Negative Space: Barack Obama
- 2012 Campaign Issues; Republicans urge Obama to act on gasoline prices
- New York Times criticizes Obama, airs Republican grievances over gas prices: “Is President Obama’s policy causing an inflationary spiral? Gas prices are a pocketbook issue, and polls show they are a concern across the country, with many saying gas prices have caused a financial hardship and some even calling it a crisis.”
- Americans United decries Democrats preaching in schools
-
Influential Separation of Church and State organization says opposition to second Obama term stems from the President and his supporters “using public schools for preaching”.
- Barack Obama’s creepy campaign
- What does Obama think his relationship is with his supporters?
- Broken windows at the ATM
-
I had my own personal broken window this week. Not a big fan of obstructing progress for make-work jobs.
- The colorful mirror of the anointed
-
The Color of his Presidency can’t change the massive government overreach under his watch.
- Cuban Cigar Aficionado
-
Cigar Aficionado is trying to call an old, failed approach to diplomacy “something different” now that it’s being applied to Cuba. But they’re just a cigar magazine. What’s sad is that the President of the United States is also pushing an old failure.
- Defaulting on our debt is an executive choice
-
If we default on any debt payments, it is because the White House has made the choice to default. There is no need to default even if the debt ceiling isn’t raised for a long time.
- Democrats deny Obamacare savior three times
-
Before the cock crowed twice, disciples of Jonathan Gruber deny knowing him three times in response to Republican accusations.
- Do you believe in cronies?
-
“Nobody should go broke just because they get sick. They should go broke paying higher premiums to my cronies.”
- Election lessons: be careful what you wish for
-
Republicans should learn from the Democrats’ mistake of the primary season: be careful what you wish for, you might just get… half of it. They wanted Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton’s opponent.
- Feinstein defends Obama on Benghazi
-
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) defended President Barack Obama (D-W) on the Benghazi talking point scandal, saying the White House just isn’t that competent.
- Glaciers retreat from Middle East
-
As glaciers flee the desert, they leave once-frozen ancient barbarians behind.
- Hero stops local mass shooting
-
Nation has no need to grieve, goes on watching sports and talking about election trivialities. Social media finger nannies hardest hit.
- He’s not telling the truth, entirely
- Isn’t “not telling the truth, entirely” kinda like “lying”?
- The Last Defense against Donald Trump?
-
When you’ve dismantled every other defense, what’s left except the whining? The fact is, Democrats can easily defend against Trump over-using the power of the presidency. They don’t want to, because they want that power intact when they get someone in.
- Lessons for new Presidents: Entangling long-term alliances
-
How will our foreign policy change after President Obama’s Fortress America?
- Markos Moulitsas accuses President of assassinating Arizona rep
-
Daily Kos chief claims President Obama’s exhortation to followers to “bring a gun” triggered assassination attempt.
- Medical marijuana: a policy ripe for the harvest
- Enough weasel words to make a fur coat; that pretty much describes the new Justice Department guidelines.
- Mitt Romney: 9/11 mastermind
-
Media accuses Governor Romney of plotting 9/11 to embarrass President Obama. Obama responds by freeing unjustly accused Omar Abdel-Rahman.
- The moose should have told you
- Does Bullwinkle now run the White House?
- Most Open and Transparent Lies Ever
- When we were promised a transparent administration, we didn’t realize it was transparently self-serving.
- New York Times claims even moderate Democrats socialist
-
According to accusations by the New York Times, Democrats have moved so far to the left that even moderate Democrats are socialists today.
- Obama recycles Harrier jets in Afghanistan
-
The White House’s new recycling plan for unused Harrier jets bypasses EPA regulations and lets the Taliban work out their aggressions on military hardware.
- Obama rocks the house in Charlotte
-
“He just blew Clinton right off of the podium,” said former Republican Mary Clogginstein of Brattleboro, Vermont.
- Obama staff caught in sex trafficking scandal!
-
One of President Barack Obama’s top donors, which also provided his administration several key staffers, has been caught in a sex-trafficking scandal in New York and other east coast cities.
- Obama to lead domestic violence shelter
-
Former President Barack Obama promises to tear down the barriers of hate, and end the divisions that plague shelters. “We will restore the Sanctuary’s image as the last, best hope for acceptance for all those touched by domestic violence.”
- Obama vs. Trump vs. Hitler: A letter to my friends on the left
-
Sure, now that Donald Trump is threatening to take the White House, the left cares about imperial presidents. But unless they’re willing to oppose President Obama’s executive orders, whatever Donald Trump does is their fault.
- ObamaCare: it’s a tax, bitches
- Circling closer to the bureaucracy event horizon: now we have to list all the things we don’t do and check to see if we have to pay taxes on not doing them.
