Archive for May 2009
Beauty Is Truth, Truth Beauty: Open Thread
Posted by: madamab on: May 21, 2009
My mother was a ballet dancer. Even though I had neither the talent, nor the desire, nor the high arches necessary for ballet, my mom taught me to appreciate the art of the dance, whether it be ballet, jazz or hip-hop. The beauty of art is timeless and cannot be destroyed, for it is of [...]
Obama Attempts to Quell Critics on Both the Left and the Right
Posted by: BeMindful on: May 21, 2009
- In: Politics
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Guantanomo Prison In the Highs and Lows of Obama’s Big Speech, the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin offers a comprehensive analysis of the president’s attempt to quell critics on both the left and the right in response to several of his recent policy moves. In hitting the lows, Froomkin contends: But in some parts of his [...]
Obama: “Not Helpful to Equate ME with BUSH”
Posted by: taggles on: May 21, 2009
- In: Obama
- 74 Comments
According to Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow last night, leaders of Civil Rights groups and Civil Liberties groups met in an off the record meeting with Obama yesterday. The meeting was called by Obama and took place in the White House Cabinet Room. Obama, Emmanuel, Axelrod, Holder and Craig were there. The groups were there [...]
Obama-ites in the MSM and Blogosphere: “What hast thou wrought?”
Posted by: BeMindful on: May 20, 2009
- In: Politics
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UPDATE: Obama to Make Major Anti-terrorism Speech Thursday It couldn’t have been in response to Maureen Dowd’s column linked to below that provoked President Obama into making a major anti-terrorism policy speech tomorrow, Thursday, May 21, could it? Politico’s Allen and Vanderhei announced minutes ago: President Barack Obama will attempt to regain control of a [...]
Tidbits:
Posted by: taggles on: May 19, 2009
- In: Tidbits
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Palin camp eyed Clinton alliance In an unusual attempt to forge an alliance between two of the most prominent families in American politics, John Coale, a Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged the conservative Alaska governor to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary [...]
Wine in a Can….
Posted by: taggles on: May 18, 2009
Not so sure about this….. Can you dig it?? Wine connoisseurs may balk at the thought of drinking a fine vintage from a can, but glugging from a ring-pull rather than cracking open a full bottle of plonk seems to be catching on. Sales of cans to the wine industry are rocketing, albeit from a [...]
Democratic Politics and Race Baiting
Posted by: taggles on: May 18, 2009
- In: Politics | Uncategorized
- 56 Comments
Obviously, this is the how Democrats try to win primaries. Hey why not? It worked like a charm last year! (CNN) — Virginia gubernatorial candidate Brian Moran is hammering his Democratic primary rival Terry McAuliffe for backing Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama throughout much of the presidential race. The Moran campaign is hoping a [...]
Mountaintop Removal & Obama
Posted by: taggles on: May 18, 2009
This is really sad, but absolutely foreseeable. Many mountaintop removal critics (environmentalists) took this comment made by Barack Obama during the 2008 election season as a sign that Obama was against strip mining coal from the Appalachian Mountaintops. During an August 2007 stump speech, for example, Obama made it clear he disapproved of the destructive [...]
Sunday Evening: This Week Has Sucked! Time to Lighten It Up.
Posted by: madamab on: May 17, 2009
With all this talk of birth control, I’m reminded of this fabulous Seinfeld episode: What’s on your mind?
How Did I Miss This? Sorry, Ladies, Bush’s “Conscience Rule” Will Not Be Overturned.
Posted by: madamab on: May 17, 2009
Not now, not ever. I’m so done with this President. I’m so done with NOW and NARAL and Planned Parenthood and Ms. Magazine, who pretended Barack Obama was a feminist superhero. Even Hillary Clinton, in her forced-reconciliation tour-de-bullshit before the election, emphasized Iraq and the economy as reasons to vote for Obama. She never claimed that he’d be [...]
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