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Obama on BP chief
Feeling the political pressure on the aftermath of the massive British Petroleum oil leak off of the Louisiana coast, President Barack Obama has issued his harshest words yet concerning BP chief Tony Howard.
Obama stated that he was ‘looking for whose ass to kick’ and that he would have done fired Tony Howard for his past comments downplaying the disaster. Howard stated that the Gulf of...
Obama To Send 1,200 Troops To US, Mexico Border
In his fight to secure the United States and Mexico border, President Barack Obama has recently announced that he will order 1,200 troops to help with security detail there. The troops will be sent to the Mexico-Arizona border where it has been said that a large activity of illegals have been entering the country.
Lawmakers in Arizona have been pushing the President for a while for the increased security...
Indonesian Film to Depict a Young Obama
A fictionalized account of U.S. Presdident Barack Obama’s life is currently being filmed in Indonesia, according to the film’s writer and co-director, Damien Dematra. The movie is scheduled for release in Indonesia on June 17, 2010, during a scheduled visit there by President Obama.
The film stars 12-year-old Hasan Faruq as the future President, and covers the years of 1970 and 1971, when...
Obama Instructs NASA To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
President Obama announced a new mission for NASA on Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Cape Canaveral is the home of America’s space exploration program. President Obama instructed NASA to land an astronaut on Mars by the year 2035.
The president answered the charges of his critics, that his administration was reducing its support for manned space flights, by assuring...
Billboard Rips Obama
A bilboard that has been put up in Buffalo, N.Y. tells President Barack Obama just how the residents of the city feel about the state’s current unemployment rate at 9.9 percent. The billboard rips the President and proclaims: Dear Mr. President, I need a freakin’ job. Period. Sincerely inafj.org.
Jeff Baker is a Buffalo area buinessman who is the head of the INAFJ Project. Baker, who lost...
President Obama’s Jeep Auctioned Off
It pays to have the name Obama. A recent auction sold the president’s old vehicle for well over its value.
The president’s used Jeep Cherokee was auctioned off with the steep price tag of $26,437.50. The former owner of the Jeep Cherokee said that she purchased the vehicle in September of 2004 for $15,000 at a used car dealer in La Grange, Ill. She said that she made a copy of the papers...
Oprah’s J. Crew Investment is Obama-Inspired
Daytime talk-show icon and media mogul Oprah Winfrey has recently disclosed one of her investment strategies on last weekend’s edition of the “Oprah” show. Winfrey bought stock in J. Crew, the New York- based retailer that has become famous not only for its classic American fashion, but for outfitting First Lady Michelle Obama and her children, Malia and Sasha. Seeing the First Lady...
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Opponents Heckle US President
President Barack Obama, attending a fundraiser for one of his strongest supporters, Sen. Barbara Boxer, met up with some opponents during his speech. The president was interrupted several times when opponents of the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, regarding gays serving in the military, heckled the president. They continually interrupted the president demanding to know what he intends...
Obama Goes After Wall Street
President Obama delivered a speech Thursday at Cooper Union in New York City that called for financial reform on Wall Street. The president noted that it was at Cooper Union two years ago that he had warned of the consequences of allowing Wall Street to continue to do business as usual. Many of the leaders of the largest financial firms did not attend the president’s speech. The president urged...
Obama Searches For Justice
President Obama is on the lookout for a new Supreme Court Justice and while the calls are going out, no one knows exactly whose phones are ringing.
There have been several names given out on the call list including, Judge Ann Claire Williams, the first African American appellate judge in the federal Seventh Circuit, but the President is keeping quiet about who exactly he has in mind to replace Justice...
