I second that!

ya just did guys.

A day of service is like moving a grain of sand on the beach...really doesn't do a lot.

was gonna comment, but decided DocHolliday's comment nor this story were either one worth getting in a pissing match over.

the picture has benn photo cropped.

Maybe a lot of the so cald serve america that the president wants they should Go help by serving in the Military so the troops could get a break from all the deployments, don't you think Mr President???

Obama
lends a hand on National Day of Service

What did he screw up now? Please, don't leave him without adult supervision again.

"Civility. Pass it on."

PHOTO OPP!!!!!

I see that this story also includes a video link where you can watch CELEBRITIES doing some charity work as well. Good for them...but I do not believe that very many of us are naive enough to believe that they are doing this for nothing more than out of the goodness in their heart and out of a strong desire to help those less fortunate. Call me a cynic, but if you are being honest with yourself you KNOW what I am saying is true. Let's lay our cards on the table...their agents called them to tell them that he/she has a tremendous photo opportunity for them which will help their public image. How can you tell which celebrities are doing charity work FOR NO OTHER REASON than from a desire to help those less fortunate, from those who are looking for a photo opp? Ironically (and rightly so), by definition, you can only tell which ones are looking for a photo opp because they are the ones who will be in the photos and videos that you see on-line, on TV, in newspapers and in magazines. The others you will not know about, and that is just the way they want it. I APPLAUD THEM!!!
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“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. ~~~~~Matthew 6: 1-4~~~~~

The Obamas are genuine, forthright and caring people who will be good stewards for humanity even after their political careers are over. The Carters, 1st Bushes and Clintons having set that example before them.

divided, as a green, I still say it's george bush by a landslide after racking up over 1000 days of vacation in 8 years AND putting us into an unjustified war AND throwing away a false surplus on Haliburton just to have cheney wire it back to the two of them. Not to mention the patriot act. Bush Jr still takes the cake.

In her 5000.00 dollar outfit she is painting a bookcase? Uh huh I believe that like I believe he is truthful and did not take any more taxes out of my paycheck.

divided, and the expenditures for the first family out of tax payers' hands is still less than half that of the bush administration. And the tax payers are suffering because the business owners in this country became greedy and abandoned the "business is a family" mentality and stopped reinvesting in the economy which made them great. You wouldn't be suffering at all had all parties involved simply remembered the idea of patriotism.

Obama is vary good at giveing other peoples money away, but how much of his own has has given?

President Obama and First Lady Michelle gave $245,075 to charitable organizations according to their 2010 tax return -not to bad right?

the same year Mr. Romney and his wife, Ann, contributed nearly $3 million to charitable organizations.

-so do you get my the point?

Patrick

And from the guy/girl/kid who claims to be an "independent".

@ DocHolliday and the rest: Sad day in America when we elect/inaugurate a president because he is "cool". Who cares how cool a president is when real unemployment is over 14%, our national debt is over $16T and there is a potential second recession coming. You go to see someone cool in the movies not elect him president and allow him to run the country into the ground. Keep drinking the left bs kool aid.

You think what Mrs. Obama is wearing in that photograph is a 5000.00 outfit? lol

I can't believe the amount of hatred expressed in these comments about people being encouraged to participate in charity work.

How about six years?

You better make sure you have all of the proper licenses and permits before you go out and try to help people. The government will shut you down otherwise.

Republicans and Libertarians only care about money and themselves, so they won't be participating.

I lean libertarian and I help people all the time. I only care about money to the extent that I want enough to take care of myself reasonably well. I don't aspire to be rich.

Wouldn't the Obamas be better served had they gone to long island, put on some real work clothes and cleaned up debris that still sits on the ground from the Sandy superstorm? Just imagine the real photo op that would be. No better way to show that he actually cares about those people and their circumstanses!! Way to go Pres!

Zathrose, please don't mince words.....tell us what you really think!

A photo-op with President Obama and Michelle impersonating a couple who claims to care about children is only food for Low Information voters.

"America’s never been about what can be done for us; it’s about what can be done by us together,” Obama said on Jan. 4, in a White House press release."

