Too late for Obama to turn it around? What a difference a month makes! When my last controversial column posted on Salon in the second week of August, most Democrats seemed frozen in suspended animation, not daring to criticize the Obama administration’s bungling of healthcare reform lest it give aid and comfort to the GOP. […]

Why did the press ignore the Van Jones scandal? On March 13, 2008, ABC News broke the story that Barack Obama’s longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, had made a number of incendiary statements from the pulpit of Obama’s church in Chicago. The most inflammatory of those remarks was Wright’s notorious “God damn America” sermon. […]

Obama ‘green jobs’ adviser quits amid controversy President Barack Obama’s adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday. Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs” with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the […]

White House tight-lipped about Obama adviser The White House is taking a mostly tight-lipped stance on an environmental adviser who made inflammatory statements in the past and is linked to efforts suggesting a governmental role in the 2001 terror attacks. Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly “green jobs,” issued a statement of […]

Obama Critic Gives MoveOn the Finger — Doesn’t Get It Back Well, William Rice didn’t actually give MoveOn the finger — his pinky was forcibly removed by an Obamacare supporter’s teeth. Rice, a 65-year-old real-estate appraiser from Newbury Park, Calif., expected some heated arguments when he went to a health care protest in Thousand Oaks. […]

Obama Calls Islam Part of America at White House Ramadan Dinner President Barack Obama highlighted the contributions made by Muslims to American culture and the “dynamism and diversity” of the Islamic community. “Islam, as we know, is part of America,” Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. [“Islam […]