There Are Many Reasons for the Season and None Have Anything to do With Trump
There is no freedom in compelling others to celebrate the holidays of others…For Republicans, Christmas has become an un-Constitutional religious test.
There is no freedom in compelling others to celebrate the holidays of others…For Republicans, Christmas has become an un-Constitutional religious test.
The president is acting quickly to ensure that Trump cannot establish a Muslim registry.
“Political ignorance in the USA is the greatest threat to our democracy — 50 years of personal observation indicates it is worse than ever!”
As Hurricane Trump picks up steam on its way to the White House, the American people are coming to grips with just how good things have been under Barack Obama.
In 2008, the same poll found that a combined 62 percent of Americans thought Barack Obama would either be a “good” president or “one of the greatest.”
The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.
Republican opinions of Putin spiked around the same time Trump called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Even though Barack Obama will not be president after Jan. 20, 2017, it’s clear he wants to hold the world together after he’s gone.
We laugh, but leading the Department of Veterans Affairs – the government’s largest agency – is serious business.
The new media ecosystem, says Obama, “means everything is true and nothing is true,†making it “very difficult to have a common conversationâ€
Clinton’s growing lead over Trump is giving oxygen to longshot efforts to pressure the electoral college to choose Clinton as the next president.
Context: When people attacked New Balance, the reason, ironically enough, was its opposition to the TPP, an agreement many on the left oppose
“Well, I will demand that Europe put in place a carbon tax at its border, a tax of 1-3 per cent, for all products coming from the United States”
This would be laughable if it wasn’t so terrifying.
Sorry, Trump supporters, respect is earned, not given.
Trump’s pick calls climate change “nothing to worry about” and questions whether humans even contribute to it.
Clinton said tomorrow is “just the beginning” of the work ahead.
“We are one day away from once again making history,” the First Lady said.
“If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because SNL made fun of you, then you can’t handle the nuclear codes.”
President Obama will appear in Michigan on behalf of Hillary Clinton at a public “Get Out The Vote” event in Ann Arbor on Monday
“‘He became unhinged!’ … And he spent so much time screaming at this protester and frankly, it was a disgrace.”
While Trump calls Obama the worst president in history, even his own campaign manager acknowledges that the American people are satisfied with the current commander-in-chief.
When Paul Ryan says “it’s time to take these lessons learned and apply them on a national scale—that’s a Better Way,” he means the same way
“For the third consecutive year, the leadership of the U.S. earns the highest approval ratings among five major global powers.”
“[Trump] didn’t build this house by himself. He just slapped his name on it and took credit for it,” the president said.
Sorry, Republicans, but Americans think President Obama has done a pretty good job.
The GOP knows that when fewer people turn out to the polls, they have a better chance of being successful.
Republicans insist Hillary Clinton has given up on Ohio, but new polls show her surging in the Buckeye State.
The Democratic nominee will have a popular outgoing president by her side to close out the campaign and bring home a victory.
President Obama showed Republicans what true leadership is all about by reaching out to the Republican governors of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina to offer federal aid and assistance as Hurricane Matthew barrels towards the Southeastern coast.
“I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected,” she said. “We never had problems like this.”
“If they still refuse to do their jobs – well, you know what to do in November. Our government only works as well as the people we elect. And that’s entirely up to you.”
He never mentioned the GOP nominee by name, but it was clear throughout his speech that it was Trump’s vision of the world he was warning against.
“The media didn’t force him to come out and take a position being a birther, but he did!”
The Republican nominee for president still won’t say that the current commander-in-chief is a natural-born citizen.
Data: More Americans are working under Obama. Incomes are rising under Obama. Poverty is declining under Obama. Uninsured rates are falling under Obama.
“I am fully confident that they comported themselves with the utmost professionalism and demonstrated their real breadth and depth of intelligence capabilities.”
“Russia wasn’t going to realize its technology potential under a regime where business success depends mainly on political connections.”
Trump himself has never said that he believes, unequivocally, that Obama was born in the United States.
The contest of which of these two men is a better leader isn’t even close. In fact, Putin would likely trade his record for Obama’s in a heartbeat.
President Obama is in China for the G20, meeting with world leaders to address problems that concern us all, from Syria to Ukraine to cybersecurity and the U.S. elections. This is the sort of meeting in which Donald Trump claims he would excel, despite his submissive behavior before the President of Mexico when the two…
The president told Americans they “should be able to get ahead, retire with dignity, and leave something behind for the next generation.”
While speaking to reporters after touring the Louisiana flood damage, President Obama kept American focused on the long-term needs of the victims, and in contrast to Donald Trump, did not treat his tour like a photo-op.
The problem with George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina wasn’t just the bad optics; it was that his actual response was consistent with those optics.
“We can’t have the president of the United States acting like the drug dealer in chief. Giving clean packs of money to a…state sponsor of terror.”
The guy who exploited 3,000 dead Americans for political gain now seems to forget Sept. 11 ever happened.
It appears that the Obama-led military isn’t at all fazed by Trump’s ridiculous, fact-free remark.
“The most unholy partnership of all time,” Obama and Clinton, are constantly “trying to bait Trump into saying something that will sidetrack him”
The increasingly unhinged Trump may have made his most shocking attack yet.
This man, frankly, is a traitor to our country. If he had been anything other than African-American he would have been impeached…by now”
“That’s ridiculous, that doesn’t make any sense. I don’t think anyone would take that seriously.”
When and how did President Bush set up the kill shot? He had no interest at all in killing bin Laden in 2001 or at any time thereafter
Gone are the days of Republicans describing the United States as a “shining city on a hill” or calling for a “kinder, gentler nation.” They’ve traded it all away for Trump – now they must own it.
