New Sheriff In Town
(AP)
"To you - he's Mr. Vice President, but around the White House we call him 'the Sheriff'- because if you're misusing taxpayer money, you'll have to answer to him."
Addressing employees at the Department of Transportation with Biden at his side, President Obama went on to say he wants all of us to be part of Biden's posse.
"I'm deputizing every single American to visit a new website called 'recovery.gov,' so you can see where your tax dollars are going and hold us accountable for results."
It's clear the White House is calling on the nation to saddle up for stimulus – in the hope it will slow and reverse the recession.
Biden is modest about his role in all this. He got a standing ovation as he began his remarks, but responded in an "aw shucks" manner by telling the audience "you need not stand for me."
Move over "Smokey and the Bandit," here come "Obama and the Sheriff."
(CBS)
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I doubt your Republican credentials, but if you say so.
I used to be a solid Democrat until I realized the party was dominated by people claiming tolerance, who were in fact intolerant. I hated the smugness, the name calling, and the people who wanted to turn our nation into a pale copy of the overtaxed, over-regulated Europe.
I see nothing wrong with being a long-time member of a number of service clubs and working for a non-profit organization in the medical industry.
Is what you do for a living of any value to society or am I right in my first assumption that you are just some teenage kid?
First, I'd like to mention that I've never been a Democrat in my life. I WAS a Republican... with a capital R... when they made sense. Secondly, I don't know Wiley and don't care to know about your present insanity... keep your ills to yourself, I have a weak stomach and cannot handle the smell of poop. Thirdly, i don't give a sh*t who you think you are... you come off as an idiot poisoned by your own hate for anyone who you don't perceive is as good as you.
Your childish outburst has just proven my point. Obviously my Wiley reference went over your head.
A large section of the media hated GWB from the beginning because they believed he stole Florida. Whatever he did after that would not gain praise. He could have cured cancer, invented a car that ran on water only and solved the Palestinian problem and he would have been ridiculed.
As to saying I am considered vermin, you have no idea who I am, the charity work I have done (without pay or making a tax claim), or unlike many of Obama's colleagues that I have always paid my taxes.
Not a word you said made sense... you're obviously insane. Tthe media coddled Bush like a newborn babe until you bought it all and sold your soul to him and betrayed your country like the good little goosestepper you are. Look into your own soul loser... you've been repudiated and are now considered vermin. You should ponder why this has happened and will continue to happen. You're WRONG! And we all know it. Get used to losing, loser.
Obviously you are not Wiley. You are not that clever. Your command of the language gives you away as somebody who is badly educated or a teenager.
As to complaining about people badmouthing Obama, I can't remember the lefty-controlled media ever having anything good to say about GWB, even about his efforts to reduce AIDS in Africa.