An Ex-Wingnut sets record straight
This is my very first diary, so I hope I get it right. I'm one of those Obama supporters barely recovering from my anger over the latest guilt by association flap over Rev. Wright, and looking for a...
View ArticleClinton Donors Threaten Pelosi, DNC...Again!
No this is not a rehash of the story that New Historian posted on March 14 here on DailyKos about the Clinton donors in Florida requesting a refund of their donations to the DNC if the FL votes were...
View ArticleHillary goes Bowling!!!! Yaay...
'Twas the battle of titans we had been waiting for...the big "Bowl Off."Finally, on the seventh day of the fourth month of the year two thousand and eight of the Common Era, we had a pre-match taste of...
View Article'Not only Penn: 'Tis Bill in bed with Colombia
Had the MSM been doing their jobs, we would have known that the Colombia trade deal extended deeper than Penn's doorstop. Unfortunately with Petraeus's testimony today filling up the airwaves (and...
View ArticleRemembering Barack Obama's Mom, Ann Dunham...
As I sat at the Atlanta International airport this Friday afternoon in transit, I whipped out Sen. Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams from my Father to finally finish it up. Sitting there beneath the...
View ArticleMaliki Remarks "mistranslated"?
And 3-2-1...I knew there was going to be a "clarification" of Nuri Al-Maliki's statement before the sun set, and voila...! As expected CNN is reporting that Maliki "disputes reports on withdrawal...
View ArticleMerkel: Obama "Well-Equiped Physically...& Politically"
Hmmm....Is German Chancellor Angela Merkel getting captivated by our candidate even though she has not yet met him? Or is she compensating for the embarrassing flap over Sen. Obama's previous request...
View ArticlePetraeus says No Timetable
So the drama continues, and by the AM it will be all Petraeus, all the time for the foreseeable future. Why? Because General Petraeus stated in an interview on Sunday that he does not support a...
View ArticleNew Obama Website Up: "The Low-Road Express"
The Obama campaign today launched a new website where they coral all the media responses to McCain's attack adds. Why? It becomes a one-stop shop to gather both the Obama Campaign response, media...
View ArticleNew Obama Video: A great song!!!
British musician Dave Stewart along with a slew of very impressive Hollywood supporters of Sen. Obama have come through again just as Will.i.am did earlier during the primaries, and it is a beautiful...
View ArticleObama attacks McCain's "healthcare deregulation" today in Daytona Beach, FL...
Senator Obama was as spirited today as he has been all week. He was on stage together with Governors Sebelius and Napolitano. The main slant was on women's concerns. I watched the livestream and boy...
View ArticleObama Team: "We will be ready and be seen to be ready"
Folks, Our guys are sharpening their 'A' game for the immediate aftermath of the elections. The Obama team is serious and will more than hit the ground running at warp speed. The UK Sunday Telegraph...
View ArticleBachmann Responds to Tinklenberg's financial Tsunami
As you would all have guessed it, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R- MN-06) is feeling the heat from her political debacle unfolding since her interview on Chris Matthews' Hardball last Friday.And like a...
View ArticleThe MSM is Stupid. Why would Obama play Blago's Game?
I sit here mulling this whole tempest in a teapot about Obama's so-called involvement in Blago-gate. Then it dawned on me just how stupid much of the bloviating punditocracy is. They are totally...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Go directly to the American people!
I just came off a huge rant against my tv listening to Nora O'Donnell spewing GOP talking points on MSNBC in an endless loop, that the Economic Recovery package is all about contraceptives! Obviously...
View ArticleDear President Obama, talk to us Directly
Dear President Obama,It has been a tough two weeks for you. The conservatives and their media parrots have been relentless in their attacks on you. The media that lay comatose through 8 years of Bush...
View ArticleThe Party of NO (GOP): 10-point Shame Roll
The GOP:The party of Lincoln is now OFFICIALLY the party of COWARDS, and the party of NO !!! The GOP is the 21st century equivalent of the Flat Earth SocietyThey have nuked themselves in the foot, big...
View ArticleHealthcare, Defense, Agribusiness Industries Gear to fight Obama's plans
An article in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal hints at the brutal battle already stirring in Washington DC to derail President Obama's plans to overhaul healthcare, cut Agribusiness subsidies, and...
