The Hollywood president: Here are the celebs Barack Obama name-drops in his new book

Statesman  "When he was president, Barack Obama wasn’t known for shying away from brushes with fame — and that fact is obvious when you see how many celebrity names he casually drops in “A Promised Land.”

"Obama’s new memoir covers his early political career and his first 2 1/2 years in the White House, closing with the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

"Writing in the new book about the music series he and first lady Michelle Obama put in place at the White House, he invokes “household names like Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Lopez, and Justin Timberlake but also up-and-comers like Leon Bridges and living legends like B.B. King.”

"Remembering the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, he mentions “making small talk while guests like Rupert Murdoch, Sean Penn, John Boehner, and Scarlett Johansson mingled over wine and overcooked steaks.”

"He says he favored songs by Jay-Z and Eminem to get his head in the right place on debate days, with some audio help from Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. And Sammy Davis Jr. is mentioned when Obama recounts stories about inaugurations past. Does name-dropping the deceased even count? Let’s say it does.

"Read on for glimpses into the Obamas’ star-studded life at the name-droppiest White House ever. All excerpts were penned by the former president.

"Oprah Winfrey

"Obama reflected on the time Winfrey spent working on his campaign for president.

“ 'We had a few high-profile moments of our own, including a series of rallies with Oprah Winfrey, who’d become a friend and supporter, and was as wise, funny, and gracious on the trail as she was in person . . ."

Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop From Hell’ Whistleblower Goes Missing After Death Threats

 Newspunch

"The Delaware computer repairman who gave Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” to Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post has gone missing, with his personal lawyer unwilling or unable to provide information about the welfare of his client.

"According to Delaware Online:

Annapolis-based attorney, Brian Della Rocca, said Mac Isaac closed the shop after receiving death threats. He declined to disclose where his client might have gone, or even if he had left town. 

"The meeting between Hunter Biden and Mac Isaac on April 12, 2019, became a global news story during the election campaign, reaching the White House via Silicon Valley and inhabited by a colourful cast of characters.

"As well as the albino shop owner, there’s Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a burly wrestler turned US Navy officer, a nerdy tech wizard and the President himself.

"Mr Mac Isaac, 44, completed a one-page form with Hunter’s name, address and mobile phone details – all of which have been verified – and a bill for $85 due on completion of the work.

"He told his customer he would need to copy the contents of the MacBook on to an external hard drive to recover them and the process would take a few days.

"The man left – but never returned. Under US law, when 90 days had passed, the uncollected laptop legally became Mr Mac Isaac’s property.

"He decided to look at the recovered material on the laptop – which is now in the hands of the FBI as part of an investigation in which Mr Mac Isaac is a material witness – and says a chill ran down his spine.

"The Mail on Sunday today reveals some of that material for the first time – exposing how the son of the man tipped to be America’s next President left himself wide open to blackmail.

"Mr MacIsaac fears repercussions. ‘I have everything documented. I have everything saved. But the shop is over. I won’t be able to sustain my business… too many people are angry.’ " . . .

Joe Biden is reviving all of his past failures — and it won’t stop: Goodwin

 Michael Goodwin "Psst, an occasionally reliable source tells me Joe Biden has settled on a motto for his administration. It’s going to be “The Way We Were.”

"Just before he announced the first members of his team, the next president was heard singing in his Delaware basement,

“ 'Memories light the corners of my mind,

“Misty water-colored memories of the way we were.”

"My source claims Biden wanted Perry Como to sing the song at the inauguration. Informed that Como died nearly 20 years ago, Biden agreed to let a fresh face, Barbra Streisand, give it a try.

"The next president turned 78 last Friday and his first selections reveal he’s got a bad case of nostalgia. Less kindly, he’s stuck in the past.

" 'Is Biden assembling an administration or a wax museum? John Kerry and Janet Yellen, you’re melting! And it has nothing to do with climate change.

" 'The problem is not just that Biden’s selections show a fondness for old shoes. It’s the policies, stupid.

" 'Robert Gates, who ran the CIA and was later secretary of defense during much of the Obama-Biden administration, famously said of the former vice president, “I think he’s been wrong on nearly every major foreign-policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

" 'In Washington terms, that gives Biden a perfect record, and because nothing succeeds like failure, it’s not surprising he would tap others involved in many of the same policy disasters.

" 'As Sen. Marco Rubio described it, Biden has gathered “polite and orderly caretakers of American decline.”

" 'America First is dead, America Last is back. Is there a good idea in the house?".... . . 

Impeach Joe Biden

 "To be sure, the last thing we’d want is for Biden to be removed from office and the reins handed over to Kamala Harris. " . . .

