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  1. Another Deeply Disappointed Constituency Posted 02 Dec 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles

    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 [...]

  2. Depends on the Definition of Change Posted 01 Dec 2009 under Depends on the Definition of, Depends on the Definition of Change, War on Terror

    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 official told reporters that [...]

  3. Coming Soon: Incontrovertible Evidence Of Torture? Posted 22 Oct 2009 under Bush Man Date, War on Terror

    Binyam Mohamed is one of the victims of TWAT (The War Against Terror). The bare facts are: Mohamed, arrested in Pakistan in April 2002, was accused of training at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, joining a squad of al Qaeda bomb-makers in Pakistan and plotting to set off a radioactive bomb in the United States. In [...]

  4. For The Staggering Achievement Of “Not Being George Bush”… Posted 09 Oct 2009 under Bush Man Date, Media, Obama Uber Alles

    Henry Unger has a blog on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website. The title of his overnight post today is: Power Breakfast: Strategic hiring, Obama peace prize, state revenue drops Just like the news itself that Obama has won the Peace Prize, I do not get it. Whether you are a fan of the President or [...]

  5. Peddling Discredited Neocon Batshit Posted 22 Jun 2009 under Media, Obama Uber Alles, Religious Right / Extremists

    Anne Gearan’s byline describes her as the “National Security Writer” at AP. Either they don’t use the word correspondent at AP any more, or they’re embarrassed enough about Gearan’s article that they don’t want to dignify her with that term. Gearan thinks that “In his first major test of international leadership, President Barack [...]

  6. Lies In The News Posted 11 Jun 2009 under Bush Man Date, Economy, Media

    Here’s a little round-up of lies that made the news yesterday. (1) Little Lizzie lies again. This time, it was on Campbell Brown’s CNN show, during a “Great Debate” segment with Salon’s Joan Walsh: WALSH: Liz, the top — the top military leaders of our country want Guantanamo closed. President Bush, in June 2009 [sic], gave a [...]

  7. Makes Perfect Sense Posted 04 Apr 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles

    Summers Received Hundreds Of Thousands In Speaking Fees From TARP Recipients – Huffington Post (4/3/09): Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees last year from firms that have direct financial interests before the government or are intimately involved in the White House’s bank relief programs. The White House [...]

  8. Not As Ridiculous As He Hoped Posted 11 Mar 2009 under Bill Clinton, Bush Man Date

    Former president George Bush isn’t exactly setting the lecture circuit on fire. The first step in his plan to start making “ridiculous” money out on the lecture circuit (by doing what he does worst) is going to be a March 17 engagement in Calgary, Canada. When that engagement was announced last month, [...]

  9. Huckabee’s Snake Oil Solution Posted 27 Feb 2009 under Republican Clown Show

    Mike Huckabee has evidently pondered the problem of how to bring Republicans bouncing back into political relevance at the national level. And he has come up with a dynamite solution: take a discredited slogan from the most discredited Republican president in living memory, tweak it slightly, and sell it like snake oil. In a speech [...]

  10. Hypocrisy Watch Posted 24 Feb 2009 under Economy, Obama Uber Alles

    Think Progress gets all triumphant with regards to this bit from Obama’s speech: [W]e have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy [...]

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