Continuing her desperate efforts to be relevant, and playing the Puritans like a two dollar banjo, The Queen has a new post:
Continuing her desperate efforts to be relevant, and playing the Puritans like a two dollar banjo, The Queen has a new post:
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-one-year-later-the_b_343209.html
A little technical FYI since the good AC put a link to such a great image in his post. You can post images in your responses to posts just using a little HTML code and the link to the image.
img src=”INSERT LINK”
Just write the previous code, cut and past the image link and begin the code with the less than character and end the code with the greater than arrow. I suffer from CRS (can’t remember shit) myself so I keep a little text file that has a few worthwhile HTML code examples.
CRS — I’m going to remember that one! That is, if I don’t have a CRS attack!
KQuark, thanks for the tech assist. Any chance there could be a corner of the Planet devoted to posting hints like this? You could have standing instructions on how to include YouTube videos in posts and info like the above. Then you wouldn’t have to post instructions over and over for us not-so-techie types. (As if you didn’t already have enough to do, huh?) Just a thought.
Thanks for helping KQuark!
And a huge round of applause for AuntieChrist’s brilliant and hilarious artwork!
Fucking fantastic!
Everything that needed said came from your first sentence,
“Continuing her desperate efforts to be relevant”…end of story.
Unfortunately just writing the bullshite she has gives her more visibility, especially since the white house responded.
I have mixed feelings about the White House response as well, because it does seem to validate HP as a punditry platform. But on the other hand, I remember the painful lessons of Mike Dukakis — You have to respond to bs and to bssers, otherwise the screed starts to take hold. I’m glad to see them push back against Fox and HP. Right now, the two seem to be running neck and neck for nonsense.
A little chuckle
From the Sierra Club on the R
My bad, here is the source:
http://connect.sierraclub.org/profile/app/group/publicgroup.aspx?g=f039e433-4973-4508-9c60-45ac4b0d9f2a&cons_id=&ts=1257204166&signature=7a9f2e419e1c93ce1d21cb6a88d2fea7
Very good!
I particularly like #7!
:0
Great chuckle for my early morning. I like #5. Thanks!
Allergic to wind??? Aren’t they nothing but hot air???
😆 great find.
Don’t know if anyone posted this already, but thought someone should.
Apparently, the Queen did get some of the attention she was seeking today. David Plouffe responded to the twit.
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While I appreciate Arianna Huffington’s kind words about my book on the 2008 Presidential campaign of Barack Obama, I could not disagree more with the suggestion that somehow the President Obama of 2009 has lost touch with candidate Obama in 2008.
Frustration about the pace of change, even disagreement on select issues, of course is understandable. But stepping back a bit, as those of us in the Obama orbit have learned to do, reveals an administration that already has made a significant down payment on the change so many fought for last year. I remain confident in the president’s unique ability not just to lead us through the many challenges and crises of the moment, but also to accomplish the tough, smart, long-term projects of energy and health care reform — problems that Washington has long ignored but that will secure a more equitable and prosperous future for all Americans.
During the campaign, the president offered three core promises to the American people. First, he promised to wake up every day thinking about how to improve the lives of the middle class, a task made more urgent by the historic economic calamity that greeted him as he took office. Some suggested that all that could or should be done was to perform triage on the financial system and allow economic events to take their normal course. But the president undertook strong action to stabilize the banking system, as well as the auto industry. These were things he had to do — not things he wanted to do — and of course they had little political upside. But President Obama is a leader; he did not run to occupy the Oval Office but to lead from it, and many times that means playing a bad hand as effectively as possible.
The president’s actions to stabilize the banking and auto sectors may well have prevented another Great Depression from visiting this country; certainly these measures avoided additional drastic job losses and foreclosures, of which we have already had far too many.
But while dealing with these crises during his first ten months, the president has kept his sights squarely focused on the middle class. He passed a Recovery Act that saved and created a million jobs — many of these backbone middle-class jobs like teachers, firefighters, and police officers — and made historic investments in green energy and technology jobs. His actions spurred a 73 percent increase in lending to small businesses, allowing them to expand and create new jobs; helped hundreds of thousands of responsible Americans keep their homes; and cut taxes for 95 percent of working families. He’s expanded health care for children, passed equal pay for equal work legislation, and expanded stem cell research. And he is now closer than any president in decades to passing health reform that bans insurance companies from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions, outlaws insurance discrimination based on gender, and caps what patients can be charged out-of-pocket. This effort will be key, because job growth — and the kind of robust economic growth our country needs to create a strong job-producing climate — won’t come without finally getting health care costs under control. Health insurance reform is a key piece of job-growth strategy, as employers of every size can attest.
