Jodi Kantor’s The Obamas: Why the White House went medieval on it

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  January 22nd at 12:33 PM  | 

Something didn’t smell right. A woman with impeccable liberal credentials – Ivy League-educated, a former Slate staffer now writing for the New York Times, who lives in Brooklyn with her journalist hubby – pens a book about the Obamas’ marriage (The Obamas by Jodi Kantor). Sounds like an election year ad for The One’s re-election, right? But then suddenly, the Democratic Media (what many folks | Read More »

Obama the constitutional lawyer … ha

By: mikeparanzino (Diary)  |  June 19th at 02:03 AM  | 

“After several meetings and phone calls, the rival legal analyses were submitted to Mr. Obama, who is a constitutional lawyer, and he made the decision.” –The New York Times, June 17, 2011. One of the more hilarious fictions in President Barack Obama’s biography is that of him as a constitutional lawyer, scholar, professor and expert. It was used during his first presidential campaign to give | Read More »