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Hey Barack, you just released a terrorist. Maybe you should put him in your administration, clean it up a little!

NOBAMA 2012

O should know by now that he is bound to fail in changing the government. He did not bring New People with him, he did not keep his campaign promises to ban lobbyists. It is his administration that is being judged now and I am sad because when we won the election we were going to Change the system and HE DID NOT KEEP HIS PROMISES to all of us.

At least Bill Clinton and George W. Bush didn't lie to the public about having lobbyists in their administration.

I expected Obama to go back on some of his promises, naturally, but his hypocrisy so far has been truly startling.

Being the president is not like running for president criticizing a sitting president, life is harder than rhetorics and we realize it no less than two weeks into the new president term. Putting on oneself constraints that someone with an executive experience and Washington know-how could have told Obama not to commit to, to begin with!

I would like to thank him as well

Another terrorist being freed on your watch!

Thank you for making this world a more dangerous place, one terrorist at a time.

Would everyone please shut up!!! We just spent 8 years in hell with Bush! I am so tired of the so-called conservative republicans waiting for President Obama to fail. These are the same people who so-call put COUNTRY FIRST!!! GIVE ME A BREAK IDIOTS. Not one of you complained about the Bush lies did you! Unless you really put your country first just SHUT THE HELL UP !!!

@ Daisy, MN

What is your point? Apparently Obama cannot make good choices either- His staff obviously is full of morons. So go ahead and drink the koolaid in 2012.

Change is coming to Washington.

I have a dream

Ready my lips – no lobbyists

Change is coming to Washington

I have a nightmare

Nancy, are you sure the new dog parks, the ATV bike paths, and the military golf courses which are closed to the public will get our economy stimulated?

Who had that dream?

Change is coming to Wahington. "Mr President, I have change; no wait, those are train tokens I don't need anymore since I moved into the VP House"

Of course they did, they are all corrupt!

I am a little confused.

The US government needs experts/expertise in helping run the government. By definition almost lobbyists have the expertise; that is why they are lobbyists. Is there potential for conflicts of interest? Absolutely! But to have a blanket ban on hiring lobbyists makes no sense. What does make some sense is restricting the ability of people hired by the administration to lobby after they have left; but Obama is still President.

It seems to me people are looking for a purity in their government officials which is simply not realistic.

Now, I forget, was this guy a tax cheat too? Or, did he help Clinton get all those "contributions" for pardons? Silly me, that's right – he's the guy that's tries to bride/sway the procurement guys in the Pentagon to buy his wares. I wonder if he can bribe himself and get paid both ways?

Of course. it's the corrupt leading the corrupt.

Obama= pathetic

Well let's see, that makes 4 lobbyists now that Obama has appointed.

And that is after Obama told the American people that he would NOT have ANY lobbyists in the White House.

TAX CHEATS and LOBBYISTS are all democrats this bad???

More of Obama's CHANGE that we can believe in.

Well I'm glad there are NO lobbyist in THIS administration.
YES WE CAN... speak from both sides of our mouth!

Daisy- OBAMA selected these people not his vetting team. Problem is, this is the corrupt political environment Obama started in, and the only people in politics he knows and trusts. If the media had vetted Obama truthfully, we wouldn't have heard from him after Iowa. With his socialists ideas, Obama, or whoever it is who controls him, George Soros maybe, is becoming the most dangerous threat to capitalism and democracy in America. I am not saying he is a bad person, it is just the fact that he has proven over and over again, that without a teleprompter, he is not an intelligent speaker. About Sarah Palin, you must still be getting your uniformed and false "facts" from MSNBC and moveon.org. "The rednecks will throw a party to celebrate". On top of being one of the non thinking Obama sheeple, your comment on rednecks just proves democrats are the party of bigotry.

Quite simply, Obama wanted to put together a "governing" team faster than Bush did - BIG EGO TRIP - nothing new for Obama, of course.

Now the chickens have come home to roost, aka tax tax cheats and lobbyists!

Like mom used to say, "Haste makes waste."

so much for the change anyone can believe in..... he is going to have more lobbyists in his administration at this pace than bush had in his 8 years... it bewilders me that this is the govt. your president promised all of you who voted for him. let us not forget all of the tax cheats who he wants on his team..... "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER"..... we are in real trouble... is it too early to "IMPEACH" this idiot??????

