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Lou Dobbs photo/story scrubbed from Obama Waffles site

To bookend Jesse’s post… CNN's Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, "My wife will love this!" Hmmm…why would the page on the Obama Waffles site linked above suddenly get pulled? After all, Lou Dobbs, a speaker at the Values Voter Summit, stopped by the vendor table to give…

Roses Really Smell Like Boo-Boo

Michelle Malkin is pissed because Barack Obama tossed his rose on a pile of roses rather than laying it down John McCain was a POW. What? Sorry. See, the proper way to handle placing a rose on a big pile of roses is to place it in a somber fashion…

Abstinence-only vs. comprehensive sex education

With McCain hitting Barack Obama on comprehensive sex education, I thought this would be a perfect time to highlight one of the first 4 videos Marc and I are doing for RH Reality Check. This one is on the comprehensive sex education vs. what McCain/Palin prefer—abstinence-only. This one was fun,…

John McCain Is Calling Barack Obama A Terrorist

McCain’s new ad accuses Barack Obama of sending his wolves to Alaska to savage Sarah Palin: Now, I’m very much on the “associated uses of words and images” tip at this point, and the use of that imagery reminds me of nothing so much as George W. Bush’s famously effective…

Totally Sexist

I can’t believe Barack Obama said something this awful and sexist: How dare he call John McCain a pig! Oh, that wasn’t what you meant? It was aimed at Sarah Palin? After a list of criticisms that Obama’s been making against McCain since Palin was just a twinkle in the…

Barack Obama’s Penis Legislates It All

The new McCain ad: Apparently, John McCain is now going after the sexual predator vote, which, hey, Mark Foley joke! But no, really, to have to admire the chutzpah which lets you think it’s a good idea to attack someone who wants to prevent sexual abuse? That’s what a maverick…

Obama Should Flip His Shit

Barack Obama is cooler than the other side of the pillow…and this is a bad thing. Yglesias talks about how narratives are formed, but the problem is that the core narrative of presidential politics is still focused on two simple ideas: 1.) Republicans are successfully communicating with the American people.…

Why is this guy obsessed with sodomy?

That’s the question The Young Turks asked at the GOP convention, after awaiting for a batsh*t fundie to show up, and their wish was granted — when apparent Hartline-wannabe Ryan Sorba showed up. His lot in life is to “expose the dark secrets of the homosexual political community.” (Read past…

Mixed Metaphors Make The Head Hurt

The fundamental problem with conservative culture war manifestos is that they’re directed at any of several stereotypes, many of which openly contradict each other. You’ve got your New England snob, your West Coast hippie, your inner-city minority, your college kid, your college professor, your demented atheist, your welfare recipient –…

All Conservatives Are Racist Pedophiles

Look, no, there’s no possible way to interpret the title of this post as saying that each and every conservative is a bigoted child-lover. There’s just not. The standard for Republicans opening their mouths has generally been that they don’t mean the words that come out, but in fact some…