Subject: Barack Obama

• Yeah, Obama Won, and Why This Liberal Doesn't Give a Damn.

  November 5, 2008

• Hot Links: Obama Gets to Work and Receives Challenge From Russia, Local Election Officials Still Counting Votes, Massachusetts Voters Decriminalize Pot

  November 6, 2008

• Mothers Against Illegal Aliens' Michelle Dallacroce Calls It Quits, for Now.

  November 13, 2008

• Chuck D on Barack Obama and "Fight the Power"

  February 19, 2009

• Deez Nutz: Philip Berg, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Challenger and 9/11 Nutjob

  Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he'll be the Prez, and there's nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in this country. Take, for example, Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, a former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general, and a supporter of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Presidential primary. Berg is currently pursuing a quixotic lawsuit aimed a proving that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of

  November 18, 2008

• Barack Obama to Take Fireside Chats into the 21st Century with Weekly YouTube Clips

  President-Elect Barack Obama is showing his social savvy in the Digital Age. As reported in The Washington Post last week, Obama not only put his weekly Democratic address on YouTube last Saturday, but plans to regularly post online Q&A videos and interviews both at his Web site, change.gov, and on the popular video Web site, YouTube. The next step, say political observers and YouTube head of news and politics, Steve Grove, is an Internet video version of the "fireside chats" first popularized on radio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944.

  November 18, 2008

• Fear of a Black Prez and Crazy White Folks with Guns

  Why worry? As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white people? Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun stores by crazed crackers who believe the new black President-elect will take their firearms away shortly after he's sworn in. In a piece for the Republic this week that echoed similar stories by the national press, an Apache Junction gun store owner said of the boom, "the day after the election, it w

  November 20, 2008

• Hot Links: State Dems to Obama: Take Jan Brewer Away; More Drug Tunnels at the Border; British Couple Escape Jail for Dubai Beach Sex

  They can't be serious. Democrats want Barack Obama to appoint Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer to some cushy federal post -- doesn't matter which one -- so she won't be governor when Janet Napolitano abandons the state to run Homeland Security. When that doesn't work maybe state Dems will just offer to write Brewer a million-dollar check to turn down Janet's job. Other stuff being reported out there today: Smugglers digging their way to big profits. Bailout money is being put to work on the

  November 25, 2008

• Rotting from the Head Down: Joe Arpaio's Barack Obama Dis and an MCSO Deputy's Wish for "the JFK Syndrome"

  Let's just hope the MCSO never has to help protect President-elect Obama. By now, many of you have already read about our corrupt top constable Sheriff Joe Arpaio's flipping the verbal bird to President-elect Barack Obama and his soon-to-be U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Concerning his ethnic profiling sweeps and raids, Arpaio told the Phoenix Business Journal that, "I'm not stopping," and if folks have complaints, they can, "take them to the FBI." That's straight from the gob

  December 18, 2008

• Why the Huffington Post Needs to Get Over Chip Saltsman and "Barack the Magic Negro"

  Is Barack really "the magic negro"? Considering the state of the economy, let's hope so. The liberal political correctness posse over at the Huffington Post is doing backflips of fake outrage over RNC Chairman hopeful Chip Saltsman's sending out a humor CD to Republican committee members -- one that included the Paul Shanklin parody Barack the Magic Negro, set to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon. Actually, there's probably some real outrage mixed in with the fake stuff. The most I can go with

  December 29, 2008

• Obama Cookie Makes a Comeback at Tammie Coe

  Before the election, the stretch of Roosevelt around 6th Street seemed unusually busy, no doubt due to the Obama campaign headquarters located in an old house, amid the art galleries and shops. Brilliantly, pastry guru Tammie Coe -- whose shop is right across the street -- came up with Obama logo cookies, which surely inspired some jaywalking. Well, those cookies are back, just in time for Inauguration Day. The victory still seems sweet, doesn't it?   

  January 19, 2009

• The Top 5 Most Over-the-Top Pieces of Obamabilia

  Be honest: You've had a sip. You know what I'm talking about--you've taken a little tug from that sweet, refreshing Obama Kool-Aid. It's OK -- most of us have. And things will hit a fever pitch today, what with the inauguration and the excitement over you-know-who taking off for pastures more Texan and less Presidential. To commemorate your crush, here are the 5 most ludicris, over-the-top pieces of Obama gear that the most balls-out loyalists should own:

  January 20, 2009

• Young Jeezy and Jay-Z: "My President Is Black" (Live)

  I'm not sure I've seen anything that sums up the raucous atmosphere surrounding the Obama inauguration better than this live video for "My President is Black" with Young Jeezy and Jay-Z (a.k.a. Old Jeezy), which I came across over on The Village Voice's music blog, Sound of the City. If anything, it sure beats the hell out of that insufferable Will.i.am video that -- I swear it -- almost made me vote for McCain. On the jump.