Rich Terrell

Issues & Insights  "Even before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, the left was calling for his impeachment. Then they spent four years looking for excuses to drive him out of office. So, in the turnabout-is-fair-play department, perhaps it’s time to start making the case for impeaching Joe Biden.

"Let’s first review how the left treated Trump’s win four years ago. Immediately, #resistance started trending on social media, as though somehow Trump had invaded the country. 

"Protesters shouted “not my president.” Pundits speculated that he’d rigged elections in the battleground states he won. The entire country was then treated to years of fake news about how Trump supposedly colluded with Russia to steal the election.

"Throughout it all, there was the constant buzz about Trump’s impeachment and a steady stream of stories such as:

“ 'Could Trump be impeached shortly after he takes office?”

“ 'People Are Searching Google for Ways to Impeach Donald Trump”

“ 'Democrats Are Paving the Way to Impeach Donald Trump”

“ 'Talk of Impeaching Trump May Be Premature, But Its Time Will Come “

"These and countless other headlines ran before Trump’s inauguration.

"Heck, the New York Daily News penned an editorial titled “Impeach Trump” that ran on March 2, 2016 – two months before he was the GOP nominee. The entire editorial consisted of one sentence: “It’s not too early to start.”

"None of these calls was based on anything credible or actually impeachable. How could they be, since Trump presumably would have to actually be in office to commit any “high crimes and misdemeanors”?

"All of it was designed to serve one purpose: To cast his presidency as illegitimate, undermine his ability to get anything done, and lay the groundwork for his defeat in 2020. When Democrats did finally find an excuse to impeach Trump, it was a farce that even they completely ignored after it was over.

"Now, these same miscreants are acting as though Trump is threatening to destroy the country by insisting that multiple accusations of election fraud be investigated before states certify the results. Suddenly, doing anything to undermine the credibility of a Joe Biden presidency is dangerously un-American." . . .

Secretary of state pick Antony Blinken met twice with Hunter Biden

NY Post    Hunter Biden sought a meeting with his president-elect dad’s pick for secretary of state shortly after joining the board of a controversial Ukrainian energy company in 2015, according to a report Tuesday.

"Biden emailed Antony Blinken, then the US deputy secretary of state, to request the sit-down, Fox News said.

"“Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things,” Hunter Biden reportedly wrote on May 22, 2015.

"Blinken replied, “Absolutely,” and the two exchanged several more messages regarding the time and place, Fox News said.

"On May 27, 2015, Blinken’s assistant emailed Biden with Blinken’s schedule for that day, which included a 3:30 p.m. meeting between the two men, Fox News said.

"But the meeting never took place because Biden’s older brother, Beau, was terminally ill with brain cancer and died three days later, The Washington Post reported last year.

"Biden and Blinken — a longtime aide to Biden’s father and a family friend — later met in July 2015 and “spoke about Beau and the Biden family” but they didn’t discuss Burisma, a person familiar with the meeting told the Post.

"The emails between Biden and Blinken were obtained last year in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, Fox News said." . . .

COVID-19 flare-up and tyrannical edicts: Just a coincidence right after the election fraud?

Dark Angel Politics

However, cranking up the COVID-19 hysteria right now might just be the ticket for a timely fear-filled, distraction from massive Democrat vote fraud and criminality. 

 C.M. Mentor  "Well, here we go again. COVID-19 hysteria is peaking once more and it's coming just days after a momentous presidential election. 

"What a coincidence! Is there any possibility that this is happening because the Democrats feel the need for a big, attention-getting distraction from the stench of a fixed election?

 

"It is becoming very apparent that there was a mind-blowing level of vote fraud, in several states at least, to rob Donald Trump of a landslide victory. Not the usual, criminal Democrat vote fraud, but industrial-strength, highly criminal, highly coordinated fraud. Fraud using every known trick and what looks like a bunch of new ones, too.

 

"The usual tricks include dead people voting, people voting multiple times, paid-for votes, miscounted votes, deleted votes, created votes, etc. etc. These things seem to happen every election when Democrats are in control.

 

"This election, however, might involve ballot creation and vote-tabulating computer software jiggering on a massive scale. Truckloads of ballots delivered in the middle of the night, pristine ballots for only candidate Joe Biden with printer-accuracy selection marks or machine manipulated irregular marks, large vote blocs suddenly moving from Trump to Biden, all vote blocs marking only Biden, and exactly the same percentage of votes favoring Biden versus Trump in numerous state precincts, and many other very odd anomalies. All of this stinks and everyone knows it.

