http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Ohio Wed, 22 May 2013 01:15:52 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Ohio Tue, 21 May 2013 17:42:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71f_1369171810 AfricanZuluKing MOUNT VERNON, Ohio - A man accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and suspected in the disappearance of her mother, brother and a family friend was scheduled to be in court on Tuesday, as investigators dug deeper into his past. Hoffman, 30, was charged with kidnapping and raping Sarah Maynard. The 13-year-old was removed from Hoffman's Columbus Road home after authorities swarmed the location on Sunday morning. Knox County Sheriff David Barber said that Maynard was released from a hospital and was at home with family members. Investigators did not elaborate what led them to Hoffman's home but his parents have a house on Apple Valley Drive in nearby Howard, Ohio, the same street where Maynard disappeared, along with her brother, Kody Maynard, 11, mother Tina Herrmann, 32, and family friend Stephanie Sprang, 41, 10TV News reported. Hoffman's mother said her son occasionally had mail sent to her address but he has not lived at her home in two years. She described her son as a "loner" and that she last saw him on Nov. 7, four days before investigators believe he abducted Maynard. Hoffman was convicted in 2000 of setting fire to a Colorado condo complex that forced 16 people to be evacuated, 10 Investigates' Paul Aker reported. Investigators said he used 10 gallons of gasoline to set fire to the Steamboat Springs building in an effort to cover up a burglary he committed there. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, where he was disciplined for refusing to work, damaging property and assault, Aker reported. After being released from prison he came to Knox County in 2007 and was able to obtain a $30,000 mortgage but it was unclear how he paid the bills. While on parole, Hoffman was ordered to make payments for the $2 million in damage to the condos, but records showed he only paid about $5,000. State records showed Hoffman was on parole supervision until October, Aker reported. Hoffman's neighbors said that he moved into the five-bedroom home about a year ago. They said that he lived alone and had a history of strange behavior that made them uncomfortable. "At first, (Hoffman) seemed like he was OK," said Donna Davis, his next door neighbor. "Then, I started making my kids come in when he was outside." Davis told 10TV's Glenn McEntyre that initially, Hoffman seemed more odd than menacing. "He was a weirdo," Davis said. "If you look back here in the tree, there's a hammock where he would sit and watch people. He's just different. He would always walk over to the gravel pit with bags and sometimes not bring them back. Sometimes he would." The former gravel pit that Davis mentioned is now known as Foundation Park, a few blocks from Hoffman's home, and was the site of an extensive search on Monday. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71f_1369171810 AfricanZuluKing White <span class="highlight">Ohio</span> Pedophile Serial Killer Arrested. Charged With Terrorism Ohio, Pedophile, Serial Killer, Arson, Terrorism, Murders, Tue, 21 May 2013 11:09:47 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f9_1369147062 pheenus I often tend to be rather critical of LEOs. Sometimes it's the result of past run-ins with the law (I have, at times, engaged in some light criminality), other times for their overzealous enforcement of outdated and Draconian laws prohibiting the growth, sale and posession of the plant cannabis sativa, but mostly for the increasing militarization of forces all over the world. But I digress. This video I saw last night softened my heart to them. And I know that's entirely irrational, and that my dislike for cops in general is mostly irrational, but at the same time I was struck by how genuine these guys seemed, and how humble they were in the face of their heroism. Sometimes I like being reminded of the obvious, that cops are people too. Clip is cut from a documentary entitled 'Ohio Slave Girls: Their Story' produced by England's Channel 5. All credit where it is due. DMCA 'Fair Use' notice - This content is posted under the Fair Use provision(s) in accordancewith DMCA as well as other applicable laws, and the provisions for FairUse set forth under said law(s). I do not seek monetary gain from sharing this content with my fellow LiveLeakers, I only seek to educate. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f9_1369147062 pheenus Officers get emotional while describing saving the girls kept as sextoys by Ariel Castro. cops, are, people, too, ohio, slave girls, ariel castro, Sun, 19 May 2013 00:30:22 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=47a_1368932998 LethalMutation May 17 2013 - The fight between two women in the Ohio Valley Mall parking lot has come famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view. The video on YouTube has gone viral. Mall shoppers gathered at the guard rail, taking pictures of an accident scene, and a female mall security officer insisted no pictures are allowed. Tempers flared, and the security officer and one shopper ended up fighting it out on the ground. Sheriff Dave Lucas says nobody on either side did what they should have done with their cell phones. Lucas says many people were standing around for quite a while, but no one called the authorities. He says, finally, a person driving by saw what happened, stopped, and called 911. His department has investigated the incident and has forwarded their report to the prosecutor. LINK http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=47a_1368932998 LethalMutation <span class="highlight">Ohio</span> Valley Mall Security fight UPDATE: Sheriff makes statement. mall, Ohio, Valley, security, sheriff, fight, women, female, woman, biker, camera, vs, people, photos, pictures, video, videotaped, assault, battery, cat, authority, rental, cop, private, property, Cartman Sat, 18 May 2013 19:45:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=217_1368920556 elsonnyblack "This Ohio Valley Mall "Security Officer" tries to get people to stop taking pictures and leave the property. When they don't listen to her request, she starts making threats about "pressing charges" and taking their cameras away. She then goes a step further and attacks one of the people, ending up on the ground." