Tag: Barack Obama

• Keeping It Positive on Inauguration Day: Warning–Contains Snark and Snark Byproducts

  

  I don’t trust politicians. I didn’t trust Barack Obama. I don’t trust Donald Trump. For those who say Trump is not a politician, well, he is now. What I do trust, though, is the process. I trust the process of transition and change. I trust the beauty of free speech and protest. I trust the…

  Jamie Greening

  January 20, 2017

  All, Culture, politics

  Barack Obama, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, Inauguration, Inauguration Day, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama George Bush, POTUS

• PIZZERIA FAKE NEWS STORY FREE ASSOCIATION EXERCISE

  yeah, i’m looking at you NPRThe story sounds like a drug-inspired paranoia trip. But here it goes. Some conspiracy whack jobs on the interwebs told everyone that a pizza shop in Washington D.C. was a front for child-sex trafficking and satanic illuminati shenanigans. The conspiracy loons said Hillary Clinton was involved. Their mindless bilge was all propagated…

  Jamie Greening

  December 8, 2016

  All, Books, Culture, politics

  Barack Obama, believability, character, Comet Ping Pong Pizza, facebook, Fake News, Hillary Clinton, novels, plot, social media, Twitter, Writing

• POST ELECTION ANALYSIS

    The only thing more fun (politically speaking) than making election predictions is analyzing them after they happen.  It also gives those of us who love this kind of stuff the opportunity to explain why we were so wrong.  In fact, the subtitle for this blog could be “WHY I WAS WRONG BUT TRUST ME…

  Jamie Greening

  November 7, 2012

  politics

  Barack Obama, CNN, election analysis, FOXNEWS, John King, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, President Obama, Rachel Maddow

• PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND MY OWN PERSONAL CRYSTAL BALL

  For starters, my crystal ball is sometimes dim and cloudy, but what does it matter?  This post will have a short shelf life anyway.  By Wednesday morning we will know more than now.  However, for the past 20 years or so I have made election predictions.  I have been right the previous four.  The last…

  Jamie Greening

  November 5, 2012

  All, Culture, politics

  Barack Obama, elections, Mitt Romney, Ohio, Pennsylvania, polls, Presidential elections, Wisconsin