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Celebs Out & About: Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston, Sean Combs, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Eminem
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Who knew teen singing sensation Justin Bieber and one-hit-wonder Sean Kingston were tighter than two peas in a pod?
Correction: the $200,000 Gallardo does not belong to Justin. According to the Daily Mail:
…a year ago, Sean “Diddy” Combs promised a 15-year-old Bieber that he could drive the rapper-producer’s white Lamborghini once he turned 16. Biebs turned sweet 16 in March, so once he hit LA, Diddy made good on his promise.
The two pals even share the same taste in custom soft sided luggage. Justin and Sean each showed off custom pieces from the Louis Stewart Collection backstage at Justin’s concert.
Rumor has it that rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is lacking, according to package watchers. He kinda confirms the rumors in this pic from the current issue of GQ magazine. According to Yaz:
Diddy shows off his black panties and goes on record in August 2010 issue of GQ Magazine, and speaks on Biggie’s murder, his moms and drug dealing pops. The feature is part of the magazine’s “113 Funniest Dudes, Dudettes, & Dirty Jokes In America…”
Yesterday, X17online.com paps snapped Britney Spears leavng the Crate and Barrel in Malibu. For some odd reason Britney had a huge chunk of tracks missing from the back of her head. We know from Britney’s history that she loves to attract attention by doing something crazy with her hair. But doesn’t she get enough attention?
Supposedly, according to Gossip Jacker, this is rapper Nicki Minaj’s ex-girlfriend. It pleases me that she is into dark skinned sistas. Am I wrong to feel that way?
Rihanna, whose pop career is fading fast, posed with aging rapper Eminem on the set of their “Love the Way You Lie” video.
Photos: X17online.com and a href=”http://www.rihannadaily.com/”>Rihanna Daily
Grandson Of Real ‘Teflon Don’ Mob Boss John Gotti Outraged At Former CO Rick Ross
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The family of the Real “Teflon Don” John Gotti, has expressed outrage at the former corrections officer for using the former mob boss’ name for profit or fame.
This is not the first or the last time this fraud has helped himself to someone else’s identity. A judge recently dismissed a lawsuit against Ross by former crack dealer Ricky “Freeway” Ross, who accused the rapper of hijacking his name and image.
Rick Ross is a man with very low self-esteem who lives in a fantasy world where he assumes the identities of real gangsters who are larger than he will ever be.
Ross has lied about his real background for years. He lied about working as a corrections officer despite the fact that the state produced his official time cards proving he punched a clock in an officer’s uniform. Ross lies about his past mainly because his past is boring and doesn’t fit in with his grandiose fantasies of the drug lord he wishes he really was.
According to the NY Daily News, the family of the former mob boss John Gotti is upset that Ross, real name William Leonard Roberts II, decided to name his albumTeflon Don. “Teflon Don” was mob boss John Gotti’s nickname because the Feds couldn’t make any of their drug and organized crime charges stick.
The Miami rapper should have gotten the okay from his family first, Carmine Agnello, 24, told the Daily News Tuesday.
“My grandfather paid his dues for that nickname. That was my grandfather’s life,”Agnello said.
The real Teflon Don
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Tivoli Gardens: Out of bad let good come - Editorials, Current Issues & Opinion Articles - JamaicaObserver.com
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
IF the security forces can consolidate their clean-up of the criminals among us -- and they must -- it will usher in a new Jamaica. Perhaps even the Jamaica that all decent, law-abiding Jamaicans have long yearned for and had begun to give up hope of ever achieving -- a place where we would all prefer to live, work and raise our families in peace, love and prosperity.
In this context, the question is already being asked whether the current prime minister, Mr Bruce Golding, is suitable to lead this new Jamaica. In other words, is he the leader to take us into the Promised Land?
We have not been shy in taking a strong position -- some have accused us of being strident -- on the abysmally poor handling of the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke/Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair by Mr Golding. From the moment that he declared he was prepared to pay the political price for his defence of Mr Coke, we urged him to put the matter into the hands of the local courts.
We foresaw that no good could come of a prime minister usurping the role of the court, in favour of, not a national hero, but a man the United States wanted on charges of trafficking in drugs and guns. Admittedly, we could not have foreseen the depth of the tragedy that was to follow so soon after.