 

"Fair-minded people know that Donald Trump's campaign was light-years ahead of sleepy, masked, basement-dwelling Joe Biden's. Trump often had four or five events every day which drew tens-of-thousands each. He did this day after day and he is 74 years old! There was tremendous enthusiasm for his candidacy. Joe Biden often drew about 10 people at his events, and sometimes voters literally ignored him. Fortunately, they were all in their safety circles with face masks on. Donald Trumps outstanding campaign, the success of down-ballot Republicans, and his resounding vote lead well after polls closed all point to his highly-probable, amazing victory.

 

"When confronted with the Trump vote margins, Democrat web-spinners obviously said to themselves "Whoa, Nellie!" They instructed their comrades in the various swing states to stop the vote count to give time to get more Biden ballots and "adjust" the vote tabulating computer settings and software. The fact that the vote counting was stopped at all and that it was done in multiple states at the same time is an obvious tip-off to coordinated fraud. " . . . . . .

My stepfather was saved from the Holocaust by an African-American GI: Joe Biden's secretary of state pick Tony Blinken says ...

My stepfather was saved from the Holocaust by an African-American GI: Joe Biden's secretary of state pick Tony Blinken says extraordinary story of survival is 'what America represents to the world'  ..."Tony Blinken, Joe Biden's nomination to be secretary of state, praised his prominent diplomatic family and paid tribute to his stepfather's surviving the Holocaust in his speech thanking the president-elect for the nomination.

"Biden introduced his national security team in Wilmington on Tuesday as he prepares to transition to the White House in January.

"He noted Blinken, one of his longtime advisers, comes from a family of 'immigrants and refugees' that include 'a Holocaust survivor who taught him to never take for granted the very idea of America as a place of possibilities.'

.  . . 

. . . "At the end of the war, he made a break from a death march into the Bavarian woods. From his hiding place, he heard the rumbling sound of a tank. Instead of an Iron Cross, he saw a 5- pointed White Star.'

" 'He ran to the tank. The hatch opened. An African American GI looked down at him. He fell to his knees and said the only three words he knew in English that his mother had taught him: God Bless America. The GI lifted him into the tank, into America, into freedom.'

?Blinken's half-sister Leah Pisar has said that soldier's name was Sgt. Bill Ellington, who served in the 761st Tank Battalion, which was made up of mostly black soldiers and known as the Black Panthers. Jackie Robinson belonged to that battalion "...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8981843/Rashida-Tlaib-accused-anti-Semitism-response-Tony-Blinkens-Secretary-State-nomination.htmlBlinken says family story of survival is what 'America represents'

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Semitism by Republicans after saying Joe Biden’s Jewish pick for Secretary of State Tony Blinken may try to silence her criticism of Israeli policy  ..."She later clarified her tweet, saying: 'Sec. Pompeo has moved to suppress BDS, a peaceful protest movement protected by the 1st Amendment. 

" 'I hope that Mr. Blinken and President-Elect Biden's Administration will change course from Trump's State Department & not target or suppress support of Palestinian human rights.'

"Tlaib is one of the few members of Congress to openly support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group which calls for action against Israel. "...

Miss Congeniality Rashida Tlaib, pictured, right

Why Joe Biden Cannot Be President

 Noisy Room  "Military whistleblower Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tony Shaffer tells me on America’s Survival TV that President Trump should never concede an election “victory” to Biden. There’s just too much evidence that the election was stolen, perhaps through electronic voting system shenanigans with the connivance of U.S. intelligence agencies.

"On three important issues — illegal drugs that destroy the ability of young people to think, economic destruction caused by Covid-19 lockdowns, and the deliberate murder of the innocent unborn — the Biden agenda is clear. Millions could die.

"Out of this will come what has been called the New World Order and is now openly referred to as the Great Reset. Only Trump and his backers stand in the way.

"Consider the movement to legalize marijuana and other mind-altering drugs. Originated with money from the likes of Hugh Hefner and billionaire George Soros, it has grown to the point where CNBC’s financial guru, Jim Cramer, is promoting and exploiting the increasing addiction to drugs for profit. This is the Wall Street mentality — money at any cost." . . .

Fox News Cancels 'Justice With Judge Jeanine' This Weekend Over Trump

Newsmax

"For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News' "Justice" with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network's coverage of President Donald Trump.

"Sources close to the network tell Newsmax, because she made a very staunch defense of President Trump and wanted to expose the vote fraud that took place in the election, Fox News decided not to air her show. It had extended coverage of Democrat Joe Biden's acceptance speech of a contested election.

"The sources gave no inclination of whether the network is going to keep the show going, but we hear she was suspended at least for this weekend.

"Fox News is not the only news organization scrambling to go decisively critical of President Trump.

"The New York Times reported Rupert Murdoch's tabloid, the New York Post, has shifted its tone on Trump as a top editor has planned his own exit from the reputed oldest newspaper in American history." . . .

