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    January 26, 2012

    New York Socialists: Barack Obama Is Not a Socialist

    In the capricious, confusing, volatile world of contemporary American politics, at least one thing can be counted on these days: for better or for worse, a lot of people still think Barack Obama is a socialist. So you might wonder what socialists think about Obama. If the official reaction to Ob ... More >>

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    January 25, 2012

    New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman To Head Obama's New Mortgage Agency

    Last night's presidential address was all about the state of our great nation, but New Yorkers got a nod with the announcement that our very own attorney general will head a new task force charged with investigating abusive lending and risky mortgages. You know, all that fun stuff that led to the ho ... More >>

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    January 25, 2012

    New York Pols Respond to Obama's State of the Union

    Hooray for Obama! Just keep your promises! That seemed to be the message that tied together several electeds' obligatory response statements to the president's State of the Union on Tuesday. After his speech ended, Runnin' Scared's inbox was flooded with reactions from local pols. So we gathered a ... More >>

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    January 23, 2012

    Gingrich 'Wounds' Romney; Latinos Demand Solutions from Obama

    Newt Gingrich badly wounded Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primaries. Now, Romney has to revive his campaign in Florida -- or risk losing the Republican ticket, the Spanish-language daily reports. The three distinct winners in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina prove Republicans' uncertaint ... More >>

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    January 23, 2012

    Obama's Next Campaign Stop: Chat Rooms!

    President Obama has scheduled a "hangout" in a Google-powered video chat room, apparently to attract hip young voters who use all that newfangled social media stuff, according to a White House announcement Monday.

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    January 20, 2012

    Watch Barack Obama Sing a Little Al Green

    Yesterday President Obama was in town messing up your commute fund-raising. His fourth stop of the whirlwind tour was at the Apollo Theater where, as you see in the video above, he expanded his known talents into the musical arena. Just a few bars come out -- "I'm...so in love," from Al Green's "Let ... More >>

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    January 19, 2012

    Obama in City Tonight, Don't Bother Leaving Your Office or Apartment

    ​The President is coming to town to fundraise this evening, so plan on being stuck wherever you are right now (sucks if you're at work), since commuting is kinda impossible when Obama visits. Bus routes have been already changed, an MTA spokeswoman tells Runnin' Scared. Nothing has been said ... More >>

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    January 18, 2012

    Jesse Jackson Slams Newt Gingrich Over Food Stamps

    And the food-stamp fracas continues! The Reverend Jesse Jackson has just blasted Newt Gingrich for his comments that Barack Obama is a "food stamp" president, and has come out against the Republican presidential hopeful, telling Politico: "Food stamps (are the) lifeline for many Americans -- they h ... More >>

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    January 18, 2012

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    January 2, 2012

    Kim Kardashian Enters The Political Discussion On The Eve Of The Iowa Caucus

    Republican candidates are making their last moves across Iowa today as GOP voters try and decide who they will support in tomorrow's caucus. The Iowa Caucus doesn't really pick the official nominee, as much as it just kills off the struggling candidates. Essentially, a bunch of white corn farmers ge ... More >>

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    December 7, 2011

    Newt Gingrich: Obama Is the "Finest Food Stamp" President

    ​Newt Gingrich thinks Barack Obama is a bad president -- for helping more poor Americans eat. Thing is, Obama isn't exactly responsible for recent, record-setting numbers of food-stamp beneficiaries. Gingrich, who wants to run on the Republican ticket in the 2012 presidential election, has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    President Obama Raised $2.4 Million During NYC Visit

    Barack Obama went on a whirlwind fundraising tour of New York yesterday, making stops in the East Village and Midtown (and causing road closings and traffic issues along the way). Despite a clutch of Occupy Wall Street protesters on a #DinnerWithBarack action, the president raked in $2.4 million o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2011

    Rightbloggers Celebrate America's Great National Holiday: Black Friday

    We hope you had a nice Thanksgiving and if you went shopping the next day you weren't trampled. You may have heard that President Obama got some grief from conservatives for failing to mention God in his Thanksgiving proclamation. But for our rightblogger subjects, this was not the worst outrage of ... More >>

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    November 18, 2011

    Congress Wants Your Kids To Be Fat

    ​In a heated congressional session Thursday, lawmakers continued to clash with the Obama administration over proposed changes that would make the school-lunch program healthier, arguing that low-income children have a right to eat shitty food and get sick from it.

