Tag: Obama
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The real Deal – he’s a birther
It turns out that CNN’s immigrant-bashing Lou Dobbs isn’t the only prominent “birther” from Georgia who promotes the right-wing’s loony contention that Barack Obama is not a native-born American citizen. Joining Dobbs on the front lines of this crazy fight is Rep. Nathan Deal, the GOP congressman from Gainesville.
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A brief outbreak of sanity in Congress
Rare it is when members of Congress turn a deaf ear to the demands of their fat-cat lobbyist contributors and actually vote not to spend money on a huge pile of crap – but that’s what happened in the Senate this week as senators, prodded by President Barack Obama, voted 58-40 to kill Saxby Chambliss’…
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News you can use
Taking a quick look at political developments from outside Georgia . . .
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This can’t be true
Al Jazeera television has aired a new video in which Osama bin Laden accuses Barack Obama of planting the seeds in the Muslim world for “revenge and hatred” against the U.S. Bin Laden said Obama “was continuing in the steps of his predecessor George W. Bush” and warned that Americans should be prepared for the…
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Travelin’ man
The Republican National Committee was criticizing President Barack Obama for going to New York City over the weekend with his wife Michelle for dinner and a Broadway play. Political analyst Charlie Cook found it somewhat hypocritical for the GOP to be knocking Obama when the president’s amount of personal travel doesn’t even come close to…
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Block that Latino!
The news is breaking this morning that President Barack Obama has nominated Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York City to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Sotomayor is in line to become the first Latino justice, assuming she can gain Senate confirmation.