caller’s editor-in-chief, said his organization was proud of Munro.

“A reporter’s job is to ask questions and get answers. Our job is to find out what the federal government is up to. Politicians often don’t want to tell us. A good reporter gets the story. We’re proud of Neil Munro,” Carlson wrote.

The Daily Caller’s publisher said Munro’s questioning was not intended to be “heckling.”

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BILL CLINTON IS “VERY SORRY” OVER OBAMA TAX CUT COMMENTS

June 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Loose lips threaten to sink the democratic ship!! This is what happens when people go on TV and talk without thinking the points through. Republicans have jumped on Bill Clinton’s comments over President Obama’s tax cuts, to Wolf Blitzer,  and are using them as ammunition against President Barack Obama. Think…Think…Think… before you speak.

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Bill Clinton regrets the swirl over comments he made earlier in the week in which he appeared to suggest he would be open to extending the so-called Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the former president said Thursday.

“I’m very sorry about what happened,” Clinton said in an interview to air on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” “I thought something had to be done on the ‘fiscal cliff’ before the election. Apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year.”

Republicans seized on Clinton’s remarks this week when he said lawmakers will likely put off a series of major spending and budget decisions. They argued the former president was siding with many in the GOP who call for the extension of the controversial tax cuts largely opposed by Democrats.

“[Congress] will probably have to put everything off until early next year,” Clinton said Tuesday during an interview with CNBC. “That’s probably the best thing to do right now.”

The “fiscal cliff” consists of measures set to begin in January that would remove more than $500 billion out of the economy in 2013 alone. Those measures include the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and protection of the middle class from the Alternative Minimum Tax, the onset of $1 trillion in blunt spending cuts, and a reduction in Medicare doctors’ pay.

On Thursday, however, Clinton argued that he, in fact, supported President Barack Obama’s position, which calls for an end to the tax cuts only for those making $250,000 or more.

The former president emphasized he was mistaken about the timing of the fiscal cliff when he made his comments, thinking it would happen before the November election, rather than at the beginning of next year.

“I really was under the impression that they would have to do something before the election, and I was trying to figure out how they would kick it to last (through) the election,” he said.

He continued: “Once I realized that nothing had to be done until the first of the year, I supported (Obama’s) position. I supported extending them last year, but I think his position is the right one and necessary for working out a comprehensive (deficit reduction) deal.”

The comments marked the second time Republicans pounced on Clinton in a week, trying to use his own words against Obama.

The former president last week complimented Mitt Romney’s private equity career in an interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight,” which raised eyebrows among Democrats who have been using Romney’s corporate history as an attack against the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Last week, Clinton described Romney as a successful businessman and nodded to his “sterling” career.

Clarifying his remarks Thursday, Clinton said that just because he thinks Romney did well in the private sector doesn’t mean he deserves to be elected president.

“You can be successful in business…if your shareholders do well,” he said. “You can only be successful as president if the shareholders, the employees, the customers, and the communities do well–all of the constituencies of American market economics.”

While Clinton has attended several top fundraisers for Obama this cycle, some critics argue Clinton’s recent slip-ups are attempts to undermine the current president. Asked about his relationship with Obama, Clinton did not directly comment on his personal views of the president but pointed to his record of campaigning for him, instead.

“Look in 2008, when he ran for president and defeated Hillary in the primaries, I did 40 events for him. 40 in the election,” he said.

He then said he repeatedly argues the president has “done a good job, a really good job under very trying circumstances” and stressed that he is “strongly committed” to Obama’s re-election.

Thursday’s interview came the same day a new CNN/ORC International poll indicated 66% of Americans hold a favorable view of Clinton, while 31% give him an unfavorable rating.

The former two-term Democratic president’s favorable rating bottomed out in CNN polling at 51% in June of 2008, after Clinton took a very active role in advocating for his wife in her historic battle with Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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WHEN DUMB CELEBRITIES ATTACK: AMANDA BYNES DRUNK TWEET’S BARACK OBAMA

June 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We know President Barack Obama ran on the “Yes, we can” platform,  but we’re not sure that extends to firing a police officer per a starlet’s request.

Actress Amanda Bynes tried her luck anyway, asking the president via Twitter if he could get rid of the officer who arrested her on suspicion of driving under the influence in April.

The 26-year-old was booked and later released after she got into a fender-bender with a marked black-and-white patrol car while driving her black BMW around Hollywood. She was officially charged with driving under the influence on June 5, which perhaps prompted her to reach out to POTUS:

“Hey @BarackObama,” she wrote Tuesday. “I don’t drink. Please fire the cop who arrested me. I also don’t hit and run. The end.”

Bynes reportedly entered a not guilty plea at an arraignment on Wednesday, which sounds about right, seeing that she issued a similar statement on her Twitter account at the end of May.

“I was not in any hit and runs,” she wrote. “I don’t drink so the DUI is false.”

The president (or his staff) has yet to tweet a response

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LESBIAN AND GAY SUPPORTERS OF BARACK OBAMA RAISE INSANE AMOUNTS OF MONEY

June 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This just in…if you show me love, I will show you love right back!! This is the reason for the INSANE amounts of money raise by the Lesbian Gay and Transgender for Brack Obama’s presidential campaign.

