Archive for the 'Barack Obama' Category

This isn’t the first time the NASA boss raised eyebrows.

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Early friction plagues talks between NASA, Obama team
By STEWART M. POWELL and MARK CARREAU Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
Dec. 11, 2008, 7:08PMWASHINGTON — Officials with NASA and President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team on Thursday tried to paper over tensions that have arisen as the agency defended a chronically underfunded blueprint for space exploration.The officials […]

What ever gets you through the night…

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

December 6, 2008
Obama speechwriter Favreau learns the perils of Facebook
Posted: 04:40 PM ET

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This photo of Favreau and Clinton (cut-out) appeared on Facebook Friday.

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(CNN) — Jon Favreau, future White House director of speechwriting, has so far been at a loss for words over Facebook pictures of him at a recent party.
Pictures of Favreau, 27, at a […]

Thank goodness, they’re prevented from keeping bullets.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

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Novemeber 24, 2008
NRA Propaganda At Nation’s Largest Gun Show: Obama Is An ‘Enemy Of Your Gun Rights’
Since Barack Obama’s election, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other pro-gun groups have been warning that the new president will take away their second amendment rights. This multi-million dollar campaign is already having effects. Not only is the […]

President Obama chooses Inaugural theme…

Friday, November 7th, 2008

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Image: (BACK TO THE FUTURE) via ytmnd.com

Story is at huffingtonpost.com

Does this mean we shall be able to re-claim the good will squandered by King W?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

From Times Online
November 5, 2008
World press reaction to Barack Obama’s victory
Paris, several international newspapers’ frontpages, the day after the victory of Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential election

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Headlines proclaiming Obama’s victory at an international newsstand in Paris
Kaya Burgess and Jenny Booth (Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images)
France
An editorial in the national daily Le Monde proclaims “Obama’s victory ushers […]

Republicans Try To Use Oxford Don To Smear Barack Obama–Sunday Times headline, November 2, 2008

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

The Sunday Times
November 2, 2008
The Republicans accuse Obama of ‘palling around’ with Ayers
Sarah Baxter in Washington
The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.
With two days before the election, Obama […]

Have another cigarette, Johnny.

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

House GOP Leader Calls Obama “Chicken Sh*t”: House Minority leader John Boehner shockingly used an expletive to describe Obama for his “present” votes in the Illinois State Senate:
House minority leader John Boehner’s spokesman confirms the accuracy of this quote, from an Ohio student newspaper:
“Now, listen, I’ve voted ‘present’ two or three times in my entire […]

I like him better as Al Smith, but wearing a thirty-pound tunic is the price one pays to celebrate Halloween.

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Rep. Steve King: Obama Will Make America A ‘Totalitarian Dictatorship’
On Saturday, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) gave little-noticed remarks at Sioux City’s West High School during an appearance by Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK). King went beyond the traditional right-wing talking points — which brand Obama a “Marxist” who adheres to “socialism” — and said that he […]

“McCain adviser: Palin ‘is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.’”–Think Progress headline

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Think Progress
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October 25, 2008
palinboots.jpgThe Politico reports that tensions between the Palin and McCain camps are increasing in the waning days of the campaign. Palin reportedly “has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her,” blaming “her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image.” A McCain […]

I wonder if all of those papers are published in Non-Real American Areas?

Friday, October 24th, 2008

The New York Times
October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government […]

Mac may have felt that in the land of the 2006 “Where the White Women At?” campaign smear, he could use racially insenstive references. “Git offa my lawn, ya little…”

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

“That One,” McCain Calls Obama In Debate (VIDEO)
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Huffington Post
Seth Coulter Walls
October 7, 2008 10:06 PM
During a discussion about energy, McCain punctuates a contrast with Obama by referring to him as “that one,” while once again not looking in his opponent’s direction (merely jabbing a finger across his chest). That’s not going to win McCain any […]