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Obama: ´Irony of the presidential
office´ is the humility it teaches

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/21/2013 8:24:34 PM Post Reply

President Obama told congressional leaders at his inaugural luncheon Monday that the "irony" of being president was the humility that came with attempting to implement an agenda. "I know that former President Carter, President Clinton, they understand the irony of the presidential office, which is the longer you´re there, the more humble you become, and the more mindful you are that is beyond your powers individually to move this great country," Obama said. The president acknowledged the "profound differences" within the room, which contained the Supreme Court, Cabinet officials and leadership from the House and Senate.

Crowd shrinks by nearly
half for 2nd inaugural

Politico, by Byron Tau Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/21/2013 8:23:56 PM Post Reply

An inaugural official told reporters that "at least" 1 million people were on the National Mall for President Obama´s swearing-in ceremony. If the figure is accurate, a crowd of around 1 million would put attendance at about 55 percent of the 2009 crowd. The city of Washington, D.C., estimated that 1.8 million people packed the Mall last time to watch Obama get sworn in for his first term. Washington, D.C.´s, Metro system reported that ridership was about 63 percent of 2009´s record-shattering Inauguration Day.

Dish plans closure of
300 more Blockbuster stores

Denver Business Journal [CO], by Staff* Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/21/2013 8:14:34 PM Post Reply

Dish Network Corp., which owns the Blockbuster chain of video rental stores, plans to close an additional 300 locations over the next few weeks on top of hundreds closed previously, according to a news report Monday. (Snip) Blockbuster had some 1,700 stores open when Dish acquired it out of bankruptcy in April 2011 in a deal worth about $320 million; the chain years ago had as many as 9,100 stores before it was battered by the wide availability of movies from Netflix, Amazon.com and others through digital, online and mail-order channels. Dish closed about 500 unprofitable Blockbuster

A Guide to the Inauguration´s
No-Shows

Atlantic Wire, by David Wagner Original Article

Posted By: ketchuplover- 1/21/2013 7:36:38 PM Post Reply

George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, even Oprah Winfrey—the famous people who didn´t attend Barack Obama´s second inauguration say as much about the ceremony as those who did turn up. The no-shows offered many different excuses for staying home—some legitimate, some paper-thin. And some of these no-shows hurt more than others. As Washington´s presidential party carries on into the afternoon, let´s take a look at the people who aren´t celebrating Obama´s second term in D.C., assessing their alibis and the severity of their snubs. George W. Bush Excuse: George H.W. Bush just got out of the hospital last week after

The Significance of
Obama’s Inaugural Address

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 6:46:19 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s inaugural address was eloquent and moving in parts. It was also deeply partisan and polarizing, something that is unusual for a day normally devoted to unity and common purpose. But not in Barack Obama’s America. In his inaugural speech he did what he seemingly cannot keep himself from doing: portraying himself and his followers as Children of Light and portraying his opponents as Children of Darkness. You are either with Obama–or you are with the forces of cruelty and bigotry. In Obama’s world, there is no middle ground. He is the Voice of Reason

Obama´s Bogus Journey

Bloomberg News, by Ramesh Ponnuru Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 6:25:34 PM Post Reply

The world will little note nor long remember anything President Barack Obama said in his second inaugural address; still less will it remember any of the gushing encomiums his admirers in the press reliably produce, comparing him variously to Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln and Jesus. Obama said that developing “sustainable-energy sources” is “what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.” Does anyone believe that in a week anyone will find that an arresting and compelling thought? Or credit it for being a thought at all? The president presented the familiar progressive story

Dress rehearsal for 2016? Bill and Hillary
are all smiles at Inauguration as Democrats
hope for another Clinton presidency

Daily Mail [UK], by Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/21/2013 5:53:45 PM Post Reply

Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were warmly welcomed when they walked on to the platform for President Obama’s inauguration. Their entrance may be more than just a show, however, as it could turn into a practice run for Hillary should she run for office in 2016. In addition to renewing the widely-reported speculation that she is the most likely Democratic presidential candidate after Mr Obama finishes his second term, it was also only her second public appearance since her health scare. Mrs Clinton released pictures when she went back to work

5 shot in New Orleans after
Martin Luther King parade passes

Los Angeles Times, by Michael Muskal Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 1/21/2013 5:48:57 PM Post Reply

Gunfire erupted from a vehicle, wounding five people, about 30 minutes after a parade honoring Martin Luther King Jr. passed a New Orleans intersection, police said. The parade was one of numerous events nationwide honoring the slain civil rights leader, perhaps the most famous modern advocate of peaceful civil disobedience, on the federal holiday created for him. “It´s the state of affairs in our nation that young men do not heed the words of Martin Luther King Jr.,” New Orleans Police Supt. Ronal Serpas, one of the responding officers, told the website nola.com.

