Showing posts with label President. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President. Show all posts
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The Debt Limit Explained - YouTube
The Debt Limit Explained - YouTube
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Joss Whedon Endorses Mitt Romney (No, Really) [Video] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
My favorite part: pointing out that Gov Romney doesn't think of poor people the way many of the rest of us do!
Joss Whedon Endorses Mitt Romney (No, Really) [Video] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Pious Bologna:Republicans, Ronald Reagan, & Revisionist History
I think that this particular post is timely, give the rhetoric I keep hearing Republican Presidential hopefuls trying to invoke Regan like some magic formula or some thing or other. This post is well worth checking out especially since it includes the following chart of how much the National Debt increased during the administrations of all the Presidents since Regan. It says a lot.
Still want the good ole days, Mr Newt Gingrich?
Pious Bologna:Republicans, Ronald Reagan, & Revisionist History
Still want the good ole days, Mr Newt Gingrich?
Pious Bologna:Republicans, Ronald Reagan, & Revisionist History
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Obama’s War on Religion | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament
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Obama’s War on Religion | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament
Friday, September 9, 2011
President Obama: Pass This Jobs Bill (The Damn Is Implied) - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
President Obama: Pass This *Damn* Jobs Bill (The Damn Is Implied) - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
Obama to Congress: “Pass This Jobs Bill!”
Do Something! Obama's Five Main Proposals for Fixing the Jobs Crisis
Thursday, September 1, 2011
John Boehner’s “Obama Diss”: Obstructionism, Racism, Or One In The Same?
Here is a really good article reflecting on how the Republicans are treating the President. House Speaker, John Boehner, has shown profound disrespect. If you can't respect the man, at least respect his elected position. It's one thing to dislike a man because of his opinions and policies but I think it goes deeper than that. John Boehner’s “Obama Diss”: Obstructionism, Racism, Or One In The Same?
Monday, July 18, 2011
History Collided When Ruby Bridges Met Barack Obama (Video) - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
History Collided When Ruby Bridges Met Barack Obama (Video) - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Jakes Blasts Franklin Graham for Obama Comments
Image via WikipediaOne complaint some white conservative commentators decry that when they criticize Barack Obama they get labeled as racist, stupid rednecks. Of course that's because they say stupid, racist rednecked things about a Obama. For example, trying to argue that Obama is a Muslim or not really born in America or that implying that all his accomplishments were because of affirmative action is just stupid and desperate. However when black people criticize Obama they are called "jealous" or "traitors". However, although I respect President Obama, he is not the Messiah, he's just a man. Brilliant? Yes. Perfect? No. He is no less a Christian than any other American who hasn't been born-again and doesn't consider the Bible infallible. Does that make him a liar? No but it does mean he needs to get saved.Look at the following speech where he definitely doesn't look at scripture the way born-again Christians look at the Bible.
Jakes Blasts Franklin Graham for Obama Comments
Monday, May 23, 2011
FacePalm of the Day #79 - Pamela Geller, WND: An illegitimate child, an illegitimate president - Atlas Shrugs
It is interesting to note that BHO I claims in the documents to have divorced first wife, Kezia, "verbally." According to the Shariah, a man can divorce his wife by repeating it three times. Further, when BHO I returned to Kenya, he apparently lived with his first Kenyan wife and his American third wife, suggesting that the "divorce" he ostensibly secured to marry Dunham was a transitory ruse.Dumb! There is no proof of that. In ancient Judaism, Divorce was not much more elaborate than this wither to be considered legal. The other article I posted about on this issue explicitly explains that by 1964, Obama Sr said that he and the President's mother had been divorced.
That would make the president illegitimate. In 1787, illegitimate children had different rights. There is no way the founders of this great nation intended for an illegitimate child of a foreign bigamist to attain the highest, most powerful position in the new land.Um...nope! How dare she imply that people born out of wedlock deserve less right than people who were conceived by married parents. This is simply wrong. Since when has the United States legally ignores marriages and divorces just because they were in another country. Who says that 1787 laws are still in effect today. If they were then the President's father could have been executed for looking at a white woman let alone marrying a white woman.
