Geez Louise! Who would wanna be gray on purpose.



TIS

Actually, he's Jewish.

I thought Joe the Plumber, that astute political commentator, said Obama would be the death of Israel. Yet here he goes a picks someone whose father was an Israeli.

Interesting pick, since they disagree a lot. Guess Obama meant when he said he didn't want just yes men surrounding him.

And Bobby Jr. for the EPA? Hell YEA.

(but not just for the eye candy)

Emanuel has a reputation as a nasty enforcer for the Party in the House, and perhaps that is Obama's thinking here, like Luco Brasi.

Plus, you must remember that the Chief of Staff is traditionally the President's buddy or close associate (i.e. JFK's COS Ken O'Donnell was RFK's College Roommate), because most appointees, despite owing their jobs to the Executive, would desert if the President is marred in a shitstorm. That is why the President needs someone that they trust personally and privately.

Some argue that a reason for Nixon getting fucked on Watergate was that he didn't have such a true confidant in the White House.

As for RFK Jr/EPA....yeah the liberal Environmentalists will love that. O'Reilly's head will explode too.

Oh and in random news, heard on NBC News that Obama plans to replace the White House's one-lane bowling alley with a basketball court.

Which is fitting, since basketball is an American-invented sport.

You can disagree with others on your politics. You can post a movie review that may not be favored by others here. You are NOT, however, allowed to get the name Luca Brasi wrong. On this board that is an infamnia.

Plus, remember how pathetic Obama was when he tried to bowl. He bowls like an elitist.

Lets hope his Presidency doesn't go into the gutter.

Ahhh. Very nice.

So, we didn't hear from or new President yesterday. I heard something about a press conference. Anyone else know? I think we'll be hearing of cabinet picks very soon.



TIS

Perhaps he was referring to Luca's not so well known brother Luco?

Hey TIS...didn't realise it was nearly a year and a half between posts. Who would have guessed I could keep my mouth shut for so long! Well whaddya know Obama has Irish roots! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7710352.stm I shall now refer to him as President Barry O'Bama

I had heard this mentioned on St. Patrick's Day, but it's funny you should mention it because I heard yesterday that the last U.S. President without some Irish roots was Lyndon Johnson.

I'm not sure if everyone knows this, but Obama is related to Bush and Cheney.

From 2007:
Two curious political relationships of Senator Barack Obama came to light last month in The Chicago Sun-Times: he is an 11th cousin to President Bush, and a 9th cousin once removed to Vice President Dick Cheney. The Bush-Obama ancestors are Samuel and Sarah Soole Hinckley of 17th-century Massachusetts, The Sun-Times wrote; the Cheney-Obama ancestors are Mareen and Susannah Duvall, 17th-century immigrants from France.

The story sent new ripples through the political world last week when Lynne Cheney repeated Mr. Obama’s link with her husband in a television interview promoting her new book. It’s not as if Mr. Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were found to be identical twins separated at birth; still, the genealogy was incongruous.

But the Bush-Obama-Cheney nexus means rather less than it may seem. Conventional genealogies conceal how rapidly genes get diluted down the generations. You inherit directly only half of your father’s genes, a quarter of each grandfather’s, an eighth of any great-grandfather’s. And with ancestors much further back, you may share no more genes than you do with a random stranger met in Times Square.

That may be why many people cannot trace their family tree very far back: perhaps intuitively, they realize they don’t share much, genetically speaking, with those distant forebears.

Tracing ancestry through the father’s surname, a surrogate for the Y chromosome, may seem absurd given that the Y carries just 70 of the 25,000 or so genes in the human genome. But the compilers of Burke’s Peerage could be engaged in a quest less ludicrous than it might sound. In in-bred populations like Europe’s nobility, just as in isolated villages, everyone dips from the same little gene pool. In such cases, you inherit only half of your father’s genes directly, but of the half that got left on the cutting-room floor, some may have come to you via your mother, who shared them with your father via a joint ancestor.

But in out-bred populations, like that of the United States, where people generally marry people who are not related to them in any known way, genes get diluted really fast. Mr. Obama probably inherited a minute fraction — one divided by two to the 11th power — of Mareen Duvall’s genome, which would amount to less than one gene, assuming the Y chromosome was not inherited. Much the same would be true of Mr. Cheney. The chance that they inherited the same one gene is vanishingly small. So the fact of their genealogical relationship, whatever its political symbolism, is genetically meaningless.

Luco was the son of Luca Brasi and Lucy Mancini

Barry O'Bama

Tomorrow.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Then I beg for forgiveness, Godfather.

Some cool Obama pictures. PICS

Thanks Blake, great shots. I like his David Caruso "Horatio Cane" shades. His girls are cute.

One Whoring item I would like to add, do you think we (the media, the world, etc) can stop refering to Barack Obama as the first black President, or the first Afro-American President. After all he is bi-racial. Why not the first bi-racial President?