Michelle Obama is NOT impressed:
First Lady rolls her eyes TWICE
at political foe John Boehner
as he speaks to her husband
during the inaugural luncheon

Daily Mail [UK], by Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/21/2013 5:37:45 PM Post Reply

Michelle Obama was clearly not impressed by House Speaker John Boehner at the inaugural luncheon on Monday, as a camera caught her twice rolling her eyes at the congressman as he tried to engage her in conversation. Mr Boehner, the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, was seated to Mrs Obama´s left and President Obama was on her right as they dined. Boehner made a remark to the First Couple and tapped Mrs Obama´s arm, as if to engage her, but she refused to make eye contact with him, according to a video recording

Inverting the Founders

National Review Online, by Quin Hillyer Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/21/2013 5:13:57 PM Post Reply

President Obama has become a master at the trick of couching progressive prescriptions in the language of the traditional American creed — thus effecting a deliberate inversion of that creed’s actual meaning. That’s exactly what he did with his second inaugural address, using the language of the American Founding to promote collectivism in almost all areas of life. The hinge came in a single clause which sounded oh-so-reasonable and inarguable, but which instead was a non sequitur in terms of its logic and a bastardization of the principles of that creed. “Preserving our individual freedoms,” he said,

‘A Decade of War Is Now Ending’

National Review Online, by David French Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 5:05:16 PM Post Reply

Someone needs to inform the jihadists. On a day when we are still counting the bodies – including the American bodies — from the deadly terror attack in Algeria, this statement from President Obama’s inaugural address was particularly jarring. Algeria is hardly the only flashpoint. Our conflict with jihadists not only continues but will continue long after we’ve left Afghanistan. The perpetrators of the Benghazi attack are still at large, France is engaging in offensive military operations against al-Qaeda in Mali (with American logistical support)

Pregnant Jenna Bush says it
was ´magical´ being a kid at
her dad and grandfather´s inaugurations

Daily Mail (UK), by Meghan Keneally Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/21/2013 5:02:19 PM Post Reply

Malia´s dancing and Sasha´s yawn may have been the highlights from the first daughters at today´s inauguration ceremonies, former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager remembers crying when her father was sworn into office for the first time. ´I remember crying, being in tears just because this is something he´d worked for for so long,´ she said during an appearance on The Today Show. Jenna and her twin sister Barbara are likely the children who have attended the most inauguration ceremonies because they first experienced the spectacle when their grandfather was took the oath in 1989.

Women in charge! Female Secret
Service agent protects the
Obamas as she walks alongside
The Beast during inaugural parade

Daily Mail (UK), by Beth Stebner Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/21/2013 4:57:01 PM Post Reply

A woman was in the ranks of the elite squad of Secret Service agents guarding President Obama’s vehicle this afternoon in the motorcade that passed down Pennsylvania Avenue. The young woman, with her blonde hair slicked back into a ponytail, stood on the left side of Mr Obama’s Cadillac, walking in stride with the other agents. The cavalcade slowly made it was way from Capitol Hill to the White House, with Mr Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama exiting at one point, waving to the hundreds of thousands of people along the mall.

Take a life to save a life:
Prince Harry reveals life on
the front line in Afghanistan
and says Prince William is
jealous of his tour of duty

Daily Mail (UK), by Harriet Arkell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/21/2013 4:48:36 PM Post Reply

Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan tonight after his latest four-month tour of duty in the country. He has spoken for the first time about how he killed enemy fighters from his Apache helicopter during his latest tour of Afghanistan. As the 28-year-old Prince prepared to return home to the UK after a 20-week posting to the war-torn country, he confirmed his role in taking Taliban insurgents ´out of the game´, saying ´take a life to save a life´. In his role as a gunner in Apache attack helicopters, the Prince - known as Captain Wales in the army -

Republicans Avoid a
Political Pickett’s Charge

Commentary Magazine, by Peter Wehner Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:47:15 PM Post Reply

Two-and-a-half weeks ago I wrote a post urging Republicans to back away from a confrontation with President Obama over raising the debt ceiling and warning them against engaging in high-profile confrontations and brinksmanship except on the most favorable terrain. I was therefore quite relieved when Republicans announced that this week they will propose extending the federal debt limit by three months while also requiring that both the House and the Senate pass a budget for the next fiscal year. If either chamber failed to adopt a budget by April 15, that chamber’s members would then have their congressional pay withheld.

After President Denounces
‘Name-Calling,’ Paul Ryan
Booed at Inaugural Celebration

National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:38:52 PM Post Reply

The president may have called for a higher level of discourse in his remarks today, but it appears that some in the crowd didn’t get the message. As Congressman Paul Ryan appeared on the steps of the Capitol, the crowd booed. That was the result, it appears, of the antics of Department of Justice lawyer Dan Freeman, who broadcast the message below on Facebook shortly thereafter: Asked over the weekend whether he’d be attending today’s Inauguration festivities, Ryan told USA Today, “Yes, it’s my obligation.”

