Tag: President Obama

Yawn…Another Day, Another Armed Man Outside A Townhall Meeting

Filed in National by on August 17, 2009 148 Comments

Things are getting crazy out there. For the third time in a week an armed citizen has been spotted outside a meeting where President Obama is going to speak on health care. A man is carrying an assault rifle and a pistol outside the VFW Convention in Phoenix where President Obama will speak later today, […]

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Damon Weaver Interviews President Obama

Filed in National by on August 14, 2009 8 Comments

This is an impressive interview — Damon Weaver is a 6th grader from a school in Florida whose claim to fame before now was his delightful interview with then Senator Biden — finally gets to interview the President. I thought many of his questions were smarter and more interesting than many I’ve heard at a WH Press Conference.

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Republican Jokester

Filed in National by on August 12, 2009 5 Comments
Republican Jokester

Finally, a Republican joke that’s both funny and original. Kudoos. h/t Newsbusters

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Happy Birthday, Mr. President

Filed in National by on August 4, 2009 20 Comments

On August 4, 1961, future president Barack Obama was born in Hawai’i. Place your birthday wishes below.

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Who’s Your Daddy?

Filed in National by on July 28, 2009 12 Comments

Housing prices climb for the first time in nearly three years.

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They Just Can’t Help Themselves

Filed in National by on July 23, 2009 38 Comments
They Just Can’t Help Themselves

Tea party activist and neurosurgeon Dr. David McKalip thinks a picture of Obama depicted as a witch doctor is “funny stuff.” He thought it was so great he sent it to his fellow tea partiers.

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Obama Calls It Like He Sees It

Filed in National by on July 23, 2009 125 Comments
Obama Calls It Like He Sees It

President Obama commented last night on the Henry Gates arrest a few days ago in Cambridge. Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that […]

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Obama’s NAACP Speech

Filed in National by on July 18, 2009 1 Comment

Video of President Obama’s July 16 speech to the NAACP celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding.

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What’s Got The Right Wing In An Uproar This Time?

Filed in International by on July 11, 2009 56 Comments
What’s Got The Right Wing In An Uproar This Time?

It’s this photo: OMG! He’s so evil! He’s checking totally checking out her rear end. I guess the news that John Ensign had to have his buddies drive him to FedEx to send a letter to his girlfriend and had his mommy and daddy pay off her family has put Republicans over the edge. But […]

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Fixing The Health Care Bill

Filed in National by on June 28, 2009 13 Comments

Ezra Klein has an idea… Health reform, remember, is a long game. The Senate Finance Committee will not write the health reform bill. They will just write their version of it. Then it will merge with the HELP Committee’s version. Then it will be amended on the floor of the Senate. Then it will be […]

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Foreign Policy Idiots

Filed in International, National by on June 17, 2009 13 Comments

A number of our inane right wing commenters last night decided to make the protests in Iran a partisan issue, and they began to attack President Obama for what they see is inaction regarding the events in Iran. I will have the President respond before I do: Well, I think first of all, it’s important […]

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President’s Town Hall Meeting on Health Care

Filed in National by on June 13, 2009 0 Comments

President Obama went to Wisonsin this week to conduct a Town Hall discussing efforts to fix the health care system.  This is abit over an hour long, but worth watching if you’ve only seen clips (the one where he gives the young woman a note for school seemed to be the news): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvFqTVal_f0[/youtube] I hope […]

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Can Hate Talk Lead To Murder?

Filed in National by on June 12, 2009 61 Comments

Well, let’s face it… it doesn’t help. Joan Walsh at Salon ponders the point.  Read the whole thing.  It’s a thoughtful, careful piece and well worth your time. The range of crazy ideas about Obama is broad and wide: He’s a secret Muslim, he’s going to take our guns, he’s even the anti-Christ! James von […]

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