February 18, 2010, Obama is an empty suit/celebrity meme (in the form of Obama = Captain Teleprompter) being bandied about by all hat no cattle conservatives was still worth mention. The Conservative Political Action Conference opened Thursday morning in Washington, and one leitmotif has emerged as an early favorite: noting that President Obama likes...
Read more →Yglesias believes the historic passing of Health care reform cements Obama’s place as one of the finest Presidents in history. Now that it’s done, Barack Obama will go down in history as one of America’s finest presidents. It’s always possible of course that, like LBJ, he’ll get involved in some unrelated fiasco that mars his...
Read more →photo credit: The Jewish Agency for Israel Those pesky in-laws always show up at the worst time, don’t they? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi on Wednesday called U.S. President Barack Obama an anti-Semite in an interview with Army Radio. “It’s not that Obama doesn’t like Bibi,” he referring to Netanyahu using...
Read more →Liberals smell a rat in the White House! How dare Obama say this! How dare it! President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some...
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Read more →My favorite week of his administration since the inauguration.
Read more →More of this open and fair debate please. A clear win for the President.
Read more →State of the Union needs to clarify the current position of the president with regards to health care. Harry Reid’s position: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stressed Tuesday there was “no rush” to complete and pass a healthcare bill in the coming days or weeks. via Reid: ‘No rush’ to finish healthcare – The...
Read more →Before some wing nut complains that Secretary of State Clinton made a statement about the Earthquake in Haiti faster than President Obama made about the failed Christmas Day attack?
Read more →I am officially not offended by the meaning of Harry Reid’s statement. As progressive who would like for the majority leader of the most exclusive club to make more new progressive laws than news, I am offended by the impolitic nature of this statement.* He was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that...
Read more →Krugman discusses the differences between candidates Obama and Clinton. But that says more about the complainers than it does about Obama himself. If you actually paid attention to the substance of what he was saying during the primary, you realized that (a) There wasn’t a lot of difference among the major Democratic contenders (b)...
Read more →The Tree was “Fired Up, Ready To Go” Originally uploaded by The White House President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Edith Childs, from Greenwood, S.C., in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, during a holiday party, Dec. 4, 2009. Childs coined the campaign slogan “fired up, ready to go.”...
Read more →This is fun: “Don’t take it personally” is what petty Joe Lieberman says in response to Franken not letting him have the floor to spew bullsh*t. Meanwhile open enrollment season has personally brought 9 to 20+% increase to health insurance premiums. Lieberman’s daddy John McCain had Lieberman’s back and talked about the “comity” of...
Read more →Barack Obama will announce this escalation in Afghanistan eight days before picking up his Nobel Peace Prize In Oslo. via FDL News Desk » Obama’s Tuesday Speech To Have A Non-Exit, Non-Strategic Exit Strategy.
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