The world according to Daisy, where NOTHING is Obama's fault, but sunny days and puppy dogs are all the messiah's doing...

He did a great job picking his VP..............

The same great pick who -

Got the wrong President in 1929

Said the TV was invented in 1929

Lied about eating at a diner all the time considering that it was closed over 20 years ago

Lied about getting shot down by enemy fire, when it was simply bad weather that forced the chopper down

Said J O B S was a three letter word

Indians all work at Dunkin Donuts

Got caught plagarizing many times etc, etc, etc, etc, etc

Sorry "Daisy" unlike your hero, she HAS run a business, HAS run a city and HAS run a state, all your hero can do is RUN HIS MOUTH.

And it is being PROVEN all in just 16 days.

One and done for Barry.

01/22/2013

What's wrong with lobbyists? Aren't they good for the economy?
Go Barky! Yes we can!

Mr Obama said he would not allow lobbyist to be in his white house on staff BUT it is OK for Obama to pick and choose how and when he will obide by his new form of ethics. It is Ok to follow i when it suits him and when it does not.
CHANGE to the way Washington is rn.
WHAT A JOKE

REPUBLICANS ARE FOOLS AND CAN'T WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THIS FACT BEFORE WE GO DOWN THE DRAIN. WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER IN THIS COUNTRY AND GET OUT OF THIS ECONOMIC CHAOS BEFORE IT GET WORSE. I PRAY EVERYDAY FOR THE ONES OUT OF WORK AND WISH MORE COULD BE DONE TO HELP THOSE IN NEED. IT IS HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT S GOING ON IF YOU ARE NOT WALKING IN THEIR SHOES. GOD HELP US.

Just more business as usual, politics as usual from the racist empty suit hussein nobama. Proven Fact!

I guess from now one we will have to refer to him as the lying racist empty suit hussein nobama.

In as much as Lynn might have know-how, he should not be eligible for the job, period. There are plenty of other qualified persons who would love to take on the challenge of this job. Lynn falls into the category of "corrupt". He may argue that he is/was a victim of the times and thought he was doing the best possible. We are now in the 21st Century which requires adjustment and a clear outlook towards the future of humanity. Our current president was elected based on intelligence and "change" . There should not be room for political prostitutes in our government any more.

Daisy is missing the point. His vetting team may have goofed, but all President Obama had to do when all these scandals surfaced was to disqualify the individual. He didn't/. He approved multiple appointments that did not meet his standards or his policies.

He has been in office less than 3 weeks and he is breaking campaign promises at the rate of one a day

Since McCain changed his mind after getting more information about Lynn - just maybe there's a lot more to this story than what's being reported.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and the ranking Republican, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, had expressed concern about what Lynn's involvement would be in decision making given the potential for conflict of interests.

After receiving more information from Lynn, both removed their objections.

Maybe, there's a lot more to this story than we are being told.

"I will not have one lobbyist working in my white house" Barack Obama from the campaign trail.

And now we have the "exception" the rule.

We had Obama saying that his white house would be above reproach. But then he named a tax cheat to the Treasury under the "Exception" to the rule policy.

So. now I understand what Obama meant when he said "Real change is coming to Washington. Yup – make a rule, then change it.. Make a policy, then change it. Make a campaign promise, then change it.

HELLO, Where are all of the Dems comments? HELLO, HELLO

Daisy: Apparently when you can't defend the actions of our new President, who clearly had no intentions of keeping lobbyists out of his administration, you try and change the subject. LMAO

This makes Cheney and Halliburton look like a grade school lemonade stand. BHO is starting to W look good.

BHO has turrned out to be nothing but another liar–but we shouldn't be surprised. Impeach this guy now.

Liberals always change the subject and start attacking Sarah and John when Obama does not live up to his promises. I am sitting here watching a speech by Obama from a retreat in Virginia. The republicians did it last week and the dems this week. Spending our money while they attack private companies for doing this. I see a double standard here. To much talk and no action.

Daisy, really? That's your answer to another broken campaign promise in the first two weeks? That his staff has a vetting problem? You think Obama didn't know Lynn was a defense industry lobbyist?