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    November 18, 2011

    Fox Nation Continues to Promote Occupy 'Link' to Attempted Obama Assassination

    ​Yesterday, a 21-year-old man named Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was charged with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama. There's a lengthy complaint available that includes quite a bit of information, including scary stuff he said about Obama to people who knew him well, referring to the pre ... More >>

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    November 17, 2011

    Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Barack Obama

    A 21-year-old man from Idaho, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, has been charged with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama. He allegedly fired shots at the White House last Friday night. Later, Ortega-Hernandez's abandoned Honda Accord, containing an assault rifle with scope, ammunition, an "aluminum ... More >>

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    November 9, 2011

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    October 30, 2011

    Obama Celebrates Pagan Unholy Day

    Barack and Michelle Obama spent part of their Saturday night handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on the northern portico of the White House. President Obama doesn't appear to be overwhelmingly in the Halloween spirit, but we're pretty sure he's wearing a studio-quality Green Lantern costume unde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2011

    What You Can Learn About Rick Perry From His Interview in Parade Magazine

    ​Rick Perry gave an interview to Parade Magazine (this week's issue was, yet again, almost completely devoid of any coverage on parades or the parade-attending lifestyle) and people are needling him for comments he made about Barack Obama's birth certificate. He told the interviewer that he ha ... More >>

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    October 23, 2011

    Rightbloggers Denounce the End of the Iraq Occupation and the "Horrific Murder" of Gaddafi

    The American people have long been sick and tired of our occupation of Iraq, and on Friday President Obama called ally-ally-in-free. You'd think there'd be little cause for dissension; as Glenn Greenwald noted, the deadline was agreed to in the Bush era. But you know how it is with rightbloggers ... More >>

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    October 22, 2011

    Troops Out of Iraq; Woman Killed While Protecting Children; Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Dies

    ​Yesterday, President Obama announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing all of its forces from Iraq by the end of the year. The Washington Post reports there are about 39,000 troops in Iraq today, and all will come home except a small contingent of Marines who are assigned to protect the embas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Bo Obama Has His Own Extensive Huffington Post Page

    The most popular Obama has his own Huffington Post Page, and it's exhaustive. Has anyone else not thought about Bo Obama in maybe two years? He's grown to be such a handsome dog! The discovery of Bo Obama's HuffPo page interests us much more than Arianna's handful of new verticals. Because:

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    October 6, 2011

    Q&A: Trans Am's Nathan Means On Playing And Reissuing 1999's Futureworld, Being A Part-Time Band And Re-Recording Their First Album

    In the mid-'90s, before getting saddled with the term became a dirty word, Trans Am was one of the core members of the post-rock scene. While their label and scenemates in Tortoise meticulously concocted easy-listening fake jazz tailored for indie brainiacs, Trans Am played the part of the prog-obse ... More >>

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    September 25, 2011

    As Rick Perry Stumbles, Rightbloggers Run To (Non-Candidate) Chris Christie

    The economy sucks, and so do President Obama's poll numbers. Yet many smart people think Obama's got a chance at reelection next year. Why? Because he gets to run against the nominee of the Republican Party, which seems hellbent on throwing the election. In the GOP's latest slapstick routine, put ... More >>

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    September 22, 2011

    Barack Obama Advertising in the...New York Post?

    ​We knew that Barack Obama believes in hope and considers himself an endless optimist. We have watched him try again and again (and again and again) to reach across the aisle in an effort to win over Republican support. Even when he gets nothing in return, he keeps on trying. But is he so ov ... More >>

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    September 18, 2011

    Republicans Call Obama Plan 'Class Warfare'; Don't Know Definition of 'Warfare'

    ​Tomorrow, President Obama will unveil a deficit-cutting proposal that will include a revision to the U.S. tax code. The proposed change will feature a higher tax rate for the wealthiest 0.3% of Americans, who currently pay the IRS with a $15 gift card to Sam Goody every April (estimated figur ... More >>

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    September 16, 2011

    Obama Introduces Campaign T-Shirt 'Just For Twitter Users'

    ​ Strictly for the politically active tweeters out there, here comes Barack Obama's new 2012 campaign t-shirt: "When we first decided to make a campaign T-shirt just for Twitter users, we spent a while thinking about the hashtag that does the best job of summing up what we're fighting for."

