Tag Archives: Obama

Tories in waiting

08-12-02 – 05:21:pm

The US as parliamentary democracy meme insight is catching on (WaMo, Hullabaloo).
But whatever happened to this (8 Aug ’08)?
SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to amend regulations governing viewing of the Inaugural parade by the public, demonstrators, and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The proposed rule would extend the duration and extent of demonstrations [...]

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All bets are off

08-11-16 – 09:15:pm

AP, “Obama Has More Threats Than Other Presidents-Elect” (15 Nov ’08):
[I]n a Maine convenience store, an Associated Press reporter saw a sign inviting customers to join a betting pool on when Obama might fall victim to an assassin. The sign solicited $1 entries into “The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool,” saying the money would go to [...]

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Swiss miss

08-11-12 – 11:26:pm

Next up: Switzerland.
AFP (“Swiss Fear More Pressure on Bank Secrecy after Obama Victory,” 10 Nov ’08):
Switzerland is likely to come under further pressure from the United States over its prized system of banking secrecy after the election last week of Barack Obama, key sector players predicted. The newly-elected US president, who formally takes office in [...]

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Quality time

08-11-07 – 12:42:pm

Krugman, “The Obama Agenda,” NYT (7 Nov ’08):
This year, however, Mr. Obama ran on a platform of guaranteed health care and tax breaks for the middle class, paid for with higher taxes on the affluent. John McCain denounced his opponent as a socialist and a “redistributor,” but America voted for him anyway. That’s a real [...]

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The Key to American conservatism today

08-10-23 – 11:20:am

Cognitive dissonance.
At Wikipedia, ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny:
Does. Not. Compute.

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“Sitting Pretty”

08-10-08 – 08:23:pm

So says an A-list blogger:
Pretty funny.

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Family values execsum

08-08-26 – 12:21:pm

Chris Matthews (at 0:35) on the appearance of the Obama children onstage at the DNC:
They’ve not, uh, fully exploited those kids at all, and they shouldn’t, but it’s nice to see them all together once in a while.

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Size matters

08-08-21 – 06:01:pm

Barack Obama (b. 1961)
Limbaugh stands on the shoulders of midgets when he samples a favorite technique of American racism, by countering the legitimate African American assertion of authority with cartoonish fantasies about little black men:
It’s—you know, it’s just—it’s just we can’t hit the girl. I don’t care how far feminism’s saying, you can’t hit the [...]

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