View ArticlePresident Obama interview with Jim Lehrer today w/ Video
This evening, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer broadcast Jim Lehrer's interview with President Obama shortly after the address to the troops at Camp Lejeune, NC. As usual, the president was thoughtful and...
View ArticleSteele apologizes to Rush Limbaugh!
That was quick!!! Barely 3 hours after Rush Limbaugh sternly put Michael Steele in his "place," Steele has backtracked from his statements on Saturday Night on DL. Hughley's Show. The apology came in a...
View ArticleCNN's Drew Griffin is an Ass!!!
Pardon my rant. I just watched a segment of CNN's AC360 program and as happened during the general election with Drew Griffin's disingenuous ACORNreport, he's at it again.This time he went to Missouri...
View ArticlePresident Obama sends Video message to Iranian People
The White House has released a video message that President Obama sent to the people of Iran on the occasion of the celebration of Persian New Year, Nowruz. In this video the President moves to fulfill...
View ArticlePrez. Obama speech in Prague, Czech Rep. w/ Videos & full text (updated)
While you were sleeping, President Obama was advancing American diplomacy in the Czech Republic culminating in a major foreign policy speech in the beautiful city of Prague. The American media repeat...
View ArticlePrez. Obama's Speech to Turkish Parliament w/full video, text & pics
President Obama today addressed the Turkish Parliament, after a joint press conference earlier in the day with Turkish President Abdullah Gul. the thrust of the speech was the importance of Turkey not...
View ArticleBreaking: Hillary hits back at Cheney!!! w/ Video Update on...
It looks like the Obama administration is ready to fight Cheney head on. Hillary just attacked Dick Cheney's credibility on the torture memo saga.***LATEST UPDATE***Here's the link to the CSPAN video...
View Article100th day: Pres. Obama will have the last Word!!!
You have just gotta love this President's sense of humor and media savvy coming from the shrewd minds operating at the White House. Why? Well, President Obama will hold Primetime Press Conference on...
View ArticleFrank Luntz to GOP: Don't fight Obama on Healthcare, Lie instead
As with all things Republican these days, it is truly a marvel to see them reflexively turn every single time to their Rovian toolkit of debunked lies, obfuscation, and projection, to hoodwink the...
View ArticleFrom Ghana: Pres. Obama's Upcoming visit - [Part 1]
Hello fellow Kossacks,Greetings from Ghana where there is fever-pitch anticipation of President Obama’s scheduled 24-hour visit from Friday July 10th through Saturday the 11th. The title of a brand new...
View ArticleFrom Ghana: Analysis of Obama Visit (Part 2)
Hello fellow Kossacks, Greetings from Ghana. This is Part 2 of the diary I posted on Wednesday offering analyses of President Obama’s visit to Ghana. In Part 1, I briefly discussed background context...
View ArticleGet Ready, "Slit Your Wrists," Bachman-style!!
It is very tempting to chalk the latest episode of Bachmania to yet more sick evidence of right wing lunacy and dismiss it with some eye-rolling or shake of the head. Nothing wrong with that reaction,...
View ArticleSec. Hillary Clinton Diplomacy abroad
While the beltway villagers wallow in their insipid pettiness ridiculing the President's Nobel Peace Prize, our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been out there carrying out this administration's...
View ArticlePres. Bush Sr. invites Pres. Obama to "Re-education" Summit in Texas
Anyone remember Michele Bachman's recently stated fear that the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act under President Obama, is actually a scary totalitarian plot to send our youth to "re-education camps...
View ArticleReality TV: Why did the Presidential Q&A resonate?
I, like many viewers who chanced upon last Friday's live televised Presidential Q&A at the Republican House Caucus Retreat in Baltimore, and those who caught replays later, sat absolutely riveted....
View ArticlePres. Obama's interview with Indonesian TV
Folks There is a reason the world was holding its collective breath during the recent healthcare saga. They want him to succeed so much with his domestic agenda, so that he can turn his attention back...
View ArticleArizona's Ethnic Studs. ban due to Paolo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"?