President Obama’s second core campaign promise was to make government more transparent and accountable, to rebuild a sacred trust that had been seriously eroded. And he has delivered. He closed the revolving door, forbidding anyone who works in his administration from lobbying when they leave their jobs. For the first time in history, names of visitors to the White House will be released, so every American can see which interests and individuals are visiting their government. And the groundbreaking website recovery.gov is allowing Americans to trace every dollar spent and every job created or saved from the recovery act, adding a level of transparency never before seen.
The third core pillar the president offered America was the chance to rebuild and strengthen our relationship with the rest of the world. Doing so would to allow us to solve shared problems and maximize shared opportunities, and to more effectively confront the terrorism and foreign policy challenges faced by the entire world.
He is, of course, delivering on that promise, to a degree even his most hardened detractors would strain to effectively or credibly criticize. The president is winding down the war in Iraq, just as he promised he would during the campaign. And he is working thoughtfully and with great care to determine our next phase in Afghanistan, always keeping the long view in mind. Surely we can all agree this is a refreshing change from the approach to Iraq of six and seven years ago.
Is there much work left to be done? Of course. Is the president satisfied with where we are on jobs? No; the problem weighs on him every day as he works to accelerate job growth and negotiates a cooperative relationship with the private sector, where the bulk of these new jobs must be generated.
The economy is growing again, much sooner than most experts predicted. If growth continues, it should lead to job growth. And the president’s bold leadership has played a significant role in our economy starting to right itself.
But he understands that unless we make much-needed progress on health care and energy, we will not be as strong a country in the decades to come as any of us would like. Our future truly depends on finally getting Washington to start confronting long-term challenges instead of ducking them. This is asking a lot. Washington is often reserved when it needs to be bold, and political when it should be addressing substance and principle. It is too often focused on the next election, not the next generation.
This is one of the president’s great strengths. All he cares about, no matter the barbs and arrows shot his way, is to finally deliver on health insurance and energy reform so that we can ensure our country’s greatness, and provide a solid economic foundation for American workers today and tomorrow.
Arianna Huffington has written much that I agree with. But when it comes to her opinion on the president and his record so far, or her suggestion that there is some great difference between the president and the candidate, I have to register the strongest possible dissent. A year after our historic victory, I have never been more certain that Barack Obama is uniquely suited to lead the country at this unparalleled moment. His values; his ability and desire to think long term; his determination to avoid the easy road of political expedience and to rebuild trust between the American people and their government — these are exactly what American needs right now. As on any journey, there will be twists and turns, ups and downs. But the change so many of us fought for so passionately last year is becoming a reality in front of our eyes, if we focus squarely enough to see it. And when the decisions he is making today finally resolve into a complete picture years down the road, we will find ourselves living in a stronger, fairer, and more prosperous America. And we will cherish the small part all of us played in electing this unique leader, a man befitting this critical moment in our history.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-plouffe/president-obama-and-candi_b_343985.html
I don’t think he is too happy with hairyanna. 😆
Just got this email alert but I suppose you have all heard this news before me. I might be ahead in hours but often behind in the news because I’m sleeping while you are all awake.
I hate these time zones!
“Louisiana official: A justice of the peace who refused to give a marriage license to an interracial couple has resigned.”
That is good news.
Well what he did was awful even if he believed it was right and at least he has a conscience, which is more than can be said for most of them that try the sort of blatant racism.
I think he was shamed into resigning.
I can only imagine the letters he must have received.
Then I will take back the part about his conscience and stomp on it. I just have this notion that somewhere in the jungle of off-the-wall thinking, there lucks a better human being, naive I know but I still have hope and don’t face the crap from your media on a daily basis.
The word I was looking for was “lurks.”
Sorry,(hangsheadinshame)
Another dinosaur set out to pasture.
This is now the sensitivity level at HP. ForPeace put this up and it was immediately removed.
See ………. this is what happens when H p won’t allow us to post on the main.
We end up posting on Sarah to Nowhere ……… what can I say.
It has occurred to me it might be interesting to create a “billboard” of scrubbed posts from HP.
Did anyone else know the President Obama has been in office for a year now?
Amazing how the huffy echo chamber is evaluating Obama’s presidency since election day now, not inauguration day.
With the help of PlanetPOV, I have been cured of any and all desire to log into HP.
If I want to read rightwing crap, I’ll log onto Alex Jones or Fox Nation.
As it is, I read enough rightwing crap from our MSM.
I was feeling mischeivious so I’m using my Sarah sock and playing with people. I’m glad grabamop knows who I am!
I saw that….
I’m undercover on the same thread…
@SeeknDestroy Who is that person who has the hardon regarding my SarahAnn sock and the image? Geez, I changed the image the other night and he’s still complaining. Tonight it should change to the “cute” Miss Wasilla photo of SarahP. He seems to have no humor at all.
