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Wrong Tweeps All a Twitter About Obama Attack Watch #FAIL

Originally published September 20, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Wrong Tweeps All a Twitter About Obama Attack Watch #FAIL

I think it’s fair to say that Linda hasn’t been all that impressed with some of the social media venues like Facebook and Twitter heretofore. But, in the last few weeks, she has found that Twitter does has have a few charms…now and then. I can see why Linda has taken notice. First it was […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour, In the News Tagged With: attack watch, attack watch twitter, attackwatch.com, barack obama for president, chicago politics, fight the smears, government spying, gunrunner, iowahawk, jeremiah wright, obama 2012, obama campaign, obama eating your peas, obama for america, obama gunrunner, operation gunrunner, rev. wright, spying on people, tweets at attack watch, twitter humor

Short and Tweet: Iowa Blogger OWNS Obama, DC on Twitter, Mirth Ensues

Originally published August 21, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated March 9, 2012. 2 Comments

Short and Tweet: Iowa Blogger OWNS Obama, DC on Twitter, Mirth Ensues

  Linda’s article “Debt Ceiling: I Laugh Because I Must Not Cry, That is All!” at the end of June included an embedded video entitled “Eat the Rich”, which vividly illustrated how the class warfare cries for imposing higher taxes on “the rich” isn’t even close to the right approach to solving our increasing economic […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour Tagged With: back to school humor, budget control act of 2011, consequences of default, debt ceiling, debt limit, eat the rich, iowahawk, iowahawk's tweets, obama bus tour, obama foreign policy, obama new armored bus, obama nobel prize, political humor, shovel ready jobs, shovels and spoons, so you have a college diploma, tax the rich, twitter humor, unemployment numbers

Debt Ceiling: I Laugh Because I Must Not Cry — That is All!

Originally published June 30, 2011, By Linda. Updated August 2, 2015. Leave a Comment

Debt Ceiling: I Laugh Because I Must Not Cry — That is All!

Editor’s Note: This article is particularly timely considering statements by President Obama at a news conference yesterday (Thursday, June 29, 2011). For a transcript click here, for video, click here. This post is a conglomeration of thoughts around a common theme:  Current Congressional talks re raising the debt ceiling.  The title includes a quote attributed […]

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