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| | Sujet: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/11/2008, 13:47 | |
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| | Sujet: 2786 - Partisan Trends: Democrats 35.0% Republicans 33.8 Gap - Smallest in 5 years 3/9/2010, 16:44 | |
| Partisan Trends: Democrats 35.0% Republicans 33.8% Gap Smallest in Five Years
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The number of Republicans in the United States grew in August while the number of Democrats slipped a bit and the gap between the parties fell to the smallest advantage for Democrats in five years. - Spoiler:
In August, 35.0% of American Adults identified themselves as Democrats. That’s down nearly half a percentage point from a month ago and is the smallest percentage of Democrats ever recorded in nearly eight years of monthly tracking.
At the same time, the number of Republicans grew in August to 33.8%. That’s up two full percentage points from the month before and the largest number of Republicans recorded in 2010.
As has been the case in every month over the past eight years of tracking, there are more Democrats than Republicans in the nation. The gap is currently 1.2 percentage points. That’s the closest the Republicans have been to parity in more than five years, since July 2005.
It’s also the smallest gap between the parties heading into any of the recent campaign seasons. In August 2004, the Democrats had a 2.6 percentage point advantage. In August 2006, they enjoyed a 5.4 percentage point advantage. In August 2008, the gap was 5.7 percentage points. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present.
The biggest advantage ever measured for Democrats was 10.1 percentage points in May 2008. In December 2008, the final full month of the Bush administration, the Democrats held an 8.8-percentage-point advantage.
Since December 2008, the number of Republicans has grown by a single percentage point. However, the number of Democrats has fallen by nearly seven points.
The number not affiliated with either major party is now at 31.1%. That’s the lowest level measured in 2010.
Rasmussen Reports tracks this information based on telephone interviews with approximately 15,000 adults per month and has been doing so since November 2002. The margin of error for the full sample is less than one percentage point, with a 95% level of confidence.
(Want a free daily e-mail update ? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.
Between November 2004 and 2006, the Democratic advantage in partisan identification grew by 4.5 percentage points. That foreshadowed the Democrats' big gains in the 2006 midterm elections. The gap grew by another 1.5 percentage points between November 2006 and November 2008 leading up to Obama's election.
The number of Democrats peaked at 41.7% in May 2008, and it was nearly as high at 41.6% in December 2008. The number of Democrats fell below the 40% mark in March 2009 and first fell below 36% in December of that year. Rasmussen Reports has been tracking this data monthly since November 2002. Prior to this month’s data, the lowest level of identification with the Democrats has been 35.1%. It was reached twice, in February and May of this year.
For Republicans, the peak was way back in September 2004 at 37.3%, For nearly five years, since late 2005, the number of Republicans has generally stayed between 31% and 34% of the nation’s adults.
Keep in mind that figures reported in this article are for all adults, not likely voters. Republicans are a bit more likely to participate in elections than Democrats.
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| | Sujet: 2787 - The Audacity of Failure 3/9/2010, 16:57 | |
| Tiens il etait question tout-a-l'heure du livre du POTUS. Morning Bell: The Audacity of FailurePosted September 3rd, 2010at 9:30am in Enterprise and Free MarketsIn April, while campaigning in Pennsylvania, Vice President Joe Biden promised the American people: “I’m here to tell you, some time in the next couple of months, we’re going to be creating between 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month. … We caught a lot of bad breaks on the way down. We’re going to catch a few good breaks because of good planning on the way up.” And for a while it looked like Biden was a genius. In May, the Labor Department reported that nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 the previous month and in June they reported that the U.S. economy added another 431,000 jobs. President Barack Obama’s “good planning” was working! But then the next report showed the U.S. economy lost 125,000 jobs in June and then the August report found another 131,000 jobs were lost in July. - Spoiler:
Today the Labor Department released the September jobs report, showing nonfarm payrolls decreased again by 54,000 and that the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9.6%.
By every objective measure, President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package has been a complete failure. When President Obama was selling his stimulus plan to the American people, he promised it would save or create 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010. At the time, employment stood at about 134.3 million, according to the Labor Department’s most commonly used measure. That established an Obama jobs target for December 2010 at 137.8 million. According to the latest jobs report, total U.S. employment stood at 130.3 million in August, which means the cumulative Obama jobs deficit stands at 7.5 million.
Despite the mounting evidence of failure, the Obama administration is still completely unapologetic. Defending her tenure as chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer told journalists at the National Press Club Wednesday: “The current recession has been fundamentally different from other postwar recessions. … Precisely because such severe financial shocks have been rare, there were no reliable estimates of the likely impact. To this day, economists don’t fully understand why firms cut production as much as they did, and why they cut labor so much more than they normally would, given the decline in output.” But after first admitting that the experts don’t understand the current crisis, she then confidently asserts:
It is clear that the Recovery Act has played a large role in the turnaround in GDP and employment. In a report that Jared Bernstein and I issued during the transition, we estimated that by the end of 2010, a stimulus package like the Recovery Act would raise real GDP by about 3½ percent and employment by about 3½ million jobs, relative to what otherwise would have occurred…. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, CEA’s own estimates, and estimates from a range of respected private sector analysts suggest that the Act has already raised employment by approximately two to three million jobs relative to what it otherwise would have been.
