Barack Obama

From The Room: Time for Some Change!

December 3, 2008 - Could Obama's message of change culminate in the mere change of Bill Richardson's facial hair? Obama has picked a cabinet that does little to suggest he will be pursuing an agenda of radical revision. In order to belie these fears Obama should state some big changes he's...

From The Feed: Suck it Barbara Walters, Damon Weaver has a sweeter interview for Obama

December 3, 2008 - Wunderkind, 10 year old journalist Damon Weaver invites Barack Obama to sit down with him for an interview in return for lifelong homeboy status. All I want for Christmas is for this to happen. Watch below as Weaver makes his case...

Barack Obama: first Eco-American president

December 3, 2008 - As if winning a historic election wasn't enough, Barack Obama sees his move to the White House as an opportunity to send a strong message about environmental consciousness. Last week, the American Institute of Architects extended an offer to help the president-elect turn the White House into a...

From The Room: Cheney Refuses to Set Timetable for Withdrawal from White House

December 3, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - Vice President Dick Cheney said he will refuse any attempt to impose "unwise, politically-motivated timelines" for the Bush administration's withdrawal from the White House. President Bush's term officially ends January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama will be sworn in...

From The Feed: Puppies and pot: the Obama Promise

December 2, 2008 - Replete with jams that would get the Anastasio stamp of approval, the Marijuana Policy Project has just released a video imploring Obama to toke up their cause for legal weed. Because, well, apparently he promised. The specifics of this promise? Well you'll just have to eat the magic brownies...

From The Room: Does My Ex-Nanny Count as a "Black Friend"?

December 1, 2008 - Facebook status updates are great, aren't they? What better way for your friends to know that you're currently being totally racist...

Hillary and Barack - How mortal enemies learn to make a deal

December 1, 2008 - As Obama was preparing to present his foreign policy team and (finally) formally announce his pick of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, aides of both Obama and Clinton were feeding the press...

Barack makes Hillary an honest woman

December 1, 2008 - President-elect Obama introduced his security team today. The group included Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State), Eric Holder (AG ), Defense Secretary...

New Yorker cartoonist strikes again with offensively bland gag

December 1, 2008 - Barry Blitt, the artist responsible for the New Yorker "fist jab" cartoon controversy that threatened to destabilize go...

From The Feed: National press grows a pair of post-Bush balls

December 1, 2008 - A reporter asks P-E Obama about his primary-era statements regarding Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience. (Apparently Obama said things that would lead voters to think that Clinton was less qualified to be president than he. ???) Way to ruin a nice moment, a-hole. We were hoping to...

From The Room: Ten Things That Are Only Legal While We're in Between Leaders

November 29, 2008 - Come on everybody, live it up! For two months we have NO PRESIDENT! This is exciting. President elect Obama keeps telling us that we only have one president at a time, and after all, what does he know? He's just an elect. He's not my real dad! President...

From The Room: How I Know Things Are Different: Way #247

November 27, 2008 - For the last eight years, every morning, I'd sit down to breakfast, crack open the newspaper, roll my eyes for my kids' amusement and say, "Okay, let's see what our president's doing to us today!" And it was never good. "He's declaring war. On the wrong...

From The Room: If Hillary, Why Not Me?

November 26, 2008 - With all the talk in recent weeks about the surprising choices that President-elect Obama has made in terms of people who will probably work for him, one question has come to my mind: if Hillary, why not me? Or you? Why shouldn't we be part of the Obama...

From The Room: Obama Announces Plan to Replace All Previous Admin. Nucular Energy with Nuclear Energy

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Joe Biden's just sittin' around with his thumb up his ass

November 27, 2008 - While Obama has been filling up his cabinet, his VP-elect is still waiting for The One to give him something to do. Obama is late in giving Joe Biden a defined portfolio of issues on which to focus, th...