Barack Obama
September 10, 2009
- Three days ago, in an essay about the scapegoating of green jobs advisor Van Jones, who was hounded out of office by wingnut Fox commentator Glenn Beck, I wrote this: We must act now to put a brake on scapegoating before it once again becomes the force that controls public life. The issue will not die down when headlines about Van Jones have faded. Now that Beck has tasted blood, his appetite ...
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September 9, 2009
- From taking one look at the House during the president's speech on health care this evening, one thing was quickly apparent. The era of bipartisanship is far from over and, clearly, a house divided is a one that can't stand.
At a time when the average working family has taken a harder hit than at any other time in our history with the exception of the 1930's, the U.S. became ...
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September 9, 2009
- The current uproar over President Obama's address to our nation's school children has me flummoxed. How could urging kids to stay in school and take responsibility for their own educations possibly be misconstrued as political propaganda? Whether a person agrees or doesn't agree with the President's politics, Barack Obama is the President of the United States and deserves all the respect ...
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September 9, 2009
- Holy crap, it's 9/9/09! Do you know what that means? Absolutely nothing really. I'm kidding!! Seriously, how often do numbers line up like that?? Every year for the first 12 years of a century? Oh. But..well, these are NINES! How cool???NINES! Three of them!! Isn't that..wait a second..ten years ago today, we lived through 9/9/99. FOUR nines. (Five if you want to say 1999, but then that pesky 1 ...
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September 8, 2009
- As the furor goes on over Obama talking to kids in school, we return from Labor Day weekend and say good-bye to another summer (unofficially, of course). A lot has happened over the last week or so, the school speech not being the least significant among them. So what's the big deal?Well, a bunch of Republicans are getting their panties in a bunch over the President speaking to school kids, ...
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September 8, 2009
- If you google the words insanity and absurdity, the first news stories that surface pertain to the recent antics and controversy surrounding President Obama's school address tomorrow morning. Yes, that is President Obama with a Capital 'P'. I cannot remember a commander in chief who was ever chastised, ridiculed, demonized or mean-mugged for having the audacity to offer encouragement to school ...
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September 4, 2009
- Earlier this week, President Obama evidently was presented with a state of the war report from his new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. While the contents are largely classified, this much is evident. McChrystal appears poised, not surprisingly, to request an increase in troop presence to "protect the people" of Afghanistan.
Given the escalating national deficit ...
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September 4, 2009
- Thank goodness America wasn't in recovery from eight years of a Republican contract on America back when another president, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed Medicare into law back in 1965, a program that now covers 41 million people.
Still, to hear people talk, one might understand why President Obama is encountering so much opposition to his health care reform bill, one that is modest, and ...
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September 3, 2009
- GSTV's installation is completely painless and all-inclusive. We take care of the management, the equipment, the network, and content, including creating your product promotions. So you and your customers can sit back and enjoy the show (it is a little like how the Obama Administration would like the American people to feel as he implements his radical political agenda). Partical ...
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August 29, 2009
- I grew up on Cape Cod, not far from Hyannisport. My family used to boat in the same waters as the Kennedy family, and occasionally picnicked on the same spit of sand in Lewis Bay. They were parishioners at St. Francis Xavier, in Hyannis, and we at St. Pius X, in South Yarmouth - the next parish over. Our surname was Irish, too, and our ancestors were from Co. Donegal and Co. Waterford.There ...
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