One year ago today, America elected it’s first African American president. The magnitude tends to get lost in the day to day rough and tumble of governing. But this awesome achievement will only grow moreso the further away from that day we travel. I’ve written before that if Barack Obama did precisely nothing with his [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The recent Carville-Greenberg study of the teabagger Republican base had two big headlines. The first is that the Republican base lives in a bizarro world of paranoia. The report concludes that the extreme GOP voters are not simply at the far end of a standard political continuum that runs left-center-right, but rather they stand fully apart. The [...]
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Great response to the stupid racist idiots. Just scroll through the glory. And he’s gonna be re-elected, too! Suck on it, assholes.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
We elected Barack Obama president of the United States for a lot of reasons. One of them was to give speeches like the one he gave tonight, with stakes as high as they could be, and hit that son of a bitch out of the park. First of all, watching Barack look straight at Republicans when [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
I watched Barack’s speech to school kids today. Of course, it was a big non-event, but a good speech, given in a way only Barack can give it. Thank God we have a president who will invest his enormous oratorical gift in the future of our school kids, and give them the attention, respect, and [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
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Kids do grow up. So when the kids grow up whose parents keep them out of school next week for fear of them being indoctrinated by the president of the United States, they’ll have a nice data point to help them decide just how bonkers their parents went when we elected a black man president.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
A speech to a joint session of Congress on a single issue is not an opportunity to waste. Here’s what I think it should include, were I on the speech writing staff, which frankly, I should be. First, I think Barack needs to get micro on the sale, on every aspect of reform, bringing it down [...]
Sunday, August 30, 2009
I’ve been waiting for the inevitable knock out punch from Barack Obama’s rope-a-dope on health care reform, and I think I’ve finally figured it out. You have to go to the community organizer in Barack to find it. When you train organizations for change, as I’ve done in many countries, my own home town and state, [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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I was around and active in politics and the health care reform debate in 1993. And I can tell you right now, we are already winning, teabaggers notwithstanding. The Obama White House learned from the chief mistake of the Clinton administration, namely, the Clintons came to Congress with a plan in 1993, not the other way [...]
Saturday, August 8, 2009
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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video In the heat of this “health care” moment, which isn’t about health care anymore, with complete fabrications and the resulting manic paranoia dominating our discourse to the point of violence, it is easy to get depressed about the state of our country. I’ve been [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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