Posts tagged “Obama”
Married to the Economy?
Somehow, Obama’s re-entry into campaign politics has changed the political air. The usually relatively moderate and independent are leaning to their familiar sides. High minded debates about the long term future of the nation are taking shape in the nation’s major newspapers. The gay marriage debate, sparked by Biden and then Obama, is far removed [...]
Obama’s Modest Proposals
This time last week, President Obama gave his State of the Union. It seems like a lot longer ago than that because the speech basically went unnoticed by the time the weekend came around. Reactions were mixed, but the chief criticism seems to be that the speech amounted to little more than several popular and [...]
Focused On Things That Do Not Matter
Tomasky and others are focused on the wrong things when they are doubting Mitt Romney’s general election prospects. Tomasky is a generally insightful pundit. Unfortunately, too often his judgement is critically clouded by his partisanship. Early december he speculated about Romney out losing the primary, which I suspect was simply out of his wholesale dislike [...]
Political Derangement Syndrome
My last post earned me some flack. I should have expected it, as whenever someone lends a word of support for our last president or criticizes the criticism of him it is often akin to siding with a villain of sorts. Its inconceivable to some that one might actually defend the man, our former commander in chief, George W. Bush. To [...]
Hackery and Hyperbole
With the GOP primary underway, the candidates are all attacking Obama for the condition that the United States is in. Romney in particular is exceptionally good at answering questions in a way that is negative towards only the president and blames him. There is no question that the United States has some tremendous problems. These [...]
Measuring Class Warfare
I’m a little bit perplexed by the wording used by the Washington Post and The Pew Research Center in a recent poll that asked “Who (the Obama Administration or the Republicans in Congress) is helping the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots?’.” In such dire economic and political times, as unemployment continues to stall and governing-by-crisis becomes [...]