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Oh, look. Another Congressional Republican saying something crazy and offensive.
"I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that," Coffman said. "But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American."
But MoveOn once compared Bush to Hitler! Michael Moore! Both sides are equally extreme!
Here's the problem. Republican rhetoric has gone so over the bend over the past four years that no one will even notice. Coffman apologized, but one wonders -- why? This stuff began even before Obama got in the White House -- wit...
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Bristol Palin, exemplar of so-called “traditional families” that she is, just couldn’t let President Obama’s historic endorsement of marriage equality pass by last week without throwing in her two cents. (If you missed this important development in this historic story, reading this handy post from Evan will catch you right up.) Basically, Bristol Palin turned the [...]
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Two years ago, Audi put out a very funny Super Bowl commercial about the “Green Police,” armed law enforcement agents who took down people violating eco laws: Because life imitates art in Obama’s America, there’s a not-so-funny story out of Lowell, Massachusetts. It seems that a man who has leased state park land for 26 [...]
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Haha! The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List NAILS it (via @TeriChristoph): The YouTube description: If it feels like 1984 in real life, it should. The threats to our religious liberty and conscience rights are very real. The question that needs to be asked of this president is “who decides”? Time and time again, President Obama [...]
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I never thought I’d begin an article like this, but here goes: Barack Obama is finally as liberal as Dick Cheney on gay marriage. As you’ve likely heard by now, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage earlier today. He’s not likely to push for legislation – the action is primarily in the courts [...]
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Hat Tip: Logan Churchwell Accuracy in Media: Facing a tough re-election campaign in the fall, President Obama was treated to the sharpest, most well-crafted questions on pop culture and how nice it is to be Barack Obama. http://www.aim.org
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Good Morning! On Tuesday night I wrote a brief post about the bizarre speech Mitt Romney gave in Des Moines, Iowa earlier that day. I was struck by Romney’s childish effort to get at President Obama by talking about Bill Clinton’s economic policies and claiming that Obama must have ignored those policies because he has [...]
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Here is a new “Crossroads GPS” ad hammering Barack Obama for a laundry list of broken promises.
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It wasn’t exactly a surprise, given that the House did exactly the same thing last month, but the Senate yesterday unanimously rejected President Barack Obama’s budget for FY 2013. Unfortunately, the Senate also rejected other budget proposals that would, unlike Obama’s budget, put the country back on a stable fiscal path:The US Senate unanimously rejected President Barack Obama’s proposed 2013 budget Wednesday and shot down a series of Republican alternatives, assuring a prolonged election-year fiscal battle.The Democratic-controlled chamber has not adopted in three...
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If Jared Polis (D-CO) doesn't tread more lightly on this healthy eating kick, a herd of angry elephants led by Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is going to charge down the aisle and sit on him one day. There he goes again, expressing concern about children's health. Doesn't Polis understand that the Republicans control Congress now and the priority is corporate health, not children's health? If Big Business-- read big campaign donors and their lobbyists-- want to force-feed garbage food to public school kids... well, it's only temporary anyway-- until the GOP can abolish public school altogether.What ...
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Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is apologizing after being caught on tape delivering a birther rant about how President Obama is “not an American.” “I don’t know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don’t know that,” Coffman said at a fundraiser last week. “But I do know this, that in [...]
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Two years ago, Audi put out a very funny Super Bowl commercial about the “Green Police,” armed law enforcement agents who took down people violating eco laws: Because life imitates art in Obama’s America, there’s a not-so-funny story out of Lowell, Massachusetts. It seems that a man who has leased state park land for 26 [...]
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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What can I say, the King of Cool. (I would have wanted to ask too) Will Smith told BBC Radio about his 13-year-old son’s encounter with POTUS and the big question he planned to ask, which Smith insisted he keep to … Continue reading →
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Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com Here is video of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Fox News yesterday where he slammed President Obama as someone who is going to “savagely attack Mitt Romney” because he “cannot run on his record.” Jindal predicted every week will bring a new attack by Obama because he wants to [...]
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Click here to view this media Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is refusing to even utter George W. Bush's name after the former president endorsed him in an elevator on Tuesday.
"I'm for Mitt Romney," Bush had blurted out to ABC News on Tuesday as the doors of the elevator closed on him in Washington, DC where he was giving a speech on human rights.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in St. Petersburg, Florida on Wednesday, Romney would only refer to Bush as President Barack Obama's "predecessor."
"[Obama] was very critical of his predecessor for the debts the predecessor...
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Seth Mandel uncovers a perfect example of the hubris of Obama and his acolytes in his administration. They have rewritten the official biographies of past presidents back to Calvin Coolidge, excluding Gerald Ford, to insert references to The One. Here are some examples from whitehouse.gov * On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president...
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In a debate last night with Jeremy Ben Ami of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, neoconservative don Bill Kristol told the audience in the New York synagogue that he had no problems with President Obama’s Israel policies. But just two months ago, a right-wing pro-Israel group Kristol heads rolled out the latest of its [...]
