Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
November 24, 2010

President Barack Obama has pardoned the 2010 National Thanksgiving Tofurky® in a ceremony in the Vegetable Garden on the South Lawn of the White House.
The mock-turkey vegetable roast will not be consumed by the First Family but will frolic with leftover arugula and endive from the presidential holiday meal in the Official White House Compost Heap.
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November 8, 2010

The White House Soup of the Day for October 27, 2010, via MSNBC and FishbowlDC:
Dal Qureshi (delivered to the working White House press in India).
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October 26, 2010

The White House Soup of the Day for October 26, 2010, via MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
Minestrone.
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September 29, 2010

The White House Soup of the Day for September 29, 2010, via MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
Mushroom Florentine.
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September 22, 2010

White House Soup of the Day for September 22, 2010, as reported by MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
Split Pea.
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September 22, 2010

Writer Dinesh D’Souza has clearly removed himself from legitimate intellectual discourse with his breathtakingly logic-free cover story in Forbes magazine. “How Obama Thinks” is simply beneath contempt.
D’Souza alleges President Obama has somehow inherited a “rage” against capitalism and Western civilization with “roots” in the (unverified) opinions of the president’s Kenyan father, whom he pictures as some kind of over-educated neo-Mau Mau. This despite the fact that Barack Obama never knew his father, and has written about that at length. This despite the fact that no one has isolated a genetic basis for “anti-colonial rage.”
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September 15, 2010

White House Soup of the Day for September 15, 2010, as reported by MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
Leek.
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September 10, 2010

White House Soup of the Day for September 10, 2010, as reported by MSNBC and Fishbowl DC:
New England Clam Chowder.
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August 27, 2010

White House Soup of the Day for August 27, 2010, from MSNBC via Betsy Rothstein:
Corn and Crab chowder.
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August 19, 2010

The White House Soup of the Day, served up by MSNBC‘s Savannah Guthrie and Chuck Todd (via Betsy Rothstein of FishbowlDC):
Chicken Tortilla.
¡Delicioso!
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