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By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 1, 2009 in Campaign promises, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Charitable Contributions, Current Affairs, FCC, Foreign Affairs, France, Fund Raising, Governance, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice | 54 Comments
Most of us know that there are many positions, like being an ambassador to, say France and Monaco, is often a payback for the person giving tons of money to the candidate. Well, guess what? Not only is Obama doing just that, but the man who claimed to bring “change to Washington” has [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 13, 2009 in Abuse, Afghanistan, Bamboozling, Bush administration, Campaign promises, Current Affairs, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Human Rights, Obama's Broken Promises, Pakistan, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Sara in Italy, UN Human Rights Council, Women and Children | 23 Comments
Dr. Sima Samar. Now, some of you may know who she is already. For those who do not, or for those who are want to learn more, this is for you. (H/t to my aunt for sending me a mini biography on her, and to American Girl in Italy for mentioning her [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Sep 17, 2009 in Barack Obama, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Gay Rights, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, No Quarter Blog, Washington Post | 49 Comments
My well meaning, but decidedly Obot, sister sent me an article from alternet.org recently written by a lesbian mother detailing the additional financial difficulties we face when we are on our partner’s health care coverage (”Unbelievable: As A Lesbian Mother, I Have To Pay More For Health Care“). Well, I can appreciate her alarm, [...]
By Mel Goodman on Sep 4, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman | 16 Comments
David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius, and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators. And like his colleagues, Broder has put forth a list of irrelevant reasons for turning [...]
By Mel Goodman on Aug 27, 2009 in CIA, Mel Goodman, Washington Post | 22 Comments
Editor: This op-ed was first published Aug. 25th at The Public Record, and is reprinted with the express permission of Mel Goodman.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius simply cannot get off the wheel he spins for the Central Intelligence Agency. Only two days after the release of the 2004 CIA study of the detention [...]
By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Aug 20, 2009 in Current Affairs | 59 Comments
Crud Layer 2
The intention of it all.
What a catastrophe, they cried. What a horrific financial debacle, the sky is truly falling and we must have all your money right this instant lest even more dire events come to pass… how could this have happened? Who could have foreseen this… Whoa!, wait just a minute, it [...]
By American Girl in Italy on Aug 3, 2009 in Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Health Care, Obama Administration, Sara in Italy, Universal Health Care | 76 Comments
I saw this little tid-bit on HotAir today:
One patient in Oregon got a letter that made this all too clear, when in the same letter rejecting her request for life-extending chemotherapy, Oregon offered her “physician-aid-in-dying”. In other words, Oregon offered their customer a heapin’ helping of death:
Yikes, *sorry, no drugs for you, but we can [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 7, 2009 in Backtrack Obama, Bailouts, Bamboozling, Banking Institutions, Barack Obama, Campaign promises, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Current Affairs, Flip Flopping, Hoodwinking, Israel, Messiah, Political Correctness, Qualifications, SusanUnPC, Wall Street | 42 Comments
Talk about your marketing ploy, which I, along with others, have been doing for a while now (most recently, “The Campaign’s Over, Obama: It’s Time To Lead“). But the incomparable Chris Hedges has done a remarkable job at highlighting just exactly how true that is (and it is true - his campaign won the [...]
By Ani on Apr 26, 2009 in Hillary Clinton, MSNBC, Obama, Obama Administration, President Barack Obama | 114 Comments
Your op-ed in the LA Times on Friday, The GOP: divorced from reality, was really something to behold – a compendium of all the worst smears you could find, carelessly banding all those who oppose President Obama’s reckless actions on the economy into one group. I have never been a member of the GOP [...]