Got that? Romer first admits that her magic Keynesian formulas were completely useless in predicting how bad the recession would be, and then she turns right around and uses those exact same formulas to justify the success of the stimulus. If that bootstrapping weren’t audacious enough, Romer then went on to claim that “the United States still faces a substantial shortfall of aggregate demand” and that “structural changes in the composition of our output or a mismatch between worker skills and jobs” having nothing to do with continued high unemployment. So instead of changing course, Romer wants us to double down with a second round of economic stimulus.
How much more stimulus does the Obama administration want to spend? Romer wouldn’t say, and the White House is desperate to avoid calling any new action “stimulus,” but The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle has crunched the numbers and come up with a ballpark size of how big the original economic stimulus package would have to have been if we take the left’s Keynesian economics as gospel: “Full employment is perhaps 4.5-5%. If we assume that stimulus benefits increase linearly, that means we would have needed a stimulus of, on the low end, $2.5 trillion. On the high end, it would have been in the $4-5 trillion range.”
Even the Obama administration doesn’t want to add another $5 trillion to our $13.5 trillion national debt. That is why the Obama administration is pushing a $921 billion tax hike set to take effect on January 1, 2011. There is only one word for proposing $981 billion in taxes to pay for trillions in failed stimulus spending in the midst of 9.6% unemployment: audacity.
Ombre, ne parliez-vous pas d'une diminution des impots sur la classe moyenne ce matin?
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| | Sujet: 2788 - Report: Ground Zero Mosque Investor Contributed to Designated Terror Group 3/9/2010, 17:35 | |
| Report: Ground Zero Mosque Investor Contributed to Designated Terror GroupPublished September 03, 2010| FoxNews.com Businessman Hisham Elzanaty is shown at his Long Island home. (MyFoxNY.com)A key financial backer of the proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero once contributed to a U.S.-designated terror group, MyFox New York reports. - Spoiler:
Egyptian-born businessman Hisham Elzanaty, who made what is described as a "significant investment" in the Ground Zero mosque project,contributed more than $6,000 in 1999 to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, also known as HLF, tax records show.
The donations came two years before the federal government shut down HLF and designated it a terror group. Elzanaty's attorney told MyFox New York that his client believed at the time that he was donating to an orphanage. Elzanaty did not respond to questions.
Federal investigators say the group was set up as a Texas-based charity, but in fact supported Hamas.
Ray Locker, managing director of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, told MyFox New York that even in 1999, news outlets reported on possible ties between HLF and terror organizations.
Five HLF leaders were convicted in 2008 of providing support to Hamas.
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 18:28 | |
| C'est amusant, la chasse aux sorcières?
Au lieu de se fier à Faux News, une petite recherche sur Google mènera nulle part, sinon qu'il parait, dit le tealiban qu'a vu l'homme qu'a vu l'ours, que El Zanaty a endossé des hypothèques pour un certain Sharif el-Gamal. C'est spooky, c'est spooky!
Laissons couler quelques heures et Braitbart.com nous arrivera bien avec un vidéo aussi caviardé que ceux concernant ACORN ou Shirley Sherrod...
Paranoïa, racisme, xénophobie, haine... quand ils vous tiennent! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 19:10 | |
| Ta venue sur ce forum coïncidant je viens d'en être informer avec une dénonciation courageusement anonyme a l'administration de Forum actif.
Je me vois dans l'obligation de cesser tout débat avec un individu tel que toi et d'ignorer désormais tes interventions en attendant de prendre les décisions qui sont nécessaires et les actes qui en découleront.
Au revoir
Les autres agiront selon leur conscience,pour moi le sujet est clos! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 19:56 | |
| Je répète: il n'y a pas de dénonciation anonyme avec forumactif.
Le suggérer, c'est accuser accuser forumactif de partialité.
Tu peux effacer Biloulou, ton compte d'indulgences est vide et St-Pierre te jugera sur pièce, aux portes du Paradis! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 20:40 | |
| Si vous me permetez... je vous rappelle que c'est la deuxième fois que LP reçoit des notifications de ce genre et que la première fois c'était bien avant que Pétard soit actif. D'autre part, ForumActif met à la disposition des administrateurs de forums des filtres qui interdisent des pseudos immoraux et des routines qui suppriment ou modifient automatiquement dans les messages certains mots suspects. De là à imaginer qu'il y a un système de contrôle automatique des contenus il n'y a qu'un pas. J'espère que la sagesse et a modération l'emporteront...  | |
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| C'est quoi ce truc? Bran, vous avez recu une notification de forumactif PERSONNELLEMENT concernant un de VOS messages?  |
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| | Sujet: 2794 - How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular 3/9/2010, 23:17 | |
| Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular By Michael Scherer Thursday, Sep. 02, 2010  President Obama, during a town-hall meeting with young African leaders in the East Room of the White House on Aug. 3, 2010Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP PhotoThe Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering Elkhart high school gymnasium in August 2008, tireless, aspirational, promising a new America of jobs and hope. "We can choose another future," says the newcomer with the funny name. "So I ask you to join me." - Spoiler:
Today that view of Obama is harder to find in Indiana. A couple of weeks back and a dozen miles west of Elkhart, hundreds gathered in another school gym — except this time it was for a job fair. With the local unemployment rate above 12% and rising again this summer, about a third of the employer display tables stood empty. Julie Griffin, who voted for Obama in '08, sat down at the room's edge, well dressed and discouraged. After 23 years as a payroll administrator at a local RV plant, she got laid off 18 months ago. "Really, what has he been doing?" she said when I asked about Obama's efforts to help people like her. "I guess I don't know what he is doing."
