Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Decade of Deceit : Our Leaders and their Lies

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

A catalog of calumny:The Decade of Deceit Lie: a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive. By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / January 9, 2010 Bookended by two lies, George Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism” and Barack Obama’s “Change … Continue reading →

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Fear in 2009: Year of the Bullet

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

“Playing with Guns.” Photo from Mikesjournal.The fear stimulus:Year of the Bullet 2009 For every claim that the Obama landslide transformed American culture in 2009 we have ‘bullet points’ that document a grassroots prairie fire of gut fear… By Greg Moses … Continue reading →

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Health Care Plan : No Cause for Celebration

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Drawing from West Midlands No! Campaign.Health Care Reform:Progressives must stand their ground This bill is not universal, not equitable, not affordable. It will not end bankruptcies, and will not end deaths due to denials and delays in health care. By … Continue reading →

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Obama’s First Year : A ‘B-Plus’? Get Real!

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Cartoon from Orange County Register.A year at the helm:Does Obama make the grade? By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2009 President Obama has been in office for nearly a year now. I had not thought about … Continue reading →

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Life During Wartime : Barack’s Xmas Nightmare

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog

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Barack Obama : The Audacity of Imperial Hubris

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Famed graffiti artist Banksy’s statement on war and peace. Protest poster in Parliament Square, London.Imperial hubris:Barack Obama and Nobel’s preemptive strike Obama might have used the Nobel stage to mark a break from [the] geopolitical approach to U.S. hegemony through … Continue reading →

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Jonah Raskin on Obama Speech : Woefully Ignorant

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Barack Obama in Oslo. Photo from CBS.An open letter to President Obama:Your speech was a betrayal of American ideals By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / December 11, 2009 Dear President Obama: I read your Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance … Continue reading →

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War is Peace : WE Must Earn Obama’s Nobel

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Image by Nick Bygon / Flickr / Creative Commons.War is NOT peace: Now it’s up to us Obama devoted his once-in-a-lifetime talk to justifying American warfare, conjuring righteous images of this nation as an armed crusader, and asserting that violence … Continue reading →

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Nobel Screams : ‘Out of Afghanistan’

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Nobel Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. Obama has a lot to live up to.Nobel Prize is mandate to exit Afghanistan,Build a green-powered, nuke-free earth By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 10, 2009 Above the din, the Nobel message screams: … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Let’s Help Obama EARN that Nobel

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

The Nobel Prize, Obama, and Afghanistan(And especially its women) By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / October 9, 2009 The first person I told this morning that Obama had won the Nobel Prize for Peace said, “For what?” … Continue reading →

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Afghani Olympics : Will Obama Lose This One Too?

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Will Obama learn from his Chicago defeatAnd abandon the no-win Afghanistan marathon? Team Obama needs — as the International Olympics Committee has just done — to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick … Continue reading →

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Robert Jensen : Is Obama a Socialist?

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Obama the socialist. The right wing blogosphere overflows with such imagery.Is Obama a socialist? Reflection on the degradation of politics and the ecosystem By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / September 25, 2009 [This is an expanded version of … Continue reading →

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