Mount Rushmore – Mount Rushmore Edition
No, we’re not getting meta. Worse. We’re talking Presidents…
Tagged: President Obama
Obama’s Awkward ‘Between Two Ferns’ Interview
Artistically speaking, turning ‘Between Two Ferns’ into a commercial for the Affordable Care Act was a bad idea.
Legal, Restricted Abortion Is Here to Stay
Today, on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to “the decision’s guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and...
Waiting for Halabja
~by Creon Critic What exactly is the delay in formulating a comprehensive strategy to transition the Assad regime out of power in Syria? However reluctant President Obama is to get further involved in another...
Something’s Rotten in the State of Our Union
Many have debated the President’s remarks from last Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech. E.D. Kain thought it was very successful, providing the American audience with a “rousing speech about the American dream,...
“We Got Sold Out”
Once thought the great liberal hope, captivating progressive audiences everywhere with promises of change, Obama has fallen largely out of favor with his left of center supporters. There are lots of reasons for this,...
Undermining the Republicrats
Over at the Liberty Papers, Quincy offers a distinctive take on Obama’s attack on the Citizens United ruling. Money quote: It is not the thought of special interests influencing politics that scares the ruling...
Meta-Narrating: The Year in Review for President Obama
Paul Krugman’s op-ed (for today) begins: Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular,...
Taxes: Where Political and Constitutional Expediency Collide
I’ve been out of pocket from the political realm for a week and a half, but President Obama’s claim that a health insurance mandate is not a tax strikes me as marginally good politics...
The Only Thing That Matters in War is Looking Tough
Peter Feaver writing in the Shadow Gov’t blog does an e-squat and drops a steaming pile of foreign policy cow manure. But it’s worth reading insofar as it gives us a sense of Republican...
A quick post on Obama and gay rights
At the risk of ruffling the feathers of a few of my blogging comrades, I think that Kevin Drum is basically correct when he asks LGBT activists to chill out a little: Still, even...
Running the Option
Noam Levey and Janet Hook writing in the LaTimes today: Reporting from Washington – Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes...
Blame Congress
So here’s Bill Maher doing this thing and directing it at Obama. I think it’s good that Obama get some real criticism from his left, but still I just have to my roll my...
Obama and The (Quasi?)Imperial Presidency
The always worth reading Charlie Savage had a really important piece in the NyTimes four days ago which in the midst of all the financial meltdown news slipped through the cracks. Savage writes: The...
Beyond the Stimulus?
David Leonhardt writing in the NyTimes: But while Washington has been preoccupied with stimulus and bailouts, another, equally important issue has received far less attention — and the resolution of it is far more...
