Archive for the 'Barack Obama' Category
Y’all ever notice that Obama sometimes, in effect, pokes leftish folks with a hatpin and some spend DAYS howling that he shot them? It’s frustrating sometimes. Conservatives spent years filling the airwaves with so much pro-Republican, pro-conservative claptrap and going on so many attacks against anyone who attacked one of them, and going on counter-attacks [...]
Friday, August 27th
Posted in Barack Obama, i'm old and crabby and i have a pen, stupid people
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I’ll tell ya, I truly hate some of the language used by White “progressives” in relation to Obama. I was going to write about something else this morning but then I made the mistake of reading the comments on a post by Tasha Fierce, on feministe. I am not actually going to link to the [...]
Saturday, July 24th
Posted in Barack Obama, culture and such, feminism, politics, stuff, womanism
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Booman put together this list and since I’m on a half-way political kick this week I thought a little good political news would be in order. This should have been a good “news” week for President Obama and the Democratic congress - and would have been (to the extent that anyone pays attention to legislation and stuff) if [...]
Friday, July 23rd
Posted in Barack Obama, politics
| Tags: Congress, Democrats, handing out ponies, Obama
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Kudos to Little Green Footballs. Urgh? I know Charles Johnson has broken with the nuttier part of the GOP, but little other than that. Anyway, though… Apparently when others were piling on Shirley Sherrod yesterday, or running away from her, Lizardoids and Johnson consistently stood up for her, without even knowing what the rest of the story [...]
Tuesday, July 20th
Posted in Barack Obama, i'm old and crabby and i have a pen, stuff, stupid people
| Tags: Breitbart, Little Green Footballs, Obama Administration, Shirley Sherrod, Vilsack
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Lately I’ve been remembering a short story I read a few years ago in one of those little Ellery Queen or Alfred Hitchcock magazines. I think it was by Bill Pronzoni. It went something like this: A series of letters between a woman and her husband, who was in prison for stealing a large amount [...]
Saturday, January 9th
Posted in Barack Obama, hope, politics, the breeze at dawn
| Tags: coalition, hope and change, Obama, progressive movement
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When Obama’s presidency was declared a failure by some on the leftish end of the spectrum – before he’d even been inaugurated – I decided I’d give him a year in office before I really started either critisizing or praising. This did two things… allowed President Obama to build up a record beyond that of [...]
Sunday, January 3rd
Posted in Barack Obama, politics, promises
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