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Plamegate Rides Again: Early Peek At New Film

Posted on 04 November 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Charley James, CIA, Coming Attractions, Dick Cheney, Fair Game, Joe Wilson, Naomi Watts, outed, Plamegate, Scooter Libby, Sean Penn, Valerie Plame, White House

by Charley James
Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, for [...]

How Tough is Our President?

Posted on 20 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: How Tough Is Our President, Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama, Robert Reich, universal health care, White House

by Robert Reich
Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is “not the essential element” of health-care reform. So where, exactly, is the White House on the public [...]

Reality vs. Myth in Healthcare Debate!

Posted on 14 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: David Axelrod, healthcare reform, myths, White House, why needed

As we head into the weekend, here is the straight skinny on healthcare report from the White House and David Axelrod.
8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage

Ends Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history.
Ends Exorbitant Out-of-Pocket [...]

Obama’s Upcoming Hush-Hush Damage Control Meeting with LGBTQ Leaders

Posted on 23 June 2009 by Rev. Irene Monroe | Comments (0) | Tags: LGBTQ issues, LGBTQ voters, President Obama, White House

Rev. Irene Monroe
The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office.
The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars.
But with a 74 percent disapproval rating the President now has with [...]

Watching Out for the Details in Healthcare…

Posted on 10 June 2009 by Robert Reich | Comments (0) | Tags: Big Insurance, big pharma, Bill Clinton, Congress, Helathcare debate, Preisdent Obama, President Obama, Robert Reich, White House

… and How Hard the White House Pushes for Them
by Robert Reich
In an interesting piece in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Matt Bai suggests that the White House has learned the main lesson of Bill Clinton’s failed attempt at universal health care, which is not to deliver a finished product to Congress but instead give [...]

Darn That Obama!

Posted on 15 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, Bobby (creepy Mr. Rogers) Jindal, demoralised right, Eric Cantor, Gingrich Revolution, Glen Beck, Philadelphia, President Obama, Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, White House, White House Easter Egg Roll

 
President Obama is being blamed for causing then disrupting the USA far right Tea Party taxation protests (sponsored by Lipton, the only true winner today?). The protests harkened back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and appear to be massive duds thudding their way across the country. What was most funny were the fringe [...]

Open E-Mail To the President

Posted on 10 April 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Charley James, Eric Holder (Attorney General), sovereign immunity, White House

 
On State Secrets And Illegal Wiretaps
by Charley James
After thinking about Attorney General Eric Holder’s unfathomable court filing defending the Bush-wacked “states secret” defence and a claim of “sovereign immunity” in lawsuits involving illegal wiretapping, I sent this e-mail to The White House. 

TO:                President Barack Obama
FROM:           Charley James
DATE:            April 8, [...]

Gordon’s Amazing American Adventure

Posted on 06 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, April, disappearance of the Churchill bust, Earth Wind and Fire, Fleet Street, G-20, get real Gordon how many Republican votes can you deliv, Gordon’s Amazing American Adventure, Governors of the 50 US states, HRH Queen Elizabeth II, No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em for the Crown Jewells, Obama’s daughters Malia and Sasha, President Barack Obama, press conference crammed into Oval Office, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, replica Marine One helicopters, The Daily Express’ Julia White, The Telegraph’s Iain Martin, Tony Blair, US Congress, USA and UK, White House, White House gift shop

 
Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a well-received address before the US Congress this past week. It was interrupted several times by applause as he spoke of the “special relationship” between the USA and UK. That’s generally the US view of the trip. In the alternate media universe of the UK, focused on the slight of [...]

The Way of the World

Posted on 29 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Armageddon Test, bestselling author, Bush presidency, desperate gamble to send undercover teams into the worl, desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era:, Downing Street, explosive falsehood underlying the Iraq War, multilayered narrative, neglected dangers, post-9/11 world, propulsive, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, reclaim the moral authority, Ron Suskind, startling look at how America lost its way, survival depends, sweeping, The Way of the World, White House, World investigates how America relinquished the moral l

by Ron Suskind
From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation’s struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to [...]

Inauguration News Round-up

Posted on 08 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 110-room mansion, a youth ball, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, bestowed by (hopefully sober at the time) parents, Blair House, Blair House five days before the inauguration, D.C., Denis Campbell, drama before his inaugural address, George Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush, has its own gym, hastily arranged to give the excuse legs, Hay-Adams hotel, home states of Hawaii and Illinois, homophobic Pastor Rick opening the show, host 5 regional balls, house was not booked, Inauguration News Round-up, James Earl Carter, Joe Biden will host balls for Pennsylvania and Delaware, made available a gym at a base in Washington for Obama, National Urban League and Washington's Joint Center for, No one chooses their middle name, obama, only time anyone hears it spoken aloud is to the guffaw, president's "service", Richard Millhouse Nixon, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Sasha and Melia could attend the first days of Sidwell, Stafford Foundation spends $1 million dollars to bring, Stafford is a Fairfax County resident who heads a techn, television ratings should hold, The Inauguration Committee announced a first-ever Neigh, The Marine Corps, the White House publicly thumbed its nose at the Obamas, There is no requirement he say ‘it’, tickets issued to local DC residents, traditional pre-inaugural residence of Presidents, Twitter from Rachel Maddow, used their full middle names, Virginia businessman Earl W. Stafford announced the sta, Washington, Washington press corp, White House, will the name Hussein be uttered during the oath of off, William Jefferson Clinton

By Denis Campbell
No one chooses their middle name, it’s bestowed by (hopefully sober at the time) parents. The only time anyone even hears it spoken aloud is to the guffaws of fellow classmates during high school graduation. History is working against Barack Hussein Obama and creating an off-the-silly-meter story.
There is no requirement he say ‘it.’ [...]

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