[SwitcherX]

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BlackPlanet Year in Review: "The Top 10 Obama Player-Haters of 2008"

Pastor Manning keeps it real.  Damn.....  

[TheZookie007]

Are you kidding me, 3de? Bill Clinton & Jesse were the ultimate Obama player-haters...which is sad.

[SwitcherX]

 

[TheZookie007]

Moveon? "Baby, Can you please tell these people to stop sending me emails?..."

LOL so funny and SO TRUE. I had to label their email as spam before they would quit flooding my inbox.

[TheZookie007]

And speaking of Jesse Jackson and becoming the first black president:

Eddie Murphy, "The First Black President" (from Delirious)

Richard Pryor, "The 40th President of the United States"

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Thank gawd it's 2009.

 

[Bonecracker]

19 days to go!  YAY!

[PET]

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19 days to go!  YAY!

until he will be installed?
hope that program isnt full of bugs as the last one were

[pedonbio]

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19 days to go!  YAY!

until he will be insatalled?
hope that program isnt full of bugs as the last one were

Sorry, PET. There is a whole subculture in the US that is probably unknown in Europe since we have fixed terms for public officials, but we carry around little backward-running clocks and calendars that count down to January 20, 2009. My wife got me one three years ago. The damnned battery gave out two months ago!

[TheZookie007]

That Backwards Bush clock of yours must have been made by "Brownie"...

[SwitcherX]

 www.obamaclock.org

[TheZookie007]

You see, the difference between the Obama clock and the Backwards Bush clock is, Obama hasn't done any stupid things yet. By the time the Backwards Bush clock had been set up, 9/11, Katrina, and many many more boneheaded things had gone down on Dubya's watch.

[TheZookie007]

Don't you just HATE when this happens?

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Yahoo! News (UK): "Piven loses Obama's number"

Actor Jeremy Piven is reeling after his cell phone deleted a personal message from Barack Obama that included the U.S. President-elect's personal phone number.

The greeting - a thank-you for the actor's campaign work during the election - was Piven's prized possession, until his rogue Blackberry erased it for no reason.

He says, "I was lucky to stump for Barack in Indiana and to introduce him in Chicago. Barack left me five numbers. It was the greatest voicemail that I've gotten in my life by the way... I saved it and I went back to listen to it and my BlackBerry had erased all of Barack Obama's phone numbers. Then when I called back to try to tell them, 'Can I get Barack's number? He left it for me.' They didn't believe me and I now have nothing and I've been trying to find him."

[TheZookie007]

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Yahoo! News: "Obama hails 'extraordinary' moment with presidents"  

Confronting a grim economy and a Middle East on fire, Barack Obama turned Wednesday to perhaps the only people on the planet who understand what he's in for: the four living members of the U.S. presidents' club. In an image bound to go down in history, every living U.S. president came together at the White House on Wednesday to hash over the world's challenges with the president-elect. There they stood, shoulder-to-shoulder in the Oval Office: George H.W. Bush, Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

"This is an extraordinary gathering," Obama said, looking plenty at ease in the humbling office that will soon be his.

"All the gentlemen here understand both the pressures and possibilities of this office," Obama said. "And for me to have the opportunity to get advice, good counsel and fellowship with these individuals is extraordinary. And I'm very grateful to all of them."

Bush, blistered without mercy by Obama during the campaign season, played the role of gracious host.

"All of us who have served in this office understand that the office transcends the individual," Bush said as Obama nodded in thanks. "And we wish you all the very best. And so does the country."

It was a moment of statesmanship that tends to happen when presidents get together, no matter how bitter their previous rivalries. In a photo opportunity that lasted less than two minutes, Carter, Clinton and the senior Bush smiled but said nothing. They deferred to the nation's incoming and outgoing leaders.

Earlier, Bush and Obama met privately in the Oval Office in a chat expected to cover events of the day, mainly the troubled economy and Middle East. The two have shown solidarity since Obama's win in November, with one previous Oval Office sit-down and at least a few phone calls in recent weeks.

All sides were determined to say as little as possible about what was discussed. Presidents — new, old, incoming — like to keep their conversations private.

Without offering any specifics, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs said all the presidents "had helpful advice on managing the office as well as thoughts on the critical issues facing the country right now. The president-elect is anxious to stay in touch with all of them in the coming years."

From the White House, press secretary Dana Perino said the discussion was "wide-ranging" but declined to comment further. Before the gathering, she had said she could not imagine the leaders would meet without discussing the Middle East, where conflict rages in Gaza, or the economy, which is sinking.

The White House would not even say what the men ate, allowing only that they ordered off the menu of the White House mess, as Bush does all the time.

Intentionally or not, Bush opened the media moment in a curious way, suggesting that he was already out the door.

"I want to thank the president-elect for joining the ex-presidents for lunch," said Bush, who is in fact still the president until Jan. 20.

"One message that I have, and I think we all share, is that we want you to succeed," Bush added, a beaming Clinton at his other side. "Whether we're Democrat or Republican, we care deeply about this country."

White House aides tried to usher the media out of the Oval Office when Bush stopped speaking. The lighting for the event even went dark.

But sometimes, there is more than one president at a time.

Obama spoke up on his own, the lights went back on, and the cameras kept rolling.

"I just want to thank the president for hosting us," Obama said. When a reporter asked Obama what he could learn from the mistakes of the four presidents surrounding him, he smiled and said he planned to learn from their successes.

The get-together was Obama's idea, and Bush liked it. The lunch lasted about 90 minutes, held in a small dining room off the Oval Office.

Carter, Clinton and the two Bush presidents were last together at the Washington funeral service of President Gerald Ford in 2007. And presidents have gathered at other occasions over the years. But not since October 1981 — 27 years ago — had all of the living presidents gathered at the White House.

[TheZookie007]

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NY Daily News: "Bollywood's goodbye to George W. Bush? A film that makes fun of him"

Bollywood has a going away present for President George W. Bush as he prepares to leave the White House: a gag movie that makes him the butt of every joke.

The new film The President is Coming, uses Bush’s 2006 trip to Mumbai as a springboard for a fictional comedy in which six young Indians compete to shake the President’s hand.

In the story, Bush has agreed to shake the hand of one young person who represents promise for India’s future – and officials at the U.S. Consulate in Mumbai proceed to put the candidates through a battery of wacky tests to choose a winner.

Directed by Indian filmmaker Kunaal Roy Kapur, the film is apparently also an homage Bush’s infamous tendency for verbal gaffes at public speaking events.

"Bush is more of a sort of metaphor for the things that America represents – good or bad – but he's also used as a bit of a punching bag because he's an easy target," Kapur, 29, told Reuters.

The English-language movie is shot in a mock documentary style and cost about $615,000 to make, according to Kapur.

The film – which is based on a play by the same name – opens Friday in India, just days before President-elect Barack Obama takes office on Jan. 20.

"It's definitely a nice little goodbye present for Bush," Kapur said.