Across the gym floor, Joe Donnelly, Elkhart's pro-life, pro-gun Democratic Congressman, worked the crowd. He was part of the moderate wave that won Congress for Nancy Pelosi in '06, and he was re-elected with 67% of the vote while campaigning for Obama in '08. The President has since returned to the region three times, but Donnelly is nonetheless fighting for his political life. In a recent television ad, an unflattering photo of Obama and Pelosi flashes while Donnelly condemns "the Washington crowd." This is basically a Democratic campaign slogan now: Don't blame me for Obama and Pelosi. "I'm not one of them," Donnelly told me when I caught up with him. "I'm one of us."
This shift in perception — from Obama as political savior to Obama as creature of Washington — can be seen elsewhere. When Obama arrived in office in January '09, his Gallup approval rating stood at 68%, a high for a newly elected leader not seen since John Kennedy in 1961. Today Obama's job approval has been hovering in the mid-40s, which means that at least 1 in 4 Americans has changed his or her mind. The plunge has been particularly dramatic among independents, whites and those under age 30. With midterm elections just nine weeks off, instead of the generational transformation some Democrats predicted after 2008, the President's party teeters on the brink of a broad setback in November, including the possible loss of both houses of Congress. By a 10-point margin, people say they will vote for Republicans over Democrats in Congress, the largest such gap ever recorded by Gallup.
White House aides explain this change as a largely inevitable reflection of the cycles of history. Midterms are almost always bad for first-term Presidents, and worse in hard times. "The public is rightly frustrated and angry with the economy," says Dan Pfeiffer, Obama's communications director, explaining the White House line. "There is no small tactical shift we could have made at any point that would have solved that problem." In more confiding moments, aides admit that the peak of Obama's popularity may have been inflated, a fleeting result of elation at the prospect of change and national pride in electing the first African-American President. As one White House aide puts it, "It was sort of fake."
But while these explanations may be valid, they are also incomplete. A sense of disappointment, bordering on betrayal, has been growing across the country, especially in moderate states like Indiana, where people now openly say they didn't quite understand the President they voted for in 2008. The fear most often expressed is that Obama is taking the country somewhere they don't want to go. "We bought what he said. He offered a lot of hope," says Fred Ferlic, an Obama voter and orthopedic surgeon in South Bend who has since soured on his choice. Ferlic talks about the messy compromises in health care reform, his sense of an inhospitable business climate and the growth of government spending under Obama. "He's trying to Europeanize us, and the Europeans are going the other way," continues Ferlic, a former Democratic campaign donor who plans to vote Republican this year. "The entire American spirit is being broken."
One explanation for Obama's steep decline is that his presidency rests on what Gallup's Frank Newport calls a "paradox" between Obama and the electorate. In 2008, Newport notes, trust in the federal government was at a historic low, dropping to around 25%, where it still remains. Yet Obama has offered government as the primary solution to most of the nation's woes, calling for big new investments in health care, education, infrastructure and energy. Some voters bucked at the incongruity, repeatedly telling pollsters that even programs that have clearly helped the economy, like the $787 billion stimulus, did no such thing. Meanwhile, the resulting spike in deficits, which has been greatly magnified by tax revenue lost to the economic downturn, has spooked a broad sweep of the country, which simply does not trust Washington to responsibly handle such a massive liability.
The Overreach
Rather than address these concerns as the economic crisis grew, Obama made a conscious choice to go big with government reforms of health care and energy. The bailouts of the auto companies, the rescue of Wall Street and the new regulation of banks and the financial industry only deepened the public's skepticism, especially among independent voters. Rather than dwell on the political problems, the President pushed his team forward, believing, in the words of top adviser David Axelrod, that "ultimately the best politics was to do that which he thought was right."
It wasn't long before deep cracks in Obama's coalition began to appear. This past June, Peter Brodnitz of the Benenson Strategy Group, a firm that also polls for the White House, asked voters which they preferred: "new government investments" or "cutting taxes for business" as the better approach to jump-start job creation. Even among those who voted for Obama, nearly 38% preferred tax cuts. When Brodnitz offered a choice between government spending cuts to reduce the deficit and investments in "research, innovation and new technologies," one-third of Obama voters chose the cuts. The evidence throughout the poll, commissioned by the think tank Third Way, was unmistakable: roughly 1 in 3 of the President's 2008 supporters had serious questions about government spending solutions for the economy. In Nevada, a state Obama won with 55% of the vote, only 29% of likely voters this year think the President's actions have helped the economy, according to a recent poll by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. "A lot of this was really inevitable, or at least pretty predictable," says Indiana Senator and former governor Evan Bayh, a Democratic expert at getting elected in the Rust Belt. "We have a lot of government activism at a time when skepticism of government efficiency is at an all-time high.
