Barack Obama

In the weeks following its mid-May release, I found myself, in public and print, issuing wrong-headed disclaimers and qualifications about my novel, The Bradbury Report . I was worried that my concept, cloning (a relatively ‘high’ concept), might subsume everything else, i.e. the more important stuff, I meant to do in the book. I expressed concern that the word ‘cloning’ used in any way connected to my novel - this was, of course, inevitable - would mark it, misleadingly, as science fiction.

The Shirley Sherrod debacle shows that Barack Obama’s White House pays a great deal of attention to Fox News and the right wing blogosphere. They refer to it as ‘the atmosphere’, as thought the right wing were a force of nature that can only be dealt with by panic and immediate surrender. Many have suggested that President Obama ignore the right wing but we all know that telling someone not to think of a red elephant only makes them think of it right away. The human brain abhors a vacuum. We need to focus on something.

This is an excellent exchange between the NAACP’s Bejamin Jealous and African-American tea party leader David Webb. I apologize for not having the transcript, but there are the main points: Jealous makes a good point about the New National Black Panther Party at 2:46. It is an excellent comparison between the NNPPA and the NAACP as opposed to the racist elements in the tea party movement. But a better point is made before than by Webb at 1:22.

If the tea party movement isn’t racist, then at the very least, it’s not necessarily bright. And nothing displays the movement’s stupidity more than its ongoing dust up with the NAACP over the civil rights group’s resolution asking that the organization condemn racism in its midst.

The Tea Party got a big boost this week when LeBron James announced (to comic effect ) his plan to leave Cleveland and head for the greener pastures of Miami. This wasn’t just a slap in the face of our Socialist-in-Chief , Barack Obama, who had hoped that James would go to Chicago, but also to Joe Biden, who had confidently predicted that James would stay in Cleveland. In other words, it was a big fucking deal .

Founded in 1946 by leading liberals such as J. K. Galbraith, Walter Reuther, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Americans for Democratic Action (”ADA”) is America’s oldest liberal organization. Each year, the ADA performs the useful service of rating the “liberal” quotient of each member of Congress’s voting record based on “key” votes.

As long as I live, I’ll never forget the night that Elena Kagan and I got drunk together. It was November 4, 1980, to be exact. OK, before I go much further with this, I should make clear: I’ve never actually met President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, and on the night that we got drunk, I was in Providence, R.I., and she was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina lawmaker on Thursday called a Republican gubernatorial candidate of Indian descent a “raghead,” saying we have one in the White House, we don’t need one in the governor’s mansion. Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts later apologized for the slur, saying the remarks about President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley were meant as a joke. They came on Internet political talk show, Pub Politics.

My home state is brilliant. No one — not Texas secessionists , not Arizona xenophobes , not Alabama jingoists — can top South Carolina’s desire for attention. Just when you think that South Carolinians like former Republican U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond’s hidden African-American daughter, Republican Governor Mark Sanford’s Appalachian trail ride, and Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s health care Waterloo were enough … Republican State Senator Jake Knotts used the word ” raghead ” to describe Republican gubernatorial front runner Rep.

According to a new CBS News poll 70 percent of Americans disapprove of how BP has handled the oil gush, compared with 45 percent who disapprove of how Obama has handled it. This could change in the days or weeks ahead if the spill continues to worsen and the White House looks and acts powerless. The poll also points out a danger for Obama: Only 35 percent approve of his words and deeds so far during the crisis. He seems too willing to defer to BP executives, even as Bad Petroleum Ltd.