My mentor, Micah Sifry, has one of the best dissections I’ve seen of the Jekyll and Hide phenomenon that has been the Obama Administration. Like a lot of my liberal friends, Sifry apparently feels abandoned by President Obama (and he provides a convincing case for that feeling being real). It’s interesting to look [...]
When I was seventeen I enlisted in the United States Navy, after giving the correct answer (no) to the question: Have you ever engaged in any homosexual acts? I would be out of the Navy after the completion of my six years of active duty before the military was pushed into “Don’t ask. Don’t [...]
He still doesn’t get it. The President’s final State of the Union address, and President Bush apparently thinks that he is “the decider“.
Think Progress has a copy of the address. Some huge nits follow:
In the work ahead, we must be guided by the philosophy that made our Nation great. As Americans, we believe [...]
The right is horrified by the prospect that someone can prove that the President was not 100% forthcoming in leading us into Iraq. For most of us on the left, that “news” simply isn’t worth wasting much breath on. But the purpose of Ridin’ Herd is to figure out what other people are [...]
We can now officially say that George W. Bush lied his way into war with Iraq. Take a look:
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. [...]
President Bush actually knows the truth:
“My image [is] ‘Bush wants to fight Muslims.’ And, yes, I’m concerned about it. Not because of me, personally. I’m concerned because I want most people to understand the great generosity and compassion of Americans,” he said.
“I’m sure people view me as a war monger and I view myself as [...]
How do you tell when a politician is lying? Watch their lips. If they are moving, they are lying.
So President Bush has found his cajones and vetoed the military budget because – get this – it might open the Government of Iraq to having their assets seized in response to lawsuits from American [...]
