There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama

h/t Black Agenda Report

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Conyers is the Congressional Black Caucus's longest serving member, having represented Detroit since 1964, when Obama was a three-year-old. He's also one of the most consistently progressive members of the House, chairman of the Judiciary Committee and author of single payer health care bill H.R. 676 - legislation the White House has done its best to smother. Obama once gave lip service to single payer health care, but as president has staked his reputation on a mishmash of corporate schemes and deals-with-the-devil masquerading as health care reform - a thoroughly confused and conflicted legislative concoction that Conyers describes, simply, as "cr*p."

(sorry, my link box won't work today on this computer for some reason. It is pretty prominent on the Huffingtonpost.com home page.)

Although many health care providers promote the benefits of breast-feeding, parents around the world have criticized Berjuan, saying the idea of breast-feeding is too grown-up for young children -- and may even promote early pregnancy.

Well, Dobbs didn't like that, claiming on his radio show today that Olbermann is "hallucinating" and "making up stories." And Dobbs rattled up a few choice descriptions for the MSNBC host: "punk," "liar," "psycho" and "fool."

I like some things about HST, particularly his fighting spirit in the 48 election and the way he took it to the Repubs and refused to lose, but on the most important decisions of his presidency, ones having to do with war and peace (bomb, Korea), I feel he decided badly.  Dropping the bombs was unnecessary, imo, certainly the 2d one.  

And it doesn't do his reputation much good to note also that Truman by his own account didn't spend a lot of time carefully evaluating the decision or its implications nor worry later about what he'd done.

But it made my day when Obama went into the press room and gave Helen Thomas cupcakes in honor of her 89th birthday.

Obama earned special points from me for doing this.

If you didn't already hear about this, you can read about the it here.

When was the last time you saw a black man called a joker?

The 'Joker' depicted here is a criminal, not the fifty third card in a deck of cards.

"The biggest scandal in Washington was the Republican Senate selling out to the tobacco industry."

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Ann Althouse:
There is something about the way the 2 seated men are posing as such good little boys with their hands in the I'm-behaving-myself position that demands that what I really want to see is Bill Clinton reach over and feel the thigh Kim Jong-Il, who exclaims: "No broh job!"

Defending national champion Florida has opened fall practice, taking the field with hopes of winning a third title in the last four years.

The Gators started at 5:45 a.m. Thursday, with about 200 fans eagerly awaiting their arrival. The early start was no surprise after coach Urban Meyer promised to make summer workouts and two-a-day practices the toughest in his five years.

His rationale? Florida returns nearly every starter--receivers Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy and both offensive tackles are gone--from last year's team that beat Oklahoma 24-14 in the Bowl Championship Series title game in Miami, and Meyer wants his players to avoid complacency.

Last time I recall Pelosi involved in a town hall with protesters -- 2006 with a very vocal and obnoxious Code Pink group that disrupted her event -- she handled it by giving the demonstrators far too much room to protest, imo.

The interviews are extensive, covering the subjects' lives and work.  Most of the interviews are over three hours long!

If you're interested in the history of television, they're really worth a look.

But the satire isn't good enough to deserve any attention.

It's just lame.

My first reaction was "Wow, did you just get photoshop?"

Obama critics have to work harder to deserve my attention or rancor.

pander to them?

Obama's dissident database could be secret -- and permanent
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
08/06/09 4:47 AM EDT