Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
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 [...]
Breathtaking, powerful writing: Put up or Shut up
Read this blog post from Roger Ebert. Wow. In part, discussing the hateful manipulation of segments of the public by so-called ‘moral leaders’ Ebert refers to the billionaire who said closing tax loopholes was like invading Poland. Hyperbole and exaggeration are good indicators of a ‘con’. Seriously, read it here. One of the best lines: [...]
Lessons about lying from ‘expert’ Dean Letfus
Last week in my post about Tall Poppy syndrome being the last refuge of the scoundrel I mentioned property spruiker Dean Letfus’s apparent reluctance to answer criticism … What I DO find interesting, however, is that the spruiker in question, Dean Letfus, doesn’t actually answer my criticism — of (a) his marketing methods, (b) his [...]
Leadership — not always about popularity
That’s what I’m talking about. Enough with the pious BS from the religious right and those looking for a smokescreen or trying to earn brownie points with their one-eyed supporters. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less. “As a [...]
Talk about product placement!
Funny, I’ve got one of those MacBook Pro laptops like the one President Obama used to demo the new healthcare.gov website … but mine doesn’t have the Presidential seal plastered over the Apple logo. Jeez, those of us using Macs used to be ‘oddballs’, ‘outlaws’ and renegades (‘the elite’ I always used to say, which [...]
