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2012 launch open thread

Spandan Chakrabarti May 7, 2012

I have been busy the past couple of days and haven't had a chance to post any new threads, but how about we kick off this Monday (albeit a little late) with an open thread about the president's campaign launch this weekend?

YES WE DID.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy announced the most significant action ever to combat climate change.

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BFD: "Incompetent" Black Man Leads US Economy to Solid, Sustained Growth

about 5 hours ago

While media-political establishment in America continues its downward spiral, President Obama's policies for the American people keep bearing fruit. Numbers are out today showing the US economy is on a path of sustained growth and recovery, including for jobs. So much for that "incompetent" black man in the White House.

"Liberal" Media's White-Privilege Bias: WaPo/MSNBC's Chris Cillizza Trolls Obama on "Competency"

about a day ago

For the past two days, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and MSNBC fame has been trolling President Obama based on CNN's cooked poll. Today's piece, calling the President incompetent, deserves a response. Calling the president who has ended two wars, instituted health care reform, realized the most significant financial reform in living history including the country's first ever federal agency dedicated only to consumer finance, disarmed a middle eastern tyrant without firing a shot, took out America's most wanted terrorist that eluded two previous administrations (one Republican, one Democratic), and managed the program that pulled America out of a Second Great Depression with the precision of a surgeon "incompetent", Cillizza has proven that when it comes to the black guy in the White House, white-privileged media liberals are just as willing o skirt the truth as their counterparts on Fox.

The Real Michele Bachmann Is So Much Worse Than the Fake One

about a day ago

Under the radar of fake news story about Michele Bachmann that she exploited undocumented immigrant children for labor, a much bigger - and frankly, much worse - flew a true story about the soon-to-be-former Congresswoman's blood libel against the LGBT community. On a Christian radio show, she equated same-sex marriage with polygamy, and horribly, pedophilia. But our wonderful media has decided that a parody mistaken for truth should be the headline, not the actual truth.

Inside the Obama-Romney Rematch Numbers: CNN's Deception and the Return of the PUMAs

about 2 days ago

This weekend's CNN poll with a hypothetical rematch between President Obama and Rich Man Romney is causing quite a stir in the media - and orgasms among conservatives - purporting to show that Romney would win if there was a re-do today. But the truth about the poll lies CNN's deep deception, and what is likely a anti-Obama PUMA-skewed sample.

Looking Back: An American History Lesson from the year 2034

about 3 days ago

Your Sunday feel-good piece. What a future generation looking back at President Obama is likely to say.

Almost 7 Million Americans Will Receive Obamacare Refunds

about 6 days ago

It's rebate time - Obamacare rebate time. For the third year in a row, insurance companies will be forced to give refunds to consumers in cases where they failed to use at least 80-85% of premium revenue on actual health care. This year, almost 7 million Americans will benefit from Obamacare refund checks.

Obamacare: Still Not Dead Yet

about a week ago

A small group of Republican judges on one circuit court comes out with an entirely political ruling on Obamacare, and it fills up the airwaves like fresh cow manure fills up a closed room. What you are not likely to hear, however, is that the DC panel's Halbig v Burwell ruling attempting to take away subsidies from millions of Americans is in a small minority even among the current court rulings on the matter. But then, viewing TV news for accurate and in-context information is no longer a luxury we can afford.

A few thoughts on Putin's "strategic genius"

about a week ago

In a few short months, Vladimir Putin has gone from "eating Obama's lunch" to being a near pariah. An examination of his "strategic genius".

Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, and lessons in reform and pragmatism

about a week ago

To the Left's ideologues, Barack Obama is a Wall Street charlatan who sold us down the river by enacting a "weak-kneed" financial reform law that just also happens to be the strongest such regulation since the 1930s. To them, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is what they tell us they hoped Barack Obama would be - before, you know, Obama became president and actually started doing stuff. They might be in for a little surprised at today's open embrace by Sen. Warren of that very law.

'Murica and Murrietta: Xenophobia and Racism in 21st Century America

about 2 weeks ago

Conservative nostalgia for an America that never truly existed - a fiction of monolythic neighborhoods and a monocultural society - has lead to today's observable and palpable xenophobia in Conservative America. Their twisted definition of an American has excluded America's heart and promise: a nation of immigrants. Terrified of losing "their" America, they have created a mythical "good old days" America - without which myth, they'd have to admit the sad truth: they just don't like brown folk.

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