It's not as if the White House didn't see this coming. After a meeting in December 2008 about the severity of the economic crisis, Axelrod pulled Obama aside. He recalls saying, "Enjoy these great poll numbers you have, because two years from now, they are not going to look anything like this." But even as Obama aides were aware of a growing disconnect, it didn't seem to worry their boss. Instead, the ambitious legislative goals usually trumped other priorities. Both in the original stimulus package and then in the health care and energy measures, the White House ceded most of its clout to the liberal lions who controlled the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. That maneuver helped assure passage of reforms, but it also confirmed some of the worst fears about how Washington works. "I'd rather be a one-term President and do big things than a two-term President and just do small things," he told his team after Republican Scott Brown was elected Senator in liberal Massachusetts and some in the Administration suggested pulling back on health reform.
For Democrats in conservative districts, like Representative Jason Altmire in western Pennsylvania, the President's approach always spelled trouble. "Even though the leaders in Congress understood that a lot of these things are not going to be popular, they were at a point in their careers where they realized that this is what they have been waiting for," says Altmire, who is favored to win this year, in part because he voted against most of the President's agenda, including health reform. "It was true overreach."
For someone who so carefully read the political mood as a candidate, Obama has been unexpectedly passive at moments as President. Whereas other Democrats had hoped to spend the late summer talking about two things — jobs and the unpopularity of many Republican policies — the White House has been distracted by a string of unrelated issues, from immigration reform to a mishandled dismissal of a longtime USDA official to the furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero. On Aug. 31, Obama gave a prime-time speech about the partial troop pullout from Iraq, touching on jobs only tangentially, before spending the following day in an intensive effort to restart the Middle East peace process. "It is inconceivable that a team so disciplined during the presidential campaign can't carry a message with the bully pulpit of the White House," says one Democratic strategist working on the midterm elections. "It's politically irresponsible, and Americans have little patience for it."
As his poll numbers fell, Obama responded with his perpetual cool. His appeals to the grass-roots army that he started, through online videos for Organizing for America, took on a formal, emotionless tone. He acted less like an action-oriented President than a Prime Minister overseeing some vast but balky legislative machinery. When challenged about his declining popularity, the President tended to deflect the blame — to the state of the economy, the ferocity of the news cycle and right-wing misinformation campaigns. Aides treated the problem as a communications concern more than a policy matter. They increased his travel schedule to key states and limited his prime-time addresses. They struggled to explain large, unpopular legislative packages to the American people, who opposed the measures despite supporting many of the component parts, like extending health insurance to patients with pre-existing conditions or preventing teacher layoffs. "When you package it all together, it can be too big to succeed as a public-relations matter," says Axelrod.
Instead of shifting course, Obama spoke dismissively about Republican efforts to play "short-term politics." He continued the near weekly visits to new green energy manufacturing plants, repeating promises of an economic rebirth that remains, for many, months or years away. And he missed opportunities to strengthen his connections with his supporters: local political capos complained privately that Obama had a tendency to touch down in their backyards, give a speech and scoot after less than an hour. By the end of the summer, the disconnect had grown so severe that only 1 in 3 Americans in a Pew poll accurately identified him as a Christian, down from 51% in October 2008. At the same time, the base voters Obama had energized so well in '08 went back into hibernation. They were nowhere to be found in the '09 gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, tracking instead with pre-Obama historical patterns. While liberals attacked him from the left on cable television, many of his core supporters weren't paying attention. In a rich irony, many of the same groups Obama turned out for the first time in record numbers had suffered the most from the recession and were the most likely to tune politics out. "One of the challenges on the Democratic side is, it's been very hard for [voters] to make connections between what is happening in Washington and what is happening in their lives," says Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster.
Can He Rebalance?
At the White House, advisers take comfort in the fact that at this point in their presidencies, both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton scored slightly lower approval ratings than Obama. And the dominant analogy for the past few months has focused not on 1994, when Clinton lost a Democratic Congress in a huge Republican wave, but on '82, when Reagan lost just 26 seats in the House. Like Obama, Reagan was facing rising discontent at the midterm, driven by huge unemployment numbers that peaked at 10.8% at year's end. But as the economy rebounded, Reagan's governing philosophy, "Stay the course," was vindicated. He won re-election by an enormous margin.
Outside the White House, only a few of the President's Democratic allies take much solace in this history, in part because the current economic slump appears far more lasting than the one Reagan faced. Most experts from both parties say Obama will have to rebalance his politics in 2011 to be re-elected in '12. That's partly because of the growing belief that the Republicans will win the House in November and, if their stars align, have a good shot at taking the Senate as well. Elsewhere, in state houses and in governors' races, Republicans are poised for a broad comeback. Regardless of the exact outcome, it is clear that Obama's brief window of one-party rule has closed. That outcome alone may vindicate Obama's decision to make the massive reforms while he still had the votes. It will never be known for certain just how much a more centrist legislative strategy would have improved the Democrats' midterm outlook.
