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P100209PS-0563 by The White House.
President Barack Obama meets with Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen, Denmark on Oct. 2, 2009.
(Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, or promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House. 

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msrocky3 says:

Take that republicans...OMG he is not spitting in Obama's face and calling him a chicken-imagine that? losers
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WinaVD  Pro User  says:

wonderful shot and fabulous lighting !!! Very well done captured on those moment !! Impressive picture !
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msrocky3 says:

Intense.
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TucsonRailfan  Pro User  says:

Very cool capture..
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BB (O.ö)  Pro User  says:

Love the blue gel on the flash!!!
Congrats Pete! perfect job!

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Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)
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Blue387  Pro User  says:

I thought the general would have worn his dress uniform when meeting the president as he did last time.

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joecrowaz (Happy Holidays Flickr Friends)  Pro User  says:

Again...Ask him who killed Pat Tillman.
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Great shot! I still cant believe this inside airforce 1 and not a living room in the whitehouse!
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msrocky3 says:

Vital Issue and Jdog will be on here saying Obama did it for a photo op and the general doesnt respect him and blah blah blah...Usually if you hate someone or can't stand them..You don't sign in Flickr every 2 days and comment on their pictures
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Amen!
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giuseppesavo  Pro User  says:

amen!

great shot.
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wblairmilligan  Pro User  says:

Awesome Shot.
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BlueisCoool  Pro User  says:

Flickr Star
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Charles__M says:

This is probably photo-shopped.
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skelley  Pro User  says:

Yeah, BDU's is an interesting choice for a trip to the White House.
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aardvark_foto  Pro User  says:

mrsrocky3,

You said, "Take that republicans...OMG he is not spitting in Obama's face and calling him a chicken-imagine that? losers "

While I am a staunch Obama supporter and generally have a liberal view of politics which I suspect you might agree with in many ways, I am disgusted by such outbursts of inflamatory retoric from individuals of any political persuasion.

It is time for people on BOTH sides of issues to stop stereotyping each other, stop name calling and accusing, and start having civil discussions. As long as everyone continues to yell, no one will hear.

I fear until we learn to have calm negotiations and respect for our opponents even when we believe their thinking is way off base, our country will see little progress in dealing with the serious issues we face.
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scotthuckphoto  Pro User  says:

BB (O.ö),
you said, "Love the blue gel on the flash!!!"

sorry, no flash on this one, all natural light. The slight blue cast on the lower part of Obama's chair is most likely from an open window of camera. Not sure since he has not invited me on Air Force 1 yet. You can view the camera settings in the properties on the right.

Nice picture if Obama would have had his eyes open. Surprised that Pete Souza used that image among all the images he probably shot.

I still want his job.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

WHAT the HELL took him so long.....thanks to Glenn Beck, President Wimp met with the General..you know
Obama listens to Glenn Beck, he has a blog dedicated to him on the White House web site..
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msrocky3 says:

aardvark foto

No, I am actually more independent than liberal. But, I understand your point. My issue is that these people-mostly republicans seek to discredit the president at every turn..and since he is above the fray- I choose not to be. When Bush got us into Iraq, I was not a supporter but since our troops were there- i said I will support them regardless. Bush barely beat Gore, but all Gore supporters were told to shut up ( and this includes the main stream media) they disparaged gore at every turn as a whiner..so again, I don't want to argue with fools- because people from a distance cant tell who is who- but it really pains me that this man is trying left and right and you have some people who don't want the president of the united states saying welcome back to students in PUBLIC federally funded schools.
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janbrush2008  Pro User  says:

I like how Souza has taken the expression of both fellows
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666isMONEY ☮ ♥ & ☠  Pro User  says:

Saw this pic on ABC News this evening!
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sawyerlaw  Pro User  says:

in 9 months, 25 min w/ general....250 hours lobbying for olympics...but this photo makes it on ABC?
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vinknk  Pro User  says:

General McChrystal, let me be blunt....

You embarrassed my ass with your interview on 60 minutes. You made me look like the rookie that I am. Why in the hell did you tell them we'd only met once in 90 days? You should have deferred the question...or embellished. Anything but the truth, damn it.