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Much like the 2010 mid-terms, the budget deficit will be an issue that we’ll hear a lot about leading into the fall. In a speech yesterday in Iowa, Mitt Romney gave us a taste of what to expect as he slammed President Barack Obama for his spending spree: Mitt Romney today said he would lead Americans out of President Obama’s “debt and spending inferno,” warning a crowd that the country faces a financial crisis that “threatens what it means to be an American.” Romney spoke today in the very room where he stood on the night of the Iowa caucuses in January, the candidate’s first trip to...
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One definition of insanity is making the same mistake over and over again, but expecting different results. cer·ti·fi·a·ble: Officially recognized as needing treatment for a mental disorder. Yep, that’s our President, all right. I know I don’t have to tell you that the last stimulus was not exactly a smashing success. In fact, according to [...]
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What can I say, the King of Cool. (I would have wanted to ask too) Will Smith told BBC Radio about his 13-year-old son’s encounter with POTUS and the big question he planned to ask, which Smith insisted he keep to … Continue reading →
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Obama promised so much for improving our international relations. "Obama advocates forging a dialogue with foreign publics to create a joint narrative about a shared future. . . . Obama has suggested by example that cross-cultural knowledge can be used to understand and address societies where extremism has taken hold." 200,000 people flocked to Obama's 2008 speech in Berlin. The AP reports that a lot of people around the world don't believe that Obama has delivered on his promises:In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack ...
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photoshop via Free Canuckistan, by R. Martin and Richard Terrelly Yesterday, conservative blogs and twitter had a lot of fun with the news that Obama has inserted himself into every US President’s biography on the White House Website… Yid With Lid had this to say: Talk about delusions of grandeur, the White House website contains [...]
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In a debate last night with Jeremy Ben Ami of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street, neoconservative don Bill Kristol told the audience in the New York synagogue that he had no problems with President Obama’s Israel policies. But just two months ago, a right-wing pro-Israel group Kristol heads rolled out the latest of its [...]
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Fox & Friends tackled a recent controversy surrounding the White House doctoring presidential biographies hosted on their website to include mentions of President Barack Obama. The Fox hosts then ran ads out of the Republican National Committee which inserts President Obama into famous moments in American history.<
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We have not been keeping up on the day to day dribs and drabs oozing forth from this Mr. Edward Klein fellow’s excellent new Barack Obama biography, “Michelle Obama Is A Jealous Twat She Even Hates Oprah Burn Her.” But one excerpt featured on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze did catch our eye! And that is [...]
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Obama promised so much for improving our international relations. "Obama advocates forging a dialogue with foreign publics to create a joint narrative about a shared future. . . . Obama has suggested by example that cross-cultural knowledge can be used to understand and address societies where extremism has taken hold." 200,000 people flocked to Obama's 2008 speech in Berlin. The AP reports that a lot of people around the world don't believe that Obama has delivered on his promises:In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack ...
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I’m constantly ranting about voter suppression (Voter I.D. laws and other restrictions on registration included), hatred of President Obama, and super PAC money interfering with Democratic wins in the November elections. And with good reason. Disenfranchisement alone can prevent up … Continue reading →
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I never thought I’d begin an article like this, but here goes: Barack Obama is finally as liberal as Dick Cheney on gay marriage. As you’ve likely heard by now, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage earlier today. He’s not likely to push for legislation – the action is primarily in the courts [...]
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The “traditional” birthers aren’t happy with a new film about Barack Obama that reveals he really was born in Hawaii. These birthers want proof that Obama was born in Kenya so that he can be disqualified as president. A film … Continue reading →
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Apparently, that “compromise” didn’t assuage the university, and we can probably expect many more to follow suit (depending on who wins the election)
(Life News) Franciscan University appears to be the first casualty of the new Obama HHS mandate that requires Catholic colleges, groups and businesses to pay for drugs that may cause abortions [...]
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By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Barack Obama is being presented as America’s first gay president by Newsweek, which glorifies his decision to recognize same-sex marriage. The Newsweek cover story will serve a purpose other than generating interest in a magazine that has been losing circulation and advertising revenue if it is viewed as an [...]
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My newest piece at National Review starts this way:Would you hire President Obama as your financial adviser? Three years ago his administration invested more than $100 billion in taxpayer money to bail out General Motors. On Tuesday, the entire company, not just what the government owns, was worth less than $34 billion. By anyone’s definition, that investment is a glaring failure. Yet over the last few days the Obama campaign, in a $25 million marketing blitz, has flooded the airwaves with ads in battleground states, claiming the bailout should be counted a rousing success. Unfortunately, asse...
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“Creative” isn’t usually an adjective one would assign to advertising put out by state legislative candidates – at least not in North Dakota anyway – but had a chuckle over this one put out by state Senator Joe Miller. Senator Miller was lumped into the same district as Senator Curtis Olafson. Miller won the district [...]
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Not only does Obama think voters are so stupid and uninformed that they'll swallow his garbage about how the government and the internet are responsible for the success of Microsoft or how Mitt Romney is responsible for the failure of a company that closed in the midst of a national decline in steel production two years after Romney left the company, now Obama is back to calling Americans bigots. He went on The View and said that his reelection will be tough this year because his name is Barack Hussein Obama. Hello?! Did he happen to forget that Americans were able to get over his name four...