  January 20, 2009

• Janet Napolitano Gets Prime Spot Behind Obama During Inaugural Speech

  Napolitano looks like she's enjoying herself at the inauguration.And, man, did she score a sweet spot to view Obama's speech -- right behind the new president.

  January 20, 2009

• Hot Links: Obama Reaches Out to Muslims on Arab TV; Brewer Hires Budget Director; Mobster Paul Schiro Sentenced

  Obama goes on Arabic TV with a message to Muslims, calling Al-Qaeda's ideas "bankrupt," and later sending his special envoy, George Mitchell, to the Middle East for a "listening tour." Eternal peace can't be far behind. Jan Brewer's new budget director -- she's more than just a pair of scissors. In the movie Goodfellas, Paulie says he doesn't want to "get fucked like Gribbs ... 70 years old and the fuckin' guy's gonna die in prison." But as with Paul Vario, the real mobster on which the characte

  January 27, 2009

• Obama's Aunt, Zeituni Onyango, Must Be Deported, Says Anti-Illegal-Immigration Group; Aunt has April Court Hearing

  Tom Pilston/The TimesObama's "Auntie Zeituni"An anti-illegal-immigration political group is calling on Barack Obama today to deport his aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who apparently remains an illegal immigrant fugitive from justice in Cleveland.Americans for Legal Immigration posted its "public demand" on its Web site, basically telling Obama he's a hypocrite if he won't have his aunt arrested and removed to her native Kenya:"Actions speak louder than words, Mr. President," said William Gheen. "If you

  February 2, 2009

• Hot Links: Obama Coming to Mesa; Terry Porter Out as Suns Coach; Taser Wins Patent Lawsuit

    President Obama's putting Mesa on the map -- for a few days, anyway -- with his planned Wednesday visit to a high school, and hundreds of people camp out for a chance to see him. We figured as much: Sources report that Terry Porter is history as the Phoenix Suns head coach. Shaq and Kobe Bryant take top honors at the 2009 NBA All-Star Game. A video of nutty woman who missed a flight in Hong Kong sweeps the world. Taser stings its competitor with a lawsui

  February 16, 2009

• Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's Token Nativist

  by Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.comBarack Obama's token nativist, among other things...With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that she's Barack Obama's token nativist. Best to think of her as a chunky, skunk-haired version of the Child Catcher from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But Nappy's not just after kids, she's after undocumented Hi

  February 16, 2009

• Hot Links: Obama Chooses Montelucia, Coyotes Reportedly for Sale, and a Monkey Mauling

  President Obama has arrived in the Valley, and he's cooling his heels at the new Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley. The resort is a change from the Biltmore, which has traditionally been politicos' resort of choice (except for George W. Bush, who always preferred the Royal Palms)...This spring, state lawmakers will consider a temporary hike in Arizona sales tax. Governor Jan Brewer's considering the increase as one of many ways to deal with the state's possible $2.4 billion deficit

  February 18, 2009

• Obama Says Plan Will Shore Up Foreclosures, Create Incentives in Housing Market

  President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at Dobson High School in Mesa that the $787 billion stimulus act he signed into law yesterday will create jobs and restore the housing market to stability.Though the speech was loaded with vague rhetoric, Obama focused on a few of the details he said would shore up the housing market by reducing foreclosures that lead to lower-than-normal neighborhood property values.The new law will save the homes of up to four million Americans from forecl

  February 18, 2009

• Barack Obama and the Anti-Arpaio Protesters at Dobson High, Dennis Gilman's Latest

  B-rock's recent visit to Mesa garnered loads of local coverage, some of which mentioned those who showed up to protest the President's stimulus package. But not much was said of the more than 100 there demanding that Obama do something about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's misuse of the federal government's 287(g) program, as well as Arpaio's persistent violations of individuals' civil and human rights. Fortunately, Dennis Gilman was in Mesa with his camera, and produced this mini-documentary of

  February 21, 2009

• Obama Returning to ASU to Give Spring Commencement Address

  President Obama is giving Air Force One another workout with his second schlep to the Valley in four months. Obama plans on giving the spring commencement address to about 8,000 Arizona State University students at 7 p.m. on May 13. More people will see the celeb-president than during his visit to Dobson High School last month, but the closed graduation ceremony will still leave plenty of well-wishers -- and protesters -- out in the heat. Here's the brief announcement from ASU Preside