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    September 12, 2011

    Drayton Curry, 92, Nation's Oldest Federal Prisoner: Obama AWOL On Clemency Request

    ​Drayton Curry, age 92, the oldest inmate in federal prison, could die there waiting as he has for the past seven months for President Obama to decide on his clemency petition. Wheelchair-bound and in poor health, Curry, who was born when Woodrow Wilson was president, is currently in a feder ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    President Obama Is Creating Jobs!

    I'm so tired of hearing about how Obama is failing the country's economy, and as a result of his misguided actions, employment has gone farther down than a highway hooker looking for a bonus. Please! The man is definitely creating jobs! Well, one job. If everything keeps going the way it has been ... More >>

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    August 11, 2011

    Barack Obama and Anna Wintour Hanging Out Tonight; We Imagine Their Conversation

    ​Barack Obama's in town! This means that a) traffic is going to be a disaster and b) we can write some fan fiction. One of his stops is an expensive dinner hosted by Anna Wintour and Harvey Weinstein -- could you think of a pair more opposite in physicality but more alike in power? -- at Weins ... More >>

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    August 8, 2011

    Rightbloggers: S&P Downgrade of U.S. Means We're On The Right Track

    Last week, hot on the heels of the Congressional debt-ceiling fiasco and the ensuing stock market drop, Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit rating of the United States of America from AAA to AA , and placed the ailing superpower on "CreditWatch with negative implications." The reactions of Ame ... More >>

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    August 4, 2011

    Birthers Use Barack Obama's 50th Birthday to Beat Birth Certificate Horse, Again

    Via Angela N.​We want to wish President Barack Obama, who is a Leo, a happy 50th birthday. Of course, not everyone is happy to let the president have his day. The birthers over at Death By 1000 Papercuts insist on making this day about the question of Obama's birth certificate.

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    July 8, 2011

    Barack Obama Speaks on Dismal June Unemployment Numbers

    ​In a humbling morning for our country today, President Obama spoke to the press about the dismal June unemployment numbers -- we're now at 9.2% unemployment, with a mere 18,000 jobs added last month -- while Americans stood by to watch the bittersweet launch of the Atlantis, marking the last ... More >>

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    July 6, 2011

    The Best and Worst of #AskObama

    ​Today President Obama hosted the first ever presidential Twitter town hall meeting, and it was just as awful as we thought it would be. The whole thing boiled down to nothing more than an opportunity for Obama to do a little campaigning for the 2012 election. The best thing about the media ev ... More >>

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    June 30, 2011

    President Obama Was "Kind of a Dick," Time Editor Says

    Mark Halperin, Time Magazine's senior political analyst, was on MSNBC's Morning Joe earlier today and said President Obama was "kind of a dick" for his demeanor in yesterday's press conference. That political analysis came during a riff on seven-second delays, a censorship device that the show clea ... More >>

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    June 30, 2011

    Rhode Island Passes Civil Unions, President Obama Ducks on Gay Marriage

    ​Following a win in New York's Senate last week on same-sex marriage, the Rhode Island Senate took up Civil Unions last night and passed the measure 21 to 16, which Reuters reports the governor is expected to sign. It was the second win on legal partnership in less than a week for equality act ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Barack Obama in NYC: Big Bucks or Bust?

    ​At last night's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Leadership Gala at the Manhattan Sheraton, President Obama carefully addressed our ongoing legislative fight for marriage equality, but that's not exactly why he was in town. Obama "was expected to rake in nearly $4 million on the night - ... More >>

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    June 23, 2011

    Barack Obama and Justin Bieber Both in Town to Make Your Commute Miserable

    ​Today in your why is it taking me so freaking long to get where I want to go news: Two extremely famous world powers are in New York City today, on the very same day. This is unprecedented! They are: President Obama and Justin Bieber. Obama, of course, is in town for fundraisers in Midtown an ... More >>

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    June 18, 2011

    Barack Obama Will Write His Own Tweets

    ​Despite having once said that his thumbs were "too clumsy" to type out tweets on a phone, Barack Obama is going to start personally tweeting from the @BarackObama account. Tweets from Obama will be signed "-BO," which means his staff is either too mature to care that his initials also stand for " ... More >>

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    June 14, 2011

    Weiner: Resign or Not Resign?

