Tag: obama
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Will Obama’s Support for Same-Sex Marriage Cost Him the Black Vote
Many Democratic Party activists remember Wednesday the 9th of May as the day President Barack Obama became the first US President to officially support same-sex marriage. For the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP), a self-described Democratic grass-roots organisation, however, it was the day Obama started taking black voters for granted and began pandering to the…
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Something Happened: Mittens the Nominee (but does it really mean anything?)
In keeping with Catholic family planning tradition, Santorum has rigorously upheld the Rhythm method. He’s placed the thermometer of political support into the open and willing mouth of the American public and taken their temperature to see if they’re ovulating. On finding the temperature of the public to be not within the range of a…
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Kony Fever and the Downside of Celebrity Activism
On Christmas day 2008, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, went on a three-day killing spree, massacring over 800 people in the north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Only a year later, 300 had massacred and 250 abducted, including around 80 children. By last June, the LRA had…
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Something Happened: The Most Disappointing of Tuesdays
The hype around ‘Super Tuesday’ a few days before the giant primary competition was palatable. It was to be the ground upon which Romney would finally break the back of Santorum and ascend to his righteous place on the holy throne of nomination.
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Something Happened: A Primer for the Upcoming Whirlwind of Stupidity
The US presidential election cycle is quite possibly one of the most insane and farcical media circuses on the planet. Unlike 2008 when there were two separate primaries going on (Democratic and Republican for those of you playing at home) the Dems think they’re onto a winner with Obama, so we’re watching the Republican contenders…