Posts under ‘Barack Obama’

Over the last eight years, George Bush has engaged in three major wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, and grammar. Here’s a salvo fired during a recent exit interview with ABC News:

Gibson: Do you feel in any way responsible for what’s happening?

Bush: You know, I’m the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of [...]

Dateline Los Angeles: Glamorous Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan caused controversy today when she referred to Barack Obama as “our first colored president” in an interview with Access Hollywood (which is only available on something called “television”)!  Apparently, nobody’s told the dreamy actress that dark-skinned leaders have recently made it known that they should be called [...]

Barack Obama went to the White House to talk with President Bush today. The historic meeting:

MSNBC’s less interesting coverage:
 

In December 1992, as Bill Clinton was assembling his cabinet, he took a moment to respond to feminist complaints about a supposed lack of high-level female appointments:
In an unusually candid discussion yesterday, Clinton said he was particularly unhappy that two of his appointees – Laura D’Andrea Tyson as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Carol [...]

Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others.
But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist [...]

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news outfit? [...]

This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

I’ve been more or less speechless all night.  A couple of weeks ago, Janice suggested I load up this clip for election night, so I did.  Frank Rich beat me to the punch in a column last week, but it’s still incredibly moving to watch this tonight:

From my brother in Brooklyn:

A friend in Philadelphia is at a heavily Democratic polling location in in Philadelphia.  She’s just written in to say this:
Apparently at this polling place in 2004, there were 100 voters total for the whole day. We just passed 110 [at 10:00 am EST].
Since, as James Carville says, Pennsylvania is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Alabama in [...]