Ahhh yes......a statement Obama made while in Hawaii, from his NEW HOME (shhhh its a secret) while on their Multi-Million dollar Vacation paid for by Homeless taxpayers. Yep Barack you put it so well...."America’s never been about what can be done for us" spoken like a true Coward from his Hawaiian Home to his Low Information Voters.

Michelle nearly topped that statement: "“For all the young people and we’ve got a lot of young people…we’re passing the baton onto you all, so the goal is that as you make your way through life, who are you pulling up behind you? And as long as you’re pulling somebody up behind you you’re doing the right thing.”

What is Michelle passing to our youth? She is passing $6 Trillion in new debt today and she is on a trajectory to pass $12 Trillion total in 8 years, more than doubling the debt of every President combined before Barack. Low Information Voters fall for it, but not the rest of us who hold a job.

Connemara- that would have been tooooooooooooo much work for either one of them.

Wow - a National Day of Service - missed that. Thought it was Gun Owner Appreciation Day. That was where my attention was focused.

If Obozo was a Republican, there would've been an Informed Source not actually present at the school on the phone to a flunky at The Washington Post with a hot expose about how the shelf was already painted before they got there. Before the brushes were wet. Of course, if Obozo was a Republican, we never would have heard of him.

The right wing trolls and NRA Christian Right Teabaggers are still urinating in their camouflage pants and belly aching because they've lost 5 out of the last 6 presidential elections. Including the election they stole in 2000. BTW, for the far right Nazis to suggest that Obama is a far left Kenyan Marxist Muslim. Yeah, Obama must be. Considering the fact that Obama nominated former Republican Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as his defense secretary. And surrounded himself w/ Wall Street guys as far as his Treasury Secretary and Federal Reserve Chairman are concerned.

Missing the photo-op people staged behind them ... Should have some hard-working overtaxed people and some unemployed people and some dealing with running their business in a country where the new B HUSSEIN government mandates sponsoring killing babies.

No, this is not what America is really about.

America is about working hard to do well for yourself.

Helping people is great, supporting people is wrong.

Also known as Catch44 !!!

Bet the GOP are Choking big time today Jan 19, 2013 !!!

The best to our President, wish him well !!!

I am totally for volunteerism but would have liked to have had some warning that it was today! I guess I did not read the right papers or watch the right news programs or listen to the right radio stations. This is the 1st that I had heard about this and certainly would have tried to put something together or get involved in an already-organized event. Oh well, next year :-) I would like to leave the politics and other criticism out donating our time to help others.

It's sad to see how the commentary on a story about the National Day of Service brings out the absolute worst in so many people.

Not too surprising, though, when you reflect upon it. Seems to be the state of the nation in the post-Bush years, where derision and division have replaced civility and unity as goals.

Sad indeed.

Thanks, Mr. President and Mrs. Obama, for being such wonderful role models to our country.

And for ignoring the hate and bigotry of so many people and keeping your dignity at the same time.

The majority of American citizens are proud of what you are doing.

Here's to four more years!

And congrats to Vice President Biden, too!

"I am totally for volunteerism but would have liked to have had some warning that it was today! I guess I did not read the right papers or watch the right news programs or listen to the right radio stations. This is the 1st that I had heard about this and certainly would have tried to put something together or get involved in an already-organized event. Oh well, next year ..."

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"Oh well, next year", ... seriously?

How about today? How about tomorrow? How about every day? Do you (do we) really need an engraved invitation to some already-organized event? Isn't there someone in your own neighborhood who could use a helping hand?

If we think the point of this it to do something for our fellow Americans, for our country, for our fellow citizens of the world ...on just this one, specific, designated day of the year and then go back to thinking of only ourselves the rest of the year, ...then we have completely missed the point of "National Day of Service."

Guidelines for a life lived with meaning: "Commit random acts of kindness." "Pay it forward." "Civility, pass it on."

Why always with this bigotry crap? Tell me what he has done to improve this country. It has never been so divided as it is now.If he was a CEO the stockholders would have fired him a long time ago.

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Obamas code words for national day for instituting communism to his people. Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha. Americans are so stupid!!! This is how they did it in my home country. Don't fall for it idiots!!