Did you vote for this guy because of what he SAID he stood for: New Ethics Standard with appointees (broken at least 3-times so far), Post all bills for public consumption for 5-days before signing into law (broken the first time out of the gate), greater transperency in his administration than in any previous administration (biggest joke of all so far) or was there another reason?

And, really, McCain and Palin references? Still? Obama is the president now. Not a candidate. He gets to be measured by what he does from now on. That's how it works. If you care one iota for this country you will keep paying attention and not making excuses.

Can you say "Halliburton"??

It wouldnt be as terrible if his whole campaign wasn't based on changing Washington. He came out two weeks ago and said he was going to get the lobbyist out of Washington. I guess we changed from having some crooks to more crooks in Washington.

This is for the good of the country. He needs to bend and break rules sometimes because its what right. No taxes, no problem. Lobbyist, no problem. Bad ethics, no problem. Do what I say not as I do. Its not wrong, he's "historic."

Article states,

"Lynn was given special waivers so that he could be appointed despite President Barack Obama's ethics rules, which would have seemed to make him ineligible to operate in that key position."

BLASPHEMY!! How dare anyone question the decision of the messiah!!

(eyes rolling)

I don't know what's worse – the idiot who promised to "heal the oceans" and "fix broken souls" ... or the lemmings who blindly follow him?

Obama is a fraud – and you suckling democrats refuse to call him out on nominating tax-cheats and lobbyists with conflicts of interest!

Glad I sold my Haliburton and bought Raytheon.

Let's see here...wasn't the great serenade of praises sung during the campaign by the drooling Obama cheerleaders that this guy is such a great leader and has such great organizational skills and great judgement? Hmmmmm....

Now the tune has changed to "Oh, it's NOT Barack's fault, it's his staff that screwed up" or "Give him a break, he really didn't mean to appoint tax cheats and lobbyists" No, give ME a break!!

Wake up America, we've been hustled! Our President is a hypocrite and a liar.

yup – this is change all right! for the worse !

Obama likes rules unless he has to play by those same rules himself.

Change, you should have told Obama to keep it.

Only the first of my lies and subterfuge that will define the regime of his Highness Osama.

Anyone who expected anything else from this product of corrupt chicago politics, is either stupid, blind or dead, and I bet there are a lot of dead ones who voted for him.

I have an idea. All the people criticizing Obama should take a vow that they will not benefit from any of the good that Obama does for this country. It's amazing that they let Bush run this country into the ground without saying a thing, but now they are political critics!
Simply amazing.........or is it amazingly simple?

he's one of them like obama a washington insider harping on 'change'=chump change.

Great change. It's always important to make an exception for exceptional people and apparently the lobbying firms got to them first. I'm so glad the lobbyist won't be setting the agenda, they'll just be approving it, after not paying their taxes.

Just Words – No Lobbyist! Just Words! Just a Waiver. Change you can only believe in becuase it takes faith when their is no hard evidence!

I wonder how much went to that mystery account in the Czech Republic to nominate Lynn!

Hey, give the hypocrite a break! Besides the lobbyists and tax cheats, he has appointed a couple of RINO's to keep up his image. Of course, they'll never be heard from again.

"Daisy, MN February 5th, 2009 7:42 pm ET

I agree Barack's team has a vetting problem, but it's his staff. He is too busy to vet everyone. "

Sorry, but Obama should know exactly who's been vetted and what issues they bring to the table. Frankly, I'm surprised that his staff even vetted this guy since he went against Obama's ethics rules. It looks like Obama's staff doesn't care. And it's starting to look like Obama doesn't care as well.

Daisy, MN February 5th, 2009 7:42 pm ET
I agree Barack's team has a vetting problem, but it's his staff. He is too busy to vet everyone.
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You are correct it is HIS staff. What you are failing to recongize is he is responsible for HIS staff. He put HIS staff in place! Obama 2012, already?? I am not thrilled about all the tax cheat in the first 20 days much less give him 2012!!

Daisy MN – I have to disagree with you. I don't think Palin will spend the next four years learning to read and write. She thinks she already knows it all. Poor girl.

HAHAHAHAHA.

Man....it keeps getting better and better. I wish I had a nickel for everytime people kept saying, "change." Now.......you people get nothing...and the news media keeps quiet about it.

we are doomed.

I love the Republicans fake outrage. Where was your outrage on lobbyists when you pulled the lever for McCain???

