BREAKING NEWS: » Elizabeth Warren Raises $6.9 Million In First Quarter 2012, Doubles Scott Brown’s Numbers The Road We've Traveled » is a fantastically produced 17 minute reminder of President Obama's numerous accomplishments during his first term directed by Academy Award winning Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. See it at http://www.youtube.com/barackobama Let’s Play: Name That Candidate » This candidate is currently running for President in the 2012 GOP field. Here are some of the things this candidate would like to do: WARNING: The following list contains high levels of sarcasm. Remove restrictions on drilling, so energy companies can drill wherever they want and screw up eve... Empathy Seems To Be The Hardest Word...For The GOP! » To sort of borrow from a Sir Elton John song, “Empathy seems to be the hardest word”…For the GOP! If forced to use one word to sum up what is likely the biggest difference between the right and left, I’d have to choose EMPATHY.  Speaking of empathy, I gained some interesting perspective from ... Is Obama Rope-A-Doping The Anti-Economy GOP? » “Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated…” -Candidate Obama I have to say that I am VERY pleasantly surprised by the NEW President / Candidate Obama. Like a phoenix, he has risen from the ashes, at least rhetorically. The above quote is quite famous and even though it didn’t come from P... Rick Perry, Republican Dumbassity and Citizen’s Media » Greetings Like-Minded Friends, It’s official! Rick “Dumber Than Bush” Perry has kicked off his presidential campaign. Now we get to hear about how extending prayer days to a national level will solve all of our country’s problems. Heck, why not? He was delusional enough to think it would help with... Is There Hope For The Middle Class? » What is your answer to this question? Based on the stories I hear and the current economic struggles many of us are facing I think many of you might answer with a resounding “NO – there is no hope for the middle class!” and I can understand why there are so many losing hope. There are some days wh... Mourning The Death Of Candidate Obama » By now I’m sure you’re sick and tired of hearing about the debt ceiling, I know I sure am. Never before has this ho-hum matter-of-fact government function been in the public eye like it is this time, namely due to the moronic and radical idiot-logs called the Teabaggers. I will end the debt ceiling ... Boehner Spews Ridiculous Lies Out Of His Piehole » President Obama addressed the nation this evening concerning the ho-hum debt ceiling debate turned crisis by the Teabaggers. Although he didn't give it to the Republicants with both barrels, he did a better job than I expected. I'm still perplexed as to why he didn't just get up there and explain th... Obama Living In No Man's Land » Greetings Progressive friends! Let me start by re-defining the term No Man’s Land for the purposes of this entry. When referencing Obama I think of No Man’s land as the place between sanity and La-la land. The Democrats would be sanity and the Teabaggers La-la land. Now that we have that out of the...