April 2013
6 posts
“The movies won’t be the same without Roger…”
– President Obama on the passing of Roger Ebert
via @BuzzFeedAndrew
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March 2013
5 posts
Washington Post Plans a Paywall - WSJ →
brooklynmutt:
The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter.
nprfreshair:
StoryCorps does it again. If you’re needing your weekly cry-cleanse…
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“Jedi mind meld.”
– President Obama utters those words during presser and Twitter explodes (via brooklynmutt)
February 2013
9 posts
“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given...”
– Edward Gorey (via kateoplis)
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Remarks of President Barack Obama – State of the...
As Prepared for Delivery –
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:
Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the task of us all.”
Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the...
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Prediction: That SOTU Obama/Biden handshake, Kirk fist bump will be gifed almost instantly.
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The best political tweets about Pope Benedict...
Has Nate Silver predicted the next Pope already?
February 11, 2013
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January 2013
11 posts
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Obama: Return of the liberal
President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address was most liberal speech he has delivered as president — a blunt summons to wage to war on poverty, defend entitlements for the middle class, end “perpetual war” overseas and move past the calibrated progressive agenda of his first term.
Gone were the pleas for bipartisanship of his first inaugural, vaporized by years of partisan battle and Obama’s...
"I'm going to take a look one more time. I'm not... →
kateoplis: “One ground. Our ground, rooting us to... →
kateoplis:
“One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father’s cutting sugarcane so my…
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VIA DONOVAN SLACK:
After President Obama signed nomination papers Monday — one of his first acts after his inauguration at the Capitol — there was something of a kerfuffle over who would keep the pens he used.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) picked one up, but Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) quickly admonished him: “Harry, Harry, put down the pen.”
“I can...
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Last Friday, in Congress
The Speaker of the House: Go f--- yourself.
The Senate Majority Leader: What are you talking about?
The Speaker of the House: Go f--- yourself.
December 2012
3 posts
November 2012
11 posts
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
CBS and NBC News call Pennsylvania for OBAMA.
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October 2012
45 posts
QUICK POST ALL THE THINGS BEFORE TUMBLR CRASHES...
We kid because we love.
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Full debate transcript →
Go nuts.
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WatchObama snarky in last debate
