Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/Hillary’s St. Patrick’s Day Massacre The Short Version: Why is Hillary such a lying liar? To cover up her Iraq vote, of course! In his words: “Incredible as it seems, the professionals around Mrs. Clinton — though surely knowing her story was […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bosnia, Frank Rich, Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/McCain Forecloses Early The Short Version: Democrats need to relax. McCain is truly an idiot! In her words: “Fortunately for the quivering Democrats, McCain has also felt compelled to speak about the mortgage crisis.” Score: A (Awesome) Collins delivers a much needed […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Gail Collins, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Janet Napolitano, John McCain, Mortgage Crisis, The New York Times, Timothy Egan
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/Loans and Leadership The Short Version: When you look at policy proposals, McCain is a Nazi, Clinton is progressive and Obama (who annoys me just because) is less progressive. In his words: “McCain is selling the same old snake oil, claiming that […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, David Brooks, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Paul Krugman, The Maverick, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/The Uncle Al Election The Short Version: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are politicians; ergo they act like politicians. In her words: “There isn’t a right or wrong to this argument — only strategy.” Score: A- (Aware) Although we’re not always in […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Gail Collins, Hillary Clinton, Nicholas Kristof, Superdelegates, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Maureen Dowd/Hillary or Nobody The Short Version: Hillary probably doesn’t want to be vice-president. In her words: “It’s hard to imagine that after spending her whole life playing second-fiddle to a superstar pol, Hillary wants to do it again. She’s been vice president.” […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/With a Powerful Speech, Obama Offers a Challenge The Short Version: I’ve been on vacation, but let’s pretend I wasn’t because I still want to talk about Obama’s speech. In his words: “Racial prejudice, ignorance, hostility — whatever — has caused millions […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Herbert, David Brooks, Hillary Clinton, Primaries, Race
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Frank Rich/The Republican Resurrection The Short Version: 1) Obama’s the man; 2) Clinton’s a monster, 3) McCain is loving it. In his words: “Instead of enhancing her own case for the presidency, she’s going to tear him down.” Score: B (Bit much) In […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Frank Rich, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Nicholas Kristof/Obama and Race The Short Version: Obama gave a great speech the other day. In his words: “Much of the time, blacks have a pretty good sense of what whites think, but whites are oblivious to common black perspectives.” Score: B- (Boring) […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Race, Roger Cohen, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Maureen Dowd: Black, White & Gray The Short Version: Obama’s “race speech” rawked! In her words: “A little disenchantment with Obama could turn out to be a good thing. Too much idealism can blind a leader to reality as surely as too much […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Maureen Dowd, Race, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinions in The Times. (We missed this one because it was apparently taken off-line — or at least the link was taken off the front page — while Kristol addressed his mistakes.) William Kristol/Generation Obama? Perhaps Not The Short Version: Obama’s a fraud (but actually, I’m a fraud). […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Assholes, The New York Times, William Kristol
Paul Krugman/The B-Word The Short Version: Bailout! In his words: “As Bear goes, so will go the rest of the financial system.” Score: B+ (Bailout) Krugman predicts more woe for the financial markets, along with an inevitable (and very expensive) buyout. Unfortunately for a lot of people (and U.S. taxpayers), he appears to be right. Roger […]
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Tags: Bailouts, Barack Obama, Bear Stearns, Benetton, China, Financial Markets, Paul Krugman, Roger Cohen, Siblings, The Federal Reserve
In which The Gay Recluse weighs in on a “controversy.” Obviously, when we endorsed Geraldine Ferraro for president, it was with the expectation that she would hover benovolently in the past and not say unthinking things like: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Endorsements, Geraldine Ferraro, Homophobia, Sexism
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Marueen Dowd/Ways of the Wayward The Short Version: Elliot, Geraldine — yikes — problems! In her words: “It makes you wonder how sharp Eliot Spitzer’s pencil was on the state’s fiscal discipline.” Score: B (Blurry) Dowd starts out making fun of Spitzer in […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Elliott Spitzer, Geraldine Ferraro, Maureen Dowd
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/The Face-Slap Theory The Short Version: We’re in deep shit. In his words: “The only way the Fed’s action could work is through the slap-in-the-face effect: by creating a pause in the selling frenzy, the Fed could give hysterical markets a chance […]
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Tags: Asshole Republicans, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Federal Reserve, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Paul Krugman, Recession, Roger Cohen, The New York Times, William Kristol
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Nicholas Kristof/Obama and the Bigots The Short Version: We must teach people not to be such crazy losers. In his words: “Likewise, with countless people today spreading scurrilous rumors that Mr. Obama is a Muslim, the most appropriate response is a denial followed […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bigotry, Crazy Losers, Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof, Obambi, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/Confronting the Kitchen Sink The Short Version: Why is Hillary being so mean? In his words: “Why the Clinton forces would want to inject that poisonous bit of business into the campaign is a mystery.” Score: C- (Childish) It’s hard to believe […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Herbert, Gail Collins, Hillary Clinton, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Paul Krugman/The Anxiety Election The Short Version: It’s the economy, stupid. In his words: “[Democrats] can contrast the Clinton boom with the Bush bust; they can make the case that Republican economic ideology, with its fixation on privatization and deregulation, helped get us […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, David Brooks, Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, The Economy, The New York Tiimes, USA Today
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Gail Collins/Hillary’s Edge The Short Version: Pennsylvania is the new Ohio. In her words: “Then comes the kind of convention political reporters have dreamed about since we were little nerds in the third grade writing essays on the electoral college.” Score: A-(Amusing) We […]
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Tags: Auma Obama, Barack Obama, Delegates, Gail Collins, Hillary Clinton, Nicholas Kristof, Pennsylvania, Roger Cohen, Sudan, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Maureen Dowd/Duel of Historical Guilts The Short Version: Let’s not get so caught up in identity politics. In his words: “As it turns out, making history is actually a way of being imprisoned by history.” Score: A- (Astute) Dowd writes with conviction and […]
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Tags: Allison Krolczyk, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indentity Politics, Maureen Dowd, The New York Times
In which The Gay Recluse scores selected opinion pieces in The Times. Bob Herbert/The $2 Trillion Nightmare The Short Version: In financial terms, the war in Iraq is not cheap. In his words: “The Bush administration has tried its best to conceal the horrendous costs of the war.” Score: A- Herbert delivers a column that […]
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Herbert, David Brooks, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Iraq War, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Hormats, The New York Times
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