Politics

(The Root) — If the nation plunges over the fiscal cliff at year’s end, President Barack Obama won’t take the fall. The blame will lie at the feet of congressional Republicans. After four years of sheer obstructionism — behavior that was called out during the presidential campaign season — most Americans are pointedly aware of…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later, the President and the Vice President will meet for lunch.  This lunch…

The election did nothing to slow the racial hatred directed at President Obama, Micahel H. Cottman writes at BlackAmericaWeb. It was bad enough that conservative blowhard Ann Coulter called Obama a “retard,” but now that Obama has soundly thrashed Mitt Romney to re-claim the White House, angry bigots are coming out of the shadows. Take…

(The Root) — Professor Cornel West has struck again. The always outspoken Obama critic recently said in an interview with Democracy Now: “I think that it’s morally obscene and spiritually profane to spend $6 billion on an election, $2 billion on a presidential election, and not have any serious discussion — poverty; trade unions being…

The Chicago Tribune‘s Clarence Page says that Republicans need to pay more attention to voters, as well as to the truth. One particularly amusing moment came that evening when Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly interrupted political consultant Karl Rove’s wildly optimistic projections for Mitt Romney’s chances: “Is this just math that you do as a…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later, the President and the Vice President will attend a meeting with leaders…

(The Root) — For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And so today it seems almost serendipitous that the xenophobic campaign employed to undermine and delegitimize President Obama laid the very seeds of the GOP’s electoral demise on Nov. 6, 2012. Obama’s Electoral College victory of 332 to 206 was achieved because…

In a blog entry at Clutch magazine, Britni Danielle takes up a blogger’s complaint that President Barack Obama’s election-night depiction of his daughters as “beautiful” diminished their importance as girls and pandered to women. … In the President’s victory speech Tuesday night, Mr. Obama praised his family and told his daughters, “Sasha and Malia, before…

Worry over increasing government entitlement programs and a fear that they will lose the right to right to bear arms are just a few reasons Republican voters give for disliking today’s Democratic Party, Courtland Milloy writes in his Washington Post column. It’s deer hunting season in Virginia, and customers at Clark Brothers Guns in Warrenton…