Obama Says Bill Breaks with Our Values, Signs It Anyway
Seriously, does he even care about my vote?
When Reagan says it the Republicans love it. When Obama says it’s a crime against capitalism and the free market and the Republicans all vote no.
I don’t like the use of the phrase, “their fair share,” because I think it turns something logical into something that could be construed as emotional, or weak.
BUT.
I definitely support the closing of loopholes and tax breaks. I think Scrooge McDuck still needs to pay property tax on that money bin, knaamean?
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President Obama reacts to Seth Meyer's Bin Laden/C-Span joke
Was that a knowing laugh?
Y’know, it just occurred to me that probably Obama released his birth certificate because he’s setting up jokes for the White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
“I don’t have time for these fucking shenanigans.”
Biden just defined, “snarting.”
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…but when the chips were down, it was Lieberman who carried the bill through the Senate, who lobbied for and got crucial Republican support to block a filibuster, and who in the end made possible the overwhelming 65-33 victory. His commitment to equality for gay soldiers is by all accounts genuine and unwavering, and it will grace his biography, whatever else may stain it.
DADT Senators - DADT Repeal Vote Is Story of Four Senators - Esquire
A nice blurb for Lieberman and the entire article serves as a good defense for Obama and the question for how well (if at all) his presidency is going.
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Jennifer Cline, 27, of Monroe, Michigan, wrote President Barack Obama a letter back in December thanking him for what he has done to help her family by extending unemployment, she received a Pell Grant and her husband, Jason, 30, landed a job in the past year full-time. To her surprise, Cline received a handwritten letter back from him in January. Here, she displays the letter at her home, March 16, 2010. (Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press/MCT)
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This video might be a little too touchy-feely, or let-love-rule in it’s message, but I think it’s smart and really positive. The Stephen Colbert bit at the end helps make my sarcastic side swallow it a little easier.
But.
I’m annoyed that is someone feels it had to be made. That this was a message that needed to heard.
Despite what is focused on between pundits and news reports, is America really that far from it’s moral center? Do we really need to be reminded of how far we’ve come from the days of the KKK, slavery, and the slaughter of the First Nation? I wonder if the Americans really are in the grip of fear mongers and misinformation or if we just think we are.
Are we just disappointed that our progressive agenda has reached full light under President Obama? Is it the 24-hour news cycle that fills our media with reports of (and from) fringe whack-jobs?
Or perhaps I’m annoyed because it’s all true. That we’ve turned our backs from our hearts, or sympathy, our ability to work together and compromise towards common goals. Is it the after effects of 9/11? The cynicism and message overload of the Information Age? Or is it really that we never progressed and (jesus-fucking-christ, I hope not) it’s all because we have a black man in the Oval Office?
The Onion: 1 In 5 Americans Believe Obama Is A Cactus
“He must speak frankly to the American people about his mammalian background,” Pelmont added. “If not, it’s only a matter of time before people start believing those fringe bloggers who claim the president of the United States is actually an old washing machine.”
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