The Orwellian New Republic: It wasn’t a boring speech it was cunning. Obama isn’t caving to business he’s coopting them. TNR is filling the Obama Kool-Aid space left by Newsweek’s collapse.
I can’t imagine a scenario in which this is legal. But it goes in the “What collapse looks like in the United States” file.
Fascinating: Liberal Gavin Newsom’s wife has made a documentary about the media’s mistreatment of Palin.
Why won’t this go away? Arizona re-introduces birther statute.
Last night’s radio show guest Dyllan Young forwarded this link: Obama embraces business agenda. Only 3 months ago Obama was attacking business at every turn. As has too often the case the interview with Mr. Young needed to be longer. He’s agreed to come back.
Though I’ve lately intoned against too much teevee watching, I am baffled that I missed this masterpiece.
I see, in the New Republic piece that blather is now a plan.
Who would have guessed?
Speaking of expedited appeals, I can hardly get any work done I’ve been laughing so hard at this fake twitter feed of Rahm Emanuel.
http://twitter.com/MayorEmanuel
Actually, my new years resolution – in this the winter of our discontent – is to try to find something to laugh at every day. I can’t believe I missed this (mostly because I don’t watch Letterman anymore), but this has kept me going for the month of Jan. (And, I LOVE this guy in “it’s always sunny in philadelphia”). We don’t have interns at my job, but if we did, I’d hire him:
At first I thought that was Christian Slater. The resemblance to his voice is uncanny.
Craig Crawford occasionally gets it right, and this is one of those times
http://tinyurl.com/4lr3yf9
“Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech abandoned his party’s ideals for re-electable bipartisanship, promoting corporate tax cuts, tort reform, smaller government, spending cuts, health reform concessions and a myriad of other proposals to establish himself as a center-right leader. All good moves for playing it safe in a center-right nation, but not at all how he presented himself in 2008 to win liberal party support against Hillary Clinton. If anything, he has become exactly what he then argued she would be. My guess is that had HRC won she would have turned out to be a more determined and effective liberal than Obama. Now that’s some kind of irony.”
Yeah, the GOP may not need to run anyone against Obama in 2012. I mean, why bother?
Here it comes, the first wave of anti-SS indoctrination:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/26/politics/main7286861.shtml
But it makes sense to leave the rich alone, continue to fund two unnecessary wars, and assure Wall Street of bigger bonuses while walking away from any accountability.
Makes sense to me!
I heard this on the radio this morning and thought “Here it comes… the very first lie about SS goes to CBS”. I wonder what they had to do to “get this scoop”?
Maybe promise to not hire Olbermann?
A big part of the reason that the “birther” controversy is still alive is because Obama refuses to release his actual birth certificate, and has spent millions in legal fees to obstruct any efforts to uncover it. It’s just weird behavior, plain and simple. And, overtly weird behavior – added to his other weird refusal to release many other records of his life that all other presidents have released without question – by public officials combined with a media’s refusal to question it absolutely feeds conspiracy theories.
I know what people think about Hillbuzz, but they are on to something lately, which I’ve thought was likely the truth behind this for a while. It’s not that Obama wasn’t born in the US and is trying to hide the fact that he’s not eligible to run for president. It’s that there is something on his birth certificate that calls into question the hagiograpy he built for himself. If this is indeed the case, he’s going to have to come up with increasingly convoluted reasons – whether directly or, more likely, through surrogates – to explain why he doesn’t just produce the damn certificate as states add the requirement to show a certificate to be added to the presidential ballot in 2012. Or, he could drop out, or just face the music and own up to whatever thing he thinks will embarass him about the info on his BC.
HillBuzz? Really?
Yes. Really. I don’t censor what I read or where I get information. I just consider the source.
This meme has been out there for a while. I’ve thought he was probably born in the U.S. for some time, but the BC says something that flies in the face of his created narrative.
He has a siamese twin, Larry Obama. They were joined at the head, which explains that huge, zig-zag scar on the side of Barry’s skull.
You heard it here first.
If it was simply a matter of “being born in the US” I think Obama & his crew would have been able to either circumvent that, or release it.. then Obama would give a big emotional TV speech about his father, what it means for him to be an America, blablabla and he’d get away with it. If it was that simple they’d have played this card by now… and he’d probably get a big bounce from it.
The reality is probably that Obama and Obama’s mom probably have no idea who his father is.
What I suspect may be the issue, and one theory that keeps coming up, is that Frank Marshall Davis, who was married at the time, is in fact Obama’s birth father… his mother also had a relationship with the elder Obama at the time and it was easier to have him take the “responsibility” for paternity.
Now that in an of itself isn’t really an issue for me, I’ve got no problem with that and actually if that was the case I’d sympathize with his mother who was young and found herself in that situation.
