Here’s what really started the whole birther movement: In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of the Democratic nomination on suspicion that he was not an American citizen. The complaint for […]
After that big Letterman/Palin feud, I thought the right was declaring that the children of politicians were “off limits”. Well I guess that only applies to the children of right wing politicians. If your the child of Barack Obama then the right can attack you anyway they want, including referring to you as a “street […]
I’m still catching up on all the news of Honduras, but I found this article to not be that newsworthy: The Obama administration worked in recent days to prevent President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster, said a senior U.S. official. The State Department, in particular, communicated to Honduran officials on the ground that President Barack Obama wouldn’t […]
Obama had a celebration yesterday with Mexico’s ambassador and had a little gaff: President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early. On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico’s Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN’). Obama joked that it […]
Instead of looking at themselves, the right continues their path of projection in blaming everyone else for their rapid fall from power. Here is John Hawkins blogging at Pajamas Media: Too often today, liberals are using below-the-belt tactics against conservatives and paying no price whatsoever. Meanwhile, those on the right like to pat themselves on […]
I been reading through a lot of reactions to Arlen Specter’s party switch yesterday, and one quote stuck out at me: The Republican Party was founded as a party of individual rights and individual initiative. It led the fight to end slavery, give women the right to vote, expand national parks and break up corporate […]
From The Nation: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans. Obey and other advocates for the spending argued, correctly, that a pandemic […]
If you been following my blog for awhile you know that I take the demise of the GOP very seriously. Sure they are fun to pick on and its funny to watch, but our democracy is reliant upon a two party system to enact a system of checks and balances. That very ideal is in […]
Now we are seeing progress: President Barack Obama is leaving the door to open to possible prosecution of Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics. He also said Tuesday that he worries about the impact of high-intensity hearings on how detainees were treated under former President George W. Bush. But Obama did say, […]
The last few days we have seen the entire right go on about Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez and Chavez giving a book to our President. Even today wingnut talking points author Matt Drudge is still pushing the story: And what has all this publicity done for the Venezuelan leader? One of the biggest […]