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Reflecting on his two terms in office, President George W. Bush said in 2010, “You realize you’re not it. You’re a part of something bigger than yourself.” This is a sentiment President Barack Obama did not inherit from his predecessor. Over the past month we have witnessed several displays of arrogant power emanating from our White House, emphasizing fealty to a person over the integrity of an American institution. Some are more serious than others. First, this week it was discovered that White House staff had edited the biographies of … More
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Hannity’s radio show today featured some interesting dish from former NYTs Magazine Editor, Ed Klein, the author of the explosive new book about Obama; The Amateur. The book gets its title from the words Bill Clinton uttered when he was trying to encourage Hillary to take on Obama in the Democratic primary of 2012: Obama [...]
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The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds everyone that early voting has begun as it brings you this week's blog roundup. Off the Kuff finished his interview tour of Texas with a conversation with Domingo Garcia in CD33. BossKitty at TruthHugger will not weigh in, whether or not the truth was actually served in court, when a black woman fired a warning shot into a wall. Firing a gun in irresponsible ways is natural in Texas. But Florida has contradictory laws that allow courts to pick and choose who gets punished for similar irresponsible behavior. You can decide for yourself how g...
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Honestly, at some point you have to start thinking of this as a cry for help. What’s next? Funny haircuts and whining on Facebook? Many of President Obama’s fervent devotees are young enough not to have much memory of the political world before the arrival of The One. Coincidentally, Obama himself feels the same way—and [...]
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Earlier this week on a taped segment which aired today (May 15) for morning talk show The View, President Barack Obama revealed to the hosts…
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I never thought I’d begin an article like this, but here goes: Barack Obama is finally as liberal as Dick Cheney on gay marriage. As you’ve likely heard by now, President Obama announced his support for gay marriage earlier today. He’s not likely to push for legislation – the action is primarily in the courts [...]
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No. Just no. A rainbow halo? Really? [h/t Shakesville] Tags: bad magazine covers, Barack Obama, Newsweek, right wing meme reinforcement, why can't he just be America's first president who truly supports equality?
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Sure, Obama pushed a little girl in elementary school, and reflected on it and felt bad about it from that day forward; and Romney was such an entitled jerk, always picking on loners and other weak kids that could be culled from the herd, that all his old chums, when contacted by his campaign to [...]
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A new book, “The Amateur,” by bestselling author, Edward Klein reveals some slimy residue from the 2008 Obama campaign that should surprise no one. White House spokesbully, Eric Schultz accused Klein of making it up to sell more copies — in other words, it’s 100% true because every day is opposite day in President FUBAR’s [...]
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Does Michelle Obama like Oprah? Did the Obama team try to pay off Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Does any of this matter? Daily Commentary – Monday, May 14, 2012 Download Share This
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By Herndon Graddick, GLAAD President Judging by its coverage of President Obama’s announcement that he now supports marriage equality, it appears CNN still has a little “evolving” of its own to do. The bulk of the media’s coverage of this issue has been focused on what this statement will mean politically for President Obama and [...]
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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Obama ‘The First Gay President’… Unsolicited Advice: What should Mitt Romney say at Liberty University?… Romney Tells Evangelicals Their Values Are His, Too… Controversial Time Magazine Cover… Richard Stengel Defends Breast-feeding Cover… How Feminism Begat Intensive Mothering… New Jersey Will Remove From Standardized Tests Question Keep Reading
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The moral high ground is getting a vigorous workout in the wake of President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, but what exactly is the moral high ground? In ethical and political parlance, the moral high ground refers to having the status of being respected for being moral and adhering to and upholding universally recognized standards [...]
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You may think you have a useful issue, and it is of some use, but here's the problem. Making same-sex marriage an important issue will give rise to the thought: If Obama loses, it will be because of the stand he took on same-sex marriage. That will cause some people – people in the middle who might go either way — to think:
I don't want to be a part of sending the message that if you support same-sex marriage, you will lose. I'm going to vote for him, not because he did anything that significant in finally getting around to evolving into the position, but because, now that he has, I don't wan...
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A new book, “The Amateur,” by bestselling author, Edward Klein reveals some slimy residue from the 2008 Obama campaign that should surprise no one. White House spokesbully, Eric Schultz accused Klein of making it up to sell more copies — in other words, it’s 100% true because every day is opposite day in President FUBAR’s [...]
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A new Landmark/Rosetta Stone poll in Georgia finds Mitt Romney leading President Obama by 11 points, 51% to 40%.
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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Click here to view this media Why is Ralph Reed treated like a serious commentator on anything? He should be in jail, not on the panel of a Sunday morning bobblehead show. But if he's going to be on a bobblehead show, then I'm going to ridicule his short memory and double standard for candidates.
During his Roundtable appearance on This Week, discussion turned to whether Mitt Romney's pattern of bullying others and entitled attitude is relevant to the election at hand. I say it absolutely is, not necessarily because of the incidents themselves, but because they are more evidence that the man ...
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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According to The Hill newspaper, many Democratic Senators in swing states are distancing themselves from Obama on gay marriage. But here is the problem. This issue is going to be decided by the Supreme Court. Does anyone doubt that Obama won't appoint another very liberal member of the court who would rule that there is "no rational basis" for ruling that marriage must be between a man and a woman?