Now my man Pete over there...he's gonna take some pictures of us. He's gonna make it look like I'm talking about important things with you, and it's gonna come across like Afghanistan is a priority of mine. So don't go telln' people that I'm a reactionary phony. Got it? Lie if you have to.
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msrocky3 says:

The haters are alive and well. First of all, Obama signed off on hiring the general. Secondly, like Odierno he receives weekly reports from them. And if you nozzle heads knew anything...you would know that the military follows protocol and order. The General talks to the SecDef or Chairman of Joint Chiefs and they relay the message to the President. And I'm sure if Obama talked to the general every day- you would say he was trying to micromanage the war. How many times does Gates meet with Obama? Lots. You wingers cannot process the thought of the PRESIDENT, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, giving directions to the GENERAL- and not the other way around. It's not your fault...brain cells are dying at a rapid rate.
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Blue387  Pro User  says:

If Glenn Beck told his viewers to jump off a bridge, I predict they'd do it.
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gabriel_flr (slow connection through the tv cable.  Pro User  says:

Well done, the faces of the Both are perfect captured, great lighing as well!
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Bryan Hiestand  Pro User  says:

They're ACUs, skelly, not BDUs. It's also not that interesting of a choice...

Great shot!
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selcuk.aral  Pro User  says:

Congratulations!
Wonderful shot !



I saw this beautiful photo on Explore !
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10goderecho says:

Assume it was us being overrun what would you do? It takes one 2 defeat one. Capish?
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Bushra & Sons  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called P.A.F (Police, Army, Fire Fighters), and we'd love to have this added to the group!



Welcome to P.A.F (Police, Army, Firefighters)
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thebronze says:

Wow! A whole 25 minutes...

Heckuva job, Barry!
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Blue387  Pro User  says:

President Obama gets a daily security briefing like all presidents. The president knows national security issues. Afghanistan is most likely on the agenda on each day's briefing. The general doesn't report to the president but to the SecDef in the chain of command. And this is not the president's first meeting with General McChrystal before:

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666isMONEY ☮ ♥ & ☠  Pro User  says:

Pic is in the New York Times today (October 3, page A6) with credit to "Pete Souza/White House, via Associated Press".
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lindamccraven  Pro User  says:

great photo of two men doing the best with what they have been handed. now will the rest of you idiots please start acting like educated adults and not uncivilized morons.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

SNL having a little fun:

www.breitbart.tv/good-luck-with-rio-snl-has-o bama-review-...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

The important question is, Who makes the decision to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan to help defeat Al qaeda or to pull our troops OUT of Afghanistan......It's a conundrum because I can't even imagine what will happen to the Afghanistan people with Al qaeda in power.
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

Vinlink if you had spent as much time doing a little research as you did typing your sarcasm, you would know that there is a thing in the military called a chain of command. That is what they have to follow. And they all report up that chain of command. That is how an efficient military works.

And Vital, keep dreaming, I am sure like most Americans, the WH tunes Glen Psycho Glen out. The man is using all of you to get his 15 min of fame.

And your right Blue 387, this is not the first meeting.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

msrocky3, you sure don't sound independent. You're calling names.
And, I don't care who is in The White House, I will question either.
It's my right. If Obama was a rep and has been doing nothing to help folks or small business, I'd be saying the same thing.
BTW, when I was in school we sang songs to our leader, Brezhnev, to our party, communist party in USSR.
Students should not sing songs to our leader. We live in democracy. This is not North Korea, Cuba or any other dictatorship.
You need to get some facts. What was the opriginal idea that Obama changed in the last day?
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Blue387  Pro User  says:

The Taliban are bad people who need to be stopped. It is a scourge which must be halted. But many of the people fighting for the Taliban, shooting at our troops, are doing it for money; they're not ideological warriors. Someone pays them $500 to shoot at Americans and they do it, not because they agree with the Taliban but because they needed $500. Instead of growing food, they grow poppies, for pete's sake. If they die, they become the honored dead and a martyr for the cause.

It doesn't help that that Karzai government is corrupt and doesn't have much control outside Kabul, if at all.

Local, sectarian, tribal and ethnic loyalties are powerful and in a power vacuum, you get people filling that vacuum with organizing into local tribes or ethnic gangs. We saw that in Iraq and we see it in Afghanistan. There is no one Afghan people but Pashtuns, Uzbek, Turkmen, and so on. It is exceedingly difficult for anyone to govern such a patchwork nation in the best of times.

