Daily Archives: March 24, 2009

Mar 24 2009

Jackie Clegg Dodd served as an “outside” director of IPC Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda-based company controlled by AIG. IPC

From 2001-2004, Jackie Clegg Dodd served as an “outside” director of IPC Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda-based company controlled by AIG. IPC, which provides property casualty catastrophe insurance coverage, was formed in 1993 and currently has a market cap of $1.4 billion and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol IPCR. In 2001, in addition to a public offering of 15 million shares of stock that raised $380 million, IPC raised more than $109 million through a simultaneous private placement sale of 5.6 million shares of stock to AIG – giving AIG a 20% stake in IPC. (AIG sold its 13.397 million shares in IPC in August, 2006.)

Chris Dodd has been one of the company’s favorite recipients of campaign contributions. Read More

Chris Dodd has to go!

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POTUS and TOTUS meet the press: Defensive about AIG, blame-card on debt, blows off charities

Mar 24 2009

Barack Obama seeks filter-free news

At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.

The highest-profile moments in the new approach have been well-noted, such as the president giving an interview to progressive radio host Ed Schultz and Obama calling on a reporter from the liberal-leaning Huffington Post at his first news conference.

But those moves are only part of a much larger strategy aimed at communicating directly with audiences the White House believes are more sympathetic to the president’s agenda Read More

I don’t see where this is anything new as he has been seeking out the liberal left media all thu his campaign and has gave conservative news very little time!

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(1) Snippy Time with Robert Gibbs

(2) Fun with TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States)

Mar 24 2009

UPDATE 25 MAR – Now Obama has insulted French President Sarkozy!

Oh no! Obama sent a letter to Chirac, saying he looks forward to working with him the next four years. Le Figaro, French newspaper is horrified at the faux pas. Doesn’t Obama ever consult his staff before acting? Sarkozy is the President there! It’s like Sarko writing to George Bush and saying he looks forward to working with him. Chirac is the FORMER president. Keep Reading…..

Obama Insults British PM Brown

dailymail.co.uk — As he headed back home from Washington, Gordon Brown must have rummaged through his party bag with disappointment. Because all he got was a set of DVDs. Barack Obama, the leader of the world’s richest country, gave the Prime Minister a box set of 25 classic American films – a gift about as exciting as a pair of socks. Keep reading…

Obama insults Israel

Hamas ‘happy’ with Obama’s $900 million pledge

TEL AVIV, Israel – Hamas is “very happy” with a pledge this week from the Obama administration to provide $900 million in aid for rebuilding the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, a spokesman from the Islamist organization told WND.

“We are very happy with this decision,” said Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, speaking by cell phone from Gaza. “In the first place, this money will go toward reconstructing efforts.” Read More

UPDATE 25 MAR:

Iran has assembled network of lobbyists that has ‘penetrated’ administration

The number of significant pro-Iran lobbyists has grown and key players have gained access to the new administration of President Barak Obama, a report said.

The Center for Security Policy said veteran Iranian lobbyists, several of them former government officials, have been granted access to the Obama administration.
“A complex network of individuals and organizations with ties to the clerical regime in Teheran is pressing forward in seeming synchrony to influence the new U.S. administration’s policy towards the Islamic republic of Iran,” the report, titled “Rise of the Iran Lobby,” said.

“Spearheaded by a de facto partnership between the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs’ party line, the network includes well-known American diplomats, congressional representatives, figures from academia and the think tank world.” Read More

Obama closing Gitmo and maybe releasing the terrorist here on American soil!

Obama is a nut! In all my life I have not seen a president so stupid as to do such a thing! 4 years is to long of a wait to throw him out of the White House! The Tea Party protesters should be calling for Obama to be impeached. Does anyone see a pattern in the actions of Obama here?

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(1) Snippy Time with Robert Gibbs

(2) Was “Giggles” Obama Stoned?

(3) AP can’t keep class warfare out of tragic airplane story