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Yeap Raul Castro just did this to the President of the United States

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— Jared Wyand (@JaredWyand) March 21, 2016

Obama's Trading Places again...

 

"Obama is in the loop while at the fundraisers"

I wish I could pass on this latest Obama "stink burger", I really do, there are so many of them, they come at us fast and furious. I would do nothing more all day, but cut and paste presidential venom, if I could stop paying attention to them for a minute or two. This one, however, stuck in my craw, a little bit. Is it too much to ask the president to postpone a fundraiser?

On Wednesday evening, President Obama was being kept up to date on the developments from the mass shooting at Fort Hood while reportedly attending fundraisers for the 2014 election cycle. According to White House spokesman Josh Earnest, Obama is in the loop while at the fundraisers.

Obama will be in Chicago for four and a half hours, and the events have largely been closed to the media, with radio and TV reporters banned from attendance. Only one print reporter will be allowed to provide press pool notes. 

The presidency is said to be a bully pulpit, "a position sufficiently conspicuous to provide an opportunity to speak out and be listened to."

This term was coined by President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to the White House as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt famously used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage in his time than it is today. (Another expression which survives from this era is "bully for you", synonymous with "good for you".)

By signaling what his priorities are, at a moment when the attention of the country is fixed on a tragic event, President Obama detracts from the majesty of the office.

Update: "After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle"

"The White House acknowledged Thursday that President Obama lived with his uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while he was a student at Harvard Law School -- despite previously saying there was no record of the two having met."

"The president did stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement. "After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20 years, has not spoken with him in 10. "

Washington Post via Monica Crowley tweet. Birtherism Blip: What If Its All True

Obama claims 'more than 100 MILLION Americans' have enrolled Obamacare

"President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100 million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act."

A weary-sounding Obama made his gaffe during the call, hosted by Organizing For Action, the nonprofit successor to his campaign organization Obama For America. The group claimed 200,000 people managed to listen, aided by an RSVP process that included a fundraising solicitation.

'I just wanted to take a few minutes to speak to everybody because you guys are the ones who are in the trenches, day-in, day-out,' Obama said, complaining of 'misinformation' that has circulated about his health insurance overhaul law.

But 'problems with the website ... have created and fed a lot of this misinformation,' he admitted.

Boasting of his administration's skill in encouraging taxpayers to buy health insurance policies through public marketplaces, he claimed that 'in the first month alone, we've seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.'

That number is att odds with reality, but Obama didn't skip a beat or make any effort to correct himself, and his next comments did little to clear up the mistake.

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