Posts tagged “Barack Obama”
Picking Apart The Romney Tax Returns
It was with much fanfare and anticipation that Mitt Romney released his federal tax records for 2010 and 2011 yesterday morning. To keep it brief, Romney made $21.7 million in 2010 and paid 13.9 percent ($3 million) of that to the federal government. It hardly has to be mentioned that a rate of 13.9 percent is far below [...]
The Case Against American Exceptionalism
Made by Rick Santorum (1/7/2012): I was so outraged by the president of the United States for standing up and saying every child in America should go to college. Well who are you? Who are you to say that every child in America should [go to college]? I mean, the hubris of this president to [...]
Mitt Romney’s Tax Plan: Inequality At Its Finest
Mitt Romney hasn’t been too shy about making blatantly false accusations about President Obama’s economic policies throughout the duration of his primary campaign. His wild assertions reached a crescendo on Tuesday when he told supporters at a campaign stop in Iowa: “I think president Obama wants to make us a European style welfare state, where instead [...]
Recess Appointments and such
The most exciting political news of the day (and of the year, so far) is that President Obama has appointed Richard Cordray to be director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while congress is out of session, utilizing his executive power to make recess appointments. This comes after almost two years of Republican Obstructionism that has filibustered any final [...]
Mitt Will Protect Us
I’m not too sure whether the “we’ll wake up one day to socialism if Obama is elected” line of attack is going to work this time around — Obama’s been president for almost 3 years, and as far as I’m concerned, so far, none of us have been sent to the Gulag’s yet. 1 Nevertheless, [...]
The End of the Iraq War: Facts, Figures and Statistics
Earlier today, the United States Military officially declared an end to the Iraq War which began in 2003 under President George W. Bush and has lasted for nearly 9 years. For most Americans, the end of the war comes as a relief and is a small reminder of why the country voted for Barack Obama [...]
The Top 10 Mic Checks Of 2011
One of the greatest inventions of political speech this year has been the repurposing of Occupy Wall Streets “Human Microphone” into a tactical means of heckling called the “Mic Check.” Using an entirely subjective algorithm based mainly on impact factor, potency, and the deer in the headlights reaction, we at 1115 have come up with the [...]
Mitt Romney Is A Liar
This has got to be the most shameful thing anybody has said thus far on the GOP presidential campaign trail: “First of all, ads are propaganda by definition. We are in the persuasion business, the propaganda business…. Ads are agitprop…. Ads are about hyperbole, they are about editing. It’s ludicrous for them to say that an [...]
Rhetoric and Failure
Mitt Romney (11/21/2011): “They set this trap by saying we’re going to cut the military by $600 billion,” Romney said of the automatic cuts that would happen if the Super Committee did not reach a deal. “With the world that’s a dangerous place, we’re going to put the military on the chopping block. It’s like [...]
The Shifting Media Narrative Of Wall Street Campaign Contributions
Only 5 days ago, the media bombastically reported that there was a major gap in Wall Street campaign contributions, and that President Obama had lost out to his Republican adversaries. The headline that immediately echoed throughout the media landscape was that Mitt Romney had decisively taken the cake when it came to raking in contributions [...]