OK, he’s been at this job for 10 months, and this website is still active… at least for now. So, how’s President Obama doing so far? Juan Cole grades Obama’s foreign policy, which for various reasons, doesn’t include Afghanistan. St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the [...]
WIth four more days before the big change-over, more people are sharing their Obama-inspired with me…. Jed Alexander of JedAlexander.com created a new Obama-inspired poster of “Rosie the Riveter”, done in the style of the iconic Shepard Fairey graphic that’s been seen all over the world. Speaking of which… did you see Shepard Fairey on [...]
Jello Biafra, an outspoken voice in punk rock community, wrote an open letter to Barack Obama. Here’s a snippet from his introduction: Here, by semi-popular demand, are the suggestions I sent to Obama’s Change.gov site for citizen input. It veers from writing to Obama himself to writing for the people who may actually read this. [...]
I’ve had a few comments on the last posting on the subject of the auto bailout, and I thought I’d share them. As I’m sure you’ve read, the recent auto bailout plan failed in the US Congress. I have mixed feelings about the bailout, but seeing how the original plan was rejected, it all goes [...]
While the big Obama news of the day is the announcement of his national security team (ala “Team of Rivals” with Hillary Clinton, etc), Media Bistro shares an entertaining tidbit regarding the return of the illustrator whose Obama caricature sparked a lot of controversy. Barry Blitt, the cartoonist responsible for the New Yorker‘s controversial terrorist [...]
This week, the auto industry was at the center of the American news cycle as the CEOs of the Big Three used their private jets to fly to Washington DC to plea for money to bail them out of the holes that they dug for themselves. A lot of pundits have used the “$70-per-hour” myth [...]
“Ironically, given that he first won over so many independents by speaking his mind, the case for Mr McCain comes down to a piece of artifice: vote for him on the assumption that he does not believe a word of what he has been saying.” – from The Economist’s endorsement of Obama for president The [...]
Here’s a handful of quotes that I liked… “A woman voting for McCain-Palin is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.” – Ashley Judd, September 26, 2008 ___ “John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril [...]
The Obama Art Report is sharing some pretty amazing artwork for Obama. I LOVE this website! Yes We Carve is a very entertaining grassroots effort to carve pumpkins to support the Obama campaign. There’s some wonderful photos of these photos at this website. Here’s a photo of Melanie Walits & Lydia Bradley of Boston, MA. [...]
Jed Report has a great ongoing blog segment called “Republicans Jump Ship.” Here’s a couple of quotes from there that I appreciated: Frank Luntz, GOP pollster and language expert, made this statement on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Friday, Oct 17: “I think Barack Obama is going to be the next president of the [...]
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