Barack Obama
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Friday, May 28, 2010
This guy wants to take over Louisiana, kindly offers Bobby Jindal a job under the new regime
Posted by Lauren LaBorde on Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:20 PM
My inbox is constantly filled with the desperate pleas of Nigerian princes and Chinese widows that miss my spam folder, where so many fake bank statements and male enhancement offers go to die. I routinely delete these messages, and the message I received from a Robert Philippe Webb de Orleans with the subject line "URGENT" nearly received the same fate. But a quick glance at this message told me this guy is not some spambot, firing phishy missives from somewhere in Africa: he appears to be a real life crazy person, and he wants to be the king of Louisiana.
- Addressed to Mitch Landrieu, Bobby Jindal, James D. “Buddy” Caldwell, Mary Landrieu and David Vittler, the 2,172-word email begins with Webb claiming to be the descendant of royalty, a relative of Robert E. Lee and a member of the Lykes shipping family.
He advocates seceding from the union, doesn't like President Obama very much, talks about some conspiracy theories, is sore about the Louisiana Purchase, and would totally let Jindal and crew have jobs under his leadership. Here some of the highlights:
- • "President Barrack Obama worries me deeply. He is part of a massive Nazi and Mafia based Eugenics Conspiracy underway in The Federal Government’s intelligence circles."
• "I am writing to formally express my willingness in this turbulent time to lead The People of New Orleans, Louisiana and The Louisiana Purchase Territory as lawfully installed King of Louisiana. There is no clear leadership in these lands which rightfully belong to me and my Family."
• "I would be willing to offer each of you a Title and position in a new government which I propose to lawfully put in place with International United Nations Laws and the support of all The Citizens in my Homeland."
• "There are many of these violations but in particular I cite The United States Federal Government’s creating The HIV and AIDS Virus in 1970 at Ft. Detrick, Maryland’s Biological Weapons Laboratory."
• "It is our legal right to bear arms against a Tyrannical and unwanted oppressive Government. I do however advocate my peaceful installation."
- I checked out his website, and apparently he's an architect? I guess with this oil disaster going on, we all want to do something. While some of us just want to donate hair that may or may not be used for oil booms, or scrub oil-slicked ducks with Dawn soap, or never go to a BP gas station ever, ever again, this guy wants to be king. Just his way of coping. And it's in his blood.
- The entirety of his weirdo email is after the jump.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Is Joseph Cao endorsing his former aide? Or is she making as much space between them as she can?
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Washington D.C. (and the Republican party) are waiting to see what Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao will do at this weekend's vote on health care reform (he told the Associated Press this afternoon he's "pretty much a definite no"). This is a 180-degree reversal of his November vote in favor of President Barack Obama's HCR plan ... for which he received plenty of flak from his own party.
Now his former director of communications is running for her own Congressional seat, and she seems to be taking a big step back from Cao as well. Princella Smith, who served as Cao's director of communications for 10 months, has announced her own candidacy for the House of Representatives, seeking to fill the Arkansas 1st District seat currently held by retiring Rep. Marion Berry. Smith, an Arkansas native, is the fourth contender to join the field.
Smith’s positions are consistently more to the right than those of her former boss, who occasionally crossed the aisle to vote with the Democratic majority, and nowhere is the difference between the two more apparent than on the issue of immigration. Two months after taking office, Cao became a cosponsor of H.R.1751 (“The American Dream Act”), which would allow undocumented students who graduate from American high schools to obtain green cards and get on a faster track toward permanent residency — a bill strongly opposed by many Republicans.
Smith’s position on immigration is summed up in its own page on her Web site: “Cut off all federal dollars to any entity that provides amnesty to illegal immigrants. No federal money for highways, healthcare, infrastructure or political pork. No money, period.” She also distanced herself from Cao’s November vote for Obama’s healthcare plan in an interview with The American Spectator: “My job was to communicate why he did what he did. That’s it. … He pushed the button himself.”
Meanwhile, Cao’s name is conspicuously absent on Smith’s endorsement Web page. Cao’s new communications director, Clayton Hall, did not return email inquiries as to whether the congressman would be endorsing his former aide, nor did Smith herself.
Should Smith win, she would be the first black Republican woman to serve in the House and, at 27, one of the youngest members of Congress ever. Her star began rising in the GOP in 2004, when she won an MTV-sponsored speech contest called “Stand Up and Holla” and was invited to be a prime-time speaker at that year’s Republican National Convention. Since then, she has worked as a spokesperson and campaign director for groups founded by former Rep. Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. In another local angle, Smith also counts national GOP political consultant (and New Orleans resident) Mary Matalin among her mentors; Matalin has referred to Smith as her “little sister."
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Polling for the Future
Posted by David Winkler-Schmit on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Americans loathe Congress, but they still like President Barack Obama according to a recent Associated Press poll. A mere 22 percent support Congress while public approval for Obama’s job performance checks in at 53 percent even though Karl Rove casts the president as “undisciplined.”
The poll also reveals that party affiliation doesn’t inspire confidence — 50 percent of those surveyed would give a pink slip to their congressperson. As the midterm elections approach, public perception obviously matters and pols, but not polls (there’ll be plenty more), will struggle to prove their worth.
And it raises the question, what do you think of your own representative? Will you vote for them, choose someone else, or does it matter what you think, change is going to come?
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
"Why do people hate you and they're supposed to love you and God is love?"
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:45 PM
(Filed by David Winkler-Schmit)
- When he woke up today, 9-year-old Tyren Scott of Paulina, La., knew he was going to President Barack Obama's town hall meeting in New Orleans. He didn't know he would be meeting the president, nor that he would be going home a celebrity of sorts.
- Tyren, a fourth-grader at Paulina Elementary School, came to the town hall with his mother Lisa, who had requested tickets from Rep. Charlie Melancon's office; Melancon had passed the request on to the White House, which granted the Scotts two tickets.
- When Obama called on Tyren to ask the last question of the day, the boy's question temporarily silenced the crowd:
- "Why do people hate you and they're supposed to love you and God is love?"
- Obama handled the question deftly. "Well, first of all, I did get elected President, and not everybody hates me," he told Tyren. "If you're watching TV lately, everyone seems mad all the time. Some of it's just what's called politics. One party wins, the other party feels it needs to poke you to keep you on your toes. You shouldn't take it too seriously. People are worried about their own lives, losing jobs, health care, homes, and feeling frustrated. When you're President of the United States you've got to deal with all of that."
- Gambit asked Tyren what he thought of Obama's answer. "It made me feel good about what he said," Tyren told us. "And he gave me the right answer."
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