Tag Archives: Barack Obama

This repulsion driven resurgence of civic engagement is so 2002, sorry.

Posted on January 22, 2018 by Eric Verlo

If we can credit the proto simian president George W. Bush with one good thing, his mediocrity did re-engage the electorate. Not enough of it, nor with satisfactory haste, but eventually Bush’s misdeeds repulsed enough Americans to elect the first … Continue reading →

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Five former leaders of the free world say YOU should pay for disaster relief

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Eric Verlo

THAT’S RIGHT. Five US ex-presidents, so-called most powerful men in the world, who each did their most to expropriate the public wealth for the super rich, who denied you healthcare, job security, infrastructure, a clean environment, even peace, every last … Continue reading →

Posted in That's Rich | Tagged America, American, Axe, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Charity, Christ, Christian, Disaster, Disaster Relief, Environment, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, Health, Healthcare, Houston, Infrastructure, Jimmy Carter, Peace, Pot, POW, power, President, relief, Sales, Security, super rich, Tax, Taxes, Wealth | Leave a comment

OK this is conclusive evidence the Right Wing will bark at ANYTHING

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Brother Jonah

I looked on Yahoo about the eclipse. It’s true. The Trump Zombies were complaining about the eclipse and blaming Barack Obama. This is stupid of cosmic proportions. It’s official, the Stormfront Base for the Republican temporary victory, have completely lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged Barack Obama, Blasphemy, candy, CIA, Conspiracy, Evidence, God, Humanity, IRA, liberal, Obama, Piracy, Rednecks, Republic, Republican, Right Wing, Stormfront, Stupid, Trolls, Trump, Writing, Zombie, Zombies | Leave a comment

Obama presidential library won’t even be a library. It’s a $500M thumbdrive.

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Eric Verlo

HAHA Barack Obama’s proposed presidential library, which will 1) eat into valuable Chicago open space, 2) cost $500 million, and 3) close a major commuter thoroughfare, won’t even be a library! Obama’s presidential papers will be stored elsewhere; his commemorative … Continue reading →

Posted in That's Rich | Tagged Barack Obama, Chicago, internet, Obama, Open Space, President, Presidential library | Leave a comment

F U and the horseshit you rode in on

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Eric Verlo

Barack Obama is an impressive speaker and a figurehead to make you proud –if you’re not listening or paying attention to what he’s doing. How sickening the fawning over his last addresses and his supposed legacy. Obama was the antithesis … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged America, Barack Obama, Bear, CIA, Donald Trump, Obama, President, President Obama, Trump | 1 Comment

Dem presidents won’t chose better supreme court justices than Repugs

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Eric Verlo

NOW we’re told the ultimate reason to prevent a Trump presidency is because he’ll appoint Supreme Court judges who will set progressive movements back for generations. You forget that President Obama’s latest nomination put the lie to that bugaboo. Put … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged 2008, Antonin Scalia, Argo, Barack Obama, CIA, Hillary, Interrogation, Judges, Justice, Kennedy, Merrick Garland, Obama, President, President Obama, Rally, reason, Supreme Court, Trump, Vote | Leave a comment

Dubya Bush sings The Battle Hymn of the Republic like he’s dancing on John Brown’s grave.

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Eric Verlo

“He captured Harper’s Ferry with his nineteen men so true. He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through. They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew. But his soul goes marching on! — Glory, glory, … Continue reading →

Posted in That's Rich | Tagged Abolition, Barack Obama, Bush, CIA, Civil War, criminal, Criminals, Dallas, Dallas Police, Dance, George, George Bush, George W, George W Bush, God, Harper, John Brown, Johnson, Julia Ward Howe, Lyrics, March, memorial, Mockery, Osawatomie, Pagan, Passion, police, President, Propaganda, Republic, Slavery, Soul, terror, terrorist, Traitor, Union, Virginia, War Criminal, war criminals | 1 Comment

