TagsTagsAn extraordinary moment for President Obama, as he answers questions from the Republicans lions inside their den — the GOP House retreat. This is the full 86-minute recording from the C-SPAN Video Library. [Video]
Barack Obama, Democrats, Republicans, House of Representatives
Interesting numbers for the President’s first SOTU speech, from a CBS News-Knowledge Networks poll: Poll: 83% of Speech Watchers Approve of Obama’s State of the Union Proposals. A large majority of Americans who watched President Obama’s State of the Union Address generally approve of the proposals he outlined in his ...
Barack Obama, State of the Union, Speech, United States, Poll
It’s clear that the State of the Union speech has become a performance, and not just by the President; all the politicians in the audience are performers too, and everything they do during the speech is under the microscope: Alito’s State of the Union moment. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. ...
Barack Obama, State of the Union, Speech, United States, Samuel Alito
Here’s an open thread for pondering, debating, arguing, and bare knuckle brawling in the aftermath of President Obama’s first State of the Union speech.
President Obama’s first State of the Union address is scheduled to begin in about two minutes; here’s the live video courtesy of Hulu.com. Hulu Video
Barack Obama, State of the Union, Speech, United States, Video
Here’s an open thread as we wait for President Obama’s State of the Union speech at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern. Thanks to Hulu.com, I’ll have live embedded video of the speech as it happens.
Here’s a wonky but not overly technical discussion of the virtues and flaws in President Obama’s plan to address the failures of large banks, by Sebastian Mallaby at the Washington Post: Obama’s bank solution goes too far — and not far enough.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) suggests that President Obama or Attorney General Holder advised Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead not guilty so he could have a show trial in Manhattan. Sometimes it seems as if right wing politicians are in a contest to see who can uncork the ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Video
Prediction: following the publication of Game Change, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann aren’t going to be invited into many more political inner circles. In addition to the Harry Reid quote that led to an apology from Reid yesterday, Marc Ambinder excerpts some of the juiciest revelations: The authors write on page ...
Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Campaign, Game Change, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s new book “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” is making plenty of waves in Washington; today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized for remarks cited in the book, describing then-candidate Barack Obama as “light-skinned … with ...
[Video] Uh, Rudy — the statement that we had “no domestic attacks” when Bush was President is simply false. Even assuming you meant “after 9/11,” domestic terror attacks under Bush’s watch included: Richard Reid, the anthrax letters, the shootings at Los Angeles International Airport, and several other incidents. Good grief. Is there anyone ...
Rudy Giuliani, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Video
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s latest statement on the Christmas Day attack, and the more general war against Al Qaeda and militant Islam. UPDATE at 1/7/10 1:53:02 pm: The review of security and intelligence systems is now posted at the White House website: Release of the Security Review Conducted After ...
Bertha M. Lewis, CEO of the dreaded right wing boogeyman ACORN, is interviewed by Esquire’s John H. Richardson, and mentions Andrew Breitbart’s crazy accusation (that he finally retracted yesterday after leaving it hanging out there for 6 days): Acorn Group vs Fox News - Interview with Bertha Lewis of ACORN ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
It took him six days to do it, but Andrew Breitbart has finally issued a lame semi-apology for his completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: UPDATE: White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor’s Log - Big Government. Of course, it ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart
Still no retraction at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog for their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence Week Before Sting Videos Launched - Big Government. And no correction at Fox Nation ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) says this picture of Barack Obama as a shoeshine boy isn’t racist — because Rush Limbaugh was a shoeshine boy. UPDATE: Or is it racist? Rush Limbaugh actually was a shoeshine boy. Yeah the racial stereotype is a bit shaky — when I was a kid I ...
Racism, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Instapundit, Rush Limbaugh
Should we start taking bets on whether Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog is going to retract their completely false claim that the CEO of ACORN visited the White House on September 5th? It’s been four days now, and still no correction: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong, Fox News
Looks like my post about the Photoshopped image of Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin’s shoes hit a nerve in the wingnut universe, because someone has actually spent time on New Year’s Day to create another version of the picture, pasting my head on the shoe shine boy’s body: The caption asks: ...
Racism, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Charles Johnson, Stupidity
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ignoring ...
Conspiracy Theories, Hate Speech, Extremism, paranoia, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Barack Obama, Right Wing
Here we go again. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog has a story on the release of another batch of White House visitor records, and they’ve found sinister evidence that Barack Obama is in cahoots with the dreaded demons of ACORN: White House Visitors Log: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis In Obama Residence ...
Acorn, Barack Obama, Fact Checking, Right Wing, Smear, Wrong
Here’s yet another ugly little upwelling of racism from the right wing base, as a Colorado Department of Transportation employee forwards an email to her co-workers containing a photoshopped image of President Barack Obama giving Sarah Palin a shoeshine. UPDATE at 1/1/10 4:52:47 pm: The shoeshine picture is also in this thread ...
President Obama is making another statement on the failed terror attack on Christmas Day, and he isn’t mincing words about the failures of the system that’s supposed to identify possible threats. Here’s a thread to discuss. Quote: What’s also clear is this: when our government has information on a known extremist, and ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
All of the wingnut blogs are screaming that in his statement about the Northwest 253 terror attack, President Obama called the alleged terrorist an “isolated extremist.” This one comes straight from Karl Rove and Fox News, and it’s already everywhere on the right wing: ‘isolated extremist’ - Google Search. They’re trying to ...
Terrorism, Airplane, Detroit, Nigeria, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda
[Video] UPDATE at 12/28/09 4:35:35 pm: ABC News has pictures of the explosive device sewn into accused bomber Abdulmutallab’s underwear: Northwest Airlines Bomb Photos - ABC News.