the New Obama

Received from a friend: Art Woodstone  A note on our contributor: Art Woodstone started his career 63  years ago writing sports for the first Newhouse paper, the Staten Island Advance and who progressed through Variety, the Sunday NY Daily News, the Herald-Tribune to BBC and, so help me, Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan with several other media outlets along the way.

May the Force protect us from my incisive brethren in  the  media. Read this typical lead paragraph reporting the President's new get-tough attitude: 'President Barack Obama bluntly [italics added] challenged Congress Monday to act immediately on his new jobs plan, brandishing a copy of the legislation in the Rose Garden and demanding: "No games, no politics, no delays."' What's wrong with that paragraph?   What's wrong with his speech last Thursday and his statements since?   What's wrong with Obama? What's wrong is that this very bright,  overly self-controlled man still cannot bring himself to openly identify his real foe.  It's not Congress, it's the Republicans in Congress. Does Obama think that by treating  the Democrats the same "tough" way  he treats the Republicans in Congress, he will  ingratiate himself with the right, softening them up so he can pass his jobs bill--or any other  important legislation? If so, he has a short memory.  He hasn't grasped what a blunt President needs to do to grind down an intractable,  belligerent foe. If he cannot grind them down, he can at least impress on voters that GOP intransigence and hostility are undermining   progress toward solving the nation's awesome problems.  The time for diplomacy  passed,  almost from the day Obama took office. That's key to understanding a man who has  missed countless opportunities  to speak bluntly. What is equally troubling to me personally is that so many reporters  chose a word like blunt to portray the new Obama when  bluntness means narrowing in on the source of a problem and naming it.  Instead, eager to find a new Obama [new make news], the press corps  deliberately redefined vagueness as bluntness.  In his speech, Obama was neither blunt nor candid.  His tone was harder; his repeated message of "now" theatrical.  But style should never be mistaken for bluntness. Where the is the new Obama? Despite help from a disingenuous press, I fear that when it comes time [if ever] to vote on a jobs bill,  the President will settle for scraps. His probable collapse should not be taken as  recognition of reality. I console myself with the thought that if it isn't Obama in 2012, it will be something worse.

Bill Mahr on Palin's future

http://front.mhttp://front.moveon.org/bill-maher-on-palins-future-what-am-i-the-idiot-whisperer/?rc=fb.fan

Bill Mahr says it straight!

Compassionate conservatives?

http://front.moveon.org/jon-stewart-f_ck-the-poor/?fc=fb.rp.2&rc=fb.fanJon Stewart says ithttp://front.moveon.org/jon-stewart-f_ck-the-poor/?fc=fb.rp.2&rc=fb.fan

Fox at its Foxyiest.

Koch Bros. planned takeover of USA

...The second Civil War,  Charles Koch, half of the  far right-wing Koch Brothers, doesn't have any doubts at all.  He spoke at the last closed bi-annual fundraiser he and his brother hold for a secret list of like-thinking million- and billionaires, and guests like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and the brothers' favorite justice, Clarence Thomas.  But the word  leaked out. -Art  Woodstone During his welcoming remarks, Charles Koch warned his guests that the 2012 elections are nothing short of a battle "for the life or death of this country." He then acknowledged the individuals and families who had given more than $1 million to the brothers' efforts—though he misspoke, saying "more than a billion," earning a huge laugh from the crowd. "Well, I was thinking of Obama and his billion-dollar campaign," Koch said, to more laughter and cheers. "So I thought, 'We gotta do better than that.'" (Forbes pegs the brothers' personal net worth at around $22 billion apiece.) (The complete audio and transcript of his remarks are available at The BRAD BLOG

Is Oklahoma dumber than Texas?

How stupid can people be?
The OK Tea Baggers can tall you.
Stupid Tea Party Plays

Bigots alive and well in TX teaparty

Please see the attached clip

Dumbest Conservative Quotes

Guaranteed entertainment value on this link.
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My Favorite Song of All Time

This is from "South Pacific"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKzn8aHyXg

Tea Baggers - Hidden agenda?

from The Week, July 30, 2010