Presidential Schedule for  the Week of May 31, 2010:

Memorial Day Monday, the President planned on pontificating at a Memorial Day Ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois. However, his speech was redacted by a Higher Power due to Severe Weather and all he could do was to symbolically lay a wreath.  He and his family returned to the White House that evening.

On Tuesday, the President was supposed to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel at the White House, but President Netanyahu cancelled to provide leadership to Israel in the Gaza Flotilla Incident.  Obama instead welcomed President Garcia of Peru for a pre-scheduled meeting at the White House. 

According to Scooter, the two leaders discussed a range of issues, including “continuing to pursue the details” of a free trade agreement, security issues, climate change and a broader international vision of promoting democracy, human rights, press freedoms and economic development.

On Wednesday, the President met with General Odierno to discuss security and political progress in Iraq.  He then traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and spoke to students at Carnegie Mellon University.   In his speech, Obama attacked the GOP:

[A] good deal of the other party’s opposition to our agenda has also been rooted in their sincere and fundamental belief about government.   It’s a belief that government has little or no role to play in helping this nation meet our collective challenges. It’s an agenda that basically offers two answers to every problem we face: more tax breaks for the wealthy and fewer rules for corporations.

This from the guy who forced through a Government-run Universal Health Care Plan against the wishes of the majority of Americans?  Hardly a surprising statement.

That night, the Obamas hosted a concert in the East Room honoring Paul McCartney, who was awarded the 3rd Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.

Before receiving the award, the Senior Citizen performed with stars including Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Seinfeld, the Jonas Brothers, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, and Emmylou Harris. McCartney serenaded First Lady Michelle Obama with a rendition of “Michelle” and closed the night with “Hey Jude.” McCartney claimed that he had been “itching” to sing “Michelle” to the first lady at the White House, adding “I hope the president will forgive me.”

I think I’m gonna hurl.

McCartney also offered a glimpse of his politics, sarcastically stating that he was especially happy to get the award from “this president” and saying that it was nice to get the Library of Congress award from “a president who knows what a library is.”

On Thursday, Scooter finally gave 30 minutes to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer concerning the subject of their Illegal immigration law that she signed into existence.    After the meeting, the White House issued an official statement proclaiming that “The president and governor agreed that the lack of action to fix the broken system at the federal level is unacceptable,” and that Obama “urged Governor Brewer to be his partner in working in a bipartisan manner on comprehensive immigration reform”.

That evening, the President spoke at the Secretary of State’s reception in honor of the Indian delegation to the United States-India Strategic Dialogue, which met at the State Department earlier that day.  At the reception, he announced that he would visit India in November because:

I firmly believe the relationship between the United States and India will be a defining partnership for the 21st Century.

Later that evening, The White House announced that the President had cancelled his family’s planned vacation, err, fact-finding trip to Australia and Indonesia, where he grew up attending a Madrassa, err, private school for wealthy families.  The reason originally given for the trip  was that he wanted to show his daughters where he grew up.
On Friday, the President met the Major League Soccer Men’s Champion Real Salt Lake at the White House.  Scooter also went back to Louisiana’s Gulf Coast for his third visit since the disaster began on April 20 with the explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.  Obama was in Louisiana the Friday before, but his visit did not produce the kind of emotional, connect-with-the-people presidential reaction that Democrats have been praying for.
It was also announced by “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs that President Obama has extended an invitation for a meeting next Thursday with the families of the 11 men who died after the Gulf of Mexico oil rig exploded.  Gibbs said:

The president will offer his condolences in person to those who lost loved ones in the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. The president sent a letter to each of the families extending an invitation to the White House. 

It only took you 46 days, Scooter.

Saturday, Obama announced that James R. Clapper is his choice to  serve as Director of National Intelligence – the fourth since the post was created in 2004 – and wants the Senate to confirm him quickly.  Clapper is the Pentagon’s current intelligence chief.  

In private, Clapper has faced off with lawmakers, sometimes resorting to cussing at them to make a point. Those strained relations may come back to haunt him as he awaits confirmation.