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After President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, a group organizing a fundraiser on his behalf suddenly had to find a bigger venue. The event, featuring the pop singer Pink, is one of two LGBT-organized fundraisers Obama is expected to attend on the West Coast on Wednesday.

A CNN analysis of President Obama’s biggest fundraisers, known as bundlers, shows that at least 33 — or about one in every 16 bundlers — is openly gay. Together, they have raised at least $8 million for the campaign between January and the end of March.

By contrast, in the same period, bundlers from the television, movie and music industry, some of whom attended a recent high-profile fundraiser hosted by actor George Clooney, raised $6.8 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

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While campaign finance laws require donors to disclose their full names, addresses, occupations and employers, there is no box to check for sexual orientation. Nor does the law require candidates to release information about their bundlers. Under prodding from watchdog groups, presidential campaigns have released bundler data in past elections. Obama’s campaign has released its list. Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign has not.

In CNN’s analysis, only bundlers who have disclosed their orientation in past CNN reporting or in trusted LGBT publications were counted as gay. The Washington Post has reported that as many as one in six bundlers supporting Obama are gay. The Advocate Magazine estimates one in five.

Glancing down the names on the bundlers list released by the Obama campaign for the first quarter, it is easy to find people known for their work on behalf of the LGBT community.

Tim Gill, a software entrepreneur who runs a large Colorado-based foundation that backs gay rights projects, has already contributed $672,800 with his partner Scott Miller to the Obama for America campaign. Fred Eychaner, who owns the Chicago-based Newsweb Corp., has donated $1,220,550 so far.

He co-hosted a $35,800-per-person LGBT organized fundraiser for Obama in February. Kathy Levinson, the former president and CEO of the Menlo Park, California-based Etrade, gave $202,150. The LA Gay and Lesbian Center Women’s Night named Levinson a “Community Role Model” in 2000. She was instrumental in raising money to stop the anti-same-sex marriage law in California.

Donations made after Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage May 9 won’t be released until mid-June, when the campaign files its second-quarter reports with the Federal Election Commission.

Many LGBT bundlers have maintained a close relationship with the president throughout his first term. A state dinner in March was attended by bundlers Gill; Eychaner; Barry Karas, a former Human Rights Campaign board member; James (Wally) Brewster, senior vice president of General Growth Properties, a real estate investment trust that owns and operates shopping malls; Dana Perlman, a corporate lawyer who has served as co-chair of the Obama/DNC LGBT Leadership Council; Joseph Falk, a Miami mortgage broker and others.

Support for Obama from the LGBT community was challenged after the initial excitement of his first campaign, largely because of what was perceived as his lukewarm support on same-sex marriage. Some say a low point came during the election in 2008, when evangelist pastor Rick Warren asked Obama how he defined marriage and he called it “a union between a man and a woman.” He added: “For me as a Christian, it is a sacred union. God’s in the mix.” He further angered the community by picking Warren to deliver his invocation at the presidential inauguration.

Actor Alan Cumming wrote in 2010, “We keep hearing that Obama is an ally, that DADT [the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy that kept LGBT people from openly serving in the military] will end under his watch, but what do we actually get? Diddly squat.”

Dustin Lance Black, who won a best screenplay Oscar for “Milk,” a movie biography of the gay San Francisco politician Harvey Milk who was gunned down because of his sexual orientation, said last year that he had been an Obama supporter before but might sit out the upcoming election. When President Obama finally signed the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and “evolved” in his position on marriage by saying he was in favor of it for the LGBT community, both Black and Cumming did more than just say they supported the president. They donated money. They also encouraged others to do the same.

David Mixner, who started one of the first LGBT-themed PACs in the late 1970s, said the community has come a long way in being accepted in electoral politics. “We had some candidates who wouldn’t take our money back then because they didn’t want to be associated with anyone who was gay,” Mixner said. He said he believes that changed with the Clinton administration, which the PAC raised $4 million to support. “Now the community knows how to raise money and contribute on their own and we are more than welcome at the table.”

The LGBT community is such an important part of this president’s re-election effort that the Obama for America campaign hosts a special section for it on its website. It includes a video discussing the president’s support for LGBT issues narrated by actress Jane Lynch, who is openly gay. It also offers Obama merchandise like T-shirts and drink koozies to bring to Gay Pride events this summer.

The president has already attended several LGBT-organized fundraisers, including one in New York hosted by openly gay singer Ricky Martin, the Futuro Fund, and Obama for America LGBT Leadership Council.

Another event in Washington, hosted by Karen K. Dixon and her partner, Dr. Nan Schaffer, was rumored to have raised more than a million dollars for the campaign, although the Obama team won’t comment on the record about fundraising. Tickets for one of the California events were selling so well the campaign had to find a larger venue. There also is great interest in a Chicago fundraiser co-hosted by LGBT bundlers Brewster and Bob Satawake. The couple has already raised $288,663, according to the CNN analysis.