The NAFTA Three Amigos are about as funny as their Hollywood namesakes

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Eric Verlo

Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pena Nieto telling their despairing citizens not to fear free trade –Martin Short couldn’t get a bigger laugh! And I think we’ve got a litmus test for professional integrity. The free trade isn’t cut … Continue reading →

Posted in Headlines | Tagged ALF, austerity, Barack Obama, Brexit, character, comedy, Corporate, Corporate Hegemony, Cult, Culture, Debt, despair, DIA, Donald Trump, Enrique Pena Nieto, Free Trade, Fun, Hegemony, Hollywood, Hyperbole, integrity, Justin Trudeau, Media, Nieto, Obama, racist, Racists, Rap, RAW, sex, spin, Three Amigos, TPP, Trump, Violence | 3 Comments

I’m pretty sure PRIVILEGE is voting for a warmongering sociopath to feel good about having a first woman president.

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Eric Verlo

Oh, really, so it’s “privilege” to support Bernie Sanders because he will take votes away from Hillary and thus enable a Trump presidency? Is it privilege to vote for Trump just for the entertainment value of seeing what the blowhard … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged America, American, Americans, Banks, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bush, Clinton, Evil, Fraud, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Imperial, Imperialism, IRS, mass murder, Military, Murder, Obama, President, Sanders, Security, Trump, USA, Vote, Voting, warmonger, warmongering | Leave a comment

Sorry Rage, Trump Ain’t the Machine

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Eric Verlo

There’s news from Cleveland, about to host the 2016 RNC Republican National Convention. Rage Against the Machine is planning a reprise of the show they PUT ON for DNC 2008 where they harnessed teen angst against America’s dystopian future (thus … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism | Tagged 2008, 2016, activists, AIG, America, American, Antifa, Antiwar, ARN, Assembly, Austin, Barack Obama, Bush, CIA, Cleveland, Convention, Conventions, Corporate, courage, criminal, Crow, Cult, Culture, Democratic Party, Denver, DNC, Donald Trump, Downtown, Energy, Fascism, Headlines, Hillary, ignorance, Injustice, IOC, IRA, Iraq, IVAW, Justice, March, Obama, Pepsi, President, Protest, Racism, racist, Racists, radicals, Rage Against the Machine, rebels, Republic, Republican, Republican National Convention, RNC, Social Justice, Subversive, TB, The West, Trolls, Trump, USA, Veterans, Westboro Baptist, Zapatistas | 2 Comments

Obama Hiroshima visit not first time US president returns to scene of war crime

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Eric Verlo

We’re told President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima will the first by a sitting US president. Hiroshima being where America demonstrated its first atomic bomb. Ranked by scale of civilian casualties, Hiroshima has multiple sister cities who could share the honor … Continue reading →

Posted in Headlines | Tagged America, American, apology, ARN, Atomic, Atomic Bomb, Barack Obama, BOA, Bombers, Casualties, Civilian Casualties, Crime, Gaza, guilt, Gunboat Diplomacy, Headlines, Hiroshima, Imperial, IRS, Manhattan, Obama, PLO, President, President Obama, proof, Travel, Tribute, War Crime, Washington | 1 Comment

Human rights for even Anders Breivik

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Eric Verlo

In retrospect, awarding the newly elected Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize was about as smartly ambitious as it gets. Everyone knows humanitarians don’t do it for the reward. A Nobel Prize is wasted if there’s not some eligible sociopath … Continue reading →

Posted in Perspective | Tagged Anders Breivik, Assassination, Barack Obama, Bing, BOA, Breivik, Capital, children, CIA, Cult, Culture, Death, despair, Detention, Drones, Extrajudicial Assassination, Flag, Flags, Forward, Guantanamo, guns, human rights, humanitarian, Illegal Detention, Interrogation, IRS, jail, Justice, mass murder, Murder, NFL, Nobel, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norway, Norwegian, Obama, Peace, President, President Obama, prison, Prisoner, Raj, rendition, Rights, solitary confinement, Supreme Court, Waste, Water, waterboarding | Leave a comment

Ask the candidates: who, as president, vows to jail Obama, Clinton and Bush?

