CNN's Drew Griffin is an Ass!!!
Pardon my rant. I just watched a segment of CNN's AC360 program and as happened during the general election with Drew Griffin's disingenuous ACORNreport, he's at it again.This time he went to Missouri...
View ArticlePresident Obama sends Video message to Iranian People
The White House has released a video message that President Obama sent to the people of Iran on the occasion of the celebration of Persian New Year, Nowruz. In this video the President moves to fulfill...
View ArticlePrez. Obama speech in Prague, Czech Rep. w/ Videos & full text (updated)
While you were sleeping, President Obama was advancing American diplomacy in the Czech Republic culminating in a major foreign policy speech in the beautiful city of Prague. The American media repeat...
View ArticlePrez. Obama's Speech to Turkish Parliament w/full video, text & pics
President Obama today addressed the Turkish Parliament, after a joint press conference earlier in the day with Turkish President Abdullah Gul. the thrust of the speech was the importance of Turkey not...
View ArticleBreaking: Hillary hits back at Cheney!!! w/ Video Update on...
It looks like the Obama administration is ready to fight Cheney head on. Hillary just attacked Dick Cheney's credibility on the torture memo saga.***LATEST UPDATE***Here's the link to the CSPAN video...
View Article100th day: Pres. Obama will have the last Word!!!
You have just gotta love this President's sense of humor and media savvy coming from the shrewd minds operating at the White House. Why? Well, President Obama will hold Primetime Press Conference on...
View ArticleFrank Luntz to GOP: Don't fight Obama on Healthcare, Lie instead
As with all things Republican these days, it is truly a marvel to see them reflexively turn every single time to their Rovian toolkit of debunked lies, obfuscation, and projection, to hoodwink the...
View ArticleFrom Ghana: Pres. Obama's Upcoming visit - [Part 1]
Hello fellow Kossacks,Greetings from Ghana where there is fever-pitch anticipation of President Obama’s scheduled 24-hour visit from Friday July 10th through Saturday the 11th. The title of a brand new...
View ArticleFrom Ghana: Analysis of Obama Visit (Part 2)
Hello fellow Kossacks, Greetings from Ghana. This is Part 2 of the diary I posted on Wednesday offering analyses of President Obama’s visit to Ghana. In Part 1, I briefly discussed background context...
View ArticleGet Ready, "Slit Your Wrists," Bachman-style!!
It is very tempting to chalk the latest episode of Bachmania to yet more sick evidence of right wing lunacy and dismiss it with some eye-rolling or shake of the head. Nothing wrong with that reaction,...
View ArticleSec. Hillary Clinton Diplomacy abroad
While the beltway villagers wallow in their insipid pettiness ridiculing the President's Nobel Peace Prize, our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been out there carrying out this administration's...
View ArticlePres. Bush Sr. invites Pres. Obama to "Re-education" Summit in Texas
Anyone remember Michele Bachman's recently stated fear that the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act under President Obama, is actually a scary totalitarian plot to send our youth to "re-education camps...
View ArticleReality TV: Why did the Presidential Q&A resonate?
I, like many viewers who chanced upon last Friday's live televised Presidential Q&A at the Republican House Caucus Retreat in Baltimore, and those who caught replays later, sat absolutely riveted....
View ArticlePres. Obama's interview with Indonesian TV
Folks There is a reason the world was holding its collective breath during the recent healthcare saga. They want him to succeed so much with his domestic agenda, so that he can turn his attention back...
View ArticleArizona's Ethnic Studs. ban due to Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"?
I literally fell out of my chair just a few moments ago watching Chris Matthews bring on Doug Nick, one of the authors of the law banning Ethnic Studies, and he argued with a straight face that the ban...
View ArticleDon't Get Mad! Get Even: Defeat Wingnuts Everywhere
*This diary is also posted at Wee See You**Listen folks! If Halperin’s juvenile antics this past week confirmed anything at all, it is the fact that we should expect even more of this venal behavior...
View ArticleVeep Biden blasts Romney "Foreign Policy" Speech
In what VSP (very serious people) mouthpiece Mark Halperin calls a surprising response (why, I have no idea) , Vice President Joe Biden wasted no time in blasting Romney's foreign policy insult...
View ArticleRemember when Pres. Obama Peeled Paul Ryan Apart? *Updated*
Long before their notable public sparring during the "Massacre in Baltimore" when Pres. Obama laid to waste the entire House Republican caucus at their Jan 29, 2010 retreat until now, Paul Ryan fancied...
View ArticleRyan Choice = Brazenly Hoodwinking White Middle Class
Thomas Edsall’s brilliant piece this morning provides one of the best syntheses of the cynical and cruel bets that the Bircherized GOP is making this election – that White Middle & working class...
View ArticlePres. Obama: "I know he's had other things on his car...(Video)
President Obama a short while ago dissed Romney on his opposition to wind energy.The President quoted Romney's silly assertion during the GOP primaries that "you can't put a windmill on your car.In...
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