Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Free Speech and Cowardice

When trouble began in north Africa this week, it found Mitt Romney, and to a lesser extent Barack Obama, behaving like cowards. Mitt Romney, sensing the possibility of political gain, distorted the meaning of a statement issued by the American embassy in Cairo and then treated it as though it was issued from the desk [...]

Dear Allen: Whistling Past Lenin’s Tomb

Note from the editor: In the tradition of “Congressman’s Corner,” Salty Eggs has invited Rep. Allen West to field questions from his South Florida constituents. Until we get a response to our query, we will do our best to answer questions on his behalf, based on what we know of his temperament and politics. Dear [...]

Democratic National Convention, Night Three: VIPs, Veep, and BO

7:25 p.m.: I’ve just returned from dinner, because I’ve spent the last two nights wasting the early evening hours taking notes on pre-primetime convention speakers that nobody cares about, and I’m done with it. Done! So — now they’ve presumably whizzed through all the marginally important Dems, and will begin firing the big guns promptly. [...]

Five Biggest Lies of the RNC

There were hundreds of lies, large and small, told on the stage at the Republican National Convention. The lies listed below were uncommonly pernicious. They were told again and again in voice after voice, by speakers of differing ideological backgrounds and different political proclivities, suggesting that these are the lies with which Republicans hope to [...]

Republican National Convention: Observations From My Couch

Tuesday afternoon: Provisions: two six-packs of Flying Dog Brewery’s “Raging Bitch” Belgian-style pale ale. Carton of cigarettes. A well-charged phone and access to GrubHub. TV on C-SPAN. Click! Some kind of huge young Republican male is talking angrily about how Obama’s screwed his generation. And now a similarly huge young Republican female is doing likewise, giving [...]

Danation: Charlie Crist Swings Both Ways

Big Slick has returned from the political wilderness, as we all knew he would. Charlie Crist was too good a politician to stay out of the game. In an op-ed published in the Tampa Bay Times Sunday, the day the Republican National Convention was set to begin in that newspaper’s city, the former Republican governor [...]

What We Can Learn — and Teach — From Akingate

So, I have been hesitant to say anything about Akingate because, up until this point, I wasn’t quite sure what I could say that wouldn’t just be an endless loop of “Seriously, America, WHAT THE FUCK?” Indeed, I knew what everyone else did: Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo), responding to a question about whether abortion should [...]

Modest Proposals: A Trump-Inspired List of Political Deals

In keeping with his humble role as America’s modern King Solomon, Donald Trump has recently offered to broker a trade on behalf of this Godly nation’s two contenders for the highest office: If President Barack Obama releases his college transcripts, says Trump, then perhaps Gov. Mitt Romney can be persuaded to release his taxes. I lack Donald [...]

Dear Allen: I Am a Slave for Liberty, Not for Obama

Danation: Your Health and You and the Supreme Court

When the decision first came down just after 10 a.m., the initial news, as reported on Huffington Post and on NPR, was that the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act was struck down, thus handing conservatives a massive victory. But cheers from that side of the political fray were short lived, as that news [...]

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