President Obama's first 100 days

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Huyo Dean....I can't wait for him maana ni loose canon. Yeye ukimjumlisha na VP wenu na Obama mwenyewe who is clueless...mbona tutapata burudani ya kutosha ktk miaka minne ijayo

Maybe lakini haiwezi kufikia burudani aliyotupatia Dubya! Kwikwikwiiii

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Maybe lakini haiwezi kufikia burudani aliyotupatia Dubya! Kwikwikwiiii

At least tutapata burudani back to back then....Lol

But seriously, with Joey as the VP....labda wamkataze kuongea (kitu ambacho sidhani kama wataweza) la sivyo we are in for some very exciting and interesting gaffes...

Halafu unakumbuka siku ile alivyokuwa anamrushia madongo chief justice alivyochemsha kwenye kiapo cha Obama? Guess what? Na yeye mwenyewe Joey alichemsha wakati anamuapisha Mama....

 

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At least tutapata burudani back to back then....Lol

But seriously, with Joey as the VP....labda wamkataze kuongea (kitu ambacho sidhani kama wataweza) la sivyo we are in for some very exciting and interesting gaffes...

Halafu unakumbuka siku ile alivyokuwa anamrushia madongo chief justice alivyochemsha kwenye kiapo cha Obama? Guess what? Na yeye mwenyewe Joey alichemsha wakati anamuapisha Mama....

Obama is too smart, don't expect any burudani. Joe atawekwa kwenye kamba fupi mno itakayomnyima uhuru wa kubofoa. Na kila atakabofoa jamaa atamweka kwenye kiti moto. Unapokuwa kwenye madaraka makubwa ni lazima ufikiri kwanza kabla ya kusema na siyo kukurupuka tu halafu kuomba samahani.

 

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We Nyani! Geithner ameshapitishwa na waliomptisha ni hao mababu zako GOP! walimshikilia bango! Kwikwikwiii!

Hizi njemba zina double standards za hali ya juu! Geithner na Daschle wote walikuwa na matatizo ya kutolipa taxes lakini wakampitisha Geithner na kumshupalia Daschle kwa kosa lile lile!!! Hawa Republicans wa na viroja vya hali ya juu.

 

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Obama is too smart, don't expect any burudani. Joe atawekwa kwenye kamba fupi mno itakayomnyima uhuru wa kubofoa. Na kila atakabofoa jamaa atamweka kwenye kiti moto. Unapokuwa kwenye madaraka makubwa ni lazima ufikiri kwanza kabla ya kusema na siyo kukurupuka tu halafu kuomba samahani.

Oh yeah...IQ ya Obama ni 180!! He is the smartest president in the history of the world...

But seriously, sidhani kama Obama anaweza kumdhibiti Joey maana Joey nahisi deep down anadhani Obama hana qualifications za kuwa raisi na hajui issues kama yeye. Unajua Joey anadhani kuwa yeye ni smartest kushinda wote.....mwulize tu siku moja atakuambia...

 

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Oh yeah...IQ ya Obama ni 180!! He is the smartest president in the history of the world...

But seriously, sidhani kama Obama anaweza kumdhibiti Joey maana Joey nahisi deep down anadhani Obama hana qualifications za kuwa raisi na hajui issues kama yeye. Unajua Joey anadhani kuwa yeye ni smartest kushinda wote.....mwulize tu siku moja atakuambia...

Kumdhibiti haitawezekana, lakini atamweka kwenye short leash na kila akibofoa atamweka kiti moto. Si unaona ilibidi aombe samahani kwa CJ baada ya kumtupia madongo. Sasa kama ni mtu mzima mwenye akili timamu inabidi afikiri kwanza kabla ya kusema chochote au atalazimishwa kuomba samahani kila atakapobofoa na matokeo yake yeye ndiye atakayeonekana ni punguani.

Kama yeye ana qualifications zaidi basi angeshaukwaa Urais siku nyingi maana kagombea mara tatu na mara zote kapigwa chini. Mwenzake kagombea mara moja tu na kuukwaa Urais.

 

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“Tom made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged,” Mr. Obama said, speaking about Mr. Daschle, who he considers a close personal friend. “He has not excused it, nor do I.”

Hapo hasemi ukweli. Alijaribu kutoa excuses.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said last night that Obama stands behind his friend and confidant. “The president believes nobody's perfect but that nobody's hiding anything,” Gibbs said.

