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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (In Iowa)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
On the campaign trail
Take a look at your tv screen, see what we really mean
The nasty ads and talking heads galore

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It's official. Barack Obama has given up even pretending to be the President of the United States and is singularly focused on being a presidential candidate. His American Jobs Act turned out to be $447 billion worth of short term projects and gimmicks that even many of his fellow Democrats can't support. Now he's proposing to raise taxes on almost half a million wealthy Americans; an attempt to fan the flames of class warfare that may temporarily appease his base but, if implemented, would do serious damage to an already dismal economy.

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President Barack Obama still won't tell the truth about which calamity he's trying to head off in the debt ceiling negotiations. In his third press conference in two weeks, he tried once again to convince the American people that he is fighting against a catastrophic default. But Republican lawmakers announced earlier in the day that the House of Representatives will vote next week on a $2.4 trillion debt ceiling increase (with matching spending cuts) that will head off the potential debt crisis. The problem for Mr. Obama is it won't head off the impending crisis for his political career.

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President Barack Obama is squeezing some time in between vacations to do some major political fundraising this week. Today starts a three-day trip around the country attending lavish events, telling friendly crowds how wonderful his policies are despite their job-killing results and including some official events with the political ones so that he can bill taxpayers for most of the cost of the trip. (source)

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Further proof that President Obama's #1 priority is politics, he will be returning to New Jersey next weekend for two more campaign events on behalf of Governor Jon Corzine's (D) bid for re-election. Still no decision on troop levels in Afghanistan, the Taliban and Al-Qaida are growing more emboldened, the latest health care reform bill in the House has exceeded $1 trillion in costs, the unemployment rate is still dangerously close to 10% and what is our president doing? He’s stumping for a very unpopular incumbent in the desperate hope of keeping his own party members in line. (source)

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