The White House today launched a website at which the public can search through visitor records, Office of Government Ethics travel reports and Lobbying Disclosure Act data.
The new Ethics.gov also includes Department of Justice Foreign Agents Registration Act data, Federal Election Commission individual contribution reports, Federal Election Commission candidate reports and Federal Election Commission committee reports.
It’s quite user friendly. For example, putting Charles Ogletree into the search reveals that the Harvard professor who held onto the President Obama video now making the rounds has been to the White House 14 times in Obama’s term (15 visits are listed, yet two fell on the same day for the same event).
Nine of those meetings were directly with Obama; two of those were labeled as holiday receptions and one was a reception for new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. One meeting, in August 2010, was with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The latest meeting listed with the president is Nov. 9, 2011. The release of appointment information has a lag time of about three months.
The name Derrick A. Bell only appears as entering on the White House tours twice at the end of 2010.
More than three years into his term, President Obama framed the new website as a “We Can’t Wait” initiative making good on his promise to increase government transparency.
“President Obama promised he would ‘create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable format,’” the White House said in a fact sheet announcing the launch. “Today, with the launch of www.Ethics.gov, he’s delivering on that promise.”
It follows the launches of Data.gov, Recovery.gov and USASpending.gov.
Anyone know: How’s the WeRTrackingU.gov site coming along?
Prof. Ogletree statement that they “hid the tape” in 2008, in particular. Obviously, Google is not that hard to use, so I wanted to know who is this guy? Why did he know about the tape anyway?
Prof. Ogletree was Anita Hill’s lawyer, Henry Louis Gates lawyer, and knew Michele Obama (85′-88′) and Barack Obama (’88-’91) from their Harvard days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtFiHKazbM&feature=related
Remarks of Prof. Charles Ogletree (top Obama adviser and law school mentor to both Barack and Michelle Obama), Harvard Law School, Oct. 11, 2001 (1 of 9)
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/tocn-mla000573-students-end-demonstration-at-harvard-law-school
“David Boeri reports that a group of Harvard Law students occupied the Dean’s office overnight to protest the lack of minority faculty at the school. Boeri notes that the students held a rally for their cause this morning. Boeri’s report includes footage of Charles Ogletree (Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School) addressing a rally of students outside of the school.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/30/ogletree
CHARLES OGLETREE: Well, what both of you know is that I’ve known President Obama since he was at Harvard Law School in 1988. I’ve know his wife, Michelle Obama, longer, since she was at Harvard Law School in 1985. And I cherish both of them and all the students I’ve had the chance to mentor.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you teach them?
CHARLES OGLETREE: Yes, yes. And that, to me, was a great experience.
Also, this is interesting to me.
http://www.essence.com/2010/05/13/dr-ogletree-charles-elena-kagan/
ESSENCE.com: What do you think of Elena Kagan as the President’s Supreme Court pick? CHARLES OGLETREE: I think Elena Kagan is a superb nominee. I started my teaching career at Harvard Law School in 1985, when she was a student there. I watched her work as an editor on the Harvard Law Review, and saw the phenomenal edits she did on a classic article by Professor Derrick Bell, the first African-American to receive tenure at Harvard Law School, that addressed civil rights in the Constitution.
Read more: http://www.essence.com/2010/05/13/dr-ogletree-charles-elena-kagan/#ixzz1oZYIgyMZ
Wow. Harvard professor visits White House! Or should that be black Harvard professor visits White House?
You people have gone off the deep end. Your lastest game is smearing any black law professor from Harvard. You truly have become the stupid party.
Andrew Breitbart was a plain, old-fashioned race-baiter. Now, his flunkies are left to carry on.
DB: Is that the best you got?
Oh the great white prog comes to the rescue of blacks. Go run through Compton or Harlem and tell everyone you meet how much you have personally done for black Americans and see what happens. You moron.
Speaking of race-baiters,”Did this really happen on CNN? POLLAK: Oh, you’re judging me by the color of my skin. JAY THOMAS: Yes, I am. I sure am.” . . . . https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23HappyMLKday
“PLEASE, nobody tell racist Breitbart editor Joel Pollak there’s a half black, half Jewish baby living inside his house.” Iowahawk. Heh..
