Posted on September 24, 2009 by myiq2xu
Remember last year when we said Obama was playing the race card and the Kool-aid zombies kept chanting that Hillary was running the dirtiest campaign in history? Check out Tucker Carlson in the above video clip at 2:49 (my transcript):
Carlson: Let me just say that very clearly it was the Obama [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, General, Presidential Election 2008, racism | Tagged: Race Card | 169 Comments »
Posted on September 5, 2009 by myiq2xu
David “M-M-M-My” Sirota has written an accurate yet ridiculous piece about last year’s election:
Though the 2006 and 2008 elections were billed as progressive movement successes, the story behind them highlights a longer-term failure. During those contests, most leaders of Washington’s major labor, environmental, antiwar and anti-poverty groups spent millions of dollars on a party endeavor [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Democratic Party, Failbots, General, Presidential Election 2008 | Tagged: David Sirota | 225 Comments »
Posted on September 3, 2009 by Steven Mather
Dear Riverdaughter,
There is an interesting parallel between the situation of anti-Obama Democrats and that of the members of the resistance in post-WWII France. Given these parallels, I think it unlikely that we will receive an apology from the dark minions of the Kool-Aid Kingdom, generally-speaking. I think it more likely that they will continue to [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Financial Meltdown of 2008, General, Hillary Clinton, Media, Politics, Presidential Election 2008 | Tagged: Barack Obama, buyer remorse, DNC, Donna Brazile, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards, Keith Olbermann, Media, MSNBC, Nancy Pelosi, NO WE WON'T, Politics, PUMA, scorched Earth policy | 91 Comments »
Posted on July 28, 2009 by littleisis
I’m liberal. I’m not ashamed to say it. In fact, I’m proud of it.
Wikipedia defines liberalism as:
Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophies that considers individual liberty and equality to be the most important political goals.[1]
Liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Within liberalism, there are various streams of thought which compete over [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Iraq, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Presidential Election 2008, Sarah Palin, broken promises | Tagged: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy | 40 Comments »
Posted on July 28, 2009 by dakinikat
This week’s The Economist came with the usual stuff. I almost left it on the pile of things to read later. Last night, in a fit of insomnia, I turned to Lexington’s weekly take on U.S. politics. The title surprised and beckoned. “The Obama Cult” is hopefully one of the first [...]
Filed under: Politics, Presidential Election 2008, Worst President Ever | Tagged: Gene Healy, Lexington, Obama Cult, The Economist, the imperial presidency | 104 Comments »
Posted on July 26, 2009 by littleisis
Sarah Palin is not qualified to be the President of the United States. She is dreadfully inexperienced. She is a Fundie. That alone is normally a disqualify, but let’s continue. When it comes to women’s reproductive freedoms and choices, she disappoints. Her energy policies are mediocre at best, and her obsession with drilling in ANWR [...]
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Hillary and Bill Clinton, LGBT rights, Liberalism, PUMA, Politics, Presidential Election 2008, Presidential election 2012, Sarah Palin, The Cost of Sexism, pro-choice, pro-life, women | Tagged: feminism, Politics | 202 Comments »
Posted on July 6, 2009 by bostonboomer
In 1973, David Rosenhan, a sociologist, conducted a study (Warning, PDF file, scroll down) of the difficulty people have in overcoming being labeled as having a mental illness. Rosenhan and seven colleages got themselves admitted under false names to different mental hospitals around the country by claiming they were hearing voices, a common symptom of [...]
Filed under: Politics, Presidential Election 2008 | Tagged: David Rosenhan, Media, mental illness, New York Times, Psychology, Sarah Palin, Stanley Fish | 178 Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2009 by myiq2xu
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man,
in whom there is no help” – Psalm 146:3
Two pieces of news this week – Bill Clinton meets with some bloggers and tells them to apply pressure to Congress and the Obama administration from the left and the Washington Post fires liberal columnist [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Democratic Party, FISA, Gay community, General, Health Care Reform, Hillary and Bill Clinton, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Presidential Election 2008, broken promises, corruption, gratuitous gloating | Tagged: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, gay rights, Hillary Clinton, liars, Nancy Pelosi, Presidential Election 2008 | 68 Comments »
Posted on June 13, 2009 by riverdaughter
Atrios did his best Rodney King imitation the other day. Why can’t we all get along? We’re all on the same side now. We all want the same things on this side of the lefty blogosphere. We should be cooperating instead of attacking each other. Nice for him to say. No one was calling him [...]
Filed under: DNC, Democratic Party, Presidential Election 2008, Presidential election 2012 | Tagged: Atrios, Duncan Black, Primaries of 2008, self-determination, torture | 196 Comments »
Posted on June 12, 2009 by myiq2xu
Spare me the “she’s an anti-choice conservative” bullshit. So is Obama.
Sarah said more in defense of women than NOW did.
From Transcript (unofficial):
Here’s the problem, Matt – the double standard that has been applied here. One, let’s talk politically, the double standard. First, remember in the campaign, Barack Obama said the family’s [...]
Filed under: Gender Equity, General, Media, Presidential Election 2008, Sarah Palin, feminism, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: David Letterman, feminism, misogyny, Sarah Palin, sexism | 221 Comments »