By Steve Hynd
Last December I wrote: "it is already an accepted fact among the Very Serious Person set that Obama's idea of negotiation without preconditions will get exactly one shot, will fail, and then the bombs will begin to fall." Well, that looks to be the way events [...]
Hard-left policies lead to public outrage, counter-revolution
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[...] Well, well, well. It’s another Thursday. Kinda. And that means it’s time for another episode of memePDX. Lucky number 13, in fact.
So what did we cover? Well, a whole bunch of stuff. But we’ve got one favor to ask. Just pretend it’s Thursday, pre-Ignite Portland [...]
On the rusted, dented, tilted bumper right beside the Obama and anti-war stickers was this:By Steve Hynd
Dan Froomkin asks today what I asked yesterday: what's taking so long with Obama's AfPak decision? And he comes to the same answer: fear of the Wuss Factor.
according to Paul R. Pillar, a Georgetown University professor who formerly served as the CIA's chief intelligence analyst for [...]
In comments made on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show, Congressman Peter DeFazio wants President Obama to fire his top two economic advisers. At Huffington Post, Sam Stein has the story:
"We think it is time, maybe, that we turn our focus to Main Street -- we reclaim some of the unspent" [...]
An Afghan policeman auditions for the role of Estragon
By Steve Hynd
Even those of us who oppose any kind of McChrystal Plan for troop escalation in Afghanistan are getting a bit antsy waiting for Godot Obama to make his mind up. I realise that its a complex set of issues [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Judging from his campaign rhetoric we might have assumed that Barack Obama would have stood up to the Corporatocracy not join it but as Robert Scheer points out join it is what he did.
What's up with Barack Obama? The candidate for change once promised to take [...]
Less than a year ago Barack Obama was soaring high. Newly inaugurated and the country was encouraged to have this new beautiful man sitting in the oval office who was going to change and fix...
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Mission Network News Reports,
“Religious freedom advocates are pleased following President Barak Obama’s visit with Chinese President Hu Jintao, who spoke out about the need for religious freedom in China. President Obama also emphasized the importance of freedom of information in a question-and-answer session with college [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
Obama has to make a decision of Afghanistan - is he going to make an LBJ decision and be a one term president or.....? Harvey Wasserman explains the wrong decision will make him a one term president.
As the world awaits Barack Obama's decision on Afghanistan, [...]
One story that has been gaining more and more traction in the media lately is how the Obama administration is inflating their number of jobs "created or saved." In particular, the data on the recovery.gov site has shown things such as millions of dollars going to congressional districts that [...]
He's not throwing folks under the bus any longer. There's some good news!
But wait! There's more! The Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.
So the [...]
This video is now making the rounds. Then Sen. Barack Obama promising that KSM would get a "military trial." Of course that was before the new Obama administration found that they could put the...
Commentary By Ron Beasley
It has become obvious that the Republicans will attack and try to obstruct anything - anything the Democrats and the Obama administration try to do even if it was something they might have agreed with a few days before, In yesterday's New York Times Oregon's Representative Earl [...]
By Steve Hynd
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post ran a short piece claiming that:
Iran has completely rejected a UN-brokered nuclear deal, but US President Barack Obama has postponed the official announcement on Teheran's refusal due to internal political reasons...The official reportedly told journalists in Paris that Iran has also refused to [...]
By Steve Hynd
There's been a substantial change in Obama administration rhetoric in the last week or two, which has only accelerated after Gen. Eikenberry put his spanner in the escalationists' works. Hillary Clinton, talking to ABC News this Sunday, gives the clearest indication yet that the administration is looking' [...]
..."pin the tail on the donkey."
If I see our president lower himself one more time before another world leader, I am going to puke!
[...]Commentary By Ron Beasley
It's not too surprising but the narcissistic ignorant insensitive wingnuttery are upset because:
Obama has now done it again. Andrew Malcolm asks (and reports): "How low will he go? Obama gives Japan's Emperor Akihito a wow bow."
Obama's breach of protocol is of a piece [...]
Seriously, what is with this guy?
In Japanese culture, the subservient person bows lower. By this action, Obama has declared America subservient to Japan.
Why doesn't Obama try acting subservient to the American People for a "change"?
UPDATE: be sure to check [...]
By Ron Beasley
Juan Cole on the Republican Party:
This decision by the Obama administration demonstrates faith in the American way of life, and a conviction that even the worst mass murderers can be dealt justice by democratic institutions.Predictably, Republican critics vowed to fight the decision, since they much prefer to hold people forever without [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
David Broder proves beyond all doubt that he is not just a senile old fool but a dangerous one at that. In Enough Afghan debate he channels Dick Cheney and says:
The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. [...]
