Another Obama Myth Busted

I thought there was something fishy about that whole “unprecedented number of death threats” bullshit. It turns out that (once again) I was right.
You may have missed it yesterday because of the wall-to-wall coverage of Sarah Palin, but on Thursday the House of Representatives questioned Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan under oath regarding the [...]

Der Kriegsnobelpreisträger*

From Robert Scheer at Truthdig:

HERE WE GO AGAIN
It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic president, and thanks to the political opportunism of the current commander in chief the Afghanistan war is still without end or logical purpose. President Barack Obama’s own top national security adviser has stated that there are fewer than [...]

OFA Pre-Speech Memo

This arrived in my email by mistake:
From: David Axelrod, Obots For America
To: XXXX
Dear valued OFA team member:
Tonight Barack Obama will make a very important speech about the conflict in Afghanistan. It is crucial that we rally support for our President as he implements his new strategy. Here’s how you can help:
1. During [...]

Put down the Kool-aid and step away from the punchbowl

 
I really thought saying “I told you so” would be more fun. From Michael Moore:
 
Dear President Obama,
Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war [...]

What Glenn Greenwald Said (h/t to bluelyon)

I very rarely post something that’s based on just go read this, but go read this!
But is it really that surprising that many people did believe that Obama actually meant what he said, given that the entire campaign was predicated on his self-proclaimed uniqueness as a candidate and his over-arching intent to rid our political [...]

Our First Pacific President??

 
Our “smartest President ever” is a moron. From Politico:
 
Trying to reassure allies and rivals, President Barack Obama billed himself Saturday as “America’s first Pacific president,” promising the nations of Asia “a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect.”
“America’s first Pacific President” took office forty years ago, and [...]

When the President does it . . .

 
This way to the Egress:
 
In the first major shakeup among President Barack Obama’s senior staff, White House Counsel Greg Craig is being pushed out in favor of veteran Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer because of a dispute over plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba, CNN has learned.
The move will be announced by the [...]

The London Times does not mince Words …

From the Times of London
The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.
Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian [...]

This is change?

This is one of those stories I offer up not because I really know much about the subject at hand but because what’s
being talked about doesn’t pass the smell test for me.   Policy on terrorism was one of those issues where we were supposed to see a distinct difference between the Dubya/vpResident Evil administration and [...]

Who Holds Wall Street Accountable?

If your answer included any of number regulators or congress with its oversight duties or the traditional media with its watchdog of the public duties sorta answer, that would be a wrong answer. There were so many articles today about past and present Wall Street tomfoolery that I almost forgot [...]