It is this complexity that conservatives, with a black and white world view, can't comprehend or deal with. To them, there is only good and bad, black and white. Nuance, according to Tom Delay, is a foreign concept to conservatives.

I challenge you trolls to find something they dislike about the Republicans and conservatives. To them, Obama can do no right and Glenn Beck can do no wrong. If they were truly honest, they'd admit that the Republicans drove up into this mess we're in: deregulation of business, unemployment, poor government oversight, massive tax cuts combined with massive spending in wartime, leading to a massive deficit and borrowing trillions from other countries. But no, all this is just Barry Obama's fault.
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Btw the song about the prez was made up by teachers and students of a school in Nj, in no way did the gov't have any influence or part in inventing the song. Its not propaganda or in relation to any communist country. Let the children have something positive to look up to they may want to work in their gov't instead of striving to be pop and hollywood movie stars. I think most kids are smart enough to think for themselves, theyll come to their own deciscions based on how they feel in their hearts.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

Blue387, I agree with some
deregulation of business, unemployment, poor government oversight, massive tax cuts combined with massive spending in wartime, leading to a massive deficit
it's not deregulation but overregulation cause problems, we needed taxcuts after 9/11 to boost our economy. I agree, I didn't like Bush's spending, but Obama needs to keep taxes low for the economy sake.
he's thinking and admitting about signing CAP/TRADE and saying that it would skyrocket utility costs. Is it what we need right now?
Who cares about green s.....t when we have people struggling to find a job. who cares about Al Gore's green car costing $90k and they got $500mln tax payers money for production. Who will be buying those cars? not you or I, Hollywood crowd.
These times we need to think about americans, not green peace crap or global warming BS.
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vinknk  Pro User  says:



"global warming", "climate change" or whatever the granola-munching libs wanna call it...it's the second biggest hoax in all history. how many trillions lost before we snap out of it?

20, 30, 40 years from now were gonna look back and see how ridiculous some were...namely the algore-types.
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Glenn Beck s**t says:

Am not an American,BUT watching glenn beck redicule Obama on t.v makes me sick.I think he is jealous that obama being black is in the white house and he's burning his ass on that studio furniture so the only thing he has to do is to incite my American folks with false information so that they can turn against the president they elected and is working on fullfilling all his pledges.Like blue 387 said,if glenn beck told his viewers to jump a bridge ,i bet they would.
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

Ho-Bo bama the great community organizer knows NOTHING when it comes to fighting a war. While his sorry ass flies over to Copenhagen, only to get 18 votes, our men in uniform fight, kill and die in the war he called 'legitimate.' What about the carbon footprint that BOTH presidential planes left, but I guess it was worth the 18 votes and kick in the teeth by the Olympic commitee. Pathetic. Global warming only counts when it's the 'little people' contributing to it. And NO, I do not believe that 'we' are causing global warming especially since we are looking at an extremely COLD winter.

I would follow this general anywhere and only follow Ho-Bo, well, NO where. It is obvious that he has his head burried so far up his own ass that he can't see anything going on right infront of him.

Read this garbage:

Bruce Ackerman, an expert on constitutional law at Yale University, said in the Washington Post: "As commanding general, McChrystal has no business making such public pronouncements."

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northameri ca/usa/barac...

Ho-Bo met with the general ONE time in 70 days! I praise the general for doing what was necessary to get our jackass president's attention! We just lost 10 men and yet Ho-Bo still drags his feet. Fool.
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

It's NOT just Glenn Beck calling attention to what Ho-Bo is screwing up:

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/04/obam as-lewd-scho...

Ho-Bo the 'Great Uniter,' I don't think so:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northameri ca/usa/barac...