But we are at June 2, 2010 and the future beckons. As a nation, we have to engage in deep introspection, honest debate and a willingness to face the hard and painful truths that will emerge about who was responsible for getting us where we are and how to go forward from here.
Some well-intentioned persons have called for a truth and reconciliation mechanism not unlike that established by Mr Nelson Mandela in South Africa after the overthrow of Apartheid. We don't oppose the idea, but our instinct is that it would take more than our people are prepared to give to get that going at this point.
We suggest, once again, that the best forum for unearthing these truths is in a Commission of Enquiry, which does not have to depend on hard-to-get forensic evidence, but allows for primary actors to give enlightening first-hand accounts and anecdotal evidence of atrocities that can provide leads for future legal action.
We further suggest that as we analyse Mr Golding's role in this entire debacle, we view it in the broad context of not just what took place but also the opportunity it has provided for a new beginning.
In this regard, we continue to be disappointed by Mr Edward Seaga's tirade against Mr Golding, Mr Joseph Matalon and Bishop Herro Blair, which appears to be blaming everyone but himself for what has taken place in Tivoli Gardens. It does seem at this juncture that Mr Seaga's vast experience as member of parliament for West Kingston for 43 years cannot be relied on for objectivity. What a pity.
Yet, as unfortunate as the events of the last 10 months and especially these past two weeks have been, we can argue that had they not occurred, we might not have been given this 'god-sent' opportunity to remake the Jamaican nation.
Mr Golding can atone for errors made by grasping with both hands the opportunity to craft a new legacy -- that of bringing crime in Jamaica to within tolerable levels. He must be unwavering and resolute in his pursuit of the criminals.
In that context, Jamaica may yet forgive him.
Outkast - 13th floor (Growing Old)
I thought this was the most appropriate time for ALL OF US to re-read, remember and NEVER FORGET, the speech given by Willie Lynch a slave owner who over 300 years ago devised a plan to help keep Black people divided...
Gentlemen:
I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First , I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the of the colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me in my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest method for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious KING JAMES, whose BIBLE we CHERISH, I saw enough to know that our problem is not unique. While Rome used cords or wood as crosses for standing human bodies along the old highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.
I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed, Gentleman,...You know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them.
In my bag, I have a fool proof method for controlling your slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed it will control the slaves for at least three hundred years. My method is simple, any member of your family or any OVERSEER can use it.
I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use FEAR, DISTRUST, andENVY for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies, and it will work throughout the SOUTH. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On the top of my list is "AGE" but it is only there because it starts with an "A"; The second is"COLOR" or shade; there is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZE OF PLANTATION, ATTITUDE of owner, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, east or west, north, south, have fine or coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action- but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST, AND ENVY IS STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION.
The black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.
Don't forget you must pitch the old black VS. the young black males, and the young black male against the old black male. You must use the dark skinned slaves VS. the light skin slaves. You must use the female VS the male, and the male VS, the female. You must always have your servants and OVERSEERS distrust all blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us.
Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control, use them. Never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is that if used intensely for one year the slave will remain perpetually distrustful.
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to crush the gangs - Editorials, Current Issues & Opinion Articles - JamaicaObserver.com
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to crush the gangs
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
IT'S not that we didn't know all along. However, the comments of some residents of Tivoli Gardens reported in this week's Sunday Observer gave even greater confirmation of the life of bondage people in garrison constituencies suffer daily.
One man interviewed by our news team during the media tour of that community last Thursday informed us that in order to stay alive he does what he is told. He votes, he said, because he's told he has to.
One lady gave an indication of the threat hanging over the heads of all the community's residents, saying that the majority did not heed the police's appeal for people to leave before the security forces' operation simply because they couldn't. Any such attempt, she said, would have been met with death. In fact, the houses of the few who were brave enough to leave were vandalised.
The message sent in those acts of arson was that people had no freedom, no choice; live by the rule of the rabble or die.
The sad fact is that what obtained in Tivoli Gardens before the security forces repelled the gangsters who had captured that community is the stark reality in many other neighbourhoods across the country.
Men who regard it as their right to determine how people should live; men who revel in their power to say who is beyond salvage and which little girl they should sexually assault while her parents dare not object, hold these communities hostage.
These men, who disingenuously claim poverty as the driving force for their criminal behaviour, are really terrorists and should be treated as such by law-abiding citizens and, more important, by the authorities.