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Here is video of the Fox News Panel Plus today where Brit Hume said on the chances of Mitt Romney defeating Barack Obama, “I don’t think you need Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln to beat this President.”
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A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds 51% of Americans say they approve of President Obama's stance that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry legally, but 60% say that his shift in position will have no bearing on how they vote in the November election.
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Obama’s Gas-Powered War on Coal by Phil Kerpen With the increasingly likelihood that Obama’s health care law will be struck down in court or repealed next Congress, the administration has been working hard to cement another dubious legacy: the destruction of the coal industry. Obama’s war on coal is stirring a lot of anger in [...]
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A new book, “The Amateur,” by bestselling author, Edward Klein reveals some slimy residue from the 2008 Obama campaign that should surprise no one. White House spokesbully, Eric Schultz accused Klein of making it up to sell more copies — in other words, it’s 100% true because every day is opposite day in President FUBAR’s [...]
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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Click here to view this media Why is Ralph Reed treated like a serious commentator on anything? He should be in jail, not on the panel of a Sunday morning bobblehead show. But if he's going to be on a bobblehead show, then I'm going to ridicule his short memory and double standard for candidates.
During his Roundtable appearance on This Week, discussion turned to whether Mitt Romney's pattern of bullying others and entitled attitude is relevant to the election at hand. I say it absolutely is, not necessarily because of the incidents themselves, but because they are more evidence that the man ...
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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Barack Obama crushed John McCain in Michigan in 2008, 57.33%-40.89%. Obama must win Michigan in 2012, it’s part of every scenario for him to get to 270: Yet a poll just released in the Detroit News shows Obama up by only 5 points over Romney, via The Hill: President Obama is leading Mitt Romney by 5 percentage-points [...]
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By Richard K. BarryI'm no expert on political polling. I'm very interested in it, but there is a science to it that I don't know a lot about. Polling results are reported widely in the media. They are examined and discussed constantly. I pay attention.In a common sense sort of way, there are a few things to know about polls. In no particular order, and certainly not meant to be comprehensive, here are a few random thoughts: Reputable polling companies have a vested interest in getting it right. There is nothing more important to a polling company than accurately predicting a race's outcom...
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Excerpted from BIG PEACE: The media flurry over Obama’s most recent position on gay marriage almost obscured a statement that could have significant implications for America’s security. As reported by Elliott Abrams at the Weekly Standard, Obama has returned to his 1996 position of supporting gay marriage after opposing it during his senatorial and presidential [...]
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The Brief
Empty promises? The much-lauded strategic partnership agreement signed by U.S. president Barack Obama on his surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday night reportedly has many promises but few guarantees, such as a pledge on the part of the Afghan government to address corruption, improve efficiency and protect human rights, without any consequences if it fails on any of those counts (AP). Some of these details will be worked out at the NATO conference in Chicago this month, but the existing language leaves many tough questions.
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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Polling woes for Barack Obama … WOW, Rasmussen has the presumptive GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama 50% to 42%. Of course it is way too early; however, not only would I rather be up by 8% over an incumbent President and have the positive trending as well. The Rasmussen tracking poll consists [...]
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I love my birth state!!! President Barack Obama is ahead of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney among Michigan voters in the race for president, a new poll shows, and is leading in part because of strong support among women. Obama … Continue reading →
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In an interview with Ginny Simone of NRA News, May 10, Congressman Trey Gowdy vented his frustration with House leadership for not moving forward with any actions against Atty General Eric Holder in the Fast and Furious investigation. He also suggested that if Holder became a big enough liability for Obama, (who is in full [...]
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Obama promised so much for improving our international relations. "Obama advocates forging a dialogue with foreign publics to create a joint narrative about a shared future. . . . Obama has suggested by example that cross-cultural knowledge can be used to understand and address societies where extremism has taken hold." 200,000 people flocked to Obama's 2008 speech in Berlin. The AP reports that a lot of people around the world don't believe that Obama has delivered on his promises:In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack ...
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The response from our “liberal media” on the President’s historic stance on marriage equality? An AP Drudge bait piece on how Barack Obama has killed all the rainbow-farting ponycorns on the entire planet. In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he [...]
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Here is video of Dick Morris on with Greta tonight where he said (4:57 mark) if the 2012 Election were held right now, Gov. Mitt Romney would win “overwhelmingly” over Barack Obama. Morris said Obama “might win eight or ten states.” “The Likely Voter Polling is so overwhelming that [...]
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Sure, Obama pushed a little girl in elementary school, and reflected on it and felt bad about it from that day forward; and Romney was such an entitled jerk, always picking on loners and other weak kids that could be culled from the herd, that all his old chums, when contacted by his campaign to [...]
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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The Brief
Empty promises? The much-lauded strategic partnership agreement signed by U.S. president Barack Obama on his surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday night reportedly has many promises but few guarantees, such as a pledge on the part of the Afghan government to address corruption, improve efficiency and protect human rights, without any consequences if it fails on any of those counts (AP). Some of these details will be worked out at the NATO conference in Chicago this month, but the existing language leaves many tough questions.