By LisaB on Mar 27, 2009 in Current Affairs | 70 Comments
Is it 100 days yet? Prospect Magazine has a fascinating overall look at the Obama administration to date. Pulling no punches, it begins with this:
Barack Obama was always going to disappoint. When you promise almost everything to almost everybody—I’ll stop the fighting in Iraq but I’ll also keep going after al Qaeda there; [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jan 1, 2009 in Current Affairs | 137 Comments
Looking back on the 2007-2008 endless Democratic primaries:
The 2002 video below is a great find. It makes a complete mockery of the Kossacks’ endless cruelty and rude, revolting revilement of anyone who supported Hillary Clinton.
Larry Johnson, NewHampster, and I were among the many diarists at Daily Kos who tried to advocate for Hillary Clinton.
Yes. It [...]
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on Dec 28, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton | 70 Comments
From Susan: Larry and I, and then our growing family of writers, began writing so many stories on the candidates and the elections that we nearly lost track of the rich history of frank reports in our archives — those stories we wrote that provide the tell-tale “truth and nothing but the truth” that YOU [...]
By Truthteller on Nov 21, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Corruption, Earmarks, Illinois senate, Michelle Obama, Obama, Obama Comrades, Obama's Priorities, Obama's Thugs, Rev. James Meeks, Richard Daley | 39 Comments
Just as Daley controlled Obama in Chicago, Daley will control Obama in Washington, DC. I quote the Chicago Tribune with added emphasis:
It didn’t take long for Barack Obama to start playing a significant role in promoting Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
About 15 minutes into Chicago’s Friday presentation of its bid plans to [...]
By Larry Doyle on Nov 6, 2008 in Current Affairs, Economy | 117 Comments
****I hope that people can access this article which will appear in tomorrow’s WSJ. This piece gives a great recap of the very painful delevering (unwinding investments made with borrowed funds) for Citadel, one of the higher profile hedge funds in the business. — Wall Street Journal
Markets are down another 4-5% on [...]
By Ani on Nov 2, 2008 in Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Current Affairs, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Electability, Elitism, Joe Biden, Joe The Plumber, John Kerry, John McCain | 184 Comments
I am delighted to see that Senator McCain currently has the wind at his back. Otherwise, this country stands at the precipice of one of the biggest electoral mistakes imaginable – making the singularly unqualified Senator Obama Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces and leader of the free world. By his own [...]
By Truthteller on Oct 28, 2008 in Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Barack Obama, Iran, Israel | 51 Comments
One wonders how Barack Obama will solidify relations of trust with our allies abroad when Nicolas Sarzoky, the French President who presided over a joint press conference with Barack Obama on the subject of Iran in July, characterized Obama’s foreign policy stances and formulations to Isreali foreign officials as “utterly immature,” “empty of content,” “very [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 16, 2008 in Barack Obama, Qualifications | 82 Comments
Can anyone provide a list of substantive accomplishments that Barack Obama can claim, besides winning office and going to college? The one executive job Obama had — when Bill Ayers hired him to chair the $50 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge — meant that he had to carry out Bill Ayers’ radical school reform initiatives, [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 15, 2008 in Current Affairs | 362 Comments
I’ll close the first post-debate thread soon to keep the servers from overloading.
GREAT DISCUSSION by all of you! We have some really thoughtful, insightful people here. I’m glad you come here to share impressions and opinions.
Someone posted, “I saw a different McCain tonight.” That is very true. And our [...]
By LisaB on Oct 10, 2008 in ACORN, Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, British, Current Affairs, DNC idiocy, Race, Race Card, Racism | 59 Comments
1) Iceland considers bankruptcy. From the International Herald Tribune:
People go bankrupt all the time. Companies do, too. But countries?
Iceland was on the verge of doing exactly that on Thursday as the government shut down the stock market and seized control of its last major independent bank. That brought trading in the country’s currency to a [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 8, 2008 in Joe Biden, Open Thread | 293 Comments
Last week, although you never heard a word about it anywhere, over 300 flag officers endorsed McCain/Palin. Today, over 100 retired ambassadors just endorsed McCain/Palin (and I’ll post that info below).
I just heard V.P Joe Biden — who cannot tamp down his arrogance although god knows a hell of a lot of people have [...]
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