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Weekly Wednesdays: Best Presidential Listicles
For only the second time in these soon-to-be-over aughts, America had two different presidents in one week, giving the Interweb twice the fodder for more-or-less political list-making. Parsing through our online colleagues’ output for our weekly catch-up listicle Weekly Wednesdays, we came across a sampling of the most obscure policy points, tangential pop cultural tie-ins, [...]
10 Goals for Obama’s First Term
Call it the backlash against the backlash: after heaping wild hopes on president-elect Obama, and then turning around and professing in a disenchanted manner that he’ll invariably disappoint us, we’re now back to piling on the starry-eyed expectations.
That said, here at Listicles we prefer unreasonable expectations to presumed disappointment, in which spirit we pass along [...]
10 Reasons Why George W. Bush Was a Successful President
The devout defenders of democracy (often by way of satire) over at Wonkette entered the fray of blogs posting Bush retrospectives last night with their rebuttal to a non-satirical Weekly Standard piece entitled “Bush’s Achievements: Ten things the president got right.”
Wonkette and The Weekly Standard highlight the same ten Bush policy points, but for obvious [...]
