Tag: Obama

Right-Wing Lies (X): Obama has never honored cops

This is the tenth (or so) in my occasional series of “Right-Wing Lies.” Now I know there are some left-wing lies, too. (It’s not true that 1 in 5 college women are raped, for instance. Nor is it true that black teens are 21 times more likely to be shot and killed by police than…
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In the Weezee Heezee

Can I just say I can’t believe that we have a president of the United States who dares to say, even in jest:, “In the Heezee. Waz’ up!” I love it. And if you think Obama is “unpresidential,” go back and look at Bush looking under the table [at 5:10 and 5:55] for non-existent weapons…
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Embrace the Right

At the closing of Obama’s inauguration, Joseph Lowery said these controversial words: “We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace…
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One more thing…

This might be the last thing I write about the inauguration. But the Onion, as usual, has a very funny story.

It’s official: Obama is a great black

The Great Blacks in Wax Museum unveiled their Obama statue. Pictures in the Baltimore Sun. That’s Rep. Elijah Cummings on the right. He’s flesh and blood. Now you might think I’m writing The Great Black in Wax Museum because of some thinly veiled hipster irony in this supposed post-racial era. Actually, no. I just like…
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They tried to warn us

See the cartoon by Tom Tomorrow in Salon.com.

Obama’s Inauguration

Three Cheers! I enjoyed the afternoon but was a little disappointed with Obama’s speech. I thought he said all the right things. I liked it. But I don’t think, unlike his race speech, that this was a speech for the ages. Oh well. [update: John Dickerson at Slate.com agrees with me.] I wonder when right-wing…
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Inauguration Day

Here’s to the peaceful transition of power and a belated thanks to George Washington. Washington started a great tradition more than 200 years ago: he voluntarily stepping down from power rather than become a power-hungry dictator. Thanks, George. Here’s just a sampling of reports from elsewhere. One from Kenya and another from Turkey.

Will Obama Legalize Marijuana?

No. But still, read this piece by John H. Richardson from Esquire.com.

OBAMA!

I won’t rub it in to all my Republican friends, but the real America has spoken (and just once, for the record, I did tell you so). While it may not be related to the Cubs, yet again, not winning the World Series, it does give me very good reason to fly the Cubs ‘W’…
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