How many more countries will he crap on before they all turn on us? Lets see he's offended the U.K., France, Poland, Czech Republic, Israel and I'm sure there are more but those are the ones I can think of off-hand.
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msrocky3 says:

well karlenm, I can see facts are not your friend. The song was sung by the kids during Black History Month..just as they probably had a song for MLK or Rosa Parks...so you know, Obama is somewhat Black and maybe thats why they were singing it...but heaven forbid we mention the eerie video of kids singing praises to George W about Katrina (of all things) in front of Laura..and I am so glad you know my voter registration card by heart..for your information (or lack of) I voted for Obama in 08 and voted for Jeb Bush in florida when he was running for gov- and if he decided to run for Senate I would vote for him too. I find it amusing that we had to put up with the lesser Bush as prez and if we uttered a word~a la Dixie Chicks- we were branded unpatriotic but it is the patriotic thing to do now to call the President of United States a liar, a muslim, socialist, Nazi and everything else...Oh yea where is that birth certificate?
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

msrocky3, I only speak if I know the facts.
The fact is he is the prez, and I don't care he is rep or dem, black or white, this is not a soviet union. how hard is it to understand?
About, Glenn Beck.... has he been proven wrong, ever, once?
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

There is one thing I know, that none of you knows.
Read what Lenin said and read what Obama said while campaigning. You will find many similarities.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

I have asked this before.
Please, anybody, name one thing that Obama has done to help regular folks or small businesses. Please, just one. Begging you.
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msrocky3 says:

You know what? Let me destroy your dreams for a minute. Glenn Beck said that Vancouver lost a billion dollars for the winter olympics- turns out the olympics is in 2010..so unless the crying man can see in the future he was dead wrong. And the blatant Obama is a racist..oh yeah, he hates his mother or the grandmother he left the campaign days before the election to go see...and this nonsense about lenin or stalin and obama..I could find enough words to go around to make bush seem a protege' of mickey mouse..so spare me..and what has he done, er the home modification program that has helped half a million people to lower their mortgage payments, extending unemployment benefits, expanding COBRA so if you get laid off you have health coverage for a while, not too mention cash for clunkers, or the one time stimulus $250 payments to veterans, and people on social security..or the $400 tax cuts he gave to every working individual making less than $250,000...I await your response
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

I just want to know what Bush did for me?? I mean that was good?? I wait in vain for that response.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

what do you call taking money from those who work and giving it to them who don't. cash for clunkers was a bad thing, but it was good for a month. many lexuses were sold. guess who buys lexus.
I didn't get $400. and wouldn't be better to give tax break for businesses instead of borrowing chinese money and give it away?
250k has been changed. cap and trade would cost us, me personally, 2,000 a year.
that 250 to people on ss costs 500 taken from chinese.
i haven't seen any "tax cuts"
BTW, Glenn admitted it was a mistake.
Middlebrook, I am not defending Bush. I am critisizing he current admin.
I didn't like that Bush didn't veto a single bill.
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

Figures, no one slammed me or the links I posted...hmm, could it be that there are facts in there that you ho-bo lovers can't argue against? Ho-Bo is a fool and you who back him are his sheep.
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

No CPL, is just the same old same old out of you.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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msrocky3 says:

So, Obama did help the middle class but you just didnt like what he was doing- and everyone got a tax cut unless they were not working (am I financing your welfare checks?)...and Beck and Malkin said Valerie Jarrett was going make money off of the Olympics..but she divested all things before she joined the administration and I thought the crybaby doesnt make mistakes- and he did not apologize he just didnt repeat the lie..so again you lose.. Anywho, no one has time for your right wing propaganda.....By the way, who financed the Iraq war, or Bush's trillion dollar tax cuts or his Medicare expansion...whatever lie you can come up with...I can bat it down...NEXT
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

why don't you do your own research on V. Jarrett.
It's OK, I loose.
I wish I'd be wrong. We'll see in a few years if Obama succeeds in his dreams of the world as one nation. Europe is rejecting it. They are electing pro-capitalism people because they are tiredd of high taxes, but Obama wants to get there now. All I do is just listen to Obama, and nothing else.
And, he does LIE. I don't trust him.
LIE about Fannie. The only person who got more money from Fannie than him is Chris Dodd.
LIE about his church, LIE about ACORN. I am too old to know, if one lies, then it's not just now.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

BTW, NO, he didn't help the middle class, it's not his agenda. His goal is a world revolution. His goal is grlobal warming crap that doesn't exist. just look at the world temperatture in the last 10 years. Don't listen to anybody, just look at the graph. Do your own thinking. He doesn't give a s''''''''''t about the middle class. You wait and see.
Look at his cabinet, people he surrounded himself with, Activists only.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

