Fantasy Politics USA

A Political Blog with a Presidential Fantasy Game


Archive for July, 2009

An old interview with then, just elected Senator Barack Obama, has been released on YouTube by Naked Emperor News that shows Obama was against rushing bills through when the President was a Bush. The interview is from November 22, 2004, and was with Randi Rhodes of Air America. Here some transcripts from the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Democratic Congressman John Conyers told a group at a National Press Club luncheon he sees no reason to read bills Congress passes. Claims they are to long. “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill,’” Conyers said. “What good is reading the […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Part 1;

Part 2;

Read the rest of this entry »

Tweet Your Senator About Health Care

Monday, July 27th, 2009

President Obama has set up his web site so that you can tweet your Senator to tell them that we need health reform now. They pick what you are to say, you just click the buttons. Or you can do like I did, and change it to say whatever you want to your […]

Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama’s Weekly Address 7/24/09

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

From the White House; “The President discusses a key factor that has been considered in the development of the health insurance reform proposals that are being considered: the impact of reform on small business. Go to WhiteHouse.gov to read a new Council of Economic Advisers report and give your feedback. July 25, 2009. (Public Domain)”

Read the rest of this entry »

Presidential Press Conference

Friday, July 24th, 2009

This is President Obama’s press conference from July 22, 2009. He talked about health care and the arrest of his Harvard friend Henry Gates. What I find funny about this is it comes from MSNBC, but I found it on the Obama/Biden YouTube site.

Read the rest of this entry »

“Canadian comedian Greg Morton weighs in on the current financial crisis and how President Obama plans to get us out of it.” www.bobandtom.com

Read the rest of this entry »

Political Quote For The Day

Friday, July 24th, 2009

“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Will Unemployment Sink the Obama Agenda?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

“The Nation’s Washington, D.C. Correspondent, John Nichols, explains how the rising rates of unemployment could imperil The Obama Presidency. Nichols looks at the political risks of joblessness, and discusses the need for a second stimulus.”

Read the rest of this entry »

Democrat Russ Carnahan, who represents the third district of Missouri, was heckled at a recent Town Hall meeting when he started talking about his views on the health care plan before Congress. This was at a meeting on July 20th in St. Louis. He was heckled because he stated the Congressional Budget […]

Read the rest of this entry »