Barack Obama
Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah
In honor of International Women’s Day, I thought it would be fun to consider what Obama hath wrought. Seeing as how he’s a Superfeminist and all. (The title of this post, for the non-cognoscenti, is an allusion to a sad and frightening piece of performance art by Naomi Wolf.1)
I’ll just quote [...]
Obama re-brands himself as a Tea Partier
People, I’m scrambling this week to get the site for a new feminist group launched — no, it’s not in competition with the Justice Party; this is a different thing — which is why I must continue to toil today in my little javascript dungeon of hell. But it’ll be totally worth it.
So [...]
Dr. Socks briefly emerges from joyous Christmas preparations to snark on the state of our national discourse
Putting down my hot glue gun just long enough to quote Glenn Greenwald:
Of all the posts I wrote this year, the one that produced the most vociferious email backlash — easily — was this one from August, which examined substantial evidence showing that, contrary to Obama’s occasional public statements in support of a public option, [...]
Kill the Bill
Oh, hey, this is exciting. I was off this afternoon doing reclusive leftist Christmas things, so I missed the big news: Howard Dean says “Kill The Senate Bill.” It’s a worthless motherfucker, says Dr. Dean, and it’s time to put it out of its misery. Hell to the yeah, says me, [...]
White House to Harry Reid: Obama wants his A-minus, damnit! Give Lieberman whatever he wants!
That’s what the headline ought to say. As Obama said to Oprah, in the course of explaining why he gave himself a B+ for his first year in office:
“B-plus because of the things that are undone. Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed, we tip into A-minus.”
It’s all [...]
I’m giving myself a B+
But that’s just until Raoul gets a job and can start picking up the tab for my prescriptions. Then I think I’ll bump it up to A-minus.
What lambert said: asshole.
In other hilarious news, President Obama claims that he “did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat [...]
Clinton/Gaga 2012
Or maybe 2016. We gotta plan ahead.
Read Falstaff on the incompetence of the Obama administration (more on that later) and Hillary Clinton’s prospects:
The most interesting thing to me, political-leader-wise, is Hillary’s position. I think she’s holding a remarkable hand. If/when it becomes obvious to a majority of Americans that Barack Obama is [...]
The Dalai Lama and other good dudes
It’s Dude Day here at the Reclusive Leftist, wherein we acknowledge the work of various dudes who are more or less on the side of The Good. This is a totally new thing which I just now came up with mostly because I need a theme for this post. Arthur Silber Link + [...]
The presidency as performance
The New York Times:
In 2007, President George W. Bush stood framed by an array of books to inform the nation that he was sending additional troops to Iraq.
Last night, President Obama surrounded himself with West Point cadets.
Mr. Obama traveled to the United States Military Academy to announce the most critical military decision of his presidency [...]
At least he can still give a great speech (plus open thread)
The Blogger Boys are getting themselves all worked up again about what really matters: The Best Speech Obama’s Given Since…Maybe Ever. I know, you’re thinking the headline is snark, right? Nope.
Marc Ambinder, who really needs to get a room:
Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in [...]