But two years is the equivalent of multiple lifetimes in politics, and there are signs that Obama is already pivoting away from plans to engineer massive reforms in energy policy, global-warming response and immigration law to less-stirring, more-popular challenges like reducing the deficit and reforming taxation and entitlements. What little margins Obama does have to push major reforms through are sure to shrink away in the coming months. "I think the next couple of years, we've got to focus on debt and deficits," Obama told NBC News after his summer vacation. "We've got to focus on making sure that we make the recovery stronger. And a lot of that is attracting private investment." *1
Back in Indiana, the evidence of Obama's political failure is particularly glaring. During his early, heady days in office, the President decided to make Elkhart a personal cause. A once thriving manufacturing center of 50,000 on the Michigan-Indiana border, famous for its musical instruments and recreational vehicles, the Elkhart region saw the steepest jump in unemployment of any metropolitan area in the nation during the economic crisis. That helped Obama win Donnelly's district by 9 points, nearly George W. Bush's margin in 2004, and Obama returned to Elkhart just weeks after taking office. "I promised you back then that if elected President, I would do everything I could to help this community recover," he announced. "And that's why I've come back today."
Since then, he has been back twice more, once to speak at Notre Dame and once to herald a new electric-vehicle plant that would be built with federal support. In the southern end of the district, thousands of jobs at parts plants were saved when Obama decided to bail out the auto companies.
Yet all of Obama's personal and financial appeals have been swamped by the depth of the recession and have had little visible effect. Donnelly, who flies home every weekend to work in his district, felt obliged to run against Obama to save his job. And his Republican opponent, Jackie Walorski, says she is often approached by Obama voters who want to vent. "This has burned people," she says. "Their words, not mine: 'Betrayed by the health care vote.' 'What are they thinking when it comes to spending?' 'Broken promises when it comes to jobs.' " At one recent Walorski house party, held at dusk beside a cornfield, two attendees, Matthew and Frances Napieralski, identified themselves as former supporters of the President. "He's not what I voted for," said Matthew, who runs a plastic-injection-molding shop in town. "It's a shame that they led us to believe one thing," said Frances, "and then everything changes."
For now, Obama's aides hope that the controversial reforms in health care and financial rules will produce benefits felt by voters, if not by November 2010, then two years later. That would vindicate the President's vision of government as a solution and not just a problem. Even in Indiana, the disappointment is matched by a real yearning for a leader who can make a difference. "I think he's trying," says Griffin, the laid-off payroll administrator who said she didn't know what Obama had done for her. "Nobody can turn it around overnight."
Correction: The original version of this story referred to a poll that gave Obama voters a choice between tax cuts to reduce the deficit and investments in "research, innovation and new technologies." The actual choice was between those investments and government spending cuts to reduce the deficit.
*1 ensuite, s'il est reelu (ayant gouverne du centre ou meme du centre droit) il finira de socialiser les Etats Unis pendant son deuxieme mandat
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| | Sujet: 2795 - How presidents age in office 3/9/2010, 23:48 | |
| How president age in office From left: Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty; Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Barack ObamaPhotos taken on Inauguration Day, left, and on Aug. 3, 2010, show that after a year and a half in office, the President has the same touch of gray in his hair but shows far more stress on his face.  From left: Mark Wilson / Getty; Alex Wong / Getty George W. BushBush 43 ended his Administration with much grayer hair than he began with.  From left: Cynthia Johnson / Getty; Mario Tama / AFP / Getty Bill ClintonEight years added more than a touch of gray to the 42nd President's locks.  From left: Dirck Halstead / Time & Life Pictures / Getty; Dirck Halstead / Time & Life Pictures / Getty George H.W. BushBush 41's youthful looks faded by 1992, right, when he lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton.  From left: Dirck Halstead / Time & Life Pictures / Getty; Diana Walker / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Ronald ReaganOne suspects that the former actor had some help from color treatments. Eight years in office and he only showed the slightest hint of gray.  From left: Dirck Halstead / Time & Life Pictures / Getty; Penelope Breese / Getty Jimmy CarterThe 39th President started out with a salt-and-pepper look; by the end of his term, his hair was grayer and thinner.  From left: Bill Pierce / Time Life Pictures / Getty; David Hume Kennerly / Getty Gerald FordTwo and a half years in the White House added a few gray hairs and some wrinkles to Ford's mien.  From left: Walter Bennett / Time & Life Pictures / Getty; Francis Miller / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Richard NixonDespite the stresses of the Vietnam War and Watergate, the 37th President seemed to have aged little during his six years in office.  From left: AP; Francis Miller / Time & Life Pictures / Getty Lyndon Baines JohnsonBefore-and-after shots of LBJ show that four years in the White House, from 1964 to 1968, added a little gray to his hair but otherwise did not change him much. |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 23:55 | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/9/2010, 23:58 | |
| Facile! Le demi-Black avec le second prénom arabe?
