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Here’s a second thread to discuss what just happened. Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text for us to pick over.
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s Labor Day speech to the AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati, now under way... Wait. LABOR day?! He’s speaking to the WORKERS? Obviously, it’s another sneaky commie plot! Just look at the hidden commie artwork on the Rockefeller Building — it shows... WORKERS! We’re ...
Beer — the universal language. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he accepted an invitation to have a beer with the white police officer who arrested him this week. Gates, a black scholar, in a statement posted late Friday at The Root, accepted President Obama’s invitation to come ...
Barack Obama, Press Conference, Speech, Health Care, Cambridge, Police, Racism
Barack Obama is holding a press conference on his outrageous characterization of the Cambridge police as “stupid.” Here’s a thread to discuss, as he actually claims that this should be a “teachable moment.” Not for him, of course. For everyone else.
Barack Obama, Press Conference, Speech, Health Care, Cambridge, Police, Racism
Charles Cooper of CBS News noticed our post about Barack Obama’s smear of the Cambridge Police Department, and mentioned us in this borderline incoherent editorial: When It’s Not So Black And White. (CBS) As soon as President Obama was asked for the details in the case were destined ...
Barack Obama, Press Conference, Speech, Health Care, Cambridge, Police, Racism, CBS News
A big blow to Barack Obama’s attempt to rush the country into nationalized health care: Reid: No health care vote in Senate until fall. WASHINGTON — The top Democrat in the Senate says lawmakers won’t vote until after August on health care, a blow to President Barack Obama’s ambitious ...
Barack Obama, Press Conference, Speech, Health Care, Harry Reid
Here’s audio of Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, responding to Barack Obama’s statement that Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in the arrest of Professor Gates: Stg. James Crowley, Cambridge Police on WEEI. Crowley seems very credible. The President may have made a serious political mistake when he couldn’t ...
Barack Obama, Press Conference, Speech, Health Care, Cambridge, Police, Racism
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s press conference on health care...
Here’s a thread to discuss President Obama’s news conference, now beginning ... UPDATE at 6/23/09 10:12:31 am: Here are Obama’s opening remarks on Iran, for the record: The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few ...
MEMRI has translations of Reactions in the Arab World to Obama’s Cairo Speech. Some are pretty reasonable, and others are ... well ...
Barack Obama, Egypt, Diplomacy, Speech, Arab World, Media, MEMRI
Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are praising Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world: Israel: We hope Obama speech heralds new era in Mideast. The Israeli government praised U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world Thursday, saying it shared his hopes for Middle East peace, but stressed ...
Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text of Barack Obama’s speech this morning: What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt. I was struck by this quote, a straightforward rebuke of the conspiracy theories that are so prevalent in the Arab world (especially in Egypt): The situation in Afghanistan ...
Here’s a thread to dish about President Obama’s “First 100 Days” press conference...
A thread to discuss Barack Obama’s townhall meeting, now under way...
During an address with the Prime Minister of Ireland yesterday, Barack Obama ended up thanking himself. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar. It was. He was repeating the speech President ...
An interview with Richard Wunderman, volcanologist and museum specialist for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History: Science Club: Rick Wunderman. DCist: As I’m sure you’ve heard, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in his response to President Barack Obama’s congressional address, singled out a $140 million appropriation for the ...
Barack Obama, SOTU, Speech, Economy, Bobby Jindal, Volcano Monitoring
At The Volcanism Blog (you knew there had to be one!), they’re not too happy about Governor Bobby Jindal’s “volcano monitoring” slam: Something called ‘volcano monitoring’. The Volcanism Blog does not do politics, any more than it does sport, religion or cookery. In particular, as a blog born and ...
Barack Obama, SOTU, Speech, Economy, Bobby Jindal, Volcano Monitoring
What can you say? Obama Thinks America Invented The Automobile.
Byron York just got off the phone... I just got off the phone with a very plugged-in Republican strategist who told me that Republican reaction to President Obama’s speech, which the party will roll out in the next few days, will mark the beginning of a new GOP approach ...
Here are some quotes from conservatives reviewing The Two Speeches. On President Obama: Sen. John McCain told a CBS Web cast: “The president gave a very effective speech. I think it was a balance between the size and enormity of the challenges we face, but also an expression of ...
A second thread for Governor Bobby Jindal’s answer to the Obama love fest we just witnessed. UPDATE at 2/24/09 7:39:05 pm: I’ll bet the volcanologists aren’t happy after that. Jindal threw “volcano monitoring” under the bus. You guys in the Pacific Northwest — no “bailouts” for you! It was probably ...
Next up in the squared circle, Bobby Jindal’s response to the President’s non-SOTU...