Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann says the president and Barney Frank are a “gangster government” because the federal bailout of General Motors including closing some dealerships. Because it would been better to let the company go bankrupt and close ALL the dealerships.

Joe Biden told the ladies of The View today that President Obama was very amused by his dropping of the F-bomb during the signing of the health care reform bill. Get ready for the teabaggers: “Our socialist Kenyan thinks prime time obscenity is FUNNY!”

The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld reports that the White House may have made the decision not to pursue a 2010 repeal of DADT as early as February, yet the president still pledged its repeal this year during his State Of The Union address. Early in the year, multiple sources say some administration officials counseled the president against acting on the military’s …

“I have spent the day visiting on the phone with extremely reliable sources on Capitol Hill in both the Senate and House. With over twenty calls, I have been able to determine that the revolt is perhaps much larger than the media realizes. There is a sense of total frustration with the administration. They just don’t understand why the White …

Press secretary Robert Gibbs said today that the White House remains committed to repealing DADT, but will not push for action until the Pentagon completes its repeal implementation study, which is expected to be concluded in December. Reporter Kerry Eleveld: “So that rules out legislative action this year?” Gibbs: “The House and the Senate are obviously different branches of government. …

The nation’s hate groups were noticeably silent about last week’s hospital visitation directive from President Obama. Until now.Focus On The Family: “What complicated this memo — and is a concern to us — is the third point, [in which] the president directs Health and Human Services to investigate and to look for ways to perhaps give even more rights to …

“DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN.” Almost 300,000 fans of a page calling for God to kill the president. (Many of these “fans” are opponents to the …

Former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo is under fire for telling teabaggers that the president should be sent back to Kenya. “If his wife says Kenya is his homeland, why don’t we just send him back?” Tancredo said at a South Carolina Tea Party rally over the weekend, the Greenville News reports. The so-called “birther movement,” questioning Mr. Obama’s origins, began …

Via press release from GetEQUAL: Moments ago, several GetEQUAL activists interrupted President Obama during his speech at a fundraising reception for Senator Barbara Boxer in Los Angeles, expressing anger over the slow progress on repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ this year and demanding that he repeal it. GetEQUAL activists shouted, “what about ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” and “it’s time for …

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network executive director Aubrey Sarvis has penned a open letter (PDF) to the president demanding that he stand by his State of the Union pledge to repeal DADT. Sarvis told the Advocate this weekend that Capitol Hill staffers are reporting that the Pentagon has asked Congress to put off a vote until their repeal implementation study can …

Bill Clinton told ABC News this weekend that both he and Hillary are too old to be considered for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Because I’m already 63-years-old, I hope I live to be 90. I hope I’m just as healthy as Justice Stevens is. But it’s not predictable. I’d like to see him put someone in there, late …

Queers United alerts us to a poll on CNN’s homepage asking readers whether they agreed with Obama’s hospital visitation order. This comes only ten days after CNN hosted notoriously insane “ex-gay therapist” Richard Cohen, who told viewers that gays could be “fixed”, something for which the network later offered a halfhearted apology. At least the vast majority of those responding …

Rep. Alan Grayson opposes the president’s plan to dismantle the space program and turn future endeavors over to private industry. Grayson’s congressional district in Central Florida doesn’t include the Kennedy Space Center, but many space industry employees live in and around Orlando.

The truth about taxes is something that the teabaggers either won’t believe or deliberately lie about. Despite big tax cuts included last year’s economic stimulus package, the latest CBS News/New York Times poll finds that as many as 34% of Americans think President Obama raised their taxes. William Gale, head of the Tax Policy Center at the Brookings Institution, tells …

President Obama’s hospital visitation rights order late yesterday was heavily covered by the networks. Last night Anderson Cooper hosted Janice Langbern, whose story about being blocked from seeing her partner in a Miami hospital made national news. Obama called Langbern yesterday shortly before his order became public and apologized for the manner is which she and her late partner had …

President Obama tonight ordered the Department of Health & Human Services to prohibit hospitals from discriminating against LGBT couples when it comes to visitations rights. Administration officials and gay activists, who have been quietly working together on the issue, said the new rule will affect any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding, a move that covers the vast majority …

Taxes! Drumbeat! Obama! Bigger drumbeat! Scary!

Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris says Barack Obama is the first anti-American president because he’s said that he wouldn’t use nuclear missiles to respond to a non-nuclear terrorist attack on an American city.

The president of Russia tells George Stephanopoulos that Barack Obama actually “thinks when he speaks,” unlike a certain other person that he doesn’t care to name for fear of offending.

Media Matters reports: During a “jobs summit” in New Orleans, former Speaker Newt Gingrich allowed an audience member refer to President Obama as “the Kenyan.” When the man was finished speaking, Gingrich complimented his contribution to the discussion and instructed his staff to take note of the man’s ideas.