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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.’ [...]

White House, US Media, Picking Sides In Israeli Terror Bombings

Posted on 30 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: A million and a half human beings most of them downcast, Arab League convening an emergency meeting Wednesday, Charley James, compliant American media is parroting Washington, Condoleeza Rice, Egypt is opening its border with Gaza to allow injured, Ehud Olmert, Hamas (is) responsible for breaking the cease-fire and, Hamas will not improve conditions for its poor, hints at a wider war, ignoring the reality that while Hamas may have fired th, Israel wishes to make clear that it will continue to ac, Israel's caretaker prime minister, let me say unequivocally that both sides are wrong, Nor will Israel find peace for its people by staging ma, Picking Sides In Israeli Terror Bombings, somebody might want to remind Olmert – and Washington –, starving people by lobbing homemade rockets willy-nilly, the administration is Gordon Johndroe a junior White Ho, they were pushed into doing so by the Attica-like lockd, this keeps even food fuel and medical supplies from rea, try brokering a renewed cease fire between Hamas and Is, US Media, usual uneven and heavy-handed approach in reacting to t, White House

by Charley James
By now, no one should be surprised that the White House is taking its usual, uneven and heavy-handed approach in reacting to the gargantuan Israeli shock-and-awe bombing of densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip. 
Rather than using American influence – if there is any left in the region after eight years of Bush [...]

Good Riddance! Please Leave NOW!

Posted on 11 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 on 9-11, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as “The Dark House”, 57-year old single mother of three, 9-11, Bill Clinton, bringing honour to the White House, Bush, covered up the environmental risks at ground zero, Denis Campbell, did not keep five Americans safe from anthrax and never, did not keep us safe from the shoe bomber, do not censor science, do not plant propaganda in Iraqi newspapers, failed to provide for the health of rescue workers, fantastic, Gingrich inspired patriotic pabulum, giving bin Laden a safe haven in the region of Wazirist, Good Riddance, He kept the American people safe, helped bin Laden’s family flee the country, Keith Olbermann’s brilliant commentary of last evening, kept reading My Pet Goat for 7-minutes after learning t, literally endorsing a truce that Pakistan signed with t, no child left behind act, nor pay US columnists to write it in American newspaper, one of them mentally challenged, opposed the 9-11 commission, opposed the department of Homeland Security, Osama bin Laden, outsourcing that to Afghans and turning that country in, quit after patronising an escort service linked to pros, Randall Tobias, release of a two-page talking points memo to rehabilita, selected President in 2000, so poorly received, sputtering mad at the whitewash, standard applause line for Democrats, still has not caught the killer of 17 sailors aboard th, still has not caught the killer of 3, taking back, that we do not betray those (Valerie Plame’s CIA status, that we do not eavesdrop without warrants, that we do not play politics with justice, that we do not stage fake news conferences, that we uphold rather than commute the penalty for thos, The lie of Mission Accomplished, the lie that we do not torture, The meltdown he prevented now having claimed several Wa, tried to outsource America’s port security to Dubai, uniquely American that she had to work three jobs, upholding the Constitution while protecting habeas corp, we do not eavesdrop on Americans, we do not use the wheels of justice to crush dissent (f, White House

 
By Denis Campbell
When W. Bush was selected President in 2000, I shrugged and assumed this a natural part of the pendulum’s swing to the right. Now, the release of a two-page talking points memo to rehabilitate his presidential image has me sputtering mad at the whitewash this White House continues to apply to try and [...]

Sands Through the Hourglass of Time

Posted on 09 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: African Americans, American policy, blacks were not allowed to use public restrooms in his, casting votes under Jim Crow voter suppression laws, Columbia Pictures has picked up the film and life right, Denis Campbell, dozens of stories leading up to election day, Eugene Allen, Eugene makes it to the Inauguration stage, gratefully and gleefully cast their ballot for the nati, Helene, Hollywood Reporter, jubilant over the recent US election result, oath of office, obama, President Obama, producer Laura Ziskind, retired in 1986, Sands Through the Hourglass of Time, sons/daughters of former slaves, special invitation from the Reagans, started as a pantryman in 1952 under Truman, The Washington Post, thinking of Eugene and Helene Allen on Inauguration Day, those who came so close yet did not live to see this hi, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, White House, White House butler for eight Presidents from Harry Trum, Wil Haygood, You and Helene are coming to the state dinner as guests

 
By Denis Campbell
Thousands worldwide are jubilant over the recent US election result. We look forward to change in the White House and American policy. My own heart though is a touch heavier this day for those who came so close, yet did not live to see this historic Election Day. I’ll be thinking of Eugene [...]

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