Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Obama’s warning to donors: the billionaires will own the White House, Congress

Posted on June 30, 2012 by jreid

Lloyd Grove gets a leak of a call from the POTUS to former top donors, in which he warns about the dangers of letting a few billionaires buy the election.

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Jonathan Chait explains it all: the GOP’s all-in gamble for 2012

Posted on June 10, 2012 by jreid

The last sentence of Jonathan Chait’s must-read article in the New Yorker is just the beginning: The deepest effect of Obama’s election upon the Republicans’ psyche has been to make them truly fear, for the first time since before Ronald … Continue reading →

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Why the GOP plays the vote blocking card

Posted on May 31, 2012 by jreid

It’s not hard to understand why Republicans tend to fall back on a strategy of reducing the share of black, brown and young people who are eligible to vote, while seeming to whip up resentment among working class white Americans: … Continue reading →

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Obama vs Romney on gay marriage: a tale of two evolutions

Posted on May 9, 2012 by jreid

President Obama came out in favor of gay marriage today, delighting his base and making life potentially very awkward for one Willard Mitt Romney.

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The right’s new goal: Bring Back Jeremiah Wright!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by jreid

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) … Continue reading →

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Obama Time at the Apollo: POTUS sings a few bars

Posted on January 19, 2012 by jreid

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:

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Andrew Sullivan infuriates the right (and the left) by calling Obama critics ‘dumb’

Posted on January 16, 2012 by jreid

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?

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Romney’s clueless Marie Antoinette gaffe

Posted on December 29, 2011 by jreid

How out of touch is Mitt Romney?

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What Chris Matthews actually said about the Obamas

Posted on November 19, 2011 by jreid

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 … Continue reading →

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Blacks and liberals, take 3: where is the love?

Posted on September 30, 2011 by jreid

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 … Continue reading →

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