Obama Calls David Paterson 'A Wonderful Man'

" You're a wonderful man." Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to stab you in the back. But you're STILL, a wonderful man!!

"...a wonderful man! Now just get out of the way so I can find a suitable place to park my failed Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton."

Obama's early political career was spent running for office and having his opponents disqualified so he could not lose.

Obama's lack of support for a weak incumbent governor like Paterson is CLEARLY an attempt by Obama to box out Rudy Gulianai.

For Obama a stronger candidate who could beat Gulianai woud be in Obama's best interest, even if that means turning on one of only two African American governors in the US.

With polling numbers lower than ACORN, if that is possible, Paterson is a weak candidate to beat anyone, never mind Rudy Gulianai. If "America's mayor", who had some failures but MANY successes running NYC Rudy Gulianai would have two years as governor of New York State and be well positioned to run against Obama in 2012.

Like many others Obama will throw Paterson, one of only TWO African American governors, under the bus to protect his own back.

Respectfully,
Pete

I THINK OBAMA HAS SOMETHING AGAINST THE HANDICAPPED. FEELS THEY ARE TOO WEAK TO BE IN HIS CABINET. JUST LIKE HITLER.

in sports, when the coach gets a public vote of confidence from the owner or GM, he is soon fired. The bigger question still remains - what business of the WH is a governor's race?

You're Doing a Heck of a Job Patty! Heck of a Job says Obama as Paterson Destroys New York... Wonder if the MEDIA will play that over and over and over again as they did Bush? With as much Corruption as in Patersons Closeet,he could almost give Obama a run for his money on Corruption!!!

Good to know for future reference.

So for those keeping score:

"He/She's not the He/She I remember." - You've put your foot in your mouth and caused me grief. Good luck in your future endeavors as a speed bump. You're dead to me.

"So-and-so's a wonderful man/woman" - Your political capital has run out. Perhaps there's a future for you on the public speaking circuit. If so, we'll be happy to vet your speeches prior to delivery.

Obama would throw his own grand mother under the bus to push his political agenda.

Oh wait…that’s right…he already did throw his grand mother under the bus.

What a fork-tongued scumbag…a pathetic man, and a horrible leader.

Obama does think Paterson is a fine man all right but he just doesn't like blind, Uncle Toms, who don't have a white mother or at least a white Granny he can kill by cutting back on Medicare and restricting their care at the end of life with his Caskets for Granny Eugenics program.

Obama refused to discuss ACORN Sunday, saying there are more important things to worry about. Hummmmm how about million or should I say billions of our tax money to these criminals? That's not important Mr. President? Obviously, he wants to "sort of" distance himself from his years of association with this socialist organization. He's still got Van Jones on the payroll, but Obama will not admit to it. Also, a bottle of aspirns, could that lead back to the White House?

President Obama told Gov. Paterson not to worry he would treat him like his own Grand-Mother and then he did by throwing Gov.Paterson under the bus

President Obama promised Gov. Paterson not to worry that he would treat him as if he were his own Grand-Mother and then he did by throwing Gov.Paterson under the bus

He swaggers in front of any media camera and TV... 'He' asks for because he is the President. This President is taking over your country folks. What a dispicable act applauding Governor Patterson publically and in truth throwing him under the bus.
How disingenuous as he speaks to the college students giving them another rally type speech. Just look yourselves.... here what the Democrats will do in their search on how to pay for the National Health Bill. See the very last item..Do you think they would all be clapping if they heard that? Probably would continue just look at thr election of Barack Obama.
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee released the first comprehensive review by the Congress of what Democrats might consider in order to pay for their major efforts at health care reform. In a word, it can be described mostly as "taxes."

The plan reviews a series of options, big and small.

In terms of savings, the plan recycles the familiar old bromide in DC about cutting down on "waste and inefficiencies" to "produce significant savings."

There is talk of using advances in productivity to save money, and reducing the differences in health care costs under Medicare between certain parts of the country.

On the tax side, the first option is one I've written about already, the idea of - for the first time - taxing employer provided health care benefits. Also up for discussion, changes in Flexible Savings Accounts, used by workers to direct more tax-free money to health care costs.

There is also a proposal to modify Health Savings Accounts, which help Americans save money for medical expenses.

Other ideas would deal with the definition of qualified medical expenses (you figure that one out) and possibly limiting the itemized deduction for medical expenses.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield is going to spend some money on lobbying, because one provision would limit the tax deductions of non-profit Blues.