“Our country does not feel ‘great already’ to the millions of wonderful people living in poverty, violence and despair”
Obama will use the opportunity not just to defend his record, but to urge voters to reject Donald Trump’s dystopian view of America.
Gaffney says the Democrats are “aligned with our enemies and not with America†and “will doom all of us if they have their way.â€
Clinton’s historic nomination is a moment in U.S. history that should transcend politics and be celebrated by all Americans. It also marks another historic barrier kicked down by the Democratic Party.
“America at our best, we stand up to bullies and we fight those who seek to demean and degrade other Americans. Even in times of crisis, we don’t abandon our values, we double-down on them.”
On Monday, a unified Democratic Party will travel to Philadelphia to deliver a positive message to the voters: America is already great.
The GOP spent the first night of the RNC recycling one if its favorite (and discredited) attack lines of the 2012 presidential campaign.
Republican opposition to the president “make us seem anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker and anti-common-sense.â€
This is yet another Republican myth we can add to the growing landfill of right-wing lies.
“This is not a black issue,” the president said. “This is an American issue.”
Both Hillary Clinton and the White House have endorsed have endorsed the Democratic protest that has vowed to shut down the House of Representatives until Speaker Paul Ryan allows a vote on gun control legislation.
Sen. John McCain has provided the perfect example of exactly why so many Americans have been turned off by the Republican Party.
New York City’s top cop has some harsh words for Donald Trump and other Republicans who’ve been attacking President Obama.
Gallup shows Obama’s approval rating up to 53 percent as of Friday morning – higher than Ronald Reagan’s 50 percent in June 1988
It’s not so easy, on the other hand, to unify behind a candidate who has no knowledge of the issues and uses bluster and racism to fuel a substance-free campaign.
“When I hear working families thinking about voting for those plans, then I want to have an intervention,” Obama told the crowd.
“A lot of the proposals he has made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines.”
There is actually someone in this world more unhinged than Donald Trump.
According to reports, the Supreme Court appeared divided while hearing a case of President Obama’s executive orders that deferred deportation for 5 million immigrants. If the Court splits 4-4, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s obstruction of Obama’s Supreme Court nominee will harm millions.
President Obama’s rising popularity is creating a nightmare for Republicans, as the number of self-identified Democrats is surging as the 2016 presidential election heats up.
At his press conference following the Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama all but called Republican frontrunner Donald Trump danger to the world who doesn’t know much about anything related to foreign policy.
The latest economic data released today showed that President Obama continues to smash records by presiding over a 73 straight month of private sector job growth.
According to Duke, “three open Jewish members” is too many on SCOTUS, because “those Jews” will do “whatever the Jewish agenda is”
Over the past seven years, Republicans have done everything to not only obstruct the President, but to erase everything he has accomplished
It took only moments for Justice Scalia’s death to trigger the worst of conservative thinking on Twitter and Breitbart and elsewhere
It is troublesome, even for a progressive secular humanist, to see Democrats resort to a Republican ploy of measuring other Democrats according to their progressive purity
Ted Cruz being persecuted for telling the truth like Jesus? The truth is, Rafael Cruz is the Father of Lies, because that’s all Ted does
This is funny: Ted Cruz, who has been proclaimed messiah by his father, says that “for seven years, we’ve had a president in the White House who has had a messiah complex.” What makes it more funny is that Cruz went on to David Brody Monday about what a messiah he is, that he is…
Donald Trump is now evoking Ronald Reagan to explain the dramatic “evolution” of his political views from liberal to wacky conservative
Donald Trump is definitely with stupid, agreeing with Sarah Palin that Obama and not any Palin is responsible for her son’s bad behavior
Ryan wanted Americans to believe Republicans are actually doing something, when really it’s just more prime-time Republican theater
Donald Trump is doing his best to kiss up to the Ted Cruz religious fanatic crowd, those who see America as a theocracy. Trump is a rock star among white supremacists but he wants to appeal not only to people who hate people on account of their skin color but who hate people on account…
Paul Ryan insists he is going to ‘fix’ things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean he’s going to destroy them
Paul Ryan dwells on the capture of 10 American sailors while ignoring their release, seeming to dismiss the possibility of peace with Iran
By calling out Trump and calling for respect for differences in modern marriage, Haley has placed herself between a rock and a hard place
Basing his entire critique on an invented reality, Ryan speaks from the Fox News reality bubble when he accuses Obama of managing perceptions
Paul Ryan is calling on the disreputable Nikki Haley as the voice of the Republican Party in response to Obama’s last SOTU. Expect lies.
Benjamin Netanyahu did not like Barack Obama’s refusal to grant him control of U.S. foreign policy and a Kuwaiti paper says he wants revenge
Ted Nugent claims Obama is trying to kill children by creating gun-free zones but he’s the one refusing to keep guns out of the wrong hands
Marco Rubio wants to blame Obama for inaction, but it was the action of George W. Bush that drove North Korea to develop nuclear weapons
Nobody did anything about Cliven Bundy’s armed insurrection, so it hardly comes as a surprise that his son Ammon should up the stakes
The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare
Gallup shows Barack Obama and HIllary Clinton are the man and woman most admired by Americans, both of them head and shoulders above Trump
Guilfoyle exclaimed, “Just kill them all and close Gitmo, that’s fine. They don’t have to come here, they don’t have to stay there.”.
Responding to Obama Sunday, Ryan said nothing about gun sales to terrorists or the dangers of radicalizing Muslims with more Republican hate
Chris Christie, who has repeatedly told others its none of their business what he believes, demands to know what Obama believes
Obama said Sunday that “our religious freedom doesn’t grant us the freedom to deny our fellow Americans their constitutional rights.”