Obama a quick study on creating commissions

It's funny really, almost everyday we read or hear something that obama said as a senator or candidate that he contradicts as "president". It will be brought up from time to time and we always get either a bullshit excuse, alternative meaning or outright denial.

The internet is a wonderful tool. It allows us to go back in time and view the comments made by people like obama. It lets us see, with our own eyes the hypocrisy that the media refuses to show us.

The obama "presidency" is just full of hypocrisy. From the claims of transparency to this newest revelation about the creation of commissions, it is one flip-flop after another. The media refuses to ask the tough questions and even when the work has been done for them they won't properly report the story.

obama and his commissions are nothing more than distractions from the real issues. He has no answers to the problems plaguing our Country because many of them have been created under his watch. Even if one of his crack, blue ribbon commissions could find their asses with both hands and a flashlight all the evidence would point to incompetence on the part of the "commander in chief". Do you think that information would revealed to the public? We don't really need a commission to tell us that though, do we?

By: Hayley Peterson - The Washington Examiner

As a candidate for president, Barack Obama called study commissions created by politicians "Washington-speak for we'll get back to you later."

He mocked his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, for suggesting a commission study the Wall Street meltdown, saying, "We don't need a commission to tell us how we got into this mess, we need a president who will lead us out of this mess, and that's the kind of president I intend to be."

But President Obama has already created about two dozen study commissions, blue-ribbon panels and task forces of his own -- roughly one a month since he took office -- to study not only major economic issues but childhood obesity, Hispanics and the middle class.

Obama largely ignored the recommendations of another panel, his deficit-reduction commission, in his 2012 budget proposal. But then he appointed a new panel to negotiate a final budget with congressional Republicans.

"Commissions generally are made when a president wants to do something but really doesn't know what he wants to do or doesn't have the money to do what he wants to do," said Stephen Hess, a veteran staffer of the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations and former adviser to Presidents Ford and Carter. "And the easiest thing to do is set up a commission."

Obama began appointing commissions and task forces as soon as he arrived at the White House. His first was assigned to study interrogation and transfer policies for suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The president has since created commissions to study the Gulf oil spill, the national debt, nuclear energy, bioethics, Hispanic education, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

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Can Donald Trump Save America?

I don't know about you, but I have a hard time taking Donald Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. I'm not 100% convinced he takes it seriously either. Has he even announced a run? I remember Ross Perot. I always thought he would have made a good president. Business experience would be a big plus, but more than that is required. Donald Trump has done lots of work in foreign countries, he has an idea of what foreign policy should look like. I'm just afraid this is going to be a publicity stunt...

by Jason Mattera - Human Events

“Look at everything I’ve built,” he said, while pointing to framed pictures of palatial properties around the world, from Panama City to Abu Dhabi to Chicago. “Aren’t they beautiful?”

That’s Donald Trump for you: gregariously proud. And why shouldn’t he be? The hotels and condos he was boasting about are, in fact, beautiful. For that matter, so was the view overlooking Central Park from the 25th floor of Trump Tower in New York City.

And it is exactly that hard-charging bravado, candor, and proven track record that Trump believes could catapult him to the highest office in the land. “I have a big ID, big recognition, maybe the highest there is among any candidate, some say of any candidate including the President,” he brags.

Who can disagree with that? The real estate mogul is an American icon. There’s “The Apprentice,” “Celebrity Apprentice, “Miss Universe,” “Miss USA,” “Miss Teen USA,” his fashion line, the inestimable hair, and his awesomely awesome public feud with Rosie O’Donnell. (“She’s unattractive, both inside and out.”)

When you hear “The Donald,” you automatically know who’s being talked about. Now that’s cachet.

But President of the United States? Is that really in the realm of possibility for Donald Trump?

Several of us from HUMAN EVENTS spent 45 minutes with him at his Fifth Avenue luxury office in Manhattan. What you’re about to read is an account of how serious he is regarding a presidential run, an uncut look into the billionaire’s bluntness about America’s wilting image in the world, and what exactly he would do to revitalize it. He doesn’t run away from his criticism of the Bush administration, nor does he back down about his campaign contributions to influential Democrats over the years. He speaks on the importance of religion in his life (“I am a believer”), America’s crumbling infrastructure (LaGuardia Airport in NYC is “Third World”), his pro-life conversion, the declining dollar, entitlements (his plan to fund them is, um, novel), and much more. Some of his views will anger free-market purists and other views will draw sharp criticism from Iraq and Afghanistan war evangelists.

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