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Eric Verlo

If Americans really want to differentiate which presidential candidate represents change, a good question would be, which will prosecute America’s celebrity war criminals? Who, among them, will jail past leaders guilty of crimes against humanity? Obama 2008 didn’t do it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged 2008, 2016, America, American, Americans, Assassination, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bush, Celebrity, Cheney, CIA, Clinton, Close Guantanamo, Crime, Crimes against Humanity, criminal, Criminals, Donald Trump, Drones, Election, Exceptionalism, Extrajudicial Assassination, genocide, George Bush, Guantanamo, guilt, Hague, Humanity, International Criminal Court, Interrogation, Intervention, ISIS, jail, John Kerry, Justice, Kerry, Mali, Obama, pool, President, President Obama, Raj, Regime Change, Rule of Law, Sanders, Science, terror, terrorist, terrorists, Trump, Vote, War Crime, War Crimes, War Criminal, war criminals, White, White House | 2 Comments

Obama nominates TORTURE JUDGE Merrick Garland to U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Eric Verlo

Elect a Democrat to the presidency to ensure progressive Supreme Court nominees. Elect a Democrat to end wars and prosecute war criminals. Elect a Democrat so we can close Guantanamo. After two years President Obama is finally hinting he’ll close … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged America, American, Barack Obama, Bush, Cheney, Close Guantanamo, criminal, Criminals, Dick Cheney, George, George W, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Interrogation, Interrogation, Justice, Levis, Merrick Garland, Obama, PLO, President, President Obama, prison, Supreme Court, Television, troops, U.S., War Criminal, war criminals | Leave a comment

Oh you are so going to feel the burnie

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Eric Verlo

Remember all those highschoolers and college students activated for Obama 2008, subsequently thoroughly BURNED OUT by the zero yield of Hope or Change for all their effort? It’s happening again on campuses across the country and yes it’s hard not … Continue reading →

Posted in That's Rich | Tagged 2008, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, BSE, Capital, College, Corporate, Left, Obama, Optimism, School, Slaughter, students | Leave a comment

Bernie Sanders Hope and Change 2.016

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Eric Verlo

YOU’RE WELCOME. The same civic dutyists activated by Obama 2008 are already in the trenches for Bernie, making no apologies, showing no insight about the nowhere they delivered voters the first time around. In effect, the Obama deadheads have found … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged 2008, 2016, ALF, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Bogeyman, Capital, Corporate, Democratic Party, Election, Evolution, GOP, Imperial, IRS, liberal, Obama, Revolution, Sanders, Vote, White | Leave a comment

President Obama concedes there is no mechanism for punishing rich rapists.

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Eric Verlo

In light of the unsealed deposition where Bill Cosby admitted to procuring Quaaludes to facilitate raping young women, a reporter asked President Obama if the celebrity’s Freedom Medal could be revoked. There is no mechanism to do so, was Obama’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged AA, Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Celebrity, Crime, Department, enforcement, EPA, freedom, Justice, Obama, President, President Obama, Rap, Rape Culture, rapist, Wealth | Leave a comment

Whose flag opposes the anti-slavery stipulations in the TPP trade treaty?

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Eric Verlo

We’re demonizing the Civil War era Confederate Battleflag for defending slavery while the victorious DC regime profits by slavery and protects it still. Team Stars and Stripes opposes amendments to the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that would prohibit signatory nations … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged agreement, Barack Obama, Civil War, Flag, PLO, Slavery, TPP, Treaty, United States, US flag | Leave a comment

President Obama tells undocumented transgender Jennicet Gutierrezas that the White House is not her house.