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=217_1368920556 elsonnyblack FIGHT: <span class="highlight">Ohio</span> Valley Mall Security VS People Taking Pictures FIGHT,Ohio Valley Mall ,Security VS People ,police fight, Sat, 18 May 2013 00:28:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd7_1368850109 livelurked During last week's accident in which a semi plunged into a ravine near the Ohio Valley Mall, a scuffle broke out between a mall security guard and a woman taking photos of the accident. Mall Director of Corporate Communications, Joe Bell, told WTRF on Monday that the fight occurred on mall property and the security guard was doing her job and was explaining to the woman that no pictures were allowed on mall property when the fight broke out. Bell added no one was charged in the incident. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd7_1368850109 livelurked <span class="highlight">Ohio</span> valley mall security VS people taking pictures OHIO, SECURITY, MALL Sat, 18 May 2013 14:27:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ea_1368901327 Kostas Babas The fight between two women in the Ohio Valley Mall parking lot has come famous, or infamous, depending on your point of view. The video on YouTube has gone viral. Mall shoppers gathered at the guard rail, taking pictures of an accident scene, and a female mall security officer insisted no pictures are allowed. Tempers flared, and the security officer and one shopper ended up fighting it out on the ground. Sheriff Dave Lucas says nobody on either side did what they should have done with their cell phones. Lucas says many people were standing around for quite a while, but no one called the authorities. He says, finally, a person driving by saw what happened, stopped, and called 911. His department has investigated the incident and has forwarded their report to the prosecutor. http://www.wtrf.com/story/22270249/sheriff-says-no-one-at-scene-of-mall-brawl-called-police Mall Director of Corporate Communications, Joe Bell, told WTRF on Monday that the fight occurred on mall property and the security guard was doing her job and was explaining to the woman that no pictures were allowed on mall property when the fight broke out. Bell added no one was charged in the incident. http://www.wtrf.com/story/22233945/mall-security-guard-accident-onlooker-scuffle http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ea_1368901327 Kostas Babas <span class="highlight">Ohio</span> valley mall security - different camera security, guard, officer, mall, Mon, 20 May 2013 22:19:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08e_1369102667 Detroit Iron by JOHN NOLTE 20 May 2013, 1:06 PM PDT Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party targeting took place.According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building. ABC says if the intent wasn't to "scare off" employees who might talk, " it was the effect ." ABC News is also hearing conflicting reports from Cincinnati IRS employees and the IRS Headquarters in Washington. A Washington spokesman told ABC that press queries are "referred to the press office," but that "people have First Amendment rights, they are entitled to speak." An employee in OH said that is not the case and that staffers have been threatened with their jobs if they are caught talking to the media: At the IRS office on the fourth floor, a woman who answered the buzzer referred reporters to officials in Washington, though they were not returning very many calls. That staffer also said she was not allowed to speak to anyone - a line that was repeated by agency personnel during the week. IRS headquarters in Washington denied that a no-talk rule was official policy because, after all, agency staffers still have a constitutional right to talk to whomever they want. ... Not so, said IRS folks in Ohio. One of them, who asked not be named, told ABC News that security guards did remind employees of the official policy not to talk with the press - a warning cemented by the punch line "or risk losing our jobs." The Obama administration's Culture of Intimidation knows no bounds, apparently. Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/20/Armed-Police-Follow-Reporters-IRS-Employees-Scared-Off-From-Talking http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08e_1369102667 Detroit Iron IRS SCANDAL: ARMED POLICE 'ESCORT' REPORTERS THROUGH CINCINNATI OFFICE IRS Sat, 18 May 2013 22:04:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=344_1368928901 TheAnswer CLEVELAND -- The man who beat his former girlfriend with a hammer while their children slept across the hall has been sentenced to 14 years in jail. Seven months ago, John Whitfield locked his ex-girlfriend in her room, then went in with pepper spray and a hammer. He blinded her with the spray and then beat her repeatedly in the head with the hammer. White woman nearing a bachelor's degree in Ohio beaten savagely by the black boyfriend and father of their children &gt;Leidy, due to the beatings, has limited ability to speak. She recently re-learned how to walk and do basic skills. &gt;Because of the need for her constant supervision, Leidy's parents have moved in with her. &gt;While healing is still a long road ahead, Leidy is proficient with a computer, along with texting, and intends to return to Cleveland State University to finish her degree. http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/2997... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=344_1368928901 TheAnswer 14 years for beating White girlfriend with a hammer Murder, Wife Abuse, Hammer attack, Spousal Abuse, Sociopath Sat, 18 May 2013 08:07:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cfb_1368878466 Detroit Iron Once government is ensnared in every aspect of life, a bureaucracy grows increasingly capricious. By Mark Steyn Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who "incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity." Oddly enough, in recent days the most compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the president himself, who insists with a straight face that he had no idea that the Internal Revenue Service had spent two years targeting his political enemies until he "learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this." Like you, all he knows is what he reads in the papers. Which is odd, because his Justice Department is bugging those same papers, so you'd think he'd at least get a bit of a heads-up. But no doubt the fact that he's wiretapping the Associated Press was also entirely unknown to him until he read about it in the Associated Press. There is a "president of the United States" and a "government of the United States," but, despite a certain superficial similarity in their names, they are entirely unrelated, like Beyonc'e Knowles and Admiral Sir Charles Knowles. One golfs, reads the prompter, parties with Jay-Z, and guests on the Pimp with a Limp show, and the other audits you, bugs your telephone line, and leaks your confidential tax records. But they're two completely separate sinister entities. So it's preposterous to describe Obama as Nixonian: Beyonc'e wouldn't have given Nixon the time of day.If you believe this, there's a shovel-ready infrastructure project in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. In April last year, the Obama campaign identified by name eight Romney donors as "a group of wealthy individuals with less than reputable records. Quite a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them." That week, Kimberley Strassel began her Wall Street Journal column thus: Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check. Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. . . . The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money. Miss Strassel wrote that on April 26, 2012. Five weeks later, one of the named individuals, Frank VanderSloot, was informed by the IRS that he and his wife were being audited. In July, he was told by the Department of Labor of an additional audit over the guest workers on his cattle ranch in Idaho. In September, he was notified that one of his other businesses was to be audited. Mr. VanderSloot, who had never previously been audited, attracted three in the four months after being publicly named by el Presidente . More to the point he attracted that triple audit even though Miss Strassel explicitly predicted in America's biggest-selling newspaper that this was exactly what the Obama enforcers were going to do. The "separate, sinister entity" of the government of the United States went ahead anyway. What do they care? If some lippy broad in the papers won't quit her yapping about it, they can always audit her, too - as they did to Miss Strassel's sometime colleague Anne Hendershott, a sociology professor who got rather too interested in Obamacare and wrote about it in the Journal and various small Catholic publications. The IRS summoned Professor Hendershott to account for herself, and forbade her husband from accompanying her, even though they filed jointly. She ceased her political writing. A year after he was named to the Obama Dishonor Roll, the feds have found nothing on Mr. VanderSloot, but they have caused him to rack up 80 grand in legal bills. This is what IRS defenders (of whom there are more than there ought to be) mean when they assure us that the system worked: Yes, some rich guy had to blow through the best part of six figures fending off the bureaucrats, but it's not like his body was found in a trunk at the airport or anything, if you know what I mean, Kimmy baby. Mr. VanderSloot is big enough, just about, to see off the most powerful government on the planet. Most of those who've caught the eye of the IRS share nothing in common with him other than his political preferences. They're nobodies - ordinary American citizens guilty of no crime except that of disagreeing with the ruling party. Yet they were asked, under "penalty of perjury," to disclose the names of books they were reading and provide the names and addresses of relatives who might be planning to run for public office - a kind of pre-enemies list. Is that banana-republic enough for you yet? Not apparently for Juan Williams, fired from NPR for thought crime a couple of years ago, but who was nevertheless energetically defending the IRS exertions on Fox News on Thursday evening. Left-wing groups had their 501(c)(4) applications approved in weeks, right-wing groups were delayed for months and years and ordered to cough up everything from donor lists to Facebook posts, and those right-wing groups that were approved had their IRS files leaked to left-wing groups like ProPublica. The agency's commissioner, a slippery weasel called Steven Miller, conceded before Congress that this was "horrible customer service" - which it was in the sense that your call is important to him and may be monitored by George Soros for quality control.A civil "civil service" requires small government. Once government is ensnared in every aspect of life a bureaucracy grows increasingly capricious. The U.S. tax code ought to be an abomination to any free society, but the American people have become reconciled to it because of a complex web of so-called exemptions that massively empower the vast shadow state of the permanent bureaucracy. Under a simple tax system, your income is a legitimate tax issue. Under the