I couldn’t easily follow Bill Clinton during his first year; I left the country to live in Bangladesh on Dec 31, 1992, and, without phone, internet, or TV for a year, I couldn’t really follow the nitty-gritty inside Washington stuff.
I was around for George Bush’s first year. He seemed [...]
My answer to the Michelle/ape controversy:
...This was posted in the middle of 2008, and there are many more like it. Leave the Michelle/ape alone; let it be, and let who needs a laugh have a laugh. And besides, humans are closely related to chimps! [...]
This photo released by the White House Friday shows President Barack Obama greeting Michaele and Tareq Salahi, right, at a State Dinner hosted by Obama for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington Tuesday. The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining [...]
President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrive for the state arrival ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. Associated Press photos.
"President Obama is days away from announcing a new Afghan strategy, but his immediate battle could come from liberals within his own party" [...]
WASHINGTON – Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are assembling a new jobs package that would devote billions of dollars to projects meant to put people back on payrolls in 2010 and keep them working.
Discussions over the scale of the bill are [...]
When Dubai Is Begging for a Payment Plan: The rest of the wobbly world freaks out.
Save the Washington Budget: Play Keno.
Obama Administration: Kicking lobbyists off of influential panels.
Coma [...]
A couple that wasn't invited crashed Obama's state dinner last night in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Memo to all the prominent, pissed off Indian Americans who weren't invited—you clearly should have just walked on in.
If President Obama pronounced a blog post on health insurance reform to be a must-read, and then Rahm Emmanuel told senior White House staffers "not to come back" the next day if they hadn't read the post, would you make it your business to read the post' [...]
...because I just heard that President Obama has pardoned two turkeys and I didn't even know Cheney and Rumsfeld had been convicted.President Obama, center, with daughters Malia, far right, Sasha, second from the right, pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey, Courage, in a ceremony in the North Portico of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday. With Obama is the Chairman of the National Turkey Federation, Walter Pelletier. Woman on left is unidentified. [...]
How to 'Finish the Job'?: Obama may add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
Obama Will Speak in Copenhagen After All: Promising US greenhouse gas emission reduction.
Still More Bodies: In the Philippines.
19-Year-Old Pimp: First in the state to go down for human trafficking.
Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing 10 positions Republican candidates should support to demonstrate that they “espouse conservative principles and public policies” that are in opposition to “Obama’s socialist agenda.” According to the resolution, any Republican candidate who broke with the party on three or more of [...]
Unbelievable
President Obama should immediately pardon these guys.
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation...
[...] But:
Obama won the Democratic nomination and the presidency with strong support from blacks and other racial minorities. In fact, according to exit polls and Gallup's final pre-election estimates, he won the election despite losing by double digits to John McCain among white voters.
Those patterns of support seem to have persisted [...]
President Obama said on Tuesday that he will announce his decision on how many more troops to send to Afghanistan next week, and that it is his intention to “finish the job” that began with [...]
Strongly Approve - 27%..........Strongly Disapprove 42%
While Americans continue to die in the God forsaken hell hole that is Afghanistan, and Obama seems bound and determined to do what it takes to...
President Obama will next week announce a surge of at least 25,000 new US troops to Afghanistan in a speech to the nation, according to US officials today. Mr Obama will make the announcement in an address on Tuesday, December 1, after weeks of deliberations over his Afghan strategy and [...]