What an insignificant life you must lead. People like you use every opportunity that President Obama's name is mentioned in the news to volunteer yet another small-minded, petty, biased, hateful and useless comment.

"Why always with this bigotry crap? Tell me what he has done to improve this country. It has never been so divided as it is now.If he was a CEO the stockholders would have fired him a long time ago."

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Your supposition fails the logic test, and your blame is misdirected. If your complaint is that we are "divided," take an introspective look in the mirror at your own reflection.

If you want to end the divisiveness, stop personally contributing to and fueling the division with your own choice of words.

We are "divided" because millions of Americans consciously choose, with each new day, to question and seek to rhetorically invalidate the election of this President of the United States; a person who was elected twice by more than a 51% "majority" of the voters; the first time that has happened in two generations, 56 years ago in the 1956 reelection of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

We are "divided" because millions of Americans consciously choose, with each new day, to divide us with their immoderate and uncivil rhetoric.

We are "divided" because millions of Americans consciously choose, with each new day, to refuse to look past their own hyper-partisanship even long enough to embrace the message of a "National Day of Service" without using it as just another vehicle for vitriol, condemnation, derision and insults directed at the President and First Lady of the United States. Read this thread, as example.

If your complaint is that we are "divided," then stop dividing us. Start here. Start now. "Civility, pass it on."

Take a look at your own self, Your neighbor, your friends, if you have any. Try talking to some of them.

You'll get wild info.

Obama has no shame....

It's a national day of service to Obama and big government...god is dead...long live service to government!

How about the concept of the government serving the people.

Wow! What a GREAT! concept. I knew nothing about it. Say what you will.....NICE CREATION!, Mr. President.

How about having "The 12 Days of Service". One a month throughout the year? (Not to take away from today in any way, at all:)

11 million+ illegals prepare to rejoice in the streets

They should have had Volunteer Day in DC on Monday, cleaning up the mess they're gonna make at the Inaugu-Coronation...They totally trashed DC 4 years ago....Sad when people can't carry their own trash to a trashcan....

Enforce the laws already on the books.....800,000 or so tickets for littering would bring Washington some pretty good revenue.....The money can be used FOR THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, of course...

Obama's Soviet Comrades would be proud! Contrary to what Obama and the libs would have you believe, this country has been the greatest on Earth, not because of service to others, but because of the opportunity to not be in need of being serviced by others. Yes, the US has been the most generous nation on Earth. But, it isn't because of government demanding it, but because government has gotten out of the way so that people will have enough to voluntarily be generous. Obama and the libs seem to miss the fine technicalities of the facts. Of course, it is there missing that fine technicality that is the difference between struggling like Cuba and Russia and prosperity like the US. And yes, this is a simple fact that is easy to prove. Who goes to Russia, Cuba or any socialist country seeking "opportunity?" When you become socialist, the only generosity of the people is forced on them at the end of the barrel of a gun. It is funny though, in order for a lib to win election, they have to lie. How many libs would get elected if they came out and campaigned saying: If you have money, I'm going to take it from you and give it to those who don't have money. If you don't work, you will be taken care of. If you do work, remember, the money you make isn't yours. You only get to keep what I say you can keep."

And the difference between that and "you didn't build that" is?

Yep, get out those paint brushes and rakes.

Next thing on Mr. Obama's agenda is to sign an Executive Order REQUIRING ALL AMERICANS to clean their neighbor's home and yard.

Wait a minute..........

witch

Are you serious? Even Glenn Beck doesn't really believe that "socialist" label. He just rants about that stuff to pander to the willfully ignorant Obama haters like you.

Would you like to explain why a socialist would wish to bail out the large corporations with the TARP program, stimulate the CAPITALIST economy and save the automobile industry? You are unbelievably gullible to fall for the right-wing media message.

The "you didn't build that" remark was an out of context remark from a statement Mr. Obama made about the infrastructure of the United States. It's easy to get people like you to believe what they want you to believe because you are a willing dupe ...... a rube ....... a water-carrier for the anti-Obama cause. Your willingness to repeat such nonsense is a testament to your bias and hate.