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/07/obamas-mentor-we-hid-this-video-throughout-the-2008-campaign/
The Obamas’ Race Fixation
The release–after a quarter century–of Andrew Breitbart’s video of Barack Hussein Obama during his Harvard Law School years may or may not have been a blockbuster but it does reveal the future president’s fixation on race. Likewise, another video seems to confirm that the future FLOTUS, Michelle Robinson LaVaughn Obama, was also a racial agitator at Harvard Law.
It’s understandable that one of Obama’s closest mentors in the last campaign only now has admitted “We hid this [tape] throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now.”
Four years later, Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree is confident enough that the first (semi-) African-American has sufficiently bamboozled the American people into thinking he is a president of all the people and wants a color-blind society rather than a racially-divided country.
With the black vote, the mainstream media, the 20% of liberals in America, and Hollywood in Obama’s pocket, Prof. Ogletree believes the 2012 election is a shoo-in for the president and he doesn’t give a damn anymore who knows Barack was a racial agitator at Harvard.
With MSM complicity, Obama has successfully managed to fend off the truth concerning the extent of his relationships with the radical Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the revolutionists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, his friendship with black Muslim racist Louis Farrakhan and other unseemly buddies so why fret over his demonstrations in favor of race-based hiring at Harvard?
Why get all exercised over a video depicting Obama embracing one of his role models, Prof. Derrick Bell, who notably said, “I live to harrass white people,” endorsed a controversial magazine whose official motto is “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity,” and who preached divisive, black racist theories of endemic oppression by whites.
As student Obama said at the time, we should “open up our hearts and minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.”
We might just as well close up our hearts and minds to President Obama’s comparable preachings of racial harmony cloaked in conciliatory words and concealing his decades-old antipathy for white people to which he confessed in Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s [white] race when I began to suspect I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
And he couldn’t allow that!
Nor could he tolerate or trust white people or, as he wrote in Dreams of a fellow Chicago community organizer: “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And he was white.”
Harvard Law student Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was very sure of both herself and her perceived understanding that white people were out to get her. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=17101.)
News You May Not Have Seen on the MSM
It’s impossible to post incisive observations on everything President Barack Obama’s mainstream media report and don’t report on significant stories and events that reflect negatively on their anointed one.
Some stories and events become so public that the MSM is forced to mention them and then, dutifully, bury them in the journalistic graveyard as if they had never happened.
Therefore, in the interests of public service, I present a few Obama-related stories which have either been ignored by the MSM or which the mainstreamers quickly relegated to the scrapheap along with tales of Martians invading Earth and Democrats acting stupidly.
The story of Dems so enamored of their hero that they superimposed a picture of Obama in place of the 50 stars on the American flag, reflecting their total ignorance of proper flag protocols, was briefly covered by the MSM, without commentary on those time-honored protocols.
The next steps might be his face on a trillion dollar bill and Mount Rushmore.
It gets much better or much worse, depending on your political perspective.
. The MSM gave little play to the thoughts of Steven Chu, Obama’s Energy Secretary, on gas prices both before and after he was appointed. Chu, who admitted he doesn’t drive a car, had advocated for European-level gas prices of ten dollars a gallon in the U.S. and repeated that wish even after prices began to soar.
The media also ignored his backtracking in the face of Republican derision and Chu now says, “I no longer share that view. . . Of course, we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up. We want it to go down.”
But, of course!
Outside of the administration, I don’t know who else shared Chu’s view of the benefits of astronomical gas prices. I suspect the nitwit DOE secretary got a call from one of Obama’s henchmen telling him to shut up and retreat from his imbecilic position.
. On a “comedic” front in America’s culture war, black comedian Chris Rock reverted to form and exploded when asked a question by conservative author of Obama Zombies and Hollywood Hypocrites, Jason Mattera.
Last year, Rock had incoherently said in Esquire, “When I see the Tea Party and all this stuff, it actually feels like racism’s almost over. Because this is the last–this is the act up before the sleep. They’re going crazy. They’re insane. You want to get rid of them,” and Mattera asked him to explain his baseless comments.
Instead of clarifying, Rock erupted, ripped the camera out of the hands of Mattera’s camerawoman, hurled it 50 feet, and challenged Mattera to a fight–while Rock was in the protection of two bodyguards.
. Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, clearly regards the president and his immigration policies the same way he thinks of rattlesnakes and illegal aliens. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=17403.)