Category Archives: Obama

Think Progress » Will the RNC apologize for racist Facebook photo?

Republicans are really getting onboard this newfangled Facebook thingy. Enough so that they’ve learned to upload funny photos. Well, funny to them anyway.

The GOP has tried to distance themselves from this, but they haven’t denounced it. This, as usual, is the Republican Party trying to shush the sheet wearing crowd behind the curtain as opposed to revealing all the evil in their ranks and asking them to leave. I mean, hell, you are already losing elections, why not try to do the right thing for the first time since 1863?

Fourth grader asks President Obama “Why do people hate you?”

Some honesty from a fourth grader at the end of the President’s speech in New Orleans.

Let’s be honest, there is at least one big media company (FAUX, Wall Street Journal, et al), various radio blowhards, and lots of racists cheering on anyone trying to diminish the work of the president.

They have a huge bullhorn so at times, yes, it seems like the angry American mob is out to get the president.

But as he said in some of his response to the young boy:

“First of all, I did get elected president, so not everybody hates me,. What is true is if you were watching TV lately, it seems like everybody’s just getting mad all the time. And I — you know, I think that you’ve got to take it with a grain of salt. Some of it is just what’s called politics where, you know, once one party wins, then the other party kind of gets — feels like it needs to poke you a little bit to keep you on your toes….

“You’ve just got to keep on going, even when folks are criticizing you, because — as long as you know that you’re doing it for other people, all right?”

Golf In Cross Hairs Of Venezuela’s President : NPR

Most people know that I have little use for golf. I think courses are a waste of property and help create an environment of smug privilege.

Now, I also don’t have a whole lot to say about Hugo Chavez. I admire his goals but really think being a thug is absolutely the wrong way to go about it. That said, I kinda like his plans to take over Venezuela’s golf courses and turn them into public parks.

Just to add fuel to the fire for doing something similar here, the Secret Service is investigating an incident at a Massachusetts golf course where a swastika was carved next to the President’s name, presumably by a golf cleat. Here’s a local report on the event.

And this is in supposedly liberal Massachusetts. We already know how the traitors down South feel.

Get Off Obama’s Back …second thoughts from Michael Moore | MichaelMoore.com

Thanks Mike.

All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don’t abandon the best hope we’ve had in our lifetime for change. And for God’s sake, don’t head to bummerville if he says or does something we don’t like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn’t get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they’ve been driven crazy lately. They’ll never have it as good again as they’ve had it since Reagan took office.

But — do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.

(h/t to Bob Cesca for pointing this out.

Frank Schaeffer: Bad News! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Frank Schaeffer lays out the arguments of both the traitorous right and the unsatisfied left in response to the President winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

As for me, sure, it is way too early for him to be considered for this. I mean, this is more an indictment of the Bush years than an endorsement of Obama, so in that it is unfair to the man.

As for the right, this is typical. They hate having to acknowledge that there is a world outside our borders and that we should play nice with it at times. They hate the UN and thus send douchebags like John Bolton as our rep there. It’s like sending Lush Rimjob to a NOW convention. They hate the Olympics and thus cheered when we lost the 2016 games. They hate the Nobel committee but love to mock those Americans who win prizes there, be they scientists, writers, or even the President.

Being patriotic is more than waving a Chinese made flag or sticking a sticker in the window of your SUV. It is also being proud of the image we present to the rest of the world, ESPECIALLY as we try hard to not be pigheaded antagonists.

That is something our unpatriotic brethren are never going to grasp.

Secret Service Probing Facebook Poll That Asked Whether Obama Should Be Killed | The Public Record

You’ve probably heard about this, but some tool put a poll out on Facebook asking if they wanted Obama killed.

First, aside from the obvious tastelessness and sedition involved, even if you ARE a racist traitorous shitheel, why would you vote for that? Never mind the idiot that made it, he should hopefully do time – though he won’t. But seriously, even old fashioned web votes can track IPs. Why would you link yourself with presidential assassination on a program YOU HAVE TO LOG IN TO?!

Honestly, the punishment for this should be to wipe you out of the gene pool. Yeah, sure, you are an evil cretin and a Republican, but that’s permissible in this nation. What should NOT be is being so damn stupid and being allowed to pass that on to a new generation.

Because, honestly folks, the stuff you hear coming out of Lush Rimjob and Beck and their ilk isn’t even sensible. If it were a smart argument, it would be taken seriously by rational Americans. Look, Michelle Malkin couldn’t factor her cut of a five way bar tab, never mind the tip, and anything coming from her 1995-looking blog or falling out of her anger-contorted face can’t and shouldn’t be taken as more than Tourette’s-like ramblings.

But people DO listen to this crap, and take it to heart.

And even on little ‘ol Facebook, the Poll app, taken over by conservatives long ago, went too far. The creator thinks this is surprising, but having seen some of these poll questions, I figure it was just a matter of time.

People are dumb, and some of them are afraid and angry because most of us are fine with a black guy as president. Most of us are fine with health care reform and playing well with other nations, and having good science and equal pay for women. Obama did run on saying he’d do these things. These are not surprises. The only surprise is that the angry mobs expect us to believe they are actually mad about his policies.

They aren’t. They are angry racists and the sooner they realize the nation CHOSE this path the better. And if we need the Secret Service to pound a few of their heads when they are preaching sedition, then that’s what the Secret Service is for.

I mean, hell, they authorized people being arrested for wearing t-shirts against Bush, maybe they can beat some assault weapon packing perp to knock some sense into him at the next Obama appearance.

Dylan Loewe: Where’s the Change? It’s Everywhere

Yep. Progressives can be damnfool idiots.

I read the blogs where people piss and moan that Obama isn’t doing enough. Get bent. You bastards are just as bad as the Rethugs you think are your enemies. Both camps can go walk off a pier for all I care.

Here is an article that argues against such stupid hysteria. I love it.

I get it. People want it all. Right now. Now damnit! But they don’t. No one teaches patience anymore. Or compromise. Or intelligence apparently.

As best as I can see, Obama’s plan is to affect the greatest change to the greatest amount of citizens. You may not like that stem cell research bans and equal pay benefits and the just-so-damned-close grasp of health care reform has happened before lifting the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell ban, but tell me how many people get affected by the latter versus any of the former examples.

Now, tell me how many Americans of ANY political stripe could gain from science advances in health, better pay for women and health care reform?

Obama isn’t trying to win elections (I mean, he only has one left to ever worry about again at best) but to build a legacy other Democrats can build on. Our best shot before this was centrist Clinton, and Obama is only slightly more to the left than Bill. You want actual progressive action? Earn it.

Give independents and moderates a better standard of living, a better safety net, a better nation. Sure, some will stay racist, and angry, and bigoted and fearful towards things they don’t understand, but some will join along for the ride, just to see what other improvements this country might make for them, and hopefully with them. Everyone loves a winner, right?

For my progressive friends, will YOU enjoy everything? No. You’ll harp about Gitmo still being open next March or DADT still on the books until probably the middle of next year. You’ll feel betrayed.

But things WILL be better. Not for everyone, not for those who wanted change right away. But things ARE better as many have said. And things will GET better and those things that harm a percentage of us will be addressed unless you let the things that divide us stop the things that continue to harm the whole of us get fixed.

Have I enjoyed and supported everything Obama has done? No. I’ve cursed at my TV a couple times myself. But I got over it. I see there’s a plan in play. This is politics, being waged against adversaries schooled in racism, packed with wannabe Tim McVeighs. You don’t want to pander to their traitors, but you also don’t want to make too many sudden moves around the assholes either.

Is it fair? No. But when has it ever come closer to this before?