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Maybe it was a dream and the Republican did win...

January 27, 2009 - Ah, bipartisanship... So President Obama heads to capital hill to talk to the GOP: "The goal is to seek their input. He wants to hear their ideas," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. "If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look...

Chat with an overzealous grassroots Obama organizer...LIVE!

January 26, 2009 - It's conceivable that without the Internet and the ability of the Obama campaign to harness Web users, Barack Obama might not have even been the Democratic nominee, much less president. Obama's "netroots" organization represented a sea change in the way modern campaigns are run. Now, with Obama in...

From The Room: Day One, A.B. (After Bush)

January 22, 2009 - New eras don't usually start right away. The Pleistocene Era didn't get going for at least 40,000 years, and the Sixties didn't really start until 1964. But the Obama Era kicked into gear right away. I could barely keep track of Day One. Here's what...

From The Room: Hail to the Chief!

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The first hundred minutes

January 21, 2009 - Barack Obama became president at 12 noon yesterday, and based on a review of his accomplishments in office by 1:40 PM, he's still got a lot of work to do. Obama's first hundred minutes were spent waving to people, walking around with the previous President (we didn...

The 23/6 "Pretend You Were At The Inauguration-o-Tron"

January 20, 2009 - Hey, were you at President Barack Obama's inauguration? Really, you were? No, you weren't, you rotten liar. But don't worry. We'll totally vouch for you, because we're lying to all our friends too. We weren't there, either...nope, we were cheering the ceremonies while...

23/6 Op-Ed: It's 12:13 PM, President Obama... where is my job?

January 20, 2009 - Dear Mr. President You have been commander-in-chief for seven minutes now, and we have one question for you: Where is our job? You promised to provide 3 million jobs and yet here we are, still drunk, unemployed and wearing Saturday night's pajamas. We have used this time...

Obama uses "smart diplomacy" against America's enemies

January 14, 2009 - Obama said during the campaign that he would be willing to sit down and meet with people who hate America and everything it stands for, and he's already kept his promise. Yesterday Obama went to the house of George Will and met with a group of America's enemies...

Great moments in presidential athletics

January 14, 2009 - Barack Obama loves his basketball, so much so that he's already taken heat for daring to suggest that the White House replace the Nixon-era bowling alley with a new basketball court. As it stands, the only place to shoot hoops at the White House is a small, poorly...

From The Room: Grace Bedell's Letter to Obama

January 8, 2009 - Perhaps you've noticed the incoming administration's attempts to identify with Abraham Lincoln. The references to Team of Rivals, riding the train to Washington for the inauguration, even planning to use the actual bible Lincoln used to take the oath of office. But the following letter...

From The Room: The 2009 Inaugur-o-tron Speech Maker

January 7, 2009 - My fellow Americans. At this proud moment, on this auspicious occasion dawning of a new era quadrennial federal holiday, in this biting cold freezing rain impenetrable fog...

23/6 Video: Our Negro President

January 6, 2009 - With Obama as our next president, what will it mean for the country? How will it affect our day-to-day lives? Does the color of our president's skin infringe on the inalienable rights that have been the bedrock of our nation since its birth? Yeah, of course. But...

Inaugural planners organizing "used condom cleanup team"

January 6, 2009 - Washington, DC. America's capital, symbol of our greatness, and once a year, a mecca for gay leather fetishists who visit for the annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend (celebrating its silver anniversary this year!). This year, the event (which...

Remembering the U.S. Civil War of 2010

December 29, 2008 - Think President Obama is going to solve all our problems? Think again. A Russian academic predicts that the United States is due for a complete economic and moral collapse, triggering a civil war and the eventual breakup of our nation as we know it. Igor Panarin, a Russian Foreign Ministry...

From The Room: January 20, 2009 (Listen)

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