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Conservative Racists Are Attacking the Bergdahl Family for Associating With Obama

Conservative Racists Are Attacking the Bergdahl Family for Associating With Obama

The giveaway that all the animus toward Sergeant Bergdahl is based in conservative racism usually reserved for people of color,…

10 years ago

The Unhinged Conservative Reaction to Obama’s Foreign Policy Speech at West Point

Diplomacy may not be as profitable as war (Cheney's Haliburton made $39.5 billion off the Iraq war alone), but our…

10 years ago

California Democrat Slams Republicans On Their Criticism Of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Release

On Sunday afternoon, Democratic Congressional candidate James Kimber, who is running against Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) in California's 50th District,…

10 years ago

If Republicans Really Supported The Troops They Wouldn’t Propose Privatizing the VA

If Republicans supported the troops and appreciated the sacrifice of those who made it home alive then they would not…

10 years ago

Creationists Respond to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos With Moronic Babble

Although fundamentalist Christians have no dearth of so-called tormentors, for the past eleven weeks their greatest enemy has been science…

10 years ago

Chris Christie Wants a More Aggressive Foreign Policy in Very Messy, Difficult Places

Acting as though he would know right from wrong, Christie said America is "the strongest moral power for what is…

10 years ago

Ross Douthat Ignores Context and Facts to Make Obama a Foreign Policy Failure

Douthat also carefully avoids mention of Egypt, another Obama foreign policy success story, where the Obama administration's moderating influence ensured…

10 years ago

Jon Stewart Tells Karl Rove And Donald Sterling ‘OK, You Go Bye Now’

On Tuesday night's episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart compared the recent insane statements by two men who have…

10 years ago

President’s State of the Union Speech Strikes Most of the Chords Dems Were Waiting For

I watched President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in…

10 years ago

Stephen Colbert Brilliantly Mocks The Neo-Con Fascination With Neverending War

On Monday night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brilliantly took down conservatives's positions on the wars in Iraq…

10 years ago

The Republicans Are Still Blaming Obama for Iraq and Afghanistan

it was not Obama who invaded Iraq on a fabricated pretext and with an army designed to fight not an…

10 years ago

Republicans Show That They Abhor Peace by Criticizing Nuclear Deal With Iran

What the American people are reminded of with the warmonger's criticism of diplomatic efforts is that Republicans abhor peace nearly…

10 years ago

George W. Bush Returns As The Statute of Limitations on His War Crimes Expires in 2 Months

George W. Bush, has made his presence known with two appearances over the past week, and it is likely because…

10 years ago

Republicans Honor Our Veterans By Making Sure That They Are Hungry and Struggling

Republicans have gone out of their way to keep America's Veterans in a struggle to find work after returning from…

10 years ago

What the Feck Is Wrong with an Obama Pivot?

President Obama's critics routinely dismiss him as "feckless," but most have long records as feck-ups. And what's wrong with pivoting?

11 years ago

Obama’s Decision to Get Congressional Approval Gives Sanity a Chance

War should be a matter for sober reflection, not knee-jerk reactions, and the president should be praised for opening the…

11 years ago

Where Syria is Concerned Let’s not Become a Global George Zimmerman

It is not hard to know what to think about the U.S. attacking Syria. That's wrong. And it's wrong for…

11 years ago

Ten Republican Fantasies Best Kept in Public Restrooms

We would all be better off if Republicans kept some of their fantasies in public restrooms where they belong

11 years ago

GOP Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma Calls Obama Unfit and Biden Embarrassing

On Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), forgot not only President Bush but his fellow ethically-challenged House Republicans, and excoriated President…

11 years ago

SEAL Team 6 Gate Replaces Benghazi as Worst Scandal Ever

Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but "Seal Team 6-Gate" is bigger even than Benghazi! (and…

11 years ago

Rand Paul Says Hilary Clinton Should Never Hold High Office Again

Paul hopes to bolster his own chances in 2016 while using his political office to pre-emptively destroy his opponent

11 years ago

War Criminal George W. Bush Should Be Given An Indictment Not a Library

The concept of giving kind regards to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a…

