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Here's the one telling sentence in an article at the Washington Post on the results of a Pew poll showing that an increasing number of Americans, including more than a third of those who identify themselves as conservative Republicans, believe that President Obama is a Muslim:"Among those who say Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent say they learned about his religion from the media, suggesting that their opinions are fueled by misinformation.""Misinformation?" No, the word...

Big ups to President Obama on his remarks yesterday about the building of the Islamic community center in New York City. He knew there was nothing to gain politically by speaking out, that polls show almost 70% of the public in opposition, and that he would be blasted by the right-wing fearmongers--which is happening over and over and over and over and over--but he stood up for what's right. And the last time I looked...

The kooks at Right Wing News solicited the opinion of more than100 of their fellow kooks "conservative" bloggers on the 25 worst people in American history. Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and FDR were 1, 2, and 3, ahead of Benedict Arnold, Timothy McVeigh, and John Wilkes Booth. Here's the entire list and the number of votes each received from the 43 blogs that responded:23) Saul Alinsky (7)23) Bill Clinton (7)23) Hillary Clinton (7)19) Michael Moore...

Robert Shapiro at Sonecon via Ezra Klein at the Washington Post (emphasis added): "From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009....

Then and now. June of 2009 (emphasis added) :"General Motors hopes that bankruptcy will make the struggling automaker stronger and more competitive. Republicans are hoping it will do the same for them.The GOP sees President Barack Obama's decision to help the unpopular carmaker as an easy opportunity to paint him as a bailout-happy, deficit-drunk spendthrift eager to impose a heavy government hand on a swath of industries. ...Republicans see in GM a chance for their...

The focus of the hate-stirrers and Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferers on the right for the better part of this week has been on Michelle Obama's vacation trip to Spain. It started with this hit-piece by Andrea Tantaros in the New York Daily News in which the First Lady is referred to as "Material girl Michelle Obama" and compared to "Marie Antoinette." Tantaros whined about the "millionaires playground" at which the First Lady and her daughter...

From the Huffington Post:"Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country "closer to the apocalypse."LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee's talk show on Fox News..."Our present president doesn't seem to get it," LaHaye explained. "He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name,...

Considering this:"Nearly half of the unemployed--45.9%--have been out of work longer than six months, more than at any time since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1948...Overall, seven million Americans have been looking for work for 27 weeks or more, and most of them--4.7 million--have been out of work for a year or more."And this:How do you get to this?:"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the economy has now recovered sufficiently for government to begin...

To listen to the Bush administration history revisionists and legacy reconstructionists one would think that his 2 terms in office started on September 12, 2001. For years they have reminded us how President Bush "kept us safe" for over 7 years following 9/11, which is kind of like saying that other than the iceberg incident the captain of the Titanic had an impeccable safety record. Now that Republicans are running on a platform of taking...

As I was watching Rachel Maddow's opening segment tonight it brought to mind this comment from Huey Freeman on this morning's post about the Shirley Sherrod firing. Huey wrote:"...what I find to be the most troubling is the story that's not being covered, which is that the right is making a concerted effort play on people's racial fears to bring down the Obama Presidency...The right is playing a sinister game. Instead of trying to...