Biden, the great liberator brings cheer to the third world

 Illegal Alien Crossings Surging in Anticipation of Biden Presidency

..."Will a President Biden put pressure on Mexico like Donald Trump did to halt the “migrant caravans” that are almost certain to start up again? If he doesn’t, there is going to be a humanitarian catastrophe at our southern border. And Mexico won’t be in good shape either.

. . . 

"Biden would be under enormous pressure from the radical Left to welcome anyone who shows up at the border. He’s already announced he’s going to raise the refugee quota to 125,000 — a drop in the bucket from the way Morgan and some immigration experts are talking.

"In the name of “compassion” and adhering to our “values,” Biden will throw open our borders and roll out the welcome mat. Of course, that will only encourage more “refugees” to show up and demand entry. In the end, he’ll be forced to close the border to refugees and illegals. But not before hundreds of thousands are admitted." . . .

Xi's Gotta Have It: China Welcomes Biden With Orders From Beijing With Love

. . . "Back to Biden’s marching orders.

To control the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and other parts of the world, China and US, the world’s two dominant economic powers, should put down their acrimonies and start earnest collaboration in good will. Demonizing China or slinging dirt on Chinese people will never help to stop the flare-up of infections and fatalities in America.

If the two nations could have aligned in the research and development of effective virus medications and vaccines, proliferated life-saving medical equipment and kept open vital supply chains in the past months, instead of the opposite, many lives in the US and elsewhere would have been saved.

"That would’ve been fantastic, but was not possible because China covered up the outbreak in those early critical days. While Trump was taking decisive actions such as banning travel to the U.S from China, Biden denounced him as a xenophobe." . . .

Joe Biden has underestimated Iran – opinion "As the United States begins to transition away from the Trump administration, there is already great concern when it comes to the future Biden administration and Iran. Whether or not one supports President-elect Joe Biden, every American – and Israeli – should be concerned at the idea of a US president who is unwilling to see Iran for the sinister player in the Middle East it is.

You would think the US president-elect, no matter party he represented, would know better than to believe a regime hell-bent on war in five countries (and counting). Sadly, Mr. Biden has expressed his commitment to the completely defunct Iran nuclear deal in what is likely an overreaction to Trump’s policies – even the good ones.

CNN's Brian Stelter Wins 'Lack of Self-Awareness' Award With Latest Attack on Trump, Gets Slam-Dunked With Truth

Nick Arama

..."Stelter claimed that the “election was stolen conspiracy crap” was just like Trump’s “enemy of the people smear,” a “slow acting poison that is crippling the American body politic.”

"But what Trump actually said was that people spreading fake news were the “enemy of the people,” so when Stelter claims that mantle, he’s basically admitting it applies. Indeed, he and CNN have done everything they can to live up to it with the false stories, Russia conspiracy, and everything they’ve spread for the last four years to undermine the president.

"It’s pretty much a true description. So, is Stelter admitting the “election was stolen” is true, too, since he’s comparing it to something which is essentially true?

"He chastises the Trump team for challenging the election results, yet seems utterly lacking in self-awareness as to what his own network and he have been doing for four years, or how Democrats of all stripes—but especially Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams—were not only challenged elections with absolutely no basis, but were lauded by the left for doing so. Talk about team tribalism, which Stelter references. He can’t see that he’s a living example of it. He is the poison of which he complains. He and his colleagues have helped divide the nation."...

Kamala Harris Wanted to Put Pro-Lifers in Jail Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Parts

 LifeNews  "Did Kamala Harris use her political power as California attorney general to unfairly prosecute a pro-life advocate as a favor to Planned Parenthood? And would she do it again if elected vice president of the United States?

"A new video from the Center for Medical Progress raised questions about Harris’s actions Tuesday ahead of the first vice presidential debate.

"Harris is a U.S. Senator from California and former state attorney general. She also is Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate on the Democrat ticket.

"The Washington Times reports the new video shows evidence of Harris following Planned Parenthood’s orders when her office raided the home of undercover pro-life journalist David Daleiden in 2016.

"Through the Center for Medical Progress, Daleiden’s investigation exposed a baby body parts trade and other questionable actions inside the largest abortion chain in the U.S., Planned Parenthood. The abortion chain has denied all allegations of wrong-doing.

"Now, Daleiden is facing felony charges and possible jail time for allegedly violating California recording laws, which require the consent of both parties unless they may “reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard.”

“ 'America’s biggest abortion business was desperate and furious, so they turned to their biggest patron, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, for help,” Daleiden said in the new video. “At Planned Parenthood’s special request, Kamala Harris targeted me to punish and silence my message about the abortion industry and fetal trafficking.' ” . . .