Over the past year, ACORN has taken on nearly mythical status in the deranged minds of the Tea Party crowd. ACORN has been imbued with the power to steal elections (even elections in which the organization has no involvment) and figures prominently in Glenn Beck’s chalkboard exposes of the vast left-wing conspiracy. Far from being [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Barack Obama'
Where Right-Wing Hysteria Meets Reality
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Tags: ACORN·Barack Obama·community organizing·conservative logic·Glenn Beck·Mickey Mouse·right-wing hysteria·voter fraud
Helpful Advice
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
In the spirit of Lisa Simpson, I implore President Obama not to wear his Nobel Peace Prize as he announces tonight that he will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. -AR
Tags: Afghanistan·Barack Obama·Bob Herbert·Lisa Simpson·Nobel Peace Prize
What a Difference a Year Makes
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Apparently, what the European press thinks about American foreign policy now matters to the National Review. -AR
Tags: Barack Obama·conservative logic·Europe·George W. Bush·hypocrisy·National Review
Wait, This ISN’T Sparta?!?
November 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics
In response to the story about Will Phillips, the 10 year-old Arkansas boy who refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance due the country’s woeful record on gay rights, Michael Lind argues that the very notion of a pledge of allegiance is counter to what America is supposed to be about. He traces the history [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Glenn Beck·Harry Reid·Michael Lind·Nancy Pelosi·The Pledge of Allegiance·toxic compounds·Will Phillips
The Stupak Amendment
November 11th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Before I begin, I’ll note that this is going to be one of those “easy for you to say” kind of posts. Saturday night the House brought health care reform closer to reality than it’s ever been. The House bill is the best of the various bill that’s been proposed, and would, among other things, [...]
Tags: abortion·Barack Obama·Harry Reid·health care·Nancy Pelosi·Stupak Amendment
President Obama and Last Night’s Elections
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
I have a slightly more serious expansion on my sarcastic comments from this morning about Republican attempts to pin last night’s Democratic losses on the president. The results in Virginia and New Jersey are certainly a disappointment for Obama, and an indication that the first 9 months of his presidency have not gone as well [...]
Elections!
November 4th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
One advantage to being too lazy to post anything for the last two weeks is that I never got around to posting my predictions for last night’s election. My prediction would have been that 2009 would be a mirror image of 2008, with Maine’s gay marriage ban failing but Democrats losing every other high-profile race. [...]
Boy, Did They Screw This One Up
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
When Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was announced, I thought it was a fairly silly choice by the Nobel Committee. Turns out it’s much worse; it’s actually quite perverse. I thought Obama shouldn’t have won the award because he’s still relatively new in office and hasn’t yet fulfilled the promise of his campaign. But Glenn Beck [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·conservative logic·Glenn Beck·Hitler analogies·idiocy·Norwegians
Difficult Compromises We Can Believe In!
October 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · AR, Politics
NBC’s John Harwood has quoted an anonymous White House adviser dismissing criticism of the president from progressives, particularly on the issue of gay rights, as coming from the “internet fringe left” and saying “those bloggers need to take off their pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.” [...]
And Jimmy Carter Had to Wait 20 Years?
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
While the aggravation that today’s Nobel Peace Prize announcement has caused conservatives is fun (and fitting, after all their gloating over the Olympics news), the award itself rather strange. Especially considering that nominations were due about 10 days after President Obama took office. If Obama is winning the prize for speeches he’s given, promises he’s [...]
Tags: Barack Obama·Jimmy Carter·Nobel Peace Prize·Norwegians