Pffft.... trop facile! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 00:23 | |
| Les milliardaires du Tea Party La journaliste du New Yorker Jane Mayer s'interroge sur le rôle des milliardaires David (photo) et Charles Koch dans l’éruption du Tea Party, un mouvement qui se veut populiste. Par le biais d’American for Prosperity, un des nombreux groupes qu’ils financent discrètement, ces deux industriels qui ont fait fortune dans les raffineries de pétrole et les pipe-lines ont participé à l’organisation de plusieurs manifestations contre l’administration Obama et fourni aux militants du Tea Party arguments et orateurs. Selon Mayer, les Koch tentent d’exploiter la colère anti-Washington et anti-Obama manifestée par le Tea Party pour atteindre leurs objectifs de libertariens purs et durs, à savoir un État minimal, ce qui signifie notamment des impôts et une réglementation minimums. Comme le souligne la journaliste chevronnée, les frères Koch ne sont évidemment pas les premiers milliardaires à tenter d’influencer la politique américaine. Chez les progressistes, George Soros est l’un de ceux qui puise dans sa vaste fortune pour financer des groupes ou candidats politiques. Mais, à la différence d’un Soros, les Koch cherchent non seulement à dissimuler leur rôle mais également à apporter soutien à des causes qui pourraient leur permettre de préserver ou d’augmenter la rentabilité de leurs entreprises. Selon Mayer, ils financent ainsi généreusement lobbyistes et groupes de réflexion dont la mission est de remettre en doute la gravité du réchauffement climatique ou le rôle des humains dans ce problème. >The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.<Revenant sur l’enquête de Mayer dans un article publié dimanche dernier, le chroniqueur du New York Times Frank Rich a ajouté un nom aux milliardaires qui auront joué un rôle crucial dans la montée du Tea Party : Rupert Murdoch, propriétaire de Fox News, une chaîne qui ne s’est pas gênée pour faire la promotion de ce mouvement. >The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party<Source: Richard Hétu |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 06:00 | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 06:34 | |
| Texas Warden Charles O'Reilly no regrets putting 140 to restJeudi, 2 septembre 2010 Posté par Rack Jite dans Dumbutt, Texas  "If you think it's a terrible thing, you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. You don't do 140 executions and then all of a sudden think this was a bad thing." Texas Walls Unit Warden Charles Thomas O'Reilly Besides Christian activist Timothy McViegh who did in 169, this guy sending 140 souls sent to their maker is a record for any REAL AMERICAN Christian to be proud of. Shackled and unarmed is the stuff of Texas Heroism. Oh, and shooting unarmed people in the back. Joe Horn pages. I suppose just like Evangelical Christian George W Bush who took so much joy (even giggling about it) in being the governor who was responsible for the most executions in American history, one can always say, RULE OF LAW or THEY HAD IT COMIN'! Texas Walls Warden O'Reilly Retires proud of the 140 he sent to Hell This goes at the very core of ever growing disgust toward the predominate religion of my country. Yet alone all the crap going on in the Middle East. Instead of religion doing the right thing, it is most always doing the wrong thing. Instead of being on the side of compassion, mercy, love, peace and reaching out to those in need, it has become the direct opposite. It is American Christianity that takes the most joy in capital punishment, in whacking children around, carpet bombing, collateral damage, guns, hate, war and giving the least of us the finger. It's disgusting and someone has to say so no matter how unpopular it is. The Emperor has no clothes! This guy is the perfect mix of Texas and Christianity... Zap Bang bang! What fun! Oh you never ask questions when Gods on your side. |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 12:02 | |
| Au contraire, cette caricature est un exemple concret de ce qu'offre l'opposition au peuple face au POTUS demi-noir actuel qui vous agace tellement et que vous prenez malin plaisir à démoniser.
Le système bipartite américain et sa fausse démocratie ne peut vous amener que de Charybde en Scylla. Voilà.
Mais peut-être est-ce trop compliqué pour être compris pas un esprit simple?
P.S.: Merci de ramener à l'avant-plan cette brillante caricature! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 12:13 | |
| Pendant ce temps, dans l'Amérique schizophrène:
Media turn to discredited Bush officials to respond to Obama's Iraq speech
C'est tout de même comique! On prend des menteurs pathologiques pour commenter les discours d'un POTUS demi blanc au deuxième prénom arabe.
Encore une fois, dans leurs tombes, Goebbels et Bernays jubilent et applaudissent! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 14:52 | |
| Les Teapartiers et le parti Repu$ se plaignent d'impôts trop élevés, la fôte aux démocrates. évidemment. L'Amériques est en crise parait-il à cause de cela ( On pourrait probablement faire un parallèle avec toutes les nations occidentale, le Canada en ce qui m'intéresse ). Pourtant, les chiffres montrent un autre réalité: Here is a partial history of changes in the U.S. federal income tax rates for individuals (and the income brackets) since 1913:    Pourquoi je sens un malaise, là? Parce que la prospérité et la croissance économique n'ont rien à voir avec la taxation, comme le soutenait d'ailleurs POTUS George H. W. Bush à l'encontre de l'opinion de POTUS BaBush-le-fils? Mais je vois une maudite bonne raison du seul point restant au programme des Repu$: garder le 1% des américains privilégiés repus... |
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| | Sujet: 2805 - Oval Office rug gets history wrong 4/9/2010, 15:42 | |
|  Oval Office rug gets history wrong By Jamie StiehmSaturday, September 4, 2010 A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige. - Spoiler:
President Obama's new presidential rug seemed beyond reproach, with quotations from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. woven along its curved edge.