I think Glenn Beck corrected his mistake....He meant Calgary instead of Vancouver...keep up with the news, will you
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msrocky3 says:

Get a life about Fannie and Freddie..this entire thing started with deregulation started with Clinton but exacerbated by Bush and co. It burns you that it took little research for me to take down your lies. I could give less than a rats arse about Acorn...if they stole-or committed a crime then they should be charged, same as Blackwater. And will you get off of Faux News already, you know who the Greeks elected....landslide for the freaking Socialists over the Conservative ruling party 5 yr rein (google it)..so please do some research and come back when your brain cells are turned on.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

The SEIU THUGS are at it again. When are they NOT beating up on people to join their loosing UNION?


Lead Story
Special report: A parental revolt against the SEIU’s home invasion robbery
By Michelle Malkin • October 5, 2009 11:07 AM


The SEIU Purple Army: Coming to a home near you?

Last month, I noted the appalling story about the SEIU’s power grab in Illinois to unionize home health care workers.

But you haven’t heard the half of it. It’s an ongoing nightmare you should know about — because it may be coming to your own front door if Big Labor gets its way.

Roughly 3,500 people in Illinois receive state funding to assist someone, usually a family member, at home with a developmental disability. In June, Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order approving collective bargaining by “individual providers of home-based support services” — effectively busting open the doors of private homes for the Purple Shirts of the SEIU and other union competitors hungry for new dues-paying members.

The home-based workers weren’t seeking a collective bargaining agent.

But unions were targeting them.

Note: Quinn received the enthused gubernatorial endorsement of the SEIU last month. Quoth Quinn: “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell to organize!” Watch:

Over the last month, home-based providers started have been receiving unexpected visits from out-of-state union lackeys trying to recruit them with the promise of health care benefits and more money. Last week, providers began receiving ballots to elect the SEIU or the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to represent them. Yes, Illinois provided both the SEIU and AFSCME with the names and home addresses of all 3,500 in-home care providers for the purposes of increasing their membership rolls and political clout.

Home-based providers have the right to vote for no union representation at all. But the unions and their water-carriers in political office have done their best to obscure that fact.
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Karlen you believe that you can pollute the world with poisonous chemicals and rape the land and there is no price to pay?? You have to be joking! Just as a person abuses their body with poisons like smoking, drinking, and drugs and ends up with major health issues the earth is the same. Anything that takes too much punishment can be broken. Dont need a graph its common sense.
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msrocky3 says:

VitalIssue give it damn rest..no one freaking cares...SEIU AEOIU ACORN MAYCORN ICORN get a life........You're not going to change anyones mind on a freaking photo comments section...Just apply for a damn job at Fox already..ugh
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

No one that I know on here is looking to change any of your minds since it is so obvious that your heads are so far up Ho-Bo's ass it's amazing that there is any room left. Nothing but a bunch of sheep who blindly follow all the crap that 'the one' spews and will NEVER disagree with him on anything. We are here to give a different view/observation of what, we, who disagree with Ho-Bo and his ilk are doing. So feel free to continue to cry and complain about how evil we are because it will fail to drive us away. :)

I've seen some lard butts who agree with ho-bo bama that will regret it when this pile of dung obamacare bill gets past. Better start losing weight tank butt...you know who I'm talking about.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

ready aim click, you don't know me, so stop there. I am more "green" the most of lib friends. Where did you get this idea that if I don't believe Al Gore, then I hate nature. I guarantee you, I recycle more than you do, and I've done it for years. I've replaced the light bulbs in my house before Al Gore BS movie. BTW, he made 100mln thanks the BS.
About a person that smokes, or eats fat. It's not your business if I smoke or eat red meat. This is not a dictatorship to tell people what to eat. Just let people shop fpr their insurance. And, if I am a smoker, I'd pay more.
msrocky3, FYI not deregulation, but overregulation causes problems.
do you know that banks that didn't do Fannie loans are still doing fine? and there are many of them.
Do you know who forced banks to put bad and good loans together and sell them as a package deal?
And, you don't need to scream, I could hear you here.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

