A president by any other nickname...

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Tuesday February 14, 2012 · 8:34 AM PST

2012/02/14 · 08:34

While rummaging through various political blogs and reading comments for pure entertainment, I noticed that the strong anti-Obama has come up with more nicknames for the President as their chances for victory in November dwindle. I think they make the far right look petty and childish, especially in the eyes of independents, but you have to sit in shock at the creative hatred they show. Perhaps if the individuals utilizing this long list of nicknames spent a little more time on reading or objective discussion they wouldn't be purging all the talent from their ranks.

Anyway, here are the last 20 I saw and jotted down just as examples. To be sure, some of them are obviously either racist or some other type of bigoted, but I tried to remove those which used overtly racist and offensive language.

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Monday December 12, 2011 · 3:43 PM PST

2011/12/12 · 15:43

If this has already been posted (or attempted to be posted), sorry for reposting.

I recently noticed that you can "subscribe to hide ads" on DK. I never noticed ANY ads before so I never realized they are a problem, but from what I have read some are really annoyed by them. I use ad blocking extensions for my browsers that work 99% of the time (including on "commercial breaks" for streaming videos most of the time). I figured others might want to do the same so I am dropping some links below. They are all free and produced from a donation-based developer.

If this gets deleted by moderators, oh well.

Let me know if any of the links don't work. Again, sorry if this has been exhausted already.

RemingtonD

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Thursday August 04, 2011 · 3:49 PM PDT

2011/08/04 · 15:49

The DOW just fell over 500 points, down 4.31%. The S&P is down a whopping 4.78%.

To put this in context:

" Fearing that the crisis in the financial industry could stun the broader economy, investors drove stocks down almost 5 percent Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to their lowest levels in two years.

The Dow fell 504.48 points, its biggest one-day point drop since Sept. 17, 2001, the first trading day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

That clip was not written about today's market. It was published on September 15, 2008. As in, the beginning of the Meltdown. The 2008 one.

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Monday August 01, 2011 · 8:55 AM PDT

2011/08/01 · 08:55

The debt ceiling issue is not entirely behind us yet, but it is looking like it will be at this point. So it's time for me to revisit the question that I have been struggling with for awhile, of why the President does what he does. How can we understand him, when he so frequently leans away from his base despite getting punished for it? What lessons can we learn about his axis of progress from this most recent debate?

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Thursday July 28, 2011 · 5:15 PM PDT

2011/07/28 · 17:15

The great irony of this entire conflict, as pointed out by Robert Reich, is that the tea party Republicans won't get what they want even if they do succeed in preventing the debt ceiling from rising.

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Tuesday July 26, 2011 · 7:37 AM PDT

2011/07/26 · 07:37

(cross-posted on Gnomanomics)

Yesterday, President Obama gave a public address regarding the debt ceiling negotiations.

The reaction from progressives was that it was a bland address, lacking any fire or punch that is appropriate for this situation.

But what was his target audience? It certainly was not progressives. Progressives are not the ones he has to convince on this issue. It was not Republican diehards, because they cannot be convinced. It was the portion of independents who do not usually pay attention to politics.

That is the population he mainly reaches when he preempts The Bachelorette to give a televised speech.

From that context, what must his speech be tailored to do?

RemingtonD

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Saturday July 23, 2011 · 3:40 PM PDT

2011/07/23 · 15:40

The recent, and ongoing, debt ceiling negotiation to some extent vindicates my earlier post explaining the framework of why Obama does what he does.

It is common nowadays to call it (derisively) "Nth dimensional chess," meaning that Obama is acting according to a level of understanding way outside our own and working toward some grand scheme of devastating his political opponents. The implication being, we can't possibly understand what he's doing, so it's best just to stick with him and wait for it all to fall in place like a diabolical Rube Goldberg machine.

But it's not that complicated, most people just make bad assumptions when trying to explain why president Obama does what he does. And based on those assumptions, there is no way to figure it out. Even though the logic is simple.

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Tuesday July 12, 2011 · 12:58 PM PDT

2011/07/12 · 12:58

Many, including my good friends are trying to make political sense of President Obama’s recent negotiation strategy. The problem, however, is that most of the people that take the time to flesh out a logical analysis of Obama’s strategy are introducing one variable into the equation that might not belong: logic. Let’s put aside the politicians for a second and examine the partisanship of the populace, which may be the real culprit.

Cross-posted at Gnomanomics

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Thursday July 07, 2011 · 9:56 AM PDT

2011/07/07 · 09:56

(cross-posted at gnomanomics)

President Obama is offering to make cuts to medicare and social security as part of a broader deal to raise tax revenue, cut spending, and decrease the deficit by $4tn over the next decade (before this push, negotiations had brought that number to $2tn).

Putting aside the personal gut reactions to this deal, a lot more interesting question is the "why" of it. What does this do in the political battlefield? What is the price, what is the gain, and how could this possibly be better than the walk-away position for president Obama?

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Tuesday July 05, 2011 · 10:48 AM PDT

2011/07/05 · 10:48

This is a fairly old concept but I think it deserves some attention given the current climate and the range of issues plaguing the country right now. It was originally used to discuss morality and justice, but I think it can be pretty successfully applied to specific political issues, too. If you want to read it on our actual blog, we'd appreciate it, but the article will be below. Cheers. http://bit.ly/...

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Sunday April 24, 2011 · 9:30 AM PDT

2011/04/24 · 09:30

Despite the title, I'm not claiming to speak for the president or divine his thought processes. However, I'd like to lean on Malhotra a bit and take a stab at why President Obama negotiates the way he does.

For those of you who aren't sure what I mean, consider the two year Federal employee pay freeze that president Obama gave up as a concession to Republicans in advance of negotiations with them. Many proponents of the Democratic point of view were dismayed at this, arguing that if the President makes his opening offer closer to the Republicans' position, it'll also push the final compromise further in their direction.

But that's not how negotiation works.

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Thursday April 14, 2011 · 9:33 PM PDT

2011/04/14 · 21:33

In a word, no. Here is a graph a just threw together to illustrate the point:

Above: Inflation adjusted annual change in salary, plotted by decade (top marginal tax rate listed in the key), and normalized to 1 at the beginning of each decade to emphasize the relative increase over the decade.

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