Heh.
News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan’s emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas. …
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“I don’t know why President Obama thought that was appropriate. Maybe he thought it would play well in Japan. But it’s not appropriate for an American president to bow […]
Entries Tagged as 'Obama'
The manly men are OUTRAGED!
November 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Foreign Policy · Obama · Wingers
About those jobs, or lack thereof
November 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Atrios, Bob Herbert gets it exactly right.
If Democrats get crushed in the 2010 elections, it won’t be because America has suddenly rediscovered its conservative roots! though wingers like Rush and Glenn Beck will certainly claim this. It will because the jobs situation for a huge chunk of the country sucks, and the Democratic Party […]
Love ain’t enough
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Responding to a conservative blogger who writes about Obama’s supposed lack of love for America, Daniel Larison pens something about Bush that I think is applicable to the broader conservative movement which we’ve battled here for the past however many years:
Bush’s problem wasn’t that he didn’t love America. The problem was that he had no […]
Running at their strength
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Sullivan, an interesting comment from Brit Hume in an L.A. Times piece about the Obama-Fox war:
“We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News. And that’s kind of our attitude: ‘Hoist a Jolly Roger, pull out our daggers and look for more throats to slit.’
The question, of […]
Tags: Obama · Media · Fox News
So when do I become a winger?
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Via Sullivan, David Weigel puts his finger on it:
The Democrats are in worse political shape than they were a year ago because unemployment is at 9.8 percent, the war in Afghanistan has grown less popular, and the bailouts of struggling banks are seen as wastes of money that haven’t worked. Republicans benefit when they talk […]
Tags: Glenn Beck · Obama · Economy · Republican Party
Conflict avoidance
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Taibbi rips Obama and the Democrats. And it’s well-deserved:
We’re coming up on the one- year anniversary of Barack Obama’s election. I think it’s maybe time that we asked ourselves how he’s doing.
He didn’t close Guantanamo Bay, and not only didn’t reject the idea of pre-emptive detention but added spice to his own new version of […]
Window dressing
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
You know, it’s great that Obama should go after executive salaries at the companies that got bailout funds and all, but what is this really besides a PR move, some populist window dressing to show America that he’s ticked off too?
Yves Smith:
First, recall Feinberg’s hollow mandate. He is limited to only TARP recipients, not the […]
Strangulation
October 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Nice piece by Frank Rich on Goldman Sachs, its “blood funnel” (actually Taibbi’s term) - and questions about what Obama actually thinks about all this:
The idea of investing in the real economy — the one that might create jobs for Americans — remains outré in this culture. Credit to small businesses remains tight. The holy […]
The movement and the cause
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Excellent post by Glenn Greenwald on how conservatism and the GOP under Bush devolved into a cult of personality and how liberalism can avoid the same - and to a large extent already has, in that liberals are far more liable to criticize Obama than conservatives were to criticize Bush.
It’s interesting that one of the right’s […]
Tags: Bush Era · Obama · Liberalism · Conservatism
The idea of Obama
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Hilarious. And dead-on.
Tags: Obama
Oh, the OUTRAGE!!!
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Actually, Josh Marshall has the best line on the Obama-Nobel thing:
It’s like when Hitler won the Nobel.
And he’s being snarky. Being serious is Erick Erickson over at RedState.com, who sez this:
I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of […]
And it’s a short trip
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments
So Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize, and I haven’t been over to Drudge yet, but one can imagine the apoplexy.
I’ve no idea whether Obama “deserves” the prize, what the requirements are, etc. But we do know that this will drive the wingers right around the bend.
Tags: Obama
I was actually black before the election
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Funny.
What is a winger?
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments
City, who’s now blogging over at TownHall - a right-wing site - asks the question:
Am I a “winger”?
Tags: Government · Obama · Wingers
He’s breaking up he’s breaking…
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Joe Klein. That’s gonna leave a mark:
Pete Wehner, like many over at the Commentary blog, suffer from Obama Failure Tourette’s Syndrome…every few hours, like clockwork, they jump up and shout, “He’s Failing! It’s falling apart! He’s cratering!”
I get several e-mails like this every single day of the week. It’s TEH FAILED OBAMA PREZNITZY!!!
And make no […]
Within the gates
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
I don’t know that I buy all of this, but portions of it ring a very loud, insistent bell:
Consider America. As good as we are, we have a dark side and our actions often have dark consequences. We are large and cast a large shadow. If we were a more mature people we would simply […]
Tags: Teabaggery · Obama · Wingers
The speech
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Well, I thought it was a tour de force - maybe the best speech I’ve heard him give. There were quite a few b*tch-slaps in there - the one involving Palin, you could practically hear the contempt dripping from his voice, and given the mendacity of the “death panel” lie, that’s more than appropriate.
I’m not […]
Tags: Obama · Health care
How FDR would’a done it
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Kos, this is Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer Jean Edward Smith in the NYT:
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S apparent readiness to backtrack on the public insurance option in his health care package is not just a concession to his political opponents — this fixation on securing bipartisan support for health care reform suggests that the Democratic Party has […]
Tags: Obama · Health care
How soon the grassy knoll?
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Pretty soon, it would appear.
The beer makes the man
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Ain’t this ridiculous? So Obama’s having Gates and the cop who arrested him over at the White House for a brewski - and now this becomes a “controversy”:
Earlier this week the White House indicated each man would drink the beer of their choice — Bud Light for President Obama, Blue Moon for the police officer, […]
Tags: Beer · Gates incident · Obama





