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• Obama Compares the Insurance Industry to a Bunch of Thieving Gypsies [Racism]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 63
  At a town hall in Allentown, Pa.—coverage of which probably made Billy Joel a couple grand in licensing fees today—Barack Obama said consumers are getting "gypped" by insurance companies....

  
  

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Finger on the Button [Pic Of The Day]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 14
  [President Barack Obama gets some help from his first ladies, Sasha, Malia, and Michelle, when lighting the national Christmas tree in D.C. today. Image via AP]

  
  

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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:05pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

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• Obama's Afghanistan Speech: More Poetry, Less Terror [Speeches]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 30
  It was easily one of the 50 most important speeches Barack Obama will ever give: Tonight, he made the case for why he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. (Oh, and terrorists? They still want...

  
  

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:08pm EST
  by Adrian Chen

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• Congers residents gets a surprise during Obama speech

  —Inside Rockland

  Like millions of Americans, Congers resident Georgiana Calingo was watching President Barack Obama’s speech tonight but she received an unexpected surprise.

  Calingo was watching the speech on CNN with her husband and teenage son daughter when the director cut to a shot of U.S. soldiers sitting in a cafeteria in Kandahar, Afghanistan, also [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:38pm EST
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• Barack Obama Hates Jesus, Christmas, and Charlie Brown [Special Programming]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 54
  You don't think so? Then why else would he schedule his presidential address about Afghanistan during the scheduled broadcast for a beloved American holiday institution like A Charlie Brown...

  
  

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:47am EST
  by Brian Moylan

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• Supreme Court Gives White House Another Chance to Block Torture Pics [Sigh]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 9
  Barack Obama said he wanted torture photos released, but then he changed his mind. The ACLU won its suit to have them released, but now the Supreme Court is sending that victory back to the Second...

  
  

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  by Pareene

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• Byrd Tweets for 2009-11-25

  —In da Buff (Buffalo, New York)

  Hold the stuffing…Barack Obama pardons himself today at White House. # @peteherr Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!! in reply to peteherr #

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:25pm EST
  by Christopher Byrd

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• Remembrance of Oprah's Favorite Things Past [Material World]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 18
  This year, Oprah's canceling her 'Favorite Things' episode and will give us the gift of Barack Obama instead. As if he's going to make 200 women fly into simultaneous orgasms. We demand to be...

  
  

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:48pm EST
  by Azaria Jagger

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• Obama: Thanks For The Donation, Now Here’s Your Cushy Job

  —Monroerising.com

  So the man that rode into the White House on a wave of promised “change” is singing a new tune…

  Meet the new boss, same as the old bosses.

  President Barack Obama recently announced his first grouping of ambassadorial nominations and guess what?  The plum jobs are going to his major [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:58pm EST
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• The Obamas' First State Dinner: Dazzling Fashion, Celebrities

  —Gothamist

              

  Last night, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama held their first state dinner at the White House. According to Politico, the "first couple" [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  by Jen Chung

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• We'll finish the job in Afghanistan

  —Inland Z

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  US President Barack Obama has said it is his intention to "finish the job" in Afghanistan after eight years of conflict there.  Mr Obama said he would announce a long-awaited decision over...
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  by Mike Wrona

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• Obama: Fundamentals of the Economy Are Still Strong [Gaffes]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 37
  During the presidential campaign, John McCain stupidly announced that "the fundamentals of the economy are still strong," a statement that Barack Obama hung around his neck like a flaming car tire....

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:31pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Obama (Sort of) Comments on the Bow Flap: Controversy 'Leaves Me Speechless' [Surrender]

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  Number of comments: 47
  Barack Obama has responded, via an anonymous aide, to charges that by bowing to the Communist emperor of Japan he was actually surrendering and apologizing for World War II, which is technically...

  
  

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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:32am EST
  by John Cook

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• New Yorkers Don’t Want To Host Terror Trials

  —The Buffalo Bean

  While Barack Obama and Eric Holder think they are doing a good thing for America’s civilian justice system by sending the worst of the worst terrorists in the world to New York to stand trial, New York voters disagree.

  Just 35% of New York State voters agree with Attorney General [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:35am EST
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• Twitter Transforms Chuck Todd and Howard Kurtz into Idiots [You Don't Say]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 7
  It's Obvious Day on Twitter: NBCer Chuck Todd wonders why Barack Obama can't secure the political support of the man he defeated in the 2008 election, and the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz predicts...