Last night, it was time for the Obama’s to party again.  Per the press release issued ahead of time:

Ford’s Theatre Society will host its annual gala on Sunday, June 6, 2010, at Ford’s Theatre (511 10th Street NW). The evening’s performance, titled “America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theatre,” will be taped for broadcast on the ABC Television Network to air July 2, 2010 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET). Modern Family cast member Ty Burrell hosts a star-studded program with appearances by Kelly Clarkson, Renee Fleming, George Lopez, Lionel Richie, Robin Roberts, Dick Van Dyke, Laura Michelle Kelly and Gavin Lee from the Broadway Company of “Mary Poppins,” the Soldiers’ Chorus of the United States Army Field Band, and cast members from the Ford’s Theatre production of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

My purpose in reviewing last week was to present a study in style over substance.  This man who was elected president has absolutely no skills as a leader.  The only thing he has ever excelled at is campaigning.   So, despite the Gulf Coast crisis, the economic crisis, two wars, terrorism aimed at Americans on our own shores, and corruption within his own administration, he continues on his perpetual campaign, interrupted only by vacations and trips to basketball court and golf courses…to the detriment of the greatest nation on Earth.

Sources:  drudgereport.com, suntimes.com, abcnews.com, content.usatoday.com, deathby1000opapercuts.com, politicsdaily.com, yahoo.com, nydailynews.com, nypost.com, nashuatelegraph.com

Evidently when Helen Thomas was dating Abraham Lincoln, he never told her that:  

It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

The following  jaw-dropping statement hit the internet Friday:

Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, sharply reacted to the 89 year old representative of Hearst Newspapers:

Shame on Helen Thomas. She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War. She owes an apology to all victims of the Nazis.

The grand dame posted the following insincere apology on her personal Web site:

I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, has covered the administrations of 10 Presidents in a career spanning nearly 60 years.  She made her idiotic comments at (believe it or not) a White House Jewish Heritage Celebration on May 27.

This statement was, in her mind I’m sure, a valid response to the Gaza Flotilla incident.

Speaking of the Gaza Flotilla Incident, the group Free Gaza is a major sponsor of that “relief” effort. 

The Free Gaza Movement is a Cyprus-registered charity.  Created on the initiative of six Americans in 2006, it now has a worldwide core group estimated at 200.   Their stated mission is to break Israel’s closure of Gaza, a strip of coastal desert territory blockaded since 2007.

Greta Berlin, a spokeswoman for the movement and a founder member, says:

Israel has no right to imprison 1.5 million Palestinians.  If governments won’t do the job, civil society will.

Free Gaza has been involved in nine seaborne aid missions to Gaza since August 2008, four of which made it to their destination. The flotilla intercepted on May 31 was the largest of the nine. Other boats turned away by the Israeli navy included one damaged in a collision with an Israeli naval vessel in December 2008, which barely made it into the Lebanese port of Tripoli. Israel arrested 21 activists sailing to Gaza from Cyprus in June 2009 and boarded their vessel after they ignored warnings to stop.

The Movement has not used Cyprus as an point of departure since last year, and Cyprus did not allow the latest flotilla to depart from there, citing reasons of national interest.

This organization claims it gets donations from citizens around the world. The largest donation received yet, was 300,000 euros ($366,000) from the Perdana Global Peace Organization in Malaysia. It says it does not receive funding from governments.

Guess who is a member of Perdana?  This is directly from their website:

Feisal Abdul Rauf has been Imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City since 1983. Through his sermons and writings, Imam Abdul Rauf seeks to provide spiritual seekers with answers to their eternal questions that often hinder them from developing a personal relationship with the Divine.

He is the founder of the ASMA Society, dedicated to furthering Islamic Art and Culture. He invites non-Muslims to experience the spiritual impulse of Islam, and Muslims to develop on the spiritual path.

Does this guy sound familiar?  From my May 16th Blog, “Disrepecting the 9/11 Fallen:

The organization behind this project is the Cordoba Initiative and its leader is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

Despite the fact that the Cordoba Initiative’s website calls part of the $100 million-plus project a mosque, Imam Rauf says the project is not a mosque (Liar, liar, burqa on fire.) but will include a community center for all faiths that will include recreational facilities, a prayer space and a 500-seat theater that can be a part of the neighborhood’s trendy (attended by pseudo-intellectual Liberals) Tribeca Film Festival. 

Plans were announced this week to build a 13-story mosque and cultural center on the site of a four-story building that was a Burlington Coat Factory retail store until 9/11, when part of a plane’s landing gear crashed through the roof.   The building, currently housing a mosque, will be torn down.

One more little bit of news and then I’ll tie all this together:

Federal authorities reported the arrests of two New Jersey men late Saturday night, trying to leave the country for terrorist training camps in war-torn Somalia.