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#endorsements
Proving that not all grandmas skew far to the right, America's Nonagenarian Sweetheart Betty White publicly endorsed Barack Obama. More »
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Excerpted from AP: In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he’s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic. In Mogadishu, a former teacher [...]
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Yeah, who you got Mittens? Ted Nugent and Kid Rock? Ahahahaha. WASHINGTON (AP) — Betty White says she usually keeps her political views private but in this presidential election strongly favors one candidate. As she prepares to visit the Smithsonian … Continue reading →
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Evoluting Fabulously Raging Moderate, by Will Durst A thousand rainbows of congratulations to Barack Obama for bursting out of his own personal policy closet and fabulously proclaiming he believes “same sex couples should be able to get married.” Sir! Welcome to the third year of the second decade of the 21st century, sir! You also [...]
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Former Pennsvylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who gave presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney a run for his mega-money during the primary season, is urging Romney to use President Barack Obama’s stand approving of same sex marriage as a campaign issue. But its clear some in the GOP think it’d be off message. Santorum, one of [...]
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How many designer blouses could the taxpayers buy Michelle Obama in exchange for the cost of her Spanish vacation? Anne Sorock That’s right, the taxpayers could have taken the $467,585 they spent for Michelle’s summer vacay to Spain and purchased 492 of Ann Romney’s much discussed Reed Krakoff blouse, worn on Tuesday’s “CBS This Morning.” [...]
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Mitt Romney’s head of HHS: At the Iowa Faith & Freedom event, [Rand] Paul mocked President Obama’s remark that his view on marriage was evolving. “Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer,” he said As this quote illustrates, much to the disappointment of the Paulists, Ron is [...]
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Some not-so “Good Vibrations” from Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnson toward President Barack Obama … Appears that there is a trend of folks fed up with Obama. Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnson had some interesting comments yesterday while signing autographs and taking pics with fans in NYC. The conversation went from ‘California Girls’, ‘Catch a [...]
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Saturday morning with my coffee, my laptop and my favorite weekend show, Up With Chris. Great way to start this Mother's Day weekend!
Ramona's Voice: Women, Gays and Barack Obama's Ear
Politicus: Uncomfortably Numb: Mitt Romney Has No Idea How You Feel
A Tiny Revolution: Colin Powell Gets Mad at Me
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Proving that not all grandmas skew far to the right, America's Nonagenarian Sweetheart Betty White publicly endorsed Barack Obama. More »
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"Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer." — Kentucky Senator and Ron Paul offspring Rand Paul referring to President Obama's recent affirmation of same sex marriage at an Iowa Faith & Freedom event last night. [Des Moines Register]
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By Richard K. BarryEver since President Obama decided to come out forcefully for marriage equality, the response by opponents of his move has been fascinating. I get the sense that they were not only not expecting it, but are somewhat conflicted about how to deal with it.Although there has been some criticism of the president as a matter of policy or morality, i.e., that it is simply wrong, most of what has been said from the right has been to criticize Obama for taking a cynical position, clearly politically motivated, or that he "flip-flopped" from positions he had held earlier.There were a ...
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From the “American Future Fund,” a new ad asking Americans if they are “better off” after nearly four years of Barack Obama.
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Here is an ad for Mother’s Day from “Restore our Future” that directly ties Barack Obama to the attacks on Ann Romney by big Obama supporters Hillary Rosen and Bill Maher. The ad plays their outrageous attacks on Ann Romney as a woman who “never worked a day in her life” because she was a [...]
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Gallup has produced the first national poll on the electoral impact of President Obama's big, gay announcement earlier this week, and the verdict is ... who cares?! A full 60 percent of the 1,1013 adults surveyed (yes, adults, not registered voters) said that Obama's support for gay marriage would make
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For your entertainment: The President’s Horrible, Terrible, Very Bad Week It is $5 Friday. Go and give $5 (or $50 or $500) to your favorite candidate or cause, confident that the wind is at your back, because it sure has been in the president’s face for the past seven days. Rarely, in fact, has a [...]
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If you want a sense of how Obama’s cynical, money-driven gay marriage evolution ploy will play in key states Obama won in 2008, look not only at North Carolina’s vote Tuesday, but also at how fast Joe Donnelly is running away from Obama on the issue: U.S. Senate candidate Joe Donnelly reiterated his position Thursday [...]
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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Following President Barack Obama's voicing his support of same-sex marriage, the punditry immediately commenced. How political is the announcement? How will this affect his re-election prospects? Well, according to a new Gallup poll, the answer to latter is, not much. Majority of Americans polled said Obama's announcement won't sway their vote.
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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On the day after the Troglodyte vote swamped North Carolina, President Obama has come out (ah hem) in favor of marriage equality.
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Via TMZ: Americans will be “f**ked” if Barack Obama gets re-elected. And yes, he used the “socialist” word. I loved the Beach Boys… until now. Well, I still love their music, and I’ve met Brian Wilson who seemed pretty nice, … Continue reading →
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Some prominent Black pastors have become staunchly critical of President Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage, with some who formerly backed and celebrated his ascent…
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A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows that 51 percent of voters approve President Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality, while 45 percent disapprove. It seems the President may lose some support to Mitt Romney, suggesting that those who oppose marriage equality feel more strongly about the issue than those who support it. According to the survey, [...]