 

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Kumdhibiti haitawezekana, lakini atamweka kwenye short leash na kila akibofoa atamweka kiti moto. Si unaona ilibidi aombe samahani kwa CJ baada ya kumtupia madongo. Sasa kama ni mtu mzima mwenye akili timamu inabidi afikiri kwanza kabla ya kusema chochote au atalazimishwa kuomba samahani kila atakapobofoa na matokeo yake yeye ndiye atakayeonekana ni punguani.

Kama yeye ana qualifications zaidi basi angeshaukwaa Urais siku nyingi maana kagombea mara tatu na mara zote kapigwa chini. Mwenzake kagombea mara moja tu na kuukwaa Urais.

Basi Obama atakuwa na kazi ya ziada kweli maana kila mara Joey akifungua mdomo Obama atakuwa roho juu....kaaazi kweli kweli

 

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Basi Obama atakuwa na kazi ya ziada kweli maana kila mara Joey akifungua mdomo Obama atakuwa roho juu....kaaazi kweli kweli

Look, hii ndo siasa lakini mi nadhani mtu kama Obama yuko Makini na kama yuko tayari kukiri kosa, it shows he is a fast learner adn cofident enough to owe up. Mi personally naona kama the whole thing is a joke and even off the record hata GOP wana-admit ni ujinga kulishikia ishu hii bango, hii ni kumkomoa Obama, but that is ok because that is the game! Lakini it is a good thing that daschle decided he will not be a distraction! Sasa move on, mkatafute ishu nyingine, we na Kuhani! .. NEXT!

 

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Haya sasa maCEO walie tu, ndo maana walikuwa wanampa tafu babu yake Nyani maana walijua ye ni mshikaji wao, lakini kwa Obama wamekwama!

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama imposed a $500,000 pay cap on some senior executives whose firms receive government financial rescue money, a dramatic intervention into corporate governance in the midst of financial crisis.

Standing with his Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Obama said the United States doesn't disparage wealth nor does it begrudge those who succeed, but lavish bonuses for executives at companies seeking taxpayer dollars was unfair.



Read the President's remarks:



Thank you, Tim, for your hard work on this issue and on our economic recovery.


The economic crisis we face is unlike any we've seen in our lifetime. It's a crisis of falling confidence and rising debt. Of widely distributed risk and narrowly concentrated reward. A crisis written in the fine print of sub-prime mortgages, on the ledger lines of once-mighty financial institutions, and on the pink slips that have upended lives and cost the economy 2.6 million jobs last year alone.


We know that even if we do everything we should, this crisis was years in the making, and it will take more than weeks or months to turn things around.


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As part of the reforms we are announcing today, top executives at firms receiving extraordinary help from U.S. taxpayers will have their compensation capped at $500,000 - a fraction of the salaries that have been reported recently. And if these executives receive any additional compensation, it will come in the form of stock that can't be paid up until taxpayers are paid back for their assistance.


Companies receiving federal aid are going to have to disclose publicly all the perks and luxuries bestowed upon senior executives and provide an explanation to the taxpayers and to shareholders as to why these expenses are justified. And we're putting a stop to these kinds of massive severance packages we've all read about with disgust; we're taking the air out of the golden parachute.


We're asking these firms to take responsibility, to recognize the nature of this crisis and their role in it. We believe that what we've laid out should be viewed as fair and embraced as basic common sense.


Finally, these guidelines we're putting in place are only the beginning of a long-term effort. We're going to examine the ways in which the means and manner of executive compensation have contributed to a reckless culture and quarter-by-quarter mentality that in turn have wrought havoc in our financial system. We're going to be taking a look at broader reforms so that executives are compensated for sound risk management and rewarded for growth measured over years, not just days or weeks.

Na fat cats hawajachelewa kulalamika:

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said it's "unfair" for politicians to criticize Wall Street pay without differentiating compensation based on performance.

"It's unfair to talk about us as one," Dimon, who was paid $1 million last year and didn't accept a bonus, said today at a conference sponsored by Crain's New York Business. "Not every company was responsible."

U.S. President Barack Obama and politicans worldwide have criticized financial industry executives for taking multi- million dollar pay packages after banks and brokerages racked up more than $800 billion of losses and writedowns on credit- related assets. Dimon, 52, is among CEOs including Bank of America Corp.'s Kenneth Lewis and Morgan Stanley's John Mack who opted not to take bonuses for last year.