Obama Advisor: Our Political
System Isn´t ´Worthy´ of Obama
and the Opportunity He Presents

Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/21/2013 4:35:19 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama´s communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, says that our political system isn´t "worthy" of Obama and the opportunity the president presents. He made the remarks the Washington Post. “There’s a moment of opportunity now that’s important,” Pfeiffer tells the paper. “What’s frustrating is that we don’t have a political system or an opposition party worthy of the opportunity.” The issue is that if President Obama wants to get things done, he´ll have to work with the uncompromising Republicans."If he is successful, his record could include a variety of legislative achievements

A President Who
Has Learned Nothing

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:32:42 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s Inaugural Address was well delivered and, as we have come to expect from him, quite eloquent. It had the usual obeisance to the traditions of American democracy and the virtue of relative brevity. Yet there was nothing in it that showed that he had learned a thing in the four years since he first took the oath of office. The address was a clarion call for the country to get behind the liberal agenda he supports. Fair enough. But, like much of what has come from the White House since November, it illustrated

A flat, partisan and pedestrian speech

Washington Post, by David Ignatius Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/21/2013 4:31:03 PM Post Reply

The only voice that really soared at midday was Beyonce’s, while singing the national anthem. President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address, by contrast, was flat, partisan and surprisingly pedestrian—more a laundry list of preferred political programs than a vision for a divided America and disoriented world. Congressional Republicans are acting as if the 2012 campaign is continuing, so perhaps it isn’t surprising that the president followed suit. He gave a progressive speech that Democrats will like;

Obama´s second inaugural is
a political speech

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 1/21/2013 4:28:03 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama never mentioned the words Democrat or Republican, yet his second inaugural address was a decidedly political speech. The president was careful not to make his remarks overtly partisan, but he had a message for Republicans: Compromise and embrace government as part of the solution. Obama, emboldened by his re-election with ultimately comfortable margins, laid out a progressive agenda. He stood up for spending on entitlement programs, promoted immigration reform, gay marriage, tax reform and voter identification laws, and unexpectedly gave one of his most impassioned calls for climate change — an issue that

NBC Hypes Republican ´Disarray´
as ´Bloodier-Minded´ Obama
Focuses on Beating GOP in 2nd Term

Newsbusters, by Kyle Drennen Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:27:12 PM Post Reply

A panel discussion on Monday´s NBC Today on President Obama´s second term quickly devolved into anti-Republican ranting, with correspondent Andrea Mitchell proclaiming: "It´s been so toxic that I think the President is betting that the American people...are really fed up with this. And that it will be in the Republican Party´s advantage to play somewhat toward getting something done." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Special correspondent Tom Brokaw followed up by touting how the GOP "lost big time" in the 2012 election and declared: "Now the Republicans are in disarray

Moments After Inaugural Address,
Obama Launches Battle Machine

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:23:36 PM Post Reply

Shortly after delivering one of the most divisive inaugural addresses in American history, President Barack Obama doubled down on his ram-it-through strategy by sending out an email on behalf of his newly-converted permanent campaign instrument, Organizing for Action. Obama’s re-election campaign machine, Obama for America, has now been rechristened as a 501(c)4 lobbying group, Organizing for Action – and Obama’s already gearing up the machine for battle: Benjamin -- I just renewed my oath of office

Obama´s Target is Not
Just Republicans, but
the Constitution Itself

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 1/21/2013 4:20:21 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama´s second inaugural address has been described as one of the most partisan ever given, heralding a sweeping left-wing agenda and demonizing his opponents. But President Obama´s target is not simply the Republican Party: it is the Constitution itself, and the values of liberty that it enshrines. In the address itself, President Obama made the case that liberty is not timeless; that it must adjust to the times, and that "preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action"--not to defend those freedoms from infringement, but to

Why Obama will be
remembered as a
failed president

Washington Examiner, by Conn Carroll Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 1/21/2013 4:08:40 PM Post Reply

BuzzFeed‘s Ben Smith is just one of many journalists ready to canonize President Obama as one of the greatest presidents today despite the fact that Obama hasn’t even completed a single week of his second term. Smith writes: Now we are in Reagan territory, and in the hall of statues in the American imagination that includes, this century, probably only FDR and maybe JFK and Teddy besides. Obama’s best interpreter, Andrew Sullivan, made that case last fall: “If Obama wins, to put it bluntly, he will become the Democrats’ Reagan. The narrative writes itself.

First Term: Food Stamp
Recipients Increased 11,133
Per Day Under Obama

CNS News (Alexandria, VA), by Patrick Burke Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 1/21/2013 3:55:31 PM Post Reply

During President Obama’s first term, the number of persons taking federal food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP), increased by approximately 11,133 persons per day. When Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, the number of SNAP recipients was 31,939,110. By October 2012, the latest month reported, they had jumped to 47,525,329. That means the food stamp program grew by an of approximately 11,133 recipients per day from January 2009 to October 2012. CNSNews.com reported earlier this month that the federal government spent a record $80.4 billion on the food stamp program

The President liberals were
waiting for is (finally) here

Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 1/21/2013 3:52:35 PM Post Reply

Today in his second inaugural address, President Obama became the progressive leader that many liberals thought they were getting when they voted him into office four years ago. Couched in rhetoric about the need to come together as a country was a strong — and surprisingly pointed — invocation of a laundry list of progressive principles: gay rights, voting rights, climate change and the inherent value of entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

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