  March 20, 2009

• Hot Links: Troops at Borders, Bobcats in Bars, and Burgers

  At a senate committee hearing Wednesday, senators both praised and poked holes in President Obama's plan to send more troops to border states to combat Mexican drug cartels and associated violence, but Arizona Senator John McCain lauded Mexico President Felipe Calderon's efforts to combat the cartels...Despite budget cuts, the Maricopa County Community College District governing board voted 4-1 against a tuition hike. The proposed increase would have generated $12.5 million in additional fun

  March 26, 2009

• Obama on Noggin Channel for Kids is No April Fool's Day Joke

  Cable's Nickelodeon Channel suddenly turned political before last year's election, and its spin-off channel for pre-schoolers, Noggin, featured Obama spots for Black History Month.But now it's April, and blatant Obama propaganda is still being run on Noggin, as we saw this morning. Here are the words to the short cartoon in the above link: Barack Obama is the first African-American to be President. That is what's called a historic event. Leading a country is no easy task. So what does he do

  April 1, 2009

• Hot Links: Recycling, Nosebreakers, and Potty Peepers

  ASU is bucking tradition a bit by declining to offer the keynote speaker at its next graduation commencement ceremony an honorary degree, even though that speaker is President Barack Obama. An ASU spokesperson says honorary degrees are conferred upon people with a large body of work, and Obama's "body of work is yet to come"...Waste Management of Arizona starts building a recycling plant in Surprise today. The new facility is expected to create 100 construction jobs and about 35 permanent positi

  April 9, 2009

• Right-Wing Extremist Violence Possible as Left Gets Its Way, Napolitano's Homeland Security Warns

  A new report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns of a "resurgence" in violent right-wing extremism, driven by economic and political factors such the election of President Obama. The hardscrabble economy, the return from war zones of "disgruntled" veterans, illegal immigration and the possibility of gun control all provide fodder for right-wing nuts who may join militias or act as "lone wolf" assailants, the report warns. The report worries that religious and political ze

  April 14, 2009

• Arizona Voters Reject Education Cuts in New Poll, Open to Temporary Sales Tax Hike to Heal Budget

  Most Arizona voters hate the idea of cutting education to help balance the state's budget, says a new poll by KAET-TV and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Sixty-nine percent of respondents answered "education" to the question, "The one area in which I think cuts should NOT be made in is..." The second runner-up was public safety, at 10 percent. The poll, conducted from April 23-26, also shows healthy support for a temporary boost in state sales tax. Q

  April 29, 2009

• Alice Cooper Joins Obama at ASU Graduation Wednesday

  As the press release announcing Alice Cooper's appearance at Arizona State's graduation ceremony Wednesday says, the local shock-rocker has played on some pretty big bills: John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix. Even Pele.All big, but not Barack Obama big.Cooper will perform "School's Out" for  63,000 people at ASU's commencement ceremonies at Sun Devil Stadium, backed by Runaway Phoenix, the band his son Dash Cooper (ASU Class of '10) is in, after the commencemen

  May 11, 2009

• Hot Links: Border Tunnels, Wind Turbines, and Dr. Burger

  U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 53 illegal immigrants on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation Friday, while a separate incident lead to the discovery of a smuggling tunnel, fifty feet north of the border in Nogales. The tunnel is the 11th tunnel near the border to be discovered since October 2008...30 wind turbines have been constructed between Holbrook and Heber. The turbines are Arizona's first, and will begin providing energy to Salt River Project customers later this year...Former Peoria

  May 12, 2009

• Hot Links: Warner Meets Obama, Yearbook Insults, and STDs

  Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner met with President Barack Obama yesterday prior to Obama's speech at ASU. Obama invited Warner to play basketball with him at the White House, and Warner offered to pray for Obama's family...L. William Seidman, former business school dean at Arizona State University and a CNBC commentator, died yesterday in New Mexico. Seidman was 88...The Maricopa County Sheriff''s Office is asking for the public's help in finding a suspect wanted for child molestation.

  May 14, 2009

• Supreme Court Pick by Obama is Sonia Sotomayor; Janet Napolitano was Rumored to be Among Candidates

    The rumor mill had Janet Napolitano as a potential Supreme Court justice nominee, but President Barack Obama today chose Sonia Sotomayor as his choice. Looks like the former Arizona governor will have to to slog it out with border-reform activists and angry conservatives for a while longer as Homeland Security secretary.    

