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~Busted~

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This is an event little recognized in the study of Obama. I will post the discussion by Dinesh D’Souza on Obama’s past and why this event discussed below drives his outlook on life:

Barack Obama is making some British politicians nervous.

A bronze bust of Winston Churchill was loaned to President George Bush after the 9/11 attacks. The British government offered to let Obama keep the bust, but Obama decided to send it back. A bust of Abraham Lincoln now sits in the oval office where the Churchill one once rested.

Although most Americans view Churchill favorably, Obama’s Kenyan roots may not put him as much at ease.

It was during Churchill’s second term in office that the British brutally put down the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya. Obama’s grandfather was imprisoned and tortured during that suppression.

“The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip him every morning and evening till he confessed,” said Sarah Onyango, Obama’s grandfather’s third wife.

Overly anxious British diplomats are now seeking an alternative for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to present to Obama when he visits him in the next couple of months.

Obama should not be surprised at the British reaction. Churchill has been recognized in polls as its greatest leader.

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Just a couple favorite quotes from Churchill:

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?

Woman: My goodness, Mr. Churchill! Well, I suppose… we would have to discuss terms, of course.

Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?

Woman: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!

Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.


Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”

Churchill: “Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”


Nancy Astor: “Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison.”

Churchill: “If I were your husband I would take it.”

Posers

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From HotAir:

Most of us got a rueful laugh from the dating technique of now-former Congressman Chris Lee (R-NY), especially his posing for his on-line “outreach to voters.”  But posing has a long tradition in Washington DC, and Lee’s is hardly the most egregious, even if it was briefly entertaining.  (Did that set a speed record for scandal resolution?  Nothing in DC takes only 36 hours to accomplish!)  Michael Ramirez, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist at Investors Business Daily, reminds readers today that Lee’s posing at least had the virtue of being the least expensive we’ve seen:


AOL~How the Mighty Have Fallen

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The above video has Sean Hannity and Brent Bozell discussion AOL and its buyout of the Huffington Post. A move that may prove to be the demise of them:

AOL stock sheds $315M — HuffPo price tag

You pay for what you get.

Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, co-founders of the Huffington Post, are said to be walking away with a combined $80 million to $100 million from an original $2 million per person investment — but so far AOL stockholders aren’t seeing that kind of return.

Since Feb. 1, the price of AOL shares has dropped from $23.85 to $20.89 at yesterday’s close.

With 106.7 million shares outstanding, that means AOL has shed $315 million in value over the last five trading days — which happens to be exactly the same price AOL agreed to pay to acquire HuffPo.

Most media observers viewed it as a pricey deal, since it is based not on the slim profit Huffington Post claimed it made in 2010, on $31 million in revenue, or the $10 million profit it is projecting it will ring up this year on $50 million in estimated revenue, but rather on the $30 million in profit it is predicting for 2012.

“I thought, from a financial valuation, it is a bit of a stretch,” said Clayton Moran, who follows the stock for the Benchmark Company….

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