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." According media reports, this quote keeping Obama company on his wheat-colored carpet is from King.
Except it's not a King quote. The words belong to a long-gone Bostonian champion of social progress. His roots in the republic ran so deep that his grandfather commanded the Minutemen at the Battle of Lexington.
For the record, Theodore Parker is your man, President Obama. Unless you're fascinated by antebellum American reformers, you may not know of the lyrically gifted Parker, an abolitionist, Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist thinker who foresaw the end of slavery, though he did not live to see emancipation. He died at age 49 in 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.
A century later, during the civil rights movement, King, an admirer of Parker, quoted the Bostonian's lofty prophecy during marches and speeches. Often he'd ask in a refrain, "How long? Not long." He would finish in a flourish: "Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
King made no secret of the author of this idea. As a Baptist preacher on the front lines of racial justice, he regarded Parker, a religious leader, as a kindred spirit.
Yet somehow a mistake was made and magnified in our culture to the point that a New England antebellum abolitionist's words have been enshrined in the Oval Office while attributed to a major 20th-century figure. That is a shame, because the slain civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was so eloquent in his own right. Obama, who is known for his rhetorical skills, is likely to feel the slight to King -- and Parker.
My investigation into this error led me to David Remnick's biography of Obama, "The Bridge," published this year. Early in the narrative, Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, presents this as "Barack Obama's favorite quotation." It appears that neither Remnick nor Obama has traced the language to its true source.
Parker said in 1853: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice."
The president is at minimum well-served by Parker's presence in the room. Parker embodied the early 19th-century reformer's passionate zeal for taking on several social causes at once. Many of these reformers were Unitarians or Quakers; some were Transcendentalists. Most courageously, as early as the 1830s, they opposed the laws on slavery and eventually harbored fugitives in the Underground Railroad network of safe houses. Without 30 years of a movement agitating and petitioning for slave emancipation, Lincoln could not have ended slavery with the stroke of a pen in the midst of war. Parker was in the vanguard that laid the social and intellectual groundwork.
The familiar quote from Lincoln woven into Obama's rug is "government of the people, by the people and for the people," the well-known utterance from the close of his Gettysburg Address in 1863.
Funny that in 1850, Parker wrote, "A democracy -- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people."
Theodore Parker, Oval Office wordmeister for the ages.
Jamie Stiehm, a journalist, is writing a book on the life of Lucretia Mott, a 19th-century abolitionist and women's rights leader.
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| | Sujet: 2806 - Theodore Parker 4/9/2010, 16:00 | |
| Theodore ParkerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTheodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an AmericanTranscendentalist and reformingminister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his own words and quotes he popularized would later influence Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.- Spoiler:
BiographyEarly lifeTheodore Parker was born in Lexington, Massachusetts,[1] the youngest child in a large farming family. His grandfather was John Parker, the leader of the Lexington militia at the Battle of Lexington. Parker came from a colonial Yankee background and among his ancestors was Thomas Hastings (colonist) who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[2]Most of his family had died[3] by the time he was 27, probably due to tuberculosis. He was educated privately and through his personal study until he attended Harvard College and graduated in 1831. He then entered the Harvard Divinity School and graduated in 1836.[1] Parker specialized in a study of German theology. He was drawn to the ideas of Coleridge, Carlyle and Emerson.CareerParker spoke Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and German. His journal and letters show that he was acquainted with many other languages, including Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic and Ethiopic. He considered a career in law but his strong faith led him to theology. Parker held that the soul was immortal, and came to believe in a God who would not allow lasting harm to any of his flock. His belief in God's mercy made him reject Calvinist theology as cruel and unreasonable.Parker studied for a time under Convers Francis, who also preached at Parker's ordination ceremony.[4] In the 1830s, Parker began attending meetings of the Transcendental Club and became associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, and several others.[5] Unlike Emerson and other Transcendentalists, however, Parker believed the movement was rooted in deeply religious ideas and did not believe it should retreat from religion.[1]While he started with a strong faith, with time Parker began to ask questions. He learned of the new field of historical higher criticism of the Bible, then growing in Germany, and he came to deny traditional views. Parker was attacked when he denied Biblical miracles and the authority of the Bible and Jesus. Some felt he was not a Christian, nearly all the pulpits in the Boston area were closed to him,[6] and he lost friends.In 1841, he presented a sermon titled A Discourse on the Permanent and Transient in Christianity, espousing his belief that the scriptures of historic Christianity did not reflect the truth.[1] In 1842 his doubts led him to an open break with orthodox theology: he stressed the immediacy of God and saw the Church as a communion looking upon Christ as the supreme expression of God. Ultimately, he rejected all miracles, and saw the Bible as full of contradictions and mistakes. He retained his faith in God but suggested that people experience God intuitively and personally and it is in that individual experience that people should center their religious beliefs.