Liars Among Us Blame Obama for Policy Initiated Under Reagan and GW Bush

September 26, 2011 by DJ Lanphier
Dozens of news outlets and conservative blogs repeated the same headline verbatim (or nearly): “Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns“. The same story over at FoxNews and blogs and news outlets. Oliver Willis catches one conservative trying to backtrack without admitting the error and calls it as he sees it:

High School Politics Makes Real World Problems Impossible To Fix

September 9, 2011 by DJ Lanphier
The jobs problem in the USA is one of our most pressing issues, it affects us all very deeply, and President Obama’s speech on the issue was one of the most important of his presidency. Here’s Dana Milbank in his article titled “The Irrelevancy of the Obama Presidency” in the Washington Post today: 

How To White Wash Racism: Revisiting the Tea Party Racists

April 26, 2011 by DJ Lanphier
It’s been difficult for the Tea Party faithful to simply admit that yes, they do have racists among them. Every party does, why should they be any different?  It obviously doesn’t mean they are all racist any more than it means that Democrats or Republicans are all racist because they have racists in their ranks. [...]

Obama on The View: Playing by the New Media Rules

July 27, 2010 by DJ Lanphier
Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania has gone after President Obama for deciding to appear on the daytime talk show “The View”: I think there’s got to be a little bit of dignity to the presidency. [...] I think there are some shows. I wouldn’t put him on “Jerry Springer,” too, right? … I think the [...]

The letter on health care from Ted Kennedy to President Obama

September 11, 2009 by DJ Lanphier
Is health care a right or a privilege? Here’s the answer: May 12, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I wanted to write a few final words to you to express my gratitude for your repeated personal kindnesses to me — and one last time, to salute your leadership in giving our country back its future and [...]

bill and bill: moyers and maher on real time

September 6, 2009 by DJ Lanphier
If you haven’t watched Bill Moyers on Real Time with Bil Maher, it’s worth watching. The point that conservatives are simply employing a scorched earth campaign to insure that Obama fails is important, and has to be confronted. And, he covers corporatism as well. Part 2 Part 3

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