After an interview with the New York Times on board Air Force One, President Barack Obama was apparently unhappy with his answer to a question about whether he was a socialist.So he telephoned the reporters to have another go. He's absolutely definitely not a socialist, the President insisted. But, he suggested, his predecessor George W. Bush was:  "Just one thing I was th...

After an interview with the New York Times on board Air Force One, President Barack Obama was apparently unhappy with his answer to a question about whether he was a socialist.So he telephoned the reporters to have another go. He's absolutely definitely not a socialist, the President insisted. But, he suggested, his predecessor George W. Bush was:  "Just one thing I was th...

Is Barack Obama a socialist? To many voters, the very notion seems ridiculous because they've become comfortable with the affable and reasonable person they've seen campaigning for the last two years. Even his now famous conversation with Joe the Plumber failed to generate much concern outside the conservative base because, in context, it just sounded like a loose turn of phrase. But now...

You really couldn't make it up. Just days after bemoaning the hanging of an effigy of Sarah Palin in Hollywood and my wondering what would happen if someone hanged an effigy of Barack Hussein Obama, two students have been arrested for hanging an Obama effigy on a university campus in Kentucky. One of them is a Brit.  They did it to protest against the hypocrisy that allowed the Palin eff...

One thing that has baffled me about American politics over the last nine months is the growth of the visceral and seething hatred for Barack Obama amongst foaming-at-the-mouth right wingnuts. It really has got quite astonishing and tends to coalesce around the word "socialist". But George Bush in his last seven months of office was twenty times more socialist than Obama has been in his first seven...

Barack Obama is lauded by politicians of all political hues for his ability to be all things to all people. But while the strategy was deployed and practised by the Apostle Paul in order that more may be saved (1Cor 9:22), the notion has been so maligned in the modern era as to be almost invariably adduced as evidence of hypocrisy or insincerity. St Paul would certainly advocate becoming black to ...

From The Bulletin By Herb Denenberg Senator Barack Obama is the gift that just keeps on giving when it comes to those who want to expose him for the phony, socialist and race hustler, that he is at his very core. He now plays like a centrist, but he is in fact a radical, left-wing extremist who campaigns in the center but would govern to the loony left. He pretends to be a reformer, but is a Chica...

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So the almost preternaturally cool and confident Barack Obama does get nervous after all. He interrupted Chief Justice John Roberts as he read the oath, prompting the head of the Supreme Court to misplace the word "faithfully" Here's the transcript, courtesy of MSNBC: ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama... OBAMA: I, Barack... ROBERTS: ... do solemnly swear... OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do s...

Holy hypocrisy Batman!!! It would be completely understandable if then candidate Obama was just your run-of-the-mill politician looking to get elected or re-elected. He did, and will do, what politicians always do which is to tell the people what they think they want to hear while blaming someone else for all of the problems. Unfortunately for the country he was, and still is, simply a run-of-the-...