IRS, everything is a legitimate tax issue: The books you read, the friends you recommend them to. There are no correct answers, only approved answers. Drew Ryun applied for permanent non-profit status for a group called "Media Trackers" in July 2011. Fifteen months later, he'd heard nothing. So he applied again under the eco-friendly name of "Greenhouse Solutions," and was approved in three weeks. The president and the IRS commissioner are unable to name any individual who took the decision to target only conservative groups. It just kinda sorta happened, and, once it had, it growed like Topsy. But the lady who headed that office, Sarah Hall Ingram, is now in charge of the IRS office for Obamacare. Many countries around the world have introduced government health systems since 1945, but, as I wrote here last year, "only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine." So now not only are your books and Facebook posts legitimate tax issues but so is your hernia, and your prostate, and your erectile dysfunction. Next time round, the IRS will be able to leak your incontinence pads to George Soros. Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It's great "customer service," except that you can never get out of the store. - Mark Steyn , a National Review columnist, is the author of After America: Get Ready for Armageddon . (c) 2013 Mark Steyn http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348687/autocrat-accountants-mark-steyn/page/0/1 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cfb_1368878466 Detroit Iron The Autocrat Accountants Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Justice Department, SEC Fri, 17 May 2013 10:53:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1368801649 AntiPropagaanda It wasn't easy, finding Jim Traficant. Without the help of the American Free Press, (AFP), we never would have found him. Traficant of Youngstown Ohio was running for his old Congressional seat. What sort of campaign could he be running? After all, we'd seen the Greta von Susteren Fox News interview (Sept. 9, 2009, just a few days after Traficant was released from prison). Here's some of what Traficant had said, "I believe that Israel has a powerful strangle hold on the American government. They control...the House and Senate. They have us involved in wars of which we have little or no interest. Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars, and if you open your mouth, you get targeted. And if they don't beat you at the polls, they'll put you in prison... It's an objective assessment that no one will have the courage to speak about. They're controlling much of our foreign policy. They're influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as Under Secretary of Defense manipulated President Bush #2 back into Iraq. They pushed definitely, definitely to try and get Bush, before he left, to move into Iran. We're conducting expansionist policy of Israel and everybody's afraid to say it. They control much of the media..." WAS IT POSSIBLE somewhere in Ohio someone could say such things and not be ostracized, denounced, trounced? Actually, no. There really was no campaign. Few in the political business dared have anything to do with him, donate to him, invite him, quote him. Only a maverick Tea Party organizer offered him an evening campaign event. Otherwise, the popular sheriff and then Congressman was pretty much shunned. And yet he came in a close third on Nov.2, 2010, with over 30,000 votes. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=42d_1368801649 AntiPropagaanda Israel Uses Us Like a Whore: Traficant United Slaves of America, Tax, Israel, War, Zionism. Fri, 17 May 2013 08:05:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b4_1368791955 WayneTautz READ THIS ON YAHOO NEWS TODAY FROM: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/17/syria-s-bashar-al-assad-is-winning.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29 Syria's Bashar Al-Assad is Winning by Mike Giglio May 17, 2013 4:45 AM EDT Obama isn't jumping in, and neither is anyone else. Combine that with a string of military victories, and Assad is looking stronger than he has in months. Mike Giglio on the dictator's next act. Despite President Obama's assertion on Thursday that he reserves "the options of taking additional steps, both diplomatic and military," foreign intervention in Syria seems a distant prospect, and that, along with a string of military successes, has fueled the perception that president Bashar al-Assad now has the upper hand in his country's bloody civil war. As Republican Sen. John McCain bluntly put it this week: "Right now, Bashar al-Assad is winning." Syrian troops celebrate as they take control of the village of Haydariyah, some seven kilometers outside the rebel-held city of Qusayr, on May 13, 2013. Syrian troops captured three villages in the strategic Qusayr area of Homs province, allowing them to cut supply lines to rebels inside Qusayr town, a military officer told AFP. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty) During the last few months, the Syrian military have retaken strategic areas across the country, reopening supply lines in the north and south while ramping up its offensive in the western city of Homs, a critical gateway between Damascus and the coast. Assad's forces have also reinforced their strongholds in Damascus and elsewhere while weathering what rebels had billed as a major offensive in the capital. Now Assad-whose impending demise was predicted by opponents both at home and abroad after rebels brought the war to Damascus and the commercial capital of Aleppo this summer-seems to be enjoying some unexpected momentum. On his visit to Washington this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the idea of the rebels resolving the conflict by force "is not looking promising." Cameron and the Obama administration, meanwhile, have renewed calls for a diplomatic solution in Syria-showing that