It's hard not to notice Barack Obama is taking some major heat these days. The right, of course, is in a state of perpetual, almost comical, "the sky is falling" hysteria over the guy and now a good portion of the left is pissed at him as [...]
By John Ballard
Fred Clark observes...That new book, Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, happens to have been written by Dr. Ann Dunham, the late mother of President Barack Obama. And that means if you're Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Steele or John Boehner, then [...]
By Steve Hynd
General Stan McChrystal is signalling to the Afghan leadership that Obama's 2011 "beginning of the end" is just a number they shouldn't take seriously.
The top US military commander in Afghanistan has met senior politicians there as part of a charm offensive to sell Barack Obama’s new strategy.' [...]
According to the instant-read thermometer, Mike Huckabee has cooked himself. The good news is that, unlike Barack Obama, Huck's got a track record that we can examine. The bad news - for Huck - is that it's really apparent that when it comes to judgment, he has none.[...]
By Dave Anderson:
From Jonathan Schwartz:This is from the recent HBO documentary about Barack Obama's campaign. Watching it now made me angry all over again on behalf on people who believed in him, worked on his campaign and spent a big chunk of their lives getting him elected. You can say they were' [...]
Washington and Oregon are both Democrat leaning states, so these two polls should come as a bit of a surprise to many.
Do you approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
Washington: 47%...
By Gregg Carlstrom
Note: No analysis here, just reporting what the White House said; curious to hear what you folks think in comments.
Barack Obama will announce a temporary surge of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan during his West Point speech tonight, two White House officials said today on a conference call with [...]
By Steve Hynd
Ben Smith at Politico is responsible for a piece that really ticked me off today.
As President Barack Obama prepares to make the case for sending more troops to Afghanistan, some allies are urging him to return to a line of argument little heard since the Bush [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Judging from his campaign rhetoric we might have assumed that Barack Obama would have stood up to the Corporatocracy not join it but as Robert Scheer points out join it is what he did.
What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take [...]
Less than a year ago Barack Obama was soaring high. Newly inaugurated and the country was encouraged to have this new beautiful man sitting in the oval office who was going to change and fix...
[...] Commentary By Ron Beasley
Obama has to make a decision of Afghanistan - is he going to make an LBJ decision and be a one term president or.....? Harvey Wasserman explains the wrong decision will make him a one term president.
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, [...]
This video is now making the rounds. Then Sen. Barack Obama promising that KSM would get a "military trial." Of course that was before the new Obama administration found that they could put the...
By Steve Hynd
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post ran a short piece claiming that:
Iran has completely rejected a UN-brokered nuclear deal, but US President Barack Obama has postponed the official announcement on Teheran's refusal due to internal political reasons...The official reportedly told journalists in Paris that Iran has also refused to [...]