"Pay got a little exuberant, and there were some legitimate complaints," Dimon said. "But I don't think the president of the United States should paint everyone with the same brush."

New York-based JPMorgan, the second-largest U.S. bank, doesn't have so-called golden parachutes or retirement packages, and all top executives must retain 75 percent of their stock- based compensation, Dimon said.

 

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Oh yeah...IQ ya Obama ni 180!! He is the smartest president in the history of the world...

But seriously, sidhani kama Obama anaweza kumdhibiti Joey maana Joey nahisi deep down anadhani Obama hana qualifications za kuwa raisi na hajui issues kama yeye. Unajua Joey anadhani kuwa yeye ni smartest kushinda wote.....mwulize tu siku moja atakuambia...

...you lost get over!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

...you lost get over!

vipi mzungu wako wa makaratasi?

 

[Koba]

vipi mzungu wako wa makaratasi?

...told ya hizo game nilicheza bado niko college,naona wewe ndio umeingia kwenye game ambayo najua wajanja wote humu walishamaliza na wameshasahau,sio mbaya wewe weka mambo yako sawa maana ni usalama wako na hakuna ubaya wowote,paper lazima uwe nazo ngabu

 

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Ndo maana some of the DoD and CIA people walikuwa wanamwogopa Obama, maana change is really coming huko!

WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta assured senators Thursday that the Obama administration will not send prisoners to countries for torture or other treatment that violates U.S. values as he contended had occurred during the Bush presidency.
Panetta, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, later acknowledged that he does not know specifically what happened in the secret program allowing so-called "extraordinary rendition." CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that the Bush administration moved secret prisoners between countries for interrogation and incarceration, separate from the judicial system, fewer than 100 times.

Panetta said that President Barack Obama forbids what Panetta called "that kind of extraordinary rendition _ when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values."

"What happened I can't tell you specifically," he said later, "but clearly steps were taken that prompted this president to say those things ought not to happen again."

Rendition has been used by U.S. presidents for several decades;

Obama anajaribu kurudisha heshima ya nchi yake maana Dubya aliifanya jina la Marekani ilikosa hadhi kabisaaa!

 

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BECAUSE,HE IS REASONABLE MAN.Thus why changes has come to AMERCA.

 

[Kuhani]

“General Zinni said he was more mystified than angry. “I don’t have a problem if they change their mind, but no one even bothered to call me. This is Leadership 101. To this day, no one has told me what happened.”

General Says His Iraq Envoy Job Was Rescinded


By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK LANDLER
Published: February 5, 2009

WASHINGTON — When the vice president, the secretary of state and the national security adviser all say you have been tapped to be the next United States ambassador to Iraq, odds are it’s a done deal, right?

Apparently not in the Obama administration.

Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, the former top American commander in the Middle East, said the Obama administration offered him the Baghdad job late last month, but withdrew the appointment without explanation, apparently in favor of a veteran diplomat, Christopher R. Hill.

With General Zinni fuming in undiplomatic fashion about the way he was treated, the question of who should be the next ambassador to Iraq has turned into an embarrassing mess for the Obama administration as it struggles to recover from other stumbles over high-profile nominations. There has still been no formal announcement about the Iraq job.

“By any measure, Zinni is one of the most talented military officers of his generation,” said Michael E. O’Hanlon, a specialist on Iraq at the Brookings Institution. “The bigger issue for the country and the Obama administration is to make sure they explain themselves. Otherwise, people will assume the worst motives.”

The White House and the State Department have refused to talk about discussions with General Zinni, 65, a four-star Marine general who retired in 2000 as head of the military’s Central Command. All indications suggest that the ambassadorial post will go to Mr. Hill, who has been the senior American envoy in negotiations over North Korea, but who has no Middle East experience.

“Our policy is never to discuss our process for making ambassadorial appointments,” said a State Department spokesman, Robert A. Wood. “Zinni would be on anyone’s short list.”

General Zinni was a prominent critic of the Iraq war before the invasion, but he supported the temporary increase in troops in Iraq and opposed a rapid withdrawal there, putting him closer to Senator John McCain’s position than to President Obama’s. Early on, he also called for the defense secretary at the time, Donald H. Rumsfeld, to resign.

The general said he was not looking for a job in the new administration when Mr. Obama’s choice for national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, a former Marine commandant and longtime friend, called him just before the inauguration.

