President Barack Obama signs the 3 month extension of the Highway bill in the Oval Office. President Obama signed the bill into law to extend transportation funding until October 29, but said that short term extensions are a bad way for the U.S. government to do business
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.@CNN stop replaying completely irrelevant video: You are providing false context & running a marketing campaign for a murderer. #Ferguson
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 16, 2025
.@imomi12598 Please disabuse yourself of the notion that my purpose on earth is to tuck ignorance in at night. #ViolenceIncites #Ferguson
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 16, 2025
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1/3 We have every right & reason to be suspicious of police conduct in #Ferguson & generally. That must be acknowledged & respected if we’re
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 17, 2025
2/3 to have productive dialogue. That doesn’t however, entitle us to our own facts. Ask questions. Get answers. Demand transparency.
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 17, 2025
3/3 Consider realities harsher than your own. None of us, are all of us. What happened matters, every time. #ReserveJudgementNotJustice
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.@Aroww333 You’re not even wearing a shirt, which makes this exchange challenging.
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) August 17, 2025
All of you vile, incurious, justify-anything, white supremacist cowards need to miss me w/ the bullshit & unfollow, forthwith. #Ferguson
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President Barack Obama speaks about the economy at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. President Barack Obama envisions a time when cars will be able to talk with other cars or with America’s roads. He says such technology could prevent crashes, cut down on traffic and save gasoline.
President Barack Obama is given a tour of vehicles equipted with V2I technology by Joe Peters while at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia
President Barack Obama looks over his shoulder while driving a simulator
It's time for Congress to reauthorize funding to rebuild our roads & bridges: go.wh.gov/4czkeK #RebuildAmerica http://t.co/BYaPeRZiTB
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 14, 2025“This shouldn’t be a partisan issue. Republicans, Democrats, Independents; everybody uses our roads.” —Obama http://t.co/KUdTPapwr9
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 15, 2025
David Yang, human factors team leader, shows President Barack Obama a vehicle simulator during his tour of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
President Barack Obama is given a tour of the Saxton Transportation Operations
President Barack Obama greets employees after speaking about the economy at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
"The American people have to demand that folks in Washington do their job. Do something. That’s my big motto for Congress." —President Obama
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 15, 2025Good infrastructure has a ripple effect:
Job creation ✓
Less road congestion ✓
More reliable travel times ✓ http://t.co/dhzBo2Whfp
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Vice President Biden (@VP) July 15, 2025
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chief Operating Officer David Chavern, speaks in the Rose Garden to urge Congress to pass a federal highway bill
….. with David Chavern and AFL-CIO President and member of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Richard Trumka
I haven’t made this up, honest - even though it sounds like something you’d read in The Onion. I’m not going to link this nonsense, but if you want yet more evidence of how desperate and idiotic these people are, read on.
A Washington radio station (which proudly carries Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity’s shows) interviewed a spokesman for The Governors Highway Safety Association regarding a 0.4 percent increase in pedestrian deaths in the first half of 2010 - the station’s report on its website claimed that “the First Lady’s program to get Americans to be more active could be partly responsible”!
The spokesman, Jonathan Adkins, said that Michelle Obama is “trying to get us to walk to work and exercise a little bit more. While that’s good, it also increases our exposure to risk”.
So, there you are, by encouraging people to exercise, the First Lady is actually sending them to their deaths. Does that mean her Let’s Move campaign is actually a dastardly plot to kill Americans?
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