He looks totally badass in pic #20

Great pics Blake. All good. 20 is pretty cool! I still am amazed at some of those crowds.



TIS

You can call him whatever you want, as long as you call him Mr. President!

Those were very good pictures. The innauguration will be one for the ages.

I would LOVE to go to the inaugaration.

Oh, Move-on is givig away free "Yes We Can" stickers if anyone is interested. I'm guessing they are not very big, I ordered a pin and it was about the size of a quarter or smaller, but still nice. On the down side they say it takes 5/7 weeks.


http://pol.moveon.org/obama/hp/home.html


TIS

But he kicks ass playing basketball.

Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for seance remark

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan on Friday to apologize for a remark about seances he made during his first news conference earlier in the day.

When a reporter asked Obama if he had spoken with any ex-presidents since his election on Tuesday, he responded that he had spoken to all former presidents "that are living."

"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances," he said.

Nancy Reagan, wife of 40th President Ronald Reagan, was derided in 1988 when his former chief of staff Donald Regan revealed in a book that the first lady had consulted an astrologer to determine the president's schedule.

Obama apologized to Reagan "for the careless and offhanded remark," Obama transition team spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said.

"The president-elect expressed his admiration and affection for Mrs. Reagan that so many Americans share and they had a warm conversation," Cutter said.

President Reagan died in 2004 at 93.

Other first ladies have reportedly used spiritual advisers.

In his 1996 book, "The Choice," Washington Post editor and writer Bob Woodward said that as first lady, Sen. Hillary Clinton had seance-like sessions at the White House during which she conversed with late first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. At the time, the White House said the sessions were not seances.

Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was rumored to have held seances at the White House in order to contact her two dead sons, Eddie and Willie. She also reportedly went to seances under an assumed name after the president's death to attempt to contact him.

Immediately after the seance remark, Obama said he had "re-read some of Lincoln's writings, who's always an extraordinary inspiration" and mentioned that former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush and current President George W. Bush "have all been very gracious and offered to provide any help that they can in this transition process."

I notice that Slick Willie is absent from that list.

Names surface for top Obama jobs
Candidate list for administration posts said to include some Republicans
The Associated Press
updated 7:30 p.m. ET, Fri., Nov. 7, 2008

President-elect Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for top administration posts, according to Democratic officials.

Obama has signaled that he will make no Cabinet-level appointments immediately, and his deliberations are tightly held by his closest aides. But that hasn't stopped Democrats and interest groups from circulating lists and offering recommendations to the Obama transition team.

Some are surprising, such as former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell as possible education secretary. Others are high-profile governors or members of Congress. Yet many are also little known to the general public — and may remain so.

Obama has less than 11 weeks to staff his new administration. Some names often mentioned as possible appointees to top posts:

DEFENSE SECRETARY

Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., critic of Iraq war, retiring from Senate.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., member of Senate Armed Services Committee.

TREASURY SECRETARY

Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.

Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary and one-time Harvard University president.

SECRETARY OF STATE

Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., former U.N. ambassador and energy secretary.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., 2004 presidential nominee.

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., critic of Iraq war, retiring from Senate.

Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano.

Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., member of House Judiciary Committee.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, former assistant U.S. attorney for civil rights.

ENERGY SECRETARY

Former Rep. Philip Sharp, D-Ind., president of Resources for the Future think tank.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

EPA ADMINISTRATOR

Lisa P. Jackson, commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Mary Nichols, head of California Air Resources Board.

Kathleeen McGinty, former secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.

Howard Dean, chairman of Democratic National Committee, physician, former Vermont governor.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY

Jane Garvey, former head of Federal Aviation Administration.

Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn., chairman of House transportation committee.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.

Mortimer Downey, former deputy transportation secretary.


INTERIOR SECRETARY

Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber.

Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles.

Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., former executive director of Colorado Natural Resources Department.


HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY

James Lee Witt, former FEMA director.

Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton.

Former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean, chairman of 9/11 commission.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., chairwoman of Homeland Security intelligence subcommittee.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

James B. Steinberg, former deputy national security adviser.

Susan Rice, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

EDUCATION SECRETARY

Colin Powell, former secretary of state, former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Former North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt.

Arne Duncan, chief executive officer of Chicago public schools.

Inez Tenenbaum, former South Carolina schools superintendent.

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack.

Tom Buis, president of National Farmers Union.

Former Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas.

OFFICE OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., chairman of House Budget Committee.

Gene Sperling, economic aide to President Clinton.

Jason Furman, Obama's campaign economic policy director.

Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn.

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY

Valerie Jarrett, Obama friend, chairman and CEO of Habitat Co.

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.

LABOR SECRETARY

Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of House Education and Labor Committee.

Former Rep. David Bonior, member of Obama's Transition Economic Advisory Board.

Andy Stern, president of Service Employees International Union.