Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Obama The Candidate
He had the name and the race that guaranteed he would never be chosen as the Democratic candidate and yet,.. he was chosen. By a slim margin, certainly, but with sufficient delegates to beat Hillary.
Aside from the many doubts regarding his ability to be a good president, Obama has brought this nation to a new [...]
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
How French People See Us
There is a big gap between the perception of our government and its foreign policy by the French and their opinion of Americans in general. On a recent trip to Paris, I talked to several ordinary citizens and not one expressed antipathy towards us; they all showed their anger towards President Bush however. The older [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Talking to The Enemy
Obama wants to talk to our enemies in the world; we have quite a few of those. He does not make a good case for that purpose simply because he has not actually faced the need as a possible president and because he has bad advisers in foreign policy. His explanation is weak and confusing: What preconditions [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Barack Obama Press Conference
On May 31lst, 2008, Obama disappointed me and probably many others with his stumbling explanations regarding his church and its thundering pastors. Without a script, few politicians are able to deliver strong messages; Obama certainly was not one of them; he did not seem sure of his answers, he bumbled his way through the questions from [...]
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