Sort of sad that the president has to have conversations like this …
“One of the [G20] leaders, I won’t mention who it was, he comes up to me and … he says, ‘Barack, explain to me this health care debate.’ He says, ‘We don’t understand it. You’re trying to make sure everyone has health care and they’re putting a Hitler moustache on you. That doesn’t make sense to me, explain that to me,'” Obama said. “He didn’t understand.”
See the video here.
Facebook poll ‘asks‘ whether Obama should be assassinated.
Just so we’re clear, to the best of my knowledge, anyone can put something like this up. It doesn’t mean Facebook as a company is in any way involved or sanctions it. And presumably it will come down quickly. But it’s more a sign of the times. As David just put it in one of our editorial chats, sort of the graffiti on the virtual wall of our times.
New details emerged over the weekend about the death of that census worker in Kentucky, and they’re not pretty — but they also don’t shed light on whether his death was related to his work on the census.
A Republican candidate for state office in South Carolina threw a “machine gun social” fundraiser Saturday where an AK-47 was given away with 10-minutes of weapons training “so you don’t shoot a right-wing radical by mistake.”
In the kind of writing frenzy that befits a careful student of history like Sarah Palin, she’s finished her memoir — Going Rogue: An American Life — in just four months and it’ll be in stores in November.
Like a political paleoanthropologist, Justin Elliott has traced the emergence of the modern teabagger back to the mid-1970s. Peering through the evolutionary mists, we see a simpler variant of the species, fending off disco and trying to survive the liberalism of Gerald Ford. The proto-teabagger would evolve into an anti-Obama birther, adapting new tools — like the informercial — to propagate the species.
We may have some real live voter fraud — not just a product of inflated GOP fantasies — in a local election in upstate New York.
Sen. Paul Kirk (D-MA) does support a public option, his office confirms to TPMDC. Not a big surprise considering he was appointed to replace Ted Kennedy, but a good marker to have mailed down.
Glenn Beck was honored on Saturday by the mayor of his hometown with the keys to the city — a move not everyone in Mt. Vernon, WA, was happy with. We have the pics:
