A video featuring clips of President Barack Obama talking about his plans for a single-payer health care plan surfaced on the Internet in August 2009.
The video begins with a clip of President Obama, speaking at the AMA in June 2009, addressing an "illegitimate concern" by people who claim "a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system."
In the next clip, circa 2007, Senator Obama states "my commandment is to make sure we have universal health care for all americans by the end of my first term...but I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately..."
The then-Senator Obama addresses the AFL-CIO's Civil, Human and Women's Rights Conference in 2003. Obama said "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan...that's what I'd like to see."
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Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Monday, August 3, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Can you hear me now? Obama's Sectera Edge
Change= General Dynamics Sectera Edge
So here's the dealio. Obama gets to keep his beloved BlackBerry
, but he can only use it to tell Michelle he's late for dinner. For all business purposes, Obama will get a highly secure General Dynamics "Sectera Edge."Compare the General Dynamics Sectera Edge to the Blackerry
Assuming Obama has a BlackBerry 8700, (that's just what I heard) it weighs about 4.7. oz. Obama's new Sectera Edge has been described as "clunky," its nearly 2x the weight at 12 oz.
Both the old blackberry and the new Sectera Edge have the qwerty pad--making texting easy.
Sectera Edge Specs
*Removable / Rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery
*Appx. standby time: 35 hours
*Appx. talk time 3 hours
*Appx. secure talk time 2 hours
**Interfaces
*Unclassified- USB, Classified- USB, Serial
*Headset
*Uses Windows, WordPad editor, views images w/ Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF Widows Media Player
*Internet explorer web browser
*Global roaming over GSM, CDMA or Wi-Fi* wireless networks
The BlackBerry 8700 Specs
*GSM 850/ GSM 900/ GSM 1800 ? GSM 1900
*Appx. talk time 4 hours max.
*Appx standby time 384 hours max.
*Battery: 1100 mAh Li-Ion removable
*USB
You can read more about the Sectera Edge at the official site of General Dynamics, they have a bunch of PDF files with info
To read more about Obama's attachment to his beloved BerryBerry, be sure to check out Mahalo's page on the story.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
President Barack Obama's New Portrait
This is interesting and from Engadget:
"You're now gazing at President Barack Obama's just-released official portrait -- the first of a U.S. president ever taken with a digital camera. That means we can peek at the EXIF data -- this fine specimen of portraiture was snapped with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II
on January 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm with no flash, using a 105mm lens stopped to f/10 at a 1/125 exposure, with an ISO of 100 by newly crowned official White House photographer Pete Souza."
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Presidential Doodles, Kennedy 'Conspiracy', and What is this Nixon doodle?
Presidential Doodles
is a collection hundreds of doodles & drawings made by Presidents of the United States. The images were collected by the creators of "Cabinet" magazine and writer/ history professor at Rutgers, David Greenberg. The book was published in 2006.
Unfortunately, the book doesn't feature Barack Obama's famous doodles featuring senators, that was sold at a charity auction circa 2007 or Sarah Palin's vote-for-me type doodles on the back of a sheet of paper for Wasilla's city budget.
The book does feature drawings of weapons and self-portraits by Dwight Eisenhower, horses drawn by Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan's cowboys and football players and a diagram of the Pythagorean theorem done by John Adams. Oddly enough, a doodle by Richard Nixon is eerily similar to something in my phone book...
One of the most talked about doodles in the book was drawn by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy often enclosed words inside circles and boxes. One of his doodles is of a small circle with the number 9-11 and on the same page he wrote the word "conspiracy" and underlined it. It is said to be the tally of a committee vote, but it still strange to see.
is a collection hundreds of doodles & drawings made by Presidents of the United States. The images were collected by the creators of "Cabinet" magazine and writer/ history professor at Rutgers, David Greenberg. The book was published in 2006.Unfortunately, the book doesn't feature Barack Obama's famous doodles featuring senators, that was sold at a charity auction circa 2007 or Sarah Palin's vote-for-me type doodles on the back of a sheet of paper for Wasilla's city budget.
The book does feature drawings of weapons and self-portraits by Dwight Eisenhower, horses drawn by Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan's cowboys and football players and a diagram of the Pythagorean theorem done by John Adams. Oddly enough, a doodle by Richard Nixon is eerily similar to something in my phone book...
One of the most talked about doodles in the book was drawn by John F. Kennedy. Kennedy often enclosed words inside circles and boxes. One of his doodles is of a small circle with the number 9-11 and on the same page he wrote the word "conspiracy" and underlined it. It is said to be the tally of a committee vote, but it still strange to see.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Humane Society Loves Obama, Palin the Wants Animals Dead
The Humane Society has endorsed Barack Obama. They have NEVER endorsed a presidential candidate.
Is it any wonder?
Obama has supported at least a dozen animal protection laws including stronger penalties for animal cruelty, helping to promote spaying an neutering (no abstinence only animals) and banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption. Obama cosponsored several bills to combat brutal animal fighting and supports efforts to increase funding for the enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act, and federal laws to combat puppy mills.
In Contrast:
- Cruella de Palin offered $150 for every left leg of a dead wolf as an economic incentive for pilots and aerial gunners
- Cruella de Palin opposes listing polar bears as endangered species
- Cruella de Palin opposed listing the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale as an endangered species
- Loves the feeling she gets when shooting her rifle into the heart of a moose, then eating its flesh
- Says she doesn't wear fur...but there is proof otherwise
- Childhood home is filled with dead animals kept as trophies
For someone so "filled with the spirit" and promoting the "culture of life" she sure does come across as kind of barbaric don't you think?
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Hypocrisy of the McCain campaign
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.
If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your resume is: ex-local sports reporter-intern, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.
If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent America's family values.
If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the
quintessential American family.
And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, much clearer now.
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're 'exotic' and 'different.'
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you're an American story.If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, then you're well-grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, help register 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, 8 years as a State Senator of a district of 750,000 people, chair the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people, sponsor 131 bills, and serve on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your resume is: ex-local sports reporter-intern, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town of 7,000 people, 2 years as governor of a state of 650,000 people, you're qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, left your ill wife, and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age-appropriate sex education, including the use of birth control, you erode the fiber of American society.
If you staunchly advocate abstinence-only education, while your teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, you don't represent America's family values.
If your husband is called 'First Dude', has a DWI conviction, didn't register to vote until 25, and was a member of a group that advocated secession of Alaska from the USA, yours is the
quintessential American family.
And, finally, if you're famous for your quick temper, you're the one to have your finger on the red nuclear button.
OK, much clearer now.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Elisabeth Hasselbeck vs Michelle Obama
I gave up on the view along time ago...but Elisabeth Hasselbeck continues to grind on my nerves. On September 4th she hosted the very down-to-earth "Women for McCain Victory 2008" "luncheon" in what the New York Times described as a "ballroom full of Republican Women". You know...the kind of luncheon that starts off with "strawberry soup."
Anyway...
Mrs McCain...(not to be confused with CAROL MCCAIN) and John McCain will be apparently open to any questions thrown at them when they appear on "The View" on September 12th.
I hope Joy or Whoopie (or whats-her-face) takes the opportunity to ask some serious questions. I think they should invite Rosie back just for the occasion...then ...just then...may I actually be tempted to watch the view.
Read more about Elisabeth Hasselbeck saying Michelle Obama is hiding something
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