The failed, useless community organizer doing something useless, for show! Summs up the Bozobama's presidency, that's for sure.

kraussk

Interesting that you would describe a community organizer who became President of the United States as "failed." I don't believe we need to hear your opinions on anything else. Bias clouds the mind.

I won't believe the jackass(obama)if he was in a room full bibles,most of what he says is lies that most dems take as a great revelation and the rest is total BS.

I hope this country can hold up until the jackass is out of office.

GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES We need it

Maybe if some of you conservative morons would quit hating and start cooperating with the President we could actually get something done. We don't need to be praying for the US ..... praying does no good. We need to stop the divisive language from jerkoffs like you and actually WORK for a better America.

IA.ScooterTramp:

I'm glad that the sun shines on your contributions to the Vine.

When's the last time you helped an elderly neighbor with her housework or grocery shopping? Or tutored a kid with reading problems? Or picked up trash on a nearby road?

I do my National Day of Service 365 days a year!

I've taken care of my elderly parents, my spouse's parents, providing for them, giving money to our family who are in need, I make others happy, visit the terminally ill and go to funerals, sick people at home, I take care of my own family, my spouse working his "a----------" off just to keep his job, and pay the mortgage on time.

Give to others, while others should give back. That's my Motto. It's a 2 way street.

I'm designated as NDoS foreman.

IA.Scooter - Your job is to wax and polish Air Force 1.

Marchant - You job is to spit shine Obama's golf clubs.

RTypo:

Have to have a "Summit Meeting" first, but thank you for the suggestion. That was on my list.

Maybe part of our country's problem is that we have to schedule a national day of service.

How about scheduling a National Day of fixing the economy?????

Yes IA ST, good to see they've finally got a real job!! But it takes two of them to put the finish on one bookcase??

IA.ScooterTramp

"Wow first work hes ever done, course when the cameras are gone ...so's he."

Yup, and you can bet your last buck that whatever he and Moochelle did had to be re-done. This clown couldn't pick up a gum wrapper without screwing something up!

Bonebreaker- that was Very Well said. Kinda goes along with fu&&king up a wet dream, don't it?

OK Mochelle, that's enough of this. Let's go get ready for one of our THREE inauguration galas and we'll count those hundreds of Millions of dollars pissed away to honor me. My subjects are so generous! Whoa, this photo sure makes you butt look big!

Michelle looks very unhappy doing "her" National Day of Service. She is usually "served".

Is that another Target Store bought blouse---it is also "Blue".

Oblama could give the nation 4 years of 'Day of Service' by resigning.

Also known as Catch44 !!!

Good luck to President Obama !!!

The best just get better, this day will go down in History !!!

seaskip:

What History?---he hasn't made any yet. Going on the Second Term, he is the one making all the decisions by himself--where is the Bi-Partanship/Democrats included, he promised--Don't blame the GOP--What decisions. I have yet to know what has been accomplished, since all Issues are top Secret from the American Public and the Politicians who serve him.

Ask Harry Reid. The United States has been isolated from the World---What news? $17,000,000,000,000,000 in Debt. Who's going to pay?--You!, the taxpayer, and the poor (they don't know it yet). Freebies, There are none.

Martin Luther King would be very disappointed if he saw The United States today, for what it has become.

King would be proud of the civil rights we've achieved including repeal of DADT and our first African American president.

@RTypo would he? Or would he see the PC bull@!$%# that has been forced down the throats of every american the last 30 years. Now just my opinion on this, but my guess is raciasm is going strong in a lot of hearts around this country, you just don't see the rallies anymore or hear about it, because everyone is afraid of speaking their minds anymore. Without open honest freedom, is it really freedom or just stifling a country into submission?

You wonder why we have so many adults and kids on prescription meds, maybe this is why the sandyhook shootings took place not because of a gun but because of a mentally burdened country tyring to fit into an unrealistic mold of Happy, happy PC time.

Something to think about.

Bryan...VERY well said. Now, if the Libtards would stop and think for ONCE...

King would be proud of the civil rights we've achieved including repeal of DADT and our first African American president.

