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Presidents and other politicians frequently adjust their legislative priorities as the political climate changes but president Obama seems to be on priority overload.
CBS News’ Mark Knoller takes a look at what Obama has labeled as a ‘top priority” since he took office almost 20 months ago.
From CBS News
After the Senate passed that $600 million Border Security Bill yesterday, President Obama issued a statement asserting that securing the southwest border has been “a top priority” since he took office.
But if you think Mr. Obama can have but a single “top priority,” you’d be wrong. He’s got a load of them.
In an Address to the Nation two months ago, Mr. Obama declared “our top priority is to recover and rebuild from a recession that has touched the lives of nearly every American.”
More than any other issue, he has used the phrase “top priority” about digging the economy out of the recession and creating jobs. And on this issue, he drew a distinction between “a” top priority and “the” top priority.
“Creating jobs in the United States and ensuring a return to sustainable economic growth is the top priority for my Administration,” he said in an Executive Order last March on his National Export Initiative.
Early in his administration, Mr. Obama also assigned the “top priority” label to his campaign promise to overhaul America’s health care system. But a check of his speeches since taking office, reflect a bevy of other “top priorities:”
FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: “…that’s something that’s going to be a top priority.” (4/27/10)
ENERGY SECURITY: “And that’s why my energy security plan has been one of the top priorities of my Administration since the day I took office.” (4/28/10)
EDUCATION REFORM: “To train our workers for the jobs of tomorrow, we’ve made education reform a top priority in this Administration.” (2/24/10)
STUDENT LOAN REFORM: “This is something that I’ve made a top priority.” (2/1/10)
EXPORTS BY SMALL BUSINESSES: “This is going to be a top priority.” (12/3/09)
HEALTH ASSISTANCE TO 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS: “I’m not just talking the talk, we’ve been budgeting this as a top priority for this Administration.” (2/3/10)
END HOMELESSNESS AMONG VETERANS: “I’ve also directed (Veterans Affairs) Secretary Shinseki to focus on a top priority: reducing homeless among veterans.” (8/17/09)
HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS: “Our top priority is ensuring the public safety. That means appropriate sheltering in place or if necessary, getting as many people as possible out of harm’s way prior to landfall.” (5/29/09)
H1N1 FLU VACCINATIONS: “And throughout this process, my top priority has been the health and the safety of the American people.” (5/1/09)
SUPPORT FOR MILITARY FAMILIES: “These military families are heroes too. And they are a top priority of Michelle and me. And they will always have our support.” (5/30/09)
STRENTHENING TIES WITH CANADA AND MEXICO: “We’re going to make this a top priority…” (10/16/09)
CONSUMER PROTECTION: “During these challenging times, the needs of American consumers are a top priority of my Administration.” (2/11/09)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: “So this is going to be a top priority generally improving our environmental quality.” (11/5/09)
The dictionary defines “top” as a singular entity: “the part of anything that is first or foremost.”
By designating a multitude of “top priorities,” Mr. Obama can be seen trying to score political points with the constituencies for all of these issues.
Obama does deserve credit for advancing his “progressive” (read liberal) agenda but it has been much harder than originally anticipated despite Democratic control of Congress.
But what really is his “top priority”? Even fellow Democrats seem confused by the speed of the ground shifting that has taken place since Obama took office. He starts in one direction, hits a wall then shifts to whatever is next on the list and if he hits a wall there too then he changes priorities again.
Rarely has Obama actually stuck his neck out for one of his priorities to push for passage and that has his far left supporters stewing as what they thought were some of Obama’s priorities have been pushed to the backburner when he ran into opposition.
One thing Obama has shown during his time in office so far is that he would rather switch than fight and that’s not exactly a trait that most Americans want in a president.
Maybe what Obama really needs is Priority Czar.
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THREE-STORY OUTHOUSES FOR PSEUDO DEMOCRATIC/REPUBLICAN PARTIES
” Compromise on a principle, and that will be the first straw in breaking that principle’s back ). Daniel Deleon, late Socialists in America. For sure both parties are guilty for betraying Christianised America. Deleon is not consuming his own words.
In essence, we may safely put both parties as projectors, as hounds of the outhouses. It doesn take a brain to comprehend as to the level one combined group of party-line political whores will follow. This line is a pill for office seeking, or holders, to swallow self confidence and dignity. We might consider that this gang speaks from the top of Washington’s nearest three-story outhouse, where the air is cleaner rather than loafing on the first shelter walk in, where the mobs seek assurance that all is well, when relieved that there is a different odor on either perch.
When Americans are restrained from protecting rights and priviledges, as firmly established, through the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution;, through organized political gangsterism, then we move into collective obligation as enhoused within that declaration, with devine intervention and with God fearing mankind demanding that bells of freedom might be ressurected.