The men were identified as 20-year-old Mohamed Hamoud Alessa and 26-year-old Carlos Eduardo Almonte.  They were taken into custody by FBI agents and others at J.F.K. International Airport outside New York City. They planned to take separate flights to Egypt and then make their way to Somalia, where they would join an Al Qaeda-linked group known as al-Shabaab.  This group has been at war with the nation’s fledgling transitional government.

Muslims currently comprise 1 – 2% of the population of America.  Islamic websites claim 5 million out of our almost 300 million, but most experts say that number is an exaggeration.  Muslim leaders claim that fanatics are responsible for acts of terror in America and around the world.  I want to believe that.  However, it is very difficult to when so-called Moderate Muslims will not condemn these actions and the Koran encourages followers to kill “the Infidels”.

Why are pseudo-intellectual Liberals, who do not have a clue as to the significance of Israel, sticking their nose into a sovereign nation’s business?  Why are some Americans defending a bunch of thugs who want to build a symbol of terroristic triumph next to a scene of unimaginable horror?  Why are we having so many terror plots on our native soil being uncovered under this administration?  And some, only after their explosive devices failed?  And finally, why did the American President have to be talked out of making a personal pilgrimage, i.e., another vacation, to Indonesia and Australia, just last week, to stay home and deal with all this, the Gulf  Coast/BP Situation, and our failing economy?

Perhaps Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) is treading water in the deep end of an Olympic-sized pool, when he should have stayed in the kiddie pool.

Sources:  drudgereport.com, youtube.com, nydailynews.com, reuters.com, perdana4peace.com, foxnews.com

One day after playing with tar balls on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Barack Obama started his Saturday by shooting some hoops with First Dawg Reggie Love in the gym located at the University of Chicago Lab School.

While he was hanging with Reggie, working on his jump shot, his pre-recorded lip service to our Armed Forces and the Memorial Day Holiday played on televisions and radios throughout the land.

At 4 p.m., he and his family left their Chicago home to attend a barbeque and watch the Blackhawks game at a buddy’s house.

An interesting stand-off happened while Scooter was partyin’ down, between followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on one side and members of the press and the U.S. Secret Service guarding the president on the other.

Not far from Obama’s home in the Kenwood/Hyde Park neighborhood, Obama’s long-time friend Marty Nesbitt lives across the street from the ornate yellow-gold home where “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan lives.

When Obama has brought his family over to Nesbitt’s home the last two years, the press pool bus parks near Farrakhan’s house. This usually does not cause a problem, but Saturday night, there was almost a throwdown on Woodlawn Avenue.

As a dozen reporters and photographers following Obama stood on the sidewalk in front of Farrakhan’s home, someone’s foot touched the publicly owned curbside grass.

Like a flash, a polite man in jeans and T-Shirt came out of the compound to ask the press to stay off the grass.   He began pacing and talking on his cell phone.  He went inside the mansion’s black wrought iron fence, crossed the well-landscaped yard, lifted a water bucket behind rose bushes and retrieved a walkie-talkie. The reporters heard him referring to “the CIA.”  Evidently, this paranoid genius did not realize that the Secret Service guards the president, not the CIA.

He then went to the secret service agent watching the press and asked him to move the van and its occupants.

“How is this a security breach?” the agent asked. He asked if the house was government property.  Since Obama ascended to the throne, err, presidency, neighbors all over Hyde Park and Kenwood have become accustomed to dealing with streets being blocked off and having to show ID to approach their own homes .

The Fruit of Islam member said something else and at that point the agent stuck out his hand to shake hands and introduced himself as Secret Service. He added, “Sir, I can assure you that we will do nothing to interfere with whatever is going on in there.”

The Farrakhan guard paced again and talked on his cell phone, walkie-talkie in the other hand.  Three more men in T-Shirts reading “Wide or Die!’’ joined the man from the Nation of Islam.  A reporter asked one of the men if this was Farrakhan’s house. The man just glared back.  Asked again, he said, “I don’t have no comment.”

Eventually, a dozen Fruit of Islam members made the scene.   As each casually dressed man arrived, he exchanged elaborate handshake/hug/double air-kisses with others. Two of them walked by a reporter, chanting “Islam.”

The men filmed and photographed the reporters, the van and its license plates with their cell phones.

