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Obama's declining poll numbers
President Obama is doing a good job as a President, his main problem is trying to please the Republican Party. The Republicans killed health care in 1993 and they are going to do the same things in 2009, because the GOP allows corporate America to use them against their own best intreast. I have an 82 year old friend who TOTALY lives off social ...
Posted to Politics by richard1944 on August 1, 2009
Obama
When the people understand the joke is on Obama, we will see change, and Obama will not be making jokes about how much people love him when it happens.
Posted to The Big Idea by GeorgeMerritt on May 18, 2009
You are getting this signing statement business dead wrong
The media reporting on Obama's signing statement has been hopelessly shallow and erroneous. Smart media outlets -- including, sadly, Slate -- have assumed that if all signing statements are the same, and if Obama issues one, he is must be employing a Bush-esque tactic. That is simply wrong. Yesterday's signing statement was aimed at ...
Posted to Change-o-Meter by mattcliff on March 12, 2009
Why I'm Not Sorry Bush Won
Christopher Hitchens concludes: ''It's just that there's an element of hubris in all this current hope-mongering and that I am beginning to be a little bit afraid to think of what Wednesday morning will feel like.'' President-elect Obama has persuaded a majority of the voters in a majority of the states that he ''will change the way we do ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ChipWatkins on January 19, 2009
Re: Why Thongs?
Some clothing items are just more fun than others and thongs are fun. I put my designs on t-shirts, aprons, clocks, etc., and nothing elicits more glee than the thongs. This Christmas I gave many Obama: Yes We Can thongs to my friends and family - knowing that most of them wouldn't wear them - and everyone has a great story about how they made ...
Posted to Politics by Lajla LeBlanc on January 19, 2009
Obama Thongs Were Favorite Christmas Gifts
Some clothing items are just more fun than others and thongs are fun. I put my designs on t-shirts, aprons, clocks, etc., and nothing elicits more glee than the thongs. This Christmas I gave many Obama: Yes We Can thongs to my friends and family - knowing that most of them wouldn't wear them - and everyone has a great story about how they made ...
Posted to Politics by Lajla LeBlanc on January 19, 2009
6 symbolic acts
Sen Obama got elected by a Nation that has been feeling the pinch. Aside from the six ways proposed, he should consider establishing ground rules for his Administration with some key, but symbolic acts. Here are some suggestions: 1. Mortgage bailout - no individual with credit card debt of over 1 months salary will qualify. The voters already ...
Posted to Politics by z0rr0 on November 5, 2008
Why I think it's a deceptively brilliant choice
Okay, so I am not Rebublican. But I must say I am impressed with McCain's choice of VP, even though, at first blush, it seems incongruous. But that's just it. It catches you off guard. It makes you think, why? Something about her, obviously, got the attention of the GOP, and made someone say, aha, she's the one! And then you start coming up with ...
Posted to Readme by TaylorM on September 1, 2008
History of VP picks; Crediblity as an agent of Change
Since the Civil War, exactly one ticket containing two sitting senators has won: Kennedy & Johnson. That ticket was created when Kennedy sought to unify his party by selecting as VP a strong primary rival whose strength was where Kennedy was weak. This is also a strategy Ronald Reagan used in his first open election--selecting as VP a ...
Posted to Politics by Issywise on August 25, 2008
Put Obama on the spot with his lies-Part 2
Obama's 76 lies and counting.... 1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. Source: hotair.com 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government. 3.) Father Was A Proud ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 11, 2008