BUSH CHENEY RELATIONSHIP REVISITED

According to a Time magazine piece, former VP and famed duck hunter Dick Cheney had gotten in the face of former President Bush over the Scooter Libby pardon. Libby was Cheney's top aide who took the fall for outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. Cheney was said to have leaked this info that Libby blocked from being connected to his boss.

Bush commuted Libby's 30 month sentence but left the charges and his lost reputation intact. Cheney wanted a full pardon for his friend who essentially took a bullet for him in order to help Bush push across his reasons for invading Iraq. That main reason being that Iraq had enriched uranium, thus the material needed for shit kicking bombs. Former Ambassador to Iraq Joe Wilson refuted the White House claims that Iraq possessed this after Colin Powell presented the White House's claims to the UN. It was soon after that the Plame story came out. Plame is the wife of Wilson. Outing her identitiy was seen as a tactic designed to shut Wilson up and stifle dissent in the media and Washington in general.

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UK SWINE FLU FEARS NOW IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Pharmacies are running out of surgical masks, thermometers and others related materials as England becomes the latest country scared about the recent outbreak of Swine Flu in their own backyard. It's baaack. It never left. Just swam across the pond apparently.

OBAMA INVITES COP AND GATES TO WHITE HOUSE FOR A BEER

President Obama went further on Friday, calling officer Crowley who arrested Professor Gates that set off the racial tensions that have become a national story bigger than health, and threaten to hurt Obama's popularity. Saying his words could have been chosen better and that he didn't mean to single out the Cambridge police, Obama reiterated that racial relations are a delicate matter that he won't shy away from. Stating that Gates may have overreacted from what Crowley told him, he invited both parties to the White house for a beer. I can't help but love the humility in this case of any President being unafraid to say "I'm wrong." Being righteous yet wrong and alienating in the end serves no purpose.

Comments from Right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh that Obama's original comment that the officers acted" stupidly" was the Black Militant response was an extreme viewpoint on a comment that undoubtedly was inappropriate, unfocused, and lacked enough information on the case at the time. read article

OBAMA INVITES OFFICER AND GATES TO WHITE HOUSE

Once again showing he's not perfect and once again proving that he has more maturity in righting a wrong, the President told the officer involved in the arrest of Professor Gates in Cambridge, that he could have "calibrated his words differently." Now apologizing outright would invite that offer every time he is opposed on an issue. however given the tenderness of the race issue, Obma has been as proactive as possible in recognizing that his comments did in fact inflame matters albeit unintentionally and that he had to retract or reframe the "stupidly" comment. Not simply dismiss it or stand by it like the previous administration would have. Nobody's perfect but it takes a true leader to be able to balance the tightrope like this. Whether you like Obama or not. Now go to bed everyone it's late.

OBAMA CALLS CHOICE OF WORDS UNFORTUNATE

CBS news:

Hours after Cambridge police officers called on President Obama to apologize for comments suggesting that the department had acted "stupidly" in its handling of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Mr. Obama acknowledged that he "could have calibrated [his] words differently." 

"To the extent that my choice of words didn't illuminate but rather contributed to more media frenzy, I think that was unfortunate," Mr. Obama said in a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing Friday afternoon. The president stopped short of an explicit apology. 

TJ There will always be profiling and pre judging on this Earth. In America it will be a hot topic issue for a long time to come. We've come a long way and have a long way to go. To politicize this either by the White House, the opposing party, or the population, is not going to make the country's growth towards understanding each other any easier. let's hope this all gets put to rest and we can concentrate on issues that truly threaten the countries ability to recover from the many Wars overseas and the financial crisis. In other everyone cool down, shut up and relax. It's the summertime c'mon !

LOU DOBBS IN HOT WATER OVER BIRTHERS TOPIC

Lou Dobbs can get under your skin. That said, he has a right to bring any topic on the show he wants. He chose the "Birthers" drama last night and one group was incensed and demanded that CNN remove him. That's going too far. He left the forum open. Our gripe is that all he comes off close minded too often. Whether Obama's birth certificate is real or not seems like the wrong argument to bring up now and at the wrong time. There's been a group petitioning about it, 600,000 strong. You all shoulda brought this up last year  though but hey Lou it's ok. As we said on our show today, Obam's birth certificate is probably out drinking beers with George Bush's National guard certificate. Anyway, read article

CAMBRIDGE COPS: OBAMA SHOULD APOLOGIZE

A multiracial group of Cambridge officers issued statement that it is not them but Obama who ought to apologize for the Presidents take on the arrest of famed Harvard professor Robert Gates. read article