Barack Obama
Obama Reality Check - Ethanol Edition
How does rewarding big, subsidy-sucking agricultural corporations equal “change from the bottom up”?
December 18, 2008 | Read More
An Obama Flashback
A magazine profile of Barack Obama in 2006 tells us a lot about Barack Obama in 2008. Namely, that we shouldn’t trust him–or any other politician from the two major parties–to fix our broken government.
December 17, 2008 | Read More
Obama Afterglow Waning On The Left
Liberals are finally starting to see the gap between Obama’s words on the campaign trail and his post-election deeds.
December 8, 2008 | Read More
“Obama Is Going To Kill Children!”
By: Lee Brandenburg, found and publisher of Captive American.com
December 5, 2008 | Read More
Post-Election Payback Time For Special Interests
Opensecrets.org has a list of all the independent expenditures made for and against Obama during the campaign. Reading through that list might be the best way to predict the policy priorities of his administration.
November 12, 2008 | Read More
Update: Obama And Presidential Powers
Several visitors have taken the time to comment on our post yesterday regarding Obama’s use of executive power. Allow us to offer a few humble responses.
November 11, 2008 | Read More
Obama Reality Check - Presidential Powers Edition
This morning, news comes from the AP that Obama plans to “undo” many of President Bush’s actions by using one of Bush’s favorite techniques, the all-powerful executive order.
November 10, 2008 | Read More
Another Obama Reality Check - Lobbying Edition
On the campaign trail, President-elect Obama promised a “fundamental change” in our government. But when it comes to lobbying reform, maybe “meaningless, purely symbolic change” would have been more accurate.
November 7, 2008 | Read More
Record Turnout? Not So Much
Much was made of Obama’s ability to bring new and first-time voters to the polls. And he succeeded at doing that. But his message appears to have kept almost as many voters away.
November 6, 2008 | Read More
Obama Reality Check, Foreign Policy Edition
Guardian UK columnist Simon Tisdall today offers a major post-election buzz kill on the subject of Obama’s foreign policy outlook. Calling it “hegemony with a happy face,” he cautions all the kids out there who pinned Obama buttons to their Che Guevara berets to get ready to be bummed out.
November 5, 2008 | Read More