    ​ That is the question. Even President Obama has weighed in on this scandal, saying, "If that was me, I would resign." But fortunately, his Twitpics haven't surfaced, so he doesn't have to worry.

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    June 12, 2011

    Fox News: Obama Invites More "Hoods" to the "Big Crib"

    Fox Business' Eric Bolling, the dude who was offended by Obama "chugging 40s," is at it again. He opened a segment about Obama's meeting with the president of Gabon with this gem: "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa's kleptocrats. It's not first t ... More >>

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    May 31, 2011

    José Andujar, Obama Condom Salesman, Again Arrested by City

    ​Despite a New York State Supreme Court ruling that "Obama" condoms are protected by the the First Amendment and that condom wrappers, regardless of what they say, "should be treated like books," a/k/a not require a vending license, José Andujar, a Times Square street vendor of Obama-branded ... More >>

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    May 31, 2011

    The Food Pyramid Is Being Replaced by the Food Plate. Should We Care?

    Let's hope Obama's food plate has more on it than this.​The food pyramid most of us grew up with is going the way of Betamax. But you probably won't be shedding a tear for the defunct infographic (bread and grains on the bottom, followed by fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy, and sweets and ... More >>

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    May 28, 2011

    Free MetroCards; Gil Scott-Heron Dead at 62; Brooklyn Boy Mauled By Pit Bull

    ​Free MetroCards at Prospect Park and the Red Hook Park baseball fields today! Free shitty single rides, that is. Call me when someone will pay for my monthly unlimited. Oh, and a bunch of subway lines will be all messed up this weekend. [Gothamist] Spoken-word artist, poet, and musician Gil Scot ... More >>

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    May 24, 2011

    Barack Obama Thinks It's 2008

    ​2008 was a good year! And we were so much younger then. So we can hardly begrudge our very busy president who's currently in London for signing the guest book at Westminster Abbey, where he also laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, today (May 24, 2011) with a "24 May 2008" (at r ... More >>

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    May 23, 2011

    Barack Obama's Bomb-Proof Car Has Embarrassing Moment at U.S. Embassy

    Here is a sort of adorable video of President Obama's car getting stuck as he leaves the U.S. Embassy in Ireland today. First he's dropping his Blackberry all over the tarmac, then he falls prey to a stealthy driveway slope? Such a regular guy, except for that leader of the free world/killing Osama ... More >>

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    May 23, 2011

    Grimsvotn Volcano Eruption Forces Barack Obama to Leave Ireland Early

    ​An Icelandic volcano called Grimsvotn (so much easier to say than that other Icelandic volcano) about 120 miles east of Reykjavik has been erupting since Saturday, with ash now approaching Scotland and Ireland, where Barack Obama and co. are visiting. This means they'll leave Ireland tonight, ... More >>

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    May 20, 2011

    Barack Obama Pardons Alligator Hide Salesman, 7 Others

    ​Today in presidential pardons, Barack Obama has given the proverbial "get out of jail free" (all of the jail terms and periods of probation have already been served) card to eight folks, including a marijuana importer; a conspirator; a guy who manufactured, assembled, modified, and distribute ... More >>

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    May 16, 2011

    Barack Obama's Ratings Boost Over Osama Bin Laden's Death Lasted Two Weeks

    ​Two weeks ago we were "celebrating" the death of Osama Bin Laden, attempting to start pro-U.S.A. chants on subway trains (some of us), patting our commander in chief on the proverbial back for his courage and determination -- not to mention follow-through! -- in capturing and killing the FBI' ... More >>

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    May 12, 2011

    Barack Obama's Grandma in Kenya Targeted by Al Qaeda

    ​Grandmothers should be sacred. And yet, here we are, with Sarah Obama, President Barack Obama's step-grandmother living in Kenya, being threatened explicitly by Al Shabaab, the Somalian chapter of Al Qaeda. Obama's granny has been given extra security, which she says she doesn't mind. "My lif ... More >>

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