Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Just posted to the Obama campaign’s YouTube channel.

“I’m taking my dog for a walk and guess what I see right over the tree line right above my head is a drone. I don’t live in the city, I don’t live in a populated area, I live in one of the most rural places you could possibly live in Northern Virginia and there could only be one thing …

Making what they say is their first endorsement “in decades,” today The Advocate officially backed Barack Obama. By saying aloud, “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” in a televised interview on ABC, he has sparked conversation domestically and internationally. While he is our president at home, globally he’s an icon, a symbol of the promise of …

“I was really happy; I probably went down to West Hollywood and had a shot. I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed. My viewpoint on all these things—equality for women, the choice to love anyone you want—hopefully, we will look back at this moment and think like we do now concerning [other] civil rights …

To the tune of If Mamma Was Married, from Gypsy.(Via Zack Ford)

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Tea Party activists are calling for a boycott of Hallmark Cards because of the above graduation message. Hallmark is already apologizing. In a Hallmark statement, the card giant says, “Humor is a funny thing. What makes one person chuckle can be puzzling, or even off-putting, to the next, and there can be a fine line between edgy and startling, between …

I’d say we can call this “spiking the ball.” And Joe Biden’s hot mic gaffe lives on. T-shirts on sale here.

Check out how the nation’s editorial cartoonists reacted to yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling.

When I first posted the HuffPo’s electoral map in late May, the president was guessed to have 284 electoral votes. It will be interesting to see how yesterday’s decision may affect the coming week’s state polls.

Log Cabin Republicans Today’s ruling by the United States Supreme Court upholding Obamacare is a license for Washington to continue its expansion into the lives of American citizens and businesses. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “Simply put, Congress may tax and spend.” “By upholding even the most intrusive provision of Obamacare, the individual mandate, the court has …

“We are outraged to see the Supreme Court ignoring the constitutional limits the Founders put in place to constrain the federal government’s power over us. Shame on them! With this decision they have given a blank check to the federal government, forever altering the constitutional concept of checks and balances that has been so crucial throughout our history. We wholeheartedly …

Press release from the Koch Brothers’ Americans For Prosperity: “Americans for Prosperity is deeply disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a law that most Americans believed to be unconstitutional. As a result, unless Congress steps in and repeals this legislation, health care costs for most Americans will go up and the quality of health care goes down as …