Obama has polticized past President biographies

August · 05-16-12, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Before I pull out the pitchfork and torch, i have a couple questions:

- Has this been done before with previous presidents?
- Is it just the website were talking about?

Both are good questions that I do not have the answers for Duc. But I suspect that if George had done it too it would have been severely lambasted in the MSM to the point that few of us wouldn't know the answer to at least the first one.

Ducimus · 05-16-12, 01:54 PM

MSN was probably too busy having a cow over Bush's umpteen signing statements to notice if he had.

All i can say without any evidence is:
IF....
- this hasn't been done before
- said descriptions in physical official locations were also altered (web site content is organic in nature and always changes)

Then this is a real freaking LOW attempt at coat tail riding. EDIT: Hell, altering plaques in real locations is something youd see in the DPRK, which makes this even worse.

However, IF
- This has been done before,
- and it's just the website that's been altered,

Then this is politics as usual, and worthy only of rolling eyes. Yeah, still low, but not a new low that wasn't already established. All politicians are scumbags anyway.

mookiemookie · 05-16-12, 01:58 PM

Definitely a bad idea, regardless of if he was or wasn't the first to do it.

vienna · 05-16-12, 01:59 PM

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Then this is politics as usual, and worthy only of rolling eyes. Yeah, still low, but not a new low that wasn't already established. All politicians are scumbags anyway.

Amen to this...

In the end, nothing new to see here, move along now...

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Ducimus · 05-16-12, 02:02 PM

If he had the descrptions changed in real world locations outside of the website, that is some SERIOUS shennigans though. That cannot be allowed, period. I think its a safe bet this hasn't taken place, but if it had..... That is reason to be SERIOUSLY angry. I've been ambivalent about him, don't really care, but that would tilt me to outright rage in 0.5 seconds.

August · 05-16-12, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

However, IF
- This has been done before,
- and it's just the website that's been altered,

Well even if the answer to one or both of those questions is no the precedent has now been set.

August · 05-16-12, 02:26 PM

Oh and from the website:

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kraznyi_oktjabr · 05-16-12, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Oh and from the website:

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Excuse me Mr. President but I don't think so...

AVGWarhawk · 05-16-12, 02:37 PM

Wait for the edits to the Constitution coming out this fall!!!

Anything to divert attention from the economy......

vienna · 05-16-12, 02:49 PM

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Anything to divert attention from the economy......

Frankly, I'm waing for the GOP to start talking about specifics...

"Job Creators", stimulus, "trickle-down", tax cuts for the highest earners, bulk de-regulation, all the other trite vagaries that have failed before (sveral times) just won't cut it; if the GOP seriously wants to win, it has to get some common sense, deliver specific ideas and abandon that which hsa not worked under past GOP administrations...

pat attention to the voters' needs not the lobbyist's...

(...and, yes I know, "the other side does it too" [boo, hoo]; well, the GOP ought to grow a pair and try to be the first to break the mold...)

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05-16-12, 03:05 PM

So these are by a branch of the parks service keeping up to date information on the white house and its history and of the two authors one also worked there under Bush in the same job and one was appointed to the job during the first term of Bush.

Hasn't anyone got a "gripping" Daily Mail headline to post about?

Ducimus · 05-16-12, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Oh and from the website:
The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.gov are from “The Presidents of the United States of America,” by Michael Beschloss and Hugh Sidey. Copyright 2009 by the White House Historical Association.

I'm not quite comprehending the signficance of that. Being a little slow on the uptake today, maybe you can explain?

This a book? and what is the affliation of White House Historical Association? They linked to the government somehow, or just some civillian assocation?

AVGWarhawk · 05-16-12, 02:28 PM

I think it is awesome. He is a stand up guy. I can wait for the next book.

05-16-12, 01:58 PM	#3
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05-16-12, 02:37 PM	#9
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Wait for the edits to the Constitution coming out this fall!!! Anything to divert attention from the economy...... __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-16-12, 02:28 PM	#13
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	I think it is awesome. He is a stand up guy. I can wait for the next book. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-16-12, 01:54 PM	#2
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	MSN was probably too busy having a cow over Bush's umpteen signing statements to notice if he had. All i can say without any evidence is: IF.... - this hasn't been done before - said descriptions in physical official locations were also altered (web site content is organic in nature and always changes) Then this is a real freaking LOW attempt at coat tail riding. EDIT: Hell, altering plaques in real locations is something youd see in the DPRK, which makes this even worse. However, IF - This has been done before, - and it's just the website that's been altered, Then this is politics as usual, and worthy only of rolling eyes. Yeah, still low, but not a new low that wasn't already established. All politicians are scumbags anyway.

05-16-12, 02:02 PM	#5
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	If he had the descrptions changed in real world locations outside of the website, that is some SERIOUS shennigans though. That cannot be allowed, period. I think its a safe bet this hasn't taken place, but if it had..... That is reason to be SERIOUSLY angry. I've been ambivalent about him, don't really care, but that would tilt me to outright rage in 0.5 seconds.

05-16-12, 03:05 PM	#11
Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	So these are by a branch of the parks service keeping up to date information on the white house and its history and of the two authors one also worked there under Bush in the same job and one was appointed to the job during the first term of Bush. Hasn't anyone got a "gripping" Daily Mail headline to post about?