Category: Elitism
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 3, 2011 in Arrogance, Bamboozling, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Economy, Elitism, Governance, Obama Family, President Barack Obama, Republicans | View Comments
Yes, it is that time of year again, when Obama and Family head off to Hawaii for a bit of R&R. Obama’s SEVENTEEN day vacation is set to start on December 17th. His office said he had no public events planned. In other words, this is a total vacation from all of his hard work. [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 27, 2011 in Arrogance, Bamboozling, Campaign promises, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Economy, Elitism, Hoodwinking, John McCain, Mortgages, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Republicans | View Comments
Good grief, have you caught Obama on the campaign trail recently? Mr. Hope and Change has become Mr. Doom and Gloom. His new campaign rhetoric is to go around the country telling you how horrible the Republicans are, and all of the terrible things that will befall you, your children, and the country, should you [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 19, 2011 in Arrogance, Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Current Affairs, Democrats, Elitism, Employment, Flip Flopping, Health Care, Hoodwinking, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Stimulus Plan, US Senate | View Comments
That’s the latest from our illustrious (cough, cough) president in a nutshell. The problem with his jobs bill isn’t what is IN the jobs bill, but that the GOP is just too darn stupid to get it through their thick heads what an awesome, fantastic, super duper plan it is, or at least all at [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 24, 2011 in Arrogance, Censorship, Current Affairs, Elitism, Emperor's Clothing Syndrome, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Media, Blogs, Pandering, President Barack Obama, United Kingdom | View Comments
* As Stephen Colbert might say. Mr. Transparency has added yet another position to the White House. That would be the Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. The point of this position? Well, it would seem to smack down any negative story that might arise about Obama. We can’t have THAT, after all. I [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Mar 22, 2011 in Arrogance, Commander in Chief, Congress (House & Senate), Constitution, Current Affairs, Defense, Democrats, Elitism, Europe, France, Governance, Messiah, President Barack Obama, Republicans, United Kingdom | View Comments
There have been a few items in the News recently that really do sound like they are straight from The Onion, but are, in fact, true. Chalk it up to the “truth is stranger than fiction” meme. Hopefully, this will provide a bit of a respite from our undeclared war on Libya, which cost us [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Nov 1, 2010 in Bank Bailouts, Corruption, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Media, Television, President Barack Obama, Tax stimulus package | View Comments
In today’s WSJ, Scott Rasmussen tells us that the tsunami most likely headed for Democrats at the voting booth tomorrow is simply A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP. Voters don’t want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves. The trends [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 20, 2010 in Current Affairs, Elitism, George Bush, Iraq, President Barack Obama, Soldiers/Veterans | View Comments
Whether you supported the Iraq War or not (and as I have said numerous times, I did not), there was very good news coming out of Iraq on Thursday. The troops are coming home (at least most of them): Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 9, 2010 in Barack Obama, Chicago Mansion, Current Affairs, Elitism, Emperor's Clothing Syndrome, Michelle Obama, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Family, Unemployment/Jobs | View Comments
/ Bumped Up / UPDATE: Two of them, actually. Since I am in my hometown after having seen my orthopaedist, and have to get something from my mom’s house (now my brother’s house), I have this on the jobs front. This came in on Friday, to add to the high Unemployment filings for the last [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Jul 28, 2010 in Bamboozling, Clinton, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Characteristics, President Barack Obama, Race | View Comments
/ Bumped up / Leave it to Maureen Dowd to miss the forest for the trees in her argument that “The Obama White House is too white.” In Dowd’s latest NYT column, You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing, she discusses the Shirley Sherrod incident, and writes that “unlike Bill Clinton, who never [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jul 19, 2010 in Arrogance, Current Affairs, Depression, Economy, Elitism, Florida, Housing & Housing Crisis, Louisiana, Michelle Obama, National Debt, Off-Shore Drilling, President Barack Obama, Unemployment, Unemployment/Jobs | View Comments
One would be hard pressed these days to not know that many people in this country are struggling. New Unemployment claims continue to be over 400,000 weekly, and unemployment benefits have been extended to 99 weeks (yes, almost 2 years). The DOW continues to hover around 10,000. Home foreclosures are skyrocketing. People are struggling, they [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on May 2, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Bush administration, Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Off-Shore Drilling, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Wall Street | View Comments
If anyone wonders why 24% of the population identify with the Tea Party movement, or what prompted Jane Hampsher of FireDogLake to note that Progressivism Is Dead, while expressing fury at being sold out to corporate oligarchs and government elite, look no further than Peggy Noonan’s WSJ piece, The Big Alienation, which aptly describes the [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 18, 2010 in Austan Goolsbee, Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Bank Failure, Current Affairs, Earmarks, Elitism, George Bush, National Debt, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Toxic Assets, Wall Street | View Comments
CNN’s John Blake posted an article the other day that is just too rich to let pass without comment. CNN, certainly very Obama-friendly, was probably trying to do our President a solid by posting this piece in an effort to prove to the Tea Party activists and others who are not fans of Mr. Obama’s [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Feb 3, 2010 in Arrogance, Bank Bailouts, David Axelrod, Democratic Party, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, National Debt, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama's Budget, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Stimulus Plan | View Comments
AP reported today that President Obama once again told people they shouldn’t waste their hard earned dough in Vegas. Writer Oskar Garcia details the shock of several lawmakers as Obama carelessly singled out Vegas yet again. (Be sure to check out the video below the fold.) Their economy is based on tourism and his comments [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Oct 24, 2009 in Arrogance, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, Obama's Characteristics, Obama-Barack & President Barack, President Barack Obama | View Comments
(Bumped up from Friday.) MSNBC carried a blip of President Obama speaking in New York at a fundraiser. Sadly, the President is up to his old tricks. Remember when he was at a hoity-toity fundraiser in San Francisco and complained of Pennsylvania voters “clinging to God and guns”? That didn’t go over so well. Remember [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Jan 30, 2009 in Arrogance, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Democracy, Disenfranchisement, Elitism, Fascism, Humor, Media, OldGrumpyGuy | View Comments
In my new video I look at the way the Emperor’s Clothing Syndrome has dominated the arts and humanities over the past half century, with the help of academic practitioners looking for theories to build on, trying to carve out some academic territory for themselves and becoming the high priests or priestesses of their chosen [...]