Our disapproval of the way these parasites choose to live, plus the fact that they have brought so much sorrow to thousands of families and contributed significantly to the limited growth in our country have given us cause to support the present thrust by the security forces to rout gangs and crush their criminal enterprises.
The Government, we submit, should not allow the ongoing operation in West Kingston to be derailed by baseless public or political pressure. For we see in it an opportunity to start reclaiming our country from the terrorists who, for too long, have caused us too much pain and shame.
In that regard, we hope the operation will be extended, strategically of course, to other centres of violence, as now that the terrorists are still shell-shocked by the might of the military and the constabulary, they should not be allowed to recover.
We caution, though, that the security forces must, in the course of their duties, demonstrate respect for the human rights of the Jamaican people. For it will take only one act of abuse to diminish, or worse erase what we sense is a high level of public support for the current initiative.
The country has already started paying a high price for last week's events. Lives have been lost, people are traumatised, businesses including the vital tourism industry on which hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans rely for a livelihood have suffered setbacks, and our image has taken a battering internationally.
Outside of the lives lost, if the damage done to businesses and our image will result in a greater good, we will have no quarrel. It is past time that this country be allowed to grow into a place where we all want to live.
Gunmen have joined forces against us - Cops
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
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POLICE this afternoon confirmed that gunmen from volatile communities have joined forces with criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens in a bid to protect embattled Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a release to the media this afternoon Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said the police were aware of the development and were preparing to respond appropriately.
"Images of barricades, other defensive positions and the aforementioned unprovoked attacks together with credible intelligence indicate that scores of criminals from several gangs across the island have joined criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens. It is now clear that criminal elements are determined to launch coordinated attacks on the security forces," the release stated.
The cops have also confirmed that a member of the Island Special Constabulary Force was shot in the hand during an attack on the Hannah Town police station in West Kingston. There are also reports of sustained gunfire at the Denham Town, Darling Street and Fletcher's Land police stations.
Residents of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town have, since Monday, barricaded themselves inside their communities in a bid to keep out the security forces.
The blockages have now spread to other sections of the city as residents of other communities, including Rose Town, Fletcher's Land, Hannah Town and Majesty Gardens have joined the fray.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
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POLICE this afternoon confirmed that gunmen from volatile communities have joined forces with criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens in a bid to protect embattled Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
In a release to the media this afternoon Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said the police were aware of the development and were preparing to respond appropriately.
"Images of barricades, other defensive positions and the aforementioned unprovoked attacks together with credible intelligence indicate that scores of criminals from several gangs across the island have joined criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens. It is now clear that criminal elements are determined to launch coordinated attacks on the security forces," the release stated.
The cops have also confirmed that a member of the Island Special Constabulary Force was shot in the hand during an attack on the Hannah Town police station in West Kingston. There are also reports of sustained gunfire at the Denham Town, Darling Street and Fletcher's Land police stations.
Residents of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town have, since Monday, barricaded themselves inside their communities in a bid to keep out the security forces.
The blockages have now spread to other sections of the city as residents of other communities, including Rose Town, Fletcher's Land, Hannah Town and Majesty Gardens have joined the fray.
Share the blame, Mr Seaga - Editorials, Current Issues & Opinion Articles - JamaicaObserver.com
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
THE universities of Technology and the West Indies (UTech and UWI) must be cringing with shame in the aftermath of last week’s analysis of Jamaica’s crisis by Mr Edward Seaga, one of their brightest academic stars.
If they’re not, they ought to be.
According to Mr Seaga, who serves as a honorary distinguished fellow at the professorial level in UWI’s School for Graduate Studies and Research and Pro-Chancellor of UTech, Prime Minister Bruce Golding should resign.
“Frankly that is my view because he is showing day by day that he cannot cope,” said Mr Seaga in an interview on TVJ.
While there are many people who would not argue with that view, we’re willing to bet that even fewer can really tolerate Mr Seaga’s exposition of it.
For anyone who has the slightest inkling about Jamaica’s political history over the last five decades could not fail to miss the downright immorality of Mr Seaga’s position.
Coming as it did in the aftermath of the tragic but thoroughly necessary reaction by our security forces to the brazen assault that criminal gunmen in Tivoli Gardens perpetuated on the State in their misguided attempt to show solidarity for alleged drug lord Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, Mr Seaga’s argument is highly hypocritical.
