January 9th, 2011: Giffords can open her eyes, but because she is on a ventilator she can’t speak, said Rhee.
(Oddly gone this morning) Here’s an alternate link … or here.
January 12, 2011: President Barack Obama says that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has opened her eyes for the first time since being shot through the head on Saturday.
The president says it happened a few minutes after he left her hospital room Wednesday evening.

I sense the dormant messianic hysteria may be coming back to life — watch out, world, a weary beast slouches.
The president says it happened a few minutes after he left her hospital room Wednesday evening.
There really is nothing that he can’t do!!!!!!
Oops.
The opportunism is going to new levels – which miracle will be fabricated next?
unbelievable….
The first few posts over at The Corner are highly complimentary about Obama’s speech. One says “magnificant performance”.
That’s a radically different take from most SDA commenters. I didn’t hear or read the speech, and won’t.
Sick.
I heard that once Obamba left the hospital room the rain stopped, the clouds parted, and a ray of brilliant light beamed through the opening and bathed him in all the glory of Richard Dawkins.
Jesus opens the eyes of Jarius’ daughter, I believe it. It is truly a miracle.
Obama claims Giffords has opened her eyes after his visit with her, I call pig crap.
What was that part in the Bible, something about beware of false prophets?
Isn’t that the vein of this “miraculous” event?
“That happened a couple of days ago,” the first thing I said to myself when I heard some CNN dink repeat Obama’s claim of healing scrofula in Giffords.
Looks like that somehow must have slipped by the legions of fact checkers and editors at AP. Innocent mistake.
Of course she opened her eyes AFTER he left. She kept them closed while he was there so she wouldn’t have to talk to that pretentious pond scum now pretending to be President.
I actually think I saw obamba’s image in my toast this morning.
All is now forgiven for all the campaign promises he never kept. It was really for our own good, because like god allowing the weak to suffer, obamba allows everyone to suffer so that they can know his greater meaning at a later time.
So, even while giving a speech to a memorial gathering for the recently departed, Obama Lies.
I listened to part of the speech that Mark Levin cut to during his 3rd hour of the program tonight, Mark’s only said a couple of real comments, like, “it’s a good speech”, not wanting to interrupt the speech at every sentence. If Obama spoke regarding the 9 years old girl, that was while an advertisement was being played, But Mark couldn’t see those T-shirts on the seats either, he apparently didn’t think or know of the Sonora Chronicle article mentioning Rep. Giffords opened eyes… and in radio, once it’s out there, everyone’s heard it.
I wonder how Mark will see this tomorrow? My disclosure, I’m a Mark Levin fan.
It sounded to me like an ok speech, just “ok”, and I had few problems with it prior to reading Kate’s posted links (above). Thanks for fact checking this Kate.
… even though I despise the man, and everyone knows it.
Obama Lies.
Obama Lies.
I rarely use the term ‘LOL’ but having laughrd out loud twice in a row,I will. Joe,Knight99.a tip of the toque to yous.
Laughrd = laughed,yous=Detroit.
The shooter and obama hear the same voices and apparently see the same vistas……….both are delusional and sick.
Obama – POTUS and Tele-Evangelist. I wonder if Popoff (sp?) was his inspiration. Did you notice Gifford’s husband rubbing his chin after Obama said that he had his permission to share the good news – touching or rubbing the face is known as a “tell” indicating deception, clearly Mark Kelly was not comfortable with the charade.
Good work Kate – hope this info goes viral.
It’s a miracle.
I’ve been hearing the Bon Jovi song “Lay Your Hands on Me” ringing in my head ever since I read that story.
That may have something to do with a nasty accident I had when working with a high voltage transformer as a young man, or it just be may be that narcissism and 80’s cheeze go together really well.
It’s a miracle!
I’ve been hearing the Bon Jovi song “Lay Your Hands on Me” ringing in my head ever since I read that story.
That may have something to do with a nasty accident I had when working with a high voltage transformer as a young man, or it just be may be that narcissism and 80’s cheeze go together really well.
One of the female political pundits on CNN said that Obama should be a *pastor* to the nation today. Ministering to Americans. CNN, for the most part, is worshipful.
I hate being had!! And had I was, all teary eyed like millions of people. What a rotten scum-bag.
Kate, here is yet another link confirming your findings.
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/010911_giffords_condition
I wonder if Obamba is going to personally visit the gunman in jail and forgive him like Pope John Paul II did?
Either that or a little visit to one of the “Nobel Peace Prize” winners CIA black ops sites to help look for more Constitutional advocates “messen in his business”.
This thing just gets more disgusting by the minute. What a crass, sleazy, sordid affair.
BTW this thread was posted by Cjunk not Kate.
Thanks for posting this Cjunk.
I hope Rush rips B. Hussien a new asshole tomorrow. His old one seems to be bunged up with himself.
Sorry Cjunk for the mistake, excellent work – good eye and thanks for assisting in opening our eyes to Obama’s lies regarding his connecting his visit with the opening of not only Gifford’s eyes, but that of a nation (I’m thinking that is the symbolic connection he was trying to assert). Corny for sure, but I would not be surprised if some reporter uses something akin to that as a headline – probably over at ABC.
Thanks Syncrodox for the correction.
It’s true. Shortly after Obama left Gifford partially opened here eyes and spoke a brief sentence, “Is he gone yet?”
Another curiosity – Obama preached that we should live up to the wishes of the little girl who was murdered by singing the National Anthem with our hands over our hearts:http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp
C’mon guys, don’t expect a hustler from Chicago to turn into King Arthur overnight, if ever.
For him, the speech was a step up, which is good for everybody.
Cjunk, the page has been removed did you happen to take a screen shot?
I was shovelling snow and saw a likeness of obama, only it was yellow in color.
