Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama 2016. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Today's most entertaining line: "It takes a lot of chutzpah for Obama to say he wants to help re­build the Demo­crat­ic Party when he’s busy burn­ing it down"

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From Josh Kraushaar here  in "Obama’s Parting Shot Against His Party: By thumbing his nose at Israel as he leaves office, the p...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Obama's policies were on the ballot and defeated by Trump, but Obama still insists he would have won

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Obama in October: "But make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." Obama in December: “I’m...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

While you were preparing to celebrate Christmas, America's first Muslim president abstained at the UN Security Counsel, effectively condemning Israeli settlements

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From the story "Obama faces widespread backlash after abstaining from UN Israel vote" here : On Friday, the Security Council...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Carl Paladino rips "lazy ass" Obama: Flashback to Dec. 24th, 2011 when Obama admitted as much

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Obama in 2011, quoted here : Asked by [ABC's Barbara] Walters to name "the trait you most deplore in yourself," the pr...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

Why the economy still feels like it sucks as Obama goes out the door

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Obama's GDP in current dollars has grown 28.4% through 3Q2016. Bush's grew 39% overall and 41.7% through 3Q2008. If Obama...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Sneering at the Electoral College in 2016, Obama leaves office still hating the constitution he promised to preserve, protect and defend in 2008 and 2012

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Quoted here : “The Electoral College is a vestige, it’s a carryover from an earlier vision of how our federal government was going to ...

Obama pardons 78 and shortens sentences of 153 in one day, a record

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A total of 148 have been pardoned in his presidency so far, and 1176 have received shortened sentences, including 395 serving life sentenc...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Obama didn't "decimate" the Democrat Party, Democrats did that all by themselves

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David M. Drucker here wants to blame Obama for all the electoral losses experienced by Democrats since 2009.  Good luck with that. ...

Trump misspells "unprecedented", CNBC goes nuts, Obama on the other hand . . .

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. . . routinely slaughtered the English language, math and common sense and all we heard was crickets. Let's see, there were Oba...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Revulsion Election update: Hillary underperformed Obama 2008 in 39 states by 5.16 million votes

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This updates my look at 2016 candidate underperformance relative to 2008 from almost three weeks ago. The total picture for Hillary improv...
Friday, December 16, 2016

You've been had: The 2009 stimulus has been repeated every year, accounting for all GDP increases under Obama and then some

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The February 2009 Obama stimulus got added to Bush's 2009 fiscal year spending because Democrats controlled both the House and the S...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Obamacare failure: 10 million buy plans on exchanges, 9 million buy off-exchange

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Sally Pipes, here : These off-exchange plans were never expected to be popular, especially compared to the government's marketplac...
Monday, December 5, 2016

What a hypocritical gasbag Rush Limbaugh is about Trump's spending plans

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Why, Donald Trump could be another FDR!, he says today. He could consolidate Republican rule for decades if he spends the money correctl...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Obama can negotiate with Iranian terrorists and visit the communist police state of Cuba . . .

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. . . but Trump can't talk to the president of independence-minded Taiwan or invite the pusher-killing president of the Philippines to...

Academic Ann Douglas' analysis is a cloister-f*^k: "Even some white men feel they've been left behind"

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Here , where her attachment to the ideology of "sexism" blinds her to the real consequences of Obama's intentional inattenti...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

The deepest cut, from Cenk Uygur: Obama's not shtrong like Trump

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Here : I'm sorry, if you're a Democrat, and you like Obama, I hate to break your heart and you want to hate me for it and that...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

ECRI notices what I noticed in September: Whites missed the job boat under Obama, have fewer jobs than nine years ago

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My post was about full-time jobs, here in September. Asians, blacks and Hispanics all had net gains in full-time jobs from their respec...

Trump rewards Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for stonewalling Obama's Supreme Court appointment by picking his wife for Transportation

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I don't view this as "nepotism" per se as others have who are much too quick to criticize Trump's centrism post-election...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Rebecca Traister imagines Hillary supporters got out the vote for her, but they didn't: 5.1 million former Obama voters thought she wasn't worth it

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Maybe she should blame Obama's base. Here : The peanut-butter gobblers are keen to unleash their righteous rightness, their fu...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Peter Brimelow: Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are not alt-right people

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Quoted here in The New York Times in an article which calls to mind, as usual, nothing so much as a bucket full of eels: “Trump and...