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Barack Obama: Senate Health Care Bill Is a Massive Transfer of Wealth to the Richest People in America
Former President Barack Obama took to his official Facebook page Thursday to criticize the Senate health care bill released Thursday, calling it “a massive transfer of wealth” to “the richest people in America,” and asking the Senate to “take a step back and measure what’s really at stake.” “Our politics are divided,” Obama wrote. “They…
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Here Are Some Photos of Amazing Easter Egg Rolls With the Obamas
As we all know by now, the White House will probably screw up this year’s Easter Egg Roll. I mean, did we expect them not to? Of course they’re dubbing it a more “subtle” event, but we all know what that means. Just in case you’d like a reminder of past Easter Egg Roll events with…
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Obama Spent $97,000,000 on Vacations in 8 Years. Here’s How Much Trump Spent in 10 Weeks
Can we all just agree that the president is an orange-skinned snake oil salesman who conned those who voted for him into believing that he wasn’t? Can we also just agree that Russia has a basement apartment in the White House and writes “Mother Russia” on the milk and cereal so that President Asshat doesn’t…
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President TrumPutin Trusts Breitbart More Than the FBI
FBI Director James Comey has asked the Justice Department to refute President Vladimir TrumPutin’s claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City prior to the November 2016 presidential election. The FBI wanted to refute the claim for a few reasons: The new leader of the free world is a batshit-crazy megalomanic…
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How Obama Ruined Race Relations
One of my favorite true-life parables is the story of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis. In the mid-1800s, Semmelweis worked in a maternity clinic where a large number of women died during childbirth. He believed that the problem was neither the medicine nor their treatments. Semmelweis believed that there were tiny little creatures living on the…
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Hail to the Hypocrite
On Tuesday night, along with millions of Americans and millions more abroad, I watched our exiting commander in chief, Barack Hussein Obama, give his farewell presidential address. As is characteristic of the speeches made during his two terms (and prior), the address was a study in charisma, eloquence and elegance; made all the more poignant…
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Obama Tells Democrats to ‘Stay Strong’ While Fighting to Protect Obamacare
Congressional Republicans Wednesday began to make good on their promise to dismantle Obamacare, even though they have said they have no full plan to replace the much needed health care program. Vice President-elect Mike Pence met behind closed doors with House and Senate Republicans, and while he offered no details about what a new health…
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President Obama Is Really Leaving, Will Deliver Farewell Address in Chicago
As we move closer to the final days of an actual adult presidency, the reality that we’re letting go of scandal-free years is starting to set in. President Barack Obama didn’t help matters when he announced Monday that he would be delivering his farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago on Jan. 10. “I’m just…
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President Obama Says He Could Have Beaten Trump if He Had Run for 3rd Term
In an interview released Monday, President Obama said that he could have beaten Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “if I had run again.” Former Obama adviser and longtime friend David Axelrod, a CNN analyst, interviewed the outgoing president for his podcast The Axe Files, CNN reports. In the interview, Obama says that Hillary Clinton’s campaign…
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Trump Adviser Says He Wants President Obama Dead of ‘Mad Cow Disease’ in 2017
A Donald Trump adviser and former Republican nominee for governor of New York said that his wishes for 2017 included President Barack Obama dying of “mad cow disease” and first lady Michelle Obama being returned to Africa. Alternative weekly magazine Artvoice conducted a four-question survey asking people what they want in 2017. The results of…
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