“He asked if I’d like to serve as ambassador to Iraq or in one of the envoy jobs on the Middle East peace process,” General Zinni said in telephone interview. “I said yes.”

About two weeks later, General Zinni said, General Jones called back with a formal offer for the Baghdad job, and an appointment with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Jan. 26.

General Zinni said he met for more than an hour with Mrs. Clinton, discussing a wide range of Iraq issues with her; James B. Steinberg, one of her two appointed deputy secretaries; and William J. Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs.

“She thanked me for taking this, and we went over what needed to be done,” General Zinni said. “She turned to Steinberg and Burns and said: ‘Let’s get the paperwork moving. We’ve got to move on this.’ ”

The next day, General Zinni said, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called to thank him for taking the job.

But that was the last word on Iraq that General Zinni said he heard from the administration.

The call he was told to expect from Mr. Burns never came, General Zinni said, and when he called each day to check on his status, he said, Mr. Burns sounded increasingly vague.

With decisions to make on withdrawing from corporate boards and recruiting aides, General Zinni said he called General Jones on Monday.

General Jones broke the news: “It’s going to be Chris Hill,” General Zinni said he was told.

“As a sorry offer to placate me, they offered ambassador to Saudi,” he said in a separate e-mail message, referring to Saudi Arabia. “I told them to stick it where the sun don’t shine.”

His discussions with the administration were first reported this week by The Washington Times and by a blog, “The Cable,” on ForeignPolicy.com.

His nomination may have run into at least two hurdles. Late last week, Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry, a former top military commander in Afghanistan, was named as the next ambassador to Kabul. That made it unlikely that the White House would name another general to a high-profile diplomatic post, and fuel criticism that it was militarizing American foreign policy.

In addition, until December, General Zinni was an executive vice president of DynCorp, a recipient of contracts connected to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But he said that issue never came up when he did a recent strategic assessment on Iraq for Ryan C. Crocker, the departing ambassador, and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top American commander there.

General Zinni said he was more mystified than angry. “I don’t have a problem if they change their mind, but no one even bothered to call me. This is Leadership 101. To this day, no one has told me what happened.”

 

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Labor pick deals with husband's tax problems

By SAM HANANEL – 11 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis became the latest Cabinet nominee to face questions about unpaid taxes Thursday as a Senate panel abruptly postponed a scheduled vote on her confirmation.

The postponement came after revelations that Solis' husband settled tax liens on his California auto repair business this week that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.

The discovery posed another political headache for a White House already chafing after tax problems and other controversies derailed some administration appointments, including former Sen. Tom Daschle's nomination as health secretary. President Barack Obama pledged in TV interviews this week that he would "make sure that we're not screwing up again" in the vetting process.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insisted that Solis' own tax returns "are in order."
"She's not a partner in that business," Gibbs said. "So we're not going to penalize her for her husband's business mistakes."

Asked if the Solis nomination was in trouble, Gibbs said, "I don't believe it is at all."
USA Today first reported Thursday that Los Angeles County records showed 15 outstanding state and county tax liens totaling $7,630 against Sam Sayyad and his business.

White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Solis and Sayyad were unaware of the liens until asked about them this week. He said Sayyad paid about $6,400 to Los Angeles County on Wednesday to settle the liens, but he plans to appeal.
Vietor said Solis - a Los Angles-area congresswoman - and her husband file personal income taxes jointly, but that Sayyad is the sole proprietor of the business and all tax communications about it go only to him at a separate business address.
"Sayyad does not believe the penalties were accurately assessed, but he's paid them out of an abundance of caution and is planning to appeal," Vietor said.

The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee issued a joint statement minutes before the committee was to have met to vote on Solis' nomination to say that lawmakers need more time to review documentation about Solis.

Anthony Coley, a spokesman for the committee's chairman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said the panel asked the Obama administration to look into the tax issue and report back.
"We are optimistic that the committee will be able to move forward with her nomination soon," Coley said.
Solis's confirmation was already stalled amid complaints from some Republican lawmakers about her role as a board member and treasurer of American Rights at Work, or ARW, a group pushing for passage of a bill to make it easier for workers to form unions.

Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi, the committee's top Republican, has suggested that Solis should recuse herself for two years from debate over the Employee Free Choice Act because of her position with the group. He cites new ethics guidelines put in place by Obama that limit appointees who previously lobbied on an issue from being involved in the issue during their first two years in office.