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MSNBC anchor Alex Witt invited weekend host Chris Hayes on her program to discuss President Barack Obama’s latest fundraising tools. She asked Hayes about a new tactic by the Obama for America campaign in which a donor can purchase a tweet from the President to their mom for Mother’s Day. Hayes found the new tactic “bizarre.”
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It seems that the anti-bullying campaign that has become a cause-celeb has reached a climax – the campaign is being appropriated by President Barack Obama supporters and used as a political weapon against Mitt Romney. Earlier today, an MSNBC panel discussed a Pro-Obama Super PAC ad based of a Washington Post story that was, to say the least, questionable. The thinly veiled implication in the “American Bridge” Super PAC ad was that Romney is a homophobic bully, who vented his hatred on a gay peer when he forcibly cut his hair. But running this ad, American Bridge has called into question the en...
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Nate Silver says President Obama's decision to back gay marriage was probably driven by the fact that a majority of Democratic voter support gay marriage.
"The point is simply this: it's very unusual for someone who is the leader of his party -- and Mr. Obama is the leader of the Democratic Party as well as being the president -- to hold a position on a major issue in opposition to the clear majority of the voters within that party. In elections since World War II, instead, a party's presidential nominee has generally been someone who is close to the median of his party's voters."
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A Barack Obama re-election fundraiser, which took place on Thursday evening at actor George Clooney’s home in Studio City, Calif., raked in about $15 million, making it…
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MSNBC’s Now with Alex Wagner had a panel discussion about Mitt Romney’s bullying episode as revealed in the Washington Post on Friday. They said that Romney appears callous and cruel in his discussion of the event from his childhood. The panel also discussed a recent ad by a pro-Obama Super PAC that is running with the notion that Mitt Romney is a homophobic bully. What a fitting message for the Obama campaign: to appeal to American’s sense of victimization. It is a prevalent sense that is deleterious to the state of the nation, but the campaign will do whatever it takes to win.
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President Obama has more than his loaded Hollywood pals to thank for a record-setting $15 million fund-raiser at George Clooney's house in Studio City, California, last night. Yes, 150 Über-rich supporters ponied up $40,000 apiece to attend the Wolfgang Puck–catered soiree, which took place in a tent on Clooney's gussied-up
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Click here to view this media After President Obama finally came out in support of gay marriage this week, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart explained this Thursday evening just how far we've come as a nation on the issue when this is the change in the narrative over at Fox News.
STEWART: And this is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation. In like five years, the prime talking point from Republicans about people who support gay marriage has gone from, "It will destroy society via turtle f**king," to, "Oh, of course you’re for it. You’ll say anything popular to get re-elected." And that ...
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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS After dancing around the issue for several years, U.S. President Barack Obama now says he supports gay marriage because it’s part of a natural progression of this country’s individual liberty. “At a certain point, I’ve just concluded, that for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and [...]
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A new poll finds that more Americans agree with President Barack Obama’s position on same sex marriage than disagree with him — although this still doesn’t mean Team Obama doesn’t face a new complication, since the controversy could change assumptions about electoral votes from certain states: More than half of Americans say they approve of [...]
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WaPo reports:
“We raised a lot of money because everybody loves George. They like me, they love him. And rightfully so. Not only is he an unbelievable actor, but he is one of those rare individuals who is at ease with everybody. He seems to occupy a constant state of grace, and uses his extraordinary talents on behalf of something truly important.”Clooney listened intently to the president throughout, his hands folded as if in prayer and his chin resting on them.His famous chin. Surely, prayers prayed with hands rested upon that chin are answered.
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It is hard to believe, but according to this news roundup from around the Western Hemisphere from Spanish-language U.S.-based news aggregator La Informacion, just one Latin American head of state – Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – has come out in support of gay marriage. According to the article, thanks largely to the influence [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama raised $15 million at a Hollywood fundraiser hosted by actor/ activist George Clooney this week. That’s more money than presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney raises in a month. At the event Obama touted his recent support for gay marriage, calling it a “logical extension of what America is supposed to be.” [...]
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By Daniel J. MitchellIt is very sad that America’s tax system is so onerous that some rich people feel they have no choice but to give up U.S. citizenship in order to protect their family finances. I’ve written about this issue before, particularly in the context of Obama’s class-warfare policies leading to an increase in the number of [...]Facebook Billionaire Gives Up Citizenship to Escape Bad American Tax Policy is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog
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Gallup Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Romney 46% Obama 45% Each seven-day rolling average is based on telephone interviews with approximately 3,050 registered voters; Margin of error is ±2 percentage points. Here is the trend line chart: Mitt Romney slipped a percentage point, and Barack Obama gained a percentage point. They are now at 46% and [...]
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As President Barack Obama embarks on his re-election bid for a second term in the White House, it appears that White democrats are exhibiting a…
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Army Captain Stephen Hill, who was booed at a GOP debate, discusses Obama's support of gay marriage, bullying, and Mitt Romney, the gay-bashing high school student.
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As someone who believes the government ought not be telling individuals who they can marry, and churches what sort of marriage ceremonies they can hold, I applaud President Obama for finally seeing the light on gay marriage whatever his motivations. But can we cut out some of the gushing about the supposedly “historic” nature of [...]