Hell yah..........Lets bring some more contracts to Tucson, lol.

Lets let him have his team and see what he can do with them before we start with the critical comments.......they have to be better than the people Bush surrounded himself with.

So Mr. Obama how many broken promises is this, , dont know, lost count, just another lie to the American people.............or will you say this is an exception............like the other one today with the 6K tax problem............more crooks, and the DEMOCRATES complain about Bush, ..........HA

I agree Barack's team has a vetting problem, but it's his staff. He is too busy to vet everyone.

But make no mistake about it, when it came time to select the right key person, such as a VP–he did an excellent job. Unlike John-how-many-homes-do-I-own McCain and Sarah Faiin

I know exaclty what she'll be doing in the next 4 years. Cramming for her legitimacy test. She'll learn to read, write, and not use the word "also" so much. She'll stop using "ain't" and "you betcha", and when she does, the rednecks will throw a party to celebrate. This will be great, except then you'll have to teach her geography, and that won't be easy. Especially when she thinks South Africa is a region, and not a country. Whoooboy!

Barack Obama 2012!

Just remember 46% of the country didn't go for hook, line, and sinker.

For the Record:

The party of the worst president in American history should be silent. We don't want to hear from Republicans who thought their last president was a great man. He wasn't. He was a whiney, sniveling school kid who couldn't cut the mustard. The job was WAAAAAY over his head. Unfortunately thousands of our soldiers had to die before you people could see that. Shameful.

Why am I not surprised.

Leave Barack alone. He's doing just fine. You are the very same people who put George-Worst-President-Bush in office–TWICE. And you've got something to say? I don't think so.

I am confused! obama said he was banning all lobbyist, what happened?

Thugs taking over the white house.
He is going to make Jimmy Carter look like a great prez. Osama the dictator. I am voting for Putin nex election

lolol...lobbyists, tax cheats, gypsies, tramps and thieves....change you can believe in!

you can fool some of the people all of the time and some of...........................

George Worst-President-Bush is gone, that is true. But he has remnants of the erosion of America all over the place. Barack has to look high and low just to get the viruses out of the system. George did us wrong, and no one can dispute that. He didn't protect the country. He said that the country hasn't been attacked. Hello–there was 9/11. And Clinton also had one attack. The way I see it, Bush and Clinton are even.

Barack has all my prayers that the country will not be attacked again. But if it is, he won't be the first or the last president to see such a thing.

Don't allow the Bushes to psych you out. Georgie was horrible for this country and Cheney was a dictator. We are better off without them.

lol...this is the change he promised...lol

Lets see this one owes back taxes, this one another tax problem, oh this one uses pay to play tactics, this one her husband is taking global donations to pay for his library, and this one will no longer be a lobiest but he's good enough to serve in Obama's cabinet. We trust these people to lead our country out of dark times. Poor judgement by Obama for sure. Hope n change, hope n change.

Change isn't what Obama said. He said chains...chains around your ankles and wrists as he leads America into a new form of slavery, corruption, and Chicago style politics!

Of Course they would. It's all part of Obama's great plan and the Senate Republicans are too blind to see it.

The "MUTHA" of all lobbyiest is going to be confirmed.

Change you can believe in, the DC way. Nothing changes. Just watching these buffoons in Washington, barely able to walk, debating our future, costing us millions by the second as they get their blowhard points on TV, is disappointing.

Until we vote all these crackpots out of office there will be NO change. Obama has already shown that no matter how eloquent ones speaks of eithics and hope, once you get the votes and are elected and then it is BAU...

BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Barack also said he would not be the kind of president who wouldn't be flexible just to save face. If he wants this guy, then he must be good. Especially if he's making an exception. Barack cares more about this country than Dick and George. He cares about regular people and that's something we haven't seen in a long time.

If my president wants this guy in his administration than so be it.

For all you naysayers–you're the very ones who put George Worst President Bush in office twice. I think it's time for you to lay low.

SHhhhhhhhhhh, don't say another word. You really can't talk. Not after 8 long years of hell.

8 years of Dems screaming: CHENEY...HALLIBURTON...CONFLICT OF INTEREST....

10 Days in office Obama nominates Lobbyist William Lynn with major conflict of interests. Democrats yawn.

Tax Cheats and Lobbyists = New Obama Administration... thats "change" Chicago style I guess.

