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This Man Accidentally Underdressed for a Meeting With President Obama
Sam Biddle · 04/09/15 12:05PMObama Reads Mean Tweets About Himself, Talks Ferguson on Jimmy Kimmel
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/12/15 11:47PMObama: "We Know the March Is Not Over Yet"
Brendan O'Connor · 03/07/15 04:45PMPresident Barack Obama delivered a speech on Saturday from the Edmund Pettus Bridge—named for a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and site of what came to be known as "Bloody Sunday"—addressing race in America. "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique," he said, "but it's no longer endemic. It's no longer sanctioned by law or custom, and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was."
Obama to Propose Raising Taxes on Earnings Held Overseas
Brendan O'Connor · 02/01/15 04:06PMWatch Barack Obama Deliver the Best Burn in State of the Union History
Jordan Sargent · 01/20/15 10:28PMGranted, we have not reviewed every State of the Union address in the history of this great nation, but we're gonna go ahead and say that this is the greatest burn in the history of the spectacle.
The Gawker Guide to the State of the Union Guests
Leah Finnegan · 01/20/15 03:25PMEvery year, the president of America, Barack Saddam Hussein Obama, and other congresspeople choose a handful of Regular Joe (or Josephine, Jose, Josefina, etc) American citizens who have suffered some sort of trauma and/or are representative of an issue to take part in the Constitution's greatest mandate: that the president "shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Cool... but have you ever heard of texting?
Obama Wants to Make Community College Free For Everyone
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/08/15 08:48PMHere Are the Scumbags Blaming de Blasio and Obama for Slain Cops
Hudson Hongo · 12/21/14 03:45PMAfter shooting his girlfriend Saturday morning, 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley of Union City, Georgia traveled from Baltimore to New York and gunned down two NYPD officers, apparently in retaliation for recent police-related homicides. According to some commentators, however, Brinsley was only partially responsible for the murders, aided by accomplices Bill de Blasio and Barack Obama.
Here We Go--The Obamas Have Driven Out the Chef--Who's Next--The Dog?
Hamilton Nolan · 12/08/14 01:15PMStephen Colbert Booked Obama to Kick Off Penultimate Week of Report
Jay Hathaway · 12/05/14 03:25PMThe Dream That Never Was: Black Millennials and the Promise of Obama
Vann R. Newkirk II · 12/01/14 11:10AMTom Scocca · 11/26/14 01:12PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a post-Ferguson Thanksgiving proclamation for you: "Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land....Black people are the chastener of their own country. Their experience says to America, 'You wear the mask.'"
GOP Committee Agrees: Obama Didn’t Fuck Up Benghazi
J.K. Trotter · 11/21/14 06:24PMFor the past two years, the GOP-controlled House Committee on Intelligence has investigated the Obama administration’s role in the security and intelligence failures which preceded the September 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya—a perpetual source of bizarre right-wing conspiracies. Today the results are in: Obama officials did nothing wrong.
Barack Obama's Golf Habit Is the Cause of His Failed Presidency
Hamilton Nolan · 11/14/14 11:42AMMark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama Do Not Dress The Same
Leah Finnegan · 11/12/14 02:50PMBillionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who sells your private information for profit, was recently asked about his sartorial philosophy during a Facebook town hall—more specifically, why does the precocious genius behind the foremost destination for social networking choose to wear such simple, humble threads every day when he could be blinged out in bespoke sharkskin suits and a diamond necklace that reads "IKNOWEVERYTHINGBOUTUBITCH"?
Obama Acting Like a "Rapper" Shames America on the World Stage
Hamilton Nolan · 11/11/14 09:41AMObama to Jordan: My Golf Game Isn't as Shitty as Your NBA Team
Jay Hathaway · 11/05/14 02:11PMBen Stein, Who Is Horny, Thinks Obama Is Most Racist President
Andy Cush · 11/03/14 04:02PMMichael Jordan Says Obama Is "a Hack" and "a Shitty Golfer"
Jay Hathaway · 10/30/14 12:53PMMichael Jordan, G.O.A.T., briefly considered President Barack Obama for his dream golf foursome, but immediately changed his mind because Obama is "a shitty golfer."