Maybe Escribacat or Grabamop knows. They’ve been watching.
Hey, that was fun!!!! Do you mean that guy who kept saying “You’re irritating, you’re irritating?”
@escribacat. Yeah, that’s the one. Everyone else gets it but him. Geez
He didn’t seem like a Palin fan so why should he be irritated? Another mystery.
Sorry. I was busy for a bit.
I don’t know, FM.
I’m a bit out of the loop.
Okay, do you mean the silent observer (to quote a movie) or a new sock? If sock, who were you???
Hi Monk!
Hope you are having fun playing on the dark side! 🙂
I rarely engaged the trolls.
In fact, I rarely read any of their posts.
That’s why I love it here.
Troll free and happy!
I’m not engaging them. I’m using guerilla warfare tactics. Hit and run or subtle traps. Or pretending to somewhat be what they wanted. I’ll let my “audience” here provide the feedback. At least three regulars are in the middle of it.
It’s cheap recreation when I didn’t want to think too hard.
It’s like playing tag team. What a hoot.
Hallelujah!
I think her plan is to subtly dumb down those who weren’t fooled by Murdoch into becoming the same type of willing receptacles to meet the agenda which some of her incurious clown-shoe writers share with her.
A story *finally* showed up today regarding Jon Krakauer’s
interview on the Daily Show regarding the situation in Afghanistan (which was done last month — I remember watching it)
The MSM, like the Huffingtonpost, is one big circle jerk.
I like the people who post there, but I have no use for the Stasi-like mods or the fact that the $25 million from Oak Investments is such a participatory force, and guide in the direction of the dialogue which is allowed on the site.
…and that word is imperative: ALLOWED.
Say something they disagree with?
*snap* …and like that, it’s gone.
Auntie Christ
Oh, and another thing which seems like it should be HUGE news anywhere — as a heckler was physically removed for the first time in eleven years from the audience in The Daily Show (also in October)
Palestinian equal rights joins the progressive agenda on
Hi AuntieC and welcome to POV! (hey, that rhymed!)
There’s nothing subtle about Arianna’s right wing, corporate elitism.
Biden should resign was the big clue for me, even though I’d been seeing signs, but was in denial until that headline.
You’re a poet and you don’t even realize the fact that you have that ability…
wait… that’s not how the quote’s supposed to work.
Oh!
You’re a poet and you *didn’t* even realize the fact that you have that ability.
Better. 😉
She leans TOO much towards the corporate side for my likings, too. As far as I’m concerned, she’s Joe Lieberman in drag.
I only say that because the imagery is gross.
Gaaahhhh!
Bad Visual AC….
~holds head in hands~
Make it stop!
MEDIC!!!!
LMAO!
That is a complete insult!! (for one of them, I’m not sure for whom)
Hey!
Um…
Yeah..you’re right….LOL…
A little chuckle:
From the Sierra Club on the R
Hi AuntieChrist,
Welcome! I just got home and saw your familiar name.
Media math….
Facts need not apply….
Isn’t that quite amazing being as he wasn’t sworn in until the 20th of January this year. I’d like to see which calendar they are using, could it be from Pluto?
Very annoying and very stupid too because it shows clearly that they have a problem with reality.
Nice and cozy place you have here.
I see that Arianna is doing a remake of ‘The Lives of Others’ on her site… so soon too.
Strange fascination she has in the former East German Stasi.
Everyone must skip to her tune before their message is seen… if it’s to ever be seen at all. This hasn’t been approved yet:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2531/4072679081_7c11364d8e_o.jpg
Oh well… here’s to hope. 😉
Auntie Christ
HOLY MACKEREL! You finally made it! A huge welcome, AC!
I was so frustrated trying to get emails to you when you first tried to sign up! Very happy you’re here now!
AuntieChrist in da house!
The virtual dog kept eating my emails?
I actually don’t know *what* was going on with the passwords, they weren’t anywhere to be found… I was ready to do the river dance on my laptop.
…and thank you. 🙂
Hi AC. Wonderful to see you here.
You will be are a tremendous asset here.
And your fantastic graphics.
Hey, that picture of ah is good!
Great to see you back AC. Am I not forgiven for all my sins now?
Great to see you AuntieChrist!
Welcome to POV!
We need to have a HuffNo month.
Maybe this could be The HuffNo Decade?
Well 2010 is coming up and you know Aryanna turns right wing Republican every odd decade.
Or, for real, let’s start small w a HuffNo WEEK. We could probably pull that off.
I would go for that.
