Category Archives: Election 2012? Oy vey!

Oy vey is right. I’m going to need a new liver.

My President is a feminist II – President Obama addresses Planned Parenthood supporters.

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 1 Comment

“Let’s be clear here: Women are not an interest group…. They’re half of this country.”

“If you truly values families, you shouldn’t play politics with a woman’s health.”

Word.

(Do you think the President saw my tweet?)

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Remember When George H.W. Bush Supported Planned Parenthood and Family Planning?

Posted on March 29, 2012 by | 5 Comments

Rachel Maddow had a great segment last night on how batshit crazy the Republican party has become over the last thirty years when it comes to reproductive rights and family planning.

Example Numero Uno? When Papa Bush was UN Ambassador, he sent a letter to the director of Planned Parenthood at the time, Alan Guttmacher, congratulating Planned Parenthood on the issuance of an eight cent “family planning” stamp, and stating he was “deeply appreciative of the dedication it symbolizes.”


Forty years later, George H.W. Bush has thrown his support behind Mitt “We’re gonna get rid of Planned Parenthood” Romney.
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Romney: Voters wouldn’t elect me if they knew my plan

Posted on March 27, 2012 by | 11 Comments

Mitt Romney won’t explain to the American people what he would do if he were elected president.

Odd though that may sound—especially considering that presidential campaigns are designed specifically to inform voters of such plans—the strategy actually aligns quite well with Romney’s “emotion-free crisis management” style.

Romney isn’t the most likeable candidate to run for the presidency, and his campaign’s intention to swap out the conservative talking points for the more moderate middle ground rhetoric once the general election begins, as his chief campaign advisor forewarned, isn’t likely to boost his popularity among the GOP base. So in order to alleviate the nation’s continued ambivalence toward Mr. Etch-a-Sketch, Romney has announced a plan to…not announce his plans. The thinking behind this, I believe, is that if nobody knows what he’d do as president, he might have a chance of becoming one!

Jonathan Chait of New York magazine has the story:

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Richard Dawkins: Romney’s Mormonism is Fair Game

Posted on March 25, 2012 by | 14 Comments

Skewering presidential candidates who broadcasts their private religious beliefs is of no less import to the democratic process than dissecting their public beliefs on taxation and military policy.

So said Richard Dawkins, “the world’s leading Darwinian,” on “UP with Chris Hayes.”

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Nutbag at Shooting Range Tells Santorum ‘Pretend Its Obama.’

Posted on March 23, 2012 by | 8 Comments

Sigh:

At a shooting range in Louisiana on Friday, an onlooker encouraged Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to pretend the target he was firing at was President Barack Obama.

“Santorum is shooting a 1911 Colt,” Politico’s Juana Summers tweeted from the sheriff’s office shooting range in West Monroe. “Range master says ‘Well, it’s not your first rodeo.’ Someone here says ‘pretend its Obama.’”

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Rewriting The Last Four Years

Posted on March 22, 2012 by | 2 Comments

History is rewritten by the winners.

Here’s a serious question for the assemblage:  If President Obama’s record is so awful, why are the Republicans so eager to rewrite the history of what he’s accomplished?  Greg Sargent:

Keep an eye on this one, too, because it will also be central to GOP efforts to rewrite the history of the Obama presidency.

In his big Wall Street Journal Op ed piece today attacking Obama’s campaign documentary and minimizing the magnitude of the economic crisis Obama inherited, Karl Rove also claims the killing of Osama Bin Laden was no big deal.

Yeah, stop for a sec.  Rewind.  Play back.  The crisis was minimal, so it was really President Obama’s unnecessary efforts at government intervention that “created” the financial crisis and ramped up unemployment. And as far as our late former Saudi ally is concerned, well Big Dog would have made that call too, Rove says. How can this President possibly take any credit for that?

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Rachel Maddow Tells The Truth About Romney’s Lies

Posted on March 22, 2012 by | 5 Comments

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Thank you Rachel Maddow for being honest with the American people.

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A Young Deaf, Black Man’s Sign Language Exchange with Obama

Posted on March 20, 2012 by | 12 Comments

Because we need some levity up in here.

This made me aw:

Stephon stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy shaking hands, looked right at him. “It was like he was waiting for me to say something,” he said later.

So the 26-year-old Prince George’s Community College student took his cue and spoke to President Obama in his first language: American Sign Language. “I am proud of you,” Stephon signed. The president, almost involuntary, instinctively, immediately signed back.

“Thank you,” Obama replied.

This is one of those moments that humanize the office of the presidency:

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*Slap*! Attention, Sarah Palin. I, Minna Hong (asiangrrlMN) Challenge You to a Duel – Er, a Debate

Posted on March 14, 2012 by | 12 Comments

Shut up, stupid talking lady!

So, apparently, Sarah Palin feels it’s about time for her to be yapping her mouth about whatever.  I try not to pay attention because I feel my BP shoot up and my IQ  plummet every time I hear her talk.  She had been pleasantly missing from the news for the past few months – until the HBO movie came out, the one with the luscious Julianne Moore (which I did not watch because I lived through that shit.  Why would I want to go through it again?).  Then, suddenly, BAM.  Palin was in the news again decrying the movie and saying stupid shit such as the president is black, y’all, er, not American, er, you know what I’m trying to say and wants to take us back to pre-Civil War America.  WTF?

She was rightly mocked for her statements, and as noted by my angry black overlady, #Obama2012 put together an ad using Palin’s words to raise some money.   That was a no-brainer, much like Palin herself, given that Palin practically served herself up on a platter with her inane comments.  By the way, why is this irrelevant jackhole given any airtime at all?  I know, I know, the ratings and the clicks.  Anyway, two-day circus, and scene.
(Click for more on the talking stupid lady)

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Posted in A Wee Bit O' Hilarity, asiangrrlMN, Please Die in a Fire, Sarah Palin and Tall

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