“I did wonder if it was a left-over Obominaion campaign speech.”
The Fragment:
>>> ““The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.””
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Fraud is the first thing that came to mind.
“The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.”
I didn’t see any plan. Just sugary phrases and vague notions. I did wonder if it was a left-over Obominaion campaign speech. I wouldn’t call the quoted paragraph Conservative or Liberal. It is the sort of nonsense one says to a 19 year old veggie to get her knickkers down. de-construct that Paragraph. When you are done, you have nothing.”
“I’d Love To Turn You On”
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/01/12/id-love-to-turn-you-on/#comments
They don’t call him the Obamessiah for nothing. /sarc
To quote a quote I recently heard, ” Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” -Albert Einstein
Come on – cut Barry some slack. Lets just say the first eye opening was a rehearsal.
I was had also. Now that I know about the campaign t-shirts and the January 9th eye opener -that’s it – I’m pissed – again.
Greater miracles are yet to come. Under Obamacare Giffords would be released from the hospital after three days.
Now that is funny!
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No one needs to be laughed at more than our dear leader.
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Memorial?
I kept waiting on someone to stand up and start chanting:
“Yes She Can!”
Democrats are diseased.
The rest of the story:
Giffords thought she had died and gone to hell.
C’mon 2012.
That frickin’ dog and pony show political rally instead of a “memorial” last night turned my stomach.
They are trying to make Tucson into Choco Jeebus’ OK City.
“It’s true. Shortly after Obama left Gifford partially opened here eyes and spoke a brief sentence, “Is he gone yet?”
Posted by: bour3 at January 13, 2011 3:18 AM ”
Not true.
What she said was “Smells like sulphur in here”
Here is a cached version of the web page that has been removed from the Sonoran Chronicl:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bkjADo9S7qcJ:sonoranchronicle.com/2011/01/09/giffords-survives-the-night-can-open-eyes/+Sonoran+chronicle+giffords&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
This ‘memorial’ was used by the Obama Gang as a campaign rally – right down to the Democratic-Blue T-shirts with his new slogan of ‘Together We Thrive’.
The audience of students, brainwashed into socialism, cheering for Obama – what kind of memorial ceremony was that?
Obama’s disgraceful linking of His Visit to Gifford and her ‘opening her eyes’ (she’s done so a day or two ago)…Pure Campaign Theatre for his self-image as a Messiah.
Obama’s patronizing chiding of ‘we must not attack others who disagree with us’ – sets up a polarizing frame of WE all think alike and those who think differently are not WE. But are Others. That polarization is typical Obama. He’s set up more adversarial differences than any president in memory: racial, religious, ethnic, class, political differences – Obama uses them all to divide and conquer the population.
Will this new campaign strategy, the Blue Democrat slogan of ‘Together We Thrive’ – will it work? I’m going to say: No. America isn’t just a world of fictional rhetoric and campaigns. It is grounded in reality – and Obama, all his life, ignores reality. Can he continue to do so?
He can; he’s trapped in fiction and rhetoric. But the world can’t…and I think that reality is stronger than fiction.
“Image of him in my toast” definitely is the winner today.
The attempt by the media to rekindle an Obama worship atmosphere is despicable.
Yes, I find it disturbing that so many pundits—Krauthammer, writers at The Corner, Paul at Power Line, and now, Mark Levin—are saying it was a good speech. That HRH Obama was willing to debase the memories of the dead and the integrity of the wounded and their famiies in this circus atmosphere disqualified His speech from any credibility it might have had. (I don’t think there’s anything about the man that would fit the words “integrity” and “credibility”. If He looks like He’s got either, remember, it’s only an act: He’s wearing a smiley-face mask over a twisted and duplicitous smirk.)
The so-called “Memorial service” was opportunistic theatre from beginning to end. And, it had the usual Obama whopper, re the miracle of the opening eyes: a metaphor for “I am the bringer of light and enlightenment” from the Liar in Chief.
This speech has to be taken in the context of Obama’s record of lies, thuggery, crass opportunism, and—I could go on. Just watching Him basking in the grotesque cheering of the crowd before the “service” began was enough to put up my hackles: my antennae were already way up. Seeing Obama on His high horse is an ugly sight. He needs to be knocked off. (For the small and literal minded, that’s a political metaphor.) How is it that these journalists, who should know better, have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by this charlatan? I can see them admitting that the speech was candy to and good campaign strategy re the Left and useful idiots. But to give it a pass on its own merits . . . I’ll be checking out the commentary today to see what’s being said. Maybe after some sober second thought, there may be some reconsideration.
I recant. Congress is exempt from Obamacare. She would spend more than 3 days in the hospital.
I never watched. I made the comment on the CBC thread that if he showed up with the teleprompter I was gone. After I saw the SDA shot of the T-shirts I knew it was a teleprompter night and BS would ensue.
Cjunk, thanks for the post, RSP thanks for the cache. I wonder how her eye opening coincided with her being taken out of her medically-induced coma. Interesting how that headline disappeared down the memory hole.
I saw the speech. To be honest, it does not matter when eyes were opened because it was a 30 second interlude in a 34 minute speech and was not even pertinent to the theme of the speech. This speech just got Obama re-elected for another 4 years. His populatrity has increased substantially and with the improvement in the US economy, he is on his way to a 2 term presidency. The republicans are going to have to hope for the economy to fail and they are going to have to find a real contender to take on Obama. That’s just being realistic.
I saw the speech and it was okay, but the overlying tone was Obama’s narcissism. I think he, like his zealots really believes that he is the Messiah.
Sheriff Dickhead has confirmed that Obamugabe waved a small bag containing Kenyan charms, First nations medicine powders, and Mexican magic items over all the wounded victims and most of them then floated about six inches above their beds until he left.