  
  

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:19pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Seventy-five percent chance Chris Collins and other Erie County (NY) elected Republican officials believe ACORN the stole presidential election.

  —Inland Z

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  According to Public Policy Polling: "PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year,...
  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  by Mike Wrona

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• Barack Obama is a Starving Starlet: How the His Weight Became an International Fascination [Thinspiration]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 4
  Accused of skipping meals and wasting away, the leader of the free world protested: Am not, I have naturally fine bones, and I'm under a lot of pressure. Hey Barack, quit stealing Nicole Richie's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:18am EST
  by Azaria Jagger

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• Christian Conservatives Praying for God to Kill Obama [Bible Study]

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  Number of comments: 299
  There's a hilarious new meme in the wingnut sectors of the internet: someone's coined a bumper sticker slogan encouraging people to pray for Barack Obama. But here's the funny part: it's really a...

  
  

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:27pm EST
  by John Cook

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• I Don't Get It

  —Albany Media Bias

  Obama China Town Hall: Select Audience, Easy QuestionsIt was a town hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting and no activists with questions about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:33pm EST
  

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• Communist China Tries to Protect Obama from Being Called a Communist [Oba-mao]

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  Number of comments: 13
  China banned these "Oba-Mao" T-shirts, which were selling at a brisk pace in Beijing, last week in an apparent effort to avoid embarrassing Barack Obama during his visit. The weird thing is, in...

  
  

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:08pm EST
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• Barack Obama Has Better Things to Do Than Tweet [Shut Up, Twitter]

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  You would have been delusional to think that the president didn't use a ghostwriter to update his Twitter account, @BarackObama. Still, it's now been confirmed that he didn't write any of his 418...

  
  

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by Ryan Tate

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• Politico Challenges Bob Bauer's Credentials, Headlines Story 'Bob Bauer's Credentials Challenged' [Journalismism]

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  White House Counsel Greg Craig resigned. He will be replaced with campaign lawyer Bob Bauer, who is Barack Obama's personal attorney. Politico asserted that he is unqualified and then sought out...

  
  

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  by Pareene

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• Peggy Noonan's Afghanistan Proposal: Watch Nick at Nite [Columnists]

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  Number of comments: 10
  Barack Obama's decision to think really hard about what to do in Afghanistan has been praised by most people who aren't Dick Cheney. Peggy Noonan tackles it in today's column, and by "it" we mean JFK...

  
  

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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:56am EST
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• Bloomberg Linked to Terrorist

  —Power Plays

  

  You see it all the time in papers or on the web: "Islamic charities in US linked to terrorist funding," "Kerry campaign accepted funds from activist linked to terrorist group," "Barack Obama linke...

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:30am EST
  by Roy Edroso

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• David Plouffe Is a Two-Faced Machiavelli Who Broke Our Hearts [How Things Work]

  —Gawker

  Number of comments: 33
  David Plouffe ran Barack Obama's campaign as a steady and extended fuck-you to the hyperventilating Drudge junkies at Politico, and we loved him for it. Now he's admitted he was leaking to them the...

  
  

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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 5:37pm EST
  by John Cook

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• Fired Post Editor Comes Forwards With Allegations

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  Rupert Murdoch just can't catch a break these days: He's waging war against Google, The New York Post's readership is down, and he's got to deal with this Glenn Beck debacle for calling Barack Obama racist. On top of [...]

  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

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• House Socialized Medicine Bill DOA In Senate

  —Albany Media Bias

  Good news:The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
  
  Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  

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• Massa Will Vote No On Health Care Bill

  —albany project

  I thought he'd be a lock to support the health care bill.

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  [Representative Eric Massa is voting no on the health care bill, damn it, no matter what the outside consequences or what Barack Obama says.

  "The president of the United States is coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow morning on a'" [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

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• Owens meeting with POTUS to be rescheduled

  —Capitol confidential

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  Due to votes on the Hill today, newly sworn-in Congressman Bill Owens wasn’t able to meet with President Barack Obama.

  The meeting will be rescheduled, according to the White House press office.

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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:31pm EST
  by Irene Jay Liu

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• Hypocrite Of The Day Award

  —Albany Media Bias

  He actually deserves it for the year, but in this case we'll give it to him for the day:President Barack Obama ordered the flags at the White House and other federal buildings be at half-staff and urged people not to draw conclusions while authorities investigate.
  
  "We don't know" [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  

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