Did you catch Barack Obama's budgetary Jedi Mind Trick? Unveiling his $3.4 trillion budget Thursday, he announced: "We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don't matter and waste is not our problem," he said. "We can no longer afford to leave the hard choices for the next budget, the next administration--or the next generation." But that is just what the president does by submitting a budget $400 billion larger than the previous one.

It's only the uninformed and the true believers (often times one in the same) that don't know this guy is full of $hit.

If not for affirmative action, he would have been selling used cars for a living.

Or, as our Spanish speaking President would say....happy Cinco de Cuatro! Which we celebrated in all 57 states.

Unemployment at 8.9%. Highest since 83' and a dramatic departure from the 4-5% annual percentages under eight years of that evil Bush.

Now this is Change we can believe in!

Most used car salesmen have law degrees from Harvard.

Unlike most of the alleged accomplishments in his life, I suppose that somebody has at least seen his degree from Harvard so that it can be verified on his resume. But we have no clue what he did at Harvard or any other of his academic performances anywhere.

So just showing up at Harvard should not necessarily impress. Especially when you consider that he was the ultimate affirmative action acceptence and also that even Mensa Ted Kennedy went to Harvard, twice (once before he cheated and once after).

Consider this:

“Obama did not do nearly well enough at his previous stop, Columbia University, to justify admission to Harvard Law.

According to the New York Sun, university spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated in 1983 with a major in political science but without honors.

In the age of affirmative action and grade inflation, a minority in a relatively easy major like political science had to under-perform dramatically to avoid minimal honors. Obama apparently did just that.

The specifics we may never know. As the New York Times concedes, Obama "declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years."

There are any number of possible reasons for Obama's reticence about Columbia: his grades, the courses he took, his writing samples and, of course, his associations.

At that time, for instance, both Bill Ayers and Obama fell within the orbit of left-wing Columbia superstar Edward Said. Just recently out of hiding, Ayers was attending the Bank Street College of Education, which adjoins the Columbia campus.

Five years after leaving Columbia, Obama decided on law school. His lack of resources did not deter him from thinking big. Nor did his B-minus effort at his Hawaii prep school or his equally indifferent grades at Columbia.

As Obama relates in "Dreams From My Father," he limited his choices to only three law schools – "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." (It must be nice to be Obama.) He does not mention his connections.

Harvard Law School is notoriously difficult to get into. Annually, some 7,000 applications apply for some 500 seats. Applicant LSAT scores generally chart in the 98 to 99 percentile range, and GPAs average between 3.80 and 3.95.

If Obama's LSAT scores merited admission, we would know about them. We don't. The Obama camp guards those scores, like his SAT scores, more tightly that Iran does its nuclear secrets.

We know enough about Obama's Columbia grades to know how far they fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard.

As far back as 1988, however, Obama had serious pull. He would need it. As previously reported, Khalid al-Mansour, principle adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama's behalf.

An orthodox Muslim, al-Mansour has not met the crackpot anti-Semitic theory he could not embrace. As for bin Talal, in October 2001, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sent his $10 million relief check back un-cashed after the Saudi billionaire blamed 9/11 on America.

These are not connections that Obama would like to see broadcast, which further explains his shyness about the Harvard experience.

There is more. Obama did not make the Harvard Law Review (HLR) the old-fashioned way, the way HLR's first black editor, Charles Houston, did 70 years prior.

To Obama's good fortune, the HLR had replaced a meritocracy in which editors were elected based on grades – the president being the student with the highest academic rank – with one in which half the editors were chosen through a writing competition."

ASDF, thanks for the education on Obama's education. If all you say is true, then it seems probable that affirmative action (or some other means of judgment) played a part.

From The Hill.

"President Obama voted in the Senate to provide additional funding for a program targeted for elimination by his budget that provides states a federal subsidy to offset the costs of jailing illegal immigrants.

Killing the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAPP) would save $400 million, according to Obama's budget for fiscal 2010 released Thursday. It's one of the largest non-defense discretionary cuts proposed in the president's budget.

The program is popular with border-state politicians on Capitol Hill, however, making its elimination a tough sell to lawmakers, particularly from California."

So out of his $800 Billion "Stimulus" package, we can afford $4 billion for ACORN thugs and hundreds of millions for tattoo removal and frisbee parks but not a dime to keep dangerous criminals locked up. Brilliant!!

Its just the White half of obama. Like the injins used to say, white devil speak with fork tongue

"These are not the deficits you seek."