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President Obama Sings Sweet Home Chicago with B.B. King (w/ video)

Posted on February 21, 2012 by | 15 Comments

I’m going to need him to guest star on American Idol or something. These little snippets of PBO singing is just not enough for me!  MOAR SINGING is what the people want.

You’re welcome.

[via The Obama Diary]

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Yo, The Stimulus Worked — Thank You President Obama!

Posted on February 21, 2012 by | 10 Comments

Common refrains from people who say it didn’t work:

  • But Obama promised that unemployment would be less than 8%. Horseshit on a stick. First, he didn’t “promise” a damn thing, if everything an incoming president says is turned into a “promise”, well then there has been a whole lot of promise breaking going on in our history. Second, the cautious prediction made during the transition was based on the numbers that the outgoing Bush administration was feeding the Obama team. They were flat out wrong and completely underestimated what was going on in our economy. Hey media, that’s called context. Buy some at the local C-store.

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Shorter Franklin Graham: Obama is Probably a Secret Muslim

Posted on February 21, 2012 by | 13 Comments

Play that Funky Music

For the next nine months, we are going to be treated to 2008′s greatest hits. Everything from “Yes Man, He’s My Kenyan,” to “Goddamn America, The Jeremiah Wright Song,” to “Black Genocide, Don’t Do It,” to “Secret Muslims, Yes That’s What We Are” to “Mommas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Liberals Who Abort Babies,” to “My Sharia,” to “Half-Black is Too Black, But Not Black Enough,” to “Hawaii Ain’t No State I Ever Heard Of.”

Today on Morning Joe, Franklin Graham, son of television evangeloon Billy Graham, lifted up his voice and sang the Secret Muslim Song.

Apparently, Baby Graham doesn’t believe President Obama is a Christian, but rather some Christian-Muslim hybrid:

Graham, throughout the interview, repeatedly said he didn’t know if President Obama was a Christian.

“I asked him when he was running… how he came to faith in Christ. He said that he was working in the South Side of Chicago in the community and they asked him — the community — asked him what church he went to, and he said ‘I don’t go to church.’ They said, ‘If you’re going to work in the community, you have to join one of our churches.’ And of course, he joined Reverend Jeremiah’s church. So that’s what his answer to my question was.” Continue reading →

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Too Big to Fail — Attorney General Kamala Harris Addresses California Democratic Convention

Posted on February 11, 2012 by | 6 Comments

The Middle Class is Too Big to Fail!

Anyone who wants to tell you that there’s no difference between the parties, that it doesn’t matter who is elected, I present the definitive refutation of that empty cliche: California Attorney General Kamala Harris.

When she walked out on the mortgage settlement negotiations last September, saying that nothing the banks had put on the table was adequate to match the damage they have caused, Californians cheered and bankers soiled themselves, because so much of the losses and the wrongdoing were concentrated in our state. Losing California from the deal made any settlement woefully incomplete.

And when the settlement was announced this week, she had won $18 Billion for Californians and increased the settlement for other states by a total of $6 Billion.

Watch her address to the California Democratic Party convention today in San Diego. This is why we fight, and this is How We Win in 2012.  Continue reading →

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President Obama Stands Up for Women’s Health… AGAIN.

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 6 Comments

The contraception coverage debacle has been nothing short of ridiculous.

For the past couple weeks, we’ve been treated to scores of Republican men (primarily — and even a couple Democrats) using women’s health as a political football. Suddenly a decision to permit women free access to birth control became a War on Religion, as the GOP decided to up and move to Crazytown (population: them) in order to avoid talking about the issues that people actually give a shit about — jobs and the economy.

Today — whether by design or brilliant post-Crazytown strategery, President Obama “accommodated” the Catholic Church and the bishops who had been trying to convince us all that permitting women free access to contraception was a harbinger of the end of days.

Initially, I thought that the Administration, after instituting the rule, was taken aback by the right-wing freak out, but managed to strategize and negotiate its way around it.  Others have since convinced me that this was the plan all along — to force the Republicans to show their asses thereby demonstrating to Democratic and Republican women alike (as well as those crucial independents) that what Republicans really want to do is install a tiny government in to every women’s vagina and arrogate complete control over women’s sexuality and health.

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How We Win in 2012: Getting Started

Posted on February 10, 2012 by | 10 Comments

We’ve got a country to save. Here’s how we’re going to do it.

Listen up, Team Fuck Yeah.

Our mission is clear: remove Republicans from elected office everywhere we can across the United States. Re-elect President Obama. Hold control of the US Senate. Retake control of the House of Representatives. Win as many governorships, state legislature seats, county and city-level contests as possible.

Even though the GOP field appears to be imploding before our eyes, eventually there will be a name on the Republican ballot line for President, and it is by no means certain that Barack Obama will win that contest, even though conditions look favorable at the moment.  Continue reading →

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The Guy with the Purple Shirt: Obama 2012

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 5 Comments

A Promise Kept — A Supporter’s Steadfastness Rewarded

Here’s one Obama supporter who’s been In for Obama since before there was an In. And he’s never gotten Out. Video below the fold. Continue reading →

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Alinsky Lives!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by | 10 Comments

Check this tidbit from Talking Points Memo:

Obama campaign senior strategist David Axelrod told MSNBC Tuesday morning that the president is not a “hypocrite” for agreeing to accept super PAC money. The president and his campaign have spoken out against the unlimited corporate financing now allowed in political campaigns, but Axelrod said Tuesday that the campaign cannot “play by two sets of rules.”

“We have to live in a world as it is, not how we want it to be,” Axelrod said.

That’s how it’s done, folks.

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Super Bowl Commercial: It’s Half-Time in America

Posted on February 5, 2012 by | 15 Comments

Who’s afraid of Detroit?

Bad ass.

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