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"And sometimes people forget the magnitude of it, you know?... Sometimes I forget."
-- President Obama, at a fundraiser in Washington State, on the recession he inherited upon taking office.
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It’s funny, really. Somebody like Mark Halperin sees this: Barack Obama’s decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty darn well. The campaign’s massive, high-rise headquarters in Chicago’s Loop achieves a fine balance between 2008’s hip-casual dorm room (there’s a Ping-Pong table and cheeky homemade signage) and 2012’s systematized [...]
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Sad Mitt Romney is so jealous of all the thank-you notes and the hot piles of gay dollar bills that President Popular has gotten ever since he belatedly admitted that he thinks gay people should be able to get married. Sad Mitt Romney is not as tragically lame as he appears to be on this [...]
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Gallup has produced the first national poll on the electoral impact of President Obama's big, gay announcement earlier this week, and the verdict is ... who cares?! A full 60 percent of the 1,1013 adults surveyed (yes, adults, not registered voters) said that Obama's support for gay marriage would make
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Because Barack Obama has come out in favor of same-sex marriage, some people think that proves that he is gay. Mitt Romney said that he’s fine with gay people adopting children as long as they don’t marry. Senate Majority Leader … Continue reading →
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Gallup Poll on President Obama and Gay Marriage As you may know, on Wednesday President Obama said for the first time he thinks same-sex couples should be able to legally marry. Do you approve or disapprove of his position on the issue? Approve 51% Disapprove 45% Among Democrats Approve 71% Disapprove 25% Among Independents Approve [...]
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The intrepid Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian reveals the secret campaign waged behind the scenes by the greasy oil billionaires, the Koch brothers, and other Big Oil interests to fight wind and solar power and to undermine President Obama’s clean energy policy. In an America where second-hand smoke has led to a ban on smoking [...]
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Rasmussen Wisconsin 2012 Presidential Poll Barack Obama 49% {52%} [47%] (45%) Mitt Romney 45% {41%} [42%] (41%) Among Independents Barack Obama 48% {57%} Mitt Romney 39% {31%} Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of Mitt Romney? Very favorable 14% Somewhat favorable 33% Somewhat unfavorable 20% Very unfavorable [...]
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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Here is video of Dick Morris on with Greta tonight where he said (4:57 mark) if the 2012 Election were held right now, Gov. Mitt Romney would win “overwhelmingly” over Barack Obama. Morris said Obama “might win eight or ten states.” “The Likely Voter Polling is so overwhelming that [...]
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Barack Obama, the Misleader in Chief … What Obama fabricate and mislead the people regarding jobs, say it isn’t so. Obama claim he did something when nothing of the sort ever happened, shocker! From The Weekly Standard comes the following story of Barack Obama claiming in a political ad to have helped Brian Slagle, an [...]
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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**Posted by Phineas Wow. The same day I post a chart showing that one-third of the unemployed in this country have been out of work for over a year and that the rate skyrocketed under Obama, he admits to sometimes forgetting how bad things are: Now, I can see a man or a woman dealing [...]
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Following President Barack Obama's voicing his support of same-sex marriage, the punditry immediately commenced. How political is the announcement? How will this affect his re-election prospects? Well, according to a new Gallup poll, the answer to latter is, not much. Majority of Americans polled said Obama's announcement won't sway their vote.
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Can you imagine if Mitt Romney had said, “Sometimes I forget the magnitude” of the recession? It would be worth at least a week-long (minimum) attack. But when Obama says it, barely a peep.
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
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On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week's big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama's "big nothing" of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he'll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?
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"The country needs you! The country needs us!” —Bill Clinton in August of 2010, urging Hillary Clinton to run against President Obama in 2012, according to a new book by Ed Klein, the author who has previously alleged that Chelsea Clinton was conceived when Bill raped Hillary.
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On the day after the Troglodyte vote swamped North Carolina, President Obama has come out (ah hem) in favor of marriage equality.
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-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama revealed the extent of his narcissism, his outsized sense of self-regard, this week during his hasty explanation of his flip flop on the issue of gay marriage. In his ABC News interview Obama waxed poetic about those American troops that he thinks are fighting for him as opposed to fighting for [...]
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Good Morning You can also add a sunspot to that title, because today I am going to share a variety of links with you. News out of DC? Well…I don’t quite know what to make of this: Obama unveils jobs plan on a virtual ‘post-it’ note, urging Congress to act A post-it note? As if [...]
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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by Lone Shark In perhaps one of the most naked acts of pandering ever displayed in the context of presidential campaign politics, President Barack Obama has officially ended his “evolution” on the issue of gay marriage and stated his support his support for gay marriage to Robin Roberts of ABC News earlier today- “I have [...]
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The Brief
Empty promises? The much-lauded strategic partnership agreement signed by U.S. president Barack Obama on his surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday night reportedly has many promises but few guarantees, such as a pledge on the part of the Afghan government to address corruption, improve efficiency and protect human rights, without any consequences if it fails on any of those counts (AP). Some of these details will be worked out at the NATO conference in Chicago this month, but the existing language leaves many tough questions.
