Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
How Guantanamo Bay Prevents More Mumbai Massacres
THOMAS Joscelyn explains why Barack Obama needs Guantanamo Bay:
The new administration will soon discover from its review of the Guantanamo files what motivated its predecessor: The scope of the terrorist threat was far greater than anyone knew on September 11, 2001….
Have the horrors like those witnessed in Mumbai been prevented by George Bush’s policies? Can flouting due process be for the greater good?
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Posted: 28th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Barack Obama Saves Risborough Estate Agency
BARACK OBAMA WATCH: Anorak’s look at how Obama is saving the world…
“CAN Barack Obama help fix the property market? Risborough estate agency says Obama’s election could prove turning point” – The Bucks Herald
More Obamaballs to follow…
Posted: 27th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Shane Obama: Barack Obama’s Australian Kin
BARACK Obama Watch: Today Barack is appearing in marketing for Baz Luhrmann‘s new film, Australia. Says Bazza:
“The President-elect of the United States is 47. If he was living in Australia, it is absolutely credible that the government, because he had one white parent and one black parent, could have taken him forcibly from his family”
Use the magic dust, Barack! No, not that dust!
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Posted: 26th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Obama Never Sleeps
OBAMA: He nevers goes on vacation? “In Summers, Obama Seeks Generator of Ideas” – headline, Boston Globe, Nov. 25
Britney Spears Can Do Obama
CAN Britney Spears? Yes she can…
How they love him – yeah, him, him, him, him, him, him and him.
Posted: 25th, November 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)
Barack Obama’s Crack Team Inhales Bill Clinton
BARACK Obama’s “Crack Team” is introduced to readers of the Sydney Morning Herald.
As Anorak writer Iowahawk puts it:
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Posted: 25th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Barack Obama’s New White House Puppy: A Mongrel Called Trig
CRIKEY, an Australian organ, wants to know what Obama’s new White House puppy should be called:
Which of the below should the Obama’s use to name their new puppy?…
Answer: A mongrel called Trig
Charming stuff. Jonathan Green, the editor, has now apologised, sort of:
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Posted: 24th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Take You Eire: A Salute To Barack O’bama
BARACK Obama, of the Barry O’Bamas, son of the Emerald Isle:
And…
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Posted: 24th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama: First Black Prez Can Do Whatever I Like
BARACK Obama. Anorak has looked down the list of approved Obama jokes and can find no mention of his being portrayed as rapper.
Barack Obama and a kangaroo pull up to a gas station. The gas station attendant takes one look at the kangaroo and says, “You know, we don’t get many kangaroos here.” Barack Obama replies, “At these prices, I’m not surprised. That’s why we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”
The original is here.
Spotter: Cheryl
Posted: 23rd, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Obama To Sing With Coldplay
COLDPLAY prove that you can make it with one easy bit of phrasing. A bit like Obama: The New Yorker’s pop critic looks at Cold Play’s legacy:
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comments (7)
Barack Obama’s Email’s Hacked
BARACK Obama’s emails have been hacked…
Posted: 22nd, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Obama Supports War In Iraq
THE Los Angeles Times notes that Barack Obama is not all about regime change:
“Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.…
Maybe they can change?
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
GM Ford And Crysler Keep The American Dream Burning
THREE CEOs – Rick Wagoner of GM, Alan Mulally of Ford, and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler – are supporting the beleaguered trade in private jets by refusing to travel by anything else.
As ABC news reports:
THE CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation’s capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to avoid bankruptcy. Even as their companies fail, Ford and GM CEOs continue lavish lifestyles.
Hats off to the trio for reminding the politicos wrestling with the economic crisis what it is Americans are fighting for. It’s the American dream, stoopid.
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Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Snowing On Planet Gore’s Climate Action Rally
CLIMATE action. It’s like a snow dance:
You have no excuse not to attend the Climate Action Now! rally taking place tomorrow aimed at welcoming President Obama’s new climate policies while, err, forecast snow flurries take place around them.
Snow dancing for Gore…
Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Barack Obama Is Whigger, Trigger, Whiten Black Man
ON the BBC: “Is Obama black?”
