The Other McCain

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Not #ReadyToGo? New Hashtag Doesn’t Fill Ohio Arena for Obama Campaign

The Obama campaign, after watching its previous Twitter slogans swiftly hijacked by Republicans, rolled out #ReadyToGo for its official kickoff rally in Columbus, Ohio: Speaking at his first official campaign rally six months and a day before Election Day, a fiery and combative Obama, his sleeves rolled up, touted a “forward-looking America” while taking a series […]

Obama Voter Lovitz Shows That All Thought Is Not Lost For Dems

by Smitty Preach it, Jon Lovitz: Admit it. You know somebody who voted for Barack in 2008 who badly needs to come clean and repent of their silliness.

While The #Occupier-In-Chief Flitted Off To Central Asia, #Occupy Shambled On

by Smitty While BHO separated himself as far as  physically possible from the tanked economy, the #Occupy hippies celebrated Victims of Communism Day with their usual brand of dangerous idiocy: In Cleveland, a few of them tried going a little farther than throwing paint at police stations. The FBI announced today that they arrested five “anarchists” […]

Obama Administration Has Progressed Far Beyond ‘Conservative Lemmings’

by Smitty A couple of great graphics from the excellent Yid With Lid: The Lid’s post is all about how the Administration’s energy policy is killing the economy. It occurred to me in conversation with someone that Obama isn’t against fracking: he’s fracking society into balkanized little chunks from which to extract political energy. In […]

Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky … Obama!

Yes, comrades, they all share the same slogan: “Forward!” The Obama campaign apparently didn’t look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, “Forward” — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism. . . . The slogan “Forward!” reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected […]

Oh, It’s A Retirement, All Right

by Smitty Althouse picks up on the phrase: “my last campaign” in an Obama fundraising pitch. And I don’t want to sound alarmist, so let me go at this with minimalist phrasing: given the record of the past three years, can you be 100% sure that, accepting the premise of a second term, that Barack […]

Obama Throws EPA Moron Under Bus, Bashes Republicans, Panders to Unions

“Oh, the wheels on the bus go round and round!“ Guess what? Obama’s big corporate donors don’t like being “crucified” by the EPA: Top EPA official resigns over ‘crucify’ comment — Associated Press Days after damaging video surfaces, EPA regional chief Armendariz resigns — Dallas Morning News E.P.A. Official Resigns Over ‘Crucify’ Comments — New […]

Axelrod Interviewed By Strolling Drone

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty [Strolling Drone correspondent Sissypuss interviewed former Obama Administration political guru David Axelrod for its June 01, 2013 edition. This is a wide-ranging retrospective look at the Meltdown of 2012, the fallout from that, and what he’s been doing since he gave up politics in June 2012 for the other love […]

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