All this means that President Barack Hussein Obama is not natural born. His father was not a U.S. citizen; he is, by that very fact, disqualified to serve as president of the United States. Those who believe that the "natural born" requirement is no longer relevant in our modern age are wrong. The Founding Fathers added this to the requirements for someone serving as president to make it difficult for a spy or traitor to attain the highest office in the land. Clearly, from Obama's performance, this is a considerable cause for concern.How does that conclusion follow. Just because a person's parents are not U.S Citizen does not mean that a person born on U.S. soil is not a citizen. This truly an epic failure in logic. Racism makes people do and think really stupid things.
Pamela Geller, WND: An illegitimate child, an illegitimate president - Atlas Shrugs
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
American-Born President of America Proves He's American - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
Since forever, certain folks (aka "Birthers") could not accept the shocking reality that a Kenyan-born man and a Kansas-born teenager could get together on American soil, do the do and then have a baby in the 50th state of Hawaii and have that actual baby be a natural born citizen. They have said that if Obama would just release his long-form birth certificate they would stop sounding overtly racist and go back to reading Ron Paul newsletters or sniffing around Texas-based grassy knolls. But now that Obama has done it, do we really believe these people will shut up?
No, I don't think so.
American-Born President of America Proves He's American - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
Monday, March 28, 2011
Richard Carrier Blogs: Is Obama a War Criminal?
It was thus absolutely necessary for Obama to tip the scales away from Qadaffi's success (it will be a disaster for us if he wins--we need him to fail, in every conceivable sense of the word). Who succeeds him is irrelevant, even if its someone ambivalent or hostile to the U.S. That's because we have bigger interests here: as long as the precedent is not established that Qadaffi's methods will go unhindered and unpunished, and as long as the precedent is set instead that America supports the democracy trend raging through the whole region even when we aren't assured of gaining an ally (and that we will not support, even by acquiescence, any anti-democracy regime's use of violence--not even in Bahrain, where we are otherwise helpless), then the entire balance of power in the region is shifted in America's favor, which will be a great benefit to us in the long run. Because an anti-American party elected into power today will, if democracy is sustained, be voted out eventually. In fact, that's the only way the region ever can move forward toward better relations with the U.S. We need democracy in the region. And we will not have it if we sit idly by and let Qadaffi holocaust his own citizens, and then, by extension, any other ruler who will take the hint and do the same, knowing we'll do nothing about it.
I have to agree with his assessment of why we had to intervene in Libya. The question I have is what about all the precedents where the United States did indeed sit idly by and let ____ holocaust his own citizens, and then, by extension, any other ruler who will take the hint and do the same, knowing we'll do nothing about it.? For there have been many. I don't really have answers for how to do this. It's got to be on a case-by-case basis - true - but who do you save and who do you sacrifice on the altar of American interests? What happens when we have to give an account for that?'
Truth is that Obama is not a war criminal. We live in an age where people make truly stupid judgments without really knowing what they talk about. This is a case in point and Richard Carrier has written a post explaining how
Here is a clip from the Daily Show that was mentioned in Carrier's post:
Richard Carrier Blogs: Is Obama a War Criminal?
Sunday, March 27, 2011
FacePalm of the Day #69 - Libya vs. Iraq
Unfortunately we have many people on polarized opposite views. And some people are being labeled as being racist just because they disagree with President Obama.
A. People who hate President Obama because of his race and desire to discredit him by whatever means he can.
B. People who support anything President Obama says either because they believe the hype without any critical thinking or because they are afraid of being called "racist".
C. People who disagree with President Obama's policies and decisions not because he is black but just because they think they are poor ideas.
