Obama needs to be more centrist?

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What has Obama done? I don't mean what has he done that was so liberal, I mean what has he done? Fox News seems to think "a lot", along with key Republicans.

I don't get it. They want him to move more to the center but, as Jon Stewart points out, he hasn't really don't anything - like closing Guantanamo or dealing with gay rights.

They should love this guy. I guess they will complain about anything. Of course, if the shoe were on the other foot the dems would do the same.

Yay for the government.

Biden being biden

Who's the greatest asset the Republicans have? Joe Biden.

Okay, not really, but the guy is just a small gesture away from a wink and a gun here. He's a gaffe machine. Don't get me wrong: to quote fake Joe Biden - I love the guy, but he's mentally unstable.



And here's more gaffe-tastic excitement courtesy of the Daily Show. Enjoy.

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Sesame street's extreme left-wing agenda

If there's one thing I've learned about Sesame Street it's that it's a street that you can only get to by taking a hard left:

You'd expect jabs at Fox News from the politically minded comedic shows, but not the kid's program celebrating its 40th anniversary tomorrow.

The show recently reaired an episode from two years ago in which Oscar the Grouch launches his own television channel called "GNN," for Grouchy News Network. Grundgetta, a female Muppet viewer, calls into Oscar's show and threatens to turn the dial. "From now on, I'm watching Pox News. Now there's a trashy news show," she exclaims.

Now, conservative bloggers are getting their panties in a bunch over this.

"The message is clear: I can't even sit my kids in front of Sesame Street without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority," writes Big Hollywood's anonymous Stage Right.

Okay, E-Online is right. I honestly don't think the Sesame Workshop is part of some mass left-wing puppet conspiracy.

The real question is why do these conservative wackos think so? It's a kid's show.

Stop whining about every little thing and making up BS and a get a platform people actually want to get behind. Take a page from the greats and become a real Republican.

"Grover made me feel bad." Ugh. Dems soft on terror? You're soft on puppets. Grow up!

John oliver uncovers the america we grew up in

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It never ceases to amaze me how many people talk about how great things used to be, not realizing how bad they used to be too. It's a common psychological phenomenon actually.

However, some people like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck and the cast of Fox News seem to forget this. Because they remember things as being greater way back when, they think that life was better 20, 30, 40 years ago. Forget women's rights, civil rights, tight economic times (okay... I guess we remember this one).

The fact is the selective memory says times were better way back when, but were they really? John Oliver does a small bit on the Daily Show to take this on. Enjoy.

Under bush there was no terrorist attack?

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The wonderful thing about pundits is they speak with such conviction. Of course they do this because of a lack of long term memory and the inability to accurately look at a situation from all sides, especially the sides with which they disagree.

Enter Jon Stewart and the Daily Show to add a little perspective to some fairly unbalanced claims.

Of course, Jon couldn't miss a good shot on Blagojevich so he had to start there, but that doesn't stop Jon and team from heading into this subject full steam ahead.

Mr. 911 forgets 911. O'Reilly's guests parse the fact in Bush's favor and skip over other incidents entirely. Stewart and Oliver set the record straight.

More fun than being lied to by a politician.

Update: SuperNews! has their own take. It was quite a bit harsher, but still had it's points:

Yeah, but who's more blago than blagojevich?

Blagojevich wants everyone to know he's "blacker than Barack Obama". Why? Because he was poor and shined shoes. At least that's how it reads:

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies.

Blagojevich, referring to the president as "this guy," says Obama was elected based simply on hope.

"What the (expletive)? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter," Blagojevich told the magazine for a story in its February issue, which hits newsstands Jan. 19.

"I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived," Blagojevich said. "I saw it all growing up."

I'm not saying he's a racist, but I wonder if Rush is more blago than Blagojevich.

Unhealthy habits are what's killing us?

David Frum seems to think eating better and exercising would be the best move for better health care:

For all the money Americans spend on health care (60 percent more per person than any other advanced country), Americans are not an especially healthy people.

Life expectancy at 50 in the U.S. ranks 29th in the world, three years behind world leader Japan, one and a half years behind Canada. Other indicators -- infant mortality, life expectancy at birth -- look even worse.

This poor performance is often blamed on the fact that millions of Americans lack health insurance. But as a recent paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research found, the U.S. -- despite its kludgy health insurance system -- does a remarkably good job of extending disease-fighting treatment to all.

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So if the U.S. health system does such a good job saving its middle-aged and elderly sick, why do Americans die comparatively young?

Answer: because Americans are much more likely to get sick in the first place.

Who knew that lifestyle could affect finances so much?

It all makes sense, actually, which is why Washington will have nothing to do with it.

2009's political losers

A recent Gallup poll shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Republicans to be big losers for 2009. CNN embelished:

According to the new poll, 50 percent of those surveyed thought Pelosi is among the "losers" of the year while 52 percent said the same for Republicans in Congress. Conversely, only 39 percent think Pelosi is a "winner" while 38 percent gave positive marks to GOP members of congress.

As for other political losers of the year, 61 percent identified South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson - who earned fame after his "You Lie!" outburst at President Obama - and 63 percent named South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose exploits with an Argentinean woman were well documented last summer.

I'm honestly shocked to know there were winners. There was health care reform and high unemployment but the only things that got done were the bailouts.

I guess that makes us all the losers.