Ha, as usual, you're preoccupied with the presidents skin color than what he does (or, doesn't do). Yeah, MLK would love to see your hip-hop culture with it's gold teeth and walking around like animals and your huge welfare cases and blacks using the past as a crutch to get handouts. Yup, that's some legacy you got there. MLK would be disgusted.

The obama's are out to only help themselves. Socialist's tried and true. I'm SICK of them both. What 1st lady would ever say for the first time in her life she proud to be an American. Everything about obama is fake.

Also known as catch44 !!!

President Obama makes me proud to be an American !!!

I didn't vote for Obama the first time, but I did this time because he earned it !!!

@Bryan. not sure where you're from, but racism died out many years ago, for the most part. Most educated Americans aren't racist.

@united we stand, I live in MN, generally one of the more educated states in American, education has nothing to do with racism, that would be like saying because you are wealthy you are a successful person?

I hope you are not saying people with an education are better people than non-educated people. Just my personal opinion on this one, some of the dumbest and most raciast people I've met have been highly educated people, it doesn't matter your class or financial stature.

Racism is a monster that will never die just like class warfare as long as the world is based on money, you are going to have people at the top and people at the bottom, generally the people at the top do not like the people at the top and vice-versa. Like I said just because you don't hear about it that much anymore, like just our freedom's most of these causes are generally unspoken anymore. The happy, happy PC world would like you to believe that racism doesn't exsist wouldn't it? Hmm..... maybe there is something to that.

Wow, United WE Stand, so a little thing called reverse racism doesn't exist? BS!

What Dale Obama phone , food stamps and welfare not enough for you ?

King, working together and legislating for the better of the common man, since that is their job, and it's a job they have not been doing.

Wow King Fish (more like jester but why split hairs), how arrogant and blatantly stupid of you. My husband and I both hold degrees in social service/psychology and spend the majority of our time helping and giving back all while raising six children who also help and give back and would it surprise you to know that what we do does not pay us enough to not live paycheck to paycheck? We rent a house that is falling apart, have one car (2003 Ford Focus, not a BMW), only my husband has health insurance which is not even good insurance, we cannot afford vacations, and we were both seriously injured in October when a young man ran a stop sign and totaled our other car (2004 Mustang) that we still owe money for. I have $14, 206 dollars in medical bills, $4000 of which is my responsibility and yet I have received no actual treatment for any of the problems such as the TBI, crushed knee, 2 Herniated discs, and part of my cerebellum that is hanging down into my spinal canal. And we get $255.00 a month in food stamps. Does that make us welfare trash as you insinuated by your ignorant comments? Do you really believe that everyone that receives any government assistance is useless or lazy? Frankly "king", you need to step down off your throne and stop being self-righteous and blind to the real world. I am not going to jump up and down with pride simply because our President and Vice-President get off their bums and pretend to care about what real citizens are dealing with every day. A National Day of Service is nothing more than lip service. People need help every day, not one day. We have dedicated our lives to serving others and still do not earn a decent living wage not unlike many of our fellow Americans. If you are so well off that you do not need any help good for you, but how dare you criticize other people, like Dale, for expecting their government to actually do something productive every day, rather than simply posing for some cameras in yet another futile attempt to make honest, hard-working people believe that they really give a crap about the real problems plaguing our country. The only thing you are king of sir, is your narrow-minded, small world that so obviously consists of petty, one-sided, and disingenuous thinking that it serves to do nothing more than redefine the word "pretentious" in such a manner that one could only hope that you find yourself in need one day and the only help you will receive will be the ridiculous ramblings of a flippant and consciously ignorant fool such as yourself. But, in all reality, you are probably not even intelligent enough to understand a thing about what I have just said, so that hope will be as wasted on you as it is on our government ever truly serving the needs of real people.

I can't wait to get "serviced". I should get something out of this four year (and growing) debacle.

Our Government is governed by the Justices, Senators, Congress, and the President. These are all people we elected to run our Federal Government. Each year each contributed to the Welfare of our Country. Our Country is made up of State Governments; City,Local...I do believe our taxes run all these divisions. Where is the Money? Don't you even try to tell me the President has all our taxes. Welfare has existed a long time. There are Many politicians rich. Many Americans Knows how to cheat the systems. Where is the Money? Self respect is not easy to display, when you are still uneducated. Giving Respect Is very difficult when you are still uneducated. Do you want a Good paying job? Or, are you still uneducated? Give up critic, or, are you still uneducated?@

have you ever heard of insurance ? or full tort on you policy ? none of this would be going on if you had it

Many Americans Knows how to cheat the systems. Where is the Money?