Where has he been over the past nine months while Mr Golding fought the US’ extradition request for Mr Coke to answer charges of drug- and gun-running?
Why didn’t he, in his capacity as conceptualiser of the garrison capital of West Kingston that is Tivoli Gardens, seek to sway Mr Golding away from the eventual confrontation with Washington.
Was it not patently obvious to him then, that the only outcome could be epic tragedy?
Many others who are nowhere near as experienced and lettered as he, saw it coming.
Had Mr Seaga thrown the intellectual and political clout, of which our universities are so proud, behind the effort to convince Mr Golding to settle the issue — before Mr Coke and his lieutenants had time to gear up — is it not at least arguable that some of the Tivoli casualties might have been averted?
And why, when the barricades were being mounted at the entrances to Tivoli, did he not use his influence to convince the residents to heed the authorities’ appeal to dismantle the blockades?
Did 73 lives have to be wasted in order to elicit the scholarly analysis which Mr Seaga offers so freely now?
Mr Seaga tells us, without shame, that Ms Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, the current minister of youth, sport and culture, was his pick for a successor, as she was better able to cope than Mr Golding.
Better able to cope with what and whom?
Whoever succeeded Mr Seaga would have eventually come to the same crossroads as Mr Golding.
Indeed, had Mr Seaga overstayed his welcome as West Kingston’s member of parliament any longer, he would have come to it himself.
What would he, Ms Grange or any of the current crop of politicians who helped birth the culture of garrison constituencies to secure political supremacy, have done?
The cold, hard fact is that Mr Golding has inherited from Mr Seaga a constituency whose reputation for violence overshadows its positive achievements. Adding to that dilemma is a culture ingrained in Tivoli that it is a state within a state.
Mr Golding’s task now — if he intends to reclaim some amount of respect and authority — is to change that culture.
WAR STARTS IN TIVOLI
ROADBLOCKS reaching as far as Heroes Circle were set up in Kingston this morning, and police came under fire as they tried to clear the debris.
At the Admiral Town Police Station on Slipe Pen Road, cops said they were on high alert, following attacks on cops from that station who tried to help clear the roadblocks.
The Observer news team is unable to get to the Denham Town Police Station which serves the Tivoli Gardens community because of roadblocks along Spanish Town Road.
The sound of gunshots can, however, be heard from the Observer's location near the St Andrew Technical High School.
The area has been tense since Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced last week that the process had been started to facilitate the extradition of Tivoli Gardens Don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
Since then, Tivoli and Denham Town residents have mounted roadblocks barricading their communities from the police who need to enter to serve an arrest warrant on Coke.
5 Top Dance Hall Entertainers Visa on the Brink of being REVOKED!
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The Embassy of the United States in Kingston, Jamaica is in the process of REVOKING the visas of the following citizens of Jamaica. The people mentioned here currently hold a U.S. Visa that we have not yet been able to physically cancel. Do not allow these passengers to board any flights bound for the United States in reliance on this visa. The specific information is as follows:
1) NAME: Garfield Augustus McKoyDOB: 16-JAN-1965PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2720093US VISA CONTROL #: 20090797640002
2) NAME: Garfield Augustus McKoyDOB: 16-JAN-1965PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2222490US VISA CONTROL #: 20061105840006
3) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2923459US VISA CONTROL #: 20082808300001
4) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2923459US VISA CONTROL #: 20082808300001
5) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A3091250US VISA CONTROL #: 20100538930001
6) NAME: Sheldon Ricardo Aitana LawrenceDOB: 06-APR-1981PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2888921US VISA CONTROL #: 20092086730009
7) NAME: David Constantine BrooksDOB: 30-NOV-1980PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2398975US VISA CONTROL #: 20071062360008
8) NAME: David Constantine BrooksDOB: 30-NOV-1980PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2802052US VISA CONTROL #: 20082055440001
9) NAME: Rodney Basil PriceDOB: 12-JUN-1972PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2492299US VISA CONTROL #: 20081512130006
10) NAME: Rodney Basil PriceDOB: 12-JUN-1972PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2492299US VISA CONTROL #: 20090577210002
Regards,Fraud Prevention Unit
RIGHT NOW DOH, IT STICKY PON BOUNTY, BEENIE, MOVADO, TROOPA & AIDONIA... FOR TROOPA, DIS IS SHEGREY SINCE JUS WHE DAY HE WAS ON VIDEO IN STATES DRINKIN ON CAM AN TALKIN DI TINGS WHILE HOLDIN A MACHINE ON CAM BOASTIN BOUT "MI AVE MI 10 EAR!" DWL!!!