despite pressure to act on Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, America and its allies "aren't going anywhere in a rush," says Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute in London. "This is the best month has had in a while," Joshi says. "Undoubtedly, we underestimated his resilience." But while Assad's recent success may show his staying power, analysts tracking the conflict say it also signals that he has scaled back his goals-from retaking full control of Syria to simply keeping the balance tilted his way in a brutal and drawn out war. Assad's forces have moved "from a counter-insurgency strategy to one that recognizes that they are in a civil war," says Joseph Holliday, a fellow at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC and former U.S. Army intelligence officer. The shift would mean that Assad is abandoning his bid to crush the rebellion and concentrating instead on the war's vital fronts-which may have sparked the recent surge in tactical gains. "The regime just decided to stop contesting parts of the country," Holliday says. "What they're doing is saying we are going to focus our resources on areas that are strategically important to us." Assad may have the advantage in waging this type of war. While his military has been badly weakened, it still has the ability to control its strongholds-and to keep the rebels out-gunned. Assad's two main allies, Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, have been keeping Assad well-supplied, with the latter reportedly sending fighters to critical areas like Homs and the former providing military trainers and arms. Assad has also reinforced his ranks with paramilitary groups. The rebels, on the other hand, remain hampered by internal divisions and unreliable support, which they piece together from private donors and allies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. "It's just not as consistent or as clear as what the regime is getting from Iran on a daily basis," Holliday says. "As this becomes a conflict of warring militias, the reality is that the regime and its militias are going to be the biggest ones out there for a very long time." Some analysts warn that as the war heads down this path, it will become more sectarian-fears that spiked after reports of mass killings by Assad forces earlier this month in the coastal province of Tartous. The victims were from the country's Sunni majority; Assad hails from the Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam that makes up 12 percent of Syria's population but forms the backbone of his support. Iran and Hezbollah, both Shiite, see Assad as a bulwark against Sunni influence. "He's now entering phase two of his campaign," says Michael Weiss, a Syria analyst and columnist with NOW Lebanon. "A conventional military campaign is being replaced by an Iranian-funded and trained sectarian militia, backed by Hezbollah." "This is the best month has had in a while." There are many areas of Syria, Weiss notes, that seem lost to Assad-such as Aleppo and the northwestern province of Idlib, which borders Turkey and has been a crucial rebel supply route. "The regime can't 'win' all of Syria," Weiss says. "But it can and will retake that vital corridor from Damascus to Homs to the coast to keep a supply-chain running between the capital and Lebanon, and to keep the ports and regional airports operational for resupplies from Russia and Iran." The Obama administration has argued that a political solution is the best way to end the conflict-and both America and Russia, which has backed Assad throughout the uprising, are putting their weight behind a peace conference to be held in Geneva next month. (A similar conference last year put forward a peace plan that both sides have ignored.) The Syrian opposition has demanded that Assad step down as part of any negotiated transition. But Amr al-Azm, a professor at Shawnee State University in Ohio and former adviser to the Syrian government, says Assad seems intent on forging ahead-and may even be eyeing the presidential elections scheduled for next year. "Their position is not going to change because the regime's own calculus has changed," he says. "Six months ago their idea of victory was to crush the opposition. Now it's probably the survival of Bashar al-Assad until 2014." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b4_1368791955 WayneTautz US News Reports - Syria's Bashar Al-Assad is Winning Syria, News, civil war, assad, fsa Fri, 17 May 2013 05:43:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=545_1368783199 buoymarker http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/chris-matthews-sours-on-obama-164095.html President Obama "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch," Chris Matthews said tonight. Yes, you read that right: The MSNBC host who in 2008 felt a " thrill going up my leg " after hearing Obama speak has grown disenchanted. Tonight's episode of Hardball saw Matthews delivering a rare, unforgiving grilling of the president as severe as anything that might appear on Fox News. ( Watch POLITICO Junkies: Obama's week of damage control ) "What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn't like dealing with other politicians -- that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn't particularly like the press.... He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft," Matthews said. "So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere," Matthews continued. "But what part does he like? He doesn't like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn't like selling to the press. He doesn't like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn't seem to like being an executive." I agree to the terms and conditions this is for information content http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=545_1368783199 buoymarker Chris Matthews sours on Obama thrill is gone, chris mathews, obama, executive, failure