BUT.. what that does, is pretty much destroy “Brand Obama” , the son of a modest goat herder who overcame adversity, racism and made it big.
Laws can be amended, but if people lose faith in the brand they lose belief in the illusion.
Think about whatever makes more sense to keep the “story” going.
In fact, one of the reasons I love John’s blog is that he doesn’t either. He’s pretty ecumenical in where he pulls in information, with appropriate skepticism depending on the source.
Well I guess if a blog who sends a letter of apology to the Bush administration for ever having criticized him in the past is your idea of “ecumenical” then so be it.
Only one would want to ask the question of why that action was so necessary after having lived through 8 years of criminal behavior that has brought the nation to the brink. But then again I would suppose that any blog that supports the GOP must have its good points? Or am I incorrect in suggesting that this was the very same blog that was created to boost Hillary Clinton only a short time ago? Or lying us into an unnecessary war? Or outing a CIA agent? Or condoning torture?
Having difficulty equating the two polar opposite positions.
Yes, Pat, I too have problems with the double positions. But it seems to me that HillBuzz, like so many other Dems I know, has completely disowned anything to do with the Dem Party since Obama was selected. It is the disillusionment after years of blind support.
Besides, I like his mom’s writing from The Mineral City Coffee Club.
Maybe so. I myself cannot tolerate Obama but I don’t feel the urge to run over to the Right and embrace policies which are the exact opposite of the Dem principles they supposedly endorsed when Hillary was a candidate.
Hillary devoted her life to women’s issues and the candidates they have been touting are the exact opposite. Trying to “marry” the two differences requires giant leaps that I am not equipped to explain.
But when a reportedly “Democratic blog” does an about face by apologizing to George W. Bush something ain’t quite right. That man should have been impeached instead of reaping praise and offered a mea culpa for any critique thrown his way. He deserved them.
I gave up on that site when this occurred since it made little sense and the outrage following that action was summarily banned or deleted. All discussion surrounded support of the GOP and their operatives, conveniently forgetting that much of the misery we live with today was created in large part by that party who seeks to deny equal rights through legislation once given the chance.
Obama may be the biggest bust to have ever emerged from the Dem Party but there is little reason to rush out and hold the Right up as an antidote which is what has transpired since the election.
Those who admire the positions laid down by Jim Demint and Michele Bachmann, as only two examples, can no longer be considered – if they ever were – disillusioned Democrats. Even us disillusioned Dems won’t go that far.
hillbuzz freaks me out. I admit this. It seems like resentment over 2008 was taken to an extreme and processing of it stopped dead in its tracks. I think it is important to avoid forgetting the reality of the past but also to stay current. The resentment at Hillbuzz has become poison. My politics did not change because Clinton got screwed over. They have evolved a bit, I question my stances – this seems sane and logical. We live in weird times. What I dislike about HillBuzz is that I question whether they ever knew or understood Hillary Clinton. If so how could they have become so strident? Clinton is many things. Strident idealogue is not one of them.
That said: There is interesting information in many places. I do not fear the messenger. People can decide for themselves.
Also – I do think there is stuff to chew on in the meta-narrative of places like HillBuzz and, for that matter, the Tea Party. The anger tells us something and not all of it is crazy.
Yes. I, myself, think that Hillbuzz was either republican all along and just liked HRC. Or, were REALLY conservative dems (which there are plenty of) who swing both ways (if I can say that), liked the Clintons (like a lot of dems who voted for Reagan), and now their conservativism is asserting itself.
So, I don’t go to that site because I agree with their politics. I go there because they often have interesting theories about off the wall things, they are a great source of how tea party types feel about the “cocktail party” GOP, as they call them and they are also a great source of info about what’s going on on the ground in Chicago – where I used to spend a great deal of time.
It’s the same reason that I listen to Limbaugh and Beck from time to time. It aboslutely helps to understand what all sides are saying. I have core, liberal, principles that I will always adhere to. Listening to people I vehemently disagree with is not going to change that. But, it helps make me a lot more informed about political trends.
Plus, they are often freaking hysterical. Their stories about one of the member’s sister Ann Louise and her pretensions of being an actress, their friend Panda’s escapades and, funniest of all, their calling politicians like Pawlenty and Romney “soggy cucumber and mayonnaise” candidates.
I used to go to Hillbuzz alot during the primaries but it got kind of wierd once Obama became president.. Did they change the site from Hill(ary)buzz to (Capitol)Hillbuzz??
Cause every time I go there I see kind of off-the-wall Palin articles… or is Hillbuzz just a destination for women who feel disenfranchised based on Hillary Clinton’s treatment throughout her campaign? (I’m not generalizing, I’m genuinely not sure)
Anyway.. some funny articles there, and some things that make you wonder what the hell is going on? Like the person who inserted this Sarah Palin picture into an existing painting:
http://hillbuzz.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/palin-gop-card-game3.jpg