President's Comment about Kanye West Made Public

NEW YORK – President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.

ABC News says it was wrong for its employees to tweet that Obama had called West a "jackass" for the rapper's treatment of country singer Taylor Swift. The network said some of its employees had overheard a conversation between the president and CNBC's John Harwood and didn't realize it was considered off the record.

I don't think it was right for anything that is "OVERHEARD," be put out as public opinion. The President has a right to his own opinion. I agree Kanye was an "ass."

Source: AP News

Get Over It- He is human

How many times are we going to see Obama on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is not perfect. I vote that we don't have the "BORG" in the White House. Pretty soon the man isn't gonna want to even go outside the White House doors, and of course that would lead to other rumors .
I the joke Obama made regarding the Special Olympics was not in good taste, bu get over it already

If the public picks at everything the President says or does we will be left with scripted speeches that are run through focus groups. I vote for minor gaffes now and again and a non-empty suit.

According to "Access Hollywood", on his way back to Washington on Air Force One, Obama called the chairman of the Special Olympics, Tim Shriver, to apologize before the program aired Thursday night.

“He expressed his disappointment and he apologized in a way that was very moving. He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population,” Shriver said Friday morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He added that Obama wants to invite Special Olympic athletes over to the White House to bowl or play basketball.

Ty’Sheoma Bethea-We Are Not Quitters

During the State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama mentioned the name of 14 year old Ty'Sheoma Bethea from South Carolina. This was the young lady who was tired of the conditions of her school. She thought that the powerful people in Congress could do something about it.

She wanted to her help her school with the issue of the stained rugs which covered the holes in the floor. She wrote about the rain that pours from the ceiling, the classroom temperatures that are like freezing in the winter time. She went on to tell about the freight trains passing along nearby tracks that shake the buildings so violently that the lights go out several times a day."People are starting to see my school as an hopeless, uneducated school which we are not," Bethea wrote, "We finally want to prove to the world that we have an chance in life just like other schools and we can feel good about what we are doing because of the conditions we are in now we can not succeed in anything."

I just finished watching the Presidents First Address to the Nation (since his innauguration) and there in the crown listening was Ty'Sheoma and her mom. I am sure Ty'Sheoma does not know what a "Stimulus Package" is what the term "bail out' means. Ty'Sheoma does know that her letter might be an opportunity for "hope" for the conditions in her school.

President Obama not only had the information from the letter forwarded to him- he repeated it in his address.

He was quoted as saying, " We are not quitters."

"These words and these stories tell us something about the spirit of the people who sent us here. They tell us that even in the most trying times, amid the most difficult circumstances, there is a generosity, a resilience, a decency, and a determination that perseveres; a willingness to take responsibility for our future and for posterity.
Their resolve must be our inspiration. Their concern."

I was almost in tears when I heard these words. The American people NEED to hear these words. We have been battered and bruised with this recession. Many of us are in a state of hopelessness. If not for the grace of God we would not make it through.

The final words Obama stated are in fact what Americans need to do= COME TOGETHER.

This is not the time for dissension and separation but for unity. Only time will tell to see if his words were truly heard.

Magazine Covers

What attracts you to a magazine? The cover right?


Well, except for Oprah's magazine who seems to always manage to feature her own image on the front cover (I ain't mad at her though, money has it's privileges).

but the Obama- Craze is getting ridiculous



I found these and fell out laughing. Wow, I must of missed some of these issues at my newsstand.

Young Black Males Inspired By Obama

I found this wonderful article from Kalamazoo, Michigan where several students were praising the accomplishments of our new President. Keith Berry, a 19 year old, African-American, at Phoenix High School in Kalamazoo states, "He went through a lot of struggles when he was younger -- hanging out with the wrong crowd, smoking things he shouldn't been smoking," Berry said. "I have a lot of struggles in my life, too. But he turned his life around by putting his head into books, just like I want to do. ... It's, like, stop trying to be a thug, making bad choices."

Keith says, he identifies with Obama's adolescence and sees him as a model on how to reform. Berry is now finishing his high school studies at Kalamazoo's Phoenix High School and also is taking classes at Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

This maybe just one story of millions. Obama has brought hope to many of our African American Males who did not have a role model to identify with. They were told by teachers and even parents that they would not amount to anything. Their hope was in gangs, drugs, the prison system. Here is someone who is telling them that you ARE SOMEBODY. Here is someone that is giving so many of our young black males hope.

Obama represents hope and change. I feel through his own sense of education and commitment ot family that these images are more positive then the images our youth are often viewing through our media.

Wordless Wednesday-At Last

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Inaugural Ball Pictures

The Obama Cookie

You knew it would only be a matter of time. Last Summer when the Obama's vistited the "Baby Boomers Cafe" in Des Moines, Iowa (this was during the time when one of his campaign headquarters was set up in that city) they made the Cafe their home away from home.

The word begun to spread about the president-elect and his family's fondness for Baby Boomers' chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can't bake them fast enough.
"Two months ago I was giving these cookies away," said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. "Now, it's like 'I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.'"

10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, would stop by with their mother, Michelle, and Maxfield said they loved the cookies. During a stop in Iowa last month, Obama's staff ordered about a dozen cookies for the family. That's when word got out about their affection for the confection.

Now business is off the charts for the restaurant.

Source: Yahoonews

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