With the media focused on a presidential election that is now five months away, any jobs data is going to be viewed from the standpoint of its possible impact on the campaigns. Today’s dismal report that only 69,000 jobs were created last month, with jobs data for the last two months revised downward and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘President Obama’
Bad Weather On The Jobs Front
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, tagged America, Joblessness, Mitt Romney, Politics, President Obama, The Economy, Unemployment on June 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
None Of The Above
Posted in America, Politics, tagged 2012 Election, America, Democratic primaries, Democrats, John Wolfe, Keith Judd, None Of The Above, Politics, President Obama, Protest votes on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
What are we to make of the recent Democratic primary results, in which unknown candidates — including a current prison inmate — have managed to secure 40 percent or more of the vote in races against President Obama? In the West Virginia Democratic primary, a Texas convict named Keith Judd won 41 percent of the [...]
Mitt’s High School Days
Posted in America, Growing Up, Politics, tagged America, Cranbrook School, Dogmeat, Growing Up, High School, Mitt Romney, Politics, President Obama on May 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The news media is now reporting on Mitt Romney’s high school days. The lead is about a 1965 incident where Romney allegedly led a pack of Cranbrook School students who tackled a new, long-haired student and forcibly cut his hair. Romney says he doesn’t recall the incident, but has apologized nevertheless. We should all follow [...]
In Favor Of “Flip-Floppers”
Posted in Politics, America, tagged Politics, America, President Obama, gay marriage, President Lincoln, Mitt Romney, Abraham Lincoln, Same-Sex Marriage, Emancipation Proclamation, Flip-Flopping on May 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Today President Obama announced that he has changed his mind about gay marriage and now favors it. Opponents of the move called him a “flip-flopper.” Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has modified his position on certain issues over the years. He’s been criticized as a “flip-flopper,” too. I don’t get the “flip-flopper” criticism. I think [...]
Teetering On The Brink, And Stuck In The Mud
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, tagged America, Mitt Romney, political campaigns, Politics, President Obama, The Economy, Unemployment, Voters on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today the April unemployment report is released. It probably will be read more closely in the lobbying offices on K Street than in the trading pits on Wall Street. Americans vote with their pocketbooks. For all the recent talk about Mitt Romney’s roof transportation of a family pet years ago, President Obama eating dog meat [...]
Time To Flog The Speculators
Posted in America, Politics, tagged Airlines, America, Capitalism, Commodity Exchanges, Futures Markets, Gas Prices, Politics, President Obama, Speculators on April 17, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Gas prices are much too high for most Americans. It costs upwards of $60 to fill your tank, and that hurts. Obviously, it’s time to do something about it. Today, President Obama lashed out at oil speculators. He thinks they are manipulating the price of oil and reaping huge profits at the expense of American [...]
An Ohioan’s Thoughts On The Race Ahead
Posted in America, Ohio, Politics, tagged 2008 Presidential Election, 2012 Presidential Election, America, Gas Prices, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Ohio, Politics, President Obama, Unemployment, Voters on April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
We’re now less than seven months away from the 2012 presidential election. What does the race look like, from the perspective of battleground Ohio? I think the 2012 election will be much less emotion-charged than 2008 was. In 2008 many hoped that Barack Obama would be a transformative figure whose election would finally slay the [...]
Dissing The Stay-At-Home
Posted in America, Family, Politics, tagged 2012 presidential campaign, America, Ann Romney, Family, Hilary Rosen, Mitt Romney, Politics, President Obama, Stay-at-home fathers, Stay-at-home mothers on April 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The latest campaign snit involves a statement by Hilary Rosen, a Democratic “campaign strategist” — i.e., one of the endless parade of never-themselves-elected talking heads that appear regularly on TV “news” shows — about Ann Romney, the wife of the presumptive Republican presidential candidate. In an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, Rosen dismissed Romney’s comments [...]
Balance Of Powers 101
Posted in America, Politics, tagged Affordable Care Act, America, Balance of Powers, Congress, Health Care Law, Judicial Review, law, Politics, President Obama, United States Constitution, United States Supreme Court on April 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the Affordable Care Act — and the questions from Justices that suggested skepticism about the law’s constitutionality — seem to have caught some people off guard and caused them to make some very odd statements about how our government works. Today, for example, President Obama said: [...]
Intervention Fatigue
Posted in America, World, tagged America, foreign policy, John McCain, military intervention, News, President Obama, Syria, World on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Events in Syria are taking a turn for the worse. Every day brings a new report of a gruesome massacre of civilians by government forces, and efforts by the international community to arrange for a cease-fire have failed. Some have argued that America should take military action in Syria to stop the killing. Senator John [...]
Sitting On A Gas Price Spike
Posted in America, Environment, Humor, Politics, tagged America, Commuter Rail, Congress, Environment, Gas Prices, Humor, Oil, Oil Drilling, Politics, President Obama, Public Transportation on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Dear President Obama and Members of Congress, Could you please talk to your chauffeurs about the price of gas? I know that you probably don’t drive or gas up your own vehicles, but your handlers and advisers and staffers just might, and therefore might know what I’m talking about. The price of gas is spiking. [...]
Halftime In America? (II)
Posted in America, Politics, TV, tagged America, Chrysler, Clint Eastwood, Detroit, Politics, President Obama, TV on February 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
As I suspected, the Clint Eastwood “Halftime in America” commercial for Chrysler that aired during last night’s Super Bowl turned out to be quite controversial. This AP article discusses some of the reaction to the ad from various points on the political spectrum and quotes Eastwood as saying the ad was not intended to be [...]
A Glimmer On The Horizon
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, tagged America, Jobs, Politics, President Obama, Republicans, The Economy, Unemployment on February 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s unemployment report contained some good news, for a change. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data stating that 243,000 new jobs were created, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent. Both results are better than what economists and analysts — who never seem to be right — were expecting. There are some curious [...]
The President And The Governor
Posted in Politics, tagged Arizona, High School, Jan Brewer, Politicians, Politics, President Obama on January 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
When I read the political news, I often feel like I’m in high school again. That was my reaction when I read the story this week about an apparently testy exchange between President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on an airport tarmac. President Obama, fresh from his State of the Union speech, flew to [...]
Tuning Out
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, TV, tagged America, Politics, President Obama, recession, State Of The Union speech, The Economy, TV, Unemployment on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t watch the President’s State of the Union speech earlier this week. It turns out I’m not alone. According to the New York Times, 37.8 million viewers watched the President’s speech. That’s down from 42.8 million in 2011, 48 million in 2010, and 52.3 million for the President’s 2009 speech to Congress. In short, [...]
