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I Don’t Care Who’s To Blame

By ⋅ September 13, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Things are going horribly wrong for the President.  The job numbers for the last month were stagnant.  The vacation that he took was constantly criticized for extravagance—and he didn’t even get to stay the entire time because of the hurricane.  His new jobs plan which looks a lot like his old jobs plan is dead [...]

Healthcare and the Power of Personality

By ⋅ September 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the things that has been true for politics in the United States is that it rarely leaves one party in power for too long.  Usually, different sections of government balance each other out.  Consolidated power between the Presidency and the Congress rarely stays that way unless there are moderate voices. This is one [...]

Should the AG Probe Bush-Era Terror Techniques?

By ⋅ July 14, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

President Obama has been reluctant to look at the past.  It’s not, so much, that I believe that he wants to let what happened in the past stay there, it’s that if he takes the country there he will exacerbate the split that now exists, polarizing the nation further, and he will jeopardize his current [...]

Did Pres. Bush Provoke the Invasion?

By ⋅ June 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

There’s a new memo out that reveals that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair discussed the possibility of attempting to provoke Sadaam Hussein into taking an action that would warrant another resolution by the United Nations.

Is It a Snub?

By ⋅ December 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

From the desk of “Why is this news”, the AP is reporting that the White House has told President-Elect Obama that they cannot move into the Blair House (a guest house across the street from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) before January 15—the traditional date for President-Elects to move to Washington.

Really? Obama is Our President?

By ⋅ November 5, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

If you believe half the things that you read on the net—at least in places that I read, you’d believe that this article (Bush: ‘Can I Stop Being President Now?’)from the Onion was true! I don’t know how many times I’ve read someone saying that Sen. Obama is our President now, emphasis on ours, etc.  [...]

What To Do With a Lame Duck

By ⋅ September 15, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

What would you think if I told you that Sen. Obama, when he was over touring Iraq, sought to have leaders there delay making any arrangements for troop withdrawals until after the U.S. election? Impact on the Election On the one hand, it could be seen as entirely self-serving.  If troops started to come home [...]

Political Roundup

By ⋅ August 15, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

It’s been a long week, with a lot going on, and this blogger is plum tuckered out. So, that being said, let’s do a link post, and see what’s been going on that you might have missed: Bush Faces Rare Audience Challenge in N.C. So, a guy had the guts to basically tell President Bush [...]

Election Day

By ⋅ November 2, 2004 ⋅ One comment

So, who’s it going to be, Bush or Kerry.  After all of the campaigning, October surprises, debates, and everything it comes down to our votes.  Living in one of the states that appears to be a lock, it would be easy to not vote– and yet it’s our duty to let our voice be heard.  [...]

Bush vs. Kerry – Round 3

By ⋅ October 14, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

I had watched every debate, including the VP debate, in totallity live up until this one.  Given the momentum in the debates, I figured Bush would consistantly do better, and since part of the strategy during the last campaign and this presidency was to co-opt democrat ideas so he could claim he got things done, [...]

Debates and things

By ⋅ October 5, 2004 ⋅ One comment

There are a lot of heartening articles out there.  My favorite is one from Dennis Prager.  Here’s the part I like the best: Here are direct quotes from John Kerry in the debate. On staying in Iraq: “I’m not talking about leaving. I’m talking about winning.” “Yes, we have to be steadfast and resolved, and [...]

Bush vs. Kerry

By ⋅ October 1, 2004 ⋅ 6 comments

Last night’s debate was long!  My wife left about two thirds of the way through for bed.  In my opinion, it was too long on Iraq without saying much!  The other thing that debates miss is fact checking during it.  What I would really like to see is a buzzer sound every time someone gets [...]

Voting on Election Day

By ⋅ September 23, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Bert Prelutsky has an article today about voting– something I’ve been thinking around for a while.  The Founders definitely wanted people with a stake in the game to be voting.  Now we’ve come so far as to herd people like cattle to the polling place telling them to vote for our guy.  My feeling when [...]

Who are you going to vote for?

By ⋅ July 30, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

It’s interesting, thinking about the upcoming Presidential election and who to vote for.  I’ve heard and read of many people on all sides of the issues bemoaning the fact that the two major candidates are either fuzzy about who they are as a ploy to get the center votes.  Either that, or the idea that [...]

The Lack of Space

By ⋅ February 17, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

In case you are seeing what I am seeing– it appears that my last post suffers from a lack of space– or spaces. I’ve tried twice to fix it, but to no avail. I will endeavor to fix it in the near future. Just so you don’t think that I’ve missed it or have a [...]

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