Solis said last week in written responses to Enzi that her role with the group did not involve lobbying.
Meanwhile, the nation's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO, plans to join with other unions, women's and Hispanic groups to pressure the Senate Friday to confirm Solis, accusing Republican Senators of stalling and delay.
"Starting tomorrow, the gloves are coming off," said an AFL-CIO source who helped make the decision on the lobbying effort and who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss political strategy.

With the process becoming drawn out, Obama on Monday appointed Edward Hugler, a career Labor Department official, as acting labor secretary.
Another concern from Republicans is that Solis did not mention her positions with the group on her financial disclosure statements to the House for the years 2004 through 2007.
Vietor called it the result of "an unintentional oversight."
"As soon as she became aware of this oversight, she moved to correct it and has filed a letter with the clerk of the House correcting the omission," Vietor said.
Vietor said Solis would agree only to recuse herself for two years "from any particular matter involving specific parties which is directly and substantially related to ARW. The Employee Free Choice Act is not a particular matter involving specific parties."
The legislation, which is the top priority for labor groups, is vehemently opposed by business groups and most Republicans in Congress.

Vietor cited the House Ethics Manual, which says that a lawmaker can serve on the board of a nonprofit group without compensation regardless of whether it engages in lobbying. He said her position as treasurer does not make a difference because she never supervised any lobbying activities.

 

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Nyaniiii! Obama amewasha moto! Mi si nilikwambia Jaluo atawa-change-ia msifanye mzaha, oho shauri lenu!

A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night – at one point openly mocking the GOP for failing to follow through on promises of bipartisanship.

In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican arguments that massive spending in the $819 billion stimulus bill that passed the House should be replaced by a new round of massive tax cuts.

"I welcome this debate, but we are not going to get relief by turning back to the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin," said President Obama – sounding more like Candidate Obama than at any time since he took the oath of office less than a month ago.

Obama, speaking to about 200 House Democrats at their annual retreat at the Kingsmill Resort and Spa, dismissed Republican attacks against the massive spending in the stimulus.

"What do you think a stimulus is?" Obama asked incredulously.

 

[Susuviri]

Sasa Steele naye amepatikana na matatizo.... ndugunization mpaka huko US kumbe ipo? Duh! Nyaniii! Hii tax issue ya nominees wa Obama will pale in comparison na hii ya Steele....

Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.

Federal agents in recent days contacted Steele's sister, a spokesman for Steele said yesterday.

The claim about the payment, one of several allegations by Alan B. Fabian, is outlined in a confidential court document. Fabian offered the information last March as he was seeking leniency for himself during plea negotiations on unrelated fraud charges. It is unclear how extensively his claims have been pursued. Prosecutors gave him no credit for cooperation when he was sentenced in October.

Steele spokesman Curt Anderson said he did not know what information the federal agents were seeking, but he dismissed Fabian's allegations as patently false. "It's from, what, a convicted felon? And it has no substantiation in fact," he said.

Fabian's claims emerge as Steele begins his new role at the RNC, where he oversees the raising and spending of hundreds of millions of dollars in party money. The former Maryland lieutenant governor has faced questions about his handling of campaign money in prior elections and was twice fined for missing filing deadlines.

The recent allegations outlined four specific transactions. In addition to the payment to Steele's sister, Fabian said that the candidate used money from his state campaign improperly; that Steele paid $75,000 from the state campaign to a law firm for work that was never performed; and that he or an aide transferred more than $500,000 in campaign cash from one bank to another without authorization.

The bank transfer was made against the explicit wishes of other Maryland Republicans, who had hoped to use it to support the campaigns of state legislators, said aides to Steele and former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

The U.S. attorney's office inadvertently sent the confidential document, a defense sentencing memorandum filed under seal, to The Washington Post after the newspaper requested the prosecution's sentencing memorandum.

U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein declined to comment. Fabian could not be reached, and his attorney, James Wyda, declined to comment.

According to the filing, Wyda gave prosecutors "documents supporting [the] allegations." Wyda wrote in the memorandum that the government declined to credit Fabian for cooperating "presumably because its investigation is ongoing."

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more at the Washington post website

Au ni njama za hawa wathungu wa GOP, ambao hawajafurahia kabisaaaa mtu mweusi kuongoza chama chao, after all a Black man is already sitting in the White House. It is too much for them!

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Na wewe Susu bana...yaani unaamini mi conspiracy theories