“I think there has always been a strong base of support from LGBT people for the president,” said Michael Cole-Schwartz, spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, whose incoming president Chad Griffin is a bundler. “He earned even more respect from the community — from repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ to signing the hate crimes law giving the first civil rights protection for us in federal law, to coming out against DOMA,” the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage for federal purposes as unions exclusively between a man and a woman. “Now, with his saying he believes in full marriage equality, we have another reason for people in our community to be generous with their time and money.”

It is difficult to know if there are any openly gay bundlers for the Republicans, because Romney has not disclosed his bundler list.

The Republican candidate has, however, voiced his opposition to civil unions and supports a federal amendment to the U.S. Constitution to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.

But some gay Republicans say Romney is not totally close minded on LGBT issues. “On gay issues, where Romney stands is not as black and white as it seems,” said R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, an organization for gay and lesbian Republicans. “One thing he has been consistent on, as governor and as a candidate for president, is he has spoken in broad terms about ending discrimination in the workplace. He has said there is no room for it.”

Cooper said the Log Cabin Republicans haven’t decided yet if they will endorse Romney. That announcement will come sometime this fall. He does believe, though, that there are gay donors to Romney’s campaign. They just might not be as outspoken.

“We joke that at Pride (festivals), the question we most often ask other Republicans we see there is, ‘Are you out?’ Meaning ‘out’ about your politics yet.”

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NEWSWEEK COVER DECLARES OBAMA ‘THE FIRST GAY PRESIDENT’

May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Four days after President Barack Obama affirmed his support of gay marriage on Good Morning America, the editors at Newsweek are ready to anoint him with a new title, “The First Gay President.”

At least, that’s what it will say on the cover of magazine’s May 21 issue, which is available on iPad today and will be on newsstands Monday.

The cover shows a close-up portrait of the president with a rainbow-colored halo over his head, the colors referencing symbols adopted by the LGBT movement. The cover advertises an upcoming piece by Newsweek writer Andrew Sullivan in support of Obama’s record with the gay community.

Newsweek has released this preview of the article:

It’s easy to write off President Obama’s announcement of his support for gay marriage as a political ploy during an election year. But don’t believe the cynics. Andrew Sullivan argues that this announcement has been in the making for years. “When you step back a little and assess the record of Obama on gay rights, you see, in fact, that this was not an aberration. It was an inevitable culmination of three years of work.” And President Obama has much in common with the gay community. “He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,” Sullivan writes.

The move comes mere days after Newsweek’s competitor Time Magazine offered a controversial cover of their own, depicting a young mother breast feeding her 3-year-old boy. A Newsweek spokesman would later tell the New York Post that when their Editor-In-Chief Tina Brown saw the cover she responded, “Let the games begin.”

Newsweek’s cover may be designed to elicit the memory of another White House occupant with a not-so-fitting title. Supporters of then-President Bill Clinton dubbed him the “first black president” for his work with the African American community. The term was first used by author Toni Morrison in a 1998 issue of The New Yorker.

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BARACK OBAMA HAS EIGHT BALLS!

May 14, 2012 By 2 Comments

Yes, BARACK OBAMA HAS EIGHT BALLS!! I know that that yesterday was Sunday, a day of worship. I know that yesterday was mother’s day, a day in the presence of mother. How dare I say the word “balls” in the presence of mother?! I also know that the title of this blog may ruffle some feathers because we just woke up from of day in church with mother. I know all that, but I can’t ignore that Barack Obama has eight big balls!!

Many people have balls, but very few have the number of balls needed to make the decision to support gay marriage. Why is this is such big deal, you may ask? The reason why this is such a big deal is the fact that Barack, The President of the United States, went against the beliefs of the Black Church. The Black Church is a major power player when it comes to the Black vote. The Black Churches control the Black Vote and the majority of the Black churches do not support gay marriage. I give him so much credit for stepping up and making the decision to change the thinking and beliefs of Black people in America. That is the what a leader does. That is what the leader of the free world is supposed to do….LEAD!!

Some people wonder if the black church will punish President Barack Obama for announcing support for same-sex marriage.

It’s so unfortunate,” says James Cone, author of “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.” “The literal approach to scripture was used to enslave black people,” he says. “I’ve said many times in black churches that the black church is on the wrong side of history on this. It’s so sad because they were on the right side of history in their own struggle.” Call it historical irony: Black church leaders arguing against same-sex marriage are making some of the same arguments that supporters of slavery made in the 18th and 19th centuries, some historians say. Both groups adopted a literal reading of the Bible to justify withholding basic rights from a particular group.

Opposition to gay rights is not the standard position of all black churches. Still, while several predominately white mainline denominations have officially accepted gays and lesbians in various forms, the vast majority of black churches still consider homosexuality a sin.

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VIDEO SHOWS BARACK OBAMA’S EX GIRLFRIENDS KEPT DIARIES

May 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

What is up with these money hungry, fame mongers. These girls these days will do anything to make a dollar or get famous. They don’t care whose life or career they hurt. Not even the President of the free world is safe. Not even Barack Obama is safe. Guys, be careful who hang out with. They might be wearing a wire!!!

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