It’s troll city over there on that thread, you can tell because they either have no fans or less than ten. Did anyone happend to notice at the end of her post she is promoting her 2 books? I wonder how she manages to type with one hand while the other is used to pat herself on her back.
She must be a mutant because she has one more hand giving the GOP a reach-around.
I’m back…. Grabamop, If she is Arianna, have you noticed that her “Blogging” book from outside venders is now as low as 85 cents on Amazon! Makes SarahP look downright successful at $8.95.
I used to pat myself on the back a lot, and then got a nasty case of bursitis.
So, I looked at the main story on HP yesterday and the fully moderated forum was almost all trolls agreeing with Arianna that Obama was a failure. There were only a couple of regulars participating.
The thread on children being on food stamps I would’ve actually liked to have participated, but it was on fully moderated for some mystifying reason.
I think I’m *slowwwwwwly* weaning myself….
Any posts by Arianna or her top editors/columnists are fully moderated. Otherwise, authors of posts their can take full control of moderating, setting it to fully moderated if they want.
The whole philosophy over there is to weight it towards a one way communication between post authors and members, “Listen to my grand thoughts and accept them whole, do not disrespect me by disagreeing or I will not allow others to read your comment.”
So, as K7 often says, it is very much an echo chamber over there for more and more posts.
She really is trying to be another Drudge. But the only people who are willing to follow without thinking are concentrated in the right wing. Maybe she’s willing to go that route just to get the fan base.
Yup that’s how you create an echo chamber of group think behind huffy opinions.
I am weaning myself as well Pepe. It’s seems that when HP thinks a post is going to get a lot of traffic they fully mod it now. It’s a wonder then don’t do that to all of Palin’s posts.
Palin post are so much fun…I think that’s a HP free for all…keeps the clicks coming and the regulars fishing for trolls
Remind me when you see a Palin post. SarahAnn is ready to “ride” again.
I’ll let you know over here some how…you really get them going…LOL
You two must have missed this one from yesterday. 😆
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/sarah-palins-post-defeat_n_340286.html
I wasn’t there except checking on people. I’m just so out of interest with so much there that even seeing what is “news” is not happening.
It can be really hard. I’ll do an HP boycott every once in a while — today’s main is another vacation call for me — but I do miss people. That’s why it’s nice to see so many familiar names here. Much better forum with the same great companions.
That’s exactly how I feel.
I have no loyalty to HP, but I love mingling with some of the other posters who seem like really nice people. And occasionally it’s fun to hook a really dumb troll and play with them.
Many of the people I enjoy seeing are here. There are a few, like Dr Wang, that I’d like to get over here. He’s active in AZ politics more than I am but I think he might be a bit too serious at times, but I deeply respect him.
I found it a relief when FM was suddenly banned, and this weeked’s little jaunt with “SarahAnnDippity” was just that, absolute freedom to do one liners without trying to espouse concepts to those who didn’t want to hear. I only went there once today to retrieve the quote I did yesterday to Escribacat.
Why does this place keep logging me out??????
Don’t know. Ask adlib the next time he is on the board.
New av. Hello Blondie….wink..
Tech problems already?
deygirl! Welcome to The Planet!!! Great to have you here!
As for getting logged out, being logged in is related to the cookies on your browser. Perhaps the privacy/security settings are too high?
Try reducing them down a notch, if that doesn’t work please let me know by emailing me at admin@planetpov.com and I’ll try to figure it out.
Again, welcome!
Did anyone else see the latest rightwing ad in the middle of a story on HP yesterday? This one had a picture of Pelosi and several people made up to look like zombies. The message was something about how people who follow Pelosi are zombies.
They play both sides now,E.
I believe in an attempt to drive traffic and increase ad revenue, as well as attract bloggers from all political stripes..
Quick OT..
Thanks for the edit button.
This blond is relieved…..
Your wellcum!
(ooops)
LOL….
Boy, do I ever need that edit button for “they’re” “their” and “there.”
I have a major mental block about that.
HP experience should have taught you to read and edit before you hit enter or live with the world seeing your mistakes.
I love the edit button, too.
But sometimes I just *had* to be first in line to tell Gringo off!
[Ah, see, I typed “sometime” there]
We both know that telling Gringo or AC off was a waste of good motor reflexes. One is incapable of comprehension and the other refuses to try.
That’s why I said, “had.”
I figured out a couple of months ago those two are a waste of time.
It was fun to make fun of them sometimes, though, when they are so spectacularly wrong with their facts…
“Al Gore never won the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Hah!
Well kids, must get some work done and go out and vote…talk to all of you later..
Later BDM….
Have a good day..
Have a good one, BDM.
I’ll be leaving to vote about 12:30 and then a continuing ed session. Ecchhh.