Barack Obama

Jan Brewer Times Three? Ten Reasons Jan Should Run for an Unconstitutional Third Term

Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer's Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints He ... More >>

Will the United States Fall Off the "Fiscal Cliff?"

Watching the debates among Congress-folks about how to solve the "Fiscal Cliff" problem, we can't help but think of Thelma and Louise. It's hard to believe these characters are going to figure out what to do. Cancel new taxes and play dice with the public's health? Make deep spending cuts nobody wa ... More >>

Catholic Conundrum: What's an Anti-Abortion, Pro-Immigrant Voter to Do?

Ken Bennett's "Birther" Request Shows the Insanity of Arizona's GOP

Paul Babeu Turns Distortion of Truth Into an Art Form

Joe Arpaio Birther Posse Probes President Obama's Birth Certificate

Obama ain't getting anything past master-sleuth Sheriff Joe and his crack team of birther probersIn a bizarre new stab at courting conspiracy nuts who believe President Barack Obama is a Kenyan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has empowered a "birther posse" to look into claims by wackadoodles such as World Net ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Dead: Debbie Schlussel Calls for Killing 1.8 Billion Muslims; Let the Crackpot Raving Begin!

Who do the wingnuts hate more, Osama or Obama? That's easy, Obama!In the wake of President Barack Obama's announcement that terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces during a firefight in Pakistan, I have a few predictions.The first is a given: traitorous right-wing nut ... More >>

Barack Obama Chats with Jan Brewer, as Joe Arpaio Pulls Another Anti-Immigrant Stunt

Brewer and Obama, palling it up: If this doesn't gall Latinos and liberals, what will?It was all way too polite, and obviously calculated by the White House in an attempt to protect President's right flank.I mean Governor Jan Brewer's meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House today. Thi ... More >>

New President, New Rules for State of the Union Drinking Game

Drink up​For anyone trying to fit the role of responsible citizen and is planning on watching the president's State of the Union speech tonight but can't bare the thought of sitting through a self-serving speech filled with rhetoric and boredom, there's a solution: turn it into a drinking game.The ... More >>

State Representative Judy Burges Proposes "Birther" Bill for Arizona

www.frankowenspaintbrush.com​Representative Judy Burges is at it again. The Skull Valley Republican, who's introduced such laughable legislation as the "I didn't pay enough fund," which asks taxpayers to donate money to the state to help Arizona out of it's current financial nightmare, ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 24, 2009

9/11 "Troof," Ed Begley, Jr., and Why Van Jones Needed to Go

Ed Begley, Jr. disowns his past troofer connections, while discussing Van Jones' political seppuku Eight years following the 9/11 attacks, with a new president under our belts, all lefties still clinging to the conspiranoid fantasy that "9/11 was an inside job," need to either do full mea culpas a ... More >>

8 Places for President Obama to Try on His Next Phoenix Visit

Call me a shameless arugula eater, but I still can't get over the Obama family's choice of dinner destination when they were in Phoenix this past Saturday night: Macayo's Mexican Kitchen on Central Avenue, the flagship among the Southwestern chain's 18 locations. Seriously? Sure, Macayo's has b ... More >>

Rise Against: Nazi Wingnuts or Just Plain Lazy?

Jessica TestaRise Against at Mesa Amphitheater. See more shots in this Rise Against slide show.If you thought skinhead punk was a fringe phenomenon occurring only in clannish groups like the one depicted in American History X, think again. Chicago punk act Rise Against appeared to send a clear mess ... More >>

Barack Obama Threatened, Reviled at Tea Bag Hate-Fest at Arizona Capitol

So, who doesn't belong in this picture?I'm not sure what the highlight of Wednesday's big tea-bag-Obama-hate-fest at the Capitol was for me. Was it the high-school girl carrying a sign comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin? Or the belligerent dork talking to state Senat ... More >>

Obama Cartoon Controversy: Community College Student Newspapers Under Attack by Governing Board, Says Scottsdale Faculty Member

Controversy over an editorial cartoon that some say makes President Obama look like a monkey is blowing up into a fight over control of student newspapers at local community colleges. At a Tuesday meeting of the Maricopa Community College District Governing Board,  ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 th ... More >>

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.

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 l ... More >>

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 tha ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 shor ... More >>

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 attor ... More >>

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 pl ... More >>

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

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

Jubilance Over Historic Presidential Vote

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

Hip-Hop Hooray

A Backyard Party for Barack: AZ Rocks the Hope at the Lost Leaf on Saturday, October 25

What the Obama Campaign and Joe Arpaio Have in Common

Obama and McCain Bust Some Gut-Busting Moves in B-Boy Parody Dance Off

Barack the Vote

Local creative types back the “cool” candidate

Pop Goes Obama: Why B-Rock Is the Coolest Presidential Candidate Since Bill Clinton

Hot Links: Obama Out-Debates McCain, Arpaio's Goons Target Mesa Library, Stone's W. Shows Bush as Party Boy.

Janet Napolitano Leaps to Sarah Palin's Defense, and I Think I'm Going to Puke.

National Tally: Obama, 71 McCain, 38. Even Fox News Prefers Obama

John McCain's older than AARP and the Golden Gate Bridge"

Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 21, 2008

Rush Limbaugh and all the other wing-nuts hate John McCain, and that's good for the Dems.

Presidential contender Barack Obama rocks Phoenix's Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The New Times Friday Poll: Who're you feelin' right now, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Rudy Giuliani?