One of the guards came and stood close to reporters and the secret service agent.  The secret service agent asked if he could help him.  The man did not answer the agent. He politely asked  him again.  The guard said, “No.”  The agent said, “Secret Service, please move away from this group of people.”

The Fruit of Islam member complied.

The Secret Service agent asked the reporters to go back into the press bus, and they did.

Before they did, some of them asked the Nation of Islam crowd if they could use the rest room in Farrakahn’s home.

They were met with silence.

A Baptist minister from Detroit named Rev. Gary Hunter, who writes and blogs for the Detroit Times, told reporter Jackie Calmes of the New York Times that he personally called Calypso Louie and his son and asked them to have their Private Army(the Fruit) stand down: “I told him you were good people . . . He said he didn’t know you all were just waiting for the president.’’

Yeah, right.  You had better believe Farrakhan knew exactly what was going on.

The Blackhawks won the game around 10 p.m., and Obama and his family were driven home at 10:43 p.m., the press bus following behind them, ending the stand-off.

Today, Obama is scheduled to make remarks at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery.  He will miss the usual tradition of presidents speaking at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day and laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Instead,  he’s sent Vice President Biden and his wife to handle those duties,  The Bidens will also host a breakfast for Gold Star families, families whose loved ones died in military service, at the White House earlier that day.

According to The Washington Post. Obama excuses this ill-timed vacation as addressing one of the great broken promises of his administration: his early pledge to return home to Chicago every six weeks or so.

Presidents Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 also missed the ceremony during their time in office.  But, there was not the wide-spread public perception of anti-American leanings hanging like a cloud over their presidencies, like there is over Obama’s. 

This president has gone out of his way to apologize for America to world leaders and to disrespect the military by floating a trial balloon suggesting they pay for their medical benefits.  And that’s not even mentioning the yet-to-be realized repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.

Mr. President, with all due respect, sir, I wish you possessed the courage, conviction, faith, and patriotism of our Best and Brightest, America’s Armed Forces.  These brave men and women sacrifice themselves on a daily basis to protect and defend our sacred land.  We honor them, their families, and the legacy they have given us on this special day.   As the following video reminds us, Freedom is not Free.

John 15:13:

   ¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

UPDATE:  President Obama’s appearance at the small cemetary today was cut short because of a thunderstorm.  He was not able to speak, just deliver a wreath.  God is good.  All the time.

 Sources:  drudgereport.com, suntimes.com, newsmax.com, youtube.com

As 10-20,000 bussed-in protesters from several states clogged up the streets of Phoenix on Saturday to march against Arizona’s federally based anti-illegal immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer relieved the state’s attorney general from her legal team defending the law.

Gov. Brewer believes Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has been  conspiring with the Obama administration as it considers whether to sue her state.

Brewer issued a statement late Friday night saying her legal team will defend the state against lawsuits challenging the measure. She has cited a provision in the law that allows private attorneys to represent the state. The attorneys are already representing her in some of the legal challenges to the law in which she is named the defendant.

However,  Arizona AG Goddard says Brewer can’t kick him off the case. Goddard’s top aide, Tim Nelson, said Saturday that the Governor can’t invoke the provision because it hasn’t taken effect yet.  He also claimed that there are questions about its’ constitutionality. 

Wha’ choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?   She’s the Governor.  She’s in charge.  70 % of Arizona’s population support the law, per Rasmussen.

Gov. Brewer’s decision came after Justice Department officials met with Arizona’s AG.  Goddard is a  Democrat who will likely be challenging Brewer, a Republican, in her re-election bid.  U.S. AG Eric Holder’s people met with Goddard before meeting with her legal team.

Also, in a blatantly arrogant snub, President Obama  turned down Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request to meet while she’s in Washington next week. 

She will be in Washington to meet with other governors.  Brewer announced Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration.  White House spokesman Adam Abrams claimed that Obama’s schedule “doesn’t allow for a meeting” with her but promised that the president “does intend to sit down with the governor in the future.”  Uh huh.

After Scooter returns from his Chicago vacation on Tuesday, he is supposed to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Peru President Alan Garcia.  On Wednesday, Obama is meeting with Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.  Then he’ll head to an event in Pittsburgh and host a concert at the White House to honor Paul McCartney.

Meeting with Peru’s President and honoring Sir Paul is certainly more important than meeting with Gov. Brewer about the out-of-control illegal immigration issue, isn’t it, Scooter?  Wait, there’s more.

