Tag Archives: Barack Obama

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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‘Occupy’ news that’s not fit to print in NYT

Posted on November 27, 2011 by oddmanout215

If you haven’t seen Naomi’s Wolf’s analysis of the nationwide, federally supported crackdown against Occupy encampments, that’s because you don’t read Reader Supported News or foreign newspapers such as Guardian. No way the corporate media in America will investigate stories … Continue reading →

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You can’t take it with you (Ayn Rand, meet Steve Jobs)

Posted on November 26, 2011 by oddmanout215

Eric Alterman on Apple’s maestro, who died in October: … The [Apple] stock could have continued to soar even if the pay and conditions of these workers’ lives were built into the cost of an iPhone or an iPad. People … Continue reading →

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Which side are you on, Dems?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by oddmanout215

Digby’s nicely distilled description of how Congressional Republicans continue to outmaneuver and cow Democrats — including world-class equivocator John Kerry — who are supposed to be protecting the social safety net: Note [Republican Sen. Jon] Kyl’s language: he never says … Continue reading →

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Obama to fight Wall St. corruption — joking!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by oddmanout215

When Barack Obama took office, it was almost embarrassing to watch so many otherwise intelligent people rejoice at the notion that he could somehow do good and remain closely allied with the corrupt Wall Street banks that had wrecked the … Continue reading →

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Gitmo is Bush and Obama’s ‘law-free zone’

Posted on November 1, 2011 by oddmanout215

I thought it was the responsibility of professional American journalists to call attention to politicians who, after being elected, break promises they made on the campaign trail. And to write stories about the lies of former office holders whose illegalities … Continue reading →

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Instead of New Deal, No Deal

Posted on October 13, 2011 by oddmanout215

Robert Scheer’s reminder that we need a president whose policies help the 99 percent of Americans who are hurting, not the one percent who are extremely wealthy: … To accomplish that, we need a moratorium on bank-ordered evictions, along with … Continue reading →

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