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You’re gotdamn right we will.

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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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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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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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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New #Obama2012 Video: ‘Sarah Palin and the Far Right’

Posted on March 13, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Oh, it’s on.  Like, all the way on.

Apropos of this, Obama 2012 brings you this:

You’re welcome.

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430 abortion restrictions introduced this year alone.

Posted on March 7, 2012 by | 5 Comments

I’ve had an abortion. (If you’re an old hand around these parts, you’re aware of this fact, because I’ve noted it before).

I’ve had an abortion, but I’ll be honest: For me, it wasn’t an easy decision. I don’t believe I ended a life, but I know I ended the potential for life, and while it was the best of (what felt to me like) two bad choices, that didn’t make it a happy thing.

I figure that’s ok. I’m not required meet the anti-choice stereotype of just loooooving me some good ol’ abortions in order to have the right to avail myself of a legal medical procedure. One may be conflicted, unsure, sad, even grieving, and still be pro-choice.

Which is why, despite whatever ambivalence I may have had about my own abortion, the following information (from a post by Sarah Kliff on the Washington Post‘s WonkBlog) makes my hair stand on end:

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Super Tuesday – Vote Republican 2012!

Posted on March 6, 2012 by | 1 Comment

In honor of today’s many GOP primaries (eleven! ten!), I thought I’d just leave this here:

For details on the foregoing, you could always read my recent post entitled The GOP rides into the sunset, but there’s nothing like a good graphic artist to make a person humble: What I took 850 words to write, graphic artist Will Amato (I’m guessing that’s him in the Batman mask on his website’s front page) accomplished in 12 lines.

Vote Republican 2012!

h/t David Graham at The Atlantic

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President Obama: A feminist – & really nice.

Posted on March 2, 2012 by | 9 Comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: The President of these United States is a feminist. It would also appear that he is a really nice guy.

Further indication of both:

President Obama called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who testified at a House contraception hearing. Rush Limbaugh recently had harsh words for Fluke, calling her a “slut.”

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President Obama Nails Republicans On Auto Bailout – Hard!

Posted on February 28, 2012 by | 8 Comments

I just love when our President calls out the Republicans on their stupidity. Since the media just plays along with them, it falls on the President to do it himself. And he does it sooooo well, doesn’t he?

Cross-posted at Extreme Liberal’s Blog

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