Barack Obama Archives

You’ve been warned: Fear the Black Guy in the White House

By Jack Cluth, on May 7th, 2013

In a different time and place, I’d file this under “Too Stupid For Words”. Then I’d forgot about the drooling, knuckle-dragging numbskull behind this mind-numbingly ignorant screed, published as it was in World Nut Daily World Net Daily. WND is where the paranoid and heavily medicated get their conspiracy theories “news.”

Klayman, founder of Judicial [...]

Barack Obama: Community Organizer

By Cheryl Rofer, on January 24th, 2013

People joke about President Obama’s abilities at eleven-dimensional chess. I think that Obama has a long-term strategy, more understandable than eleven-dimensional chess. I also think that it’s quite different from much of what passes for strategy in political Washington.

Obama came into office in January 2009 with an enormous number of problems facing the country. [...]

Dine and Dash Republicans Want to “Leave Without Paying the Check”: Obama

By matttbastard, on January 14th, 2013

“This is not a complicated concept… . You don’t go out to dinner and eat all you want and then leave without paying the check.”

- President Barack Obama, breaking down the GOP-led debt ceiling debacle.

Related: Pobody’s nerfect.

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The Forward: Mainstream Jewish Organizations Will Not Oppose Hagel Nod

By matttbastard, on January 8th, 2013

Apparently the contracted services of Lanny Davis and apocalyptic clownshoes agit-prop of Billy Kristol and co. are the tip of a spear with no shaft. As Nathan Guttman of the JD Forward reports, organized Jewish opposition to President Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary evaporated following yesterday’s announcement:

Most Jewish groups have made [...]

The Deal: Various Responses

By matttbastard, on January 1st, 2013

Actual legislative language of Senate-passed fiscal cliff deal. ow.ly/gsNPZ

— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) January 1, 2013

Zaid Jilani:

Because the payroll tax cut is expiring and the Make Work Pay tax cut is not coming back, most working Americans will also see a tax increase. The most galling thing is that 98 percent [...]

AJE: Gaza: How can the US manage the crisis?

By matttbastard, on November 19th, 2012

AJE:

To Hamas and other Palestinian groups, the US president sent a strong condemnation, saying there is no justification for “the cowardly acts” of launching rockets into Israel.

To the Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, he sent a message of support and simply urged him to “avoid” civilian casualties.

[As of Friday] around two dozen [...]

de Bellaigue: Sanctions On Iran Cause Economic Strife But Are Not Working

By matttbastard, on November 12th, 2012

Christopher de Bellaigue on why sanctions on Iran have thus far been, and will likely continue to be, a failure:

The assumption is that the more Iranians suffer, the more their leaders will feel the pressure and either change course or be overthrown in a popular uprising. And yet, there is no evidence to suggest [...]

Waiting For The Other Shoe re: Petraeus: “I’m Telling You There’s More To Do Than With Sex.”

By matttbastard, on November 10th, 2012

Former CIA operative Robert Baer talks with Piers Morgan re: l’affaire de Petraeus:

I’m telling you there’s more to do than with sex. There’s something going on here which I can’t explain and I think we’re going to find out very soon.

WATCH:

h/t Michael J. Totten

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Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Or, The Totally Unskewed View From Romneyland)

By matttbastard, on November 9th, 2012

When you’re this filthy fucking rich apparently you don’t need pesky contradictory facts getting in the way of your plans for a kick-ass post-victory fireworks display (h/t Kos):

Romney was stoic as he talked the president, an aide said, but his wife Ann cried. Running mate Paul Ryan seemed genuinely shocked, the adviser said. Ryan’s [...]

America’s election and the Tea Party

By matttbastard, on November 8th, 2012

by Cas Mudde

(Originally posted by openDemocracy, republished under a Creative Commons license)

What a difference two years make.After the congressional elections in November 2010, the Tea Party was the talk of the town. Both left-wing and right-wing media pundits declared “the” Tea Party to be the (only) winner, and all focus was on [...]

Brand New Yr Retro

By matttbastard, on November 7th, 2012

Amanda Marcotte re: the need for liberals to finally capitalize on the emerging progressive zeitgeist:

The road ahead, for liberals, is long and hard. Our social safety net and investment in ordinary working people who actually run this country is in tatters, decimated by years of Republican efforts and Democrats letting (or even making) it [...]

Mittens Compounded Initial Benghazi Fail Because NEOCONS

By matttbastard, on November 7th, 2012

WaPo on the internal response to Mittens’ hasty, ill-conceived late night Libya presser:

By sunrise the next day, it was clear to Romney that they had acted too quickly. The campaign learned that four Americans had been killed in an attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. Even to [...]

Mr. Burns Endorses Mitt Romney

By matttbastard, on November 2nd, 2012

HA! In yer face, Bloomberg:

A convenient “tie”

By matttbastard, on November 2nd, 2012

by Magnus Nome

(Originally posted by openDemocracy, republished under a Creative Commons license)

We’re only a few days away from knowing who will lead the US for the next four years. (Probably – I haven’t forgotten 2000).

The contest is already a media success. It has had some interesting twists and turns, and as it [...]

Chait: “The attempt to wall disaster response off from politics in the aftermath of a disaster is an attempt to insulate Republicans from the consequences of their policies.”

By matttbastard, on October 31st, 2012

This:

What you are going to see over the next week is an overt effort by Democrats to politicize the issue of disaster response. They’re right to do it. Conservatives are already complaining about this, but the attempt to wall disaster response off from politics in the aftermath of a disaster is an attempt to [...]

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