News From The Obamaphate: WH Office of Rapid Online Media Response

Team Hope 'n Change has just recently announced the creation of a new rapid response team to battle the evil forces of the vast right wing online conspiracy. I'll dub it "SEAL Team Zero"

Jesse Lee has been appointed to a new position (within the communications department) titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. What a perfect title for such an ideologically bent administration.

The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has usually been outsourced to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), if not done on an ad-hoc basis by administration officials. And it signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive defense of the president and his policies as his re-election campaign gears up.

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HATCH ACT Violations here? Probably not, but I'll have to research that one.

Delusions of Grandeur - Obama & Cameron Liken Selves to Reagan & Thatcher

With Hat Tip to Drudge, here's the laughable story.

Gentlemen: On your very best days you are but shoddy facsimiles of those two giants.

Accomplishments of the Obamaphate: Yet Another Record Price for Gold

BOTUS has proved that his Columbia and Harvard degrees have been worth alot ... to George Soros .... and China.

Ben's Quantitative Easing 2 and Barack's wildly reckless debt accumulation have together pushed gold to new highs....

Anyone up for a friendly (no money) wager on when it will hit $1,600/OzT?

Chart Source: Kitco.com

And, from today's Financial Times:

Gold surges to all-time price record

By Telis Demos in New York

Published: April 26 2011 05:07 | Last updated: April 29 2011 21:45

UPDATE: 21.30 BST. The price of gold surged some $30 on Friday, capping a week of gains as investors bet that the world’s central banks would keep pumping money into the world economy for the time being.

An ounce of gold hit a high of $1,569.30, rising 2 per cent in the the biggest one-day percentage gain since December, as investors rushed to protect themselves against the rapidly falling value of the dollar....

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