The Economist: An Interview with the President

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A Blast from the Past

First Lady Delivers The Dillard Commencement Address

Senior class president Nicole A. Tinson takes a selfie with First Lady Michelle Obama during Dillard University’s commencement ceremony in New Orleans, Saturday, May 10

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Audio of the First Lady’s Address

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night owl chat – wax audio mashups

This has been a hell of a good day, so some music.

Wax Audio is an outfit out of Aussieland which creates amazing mashups. Here are a few for your enjoyment into the night.

Van Halen, New Order, Duran Duran, Tears For Fears, 80’s Mashup

First Lady Michelle Obama on The Tom Joyner Morning Show

Back in a while with an update or two

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President Obama gives a boy a high-five at a campaign event in Jacksonville, Florida, July 19

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Friday:

9:25: President Obama departs West Palm Beach

10:00: Arrives Fort Myers

11:20: Delivers remarks at a campaign event

1:35: Departs Fort Myers

2:15: Arrives in Orlando

4:10: Delivers remarks at a campaign event in Rollins College, Winter Park

6:30: Departs Orlando

8:20: Arrives at the White House

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AAReports: Rev. Al Sharpton excoriated Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday who have been critical of President Barack Obama. He went after Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat, as 2008 Clinton supporters who were never supporters of President Obama in 2008, so it should not be surprising that both members of Congress are critical of the president today.

the soviet union is rising!

ThinkProgress: Of all the candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination, Rep. Michele Bachmann perhaps has the most colorful record of flubbing historical facts … today, on the right-wing Christian attorney Jay Sekulow’s radio show, the congresswoman evinced a far more disturbing lack of basic knowledge about world history. Specifically, Bachmann said the American people are worried about “the rise of the Soviet Union.”

Apparently no one’s told her that America’s one-time Cold War nemesis has not existed for 20 years:

BACHMANN: What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward. And especially with this very bad debt ceiling bill, what we have done is given a favor to President Obama and the first thing he’ll whack is five hundred billion out of the military defense at a time when we’re fighting three wars. People recognize that.

In December 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 separate countries. It’s hard to believe Bachmann that the American people live in continued terror of an “evil empire” that no longer exists.

Thank you Loriah

he’s going to slash social security & medicare!!

Oh, wait……

From an interview with KING 5′s Jean Enersen (king5.com)

meet mr bachmann

Think Progress: When trying to figure out where presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) gets her stringent, anti-gay views, you only have to look as far as her husband. Dr. Marcus Bachmann, who has described himself as his wife’s “strategist,” runs a Christian-based counseling center in Minnesota that has been rumored to offer reparative treatment for those looking to “ungay” themselves….

….After seeing her husband’s virulent remarks, it’s no surprise then that Michele Bachmann has fiercely disparaged the gay community and has announced she’s in favor of an anti-gay marriage amendment on the campaign trail. What’s the most terrifying isn’t what Dr. Bachmann said, but the threat that the United States could elect a president who believes that homosexuality can be disciplined out of someone.

More here and more at Raw Story

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