Listening to the strange rantings of the radical right, one would almost get the impression that Barack Obama hadn’t already been president for four years. This time it’s evangelical leader Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, predicting that Obama’s victory will put the U.S. on the “path of destruction” and that it will take a [...]
Christian Leader Graham: U.S. Needs ‘Economic Collapse’ to Get Rid of President Obama
November 17, 2012 | Posted by
Shortsighted GOP Continues With Self-Inflicted Damage After Romney, Obama Battle
November 17, 2012 | Posted by
The Aftermath of Mitt Romney and President Obama presidential campaign. It’s always the first rule of thumb when climbing out of any hole. Stop digging. It’s a timeless lesson a bumbling Republican Party can’t seem to grasp these days, as its own members’ political incompetence and stunning shortsightedness continue to make life difficult and threaten [...]
Mitt Romney Attacked for Saying Obama Won after ‘Gifts’ to Blacks, Hispanics, Young
November 15, 2012 | Posted by
In a continuing display of how out of touch he is with the rest of the country and how clueless his campaign was about the factors that led to his resounding defeat, Mitt Romney yesterday on a phone call with wealthy donors to his campaign claimed that he lost because President Obama gave “gifts” to [...]
President Obama Thanks World Leaders For Congrats On Election Victory
November 14, 2012 | Posted by
President Barack Obama made time on Tuesday to reach out to a number of world leaders who had hailed his re-election last week, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The president made personal phone calls in some cases in thanking each of them for sending congratulations on his victory, the White [...]
Ryan Attributes Election Loss To ‘Urban Areas’
November 13, 2012 | Posted by
Like the soundly defeated presidential candidate with whom he ran, former Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan appears to struggle when his words aren’t perfectly scripted in advance for him. Doing his first interview since the ticket on which he ran alongside presidential challenger Mitt Romney lost to the Democratic tandem of President Barack Obama and [...]
How Mitt Romney and The GOP Can Make Inroads Into African-American, Latino Communities
November 12, 2012 | Posted by
At first glance, both ethnic groups would appear to be natural Republican-leaning constituencies. With a strong emphasis on family and a decidedly conservative focus on key social issues such as crime, education and religion, both African-Americans and Latinos have long shared a common thread with the Republican Party, only to overwhelmingly support Democrats in the [...]
‘Friends’ Flee Romney at Rapid Rate on Facebook
November 10, 2012 | Posted by
How do you spell electoral defeat in the digital age? If you’re Mitt Romney, you take a look at your Facebook page, which has been losing friends at a rapid rate since the Romney’s resounding defeat on Tuesday. Romney has been losing friends at a rate of about 600 an hour at certain points over [...]
Delusional Tea Party Likely In For Another Rude Awakening In 2016
November 10, 2012 | Posted by
They are so hopelessly adrift in their own alternate political reality, so detached from the real world that now confronts them that Tuesday’s 2012 election thumping threatens to repeat itself in 2016 unless something dramatic happens. As if there were any doubts about the Tea Party’s continuing delirium, you need only have glimpsed Wednesday’s low-brow [...]
President Obama Gets Emotional Thanking Supporters
November 9, 2012 | Posted by
A grateful President Barack Obama became emotional Wednesday evening when stopping by his Chicago office to thank young supporters for their role in his re-election victory the evening before. The video, which was e-mailed to supporters by his campaign, showed the president tearing up a bit as he told the crowd how overwhelmed he was [...]
Now Re-Elected, Obama Will Have an Easy Time Making Major Changes
November 9, 2012 | Posted by
In some ways, the hardest thing President Obama had to do was get reelected. Ezra Klein, a business columnist for The Washington Post, wrote Wednesday that “President Obama’s reelection, ironically, isn’t about hope and change. The hope is largely gone, but the changes are already happening.” Klein pointed out that health care reform had passed [...]
