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Tonight, Bill Moyers had a marvelous episode which I can’t recommend enough. The first segment was about the SCOTUS decision and the impact on our democracy. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/watch.html With pro and con voices. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/watch2.html The second segment I found the most intriguing, with a doctor who had been working for single [...]

No, it’s not a new sitcom, it’s instead something we can finally call…bipartisanship! Rahm Emanuel, Pres. Obama’s Chief of Staff, has insulted activist Progressive Dems and the handicapped which spurred Sarah Palin to call for his resignation. As AP reports: Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Emanuel, exasperated [...]

I’ve discussed this issue of Dems Against Obama with some who are very sharp and informed Progressives and subscribe to being very vocal critics of his. I thought it would be constructive to discuss and examine some of the points that are made by those subscribing to this POV. Additionally, [...]

In an unprecedented way President Obama has taken on the GOP face to face. The best part is it was caught on camera. Obama schooled the GOP calling out their nihilist political strategy and ridiculous rhetoric on issues from the stimulus to healthcare reform. So much for the carrots Obama [...]

I have a suggestion for President Obama. Times are hard. We’re winding down one war and ratcheting up another. Terrorist cells may be closeted on the domestic front as well. Everyone knows that corporations and insurance companies are that unsayable word in the woodpile and need extermination forthwith. Let’s back [...]

Please join us here tonight for live blogging during President Obama’s State of the Union address. Until then, please feel free to have an open discussion on Pres. Obama, the upcoming speech and what you think will happen in the upcoming year Here is how AP previews the speech: The [...]

Mr. President, I support you. Always have. Always will. I know there are some Obama supporters who are disappointed in you first year. Sir, I am not one of them. Perhaps the difference is that I REMEMBER the promises of CANDIDATE Obama & the promises he made. You never said [...]

I thought it might be fun to talk about our wish list for Mr. Obama’s State of the Union Address tomorrow. (1) What would you Mr. Obama to talk about? (2) What’s your dream phrase you’d like to hear the president say? (3) What do you EXPECT to hear? (4) [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/state-of-the-union-is-oba_b_436045.html It seems Whoreanna has become the self-appointed spokesperson on the plight of the middle class in our country. As if. She’s an ueber-right idealogue, who married a fortune and sucked up a mega divorce deal (along with a lot of other things along the way) and suddenly converted from [...]

We just had a 1-2-3-4 combination of punches and we’re reeling. 1. The election of Brown and the loss of a Dem 60 vote majority in The Senate. 2. The concession that HCR will not be passed. 3. Pres. Obama’s choosing “bipartisanship” over fighting for Progressive values. 4. The Supreme [...]

According to AP “Obama Steps Up His Campaign Against Wall Street Banks”. It seems like the first part of President Obama retooling his efforts is to reach out to the people and reign in the institutions people are rightfully directing their anger towards. President Barack Obama stepped up his campaign [...]

It was one year ago Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States…or wasn’t according to teabaggers who protested the mucking up of the oath by Roberts. Remember? The de-legitimizing of Obama’s presidency literally began on the day he became president. What also ended that day was the [...]

We have come far enough from the Christmas attack to start to draw some conclusions.   For this discussion, I will not assume that there was any deliberate effort to stitch up Obama.    I am coming to the conclusion that this was a classic and not amazing example of turf warfare [...]

PLAINS, Ga. — The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. As perfectly despicable and racist as this patently is, it does not look to me to be a crime, and [...]

In perusing the headlines at HP, I stumbled upon a very interesting article by Congressman Eric Massa of New York. Apparently, the most recent personal attack on President Obama by a certain former vice-president has finally provoked a strong response from a Democrat. In the article, he also cites Senator [...]

From Talking Points Memo: Specter: Republicans Plotted Early To Stop Bipartisanship, Beat Obama In 2012 During his appearance yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) appeared to give out some inside dirt from his days as a Republican — alleging that the GOP plotted early to stop any bipartisan [...]

Despite the fiasco that the Senate has made of things we are now faced with a simple question: what now? We know we aren’t going to get what we want. In fact we knew that the minute that single payer was off the table, but now we’ve got even less [...]

Friday night on Vox Populi, I mentioned that I had been posting the HP Bush Years Posters to answer Obama bashers across the net. I believe it was escribicat who asked what the Bush Years Posters were, and I promised to post something about them. It occurs to me as [...]

For those who did not get a chance to see the speech, here it is in its entirety. My brief observations: I heard the president’s remarks as a hard-nosed discourse on the bleak realities of peace making and peace keeping. Comparisons to the Bush Doctrine depend wholly on taking segments [...]

President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace today. Amazing, absolutely amazing! There are not enough words to describe how proud I am of this man.  First impressions are just that…first impressions, and he has proven (at least in my mind) he is the real deal.  Mr. Obama [...]

16 Azar, or National Student Day is a commemoration of December 7th, 1953, when three students at Tehran University were killed after protesting the visit of Vice President Nixon to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, seen as a congratulation for the coup d’état against Mohammad Mossadegh and the return of the [...]

The numbers appear to be leaked by The White House, 30,000 more troops for Afghanistan. Some of the buzz from the MSM is that Pres. Obama will present this as a part of a plan for winning in Afghanistan and that we should be out by the end of his [...]

President Obama is going to announce his plans for Afghanistan after Thanksgiving. It may be ironic that by then we will be done giving thanks. Word right now is that the military anticipates over 30,000 more soldiers being sent there. Pres. Obama will present his decision and reasoning to the [...]