Posts Tagged ‘ President Obama ’

Many Republican legislators have suggested that the recently passed health care reform plan ("Obamacare") is a bad idea that will hurt the nation, but it hadn't yet been articulated that this result was intentional until this soundbite: Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, explaining the concept of "adverse selection" in insurance buyers, claims that...
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This morning the comedy world woke up to the news that there's a a potential deal for Virginia comedian Jay Pharoah to become the fourth new cast member for the 2010-2011 season of Saturday Night Live.Pharoah has made a small splash online with dead-on impressions of Denzel Washington and...
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President Barack Obama delivered his speech tonight on the end of combat operations in Iraq and the work ahead to re-invigorate America's economy. Among the major talking points are already proving to be "a transition to Afghan responsibility" in the war there that the president said will begin next July, and Obama's...
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The journalists assigned to cover President Obama on a daily basis often have less access to him than the columnists, television personalities and feature writers who cover the president less frequently.
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The Hill's Sam Youngman published an interview this morning, with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, that has touched off an angry response from liberals. Speaking about liberal critics of President Obama, who have gone as far as comparing him to George W. Bush, Gibbs "unloaded" on what he calls "the professional left."'

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Revelations that some of the stimulus money shelled out under President Obama's Recovery Act has been squandered on less-than-deserving projects are nothing new. But now, thanks to GOP Sens. Tom Coburn and John McCain, a large portion of these allegedly unworthy ventures have been exposed and criticized in a handy-dandy list.
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Whether you're a fan of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin or not, it is a fairly indisputable fact that she lacks testes, as does Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. The second thing that came to mind when I read Palin's cojone baloney, then, was this: When attempting to describe Brewer's alleged courage,...
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I'm afraid I must agree with the learned, now-facially hirsute Jon Stewart: Nothing President Obama does will ever make his critics happy. In an appearance on The View, President Obama spoke with rare honesty about the issue of race, but got "Breitbarted" for his trouble. The media have gone into...
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Some pretty crazy things have been happening on The View lately, and the show is about to get even more interesting. That's because President Barack Obama is scheduled to appear as a guest on this Thursday's broadcast, becoming the first sitting president to ever appear on a daytime talk show.
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Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) got some good news last week when a Mason-Dixon poll showed the incumbent with a 7 point lead over challenger Sharron Angle. Even so, Reid only managed 44% support in that poll (to Angle's 37%), and has consistently languished in the low 40s since his...
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