Barack Obama is our President. That’s what he is. He’s not a fascist, a socialist, a communist, or a racist. Barack Obama‘s just our President. On tonight’s news, there’s a litany of stuff in response to what Jimmy Carter said about all the attacks on Obama. Carter said the attacks are racist [mostly, he said […]
They Don’t Even Disguise The Race-Baiting The Atlantic by Andrew Sullivan September 15, 2009 Limbaugh echoes Malkin: "In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on… I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the […]
Cheney gets praise and protest at Wyoming event By MEAD GRUVER [AP] LARAMIE, Wyo. — Praise and protest greeted former Vice President Dick Cheney as he visited his alma mater Thursday for the dedication of a new international center bearing his name. About 100 protesters heckled Cheney throughout the dedication ceremony for the University of […]
Klan March on Washington in 1925 [400,000] Ku Klux Klan The first Klan was founded in 1865 by Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. Groups spread throughout the South. Its purpose was to restore white supremacy in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The Klan resisted Reconstruction by assaulting, murdering and intimidating freedmen and […]
When White House press secretary Dana Perino was told that 77 percent of the country thought we were on the wrong track, she said what I was thinking: “Who on earth is in the other 23 percent?” I knew who they were — the same people supporting the John McCain campaign. Me? I figured there […]
It seems like whenever I get away from my obsession with the absurd torture program of the Bush Administration after 9/11, something I haven’t seen comes along to get me all fired up again – usually from emptywheel, keeper of the flame. Today, she mentions a letter from John Yoo to John Rizzo , CIA […]
Transcript: President Obama’s Address to Wall Street ; Another beautiful speech with his usual mastery of the problem and the solutions. As I watched I kept thinking, could George Bush have even understood the problem well enough to give such a speech. Bush’s speechwriters started with an ideological perspective and progressed to an ideological agenda. […]
Boy, Oh, Boy New York Times By MAUREEN DOWD September 12, 2009 The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president […]
look at all those white people When I saw that sign in this picture from the March on Washington yesterday, I wondered, "Is that sign what all this is about?" Do all those people really think that the health care reform debate is about social welfare for black people, or poor people – an attempt […]