is Greece the only country in Europe?
Please, I don't have to turn my brain cells on to have a discussion with you. All you do, I can tell, is scream, call names. Can we have a civil discussion about the issues, or this is what libs do, call names.
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Geesh... seems like I pushed a button, lots of agression headed my way. Ive never seen the Al Gore movie, think hes a little nutty sometimes but I think he cares about something thats very important, the future condition of earth. I dont accuse you of hating anything, maybe you should try being clear on how you feel about pollution. Ha, about recycling more than me now your being silly, trust me I have my share of seperating neighbors trash because they put aluminum where cardboard is kept. Im glad you chose to do those things, your doing your part. Relax because i dont care if you eat red meat or veggies, I think your over reacting and misunderstanding the point.
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msrocky3 says:

i am glad you passed 5th grade geography, you said Europe is rejecting it...and I think Greece would be considered part of Europe..When you compare Euro Conservative to America republican-its not close..so you can't compare that..why would they Europe love the socialist (Obama) if they hate the socialists (c'mon even your imagination can't stretch that far) I'm not screaming...its just you have not been accustomed to people poking holes in your theories (fallacies) that you don't know what being taken down sounds like..get Used to it..because I can do this all day. Who is more pathetic...the person who likes the president and thinks he is an honorable man and comments on pics taking from behind the scenes...or the stalker who hates Obama so much he comments on everything he does and posts incoherent message about squirrels and their nuts and Lenin and Stalin and Alinsky and what else Drudge/Fox /Beck tells you to do. Isn't the quitter, I mean Sarah Palins' pop up book, I mean biography coming out soon...better go stand in line:)
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msrocky3 says:

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.[1] Some provisions such as Regulation Q, which allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts, were repealed by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.[2][3]

The votes were 54-44 Party Line republicans....let me repeat "designed to control speculation" Once again, i wait with bated breath
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

Good job msrocky! I doubt it matters, because everyone's mind is made up, but good job! I like facts, REAL facts, not some crap Glen Puke spews out.
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

LOL...all the Trolls are back again...these people need some other interest other than making fools of themselves...go watch the Fox channel!!

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ SNORT....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

Msrocky3, you got that straight!
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

not interested in her book, and sounds like you watch foxnews more thant i have the time.
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

NOPE...sorry...
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

More white house propaganda...this really is pathetic:

www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tricky_doctore d_photo_kTVW...

Funny how Ho-Bo has to play games to push his moronic agenda. If the 'facts' were on his side then his hobocare would not need the 'nuclear option' to pass.
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shepherd.johnson says:

Look at this propaganda and the dupes and flickr sycophants of flickr flock like sheep to their demogogue, Barack Obama. United States out of Afghanistan NOW!!!
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shepherd.johnson says:


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shepherd.johnson says:

This photo stream is in violation of Section 501of the Smith-Mundt Act.
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唐陶 says:

神说过，如果你没犯过错误你才可以干涉别人，很不幸我们都不是完人。自己的事情自己去处理，不管 是美国还是中国还是欧洲，永远不要干涉别国的事，相信当地的人民对不合理不自由他们是会自己起来 反抗的。有时候想想，朝鲜还是挺不错，至少现在没一个国家敢纵兵到他的国土上去，不像阿富汗（A fghanistan）
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

more bad news from Obamacare
now, 91% will have health ins, up from 85%
and they'll cut doctors pay and procedure pay in some cases by 40%.
cardio test, and some other important tests will be reduced dramatically to save some money.
This is just from the WH.
I wonder, is it constitutional forcing people to buy what they don't want to buy?
Somebody I knnow voted for Obama, now she regrets because it'd cost her at least $2,000 fine if she doesn't get ins.
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shepherd.johnson says:

61 arrested at Whitehouse protest

www.davidswanson.org/node/2206
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

printing, borrowing out of control brought all countries together against US dollar. DUH.
Now, we all are going to live in one world with one currency in peace.
UTOPIA.
Congrats Obama. I wonder who he is going to borrow money now?
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

JUST IMAGINE IF OPEC SAYS NO MORE OJL FOR DOLLARS
who in the right mind increase energy prices when economy is bad and dollar is falling.
let's "kill" the middle class
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

I don't know if these people just want to show off their political knowledge on this stream, but this is a photo stream. Wouldn't it make sense if you write to the real white house website instead of here so you can sound off all you want? Toot your horn there...but do it in a real letter where you have to construct words and sentences in order to convey your thoughts...get a life!
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cplphoto  Pro User  says:

