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Ron Paul says Michele Bachmann “hates Muslims”
Ron Paul was on The Tonight Show last night, where Jay Leno asked him to say a little something about the other Republican candidates for president. Mitt Romney, according to Paul, is "a nice guy." Newt Gingrich should "run for Speaker of the House again," and Jon Huntsman is "a good diplomat" and " a thoughtful person."
And Michele Bachmann? Well, "she doesn't like Muslims," Paul said. "She hates Muslims. She wants to go get 'em." Rick Santorum, too, has a preoccupation with "gay people and Muslims."
Here's the clip:
Now a U.S. senator, Scott Brown is ready to take on Obama
Fresh from a stunning election victory that shook the confidence of the national Democratic Party, Scott Brown says he’s ready for a showdown with President Barack Obama — on the basketball court. Brown, known only a few weeks ago as a dude with a truck, says he challenged Obama to hoops when the two spoke by telephone on the night the Massachusetts Republican won Teddy Kennedy’s dyed-in-the-wool-Democratic-blue seat in the U.S. Senate. “The only time I spoke to him was election night and I did challenge him to pick his best, and I’ll take my daughter Ayla who plays for Boston College, and we’d challenge him to a little 2-on-2. I think we’d have the upper hand,” Brown said in an interview with TV comedian Jay Leno. “He looks like he’s in great shape. It’d certainly be a tough game,” he said. Brown didn’t mention how the president responded. Obama, a hard-core hoophead, has shot baskets on the campaign trail, with U.S. troops in the field and with kids on the South Lawn of the White House. At 48, he would have a two-year advantage over the 50-year-old Brown. But as Sports Illustrated magazine notes, the president can’t dunk and doesn’t have a hoopster nickname. Brown does have a nickname. At Tufts University, he was known as “Downtown Scotty Brown,” possibly for his long-distance jumpshots. And that’s not all. In a given week, Brown told Leno, he swims close to 2 miles, bikes about 95 and runs 15 or 20 miles.
If Obama’s really looking for ways to reach out to Republicans, a friendly game of basketball might make a nice change from all the ankle-tripping, elbow-jabbing, floorboard-thumping contests on Capitol Hill.
Photo Credits: Reuters/Brian Snyder (Brown Victory); Reuters/Mario Anzuoni (Leno); Reuters/Jim Young (Obama and Young Hoopster)
Scott Brown can`t hold a candle to President Obama. Scott Brown would fare much better in a nude matchup for Playgirl with Levi Johnston,( Bristol Palin`s baby daddy )…. Obama is much too intelligent for the likes of Scott Brown, or any other of those right wing knuckle dragging neanderthals . After the drubbing Obama gave those idiots at that republican retreat, it`s no wonder the party of NO, hitches their wagons to light weight untelligent fools like Sarah Palin,and Joe the Plumber.
First Draft: Heeeeere’s Barack!
As the AIG ire continues to bubble, President Barack Obama is in southern California, touring an electric vehicle plant, holding a town hall meeting with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and finally taping an appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” He’s been on the show before, back when he was campaigning for the White House, and he’s hardly alone. Aspiring presidents from John F. Kennedy to Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton have found late-night TV audiences alluring. But Obama is the first serving president to sit on the “Tonight Show” couch.
It’s expected to be a chance for Obama to push his stimulus and recovery packages, and channel the outrage over taxpayer funding for troubled companies like AIG.
Back in Washington, first lady Michelle Obama celebrates Women’s History Month by touring a school in the city’s Anacostia section and sponsoring events at 11 other schools around the area with other women accustomed to the public eye — singer-songwriters Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys, gymnastics star Dominique Dawes, actresses Phylicia Rashad, Fran Drescher and Alfre Woodard, Google Vice President Marissa Mayer and Army Gen. Ann Dunwoody, the nation’s first female four-star general.
Photo credits: U.S. President Barack Obama at a town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, California, March 18, 2009. REUTERS/Larry Downing U.S. first lady Michelle Obama reads to children of military personnel at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, March 12, 2009. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier
Vicki is absolutely right. TC, did you read a newspaper or watch anything other than Fox news during the 8 years of the Bush administration? All the Republicans seem to care about is getting back in power, without any real concern for the average American.
The First Draft
President Bush tends to ceremonial duties Wednesday while the White House ramps up preparations for the G20 summit this weekend. The G20, which groups industrialized and rapidly developing economies, will be discussing moves to tackle the global financial crisis.
The House Financial Services Committee is looking into the mortgage crisis. It has a hearing on whether banks and other lenders are doing enough help people in jeopardy of losing their houses by changing the terms of mortgages.
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether a religious group must be allowed to put its monument in a city park near a similar Ten Commandments display.
The morning TV shows covered John McCain‘s appearance Tuesday night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” the first television interview by the Republican presidential contender since he lost the election.
McCain joked that he was “sleeping like a baby … Sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours, wake up and cry.”
He shrugged off criticism of his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying: “I’m so proud of her and very grateful that she agreed to run with me. She inspired people.” Some shows also ran bits of CNN’s interview Tuesday with Bush aboard the retired aircraft carrier Intrepid, where he made a Veterans Day speech.
Bush declined to elaborate on his advice to President-elect Barack Obama during their Oval Office meeting Monday, but he did say the Illinois senator wanted to have a look at the rooms where his two daughters would be sleeping.
