Obama a Hero.

[Beckwin]

We must welcome our new communist overlords.

[Olo401]

I think Politico and Huffpost are pointing it out, I'm not sure how far it will get. I'm sure Bill Maher will point it out Friday night and we'll hear it all week on Air America.

I doubt it will hit the mainstream media unless MSNBC pushes it hard enough to illicit a response from Fox. Keeping my fingers crossed here that Olbermann rides this into the ground.

With our luck Olbermann & Maddow will be "given the week off" and we'll end up with Shuster and Allison Stewart.

[Max™]

I love doing that with Russian people. Except as a fellow white person they don't shit talk me and I don't so much tell them as pretend I don't understand so I can laugh at them later.

(unless its a hot chick, then I make mention of my linguistic abilities.)

I claim to be a cunning linguist, myself.

[Kuya]

This is loosely related, but i liked it so much that i have to post it.

And finally, New Rule: He's your president, not your boyfriend. Now, last week in this space, I criticized President Obama for not fighting corporate influence enough, and it made some liberals very angry. My phone rang off the hook, my email filled up, and Nancy Pelosi got so mad her face moved.

Look, folks, I like Obama, too. I'm just saying, let's not make it a religion.

And, as far as you folks on the right who think that we're now somehow in league, we're not in league. I was criticizing Obama for not being hard enough on the corporate douchebags you live to defend. I don't want to be on your team. Pick another kid.

So, I stand by my words. But, there is another side to the story. And that is that every time Obama tries to take on a progressive cause, there's a major political party standing in his way: the Democrats. Now, people talk a lot about a third political party in America. We don't need a third party. We need a first party. You go to the polls and your choices are the guy who voted for the first Wall Street bailout, or the guy who voted for the next ten.

This year, we're hearing that a public option for health care is unlikely because it doesn't have the support of enough Democrats. Even Ted Kennedy's plan-- Ted Kennedy, yeah -- leaves 37 million uninsured. This is because we don't have a left and a right part in this country anymore. We have a center-right party and a crazy party.

And, over the last 30-odd years, Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital.

So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby; that's the Democrats.

And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earth-ers and Civil War re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans. And who actually worry that Obama is a socialist.

Socialist? He's not even a liberal. I know he's not because he's on TV. And while I see Democrats on television, I don't see actual liberals. And if occasionally you do get to hear Ralph Nader or Noam Chomsky or Dennis Kucinich, they're treated like buffoons. Okay, these are not three of the world's most charismatic men, but then nobody is going to confuse Newt Gingrich for Zac Efron. And I have to look at his fat face on TV more often than that free credit report song.

Shouldn't there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting the military budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal health care--legalizing pot--and steep, direct taxing of polluters? These aren't radical ideas. A majority of Americans are either already for them or would be if they were properly argued and defended.

And what we need is an actual progressive party to represent the millions of Americans who aren't being served by the Democrats. Because, bottom line, Democrats are the new Republicans.

To think that i don't even like Bill Maher.

[Skjie]

Finally someone admitting there isn't a party anywhere near the left in America. I find it interesting that while Canadian politicians are in a race to the centre, America is in a race to the right, when on average citizens poll fairly similar.

[Kuya]

And my indirect points wouldn't be mine if i didn't add Tom Tomorrow somewhere:

http://i38.tinypic.com/sccfh1.jpg

[Zilong]

I claim to be a cunning linguist, myself.

You may be the cunning linguist, but I am the master debater.

[Demosthenes11]

This is loosely related, but i liked it so much that i have to post it.

To think that i don't even like Bill Maher.

And my indirect points wouldn't be mine if i didn't add Tom Tomorrow somewhere:

http://i38.tinypic.com/sccfh1.jpg

idk how it is we disagreed on so much but are in agreement so much lately...
if my skin starts turning black and I find a penis in my mouth I swear I'll be pissed

[majistical]

Fred Armisen's Obama > Real Obama.

Word.

[Rhinox]

Fred Armisen's Obama > Real Obama.

Word.

The single most insightful post in the history of BG. So glad I check this thread or the travesty of missing your post would be almost too much to bear.

[Olo401]

washingtonpost.com

Re. Tar. Ded.

[Xno Kappa]

lol Wow for real. They need to just let it the fuck go.

[ZarakiKujata]

get the fuck out of here.

Spoiler: show

This is what the GOP will impeach him over though.