- Obama’s late conversion on Libya
- He should have asked. He had the votes. It was—a few weeks ago, at least—the right thing to do.
- Only four-year-old policies grandfathered
- Aetna, in response to a Facebook post, responded definitively with why my policy was canceled under the ACA.
- Poll gives Obama his worst marks yet
-
Six months before election day, Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than three decades, and they attribute it to President Obama’s handling of gasoline prices and the rest of the economy.
- President compromises on bridge construction
-
President Obama navigates White House argument between engineers and staff. “Half a bridge is better than none,” says President.
- President Obama accuses Benghazi terrorists
-
President Obama accused the Benghazi attackers of terrorism retroactively at last night’s debates, winning the term decisively for House Media.
- President Obama announces national library and poets initiative
-
Reaping the benefits of a new United States-Cuban dialogue, President Obama announced a new national library and poets program last week, based on a similar program pioneered by Fidel Castro in Cuba.
- President Obama blames EU, self, for Brexit vote
-
I failed to understand issues of critical importance to the British people, says President. “I’ve learned my lesson.”
- President Obama defeats Math Roundly
-
President Obama edged out a two percent victory over Math on Tuesday night, promises perpetual peace, abundance for all.
- President Obama outlines Thanksgiving campaign
-
Organizing for Action and My Barack Obama ask young people to talk politics over Thanksgiving dinner.
- President Obama switches parties
-
President Obama, angered over the Democratic Senate’s inability to pass basic legislation, says he will become a Republican.
- President Obama talks about NCLB
-
In tough economic times, President Obama unveils a new NCLB program to ensure fairness “from Main Street to Wall Street.” Stephen Price Blair goes to the White House to discuss this new program with the President.
- President Obama violin concertos console bereaved Iraqis
-
President’s iPod an oasis in crisis for the stress of a historic presidency, and the Middle East.
- Remember this when the New York Times criticizes conservatives
- Peter Baker in the New York Times writes that conservatives can’t really be concerned about the President’s safety, because they criticize the President’s policies. What does this say about Baker and the Times’s criticism of George Bush and other conservatives?
- Republican namecalling: single man creating laws smacks of “dictatorship”
-
Extreme Republicans call U.S. President “dictator”, jealous that President’s actions to achieve goals bypass congressional obstruction and gridlock.
- Republicans and America must provide an alternative
-
If America does not provide an alternative to the evils of progressivism gone awry in the world, it is lost.
- Republicans overreact to Mexican army visit
-
Recent visit by Mexican armed forces to San Diego brings out the worst in Republican lawmakers. Congress’s approval is at an all-time low following incendiary comments by prominent Republican representatives.
- A return to dictator-friendly diplomacy?
- Is the United States returning to propping up strong-men in its foreign relations?
- Russ Feingold: Progressives United Against Voter Influence
- May 31: For Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin was a wake-up call. For the rest of us, it was the 2008 presidential election.
- Second look at Chance the gardener
- Is President Obama really a mentally-challenged private gardener who has never left his DC townhouse?
- Should we be pessimistic about good governance going into 2016?
-
As we head into the final year of President Obama’s presidency, and a new election year, it may help to look into the past for guidance.
- A tested alternative for Iranian nuclear negotiations
-
There is a way to stay true to America and negotiate in good faith with Iran, without capitulating everything at once.
- Trump vs. the Media: authenticity and humility
-
A meme running around comparing what President Trump wrote in the Holocaust memorial guestbook to what Senator Obama wrote shows a surprising humility in President Trump.
- Vote on performance, not promises
- If you’re disappointed that President Obama is the same wheeler-dealer he was when he was a Senator, take it as a lesson for future elections: vote performance and record, not promises.
- Why “we don’t have a plan” is selfishly incompetent
-
The Obama White House tells congress, “we don’t have a plan, but we don’t like your plan” when confronted with the destruction of the United States economy by 2027. Why can’t we continue to live large and then fix the problem in 2027?
More Information
- Let’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President
-
“This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed.” (Memeorandum thread)
- Why not challenge Palin to a debate, Mr. Obama?
-
“So, how about it, Mr. President? Your cowardly attempts to whip up your base by demonizing a private citizen have led to her gracious extension of an offer to repeat this garbage to her face. How many great leaders of American history have tried to run against the vice-presidential candidate from the previous ticket, after they retired from all elected offices? Here’s your chance to convince us what a brilliant strategy that is!”
- American Crossroads: “Great”
-
“Obama’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric on his accomplishments.”
- Memebusters! The Osama Bin Laden Edition
-
“Genes carry hereditary information. MEMES carry cultural information. Problem is, many memes are defective—they’re based on falsehoods. We used to have an immune system—called the ‘press’—that caught errors. Now the ‘press’ generates most of the falsehoods themselves.”