11 years ago

Fox News Guest Claims Iraq War Didn’t Affect People’s Lives Personally

Jonas Goldberg claimed ObamaCare is the policy equivalent of the Iraq war, but worse because the Iraq war didn't affect…

11 years ago

A Delusional Liz Cheney Projects Her Father’s Mistakes onto President Obama

The theme of Liz Cheney's fantasy screed was that Republicans had to start fighting back against President Obama or else…

11 years ago

Another Sign Obama’s Doing a Good Job: War Criminal Dick Cheney Thinks America Isn’t Safe

Cheney claims the President's national security team choices put the nation at risk because they do not support Bush-Cheney policies…

11 years ago

Obama Explains How a Thoughtful President Determines When to Intervene

President Obama's response to a question about how he deals with the violence in Syria should serve as a major…

11 years ago

The Right Claims Liberals Have a Dull-Witted, Self-Defeating, Abjectly Wicked Worldview

Conservatives seem completely confused and befuddled by reality, as evidenced by Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and his recent scree

11 years ago

The Party of Hotheads Cheney and McCain is Concerned About Hagel’s Temperament

On ABC's This Week, Senator Bob Corker, (R-TN), concern trolled about the 'temperament' of Republican former Senator Chuck Hagel, whom…

11 years ago

President Obama is More Popular Now than During His First Term

The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama's popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama's second term only promises…

11 years ago

Opposition to Chuck Hagel is a No-Win Scenario for the GOP

There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans

11 years ago

Repeating Their Past Mistakes, Republicans Urge a Return to Cowboy Diplomacy

Neo-con leaders are warning that Republicans have to pressure President Obama to return to George W. Bush's cowboy diplomacy by…

11 years ago

Tell Republicans to Stop Dishonoring Veterans by Cutting Benefits and Blocking Jobs

Honor the sacrifice of veterans by telling Republicans to pass, immediately, the Veterans Jobs Corps Act and oppose the Ryan…

11 years ago

The GOP’s Vorpal Blade of Cognitive Dissonance Goes Snicker-Snack!

Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready

11 years ago

Third Debate Could Highlight Romney’s Outsourcing Experience as Foreign Policy

The only foreign policy experience RMoney faced was shipping and dealing with foreign countries during his tenure at Bain.

12 years ago

John Kerry Challenges Romney with 6 Questions He Must Answer at the Debate

Kerry lists 6 questions Romney must answer tonight. He commented, 'Romney, who once even said 'a president is not a…

12 years ago

Ann Romney Thinks a Mormon Mission is the Same as Serving in the Military

While on The View, Ann Romney said their family finds different ways of serving, with their sons having served their…

12 years ago

McCain Confirms Romney’s Desire for an Indefinite Iraq and Afghanistan Presence

John McCain confirmed this morning that a Mitt Romney administration would leave our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq indefinitely.

12 years ago

In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama

Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not…

12 years ago

Pamela Geller’s New Ad Campaign Calls Muslims Savages

Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does…

12 years ago

Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace

In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of…

12 years ago

Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief

It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of…

12 years ago

Chasing Mitt Romney’s Hypocritical, Blindfolded, Ever-Changing Libya Positions

Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely…

12 years ago

Trying to Distract from His Own 9/11 Failures, Dick Cheney Whines About Obama

Dick Cheney is desperately trying to distract from the new NYT evidence against Bush ignoring 9/11 intel by falsely accusing…

12 years ago

Remembering the Bush Administration’s Post 9/11 Lies that Forever Changed America

While Americans reflect on the events of 9/11, they should remember that as catastrophic as the attacks were, it was…

12 years ago

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago

John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady…

12 years ago

Lie of Omission: Republican Convention Pretends Iraq and Afghanistan Never Happened

Republicans made their convention a festival of lies, but the biggest lie was one of omission. No speaker dared mention…

12 years ago

Christian End-Time Fantasies Endanger Us All

Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence,…

12 years ago

Bill O’Reilly Compares Obama and Heathcare to George W. Bush and Iraq

On his FNC program The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly engaged in full blown fear mongering tonight as he compared…

14 years ago

Republicans Express Shock That Obama is Acting Like He Won an Election

Republicans like Rep Pete Hoekstra are expressing their shock and outrage because they believes that President Obama should have been…

14 years ago