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Poll: Americans Want Obama to Nominate New Supreme Court Justice
Jordan Sargent · 03/03/16 12:00PMBarack Obama Is Going to SXSW (Embarrassing)
Ashley Feinberg · 03/02/16 02:38PMThe Only Way Republicans Win This Supreme Court Fight Is by Confirming Barack Obama's Nominee
Jay Willis · 02/24/16 02:25PMBen Carson Says Barack Obama Was "Raised White"
Jordan Sargent · 02/23/16 11:05AMIn an interview with Politico, conducted on Saturday as the results of the Republican primary in South Carolina rolled in, Ben Carson argued that Barack Obama didn’t really grow up black. Here’s the exchange, which began when Politico’s Glenn Thrush asked Carson if he “derived any pride, any sense of joy” out of Obama winning the 2008 election:
'We Are All Mixed-Race People,' Says an Unchaperoned Bill Clinton
Melissa Cronin · 02/14/16 01:17PMBill Fucking Clinton Accuses Bernie Supporters of Sexism
Allie Jones · 02/08/16 12:15PMPresident Obama Bans Use of Solitary Confinement for Juveniles
Brendan O'Connor · 01/25/16 08:55PMSarah Palin Says Her Son Was Arrested Because Obama Doesn't Care About Veterans
Jordan Sargent · 01/20/16 04:10PMToday at a Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma, Sarah Palin addressed what she called “the elephant in the room”: her son Track’s particularly ill-timed arrest on domestic violence and weapons charges, which she blamed on alleged negligence of veterans on the part of Barack Obama:
Obama's Last Chance to Admit He's Muslim/State of the Union Liveblog
Ashley Feinberg · 01/12/16 10:34PMAt 9 p.m., President Barack Hussein Obama will have his seventh and final chance to address the country about his Muslim roots in this year’s State of the Union address. Will the “non-traditional” speech consist entirely of interpretive dance? Is Kim Davis planning to streak? Will Obama reveal his Kenyan birth certificate for a final mic drop? And did Paul Ryan manage to get his shift covered at Hollister? We’re about to find out.
Will Obama Shapeshift Into His True Reptilian Vampire Form Tonight at His Final State of the Union? Perhaps! If So, Gawker Will Liveblog It!
Alex Pareene · 01/12/16 06:45PMTonight, at 9 p.m. Eastern, President Barack Obama will deliver his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. The White House has promised a “non-traditional speech.” It’s a stretch, but that could mean the outgoing president will reveal himself to be a member of an interdimensional race of shape-shifting reptilians, as this YouTube user suggests in an hour-long documentary, a portion of which is embedded above.
Analysis: Public Too Dumb to Hear the Truth About Terrorism
Hamilton Nolan · 01/12/16 11:41AMWhite House to Making a Murderer Fans: We Can't Pardon Avery for a State Crime, You Dummies
Andy Cush · 01/08/16 03:30PMIn recent days, nearly 130,000 Making a Murderer fans have signed a petition on the White House website asking President Obama to pardon Steve Avery, who was found guilty of the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2007. But Avery was convicted of a state crime, not a federal one, meaning Obama couldn’t even pardon him if he wanted to.
A Man Self-Identifying as Jesus Christ Tried to Kidnap President Obama’s Dog
Ashley Feinberg · 01/08/16 03:20PMScott Stockert, a man from North Dakota who is known to himself as “Jesus Christ,” was arrested after police received a tip that he’d traveled to Washington, D.C. with the express purpose of kidnapping First Dog Bo Obama. A fact that is deeply embarrassing for the Obamas’ other dog—you know the one.
The Right-Wing Obama Crying Conspiracy Theories Are Rolling In
Ashley Feinberg · 01/05/16 09:44PMObama to Take Executive Action Expanding Gun Background Checks
Brendan O'Connor · 01/04/16 07:00PMWhich Republican Candidate Hates Obama's Gun-Control Effort the Most?
Allie Jones · 01/04/16 01:09PMPresident Obama is currently starting one last effort for gun control, in his final year in office. Sometime in the next two weeks, he is expected announce an executive order to require more small gun sellers to do background checks, and he plans to pitch that idea and other gun-control measures to the American public at a CNN-televised town hall Thursday.
Obama to Seinfeld: Many World Leaders Are Completely Insane
Allie Jones · 12/31/15 10:18AMJerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee premiered online at Crackle last night with a very special episode featuring the president. They drove some old Corvette thing and walked around the White House lawn before Seinfeld asked a serious question: “How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind?”