President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address + transcript (2.12.13) + Jill Stein’s SOTU Green Party’s Response

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Updated: Feb. 15, 2013; added Jill Stein’s SOTU Green Party’s Response to the end of this post.

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PBSNewsHour Feb 12, 2013

President Obama Delivers the 2013 State of the Union Address.

Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2012 + Jimmy Kimmel

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Apr 28, 2012 by CSPAN

President Obama at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address + transcript (1.24.12)

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PBSNewsHour on Jan 24, 2012

President Obama delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.

Barack, You’re Like Any Other JACKASS! by Philip A. Farruggio

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by Philip A. Farruggio
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September 26, 2011

Interesting, and ironic Barack, how your Democratic Party is symbolized by the donkey… you know, a jackass. Boy of boy, let me tell you that is just how you have behaved from day one in office. Actually, I saw right through you even before you ran for President. Believe you me, that cost me lots of friendships in the activist community.  Many who stood each week on the street corner with me for years during the Bush Jr. debacle seemed to vanish when you won nomination for President. Guess what?

Class War Winner by Joel S. Hirschhorn

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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September 27, 2011

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Much is being said by Republicans about a class war being waged by President Obama and Democrats. In their fantasy world this class war is attacking so called job creators. All this talk is pure nonsense, absolutely false and misleading, intentional political garbage designed to intentionally mislead gullible Americans stupid enough to believe the lies. Here is the truth: There has, indeed, been a class war waged in the US; it has been going on for a good thirty years. And this real war has been won.

Brain Dead Obama by Joel S. Hirschhorn + Chomsky On Obama’s 2008 Election Campaign

by Joel S. Hirschhorn
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www.foavc.org
August 11, 2011

Everyone who voted for Obama should feel betrayed, ashamed and disgusted.  Anyone who still trusts, admires and respects Obama is a fool.  Here is my political fantasy: I wake up one day soon and hear the news that President Obama has a fatal brain tumor and will soon resign.  Praise the Lord!

If you have any doubt whatsoever about how bad a president Obama is, then take the time to read this incredibly fine essay by Drew Westen “What Happened to Obama?”

The Coming Second Civil War in the United States: Will We be Enslaved by Corporate Governance?

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
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August 4, 2011

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History never repeats itself exactly.  But it makes some pretty decent copies.  As I write this on March 29, 2011, we are winding down to the end of the so-called “debt-limit crisis,” or the possible end, or the continuation of it, or what have you.  Of course what is going on is not really about the debt-limit.  It is about the future of the federal government in the United States and its appropriate role.  As I wrote in my BuzzFlash@Truthout Commentary on Grover Norquist’s wet dream his 25-year campaign is focused only at the secondary level on taxation.  It is primarily about his stated goal of “shrinking the federal government to the size of a bathtub and then drowning it in the bathtub,” or as he used to more simply state it: “starve the beast.”

Time to Tell the Truth: Obama Ought to be Impeached by Mark A. Goldman

by Mark A. Goldman
Guest Writer
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May 19, 2011

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I would agree that we have no elected officials who have the courage to tell the truth, but that shouldn’t mean that we citizens should give up on the truth too, just because it is no longer popular to believe in it in this country. If you want to live in a country that lives by the Constitution and the rule of law, then you have to believe in the truth and support the rule of law. Early on in his administration Obama broke the law when he failed to prosecute his predecessor. It’s called being an Accessory After the Fact. It’s a crime.

Barack Obama’s Speech on the Middle East and North Africa + transcript

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by Barack Obama
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
State Department, Washington, DC
May 19, 2011

Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Please, have a seat.  Thank you very much.  I want to begin by thanking Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landmark — one million frequent flyer miles.  (Laughter.)  I count on Hillary every single day, and I believe that she will go down as one of the finest Secretaries of State in our nation’s history.

President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden + Obama Kicking Off 2012 Campaign

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whitehouse on May 1, 2011

President Obama praises those Americans who carried out the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, tells the families of the victims of September 11, 2001 that they have never been forgotten, and calls on Americans to remember the unity of that tragic day.

Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2011 + Seth Meyers

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America’s Historical Illiteracy by Walter C. Uhler

by Walter C. Uhler
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www.walter-c-uhler.com
27 April 2011

A Review of The Future of History, by John Lukacs

“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain a child always.” Cicero

In 2008 Common Core published a study by Frederick M. Hess which examined the knowledge of history and literature possessed by 17 year-old high school students in the United States. The results were depressing. Less than half of the 1,200 students questioned were able to identify the Renaissance or even the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy. Only 50% could explain why the Federalist Papers were written and fewer than half could correctly identify the half century in which the Civil War was fought. More than one fourth of these students believed that Christopher Columbus sailed for the New World sometime after 1750.

John Perry: Obama’s Sickening Hypocrisy

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jperryam on Mar 29, 2011

Pardon me, Mr. President, but is it not a betrayal of who we’re supposed to be when there is such a deafening silence in Washington regarding the well over one million innocent fellow human beings, in Iraq alone, who now lay dead as a result of the illegal wars of choice launched by your predecessor?

Barack Obama’s Speech on Military Action in Libya + transcript

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Warning: please don’t eat or drink anything while watching this video, wouldn’t want to hear of anyone choking.  Thank you.  ~ DS

UpTakeVideo on Mar 28, 2011

Egypt: Washington Has Finger on the Trigger for More Bloodshed by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
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29 January, 2011

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Egypt’s capital Cairo and other major cities across the country are increasingly looking like battlefields as president Hosni Mubarak tries to tighten his grip on power in the face of nationwide protests calling for his abdication.

Reports of more than 50 civilians killed and more than 1,000 injured over night in police and army violence did not deter ten of thousands of people defying the now nightly curfew and secret arrests. Nor did that deter huge crowds from amassing on central streets of Cairo and Alexandria the following the day, which revealed the charred remains of government buildings, armoured cars and other debris, evidencing fierce clashes between armed forces and demonstrators.