Really? Well many MORE Americans DON'T cheat the system. We work hard for what we have. As for lost money, well, almost all of that is being spent foolishly by our government on those not willing to work, wars, the Obama's lavish lifestyle, and illegals who get more aid and medical coverage than your average LEGAL US citizen.

enemyatthegate

Wow King Fish (more like jester but why split hairs), how arrogant and blatantly stupid of you

I maybe arrogant but I'm sure not stupid, I'm not the one driving old pieces of junk I'm driving your BMW. Unlike you I don't hold degrees in social service/psychology, all that is, to most people an over educated social worker who can't make a living working in the real world but has to work for the government to look down their nose at others less educated or with social problems and hand them the food stamps, phones and welfare. In my business I give back every day. So I do have a right to say what I did, because the people I help can't get what 47% of you get handed to you every day, the only work they ever did was put their hand out when they want more,now we have a special for it. Do you think Obama in that photo finished that book case he was working on or did jump back in his limo the second after the photo was taken.

Bush II couldnt read it at all and Cheney was too busy giving handouts to Halliburton.

royal..............I don't know what makes you so stupid, but it really works.

GC, and you'd like to contest the bush 2 admin didn't throw billions into haliburton at the cost of a false clintonian surplus?

Don't feel bad Patrick, a lot of people have no talent!

GCCal, the act of attempting to insult a person only works if that person can understand your meaning. you're trying to tell too much without saying enough. That's basic rhetorical skill you seem to be lacking.

GCCal, your job today is to babysit the Obama's kids.

Patrick, your blood to his brain is in vain...........can you understand that, I wonder? Most everything I write can be understood by a 5th grader. Perhaps that is your problem!

My blood to HIS brain? You need to simply retake 5th grade grammar. Shall I draw up a synecdoche to show you metaphorically just how bad you made yourself look?

You likely have better oral eloquence than your written rhetoric, that is all I'm saying. Your intents in your mind are not being clearly passed along other than your snide tone. You are trying to tell too much with too few words.

Toadman............Me and those like me are honored to baby sit for the President........It is known as welfare, food stamps.........etc, etc, etc, etc. Need help understanding?

Got me on that one, Patrick.....good going. My excuse for mishaps are old age....what is yours, I wonder.

I don't give excuses and nor do I see any logical or grammatical fallacy in my writings on this forum today... You are quite egocentric aren't you?

You are quite egocentric aren't you?

Like most conservatives mindset, the world revolves around them.

RTypo, that's actually not true of real conservatives. It's universally true with the crop of neoconservatives and teas which stormed congress.

Quit picking on the kid, he's wearing out his Thesaurus.

You need to simply retake 5th grade grammar.

Was that an actual subject in 5th grade? Hmm.

Great ideal.... Lets take more jobs from the young struggling families and we can even save the companies billions on insurance costs....Old part timers don't qualify for company paid insurance...Oh yes the top 1% of the rich in this country would love that.... Why the companies could actually afford to hire more of these old people and lay off more of the workers that they have now...

Why, it will only be about 20 years until more jobs start to become available as the old people die off.

No, talking about starting a system of early SEMI-Retirement incentives which may get people working into older age if they like working say 20 hours/week until they hit 70 if not too physically demanding, even if they started that schedule at 55. All those business folks and commentators want cold turkey changes for hosing the next generation of retirees. I say phase those benefit's age threshold increases in slowly at the same time giving more older workers the chance to lower working hours gradually which probably will prolong their workable ages because you did not bust their butts working full time until they hit the wall and fall over the day they traditionally retired at. Basically they work about the same amount of total time in their lives they just start cutting back hours say in their late 50's and can ramp them up in times the company needs short term increase output, etc. Just not right to have kids who are ready to work especially after paying tens of thousands in college just sitting for a while unemployed waiting for slots from the old folks retiring. Of course that means we are expecting businesses to keep their factories and workplaces going here and not moving out of country....

i bet they cut your grass L cheapo

Illegals are here because someone is giving them work, by the millions of jobs. So blame those that give them the work.

