Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
American Politics 101, for anyone who can stomach it
One thing I love about living abroad are the questions and opinions about American politics. When I was here in 2008, in the leadup to the election, I was amazed by how informed my Rwandan compatriots were about our politics. I couldn’t name their defense minister, but they could talk in detail about the Iraq [...]
Obama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as the Director of War Atrocities and Civilian Protection. At least that’s what the Daily Beast is calling David Pressman’s new job, in an article that I found pretty confusing. Let’s hope [...]
Back home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part of that, when the pro-Palin people started slinging rape accusations around? And then mounted a shame-on-you media campaign against Letterman’s advertisers? Turns out the liberals might be a little better at [...]
"Your president's a jerk, let me buy you a sandwich"
This comes from the amazing Tom A. Peter, a Middle East correspondent for GlobalPost. It’s a wonderful reminder of two things: First, that just because Obama says nice things In The Muslim World doesn’t mean all Muslims are going to love America (again, or ever). And that hating a government is not the same as [...]
Torture photos we apparently don't need to see
Here’s a video of Obama explaining why he’s refused to allow the release, which would no doubt lead to the publication, aggregation, blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, and what-not-ing, of photos of detainee abuse by U.S. forces abroad. In other news, watch this space for my deconstruction of the Torture Memos, which will run next week in [...]
Turn to the left, turn to the Right: Get your Marxists right right right
Okay, people. I really don’t want to go here more than once. (And I haven’t, on the blog, but I have this conversation with people.) Let’s get the record straight: Fascists and Marxists…not the same. Both, in the eyes of some people like Republican Rep. (GA) Paul Broun, evil…but in a country with our level [...]
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