The Exquisite Contrarian

When is opposing the President purely political and without logic?  During the all-important healthcare debate, perhaps.

Obama, 48, continues to struggle to stop his 30-year smoking habit and needs to modify his diet, said Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, a Navy captain who led the medical team that performed Mr. Obama’s physical.

We definitely agree.  Outside a slightly petty interaction with Senator McCain, the President handled this meeting extremely well, even working hard to focus on key points of contention while avoiding for the most part any sign of conflict or ego in interactions with the GOP leadership.

“He’s very much what we could call in academic circles [...]

And now he’ll be permanently banished from the GOP for even considering such a horrible act.  I guess he saw the writing on the wall when the entire GOP was outraged after he had the audacity to – gasp – hug the President.
Here’s a story regarding his possible next steps: Will Charlie Crist ditch the GOP?.

The exchange today between the President and Senator McCain seemed rather one-sided in favor of the senator.  The bottom line is this: Big Pharma’s sweetheart deals with the last two presidents are quite possibly going to bankrupt this country.  But hey, Pharma, thanks a bunch for all that ad money you sent our way.  Can’t [...]

Nehisi said in his blog on The Atlantic’s site, ”Chris Matthews didn’t forget Barack Obama was black. Chris Matthews forgot that Chris Matthews was white.”
Is there any better way to respond to Matthews’s comment, stating he’d “forgotten Barack Obama was black for an hour” during the SOTU?

“I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” President Obama told ABC’s Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview today.

Word on the street is our country’s financial powerhouses had a full year to decide how they wanted to self-police, post collapse.  Needless to say, the administration felt they didn’t come anywhere close to passing the test.  They should have been a little less brazen considering everyone knew Paul Volcker has the President’s ear, but [...]

With all this talk about Obama’s approval ratings, let’s put them in perspective: Presidential Approval Ratings from 1945-2008.
It’s easy to forget that every top rated president in modern history had low approval ratings at this point in time.  It’s also easy to overlook disapproval ratings, which to me are a better indicator of how the country [...]