I suspect that Obama, even if he does get a healthcare reform bill, may be a one trick pony come 2012. He, like most members of today's Democratic Party, can't and won't use the best of American populism to protect the interest of the public.

As Michael Lind put it:… Read full post »

Remember weeks ago when Obama was getting slammed for being  Nixonian because he and the White House posse got tired of Fox posing as a legitimate newscaster, and then he was raked over the coals by the press for playing basketball with the boys and not inviting any girls? He's really… Read full post »

It has been very interesting reviewing the reactions of some who oppose Atty. Gen. Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the master mind of the 2001 WTC terrorist attack, in a federal court in NYC, the scene of the attack.

For Example, this was Sen. Lindsey Graham’… Read full post »

Here's an ace  indictment of John McCain's role in selecting Sarah P. It's by Andrew Sullivan: "No one who put this person near the nuclear button should have a future in public life."

File under: "How conservatives  really practice personal responsibility." Read full post »

Why is it that Islam can be denounced as a"violent  political system" by Pat Robertson, yet no one bats an eye when he called for the assassination of a democratically elected but troublesome adversary of the US?

And this man is a Christian? A follower of the proclaimed prince of peace?… Read full post »

Why, Carl Fillichio.

What's the use of having 14 million names if the government doesn't use it?

The Huffington Post has reported that a donnybrook occured in its news room over a "charticle." Will Howard Kurtz covered that as part of the celebrity media fluff that is supposedly media journalism in the Washington Post?

Big government . . . government takeover . . . the loss of liberty and freedom at the hands of an ever- expanding government: these are among the recurring themes from those who oppose nearly any policy launched by the Obama administration.

These signature themes are often pushed by TV and… Read full post »

More people will no doubt be chattering about Obama's  Nobel award than understanding that their government is owned by the banksters. See this peice by Glenn Greenwald. Read full post »

I still think that is even more bizarre than Barack Obama wins a Nobel but not Gandi, a man who led a nonviolent revolution was troubled when India was split into one nation for Hindus and another for Muslims.

This award is, at the very least, bizarre. After all, Obama has been spending the last few days in war council trying to figure out what to do in Afghanistan. I guess he's getting it for setting a "new tone" in international diplomacy.

Greenwald's  take is: "That's what makes this… Read full post »

It's really interesting watching the conservative spin on the failed Chicago bid to have the Olympics there. Barack the Magic Negro isn't Jesus: the fact that he walks on water means he can't swim.

Bill Kristol has a all-purpose cynical spin on this. By his very own "world view," according… Read full post »

If true that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has Jewish roots, this explains a great deal. Once again, an outsider has to overcompensate for his non-insider status.  Given that he's been compared to Hilter, wasn't there also speculation that Hitler, too, may have had Jewish ancestry?  Read full post »

Isn't it intersting that those  expressing moral outrage in Congress regarding the ACORN debacle, with the House voting to defund it, are also those who frequent the services of prostitutes? For example,  Rep. Ken Calvert and Sen. David Vitter. Read full post »

It's interesting watching how the media deals  with America's ur-subject of race (except when it comes to scrutininzing how white oriented and male dominated the media establishemnt still is; I mean, have you ever read a  Howard Kurtz  piece regarding how white reporters' race may affe… Read full post »

Without a doubt, the take-down of the Obama administration's Van Jones, late of the Council on Environmental Quality, by Glenn Beck, and the recent embarrassment regarding ACORN, establishes the obvious: the right has gone to war on Barack Obama and his administration. As the New York Times has obser/… Read full post »

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If it's true that Obama called Kanye West a "jackass," I wish he'd save some of that fire for the real jackasses in the public realm.

Nothing better shows how the United States is quickly becoming a nation of idiots when conservatives complain that a public service announcement by President Obama encouraging students to stay in school and work hard is "socialist indoctrination"! Wow, getting a good education is now part of the vast… Read full post »

 Would you like to see Obama step his game up and give a real rallying speech about the issues that confront us, as imagined by Michael Lind?

"My fellow Americans, we say that healthcare is a right of all citizens. The other party says that it is a privilege… Read full post »

Let's face it:  Edward Kennedy was the last tribune of the people, a patrician who was invested in the well-being of average Americans because he came from a background of wealth and privilege. His wealth and political safe seat allowed him to take risk for the greater good.

The media… Read full post »

Does the Washington Post even know what its own reporters are doing?

This is what the Post ran this weekend regarding the maligning of Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel:

The 'Dr. Death' Distortion

GOP scaremongers would rather malign an Obama adviser than honestly debate health reform.

Saturday, August 22,… Read full post »

Reading, listening and watching the "debate" regarding the proposed health-care reform changes endorses the view that you really don't want to see how a sausage is made. It appears that President Obama is  not a very good sausage maker.

How he has allowed Congress to manage the development… Read full post »

Rachel Maddow does an interesting analysis of why true healthcare reform may not be possible: collapse of Democratic Party's political will:

...It's in their blood. Check out the altered image of Air Force One's tail that was supposedly sent out by a police dispatcher in the great state of Ohio.  Read full post »