“I choose to fight. Stand and fight, stand and fight!”
– John McCain
Conservatives had it easy for several decades. The Democratic left of the ’70s and ’80s was in full retreat, convinced by the Reagan revolution that they had no serious place in the American political spectrum. Occasionally there were flashpoints, like Ted Kennedy being so [...]
Barack Obama News
Fightin’
October 21st, 2009
64 Comments
Obama Pops In At Elementary School In Silver Spring
October 19th, 2009
17 Comments
Link
The First Reader stopped by the cafeteria at Viers Mill School, where Mr. Obama admitted to having read Harry Potter books (with his daughter, Malia), but not the Goosebumps series of children’s horror books that are apparently a favorite of many of the kids at the school.
President Obama visits a Washington-area school.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Viers [...]
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Obama Jokes @ Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner
June 19th, 2009
4 Comments
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Barack Obama Explains Why He Rarely Goes On Fox News
June 16th, 2009
20 Comments
Fox News spends the entire day trying to delegitimize the president then they wonder why he doesn’t come on to grovel at their feet.
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For Now, America Isn’t Buying From The Crazy Store
April 5th, 2009
11 Comments
Conservative response to the North Korea missile launch:
“Especially in light of the North Korean launch, I thought his speech was otherworldly,” said John Bolton, the conservative former Ambassador to the United Nations under President Bush. “What is he saying about the real, concrete threat from proliferant states like North Korea and Iran? We’ll take you [...]
Obama Wants To Block AIG Bonuses
March 16th, 2009
85 Comments
On the job.
“This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed.
Under these circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at AIG warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?
In the last [...]
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Inauguration Live Thread
January 20th, 2009
29 Comments
Making Fun Of Obama, Chris Rock Style
January 19th, 2009
55 Comments
At some points there will be stuff to make fun of about Obama. There always is, when it comes to presidents.
CNN: I watched the special last night, and I noticed that you did a lot of jokes about John McCain — his age, his war hero story — but not so many about Barack Obama. [...]
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Obama Official Presidential Portrait Released
January 14th, 2009
14 Comments
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Ready, Aim, Democrats!
January 8th, 2009
13 Comments
The Democratic party just won a historic election, taking control of the White House and increasing its margins in the House and Senate – so of course its time for the Dems to do what they do when they get in power: Tear down the leader of the party and leave him open to Republican [...]
Lemme Be The First To Ask…
January 7th, 2009
46 Comments
Barack Obama: Great president, or GREATEST president?
Heh.
Hawaii Matters
December 27th, 2008
3 Comments
A couple of years ago when I visited Hawaii for the first time, I was struck by its relative isolation from the rest of America. There are all the obvious geographic obstacles, but in addition to that, outside of vacation time people here on the mainland of the USA just don’t think about Hawaii much.
That [...]
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Change Has Come, America
December 26th, 2008
21 Comments
Things are going to get better.
A month before his inauguration, Americans choose Barack Obama as the man they admire most in the world, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. It’s the first time a president-elect has topped the annual survey in more than a half-century.
President Bush falls to a distant second after seven years [...]
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Barack Obama: Time Person Of The Year 2008
December 17th, 2008
9 Comments
Time: “For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME’s Person of the Year.”
>> 2006 Time’s Person of the Year: You
>> 1939 – Adolph Hitler, Man of the Year
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Obama Won By Over 7%
December 9th, 2008
5 Comments
Just keeping an update going on facty type things.
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Unaired McCain Jeremiah Wright Ad
December 8th, 2008
8 Comments
I don’t think this ad would have been the silver bullet some Republicans seem to have thought it would be. (via)
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