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Obama Is a Mulatto: It Gives Him a Unique Outsider Perspective

Wednesday, 20 August 2008 9:09 A GMT+01

My black father has always disliked the term mulatto. Taboo as it is, I've come to embrace the word. "Mulatto" describes a unique outsider perspective, even with its insider privileges. Plus, it's so much more specific than "bi-racial."

Obama's Triumphalism Will Be His Downfall

Wednesday, 20 August 2008 9:02 A GMT+01

Obama will step out in front of an adoring 75,000 crowd at the Denver Broncos football stadium to be acclaimed as OH-BAH-MAH. It's a huge mistake to turn his nomination party into a replica of a Bruce Springsteen homecoming concert in New Jersey.

Celebrity Politics: Obama, McCain & the Entertainment Industry

Tuesday, 19 August 2008 9:06 A GMT+01

To the entertainment industry, the accusations of 'celebrity' is ridiculous: Of course both Obama and McCain are celebrities, as every ambitious politician on the scene these days hopes to be. Modern day politics in America requires it of them.

Obama: Under [Tire] Pressure

Monday, 18 August 2008 8:42 A GMT+01

A major gaffe this summer has been that, in trying to act more casual and folksy to appeal to working-class white voters, Obama has resorted to a cringe-making use of inner-city black intonations and jokey phrasings -- exactly the wrong tactic.

Hillary Clinton Women Still Pissed Off

Sunday, 17 August 2008 9:38 A GMT+01

There's now formal word of an agreement between the Clinton and Obama campaigns calling for both candidates’ names to be placed in nomination at the convention in order to “honor and celebrate” all of their supporters, according to a joint statement.

Michael Moore: "Will Obama Blow It?"

Wednesday, 13 August 2008 8:43 A GMT+01

You'll lose when they ask you to fall to your knees and grovel with a smile on your face, then apologize because you meant no disrespect and please don't take it as any indication that you do not love your country, your flag, and your Christian God.

Barack Obama Came Too Soon [Premature Ejaculation]

Sunday, 10 August 2008 8:32 A GMT+01

Are we suffering from "Obama Fatigue?" That was the headline on a national survey conducted late last week that discovered that 48 percent of all voters and, tellingly, 51 percent of independents feel they have been "hearing too much" about Barack.

What Makes Obama Run?

Friday, 8 August 2008 8:39 A GMT+01

Throughout his adult life, Obama has single-mindedly pursued his personal career. His intense ambition and political ‘androgyny,’ his seeming ability to address issues fluidly and flexibly, while saying nothing, have given him the success he craved.

Robert Fisk: Obama [If Elected] Will Continue the Middle-East Fuck-Up

Wednesday, 6 August 2008 8:41 A GMT+01

I was in the studios of al-Jazeera while Barack Obama was performing his theatricals in the Middle East. "Theatre" is what I called it on air while the anchor desperately tried to suck some Arab hope out of the whole ridiculous fandango. No chance.

Will Barack Obama Win "American Idol?"

Tuesday, 5 August 2008 7:48 A GMT+01

The GOP has auditioned many negative adjectives for Obama: effete, liberal, radical, Weathermen-loving, flip-floppy. But few have stuck. With the introduction of "hubris" and its variants, however, the GOP seems finally to have broken through.

Sex, Advertising & Obama

Monday, 4 August 2008 8:45 A GMT+01

Barack Obama Wins the Teenage Crush Vote Uplifting Breasts! BMW Appeals to Pedophiles in Car Ad Gucci's Designer Pubic Hair All the Presidents' Condoms

Barack Obama: Man on the Make

Friday, 1 August 2008 8:50 A GMT+01

To assume Obama is is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary is ridiculous. At every stage of his political career he's eagerly accommodated himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them.

Who Do You Fancy? Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain?