On Thursday, Obama is speaking at Hillary’s reception for a new partnership between U.S. and India. On Friday, the president will welcome the Major League Soccer men’s championship team, Real Salt Lake, to the White House.

And all this pomp and circumstance is more important than dealing with the situation that has led to violence and death against your own citizens, like Mr. Robert Krentz, Mr. President?  Just how shallow and uncaring are you?

Regarding the Pro-Illegal Immigration Rally in Phoenix yesterday,  I have a question.   Who provided the money to get those protesters there?  Who is funding the “National Day of Action”?  Illegals normally send a bunch of the cash they make, back home to their families in poverty-stricken Mexico.  Did the money come from certain “friends of Scooter” whose 4-letter acronym begins with “S” and ends in “U”?  Enquiring minds want to know.

More “artists”  have joined illegal immigration supporters, trying to display their inestimable intellectual prowess.  Zack De La Rocha, from “Rage Against the Machine”, has formed the organization “Sound Strike” to side with Obama’s Far Left Machine against the citizens of Arizona.   He’s recruited intellectual giants to join his group like Conor Oberst, Kanye West, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Cypress Hill, Serj Tankian, Joe Satriani, Sonic Youth, Tenacious D (Jack Black), Street Sweeper Social Club and Michael Moore.

De la Roza compares the illegal immigration situation to Rosa Parks:

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, they arrested her. As a result, people got together and said we are not going to ride the bus until they change the law. It was this courageous action that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. What if we got together, signed a collective letter saying, ‘We’re not going to ride the bus?’ “

The group’s website includes a petition urging President Barack Obama to take action.

Read this blog and you’ll know a tale,

A tale of a PR trip.

That started from O’Hare Airport,

To save a sinking Ship.

The Prez left his family in Chi-town,

Starting their Vaca,

He met Big Sis on the Gulf Coast,

Coming there to save the day!

The oil slick had been coming in,

Ravaging the coast.

Scooter knew that if he did not go there,

His poll numbers were toast.

(His poll numbers are toast.)

He walked down the shores a bit,

And spoke to us a while,

“This is high priority,

on that you can rely!”

“My Ship of State will handle this,

In charge here since Day One.

Never mind that five weeks have gone by,

And nothing has been done.”

“And, now to Chi-town, I must return,

With my family I must sup,

BIll Ayers is having a barbeque,

And the darned thing might blow up.”

So, join me here each day, my friend.

And we’ll try and make some sense,

Of the actions of this Socialist,

The worst of Presidents.

**Based on The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle…with apologies**

Making the rounds of the Sunday morning talk shows after his May 18th primary win, Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania answered questions about his claim that the White House offered him an administration job if he would clear the field for ex-Republican, incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter.

Sestak acknowledged that he had been offered a job, but he would not discuss it any further.   He said that he only acknowledged the job offer in an interview in February because he was asked the question.

Sestak said on “Meet the Press” on May 23rd:

I was asked about something that happened months earlier, and I felt I had to answer it honestly, and that’s all I have to say about it, because anything beyond that gets away from what we just talked about, what are the policies.

That was the match that started a forest fire.  Since then, Fox News has been all over this.  Republicans in Congress have called for AG Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor.  Yesterday, in his first Press Conference in 309 days, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) said:

There will be an official response shortly on the Sestak matter.   I mean shortly — I don’t mean weeks or months. … I can assure the public that nothing improper took place. 

At Thursday’s scheduled Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert “Baghdad Bob” Gibbs also said nothing improper happened, but would not make any additional statements, even though he was peppered with questions about the situation.

Today, the White House issued the long-awaited statement that Scooter promised yesterday

The memo released today states that President Obama’s chief of staff used former President Bill Clinton as a go-between in order to see if Representative Joe Sestak would drop out of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary if they bribed him with  a prominent, but unpaid, advisory position, the White House said on Friday.

Waitaminute…they wanted him to give up an opportunity at a $174,000 plus per year prestigious Senatorial seat for a prominent, but unpaid, advisory position?  Isn’t that like offering someone a penny for a dollar?

Chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel asked his former boss,  President Clinton, last summer to explore “options of service” on a presidential or senior government advisory board with Mr. Sestak, per the White House’s statement.  Mr. Sestak said no and went on to defeat Snarlin’ Arlen Specter.

Per White House counsel Robert F. Bauer, there was nothing illegal or sleazy regarding this bribe:

There was no such impropriety.  The Democratic Party leadership had a legitimate interest in averting a divisive primary fight and a similarly legitimate concern about the congressman vacating his seat in the House.

