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June 17, 2010, at 12:07 am — Blogs — / / / /

Making The Decision

President Obama gave a speech from the Oval Office in order to inform the media and public on the continuing cleanup efforts and consequences of the BP oil leak. Instead of fully focusing on what he said – many are more interested in how he said it. One pundit, prior to the speech, actually stated [...]

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June 5, 2010, at 2:48 am — Blogs — / / / / / / / / / / / / /

This Is All Completely True

The truth may set you free but it doesn’t mean anyone else is going to believe you. At least that seems to be the way the world works these days. We are a people of skepticism and suspicion. We thrive on it, heck the entire internet is practically built on rumor and innuendo. In modern tabloid journalism a rumor and one anonymous source is all that stands between a publication and a viral click.

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May 26, 2010, at 2:45 pm — Blogs — / / / / / / / / / /

Fix it now Mr. President!

Everyone’s demanding President Obama to take greater action to stop the BP oil leak. The real reason everyone’s upset is… this can not be fixed.

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March 23, 2010, at 5:40 pm — Audio | Blogs — / / / / /

Change Is Possible: President Obama Speaks To His Supporters

At 4PM Eastern, 1PM Pacific President Obama thanked his volunteers in a telephone conference call hosted by Organizing for America.

Here is the audio from this fascinating and rather historic conference call:

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March 11, 2010, at 4:18 pm — Blogs — / / / / / / / /

Obama Approval Among the Young at 61%

Polls. They seem to matter to people. They certainly get their fair share of attention in the media and politicians salivate over them like a TV executive looking at ratings.

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October 9, 2009, at 3:06 am — Blogs — / /

OBAMA WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” – Thomas Jefferson Peace. Something we shy away from really – we act as if it’s some goal we want to achieve but our actions never quite match up – we relegate the concept to [...]

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July 2, 2009, at 8:42 pm — Blogs — /

OBAMA AND THE BATTLE OF THE PESSIMISTS

CNN posted a bit of rather cynical commentary by Paul Starobin on Obama’s potential challenges with Russia on his trip there in the coming weeks. Mr. Starobin says “But if Obama, more ambitiously, hopes to win over the hearts of the Russian people — along the lines of his recent Cairo address, pitched over the [...]

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June 16, 2009, at 4:50 am — Blogs — / / /

Rich Gov, Poor Gov: Why Obama Can’t Fix The Economy

Last night, as I reread Robert Kiyosaki’s 1997 Bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad, I realized why Barack Obama will be unable to do what is necessary to fix America’s economy. It’s not just that he believes in government intervention in business, although that’s a big part of it. But what makes it even worse is that President Obama is Poor Dad.

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April 28, 2009, at 12:00 pm — Blogs — / / / /

Was it Torture, Fraternity Hazing or Just Right?

Last week, in response to litigation filed by the ACLU, the Obama administration released four top secret memos used by the Bush administration in discussing interrogation techniques approved for use by the CIA on high-level detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But what of the acts discussed in these memos? Do the acts constitute torture in the minds of most Americans? In my view, most of them sound like activities that fraternity pledges willingly submit themselves to during Hell Week each and every year in our academies of higher learning.

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June 5, 2008, at 12:00 pm — Blogs — / /

Unity in the DMZ of the DNC

Many people, even Andrew Sullivan, are saying it would be a guaranteed win in November if Obama chose Clinton as his VP. I agree that it would increase the likelihood of a McCain defeat and would make many Clinton supporters quite appeased. However, if there’s anything to learn from listening to Barack it’s that we have to adjust how we go about governing. And although a joint ticket might mean an easy win it might also mean a hard time in office.

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