Barack Obama
A Ruthless Bill Maher Returns with Plenty of Ire for Tea-Baggers, Republicans, and Obama Alike by Patrick Gavin
They once said, if you lose Walter Cronkite, you lose the nation.
But what happens if you lose Bill Maher?
The liberal comedian has surprised friends and foes alike by adding President Barack Obama to his list of usual targets, such as conservatives and the religious right.
"He's just a president and like any president you have to hold their feet to the fire," Maher tells POLITICO.
Obama Administration’s Crisis Catchphrase: “It’s OutrAAAAgeous!” by Mark Ames
It’s that time of the year again when AIG’s executive bonuses are announced…and as every American raised on sitcoms knows, this means it’s that time in the show when the plot-twist causes the audience to gasp, and the camera cuts to a close-up of [NAME OF HORMONALLY-CAPABLE ACTOR-OF-COLOR] who delivers the viewer-pleasing catchphrase: “It’s outraaaaageous!”
Don't Call It a "Defense" Budget by Norman Solomon
The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.
Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it.
"Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromises, creates some unforeseen change over the next decade, there is virtually no room for new domestic initiatives for Mr. Obama or his successors," the New York Times reports this morning.
Barack Obama’s Year in Review by Todd Purdum
It is almost impossible, today, to summon up the feeling of promise and purpose that suffused Washington just one year ago, when more than a million Americans thronged to the Mall to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. A presidency that promised to be transformational has long since begun to feel conventional. Now it seems bedeviled beyond all recognition, with its filibuster-proof Senate majority gone in a burst of populist anger in Massachusetts.
Are Obama and Geithner the twins from hell? by Mark Ames
A lot of us have been wondering, despondently, why the Hell Barack Obama is keeping Timothy Geithner on the job as Treasury Secretary, given his central role in the plunder of trillions of dollars from American taxpayers, and his record of subverting democracy in the service of Wall Street billionaires. Geithner’s the guy that drove the getaway car in the heist — so why was he hired to run the Treasury?
Chuck Norris, Conspiracy Theorist by Michael Isikoff
The conspiracy theories about President Obama's executive order on Interpol are getting wilder by the day.
Invoking no less an authority than Glenn Beck, movie tough guy (and political activist) Chuck Norris has taken aim at Obama's Dec. 17 executive order extending certain "privileges, exemptions, and immunities" to Interpol, otherwise known as the International Police Organization, based in Lyon, France.
The Nobel Peace Prize Isn't About Peace: It's a Way for Westerners to Pat Ourselves on the Back and Change Nothing by Matt Taibbi
It’s hard to believe, but there have been sillier moments in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize than this recent fiasco involving Barack Obama — it’s just so hard to remember them when you’re rolling around on the ground and spitting up greenish foam in a state of shock, as most of us were this past weekend as the news of Obama’s amazing award rolled over the airwaves.
Carter's Charge Is a Distraction by Stanley Crouch
The most serious issue is power and the execution of policy, not the color of the man sitting in the Oval Office. But Jimmy Carter has just joined the group of print and cable-TV pundits who feel that they need to tell America some things about racism and how much of Barack Obama’s present trouble with right-wing hysteria over health-care reform is actually about hatred of his skin color.
Buying Brand Obama by Chris Hedges
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us.
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