Last week President Obama went down to Disney World to tout tourism in America and got his picture taken with the Disney castle in the background. The trip was part of the President’s “We Can’t Wait” campaign, in which he does things by himself that are supposed to promote job growth and show that we [...]
Posts Tagged ‘President Obama’
The President As Pitchman
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, World, tagged America, Disney World, Politics, President Obama, The Economy, Tourism, We Can't Wait, World on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Making Hard Budget Choices: Time To Finish Head Start
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Great Society, Head Start, Lyndon Johnson, Making Hard Budget Choices, Politics, President Obama on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There may be no federal program that was begun with better intentions than Head Start. It was a key part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiatives and had an ambitious social engineering goal: to help impoverished kids better prepare themselves for school and a useful life by providing them with preschool. It is now 45 [...]
The Keystone Pipeline And Lilliput
Posted in America, Entertainment, Environment, Politics, Reflections, tagged America, Democrats, Energy, Environment, Environmentalists, Gulliver, Jobs, Keystone Pipeline, Labor Unions, Lilliput, Middle East, Oil, President Obama, Republicans on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Today President Obama rejected a proposal to build the Keystone Pipeline. It is one of those decisions, I think, that carries a deeper message about our country, its leaders, and where we are headed. The proposed pipeline would run 1,700 miles, carrying oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. It was opposed by environmentalists, [...]
Our Do-Nothing Congress
Posted in America, Politics, tagged 2012 Presidential Election, America, Congress, Politics, President Obama, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama has indicated that his 2012 re-election campaign will focus on a “do-nothing” Congress. Now a Washington Times analysis finds that 2011 was, in fact, one of the most inactive congressional years ever. Congress passed only 80 bills — the fewest since 1947, when such records first began being kept — and many of [...]
The President’s Curious, Overcooked Metaphors
Posted in America, Politics, The Economy, tagged 2012 Presidential Election, 60 minutes, America, Politics, President Obama, Public Speaking, Ship Captains, Ships, The Economy, Unemployment on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Although he has a reputation as a fine public speaker, President Obama often struggles to make his point and move on. At times, he seems to get trapped within expanding metaphors, fighting without success to make his way out. I first noticed this after he was elected, when he sought to explain why he wouldn’t [...]
About That $10,000 Bet . . . .
Posted in America, Politics, tagged 2012 Presidential Election, America, Mitt Romney, News, Politics, President Obama, Republican Presidential Debate, Rick Perry on December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’ll say it up front — I didn’t watch the Republican candidates’ debate Saturday night. (Seriously, a debate on Saturday night? Are they consciously trying to make Republicans seem lonely and pathetic?) Yesterday, it was obvious that the media thought the big story from the debate was that Mitt Romney bet Rick Perry $10,000 about [...]
Out Of Iraq, And Holding Our Breath
Posted in America, World, tagged America, Iran, Iraq, Nouri Maliki, President Obama, World on December 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today President Obama met Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to commemorate the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. By the end of this month, all troops will be gone, leaving Iraq as an ally that will have to fend for itself in one of the world’s most volatile regions, with Iran as its neighbor. At [...]
A Costly Solar Flame-Out (V)
Posted in Politics, tagged Department of Labor, Politics, President Obama, Solyndra, Trade Adjustment Assistance on November 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The latest development in the infuriating Solyndra saga is that the Labor Department has approved “Trade Adjustment Assistance” for the 1,100 ex-employees of Solyndra. The TAA program provides aid to workers who supposedly lost their jobs due to the trade practices of foreign countries. The available assistance includes job retraining, job search allowances, health benefits, [...]
Giving Thanks For Our Political Leaders
Posted in America, Humor, Politics, tagged America, Debt Supercommittee, Democrats, Federal Debt, Greece, Humor, Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, News, Politics, President Obama, Republicans, stock market, Thanksgiving on November 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This Thanksgiving week, I’d like to give special thanks for our political leaders. At this time of national challenge, we are blessed with a political class whose spirit of self-sacrifice, personal courage, and intestinal fortitude compare favorably to those of our Pilgrim Fathers and the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. I’m thankful for politicians [...]
Up To The Supremes
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Health Care Reform, law, President Obama, United States Supreme Court on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to accept one of the appeals addressing President Obama’s health care statute, and thereby has set the stage for one of the most anticipated legal rulings in years. In its order accepting the case, the Supreme Court identified four issues for the parties to brief and set aside five-and-a-half [...]
Paying For The Toledo Tear-Down
Posted in America, Ohio, Politics, tagged America, Congress, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Spending, Housing Market; Foreclosures, Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Ohio, Politics, President Obama, Toledo on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Toledo, Ohio is on track to demolish a record number of abandoned houses this year. By the time 2011 is done, Toledo city officials expect to have torn down more than 400 blighted residential structures. What I find interesting is not that Toledo is having a problem with abandoned houses — Toledo, like many Midwestern [...]
Buying The President’s Books
Posted in America, Books, Humor, World, tagged America, Books, Dreams from My Father, Federal Budget, Federal Spending, Humor, News, President Obama, The Audacity of Hope, United States State Department, World on November 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes it is the little stories that are the most instructive. I think that may be the case with the story about the State Department, through various U.S. embassies, spending more than $60,000 on books authored by President Obama. According to a federal database, the American embassy in Paris spent more than $8,300 on Dreams [...]
Those Greedy, Evil Bankers
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Bankers, Banks, Debit Cards, Dreams from My Father, J.P Morgan, Politics, President Obama, Senator Dick Durbin, The Audacity of Hope on October 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I see that President Obama has joined Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and others in slamming bankers. Some of the outcry is the result of frustration, because banks have reacted to the Dodd-Frank legislation passed recently by imposing fees on people who use their debit cards to make purchases, some is due to the fact [...]
A Costly Solar Flame-Out (IV)
Posted in crime, Politics, tagged crime, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics, President Obama, Solyndra on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Solyndra story — a tale of a company that got more than half a billion in federal loan guarantees as a showcase for green energy jobs, then plunged into bankruptcy — continues to unfold. Today there will be hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, at which certain Solyndra executives have said they [...]