D. People who agree with President Obama because they think he is making good decisions.
I can respect C and D but not A or B. During the Election, the media seemed to go out of its way to either demonize Obama or portray him as some kind of Messiah sent to save us from the Tyranny of George W. Bush. I think this is unfair. I didn't like or agree with much of Bush said or did and yes, I questioned his sanity and intelligence, but to be completely fair I can't says that he acted any worse than any other President in my lifetime. I'm a black man. It was a big deal to have a black President when I didn't think I would ever see such a thing in my life time or my children's lifetime - if ever. I have always been uncomfortable with the idea of Obama being looked at as some kind of Messiah - who is smarter, nicer, more honest, and more trustworthy - to save America. There is only one Messiah. Obama is not his name. But in our euphoria, it seems to me like a lot of black folk forgot that. There seems to be this desire to avoid stating the obvious: Barack Hussein Obama is a capable American politician - not the "second coming". He isn't really all that much different from the national politicians that are democrats, other than he happens to have had a father who was born and raised in Africa and was black. That is not really a terrible thing, but we can't seem to do better. The other extreme is just as silly: President Obama is not the Anti-Christ. He is just as secular and just as "Christian" as most of the Presidents we have had in the past several decades. On one hand this is something I hate, but I can't be mad, Obama made his position on religions crystal clear...and we voted him anyway.
As for the points raised in the video, I think the video is a little too critical of President Obama and praises Bush a little too much. However, it truly dismays me that people are not really looking at what's happening in Libya and not asking why is it okay for Obama to intervene but it was wrong for Bush to intervene in Iraq? If we can't answer that question then I think, as the video shows, we have as problem. I also thought that comments left on the video very interesting. Some of them point out some fundamental facts about how Iraq's situation is different than the one in Libya. I agree with them, but it still doesn't really explain why Obama is correct and Bush was wrong. I mean so what if Obama did not get congressional approval to bomb Libya? Bush didn't have it either when he started moving. So what if Obama hasn't used ground forces in Libya? We still have American in harms way and if this escalates we know American ground troops will be used. Face it, what President hasn't used troops without Congress declaring war since WWII? All of them.
Some people say that we should not have intervened in Libya or Iraq. I'm not sure about that. I think that we need to be honest about why we do what we do, and not claim it's solely humanitarian because we don't intervene everywhere and there is genocide and human civil right violations happening all over the world and we do nothing about it. Libya and Iraq have strategic and economic importance of higher priority than Sudan or Rwanda. It's more about dollars and cents than it is about racism but we can't pretend that racism has nothing to do with it.
Again the facepalm is invoked because we have people spouting ignorant rhetoric without really thinking about what they are saying and supporting and when someone tries to reasoned and logical questions, it is like talking to a wall.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Obama Critics, Out of Ideas, Call First Lady "Fat" - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
It doesn't matter what she does. It'll be wrong because she'll still be doing it while black, the most wrongest thing in the history of America. After all, as the quote my mother likes to repeat says, "We were brought here to work and entertain." Every day upon which Michelle Obama adorns herself in finery and does whatever the hell she wants is a giant "screw you" to the slavery industrial complex. She was supposed to be poppin' out babies and pickin' cotton. Not having State Dinners and wearing couture and trying to help our fat-ass kids shed some pounds. The nerve!
BACK OF THE BUS, First Lady! BACK OF THE BUS!
I agree with her. The sad thing is that many of the Obama's detractors don't even understand what they are doing.
Obama Critics, Out of Ideas, Call First Lady "Fat" - The Snob Blog - Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY: Pastor James David Manning: Obama Has Neutered and Weakened the White Man
Just when you thought you have heard it all, here comes this pastor. Amen and pass the bottle of Boone's Farm, Uncle Ruckus of The Boondocks is not only real, but he has a congregation. And, has a helluva pep talk for white folks in America in this installment. No seriously, white folks, pay attention OK?
Unfortunately, this person is serious. The things he says truly scares me, ever since I heard the truly ignorant things he said about Barack Obama I first heard in 2008.
Read more: http://www.rippdemup.com/2010/12/pastor-james-david-manning-obama-has.html#ixzz18900VH8Z
THE INTERSECTION | MADNESS & REALITY: Pastor James David Manning: Obama Has Neutered and Weakened the White Man
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