The Embassy of the United States in Kingston, Jamaica is in the process of REVOKING the visas of the following citizens of Jamaica. The people mentioned here currently hold a U.S. Visa that we have not yet been able to physically cancel. Do not allow these passengers to board any flights bound for the United States in reliance on this visa. The specific information is as follows:
1) NAME: Garfield Augustus McKoyDOB: 16-JAN-1965PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2720093US VISA CONTROL #: 20090797640002
2) NAME: Garfield Augustus McKoyDOB: 16-JAN-1965PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2222490US VISA CONTROL #: 20061105840006
3) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2923459US VISA CONTROL #: 20082808300001
4) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2923459US VISA CONTROL #: 20082808300001
5) NAME: Moses Anthony DavisDOB: 22-AUG-1973PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A3091250US VISA CONTROL #: 20100538930001
6) NAME: Sheldon Ricardo Aitana LawrenceDOB: 06-APR-1981PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2888921US VISA CONTROL #: 20092086730009
7) NAME: David Constantine BrooksDOB: 30-NOV-1980PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2398975US VISA CONTROL #: 20071062360008
8) NAME: David Constantine BrooksDOB: 30-NOV-1980PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2802052US VISA CONTROL #: 20082055440001
9) NAME: Rodney Basil PriceDOB: 12-JUN-1972PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2492299US VISA CONTROL #: 20081512130006
10) NAME: Rodney Basil PriceDOB: 12-JUN-1972PASSPORT: Jamaica #: A2492299US VISA CONTROL #: 20090577210002
Regards,Fraud Prevention Unit
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Beyonce and Lady Gaga Wanna Change Pop Videos
Beyoncé and Lady Gaga are ready to erase pop music. The two stars, who first teamed up on Beyoncé’s “Video Phone” remix video, have now rejoined forces with Gaga’s “Telephone” visual, which has been receiving mixed reviews to say the least.
In a recent interview with L.A. radio station Power 106, Lady Gaga tried her best to explain the video's plot.
“The video in a lot of ways is more about her even than it is about me,” Gaga explained. “It was sort of a pop-art venture for me to bring her into my world in a way, the video is an attempt for her and I to erase pop music as we know it up until this very point.”
“It’s meant to change the perspective of the world on what a pop music video should be and she’s kind of the vehicle for that,” the pop star continued. “In reality, more people around the world are familiar with her aesthetics than they are with mine. It was something for me to kind of change the way that you see her for one video.”
Meanwhile, the video's director, Jonas Akerlund, gave MTV a scene-by-scene breakdown of the video.
“The idea was always to not know until we see her, but we did add her name into the speaker at the beginning,” he explained about Beyoncé's first scene. “But the reveal of Beyoncé is kind of cool when she lifts her hat. Beyoncé’s time was so limited, so [we] really had prepared [and] rehearsed so much for her, but she had so much experience that we figured it out.”
Obama Takes the Long View in Times of Crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just back from a recent day trip to Georgia, President Barack Obama walked into the Oval Office and told his senior staff to get a grip.
"We all rise and fall together," he declared that afternoon, as Washington neared fever pitch over tensions on his team. Keep your eyes on the prize, Obama directed, not on the daily ups and downs.
It was classic Obama, again summoning one of his favorite tenets in a crisis: the Long View.
It's a high-minded notion that elected leaders love to invoke, both privately and publicly. It makes politicians seem above the dirtiest aspects of campaigning and governing.
They rarely adhere to it. With all of the House and a third of the Senate going before the voters every two years, and a media environment that moves by the minute, the long view can get pretty short. Scoring a point — now — can itself feel like a do-or-die achievement in the long slog to pass prized legislation or survive re-election.