YES, get a life summer's dope. You and others on here don't seem to understand that the 'white house' just can't go around and promote itself without people speaking out against them and what their agenda is. Ever heard of fascism? Granted, ho-bo and his admin would love it if they were the ONLY voice that could be heard but they are NOT. You seem to think you are all high and mighty since you find it necessary to tell us to "write a real letter where you have to construct words and sentences." I have no problem reading anything that anyone on here writes including those who I dissagree with. Little do you know, one of us who dissents against this admin speaks 5 languages...DO YOU?
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Yaaaawwn......
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Blue387  Pro User  says:

Question: while learning those five languages, did you learn anything about manners?

I've been trying to ignore the trolls but they're not going away. When did Flickr become your soapbox for you idiotic trolls? You trolls offer nothing of substance and post only petty and asinine stuff and spam. Please go away and vanish.

When I post comments, they're actually relevant to the picture. How shocking.

Flickr should allow users to rate comments and report spam.
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

I see why you call people names cplphoto LOL...you're funny! Why can't you write a letter instead of ranting here? Go do the job you intended to do and that is to write a meaningful letter to the White House to let them know of your deep and dark concerns. Is that too hard for you? Do you think you will change people's mind by calling the president a HoBo and spitting your vomit on this comment page? Do yourself a favor and write a letter instead...with the stuff you have written so far, you probably have one page letter. Too difficult to type one? Or do you like showing off here instead??
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ready aim click(Back soon, Happy Holidays)  Pro User  says:

Please that letter would be used to pick up Bo's feces.....
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

So when you were writing your rant were you speaking of the president or yourself???? YOU CPL (and others) want to promote yourself without people speaking out against you and what your agenda is. I think you and the other trolls would like it if you were the only voices heard. Don't lie, you love the sound of your own opinions.

And cut thru the crap, you have a big damn problem with what others write, if you were a mature adult, you would not call people names and insult them. Its the sign of ignorance and bullish behavior. NOT a sign of education.

And little do you know that some people who don't agree with you have advanced degrees, ohhh, wow! And some of us speak other languges too. ohhh wow.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

Oh Dear, The Kool- Aid crowd is out in full force today.

Bitter as ever....put some sugar in that Kool- Aid
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

Bitter people has been you, Vittles, I don't want to get into the racial "phrase" you wrote about Michelle Obama on these same pages of the White House stream.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

OMG when you have no answer ...just use the racial thing
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

Do you want me to provide the link?
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2009 says:

Are you paranoid? I swear, Madcow liberals love to trump the race card.

If you say BOO....RACE CARD is thrown at you! BOO BOO BOO
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

SR do you think Vital is becoming senile?? Surely she did not forget the comment left under that photo of Michelle in that red dress......

I would not say paranoid, would you SR?? No I would say disgusted is more like it.
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S. Middlebrook  Pro User  says:

ohh boy talk about a coward, SR I just went back to the photo, you know the one where Vital said Michelle (in that beautiful red dress) looked like something out of the planet of the apes, and that COWARD deleted her comment!!!!
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

The cowardice...I am just so sorry for referring to that horrific comment Vittles made on that image and then she deleted it? There were numerous comments in which cited her for being a racist on that same image, at least those were not deleted. Tsk, tsk...hmmm....
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

summer rose, you laugh at my English. I speak, read, and write 4 languages. How many do you?
It's not easy for me to express myself in English. And, I do make mistakes, a lot of them, but at least a make sense.
All I want is not to live in another socialistic world that he wants to built here. Can anyboy build another plan how to destroy America?
FYI, page 49 of the OBAMACARE states that if a poor person can't pay health ins, a poor person would be fined $25k and get 1 year in jail. In addition, health insuance companies cannot be sued. Guess who they sleep with.
No wonder, they don't want us to see and read the bill.
And, do you want me stay silent? Not a chance. Because, I speak for you too.
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KarlenM  Pro User  says:

yeah, right. This admin would read a letter of somebody who is against their policies. Dream on.
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*Summer's Rose - Merry Christmas!  Pro User  says:

Yawn.....Tagalog, English and Italian and fluently...I was very sure I was not addressing you, KarlenM.
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