I blame a government for not enforcing our immigration laws, I blame a government for not only not doing everything it can to deter illegal immigration but instead gives these freeloaders government subsidies in the form of housing,food,utility money,the additional cost to our primary education system to hire bilingual teachers and now for giving these criminals instate tuition at colleges and universities.

Now as far as Obama and his National day of service, This is just another chance to get his face in the media, many of us do service to our communities on a daily and weekly basis, We do not ask to be singled out for media attention but we do it because we care about our neighbors and the sick and elderly, Unlike these media wh0re pretenders that just do it because they think it makes them look good.

The 545 elected officials that run this country of 300 million are to blame. It is their fault alone as to why the country is in the state it is in. Too many special interests, too much partisanship, no desire to do what their constituents want them to do. What we really need to do is vote out all incumbents next election and start over.

Oh but I do..........before I retired, I did everything possible to insure the people I hired for my company were legally eligible. But at the same time, the illegals would not be here if the border was secure thereby temping and causing businesses to exploit them and screw the legal Americans.

no desire to do what their constituents want them to do

Sow, that is a pretty broad statement and really should read "no desire to do what I want them to do". If a man or woman get reelected, then you have to assume that the majority of his or her constituents strongly feel the man or woman is doing the job to which they were first elected.

Obama admin. deported a little over 400,000 illegals in 4 years compaired to about 150,000 in 8 years under Bush II.

See the problem with that royal.............neither is good enough, not even close. Kind of like when a basketball team loses 100-50 and the next game loses 100-75. In both cases the same team lost.

WOW you pathetic repubes will find ANYTHING to whine about! Obama could personally save a child from a burning building, and you will spin it as being wrong....Good God, get a life you losers!!!

The Obama administration manipulated the numbers to make it look like they were deporting more, Obama has included those turned back at the border as being deported, That was something that has never been done before, The actual numbers of deportees is less under Obama when you subtract the numbers of those turned back at the border.

Speaking of pathetic @ss lickers...chrisk

chrisk..............If you ever find yourself, your going to be
very disappointed.

gccal, it's "you're going to be very disappointed."

Feel better now, Patrick?

Some of it has to do with Mexico and some other Central American countries not improving their standards for their poorest over the past few decades and providing enough jobs for them there, pretty sure they would rather live in their own country if they could have survived there. We have been putting a bandaid over the wound that is not healing in fact probably getting worse if more poor come accross because they can't survive decently in Mexico. There are probably some businesses in America that want it to stay that way so they can get real cheap labor from illegals forever, and in the business world some owners/managers can use anything as an excuse to lower their labor costs supposedly due to competition and maybe some greed.

GCCal, I'm merely enjoying the irony.

I heard the illegals do not pay taxes, and recieve all the benefits as an american citizen. Someone is giving them benefits as a citizen. That's probably why they come here. The living is easy.@

Oh I understand GC, thanks for clearing that up. The current state of the country is the peoples fault and not the politicians fault.

Royal...since the Obama Admin has changed the definition of "deportation" to include anyone turned away at the border, of course Obama's deportation numbers are higher.

Just an accounting trick, my friend, and so many people quote this tainted stat, it appear to have worked.

"Obamazombies" Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha..

You should sue your brains for non-support

Didn't do the reload and target change, but went out and supported the economy by running a few rounds through the gun. As did a lot of other people. It was nice to see the range at capacity and people waiting.

Unfortunately many of those who refuse to work will be expecting us that do to volunteer our services for them.

Procrustes...LOVE your icon!

Like the first one, his "private" ceremony will probably NOT use the Bible, just as in the first time. The Bible was used only in the first ceremony, which was "goofed up" and had to be "redone" privately - with NO Bible.

Honestly, who cares what he uses to swear in on? Matters not to me.

Or is this one of those "He's really a Muslim" posts? If so, once again, who cares if he's a Muslim?

