Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
Caption competition: Obama in Ireland
“Is this how you do a terrorist fist-bump?” Put your suggestions in comments or at ThePaepae’s Facebook page.
I can see Pakistan from my house. Security clearance? You betcha!
Oh, boy, those White House photographers must have an ultra-plus-plus security clearance, huh? Here’s Pete Souza’s pic of the gang watching the Osama Bin Laden ‘kill or capture’ mission LIVE-as-it-happens … just like TV show 24 only the body count is real. Imagine being there. UPDATE: Spoofed by NZ Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson UPDATE 2: Hillary Clinton [...]
This is a serious disappointment, I have to say.
The buck stops at Barack Obama’s desk on this, and it’s not a good look. To my way of thinking, the irrational cruelty being imposed on Private Bradley Manning — as yet not convicted of ANYTHING — confirms his title, as mentioned recently by Julian Assange, as America’s foremost political prisoner. Burma’s heroic Aung San [...]
AP and plagiarist Shepard Fairey settled. Now going after a common enemy?
I hadn’t seen that The Associated Press and Shepard Fairey had sort of settled their dispute over Fairey’s unauthorised and lied-about use of AP photographer Mannie Garcia’s pic of Obama in the famous and ubiquitous HOPE poster … which we discussed here and here. (Read AP media release here.) The lawsuit (which was enriching no-one [...]
You don’t have to make stuff up.
In a nice bit of straight journalism (yes, there is such a thing!) CNN’s Anderson Cooper in his ‘Keeping Them Honest’ slot this week debunked a nasty piece of work by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who, as he put it “used up our air time last night, rather than answering questions about Medicare…and she chose to [...]
Politics is a full contact sport — but there are limits
“This is a contact sport, politics. You can’t complain about being attacked.” — Bill Clinton. He was probably quoting former US Senator Alan Simpson, who famously used the phrase ‘Politics is a contact sport’ in his 2002 Peltason lecture, and ever since, invoking it to describe his good mate Teddy Kennedy… Politics is a contact [...]
What a great comment!
I just had to share this neat little story. How cool. As text below the fold
Can you dig it?
From a Huffington Post comment thread: CHANGE is a process, not an event. I love President Obama. ++++++++++ +++++++++ + ++++++++ ++ +++++ ++++++++++ +++###### # ++++++++ ++ +++++++ ++++++++++ +######## # ###+++++ ++ +++++++ + ++++++++++ ######### # #####+++ ++ +++++++ + +++++++++# ####+++++ + ++###+++ ++ +++++++ ++++++++## #++++++++ + +++###++ ++ +++++++ [...]
Obama — a version of America we can identify with
As I mentioned, I’m reading Robert McCrum’s Globish, and really enjoying it. After digesting a pretty gruelling part of the history of English: 300 years of slavery, the settlement of America, the American Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the ‘end’ of slavery, followed by the bankrupt introduction of Jim Crow laws and segregation, and [...]
Mediagasm
I’m going to come out and say it: I like what I know of Rahm Emanual and I wish him well. I like him for all sorts of intangiable reasons but mainly because of his role in getting Obama elected; and his crucial (not too strong a word) support in getting the Obama health care [...]
