Tag Archives: right-wing paranoia

Where’s the radical, America-hating Obama when you need him?

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Heather Mac Donald

The right-wing’s portrayal of Obama as a terrorist-sympathising, anti-Western alien intent on destroying the country was patently absurd from the start—which isn’t to say that that portrayal can’t grow absurder still.  Obama’s justified caution in using force unilaterally against Gaddafi … Continue reading →

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What Michael Steele should have said:

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

Gadfly Michael Meyers celebrates the presidential hook shown to New York Governor David Paterson as the demolition of the cordon sanitaire that has protected mediocre New York black politicians.   What’s next? Meyers asks: We can only imagine, only hope, what … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Speech to The Children

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

The overheated right-wing pundits were on to something after all.   Obama’s speech to the “nation’s students” was pompous, ridiculously long, chock-full of ed-school bromides, and wholly beyond a president’s proper role.  Why should students study, according to Obama?  Because they … Continue reading →

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