Need other ideas to raise money? How about ending the exemption for students on paying taxes when they are employed by a college or university, or even a teaching hospital?

And then there are "lifestyle" tax proposals, like upping the tax on alcohol and/or sugary soft drinks.

Just another piece of information folks ...Ever wonder where our highly touted Stimulous package originated?....Take a look below:

NY's Tax-Funded Ex-Terrorist
By PHIL KERPEN

Last Updated: 5:09 AM, September 9, 2009
Posted: 2:55 AM, September 9, 2009

VAN Jones resigned as White House green-jobs czar after the public got a look at his history of radical activism, including his time building the so-called Apollo Alliance -- a coalition of left-wing interest groups unified around the green-jobs concept. But another, even more radical Jones (not related) is leading Apollo's New York state activities.

Jeff Jones was a domestic terrorist in the late '60s and a fugitive from justice throughout the '70s -- yet now he's a leader of an influential, taxpayer-funded group.

Jones was a fugitive from justice for 11 years. His own account at his Web site says: "As a leader of the Weather Underground, Jeff evaded an intense FBI manhunt for more than a decade. In 1981, they finally got him. Twenty special agents battered down the door of the Bronx apartment where he was living with his wife and four-year-old son."

With Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers, Jones in 1969 co-founded the radical Weatherman, which orchestrated the violent "Days of Rage" riots in Chicago, and later undertook an anti-government bombing campaign. Three of its members died when a bomb they were constructing to attack Fort Dix accidentally detonated in Greenwich Village.

And Jones is still proud of his terrorist activities -- saying as recently as 2004: "To this day, we still, lots of us, including me, still think it was the right thing to try to do."

Now, Jones is back to revolutionary organizing -- but with taxpayers footing the bill. He's the director of the Apollo Alliance's New York affiliate and a consultant to the national group.

Apollo unifies the three most powerful elements of the political left -- environmental groups, labor unions and street organizers like ACORN -- and points them toward a common goal that enriches all of them under the banner of "green jobs." (Van Jones was an Apollo board member until he joined the White House staff.)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently credited Apollo with helping write the stimulus bill and getting it passed. Yet the stimulus' "green jobs" provisions funnel federal tax dollars to unions, green groups and community organizers -- that is, the organizations that make up Apollo.

Green jobs serve a political purpose, but not an economic one. The evidence from Spain and elsewhere is ample -- each green job created destroys more than two other jobs elsewhere in the economy.

Jeff Jones counts among his consulting clients (along with Apollo) a half-dozen state and local environmental groups and the Workforce Development Institute (WDI), a union-controlled organization ("developed in partnership with the NYS AFL-CIO," it says) that works with state and local government and universities.

WDI's mission is to support union influence on state and local governments. It gets state tax dollars to do it -- to the tune of $4.8 million in this year's Education, Labor and Family Assistance budget bill.

WDI is so tightly integrated with Apollo that it features a full page of Apollo information on its Web site (wdiny.org), which appears to be the primary Web presence of Apollo's New York branch. WDI encourages its members and program participants to attend Apollo Alliance events.

As a consultant to WDI, Jones is helping write the grant proposals for federal stimulus funds -- funds authorized in the bill Apollo helped write, presumably ensuring that taxpayer dollars end up in the hands of groups that share Apollo's political agenda.

Anyone should be entitled to spend his or her own money on political organizing, but Apollo and WDI are spending taxpayer dollars to organize a coalition of extreme environmentalists, labor unions and social-justice street organizers.

That's bad enough in itself, but to have the effort spearheaded by an unrepentant domestic terrorist is a true outrage.

Phil Kerpen is director of policy for Ameri cans for Prosperity. philkerpen.com

VAN Jones resigned as White House green-jobs czar after the public got a look at his history of radical activism, including his time building the so-called Apollo Alliance -- a coalition of left-wing interest groups unified around the green-jobs concept. But another, even more radical Jones (not related) is leading Apollo's New York state activities.

Jeff Jones was a domestic terrorist in the late '60s and a fugitive from justice throughout the '70s -- yet now he's a leader of an influential, taxpayer-funded group.
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Jones was a fugitive from justice for 11 years.

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Has your party ever once proposed a federal initiative that didn't involve taking money from poor people and redistributing it upward to the wealthiest?

Even one?

It's a rhetorical question. I know the answer is no.

The simplest way to raise money is the one that's going to happen. The bush tax evasion for billionaires is going to expire and be replaced with breaks for people under $250,000 and at long last an end to bush's welfare for billionaires.