But for Obama, it's been a crucial prescription he reaches for when times get tough, whether during his come-from-behind White House bid, the recent imbroglio over chief of staff Rahm Emanuel or policy setbacks in his often embattled presidency. Now, with the fate of his health care overhaul likely to be known by the end of this week or soon after, the outcome — either way — will test his loyalty to the long view as much as anything that has come before.
To be sure, Obama is not above short-term gain: Look at those deals for certain states he allowed into the health care bill to attract specific lawmakers, provisions he now wants to cut because of their distastefulness to the public. And he's not shy about political points, as seen in his attacks on the insurance industry or barbs thrown at Republicans.
Still, for the most part he's refused to get mired in and panicked by the inevitable low points in politics. That set Obama apart during the campaign and helped him succeed.
If the health care plan fails, Obama will face intense criticism for gambling his presidency on an overly ambitious, ultimately doomed effort. The current finger-pointing about who's at fault, with a Democratic Congress no less, would get more intense. Obama's political capital would be near zero, at least for a time, leaving him little ability to get anything else done and almost no chance of cooperation from Republicans as they smell weakness after a victory over a popular president.
Even if the health care bill succeeds, there are potential pitfalls. No doubt Obama would feel vindicated, and the achievement would be historic. But the GOP has pledged that approval of a health care overhaul over unified Republican objections would damage any chances for bipartisanship on other issues. Republicans hope Democrats will face fierce voter punishment in this fall's midterm elections.
And if Obama presides over major losses for his party in the elections, he'll be at another defining, perhaps devastating crossroads.
A look at Obama's past indicates how he might tackle such moments.
He is not inclined to believe the game is up — whether it's his own White House chances or the health initiative — even when it looks that way. His confidence, ambition and even temperament don't allow him to assume his goals are out of reach.
It's a valuable approach, for it breeds persistence. It's also risky, because focusing on the big picture can lead to tactical errors.
Most recently, many observers expected heads to roll when it appeared Emanuel was putting out word that the Obama presidency was stalled because Obama hadn't followed his advice enough. It was embarrassing, complete with whispers about who was saying what and how angry Obama must have been.
But if Obama was upset, no one was saying. Instead, at Obama's direction, White House aides said with convincing certainty that Emanuel's job was not in jeopardy — either over the stories or the president's larger troubles — and neither was anyone else's.
The White House team dug in. They bet the fuss would exhaust itself eventually, which it has.
Obama got himself in deep in the spring of 2008 when provocative comments by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, further roiled what was already a grinding primary season. Obama took almost too long to settle the situation with a highly regarded speech about race. Then Wright resurfaced and Obama lost ground again.
With each such misfortune, Obama rolls out a familiar pep talk. "If you allow the inside baseball of Washington to distract you, then you're not focusing on the goal," Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to Obama in the White House and a longtime friend, recounted in an interview. "He has no patience for gossip. He has no patience for drama."
If health care fails, or the elections go badly, most people will expect changes in his operation. And there may well be, around the edges.
But there's little chance the changes would amount to a wholesale shake-up, aides say. Obama set up his team the way he wanted it, with balanced skill sets, and that team is pursuing an agenda set by him.
Lately, the president has taken to refocusing his staff by pulling out one of the 10 letters from citizens that he reads each day. Jarrett recalls a recent Air Force One flight during which aides were busily dissecting the day's developments and "focused on the sausage-making." The president walked in, listened briefly, and then interjected to read one letter in its entirety.
"What's in today's papers is not the president's focus," longtime Democratic consultant Bob Shrum wrote in The Week magazine. "Obama takes the long view and plays a long game."
So White House advisers already are thinking about how they could recover from a health care failure, with an emerging plan that is typically optimistic. Their thinking:
—Obama would suffer a bad period but get credit, particularly from Democrats, for giving health care one last, aggressive chance. By November, voters might be upset that nothing changed and blame Republicans, not Obama. In this scenario, it would have been worse if Obama had let health care "wither on the vine" instead of giving it an all-out effort.
—While unemployment will remain near 10 percent into next year, the economic mood of the country — perhaps the biggest driver for voters — should begin improving as job-creation numbers tick up.
—Obama will continue to talk about his other big agenda items, like climate change legislation and an immigration overhaul, despite their long, perhaps impossible odds. But he'll focus primarily on populist issues like enacting tougher financial industry regulations and mitigating a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows unions and corporations to funnel unlimited dollars to political campaigns.
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