If so, I didn't realize that one had to be a Christian to be President.

Swearing in on the Bible isn't written in the constitution. Atheists and agnostics are one of the fastest growing demographics in America. Eventually we will be 80% atheist like most of Europe, thank God...

it doesnt matter what book he uses, he will still be lying his ass off.

Actually it is probably better that he doesn't use a bible...it would spontaneously combust the minute he touched it.

The last time Washington had any Balls was about four years ago and they probably won't have anymore for the next four years.

The last time Washington had any Balls was about four years ago and they probably won't have anymore for the next four years.

Not first lady she is the first embarassment. Did you see that one out fit she wore a while back. Looked like she got it at tramps "R" us

Separation of church and state was part of our forefather's vision. No body's trying to "do away" with religion.

Just a matter of time RTypo. I think they are trying the thought out on the 2nd Amendment first to see how it will fly.

Rot.

The truth hurts doesn't it pal.

You should consider moving to another country--like Somalia. Less government, a true libertarian state, everyone out for themselves.

Sad to say, but once this idiot was re-elected, I vowed to only take care of myself, and my family.

Just keep paying your taxes son and then you can do whatever you want with yourself. And I have a few suggestions on what you could do..

Yep did the same thing. Have two organizations that get donations....one an animal rescue and Wounded Warriors because the Govt. generally screws soldiers every chance they get. Look at the pay they receive for putting their life on the line to protect our freedom.

the national day of service has been in place for what, 50 years? For pete's sake pick something else to attempt to pin him as a socialist.

Actually this was an eisenhower idea. Nice try though.

Oh Good GOD! National Day of Service is a NICE thing to do! Building momentum for something positive is nearly impossible with some of you haters out there. You may not see it, and definitely don't understand it, but working with others towards a common goal can unite people in other ways. There's a lot of good that could come of making this a tradition.

less than 1/4 of the games bush played.

But Bushes vacations cost the tax payers only 1/4 of what the Royal Family spends.

Bushes vacations were at his ranch in Crawford, TX he owned and payed for BEFORE becoming president, and refurbished it to use it as an administration work site, Why does not Obama go to his home in Chicago for vacation?

Why would he go home to Chicago - they have a murder problem.....it throws in his face the fact that tighter gun control doesn't work. Not to mention he doesn't want all the hood rats at his door asking where their free stuff is - it is a vacation after all.

To Elvis-362920 How many times do you hear people say, "You know it's just to warm and sunny around here in Hawaii, I have an idea, let's go to Chicago, I hear it's really cold and rainy. It will be a great time ".

imnotlost...GREAT icon! Spot on, my friend..

Not sure about Martin Luther King Jr. I know one thing, he should not have been murdered. I didn't care for him that much but there are a lot of people I don't care for, I just accept them. Maybe they don't like me. BUT, and it's a BIG ONE, I don't like OLE TRACTOR JAW Michelle or her husband, the MUSLIM PUNK and LIAR, Barry Soetoro Hussein. They are both RACISTS. Not doubt about it. I am an AMERICAN and hispanic, second. I wouldn't think of voting for a PUNK like Osama Obama, the EVIL ONE. SCREW him and his oh so, UGLY wife. Talk about lipstick on a PIG. WOW. My name is, LARRY VELASCO, AMERICAN.

People who celebrate MLK don`t really know who he was. Martin Luther King Jr. WAS a communist. He was documented at several meetings with groups whose stated goals were communism and the undermining of the U.S. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Communist! Martin Luther King was affiliated with 60 Communist Fronts. King led a bizarre sex life which included acts of shocking perversion. On Jan. 31, 1977 Coretta Scott King obtained a federal court order sealing for 50 years, 845 pages of FBI records about her husband, "because its release would destroy his reputation!"

The U. S. Congressional Record of March 30, 1965 quotes Karl Prussian, an FBI counterspy inside the Communist Party as swearing: "At all of these (Communist Party) meetings Rev. Martin Luther King was always set forth as the individual to whom Communists should rally around... King has either been a member of, or willingly accepted support from over 60 Communist fronts... King accepted support from communist fronts , individuals and organizations which espouse communist causes."