Barack Obama Is Being Punk'd
Palin had notes written on her hand and at the same moment she was making fun of Obama for using a teleprompter. It wouldn't surprise me if Ashton Kutcher popped out of the West Wing and told Obama he'd been punk'd.
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There was much to mock about this past weekend's Tea Party convention: the low turnout, Tom Tancredo's repulsive immigrant bashing, and, of course, Sarah Palin's keynote lite. But it would be a huge mistake to dismiss the movement that led to the event. Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is ugly. Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is race-based. Yes, some of the Tea Party movement is being bankrolled by conservative political groups -- and all of it promoted by Fox News. But focusing only on those elements obscures the fact that some of what's fueling the movement is based on a completely legitimate anger directed at Washington and the political establishment of both parties. Think of the Tea Party movement as a boil alerting us to the infection lurking under the skin of the body politic.
Palin had notes written on her hand and at the same moment she was making fun of Obama for using a teleprompter. It wouldn't surprise me if Ashton Kutcher popped out of the West Wing and told Obama he'd been punk'd.
If you want to understand Obamanomics one year out, look at the demand-side hole we're still in, the gargantuan boomer deficit we're heading for, and the mad-as-hell party these bad times have spawned.
The Rahm Administration is failing because it believes that the Obama Campaign's big, inspiring message was in fact hippy BS.
So, you think Sarah Palin is embarrassed by the crib-notes-on-the-palm incident? You're kidding, right? These gaffes represent a gamble by Palin and her handlers, a bet they are hedging.
The reality is that we have an unemployment crisis today, not a deficit crisis. The only crisis related to the deficit is that people with vast sums of money have been able to use that money to make the deficit into a crisis.
Through all of us doing our part, we can prove the researchers wrong who warn that this could be the first generation of children in 200 years to live a shorter lifespan than their parents, due to obesity.
Why the violence toward women in these Super Bowl ads?
Democrats need to be a party that projects strength not through the belligerence of our policies but through the strength of our advocacy. John Murtha showed us how to do this.
Few know Mailer deliberated, while lying in bed chasing an increasingly elusive capacity to sleep, how to intermingle flavors.
"We were very impressed with the job her hand did at the Tea Party Convention," Fox News chief Roger Ailes said. "And we said to ourselves, let's give Sarah Palin's hand a job."
Any politician who fails to fight for a federal student loan program will be hurting themselves politically and punishing college students financially.
In nearly 20% of U.S. House districts, Latinos make up more than 25% of the voters. We are a growing a force throughout the country that every politician must respect if they are to win office.
Too many progressive media voices believe the average media consumer makes a distinction between "political" content and "non-political" content, and that the way to match the right is to simply yell louder.
By leading a broad prevention effort that tackles the root causes of childhood obesity, Michelle Obama transcends ideological divisions and gets to the heart of what is needed to succeed in the global economy.
Starting on Monday February 22nd, HuffPost Green and HuffPost Eyes&Ears will be doing The Week of Eating In. For seven days, we'll invite you to eat in, aka COOK all of your own food for a week.
The big banks face a choice. They can agree to sensible reforms that protect consumers and rein in the excesses of the past decades. Or they can simply decide to screw customers, but do it openly this time.
Our policies have helped move us from a situation where we were losing a nightmarish 750,000 jobs per month to one in which we are a lot closer to adding jobs, on net, on a regular basis.
The lethal combination of Wall Street's economic domination and the Tea Party's hatred of all things government is likely to overwhelm most other progressive causes. We need our own movement.
Time to take back "populism" from Teabaggers and Palinites who've kidnapped it to only mean less government and taxes. Democrats need to define a phrase and philosophy that tells Independents we're on your side.
Am I moving back to New Orleans because the Saints won the playoffs? No. That would be ridiculous. I'm moving back because the Saints have won the Superbowl.
Though the New Orleans Saints' decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads, where CBS showed just how low it can go.