Thursday, 31 July 2008 7:43 A GMT+01

Let me say right off that I think both potential first ladies are gorgeous, and that even though I'll kill myself if McCain wins I do love Cindy, a size-two Barbie doll with drugged-out eyes and sacks of cash. And, of course, Michelle is flawless.

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Obama Is the Black JFK: Another Neoliberal Warmonger

Thursday, 31 July 2008 7:41 A GMT+01

JFK was relatively young, agile, telegenic, and articulate, with little record of substantive policy accomplishment but a taste for lofty rhetoric. He inhabited much the same power-serving faux-progressive ideological space as Obama does today.

Obama & McCain: Buying the Presidency

Wednesday, 30 July 2008 8:52 A GMT+01

Most politicians have made Faustian bargains to get the vast sums of money necessary to fund their campaigns, becoming mouthpieces for special-interest groups. Obama has spoken out against this kind of corruption – yet he keeps hoovering up the cash.

Obamania Is Driving Me Crazy

Tuesday, 29 July 2008 8:56 A GMT+01

I'm going to start a new blog called "Not My Barack Obama" after watching the 'Emperor' in his new clothes, touring American colonies in the Middle East and Europe. How much more of this blind adulation can I take before cracking under the strain?

Obama Preens & Struts His Imperial Stuff

Monday, 28 July 2008 8:36 A GMT+01

After eight years of U.S. occupation, the Afghan people live in terror, not only caused by bombs and bullets, but by no bid contracts, private mercenaries, theft of resources and destruction of infrastructure. Barack Obama promises more of the same.

Obama in Berlin: "This Is the Moment to Reinforce US Imperialism"

Friday, 25 July 2008 8:17 A GMT+01

Obama calls on the world to unite. What does this mean? By the "world' he means, of course, the western powers. By unite, he means that we all should fall behind America and accept its imperial demands. Are the Europeans going to fall for this crap?

Bugger Obama! [Bush Lite]

Thursday, 24 July 2008 9:29 A GMT+01

The Obama candidacy is a surefire way to replace one group of genocidal maniacs with another. Who needs Brand Obama, a charismatic, flannel-mouth glamor boy, to lead us into battle when a senile fogey with "anger management" issues will do just fine.

Why Does Obama Believe in the "War on Terror"?

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 8:36 A GMT+01

It's distressing to see Obama succumb to the blitz of war propaganda over Afghanistan and adopt Bush's faux terminology of terrorism. Is he falling under the influence of the same military-petroleum complex that guided Bush's imperial presidency?

Barack Obama: Corporate America's Boy

Tuesday, 22 July 2008 8:46 A GMT+01

If you think Obama's lightning blitz to the right is bad now, wait until the election is over. Then he won't have to pretend to give a fuck what the voters think. He'll be only to ready to repay his top donors for the investment they made in him.

Obama Goes for Endless War

Sunday, 20 July 2008 9:34 A GMT+01

Obama made it clear that he opposes the war in Iraq not because he's against neo-colonialism or war, but rather on the grounds that the Iraq war is a mistaken deployment of power that fails to advance the global strategic interests of US imperialism.

Obama, Afghanistan & American Imperialism

Friday, 18 July 2008 9:03 A GMT+01

More US troops have been killed in Afghanistan than Iraq in the past several months. The Imerialist Obama will intensify their calls for shifting the "war on terror" to Afghanistan, including the invasion of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province.

Maureen Dowd: Is Obama Too Precious to Be Mocked?

Thursday, 17 July 2008 7:49 A GMT+01

Obama's followers have placed him on a pedestal. When he is criticized or, god forbid, mocked, the groupies become hysterical. That is the lesson to be learnt from the New Yorker Cartoon. It was a subtle, satirical dig at Obama's preciousness.

Barack Obama: Beware! Man on the Make

Thursday, 17 July 2008 7:45 A GMT+01

Never for one moment has Obama struck me as someone anchored, or even loosely moored to the left, or even displaying the slightest appetite for radical notions, aside from a few tag lines tossed from the campaign bus to placate progressives.

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