Transcript of Obama's Remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner

RustyS wrote:

I have to agree, obama is some act.

Yes, to Obama, ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE, and a campaign stop.

ACLU sues Obama administration over assassination secrecy

The president boasts in public about his executions, then hides behind secrecy. Now the ACLU is suing


By Glenn Greenwald
Thursday, Feb 2, 2012


The ACLU yesterday filed a lawsuit against various agencies of the Obama administration — the Justice and Defense Departments and the CIA — over their refusal to disclose any information about the assassination of American citizens. In October, the ACLU filed a FOIA request demanding disclosure of the most basic information about the CIA’s killing of 3 American citizens in Yemen: Anwar Awlaki and Samir Khan, killed by missiles fired by a U.S. drone in September, and Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman, killed by another drone attack two weeks later.

The ACLU’s FOIA request sought merely to learn the legal and factual basis for these killings — meaning: tell us what legal theories you’ve adopted to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution, and what factual basis did you have to launch these specific strikes? The DOJ and CIA responded not only by refusing to provide any of this information, but refused even to confirm if any of the requested documents exist; in other words, as the ACLU put it yesterday,“these agencies are saying the targeted killing program is so secret that they can’t even acknowledge that it exists.” That refusal is what prompted yesterday’s lawsuit (in December, the New York Times also sued the Obama administration after it failed to produce DOJ legal memoranda “justifying” the assassination program in response to a FOIA request from reporters Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, but the ACLU’s lawsuit seeks disclosure of both the legal and factual bases for these executions).

From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has to sue the U.S. Government in order to force it to disclose its claimed legal and factual bases for assassinating U.S. citizens without charges, trial or due process of any kind. It’s extraordinary enough that the Obama administration is secretly targeting citizens for execution-by-CIA; that they refuse even to account for what they are doing — even to the point of refusing to disclose their legal reasoning as to why they think the President possesses this power — is just mind-boggling.

Truly: what more tyrannical power is there than for a government to target its own citizens for death — in total secrecy and with no checks — and then insist on the right to do so without even having to explain its legal and factual rationale for what it is doing?


Could you even imagine what the U.S. Government and its media supporters would be saying about any other non-client-state country that asserted and exercised this power?


http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_oba...

But there’s one Obama abuse that deserves special attention here: namely, the way in which the Obama administration manipulates and exploits its secrecy powers.

Here is what the DOJ said to the ACLU about why it will not merely withhold all records, but will refuse even to confirm or deny whether any such records exist:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CAGBJOHng_w/TypyBf1...

So the Most Transparent Administration Ever™(lol) refuses even to confirm or deny if there is an assassination program, or if it played any role in the execution of these three Americans, because even that most elementary information is classified.


http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/aclu_sues_oba...

Can't wait for Khaleefah Obama to take the White House in 2012. He will blaze the way, come hell or high water, to reach the stars and the zenith of power, his enlightened way. Praise Allah!

The laughing liberal wrote:

Did Obama laugh about Shredding the Constitution?
Did Obama Brag about Assassination of US Citizens?
What FILTH!

Oh dear Mormon God, the SKY IS FALLING!

Prey for Rmoney 2012!

Gravediggers wrote:

Can't wait for Khaleefah Obama to take the White House in 2012. He will blaze the way, come hell or high water, to reach the stars and the zenith of power, his enlightened way. Praise Allah!

Joseph Smith validated Islam and polygamy. The old Bible is out of style.

Even Sarah Palin is getting back into the game, guest hosting on The Today Show — which reminds me of an old saying: What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious.(Laughter and applause.) A little soy sauce.(Laughter.)

If you want it to go, elect Bishop Romney.

PooPoo Platter wrote:

The President, as usual, was brilliant at the White House Correspondents Dinner. His routine was very funny, and he delivered it well.
His charisma and likeability was on full display. It's little wonder Americans hold him in high regard.

Yes about 20% of Americans hang on his every word as if he were the Messiah. You are one of them. The rest of us have had it with this clown and want to move on to adult government.

Well we saw who the one half of one percent who own this country are. All of those people at that dinner last night - the talking heads from the fake news channels, the politicians, the Hollywood rich people and the rich business people. The people in that room own 99 percent of the wealth of this country. The rest of us are totally, totally screwed.

RustyS wrote:

I have to agree, obama is some act.

do you liked Obamas Congrestroom speech!!!;-000

carey529 wrote:

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fck the charisma...
how about a CLUE!
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Marine Corp Pat wrote:

This year was ok… but last year’s White House Correspondence Dinner set the standard that will be hard to top for years to come.
The way that President Obama and Seth Meyers destroyed Donald Trump, with Trump there in that hall as the camera kept panning to his table WAS PRICELESS!
And then to find out the next day that Obama had just single-handedly taken out Osama bin Laden – and to realize how cool he was sitting there, and then telling jokes just puts you in awe of this historic President.