I literally fell out of my chair just a few moments ago watching Chris Matthews bring on Doug Nick, one of the authors of the law banning Ethnic Studies, and he argued with a straight face that the ban...
View ArticleDon't Get Mad! Get Even: Defeat Wingnuts Everywhere
*This diary is also posted at Wee See You**Listen folks! If Halperin’s juvenile antics this past week confirmed anything at all, it is the fact that we should expect even more of this venal behavior...
View ArticleVeep Biden blasts Romney "Foreign Policy" Speech
In what VSP (very serious people) mouthpiece Mark Halperin calls a surprising response (why, I have no idea) , Vice President Joe Biden wasted no time in blasting Romney's foreign policy insult...
View ArticleRemember when Pres. Obama Peeled Paul Ryan Apart? *Updated*
Long before their notable public sparring during the "Massacre in Baltimore" when Pres. Obama laid to waste the entire House Republican caucus at their Jan 29, 2010 retreat until now, Paul Ryan fancied...
View ArticleRyan Choice = Brazenly Hoodwinking White Middle Class
Thomas Edsall’s brilliant piece this morning provides one of the best syntheses of the cynical and cruel bets that the Bircherized GOP is making this election – that White Middle & working class...
View ArticlePres. Obama: "I know he's had other things on his car...(Video)
President Obama a short while ago dissed Romney on his opposition to wind energy.The President quoted Romney's silly assertion during the GOP primaries that "you can't put a windmill on your car.In...
View ArticleWatch DNC Convention Live @ 3 PM EDT without media spin (Video)
Folks this is a very short diary just to give folks the heads up. If you find the corporate media coverage galling, then watch the DNC livestream which starts at 3:00 PM EDT.As Hopefruit warned us in...
View ArticleWAPO won't move Ohio to "Lean Obama" cuz it would hurt Romney's fee fees
Yes you read right. The reason Washington Post in Chris Cillizza's piece -- Why we aren’t moving Ohio to ‘lean Obama’ -- won't shift Ohio to "Lean Obama" on their electoral map, despite the EVIDENCE...
View ArticleHoodwinked: Romney Campaign Does NOT have the Money they trumpeted **UPDATED**
Surprised? Naw. The emperor REALLY has no clothes. Many of us have suspected that the pom pom festooned announcements each month about "huge money haul" was all hooey. Now we know. Romney's campaign...
View ArticleMy 1st time Canvassing to GOTV with OFA in Ohio
So I decided to get off my butt yesterday (Saturday Sept 29th) early morning to join the team of Obama volunteers from my state of Kentucky who "invaded" one of OFA's 106 offices in Ohio yesterday to...
View ArticleFinance Billionaires: The New Downtrodden Victims
If we didn't already know that this election is the mother of all battles to protect our fragile Democracy from the plutocratic wrecking crew, especially when billionaires like Leon Cooperman dropped...
View ArticleDoing Obama GOTV in the heart of Tea Party Ohio
Once again, I got back last night to my state from next door Ohio, canvassing to nudge Obama voters to the polls. This time we were dispatched to deep red and sometimes rabidly Tea Party neighborhoods...
View ArticleGeithner Draws line in sand: No Rate hikes for 2% = No Fiscal Deal. Also, SS...
If there was any doubt that the Obama administration means business about the Bush Tax cuts expiring on incomes over $250,000, here's news: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner just drew a distinct line...
View ArticleWhy OFA cannot just hand over data to Dem Candidates:FACTS about the Obama...
I am expanding a comment I made earlier this PM to a diary that charged the Obama campaign with "refusing to give up data to help other Democratic candidates". The diarist relied solely on POLITICO's...
View ArticleCharlie Cook Advises GOP how to Leak "Scandals" to bring Obama poll #s down
If we thought Jim Vandehei's and Mike Allen's piece of Politico schmuck pom-poming how DC establishment had turned against the Obama Administration, was bad enough, just read Charlie Cook's latest...
View ArticleSen. Sheldon Whitehouse exposes dark money behind GOP SCOTUS grab
In case you missed it, Senator Sheldon WhiteHouse (D-RI) gave all of us a masterclass in tracking and exposing the filthy Dark $$$ and hidden power players behind the GOP rush to fill Justice Ruth...
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