  May 26, 2009

• Barack Obama's Shame: Joe Arpaio Wrecks Families, Wounds a Business, Makes a Little Girl Cry, All with Federal Authority

  Dennis Gilman's account of Joe Arpaio's car wash raid, and an interview with one of Arpaio's littlest victims. This Saturday, while real cops were out hunting down murderers, rapists, burglars, and so on, Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- true to his nickname, "Nickel Bag Joe" -- was at Lindstrom Family Auto Wash in Phoenix as his thugs with badges chased down immigrants and non-immigrants working there, corralled them like animals, and sifted through them until they had those they wan

  June 15, 2009

• White House Delays Immigration Powwow (Again), and Why U.S. Hispanics Need to Raise Some Hell

  Wanna snag the administration's attention? Borrow a page from the (peaceful) protesters in Iran. So I've just thumbed through a passel of recent White House statements and releases, looking for something about that big immigration meetup that President Barack Obama was supposed to have with Congressional leaders Wednesday, June 17. You know, the one originally scheduled for June 8, which I mentioned at the tail end of my June 5 blog, "White House Staffer Disappoint

  June 18, 2009

• Obama: Country Needs to Boost Border Security and "Clarify" Status of Millions of Illegal Immigrants

  President Obama seemed to express support for major immigration reform during a speech at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. this morning, promising better border security and a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants. Obama says, "we're taking steps to strengthen border security, and we must build on those efforts. We must also clarify the status of millions who are here illegally, many who have put down roots."

  June 19, 2009

• Barack Obama Makes Joe Arpaio's Pal Janet Napolitano Point Woman for Immigration Reform, 287(g) Ignored

  President Obama's remarks after the White House immigration summit today While it was gratifying to see President Barack Obama's much-delayed summit on immigration take place today, and for the President to declare after the meeting that, "My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform," the message was still one of "hurry up and wait," with nothing promised to alleviate the persecution and resultant suffering of the undocumented in this state or an

  June 25, 2009

• Barack Obama, Hypocrite on Racial Profiling: While Obama Defends Prof Pal, Mexicans Are Rounded Up Like Cattle

  from the White House Obama cares about racial profiling when it's a pal from Harvard. How about when it's a Latino in Maricopa County?  You don't have to be a Harvard prof to note the smiling hypocrisy of President Barack Obama's comments last night on racial profiling. Just hours after Obama defended his Cambridge pal Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a presidential press conference, and spanked the Cambridge cops for acting "stupidly" in arresting the prominent African-America scholar

  July 23, 2009

• July 23 In Blogs: Bill Maher, Barack Obama, The Voodoo Organist, and Electronic Cigarettes

   In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Bill Maher Interview of Janet Napolitano Focus of Demo by Immigration Activists Barack Obama, Hypocrite on Racial Profiling: While Obama Defends Prof Pal, Mexicans Are Rounded Up Like Cattle Up on the Sun: The Voodoo Organist Comes To Trunk Space August 29 fun. Releases New Song, Sets Secon

  July 23, 2009

• July 29 In Blogs: Barack Obama, Pat Benatar, Gazpacho, and Mayor Gordon

  ​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Barack Obama's Birth Certificate, and Why J.D. Hayworth Should Read National Review Joe Arpaio Beats Barack Obama in Rasmussen Poll? They Don't Call It Ari-bama for Nuthin' Up on the Sun: Pat Benatar Went Through the Motions, Blondie Rocked, and The Donnas Backed Out at Dodge Theatre New L

  July 29, 2009

• Orly Taitz and KFYI's J.D. Hayworth, Wacko Birthers of a Feather

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you require any further proof that the so-called birthers, the conservanut conspiracy tards who believe President Barack Obama is an illegal alien, are complete and utter wackos, look no further than California attorney Orly Taitz, her recent implosion on MSNBC, and her dissemination of a fake Kenyan birth certificate for the POTUS. Taitz was recently a guest on the afternoon talk-radio show of Phoenix birther J.

  August 5, 2009

• KFYI's Barry Markson Eats Birthers for Breakfast, and Orly Taitz's Online Law Degree

  from the OC Weekly J.D. Hayworth pal Orly Taitz: Dentist, lawyer and nutbar supreme​ With KFYI being the home of conservatard puddin' head and "birfer" (yeah, I'm spellin' it right) J.D. Hayworth, whodathunk it that KFYI would also prove to be the voice of reason in the birther debate? At least that was the deal when Phoenix legal beagle Barry Markson was sitting in for far-right alter kocker Barry Young on July 28. On that day, Markson, with the assistance of Young's usu

