Posts tagged “Barack Obama”
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 [...]
The GOP of 2012
There was a mindboggling moment during last nights’ Republican Debate when Anderson Cooper asked Herman Cain whether he stood by a remark he made a couple weeks ago that the unemployed can only blame themselves for their predicament. After Cain responded that he meant what he originally said, the crowd erupted in a roaring applause [...]
Rehashing the “elitist” attack
(1) During the 2008 presidential election, the Clinton campaign, and then later on the McCain Campaign, often characterized Obama as a Harvard-educated elitist who was out of touch with regular working-class Americans. This talking point was enlivened when Obama nonsensically called Western Pennsylvanians “bitter” while trying to sympathize with them over their economic difficulties. For [...]
Dick Cheney on the mess the Bush Administration created
Coming from the man who thinks he is always right about everything, it is no surprise that Dick Cheney had these words of wisdom to convey to viewers of Fox News Sunday: “I have the sense that [Hillary Clinton's] one of the more competent members of the current administration, and it would be interesting to [...]