Archive for December, 2009
Another Deeply Disappointed Constituency
This is likely to get drowned out by the Afghanistan speech today, but it seems that AIDS activists are as deeply disappointed by President Obama as the LGBT community is. So deeply disappointed that they’re actually comparing him to Bush and finding Bush more praiseworthy, unfathomable though that may seem: World AIDS Day 2009 is [...]
Bad Sign
No doubt there are people working hard to prepare top-ten lists in the wake of President Obama‘s Afghanistan speech. I’m not. But if I were working on a list of “Top Ten Signs That Obama Got It Wrong”, this would have to be number one: Jim Inhofe found it commendable. I commend the President for [...]
Depends on the Definition of Change
2009-2013: The Third Bush Term: Senior administration officials are briefing the press about President Obama’s speech tonight detailing the 30,000 more troops he’ll be sending to Afghanistan. They say he will outline a “new window of opportunity” and a “new approach” to the region. But another talking point emerged, with language we’ve heard before. An [...]
Mega-Whopper From HarperCollins Spokesperson About Palin’s “Bus” Tour
When is a private jet a bus? When it’s Sarah Palin providing the free-verse translation: As much of her entourage, including HarperCollins publicist Tina Andreadis, risked a collective case of White Line Fever, covering more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week, Sarah Palin herself seems to have remained above it all, [...]