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Eric Verlo

So President Obama silenced a heckler by telling her “This is my house”, sorry, um, no. Immigrant and LGBTQ rights activist Jennicet Gutierrezas was vetted by security and was a guest of the president, to engage as a host would … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged Activism, activists, America, American, Barack Obama, Crow, DIA, EPA, Gay, Gay Pride, Gender, God, immigration, IRS, Left, LGBT, Media, Migra, Obama, President, President Obama, Pride, Rights, Security, SMU, solidarity, TB, The The, transgender, White, White House | Leave a comment

“Going postal” takes aeronautic twist: Campaign reform whoop-whoop de doo

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Eric Verlo

Common American highschoolers have eclipsed what used to be the purvue of disgruntled post office workers: GOING POSTAL. Norwegian post-adolescent Anders Breivik could even be said to have “killed it”. So leave it to a mail carrier to set the … Continue reading →

Posted in Headlines | Tagged AIG, America, American, Anders Breivik, Barack Obama, Breivik, Campaign, Campaign Finance Reform, Congress, Convention, Democracy, DIA, Doug Hughes, Finance, IFES, Mail, Manifesto, Media, Norwegian, Obama, Post Office, President, President Obama, reform, School, Washington, Website, White, White House, Workers | Leave a comment

Hillary is declaring her candidacy. Are we ready for another white president?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Eric Verlo

Not that another token Black president would be better. Was it really worth it, having a first Black president, considering he expanded the Neoliberal nonsense instead of curbing it? Why do we now expect a token woman will deliver our … Continue reading →

Posted in Sight-Bites | Tagged 2016, Africa, America, American, banker, Bankers, Barack Obama, Bing, CIA, Clinton, Cynthia McKinney, Election, Establishment, FEMA, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, IRS, liberal, Lottery, Morality, Obama, President, Senate, White, White House, White Supremacy | Leave a comment

USA, al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, and Israel are making war on people of Yemen

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Tony Logan

What an unGodly mess! The insanity that is US foreign policy in the Middle East is destroying totally yet another region still! However, nobody in the US has been paying much attention to Barack Obama’s drone attacks inside Yemen nor … Continue reading →

Posted in War machine | Tagged al-Qaeda, Arabia, Architecture, Barack Obama, BIA, Crisis, Cult, Culture, Food, Fun, God, Houthis, Insanity, IRA, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Israel, Israelis, Killing, Middle East, Music, NSA, Obama, population, SANA, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, terror, Terrorism, Troy, US foreign policy, USA, War Mongering, war mongers, Yemen | Leave a comment

President Obama’s “off-script” SOTU rejoinder began with a scripted pause

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Eric Verlo

SORRY FOLKS. If you think President Obama went “Off Script” at tonight’s State of the Union Address, ask yourself why he punctuated “I have no more campaigns to run” with a HANDS-CLASPED PAUSE. In the context of his prepared remarks, … Continue reading →

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged AIG, arks, ARN, Barack Obama, Campaign, CIA, Crow, EPA, Obama, President, President Obama, Rap, SOTU, Union, White, White House | Leave a comment

By “don’t play with matches” does Boehner think Pres. Obama is a boy?

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Eric Verlo

Who is it you warn not to “play with matches”? Not an adult.

Posted in Enough Said | Tagged ARN, Barack Obama, Boehner, John Boehner, Obama, Racism | Leave a comment

The People’s Climate March will move the United Nations if marchers push it

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Eric Verlo

I heard a dispiriting conceit at yesterday’s 350.ORG whistestop rally at Denver’s Union Station to cheer climate activists bording the Amtrak Zephyr destined for the New York City #S21 People’s Climate March. This young, otherwise energetic and charismatic environmentalist told … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism | Tagged actions, Activism, activists, America, American, Americans, Amtrak, Antiwar, Antiwar Movement, artist, Barack Obama, Bill McKibben, Bush, CIA, climate, Climate Change, Climate March, Coal, Corporate, Crow, demonstration, Denver, DIA, Election, Environment, Latin, Mali, March, Media, New York, New York City, Obama, Parade, People's Climate March, Rally, RAW, Travel, Union, Union Station, United Nations | Leave a comment