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Back to the Future

President Obama AdLib - January 19, 2010 231

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...

Blame Rumsfeld

President Obama KevenSeven - January 4, 2010 65

We have come far enough from the Christmas attack to start to draw some conclusions. For this discussion, I will not assume that there...

President Hung in Effigy

President Obama KevenSeven - January 4, 2010 232

PLAINS, Ga. — The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the...

Call Out Hypocrisy in 2010

President Obama Emerald1943 - December 31, 2009 125

In perusing the headlines at HP, I stumbled upon a very interesting article by Congressman Eric Massa of New York. Apparently, the most...

Arlen Specter: GOP Already Thinking Ahead to 2012

President Obama Scheherazade - December 28, 2009 18

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)...

To be, or not to be.

President Obama Scheherazade - December 19, 2009 88

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...

From posters to pouters

President Obama nellie - December 13, 2009 17

Friday night on Vox Populi, I mentioned that I had been posting the HP Bush Years Posters to answer Obama bashers across the net....

President Obama’s Nobel Speech

President Obama nellie - December 10, 2009 30

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...

Embrace Change

President Obama boomer1949 - December 10, 2009 60

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...

Educating the Masters

President Obama Khirad - December 9, 2009 15

16 Azar, or National Student Day is a commemoration of December 7th, 1953, when three students at Tehran University were killed after protesting the...

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Back to the Future

Blame Rumsfeld

President Hung in Effigy

Call Out Hypocrisy in 2010

Arlen Specter: GOP Already Thinking Ahead to 2012

To be, or not to be.

From posters to pouters

President Obama’s Nobel Speech

Embrace Change

Educating the Masters

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