A Great Nation Deserves the Truth: Ben & Jerry ... & George from AmericaBlog
Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor for Obama. They then asked people to fill in the blank for the following:
For George W. they created "_________". Here are some of their favorite responses:
Grape Depression
Abu Grape
Cluster Fudge
Nut'n Accomplished
Iraqi Road
Chock 'n Awe
WireTapioca
Impeach Cobbler
Guantanmallow
imPeachmint
Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker... Swirl
Heck of a Job, Brownie!
Neocon Politan
RockyRoad to Fascism
The Reese's-cession
Cookie D'oh!
The Housing Crunch
Nougalar Proliferation
Death by Chocolate... and Torture
Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder
You're Shitting In My Mouth And Calling It A Sundae
Credit Crunch
Mission Pecanplished
Country Pumpkin
Chunky Monkey in Chief
George Bush Doesn't Care About Dark Chocolate
WMDelicious
Chocolate Chimp
Bloody Sundae
Caramel Preemptive? Stripe
Obama Beats First National Security Test from the Associated Press via Huffington Post
"The U.S. economy is showing only glimmers of life and two costly wars remain in the balance, but President Barack Obama's "no drama" handling of the Indian Ocean hostage crisis proved a big win for his administration in its first critical national security test."
An Early Military Victory for Obama from the Washington Post
"For President Obama, last week's confrontation with Somali pirates posed similar political risks to a young commander in chief who had yet to prove himself to his generals or his public. But the result -- a dramatic and successful rescue operation by U.S. Special Operations forces -- left Obama with an early victory that could help build confidence in his ability to direct military actions abroad."
Barack Obama Action May Put Paid to Comparison with Jimmy Carter from the Times [of London]
"By authorising the use of military force for the first time outside the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan that he inherited, President Obama may hope that he has shut some of his critics up. For the moment, at least."
Obama's Vigilance (Chris Cillizza) from the Washington Post
"On the surface, the Obama and his senior aides were only monitoring the situation but, according to a White House official, the administration was far more engaged behind closed doors."
Realpolitik for Iran (Roger Cohen) from the New York Times
"Instead of building on Iran’s Afghan help in 2001, exploring an Iranian “grand bargain” offer in 2003, or backing 2005 European mediation that hinged on the U.S. agreeing to sale of a French nuclear power reactor, “We got Darth Vader and company saying Iran was in the axis of evil and we have to change this regime.” ... Imagine if Roosevelt in 1942 had said to Stalin, sorry, Joe, we don’t like your Communist ideology so we’re not going to accept your help in crushing the Nazis. I know you’re powerful, but we don’t deal with evil."
Give-and-Take with Emanuel Advances President's Agenda from the Washington Post
"As the House and Senate debated the budget earlier this month, Rahm Emanuel's spacious West Wing office took on the feel of a legislative bazaar. Wavering Democrats filed in individually and in groups seeking audiences with President Obama's pugnacious chief of staff, all bearing concerns about the 2010 fiscal blueprint. ... Forty-six lawmakers beat a path to the White House, and, on April 2, Emanuel's hospitality paid off. All but three of his visitors voted in the House or Senate for a $3.5 trillion blueprint that preserved Obama's ambitious domestic policy goals."
Tea Parties Forever (Paul Krugman) from the New York Times
"The G.O.P. looked as crazy 10 or 15 years ago as it does now. That didn’t stop Republicans from taking control of both Congress and the White House. And they could return to power if the Democrats stumble. So it behooves us to look closely at the state of what is, after all, one of our nation’s two great political parties."
The Great Right-wing Freak-out (Juan Cole) from Salon
"President Obama's recent trip to Europe, Turkey and Iraq was a fairly bland freshman outing in foreign affairs, notable for the enormous good will it generated toward the U.S., along with some practical achievements and a few minor errors. It lacked the drama of the untested young Kennedy grappling over Berlin with the wily old Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. On the American Right, however, Obama's trip produced a hysteria not seen since radio listeners mistook Orson Welles's 1938 radio production about an invasion from Mars for the real thing, and crowded the highways, heads wrapped in wet towels, to escape the poisonous miasma of the onrushing aliens."
Fox News "War Games" the Coming Civil War (Glenn Greenwald) from Salon
This piece on the angry white militia groups has more relevance now than it did when it originally came out in late February.
"Only four weeks into the presidency of Barack Obama, they are back -- angrier and more chest-beating than ever. Actually, the mere threat of an Obama presidency was enough to revitalize them from their eight-year slumber, awaken them from their camouflaged, well-armed suburban caves. The disturbingly ugly atmosphere that marked virtually every Sarah Palin rally had its roots in this cultural resentment, which is why her fear-mongering cultural warnings about Obama's exotic, threatening otherness -- he's a Muslim-loving, Terrorist-embracing, Rev.-Wright-following Marxist: who is the real Barack Obama? -- resonated so stingingly with the rabid lynch mobs that cheered her on."
Polarization We Can Believe In (Terence Samuel) from The Root
"The country is actually way less divided than it has been in a long time. And what looks like polarization is actually a growing consensus, that one side is right and the other is not."
Obama is Urged to Take the Wheel on Infrastructure from the Los Angeles Times
"Govs. Schwarzenegger and Rendell and New York Mayor Bloomberg worry that Congress will hijack a proposal to improve the nation's highways and bridges."
Barack Obama Brings Truce in Culture Wars from the Guardian [of London]
I'm not sure I buy the tag line -- but who knows?
"Republicans are discovering that 'god, guns and gays' no longer fire up voters worried about keeping their homes and jobs."
Obama's Healthcare Reforms: First Vets. Next, the Nation from the Christian Science Monitor
"President Obama announces a plan to keep the health records of active-duty troops and veterans electronically – part of an effort to streamline military care. He wants to do the same thing for the American healthcare system at large, too."
INTERVIEW NUGGET!!
Robert Caro, the author of an exceptional biography of LBJ is on the Charlie Rose Show here.
VIDEO NUGGET!!
Pretty dramatic (and rare) footage of tornados and lightening from National Geographic. Wait for the last third of the clip.
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