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Former President Bill Clinton called Barack Obama an “AMATEUR”. Well, if the shoe fits … According to a new unauthorized biography of Barack Obama by Edward Klein, entitled “The Amateur,” Bill Clinton was reported to have said to his wife Hillary Clinton that Obama was an “amateur” and that she should quit her job as [...]
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The man is a font of wisdom. Via.
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The Politico’s CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN and SEUNG MIN KIM have a breathless piece up featuring that headline, minus the “bummer.” They opine
President Barack Obama’s embrace of same-sex marriage was viewed for so long as such a risky move that operatives in both parties expected it to drop like a bomb, handing Republicans a powerful wedge [...]
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During Wednesday night's primetime Fox Business Network programming, another Fox personality expressed some support for same-sex marriage, joining colleagues like Shepard Smith, who recently said that President Obama's same-sex marriage views are "now in the 21st century".
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Mitt Romney doesn’t recall holding down and cutting the bleached hair of a gay student during his high school years. Everyone else involved in the incident remembers it vividly and regretfully. Barack Obama officially announced his re-election campaign on May … Continue reading →
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The official White House blog has posted a lengthy recapping of the reactions to President Obama's announcement on marriage equality. Before quoting several major newspapers, blogger Josh Earnest writes: It’s no secret the President has gone through some soul-searching on this issue. He’s talked to the First Lady about it, like so many couples do. He’s heard from folks—gay and lesbian friends, staff members in long-term, loving relationships, as well as brave young servicemen and women he got to know through the fight to end Don’t, Ask Don’t Tell.He’s sat around his kitchen table with Sasha ...
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While studiously avoiding and evading any investigation of Barack Obama’s “youth” (i.e. the period prior to his running for President) or devoting resources to any of the many scandals (selling guns to Mexican drug lords, politicizing along racial lines the Justice Department, etc.) which would have been front page day after day in another administration, [...]
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This happened before Barack Obama’s evolution to supporting same-sex marriage. Yet for the seven elected officials from Coke County who switched their registration from Democrat to Republican, this probably reaffirms their switch. The same goes for the nine elected officials … Continue reading →
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By Herndon Graddick, GLAAD President Judging by its coverage of President Obama’s announcement that he now supports marriage equality, it appears CNN still has a little “evolving” of its own to do. The bulk of the media’s coverage of this issue has been focused on what this statement will mean politically for President Obama and [...]
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On the day after the Troglodyte vote swamped North Carolina, President Obama has come out (ah hem) in favor of marriage equality.
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The Mitt Romney high school bullying story has sent right-wingers into a frenzy of the usual denials and deflections, but one example of these tactics, advanced by Sean Hannity Thursday night, only serves to reinforce the real problem with Romney's 48 year-old bullying incident: his bizarre reaction. Hannity and others are pointing to a passage in Dreams From My Father to tar President Obama as a bully, but are characteristically leaving out the most important part.
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-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama revealed the extent of his narcissism, his outsized sense of self-regard, this week during his hasty explanation of his flip flop on the issue of gay marriage. In his ABC News interview Obama waxed poetic about those American troops that he thinks are fighting for him as opposed to fighting for [...]
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"The country needs you! The country needs us!” —Bill Clinton in August of 2010, urging Hillary Clinton to run against President Obama in 2012, according to a new book by Ed Klein, the author who has previously alleged that Chelsea Clinton was conceived when Bill raped Hillary.
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Briefly: For this blog, Lyle dissects the “fine print” of President Obama’s recent statements on same-sex marriage. The Associated Press (via the Boston Globe) reports that Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island will seek Supreme Court review of a recent en banc decision by the First Circuit; at issue in the case is a dispute [...]
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On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week's big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama's "big nothing" of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he'll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?
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President Barack
Obama has landed in Afghanistan and arrived at the presidential palace in
Kabul, where he will sign a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the Afghan
government on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"President
Barack Obama is in Afghanistan for a whirlwind visit that will culminate in a
live, televised address to the American people," a White House pool report said
Tuesday.
Obama
and Afghan President Hamid Karzai
will sign the agreement shortly and Obama is scheduled to address the nation
just after 7:30 EDT Tuesday evening (4 AM local ...
Similar News >>
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Michael Barone explains why this election will be a long, hard slog despite analyses showing that Obama has this election wrapped up.The DNC starts a new hashtag, #QuestionsMittLikes and the right hijacks it.Our presidential narcissists: Clinton and Obama. And Obama did it again yesterday when he referred to members of the armed forces "out there fighting on my behalf." It's constant solipsism is quite revealing.Steven Malanga asks an important question that taxpayers are just waking up to: How much do you owe government workers? Soon states and towns are going to have to massively hike up ...
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In this exclusive opinion piece, noted Baltimore-based minister Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant responds to President Obama’s recent declaration of support for same-sex marriages. ———— The…
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The Brief
Empty promises? The much-lauded strategic partnership agreement signed by U.S. president Barack Obama on his surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday night reportedly has many promises but few guarantees, such as a pledge on the part of the Afghan government to address corruption, improve efficiency and protect human rights, without any consequences if it fails on any of those counts (AP). Some of these details will be worked out at the NATO conference in Chicago this month, but the existing language leaves many tough questions.
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