I agree. Pretty damn good but couldn't get over the bar he set last year. Kimmal was pretty lame.

The laughing liberal wrote:

But there’s one Otp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CAGBJ OHng_w/TypyBf1njcI/AAAAAdminis tration_over_assassination_sec recy/

More off topic BULLSH!T from the BALD FACED LIARS over at Breitbart's propaganda POS. Posted by a mental midget with a severe inferiority compels.

In all fairness, obama might have been able to do something if he could only quit campaigning.

PlacitasRoy wrote:

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More off topic BULLSH!T from the BALD FACED LIARS over at Breitbart's propaganda POS. Posted by a mental midget with a severe inferiority compels.

Loves to read his own post, the spam hog. They are delusional, lol.

Marine Corp Pat wrote:

This year was ok… but last year’s White House Correspondence Dinner set the standard that will be hard to top for years to come.
The way that President Obama and Seth Meyers destroyed Donald Trump, with Trump there in that hall as the camera kept panning to his table WAS PRICELESS!
And then to find out the next day that Obama had just single-handedly taken out Osama bin Laden – and to realize how cool he was sitting there, and then telling jokes just puts you in awe of this historic President.

Get a life Caribou Poo Poo Wall Street Fake Marine (plus all your other alias names)

PlacitasRoy wrote:

<quoted text>I agree. Pretty damn good but couldn't get over the bar he set last year. Kimmal was pretty lame.

. Our President does belong in a comedy club more so than the oval office.

Cravczec wrote:

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Yes about 20% of Americans hang on his every word as if he were the Messiah. You are one of them. The rest of us have had it with this clown and want to move on to adult government.

Isn't that awful? We KNOW Bishop Romney is the messiah.

Prey for Rmoney 2012!

Even Sarah Palin is getting back into the game, guest hosting on The Today Show — which reminds me of an old saying: What’s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? A pit bull is delicious.(Laughter and applause.) A little soy sauce.(Laughter.)

Now, I know at this point many of you are expecting me to go after my likely opponent, Newt Gingrich.(Laughter.) Newt, there’s still time, man.(Laughter.) But I’m not going to do that — I’m not going to attack any of the Republican candidates. Take Mitt Romney — he and I actually have a lot in common. We both think of our wives as our better halves, and polls show, to a alarmingly insulting extent, the American people agree.(Laughter.) We also both have degrees from Harvard; I have one, he has two. What a snob.(Laughter and applause.)

Of course, we’ve also had our differences. Recently, his campaign criticized me for slow jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon. In fact, I understand Governor Romney was so incensed he asked his staff if he could get some equal time on The Merv Griffin Show.(Laughter.) Still, I guess Governor Romney is feeling pretty good about things because he took a few hours off the other day to see The Hunger Games — some of you have seen it. It’s a movie about people who court wealthy sponsors and then brutally savage each other until only one contestant is left standing. I’m sure this was a really good change of pace for him.(Laughter.) I have not seen The Hunger Games; not enough class warfare for me.(Laughter.)

Of course, I know everybody is predicting a nasty election, and thankfully, we’ve all agreed that families are off limits. Dogs, however, are apparently fair game.(Laughter.) And while both campaigns have had some fun with this, the other day I saw a new ad from one of these outside groups that, frankly, I think crossed the line. I know Governor Romney says he has no control over what his super PACs do, but can we show the ad real quick?(Video is played.)(Applause.)

That’s pretty rough —(laughter)— but I can take it, because my stepfather always told me, it’s a boy-eat-dog world out there.(Laughter.)

Now, if I do win a second term as President, let me just say something to all the —(applause)— let me just say something to all my conspiracy-oriented friends on the right who think I’m planning to unleash some secret agenda: You’re absolutely right.(Laughter.) So allow me to close with a quick preview of the secret agenda you can expect in a second Obama administration.

In my first term, I sang Al Green; in my second term, I’m going with Young Jeezy.(Laughter.)

MRS. OBAMA: Yeah.

THE PRESIDENT: Michelle said, yeah.(Laughter.) I sing that to her sometimes.(Laughter.)

In my first term, we ended the war in Iraq; in my second term, I will win the war on Christmas.(Laughter.) In my first term, we repealed the policy known as “don’t ask, don’t tell”—(applause)— wait, though; in my second term, we will replace it with a policy known as, it’s raining men.(Laughter.) In my first term, we passed health care reform; in my second term, I guess I’ll pass it again.(Applause.)

much, everybody. Thank you.(Applause.)

The laughing liberal wrote:

Did Obama laugh about Shredding the Constitution?
Did Obama Brag about Assassination of US Citizens?
What FILTH!

You haven'tresponded to my offer, you bloviating bullshitter. I'll repeat it for others to see:
If Romney wins the presidency, I'll leave Topix permanently. If Obama wins, you leave Topix permanently. Put your ego where your fat mouth is.