Mr. Bauer went on to write that offering a bribe like this administration did  was a common practice:

There have been numerous, reported instances in the past when prior administrations – both Democratic and Republican, and motivated by the same goals – discussed alternative paths to service for qualified individuals also considering campaigns for public office.  Such discussions are fully consistent with the relevant law and ethical requirements.

Representative Darrell Issa of California, the senior Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, stated that: 

It is abundantly clear that this kind of conduct is contrary to President Obama’s pledge to change ‘business as usual’ and that his administration has engaged in the kind of political shenanigans he once campaigned to end.

Federal law makes it a crime for anyone:

who directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or any other benefit” to someone else “as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office.

 It is also illegal for a government official to use “his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate” for Senate.

While speculation has been rampant that the White House offered to appoint Mr. Sestak as secretary of the Navy, Mr. Bauer claims that the White House did not offer Mr. Sestak a full-time paid position because Mr. Emanuel wanted him to stay in the House rather than risk losing his seat, so he considered “uncompensated advisory board options.”

The White House will not say what those options were, but those in-the-know say that one option was an appointment to the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board, a panel of prominent Americans outside government who provide independent oversight of the nation’s spy apparatus and advise the president.  But White House officials scratched that idea because Rep. Sestak could not serve on the board while still serving in Congress.

To quote The Man who inspired a lot of regular people to become aware of American Politics, Mr. Rush Hudson Limbaugh (Yeah, buddy!):

I guess now we know why, ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton had lunch yesterday. They had to get their stories straight.

As I write this, Rep. Joe Sestak has not yet responded to the White House explanation.  His response will be interesting to behold.  He has to somehow stay in the good graces of  Barrack Hussein Obama (all graft, err, peace be upon him) and the Democratic Party minions, err, leadership, while at the same time, try to portray himself as sinless as he can in order to be successful in his Campaign for Specter’s Senate Seat.

Meanwhile, watch the Democratic Party’s spin.  Right now, they are flailing about, saying:

 BOOOOSH did it, too!

Representatives from President Bush’s administration, including Press Secretary Dana Perino, have already been on Fox News to refute that allegation.

To wrap this caper up in a neat little package, allow me to quote former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin:

So, how’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ out for ya?

Update:  3:35 p.m Central – Sestak just conducted  a staged “casual” (jacket  jauntily draped across his shoulder) Press Conference on the steps of  the Capital Building, where he professed his undying respect for President Clinton and dancing around everything else in a performance that could have been coached by ballet master Rahm Emmanuel .  Remember what I wrote earlier about the Democratic spin?  It will continue.

Sources:  drudgereport.com, nytimes.com, yahoo.com, rushlimbaugh.com

Today, the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) held his first Press Conference in 309 days.   After watching the dog and pony show, it actually seemed like some of the press were actually trying to portray themselves as journalists on television.  The only one that truly succeeded was Fox New’s Major Garrett.  Here are the main points to Scooter’s Guest Lecturing gig yesterday, summed up in a brief synopsis.  I wouldn’t want you to fall asleep.  Everybody watching it almost did.

1.  There since day one 

Scooter said that his administration was “in charge” of the effort to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, trying to combat popular opinion that his leadership has been less than sterling and his response was tepid, at best. 

Obama made sure that the public knew who was The Man, saying his people  ordered BP to drill two holes instead of the single one executives proposed.

Per Obama:

BP is operating at our direction.  Every key decision and action they take must be approved by us in advance.

He was sure to make the point that if the Coast Guard commander orders BP to do something, “they are legally bound to do it.”

2.  BP’s Fault

Obama insisted that BP will pay “every dime” for the damage it has done to the Gulf Coast:

BP is responsible for this horrific disaster and we will hold them fully accountable on behalf of the United States. 

Excuse me, Mr. President (Lt. Columbo impression…Google him, kids.)  If it’s BP’s fault, why did this occur, per Fox News?

Elizabeth Birnbaum, director of the embattled U.S. Minerals Management Service, was fired Thursday in the wake of reports of mismanagement in the agency responsible for oversight of oil companies like BP, which is trying to clean up a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

When asked about this during the Presser, Obama claimed she resigned and he did not  know the specifics.  I thought you were in charge, Mr. President?

By the way, are you giving BP back all the money they gave you?