Category Archives: Obama

‘Balanced’ reporting? That’ll be the day

Posted on December 27, 2011 by oddmanout215

Mitt Romney recently told Time magazine that “25 million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I’ll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs.” Both statements are flat-out lies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, economic collapse, Great Recession, liar, mainstream media, Mitt Romney, Obama, Politics, The New Depression, unemployment | Tagged balanced reporting, FDR, job creation, Mitt Romney, Obama, Paul Krugman, Time magazine, unemployment | 4 Comments

‘Australia’ (Happy Boxing Day)

Posted on December 26, 2011 by oddmanout215

We’ll surf like they do in the USA We’ll fly down to Sydney for a holiday On sunny Christmas Day… I’m standing in line yesterday at a drugstore, one of those chain stores that turn wall-to-wall red a month before … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, economic collapse, Great Recession, humor, Obama, Philadelphia, Politics, pop music, The New Depression, unemployment | Tagged "Australia", FDR, Kinks, Obama, South Philly, Work Projects Administration | 1 Comment

Joe Conason, meet Karl Rove

Posted on December 24, 2011 by oddmanout215

A resolution for 2012: Don’t read opinion pieces by knee-jerk Obama supporters who profess to be liberals. Their stuff is as propagandistic as the garbage that streams from the right in support of Newt and Mitt and the dimmer Republican … Continue reading →

Posted in mainstream media, Mitt Romney, Obama, Politics, Wall Street, world-wide economy | Tagged billionaires, Joe Conason, libertarian, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul | 2 Comments

Chase’s Jaime Dimon — too big to fail

Posted on December 23, 2011 by oddmanout215

Here’s Matt Taibbi shedding more light, in his inimitable way, on how Wall Street executives, with the help of the D.C. establishment, cheat and bribe their way to a level of wealth and privilege few of us can even imagine: … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, Goldman Sachs, Great Recession, mainstream media, New York Times, Obama, Politics, The New Depression, Wall Street | Tagged Barack Obama, Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan Chase, Jaime Dimon | 1 Comment

EPA to power plants: Stop poisoning people

Posted on December 22, 2011 by oddmanout215

David Roberts of Grist does a nice job of summing up the importance of the new EPA rule regarding the emission of mercury and other toxins from coal- and oil-fired power plants: … This one is a Big Deal. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in environmentalism, Obama, Politics | Tagged Barack Obama, EPA, Grist, mercury | 1 Comment

Barack Obama, the human cave-in

Posted on December 16, 2011 by oddmanout215

I’m stumped. What does Barack Obama believe in? Is there any promise he wouldn’t break, any anti-progressive stand he wouldn’t take if he thought it might gain him some political advantage? Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth is convinced … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Great Recession, history, mainstream media, Obama, Politics, unemployment | Tagged Barack Obama, defense budget bill, Human Rights Watch Director Kenneth Roth, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, veto | 2 Comments

Obama is on our side… when he’s campaigning

Posted on December 7, 2011 by oddmanout215

This is from President Obama’s much-praised speech Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas, where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910. The setting was chosen so that the corporate media would link Obama to the resurgence of progressive sentiments among … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, Great Recession, mainstream media, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Politics, taxes, The New Depression, Uncategorized, unemployment, Wall Street | Tagged 1910, Barack Obama, New Nationalism, re-election bid, Teddy Roosevelt | 4 Comments

U.N. envoy: Do Occupy protesters have rights?

Posted on December 4, 2011 by oddmanout215

If we live in the land of the free and all that twaddle, then why do our cops treat protesters as if they’re terrorists rather than fellow citizens? Inquiring minds, including a prominent United Nations official, want to know: Frank … Continue reading →

Posted in mainstream media, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Politics | Tagged Frank LaRue, human rights, Occupy Wall Street, police misconduct, United Nations | Leave a comment

Obama tries, but wing-nuts reject his love

Posted on December 3, 2011 by oddmanout215

No irony about the sick state of American politics is funnier than the fact that wing-nuts, no matter how far to the right Barack Obama tilts, continue to vilify him as the Great Satan of socialism and the bleeding-heart champion … Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, economic collapse, Goldman Sachs, Great Recession, liar, New York Times, Obama, Politics, The New Depression, unemployment, Wall Street | Tagged banksters, Barack Obama, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, gun laws, Mitch McConnell, Second Amendment, wing-nuts | 1 Comment

Bush, Obama rolled lucky 7s for banksters

Posted on December 2, 2011 by oddmanout215

Did anyone else see the lame TV movie Too Big To Fail, which dramatized the Fall 2008 financial crisis? If not, you didn’t miss anything honest. It was based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the NYT reporter and … Continue reading →

Posted in economic collapse, fiction, finance reform bill, Goldman Sachs, Great Recession, mainstream media, Obama, Politics, The New Depression, unemployment, Wall Street | Tagged $7.7 trillion, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Ted Rall, Wall Street bailout | 1 Comment