Barack Obama -- February 11, 2009

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"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"

Barack Hussein Obama

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An Army Of Patronage Jobs	This video shows a Democrat Insider Saying "Obama Has Secret Plan to Fund a Patronage System." "I was told by democratic officials in that meeting, that we were going to get billions of dollars that was gonna come down the pike our way, and we're gonna build an army (bigger than the US army) of democratic patronage jobs, that is going to completely freeze off the republicans for ever and ever"
Obama Stops Drilling	Obama is shelving a plan announced in the final days of the Bush presidency to open much of the U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, including 130 million acres off California's shores from Mendocino to San Diego. Obama's Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put the plan on hold Tuesday while his agency conducts a 180-day review. But Salazar's critical comments about the proposal made clear that the new administration will rewrite it if not completely scrap it. "It opened the possibility of oil and gas leases along the entire Eastern seaboard, portions of offshore California and the far eastern Gulf of Mexico with almost no consultation from states, industry or community input," Salazar said at a news conference in Washington. "In my view, it was a headlong rush of the worst kind." Gateway Pundit reports that over the past 30 years: Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum. Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR. Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida. Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast. Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast. Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast. Democrats have blocked building oil refineries. Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production. Democrats have blocked clean coal production. Already this year democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah and opened the 111th Congress by introducing a bill to permanently prohibit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). During his acceptance speech, Obama said he wanted to end American's addiction on foreign oil. "I will set a clear goal as president: in ten years we will finally end our dependence on oil in the Middle East," said Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. Stanford University Professor James Sweeney, the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, is not a believer. "If he means what it sounds like it means, it's impossible." He says the U.S. consumes about 21 million barrels of oil a day. "We import two-thirds of our oil now and the only way we can become independent is shut down industry and tell people they can't drive, tell people they can't fly," said Professor Sweeney. Obama will hobble America and we'll all be living like the Amish.
Obama Lifting Sanctions Against Syria	Obama has decided on a new U.S. ambassador to Syria and is expected to lift sanctions against a nation charged with aiding Al Qaida in Iraq and secretly building a nuclear reactor with North Korean assistance. Diplomatic sources said Obama, in consultation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has asked Frederic Hof to become the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus since 2005. The sources said Hof, a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council, agreed to take the post. "There will be an announcement very soon," a diplomat said. The sources said the Obama administration was expected to suspend U.S. sanctions on Syria's military and energy programs.
International Criminal Court	Two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, in a closed Security Council meeting, voiced support for the International Criminal Court (ICC). She said it "looks to become an important and credible instrument for trying to hold accountable the senior leadership responsible for atrocities committed in the Congo, Uganda and Darfur." Obama said little about the ICC during his campaign for the White House. But in his first weeks as President, his actions speak less to constituents in Peoria and the Bronx than to admirers in Paris and Brussels. Obama’s trans-American constituent service includes his decision to shutter "Gitmo" and grant his first presidential interview with Al Arabiya television. In his inauguration speech, Obama declared that "America is ready to lead once more." He said American power "does [not] entitle us to do as we please." In the parlance of the Left, these suggest submission to international authority, which was raised again last week when Ben Chang, spokesman for National Security Advisor General James Jones, echoed Rice’s comments about the Court. In the context of an ICC indictment for Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Chang told the Washington Times, "We support the ICC in its pursuit of those who’ve perpetrated war crimes." So, what will ICC engagement mean for the United States? "If the United States were to join the ICC," David Scheffer and John Hutson write, "one would have to accept at least the theoretical possibility that American citizens (particularly political and military leaders) could be prosecuted before the ICC on charges of committing atrocity crimes," and without the protections afforded by Constitutional and laws. Waterboarding; Abu Ghraib; detaining terrorists at Guantanamo Bay dissing Hans Blix. Self-loathing Americans whose minds are confined in the cult of globalism don’t see it that way. Each of these "offenses" has at least one thing in common: they hurt the feelings of foreigners. Insensitivity to the outside world, U.S. internationalists argue, is a stain on Uncle Sam’s reputation from which we must repent.