  August 6, 2009

• Hot Links: Obama's AZ Visit, the Taylor Fire, and a Dozen Babies

  ​Six pilots violated air space restrictions during President Obama's visit to Arizona on Sunday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA restricted air space within a 30-mile radius of Sky Harbor, allowing only scheduled airline flights and emergency aircraft. The pilots who violated the restrictions could be penalized with anything from a warning to a revocation of their licenses. Meanwhile, President Obama is scheduled to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Arizona at t

  August 17, 2009

• Obama Ordered Shots After Downing Margarita, Says Macayo's Staff

  ​ A TMZ.com article headlined "Obama Graduates to the Hard Stuff" pokes fun at the president for slurping down a magarita with his family this weekend at the local landmark restaurant, Macayo's. But the gossip site doesn't fully report how much hard stuff Obama reportedly had. According to a Channel 12 (KPNX-TV) news broadcast on Saturday night, Obama and Michelle each drank a fully loaded "tres margarita" during dinner. (Side note from the Grammar Police: We have to bust the chops of an

  August 17, 2009

• Macayo's, President Obama's Phoenix Dinner Pick, Only Rated "Silver" in Recent County Health Inspections

    ​The Arizona Republic has already noted that Macayo's, which was President Barack Obama's pick for Mexican food on Saturday night, is not the gold standard of Mexican food in the Valley. A quick check of Maricopa County's restaurant-inspection Web site shows how true that is. The Central Avenue landmark eatery scored only a "silver" rating in May, the last time county inspectors checked it out. The previous inspection in January also came up silver, on

  August 17, 2009

• Guns at Obama Protest Scare Folks, but Cops Say No Laws Were Broken

    Image: Wikimedia Commons Colt AR-15 similar to the one carried by an Obama protester today in Phoenix ​ A man carried an AR-15 assault rifle across his back to the Phoenix Convention Center, where President Barack Obama spoke today. Fortunately for gun-rights advocates, the armed dude was an African-American, a fact that's bound to reduce the tone of criticism in the media. The man, identified in the Arizona Republic only as "Chris," told the media he brought the heav

  August 17, 2009

• Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, Republican Mike Harris, Nativist Craig Tillman, and Scores More Nuts Star in Video from Obama's VFW Visit

  from usadefender1's YouTube site Thar he blows! Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready spouts off, as Republican Mike Harris looks on​There was so much attention paid to anarcho-libertarian AR-15 bearer Christopher Broughton in the wake of President Barack Obama's visit to Phoenix last Monday that some of the other nuts are, I'm certain, feeling a bit neglected. So take a gander at this seriously deranged video from a nativist wackjob who goes by the name of usadefender1, and is known for infiltratin

  August 25, 2009

• August 26 In Blogs: President Barack Obama, Rocky Horror, Joe's Farm Grill, and Animal Attraction

  ​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Christopher Broughton's Pastor Steven Anderson Prays for President Barack Obama's Death Up on the Sun: Scottsdale's Afro:Baile Records Preps Third Comp CD, Party The Rocky Horror Picture Show Returns to Mill Avenue and Finds New Home at Madcap Theaters Chow Bella: There's Something Fishy i

  August 26, 2009

• Letter to Obama Urges End to 287(g), Signed by 521 Organizations

  from the White House President Obama gets whacked, but from the left this time​A just-released letter to President Barack Obama endorsed by a diverse group of 521 civil rights, legal and cultural organizations -- including the ACLU, the ADL, MALDEF, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Episcopal Church -- calls on the president to "immediately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland Security." Signed by Marielena Hincapie, executive director

  August 26, 2009

• Arizona Tea Party Puddin' Heads; Plus, Russell Pearce Says Joe Arpaio Won't Run for Guv, Despite Business Journal Report

  From left, Jack Harper, Dean Martin, Russell Pearce, and John Huppenthal Obama is a Nazi. Obama is a commie. Obama is a pirate. (Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.) Obama is a socialist. Obama is the Joker from The Dark Night. (You know, Heath Ledger) Yadda-yadda-yadda. Such was the refrain from the September 15 tea party-animals at the Arizona State Capitol, which featured a panel of politicos, such as gubernatorial hopeful and State Treasurer Dean Martin, state Senator Russell Pearce, s

  September 12, 2009

• An MCSO Officer Craves an Alleged Terrorist’s John Hancock, Plus Religious Insanity at Phoenix Symphony Hall

  October 22, 2009

• Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action

  by Ernesto Yerena This time, they're protesting Barack The third time's the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha returns to the Arizona capital to lead a National Day of Action. Will people be marching against Joe Arpaio and the 287(g) program? Nope, says Reza. "Joe's a has-been," said Reza, who's so far organized two such demonstrations

  October 27, 2009