August 24, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 10:49 am
As I complained last week, it seemed like Obama’s 13 million-person email network wasn’t mobilizing around health care, climate change or anything for that matter. It was particularly discouraging to see that (up to that point) the only major organized effort to combat some of the lies and misconceptions about our health care system was [...] read more →
August 21, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 11:30 am
Lil’ Kim and I just got off the phone and we had a very long discussion about Michelle Obama. What is Michelle’s problem? Is she trying to make every Puritan head explode in America? First she exposes her arms and sparks a national hysteria for sleeveless dresses. Then she touches Queen Elizabeth. On her back. [...] read more →
August 19, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 12:20 pm
Rolling Stone flew me out to NYC earlier this month to join three other political observers to a fireside chat about Obama’s first six months in office. Paul Krugman, David Gergen and Michael Moore all joined me to evaluate our totally historic and mind blowing President. The online pricktease version is here , but it’s inferior to [...] read more →
August 17, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 5:44 pm
You like that organic tomato, don’t you? You like how that pesticide-free fruit hits your moist lips, leaving wax-free saliva dripping from your chin. You wiggle with delight when you walk down those aisles of your local Whole Foods with your canvas shopping bags to see miles of gluten-free baked goods and whole grain pastas. You are [...] read more →
August 14, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 1:55 pm
Yesterday, Obama officials traveled to the economically depressed state of Michigan (it ain’t no promise land of North Dakota!) to scout out a recently mothballed prison as a potential relocation site for Guantanamo detainees. Michigan is in a bit of a bind. Unemployment in Standish, the town where the mothballed maximum-security prison now resides, is [...] read more →
August 13, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 5:08 pm
Sorry to all my beloved fans for the lag in posting recently. I just got back from NYC where I did a kickass interview for Rolling Stone with Michael Moore, David Gergen and Paul Krugman where we all opined about how Obama is doing. The interview itself was kickass but the resulting story sucked. So, [...] read more →
July 30, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 3:50 pm
Tonight, Black Professor Henry Gates, White Cop James Crowley and our Bi-Racial President Barack Obama, will be meeting to bury the hatchet (aka the Race Firestorm of 2009) over a pint. Various bars across Washington DC are offering beer specials (and useless opinions ) based on the likely top three beer choices: Obama likes Bud [...] read more →
July 29, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 5:16 pm
[Editor's Note: U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA, 1) is in the thick of this fight. He's one of the liberal Democrats on the commerce committee. I've been trying to get his office to fill me in all day on the compromise. Inslee is, in fact, doing a town hall telephone call about the plan—tonight at [...] read more →
By ObamaNerd at 12:37 pm
Breaking news: Blue Dog Democrats have reached a compromise with other House Democrats on a health care plan. The Blue Dogs gave Committee chair Henry Waxman a list of 10 items they wanted to see in any health care bill. It’s unclear what, if any, of those items made it’s way into the compromise. A [...] read more →
July 27, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 4:44 pm
HorsesAss has a great YouTube video of Congressional Republicans getting ambushed and asked their opinion on the whole “Birther Movement”, which, not coincidentally, is very similar to a bowel movement. Check out the opinions of Washington’s own Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Reichert. I had been debating for the last week whether or not to post [...] read more →
July 24, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 2:16 pm
If you haven’t been following Gates-gate, you have been missing out on the biggest Presidential scandal of all time. Ever. Huge implications on the economy, our two wars, our housing crisis and our health care reform. So let’s presume for a second that you been raised by wolves in the woods or you’re a former [...] read more →
July 23, 2009
By ObamaNerd at 2:43 pm
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, will soon file suit against the Obama Administration for withholding certain information from a public records request the group made around the health care debate. Specifically, CREW sent a letter to the Secret Service asking for the names of the 18 health care industry execs who visited [...] read more →
