Obama vs Romney on gay marriage: a tale of two evolutions
President Obama came out in favor of gay marriage today, delighting his base and making life potentially very awkward for one Willard Mitt Romney.
The right’s new goal: Bring Back Jeremiah Wright!
Jeremiah Wright was the right's 2007 bogeyman. They're in the market for a new one.
Disappointed that Sarah Palin wasn’t fully unleashed in 2008, to go all in on President Obama’s ties to scary black and terroristic people, and apparently out of ideas (and all but giving up on finding a presidential candidate they like) the right has decided to reach back into their old bag of tricks: tar Barack Obama as a scary black radical guy. Read more
Obama Time at the Apollo: POTUS sings a few bars
of Al Green’s classic, “Let’s stay together,” creating the unexpected soundbite of the night, sure to make the rounds of dayside TV tomorrow. Listen:
Andrew Sullivan infuriates the right (and the left) by calling Obama critics ‘dumb’
Conservative bloggers are fuming (or resorting to racist, schoolyard taunts.) But none have undermined the substance of Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek cover article, which asks the question: why are President Obama’s critics so dumb? Read more
Romney’s clueless Marie Antoinette gaffe
Willard "Mitt" Romney back in his robber barron days
How out of touch is Mitt Romney? Read more
What Chris Matthews actually said about the Obamas
I’ve gotten enough angry tweets about “not standing up for the president and first lady,” regarding an interview that I hadn’t even seen at the time I was being Twitterbombed, that I thought I’d watch it, give my take, and post the actual clip of what Chris Matthews said about the first couple. Here it is:
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And here’s what I have to say about it. Read more
Blacks and liberals, take 3: where is the love?
White liberals and black Obama supporters: not on the same page.
My third bite at the “black Obama supporters vs white liberals” kerfuffle, posted right now at TheGrio.
In which I interview Eugene (Gene) Lyons, author of the “Melissa Harris Perry is a fool” / KKK column at Salon. Also talked to Imani Gandy of AngryBlackLady, Professor Blair Kelley, Joan Walsh, and a few bloggers on background, to protect them from the herd.
Just an observation: equating Melissa Harris-Perry to the KKK is a bridge way too far
Melissa Harris-Perry
The left is pleased with the president right now, because his rhetoric is affirming to liberalism (and mocking and condemning of Republicans), and contains sufficiently high voltage language to constitute a rhetorical “fight” against the right — this despite the fact that legislatively, his plan is probably dead on arrival in the House, barring some huge chane in fortune, and would even be iffy with skittish Senate Democrats. Read more
Remainders: five things that happened this week
Call him ... the Hermanator
So while you were paying attention to Chris Christie’s massive cry for attention (and Sarah Palin’s even more massive cry for the attention Chris Christie’s getting) here are five other things that happened in American politics… Read more
Read this: Melissa Harris Perry asks, is there a liberal racial double-standard for presidents?
Does Barack Obama have a "white liberal problem?"
In her latest essay for The Nation, Melissa Harris Perry writes about what she calls the two very different standards that white liberals seem to hold presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to. Read more
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