Yes. He is black. So let’s move on with the post-racial politics…
Kimberly McClain DaCosta Harvard University wonders:
One well-known African American writer, Debra Dickerson, famously objected that Obama is not of the people properly defined as “black” on the grounds that because he is not descended from slaves.
Ergo, he is not black – at all.
Debra… No, never heard of her. Obama is black. Idi Amin was not black. So, let’s move on…
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Irish Obama Eats Radolaw Sikorski
“His grandad ate a Polish missionary” – Poland’s foreign secretary Radolaw Sikorski on Barack Obama’s Irish grandfather…
Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Barack Obama: It’s All About Race
IAN Leslie loosk at how the UK media handles Obama and all that post-racial politics. There aren’t even any Jews:
Here’s the thing: race isn’t about genetics. At least it’s about a whole lot more than that. Being black or white is about how people see you – and what they call you. Obama is black because society says he’s black. He’s black to white racists. And he’s black to every black child growing up in America. If that seems arbitrary, then, duh, that’s the problem. Some people come off arbitrarily worse than others.
And that’s it. Unless you’re:
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Germ On Michelle Obama’s Geometrical Haemorrhage
MICHELLE Obama is a hero for womankind. And here’s Germaine Greer, she of the “fuck-me shoes” to tell us all about Michelle:
The one sour note to resound through the jubilation at the election of Barack Obama was an undercurrent of fear and loathing of the dress Michelle Obama wore on election night.
The dress?
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama Win Boosts Economy Of Guns
BARACK Obama’s election triggers rush to buy guns. Sales are op 82% on last year.
Hurrah! Yes we can…
The Big O: Creating The Obama Generation
IN the article “Change You Can Conceive In” Newsweek’s Jessica Bennett seeks to discover what babies were conceived at the moment of Barack Obama’s election victory.
She’s looking for the Obama baby boomers.
Of course, Obama was only elected a few days ago, and what with gestation and all, pregnancies have yet to be bedded down. But no need to wait – her best line appears at the article’s start:
The theory is almost too perfect to be true. Barack Obama, the son of politically progressive parents, was born Aug. 4, 1961—almost nine months to the day after John F. Kennedy was elected to the White House. Is it possible Obama was conceived on that historic night?
Hey, honey, let’s try the political progressive position. It’s a bit like the missionary of old but we get to talk all the way through and by the end we have to have reached someone else’s front doorstep.
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Illuminati Dinosaur Controls Obama’s Mind: Icke Was Right
BARACK Obama’s first address to the world.
His lips are moving. And to his left we see the green lizard.
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Africa’s First Family: Obama Wins New York World Series
THE euphoria over the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America may have died down, but there remains a feeling – on the street, in people’s homes, in cafes and bars – that this momentous event is still percolating through society and will continue to do so for months, probably years, to come.
I live in a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn, on the border of Crown Heights, where a race riot erupted in 1991, and Prospect Heights, a small, rapidly-gentrifying area where just a couple of generations ago few whites would consider living.
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Posted: 16th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts | Comments (2)
To Obama The Power And The Glory, Amen
BARACK Obama’s campaign headquarters in Lake City, Florida. has posted a victory sign in its window.
The legend reads:
“To God be the glory. Great things he has done. Obama. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”
The power and the glory…
Posted: 15th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (2)
Obama Takes A Room At Bin Laden’s Ministry Of Peace
NOW Obama is our president elect, the rosy-fingered dawn of a new era in world affairs is upon us.
The world is changed forever. Now a goat farmer in Kenya can say that he can be whatever he wants. An Hawaiian can be King. A small child whose name ends in vowel can have hope. A half-white man can be cheered by Black Panthers.
And now it comes to pass that Obama can be at all places at all times. Thanks to the internets, Obama can truly be the world president.
As the Huffington Post reports:
President-elect Obama’s office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses – fireside chats for the web generation – on YouTube.
A weekly address for the world as part of the “digital, transparent presidency”. How we will sit glued to the screen as Obama speak unto us.
Only one other leader has harnessed the power of the web in such a fashion, and he lives in a cave in Afghanistan.
Posted: 15th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (3)
