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Tag: Obama

  • An Invidious Comparison

    Last month, there arose a story that spread around the Internet like wildfire. Wait…wildfires don’t actually traverse DSL wires.  Rats.  Nor do hotcakes. Okay, I don’t have a good metaphor, but regardless…”The Bible” mini-series was a tremendous hit for the History channel.  However, viewers noticed that the Moroccan actor playing Satan looked not too dissimilar…

  • Gutless SNL passes up comedy gold for pandering

    SNL finally does a skit that’s in even the mildest way critical of Barack Obama, and CNN thinks it needs to be fact-checked for maligning the President.  And it’s not as if Saturday Night Live was especially devastating; it attacks Obama for not being successful at implementing left-wing strategies. Here’s what really bugs me about…

  • Why Barack Obama should not be antagonizing Israel

    The President apparently needs more Jewish friends if this is somehow news to him.  Roger Simon: …But wait. This is not the good part. The good part is what President Obama said next. The good part is one of the examples the president gave of the innovative, new-wave, cutting-edge, sharp-as-a-tack, out-of-the-box thinking that one member…

  • Live by the teleprompter; die by the teleprompter

    The Irish PM reads Obama’s speech, and Obama thanks himself because that’s what it said on the teleprompter. John Romano’s right: if this was George W. Bush, the video would be everywhere already.

  • End of the fear-mongers?

    How about that?! An orderly transfer of power. For the most part, I’ll be glad if the Bush-haters will just shut up now. With one exception: the people who said that Bush would blame a terrorist act (or cause a terrorist act) as an excuse to stay in power as a dictator beyond 2008.  Sure,…