[1] Parker circa 1850 Parker's statue in front of the Theodore Parker Church,[7] a Unitarian parish in West Roxbury, Massachusetts.Parker accepted an invitation from supporters to preach in Boston in January 1845. He preached his first sermon there in February. His supporters organized the 28th Congregational Society of Boston in December and installed Parker as minister in January 1846.[3] His congregation, which included Louisa May Alcott, William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, grew to 7000.[8]Parker was a homeopathic patient of William Wesselhoeft and he spoke the oration at his funeral [9] He also supported Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Foreign Library where many intellectuals gathered.[10]Death Theodore Parker's first headstone. Theodore Parker's tomb in FlorenceParker's ill health forced his retirement in 1859.[8] He developed tuberculosis and departed for Florence, Italy where he died on May 10, 1860, less than one year before the Union split. He sought refuge in Florence because of his friendship with the Brownings [Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning], Isa Blagden and F.P. Cobbe, but died scarcely a month following his arrival. Frances P. Cobbe collected and published his writings in 14 volumes; a headstone by Joel Tanner Hart was later replaced by one by William Wetmore Story. Other Unitarians buried in this cemetery include Thomas Southwood Smith and Richard Hildreth. Fanny Trollope, who is also buried here, wrote the first anti-slave novel and Hildreth wrote the second. Both were used by Harriet Beecher Stowe for Uncle Tom's Cabin. Frederick Douglass came straight from the railroad station to visit Parker's tomb. [11] After Parker's death, his ministry continued until 1889.Parker's grave is in the English Cemetery, Florence.[12]Social criticism and beliefsAs Parker's early biographer John White Chadwick wrote, Parker was involved with almost all of the reform movements of the time: "peace, temperance, education, the condition of women, penal legislation, prison discipline, the moral and mental destitution of the rich, the physical destitution of the poor" though none became "a dominant factor in his experience" with the exception of his antislavery views.[13] Parker's abolitionism became his most controversial stance, at a time when the American union was beginning to split over slavery.[14] He wrote the scathing To a Southern Slaveholder in 1848, as the abolition crisis was heating up.Parker defied slavery[15] and advocated violating the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners. Parker worked with many fugitive slaves, some of whom were among Parker's congregation. As in the case of William and Ellen Craft,[16] he hid them in his home and, although he was indicted, he was never convicted.[6]During the undeclared war in Kansas (see Bleeding Kansas and Origins of the American Civil War) prior to the actual outbreak of the American Civil War, Parker supplied money for weapons for free state militias. As a member of the Secret Six, he supported the abolitionist John Brown, whom many considered a terrorist, and wrote a public letter, "John Brown's Expedition Reviewed," defending John Brown's actions after his arrest, defending the right of slaves to kill their masters.LegacyBoston's Unitarian leadership opposed Parker to the end, but younger ministers admired him for his attacks on traditional ideas, his fight for a free faith and pulpit, and his very public stances on social issues such as slavery. The Unitarian Universalists now refer to him as "a canonical figure—the model of a prophetic minister in the American Unitarian tradition."[3]In 1850, Parker quoted and made popular the words of John Wycliffe in his prologue to the first English translation of the Bible [17] to use the phrase, "of all the people, by all the people, for all the people" which later influenced Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.In words made famous by Martin Luther King, Jr. a century later, Parker predicted the success of the abolitionist cause: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one… And from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice."[18]In August 2010, President Barack Obama's Oval Office was remodeled and its beige carpet is bordered by four quotes. Two of these quotes, attributed on the carpet to Lincoln and King, are the above Parker quotes.[19]
Oserais-je ecrire...  AAAAhhh si Bush avait fait ca, tra la la Il aura une valeur specifique ce tapis un peu comme une monnaie frappee avec une erreur... |
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| Dans le titre je remarque un present et un preterit alors... Pas encore lu l'article mais s'il correspond bien a l'idee transmise par le titre, je pense sincerement pouvoir dire que personne ici n'irait jamais jusqu'a penser une seule seconde que, si elle y excelle, la gauche ait le monopole du faux-cuisme.  |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 16:42 | |
| « si elle y excelle, la gauche ait le monopole du faux-cuisme. »
La gauche? Quelle gauche? Vous voulez dire l'autre droite mais qui n'est pas extrémiste?
Si c'est ce que vous affirmez, vous avez bien raison parce que si l'autre droite s'affirme de gauche, elle pratique le même double-language que les membres de votre posse. |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 16:55 | |
| Ce qui me rappelle que vous n'avez pas commenté la sortie du placard de votre camarade de combat électoral, ce cher Ken Mehlman qui orchestrait en 2004 une campagne axée sur la haine des gays pour aller chercher le vote des ultra-religieux de droite pour le GOP et en faveur de POTUS BaBush!  Que M. Mehlman soit gay, on s'en fout, mais de son double langage on s'en fout pas... Enfin, on devrait pas! >>Bush Aide Mehlman: I'm Gay<< |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/9/2010, 17:18 | |
| On va faire plaisir aux gens de droite! More taunts to the Democratic base Emanuel drops another F-bomb on a progressive ally, while Alan Simpson blames some veterans for our budget woes Another day, another disappointment for progressive Democrats. We learn from former auto-industry car czar Steve Rattner that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said "Fuck the UAW" during tough takeover talks – just like he called progressives "fucking retarded" for contemplating primary challenges against conservative Democrats. >> ICI<< |
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