Barack Obama

Obama really WANTS to destroy Social Security?

By Violet Socks · Thursday, August 26th, 2010 · 17 Comments »

That’s the claim of Jill (Brilliant at Breakfast) in this post, aptly titled Barack Obama really, really, really, really WANTS to destroy Social Security :
I always knew that he wasn’t the raging leftist he was painted to be. I took a lot of flak from a lot of people during the primaries for not seeing [...]

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Memories…light the corners of my mind

By Violet Socks · Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 · 10 Comments »

Misty watercolor memories…..
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards’ Statement on Abortion Ban in New High-Risk Insurance Pools
“Based on the Obama administration’s statement, we are deeply disappointed that the administration has voluntarily and unnecessarily decided to impose limits on private funds used to purchase health insurance coverage for abortion care in the new high-risk [...]

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Two years ago today

By Violet Socks · Thursday, July 1st, 2010 · 14 Comments »

On July 1, 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported, with suitably raised eyebrows, that Candidate Obama had expressed his intention to continue the Bush Administration’s faith-based initiatives.
This is what I wrote:
God almighty. How much clearer can it get? Coming on top of the FISA immunity thing, the campaign finance reversal, and the [...]

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Obama to launch National Patriarchy Initiative

By Violet Socks · Monday, June 21st, 2010 · 20 Comments »

So, what’s new with the Super Feminist in the White House? Ah, yes: he’s announcing the creation of the President’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? I mean, what could be wrong with that?
Plenty.
The father’s rights movement in this country is ground zero for anti-feminism. [...]

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Jon Stewart on Obama’s abuse of executive power

By Violet Socks · Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 · 47 Comments »

Priceless:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

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What the hell has gotten into Obama?

By Violet Socks · Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 · 26 Comments »

Obama has been such a mealy-mouthed unfeminist schmuck for so long that this morning’s news item simply astonished me:
Asked if he would consider nominating a judge to the Supreme Court who does not support abortion rights, President Obama said today that, like presidents before him, he is not applying a “litmus test” on that or [...]

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So, I guess this is what a feminist looks like

By Violet Socks · Thursday, March 25th, 2010 · 29 Comments »

Dear God in the Smoking Lounge, I am so fed up with this kabuki theatre bullshit.

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Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah

By Violet Socks · Monday, March 8th, 2010 · 10 Comments »

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 [...]

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Obama re-brands himself as a Tea Partier

By Violet Socks · Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 · 18 Comments »

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 [...]

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Dr. Socks briefly emerges from joyous Christmas preparations to snark on the state of our national discourse

By Violet Socks · Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 · 31 Comments »

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, [...]

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