The Declatarion: All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer evils, while evils are sufferable, rather than to abolish the forms which they are more accustomed to.End. Christian America of all nations and cultures are fed up wikth the planned socializing of our national government.
Too. When the people shall go tired and weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to over throw it. End. Of course, this by due proces of , and not through open rebellion. This must be accomplished through the ballet box and electorial colleges.
Our Chrisrian citizens must be awakend as to the enemy within. The enemy of all civic righteousnes is massive , that is being shot-gunned through commie agents screening behind major news proclaiming that fee speech is a cover for national government, listening to universal proletarian post socialist proscriptions, that any and all red plants in government will continue to over ride a mandate from the poeple, that the government is out of hands with its Bolsheviki implications, in leading people out of political albertross, though a Gordian institution. Alexander came a a cross a Gordian not. Failing to unravel this unique representation that a city would be ruled by whomever undid this knot would rule. It is up to Christianized Americans to tackle the Gordian knot that Congress has presented to a nation in political bondage!
Hogorina
Maybe “We the People” will send BHO a message so simple,that even a Harvard trained,Muslim raised,Marxist like him & his cronies can understand
that OUR “Top Priorty” is to remove as many Liberal Dems & Progressive Repubs.this November as possible. Then, in 2012, we remove him & those we missed this time. I believe that the ONLY reason this cowardly “Apologist
in Chief” went to Wright’s “Church” at all was because his wife made him,because she foresaw that he would NEVER be POTUS if the Christian majority of the USA thought he was actually a Muslim,,& In my opinion I believe he is now or was for a long time in his life. If he is NOT, then why did his team spend $900,000 of his leftover campaign money on 5 lawyers
in 4 locations to ‘CoverUp’ his background more than ANY other POTUS EVER?
Our “Top Priority” is very clear come November.
NOT RACIST,,,NOT VIOLENT,,,just NOT SILENT!!!
SEVERAL PRESIDENTS HAD DOGS FOR UTILATERIAN CONCEALMENTS. ONE SHOULD NOT HANG THIS PERCEPTION, IF IT WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY EXISTED. HOWEVER, CONSIDER ROOSEVELT AND HITLER. MASOCHISM IS AIMED TOWARDS BOTH OF THESE CHARACTERS. WHY SHOULD IT NOT BE DIRECTED TOWARDS POLITICAL WHORES TOO. ARN’T MANY OF THEM OUR NEIGHBORS? THIS IN IT SELF, IS HARD TO SWALLOW. AWFUL! INJECT YOUR FAVORITE POLITICAL WHORE INTO THE CANINE AFFAIR.
We have a mania spreading out through America tied to the craze in owning dogs. Searching back in the past to Vienna, Austria in the mid eighteen hundreds, one meets with the identical situation surrounding, the dangers of these animals, as being used for various personalities, for transitional implications of individual anti-social inadequacies. The Late Doctor Sigmund Freud and cohort, Karl Jung, along with Max Nordav, made lengthy studies of split personalities and their relationships with specific canines.
In the last several decades hundreds of dog fighting clubs were abundant i America. Psychiatrist long ago persisted that individual masochism was the actual reason for collective canine fighting. Masochism is discovered throughout humanoids as natural outlet for the release of pent up anti-social repressions. In it self, man instinctually harbored aggression as a survival weapon against weaker individuals, to obtain food and shelter. With contemporary existence, a concealed anti-social predisposition to literally satisfy mental instability, through torturing others, or the self, by civilized means, in a legal manner, masochism, self-hatred and getting artificial sexual highs
Considering the love for canines in normal family life is not categorised, as some what mentally suffering from a personality suppression complex syndrome. Self-abasement in being surrounded by one or several barking dogs gradually stamps out any noticeable impediment, distractions that might thwart opposing the subconscious release of hidden sexual inhibitions.
Considering the love for canines in normal family life is not categorised, as some what mentally suffering from a personality suppression complex syndrome. Self-abasement in being surrounded by one or several barking dogs gradually stamps out any noticeable impediment, distractions that might thwart opposing the subconscious release of hidden sexual intuitions, that are needed for an artificial high. This sudden release of forbidden sexual infatuation qualms a disturbed mind, reversed back into the real world, until masochism is to be daily released by Hollyweird’s subimatiog flicks.
The dog-loving masochists cleaves to have several dogs and their racket for long periods at night, and By indirect satisfaction, to worry neighbors, that brings on self-torture of reverberating masochism.
Hogorina
Whatever Obama wants is a “Top Priority”, what Americans want comes in a distant second. He really is amazing in his ability to think ONLY of himself.