Funny how you never see the extreme left comment on these articles. Their silence defines them.

There goes Obama's campaign pledge out the window. Should we be surprised?

I am sick and tired of watching John Mccain and the republicans attack President Obama on every opportunity they have. Lets stop the partisan politics of yesterday that didnt work for Jorge Bush and try to restore our great country. People are hurting right now, trying to get money to buy food and pay the rent lets stop these stupid attacks CNN!

People STOP the complaining and whining.

President Obama is doing the job we HIRED him to do. There are going to be a few nips and tucks here, but stop with all the whining.

Jesus, you would think you folks live in a "perfect world". Get over yourselves and stop complaining about everything and anything.

Don't get your panties in a bundle just yet. ALL Presidents have to do what they gotta do. I just hope the Repubs don't attack Obama the way the Dems attacked Bush.

Worst picks yet,were in deep trouble now.

Hey – Cheney moved just across the river to McLean, VA. Bet he becomes he chief secret lobbyist in DC. Wyoming must have told him not to come there

Okay... one down, one more to go.

FOCUS PEOPLE, FOCUS!!!

Yes sir – it is absolutely the change we can believe in. This story is trully an example of that change.

In Bush presidency (or any other in recent times), we used to count the White House staffers who were NOT lobbyists. In Obama presidency, we are keeping count of people who are lobbyists. Absolutely a "Change we can believe in".

Everyone in American Politics know that you can't just turn the switch on to off on these things. Pres. Obama have come the closest than any other President in the history though. Thank you sir..

Drop this man - he should not be in the administration as it reminds me of Cheney and Halliburton!!

Reality sets in. The clouds appear. The shine of the dream goes out of his eyes.

Let's just break all the ethics rules and let all the crooks in. Look at what you elected "president"....did you think his pals were any better?

I am going to withhold judgment on this because I supported and voted for this president. However, my initial reaction after William Lynn was nominated was to wonder about what the president is up to.
Still, nothing he has done to date compares to what the last president did wrong, and Obama has already done more good things than Bush did in his whole 8 years.

Get over it.... you lost... stop whinning! Bush gave us so much? Is that what you are trying to say? Get a life... Anything Obama does will be better than the mess we are left with!

Say it aint' so......there should be NO exceptions....the mandate of the public vote has said so!

William Lynn? Fine... what about Daschle? I have heard many reports that he would have been the best man for the job with his connections in Congress as well as experience! This is getting ridiculous! There is a limit to what these stupid republicans can have say on... these are the ones who approved Brownie... and the rest of the unqualified cronies of George Bush! I'm surprised the didn't approve his house keeper!

Obama specifically said there would be no lobbyists hired in his administration!

That would be a lie, then.

Savior of the country runs into the Reality Train.

What do you have to say for your savior now Dangercrats?

Too early for flip flops BHO, it's not even spring yet.

"Change you can believe in"

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

OH MY!!! Say it isn't so. Obama broke his promise about not employing lobbyists? Looks like Washington "CHANGED" Obama rather than the other way around, and it didn't even take 2 weeks. Do anything, Say anything to get elected and then you can break all your promises.

I really like most of the changes that the President is making. However, as Campbell Brown said, if you're not going to follow your own rules, don't make them.

William Lynn should have never been nominated and/or the rule should have never been made.

Tsk, tsk, bend your own rules, break your own rules and make your own rules...that is the new administration. Tell me again what in the world was wrong with Bush compared to this guy?

I really like most of the changes that the President is making. However, as Campbell Brown said, if you're not going to follow your own rules, don't make them.

William Lynn should have never been nominated and/or the rule should have never been made.

GOPers complaining becaue only Haliburton is supposed to have lobbyists in the Pentagon..in 3...2...1...

Sorry, Lynn, you should get the military boot. Raytheon has too much influence as it is.

President Obama, please tell me that this isn't the only person qualified for this job!

the 'con' goes on...hahahahaha

I thought Obama said there would be no lobbyists. Hmmm. Another promise by the wayside. Doing good there. By the time 30 days is up, all of the campaign will be proven to be false. Business is being done as usual in Washington, DC – corrupt!

hope and change, turns out to be the same old, same old!