And SO What did you do on your Christmas Vacation?

[FrenchieCat]

White House Releases Name Of Every Visitor For First Time Ever
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/white-house-releases-name-of-every-visitor-for-first-time-ever.php?ref=fpblg



Obama's Smart Sex Education Funding
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/12/28/obama-s-smart-sex-education-funding.aspx



Obama Administration Looking Out for Labor in 2010
http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/12/29/101312/85



Jobless Claims Fall Unexpectedly as Layoffs Ease - lowest level since July 2008 in sign of recovery
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9454580



Senate approves Lubinski, nation’s first gay U.S. Marshal
http://minnesotaindependent.com/52601/senate-approves-lubinski-nations-first-gay-u-s-marshal



Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30secrets.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimespolitics



Progress in Pres. Obama’s Goal of Ending Child Hunger by 2015
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7336540



President Obama announces new rules for electronic health records
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30secrets.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimespolitics



Obama Quietly Changes U.S. Immigration Policy
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f35b300ec73d76f7ccc97e547a14056a



Obama, HUD Announce $1.4 Billion For Homeless Assistance Programs
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/us/politics/30secrets.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimespolitics




Labor chief moves on job safety, workers' rights
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/business/2010/01/01/D9CV9R2G0_us_labor_the_enforcer




No U.S. combat-related deaths in Iraq in December
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/01/iraq.us.deaths/




US commander in Iraq says troop drawdown on track
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq




Obama orders air security review after jet bomb attempt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8431732.stm




Sorry, We’re Still Closing Gitmo
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/terrorism/white-house-to-lieberman-and-repubicans-sorry-were-still-closing-gitmo/



President's Weekly Radio Address
"The war in Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94RRh9qZGYc




President Obama - Most Admired Man In America in 2009
http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2009-12-30-1Apoll30_ST_U.htm?csp=34




Obama takes the heat Bush did not
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091230/pl_politico/31049




"Blaming Barack Obama for eight years of George W.Bush"
http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m1d1-Blaming-Barack-Obama-for-eight-years-of-George-WBush

[Parker CA]

1. There must be some shaved ice and pie in there somewhere. ;-)

[MercutioATC]

2. Is it your contention that Obama did all of this over his "Christmas vacation"?

I don't understand how the headline relates to the linked articles.

[FrenchieCat]

3. You wouldn't understand....you are correct about that.

so here it is, so that even you can understand.....The point is that yes,
these are items that were either accomplished, came to fruition,
or were written about during his Christmas vacation.....

Is there a reason why he doesn't get the benefit of these accomplishments,
since he gets the blame for US policy since they began?

I realize that there is a fringe element here at DU
who seem to want to focus on what he didn't do.
I'm doing the opposite.

Does this OP make you feel unhappy?
If so, sorry. I didn't mean to mess up your day.
Have a happy New Year anyway! :hi:

[MercutioATC]

4. I did nowhere that number of things on my Christmas vacation.

Then again, neither did Barack Obama.


Your post doesn't make me "unhappy", it just implies a laughably inaccurate premise.

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[MercutioATC]

7. Damn! That's a lot of hysteria for one post.

I posted in response to an OP that attempted to draw a parallel between what a respondent did over "Christmas Vacation" and what Obama did over "Christmas Vacation"...except Obama actually did almost nothing on that list.

I'm not "unhappy", I'm just incredulous that there are people who post/buy into tripe like this. Wanna talk about the good things Obama has done? Great! It's just silly to exaggerate like this.

[Name removed]

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[midnight]

6. Closing the detention facility at Guantanamo is a national security imperative.

The detention facility at Guantanamo has been used by Al Qaeda as a rallying cry and recruiting tool — including its affiliate Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. As our military leaders have recognized, closing the detention facility at Guantanamo is a national security imperative. Could not agree more...

[mstinamotorcity]

8. You know what i like

Everytime you post your op there is usually a link or something where i can check out what you say.I appreciate that. And for those who just got to be on the side of negativity that is where they will always be. Our President could give the the world on a bed of roses and there will be some who say the flowers are the wrong color.Heres to a Happy New Year FrenchieCat:party: :toast: :smoke:

[FrenchieCat]

10. Thank you mstinamotorcity!

Your compliment is much appreciated.

This year, 2010, will be one of monumental progress (some more),
to the unfortunate chagrin of those who thought they were ready for progress,
but obviously were not. :hi:

[Born_A_Truman]

11. Welcome to DU!

:fistbump:

[mstinamotorcity]

12. Thank you for the welcome

We have a lot of work to do for 2010 out with the blue dogs and in with the new.

[Cha]

13. +1

Hey! For the Bed of Roses!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. I second this post.

Weird how for some, it's more important to willfully devalue the EVIDENCE of considerable good progress because...

why? They didn't like a bit of poetic license? :shrug:

[Skittles]

14. you shouldn't assume everyone gets a Christmas vacation

[FrenchieCat]

15. I didn't. Read my Post #9.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=107734&mesg_id=107895

[HughMoran]

17. He was one busy person on vacation

...even the press (shockingly) gave him credit for working hard on vacation.

[LWolf]

18. I spent some days

camping out in my house with no water because the pipes were frozen. Fortunately, I'd filled the horses' large water tanks right before everything froze up, so they had a week's worth of water before it became a crisis.

I traveled 15 miles round-trip each day to my son's to shower, etc., while I waited for the pipes to thaw.

They thawed after 5 days, and I had to immediately run out to the pump house to shut down the well pump, because a pipe was broken under the house. So still, no water. I called, and got in line for, a plumber. It took 2 days, and because I was at home waiting for the plumber to show up, I missed showing up to support my students at a local chess tournament they'd entered.

Finally, though, the pipe was fixed, and the water was on. The first thing I did was rush out to re-fill the horses' water tanks.

Good thing, because, in less than 24 hours, I lost power to the house. A few days before my son was supposed to fly in for xmas. So I used electric lanterns to find my way around, and drove to my sons again for showers and laundry. No water out of the well with no electricity.

So I called an electrician. It took him 3 days and $972 to find the break in the underground line and repair it. Finally, the day before xmas eve, power AND water were restored.

Just in time to spend xmas eve in the emergency room with my son, who was diagnosed with MRSA. Still, we enjoyed his visit, even if we curtailed most of the things we'd planned to do. I put him back on the plane a couple of days ago, and have been enjoying the last 2 days of vacation before heading back to work tomorrow.

Today's project is to crawl under the house and add more insulation to that new pipe while the weather is relatively mild.

Thanks for asking.

[Armstead]

19. Froze my ass off in this Godforsaken corner of the country

but that's beside the point.

[RepublicanElephant]

20. thanks, frenchie! nt

[DFW]

21. What in the world is a "Christmas Vacation?"

I vaguely remember something from my school days, but can't quite recall what it was........

[proteus_lives]

Dupe.

[proteus_lives]

22. Vacation? Ha! I picked up all the extra shifts I could.

I worked Christmas eve and day. I don't have the budget for a vacation.