Tag Archives: 'obama'

• Political Stars

  This is a post a long time in the making.1 The content of this post has been on my mind for quite some time. I have thought long and hard on this topic — too hard for too long. This is my culminating effort. This is the post that will make me famous. No pressure. [...]

• Reflections On Bush

  I miss George W. Bush. To be completely honest, I have a lot less to write/blog about since he’s left… Oh, I love Obama’s idea on [fill in the blank]. It is such a terrific idea. He is the greatest president ever. I am so proud to be an American right now. It just doesn’t [...]

• Supreme Court Appointments Are Rare

  Just a few thoughts on the surprising news (well, surprising to most, I assume) that President Barack Obama will be nominating a Supreme Court Justice following the now-planned retirement of Justice David Souter… This doesn’t happen that often. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both served two full terms, and they each made two appointments [...]

• Uninsured

  There will always remain a portion of the U.S. population that is uninsured. There is no way around it. Any purported efforts to completely cover the uninsured are disingenuous because it is impossible to do so. When Hillary Clinton argued that her health care plan was better than Barack Obama’s during the 2008 primary because [...]

• The New York Times Ups The Ante

  Being on the west coast, the best chance I have to catch a press conference is on the radio during the commute home. Lo-and-behold, the New York Times now offers an interactive press conference (be it a day after) — with video, text and search capability… Image: The New York Times This is what the [...]

• Related

  The algorithm must be messed up, or maybe my definition of “related” needs rethinking… Image: CBS Chicago

• Obama Heeds to the Two Percent Solution

  Wow. At first glance, I am in love with the president’s education plan — expanding charter schools, merit pay for teachers, and extending the school year — a lot of which comes from the Two Percent Solution (of which Obama is a student). Additionally, hazard pay for teachers (inner-City schools) should be included. I am [...]

• Obama At 50 Days

  I like Barack Obama. I think he’s been a pretty good president so far. If asked, I would certainly say that I “approve” of his job performance. If asked to clarify that further, on a scale of 1 to 100 — with 1 being very poor and 100 being outstanding — I would say that, [...]

• Media Is Blind To Obama’s Mandate

  In 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush received less votes than Vice-President Al Gore. After a lengthy legal battle over the contested results from the tie-breaking state of Florida in the historically close election, a legal process that found itself in the Supreme Court, Bush was decreed the victor. Two months later, the president was [...]

• Prefident Bush: Farewell

  An historic inauguration sends George W. Bush back to Texas, only for the nation to wonder what we had just endured, and what is to come… I will note that I did not draw the Obama character. That was a stock character that was available that I used in the interest of time. The other [...]

• Part Two

  Consider this part two of my blogger manifesto. I have too many blogs. This blog is my pride-and-joy, and honestly, I could not imagine life without it, however sad that makes me feel that this is what the world has come to. In fact, I’m just glad building web-sites is cool now. Why wasn’t this [...]

• A New Day

  I survived the Bush administration and all I got was this lousy blog post.

• O

  Nothing new on the email front. Let me tell you WHY we are going to Hawaii this week. It all starts with a man from Hope. That is right. Obama. We are on a pilgrimage to his home-state, where the next president — the best president ever — was raised (outside of his time spent [...]

• Sourced

  As far as I know, I am not the source for the Post’s story that includes that “some see the potential for chaos within the administration” as a result of the all-star cast that Obama is assembling (Daschle, Clinton, Emanuel, etc.). I could be, but again — as far as I know — I am [...]

• Democrats

  There is a saying, and if there isn’t one, there should be. The republicans act like criminals; the democrats act like family. A dysfunctional one. This is why all democratic administrations end up being chaotic. They are filled with internal struggles, policy debates, and debilitating in-fighting. Could you imagine an instance where Dick Cheney would [...]

• MacBook Presser

  I’ve been peppered with a lot of emails since my hinting and then confirming of my recent purchase of a MacBook. And longtime readers have known of my desire to return home for a long, long time. Instead of answering these emails individually, I have decided to host a press-conference on the subject. Here goes… [...]

• Debunking the Obama Election

  This post is not going to make readers happy (well, most of them anyway), and it is not supposed to. It is time for some real honest truths in response to the truly historic election that we have witnessed. Well, most of us. I was flat-out drunk-and-stupid that evening. Obama won — in record fashion, [...]

• Breaking

  Tonight on the NewsHour — A lawsuit alleging that president-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to retain the office of the chief executive because his father was not an American citizen was thrown-out by the courts today. Meanwhile, a semi-related lawsuit alleging that Andrew Jackson should be retroactively and posthumously expelled from the presidency because both [...]

• Buffalo Takes A Seat

  The best possible scenario resulting from the appointment (and confirmation) of Hillary Rodham Clinton as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, aside from the calm steady hand at the wheel of foreign policy, is the possibility for the ascension of a Buffalo politician to fill Clinton’s Senate seat. The idea conjures up faded memories of [...]

• State

  I would personally like to see Chuck Hagel or John Kerry in the role. After that, I wouldn’t mind Hillary Clinton. It certainly makes sense politically for Obama, although the fear of a Secretary of State going “rogue” would persist. And last, at the very bottom of the list, only if everyone else in the [...]

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