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Here are some of the unassailable and distinctly non-racial reasons former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave for endorsing President Obama for re-election on the October 25 edition of the CBS Morning News: When he took over, we were in one of the worst recessions we had seen in recent times, close to a depression. The… Read more.
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pulled a “full Ginsburg” on Friday by appearing on all of the major TV networks in a futile attempt to counter the pummeling he was taking from the Obama campaign about his business practices at his investment firm, Bain Capital. Specifically, Team Obama was flooding the media with stories about… Read more.
‘I can’t stand him. He’s a liar,’ Sarkozy said of Netanyahu. ‘You’re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day,’ Obama replied. (CNN, November 8, 2011) This is the private exchange between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama that was caught on an open microphone at… Read more.
Evidently Bill Clinton is so desperate to prevent Barack Obama from going down in history as a more transformative and consequential president than he that he has decided to write a book, Back to Work, trumpeting all of the policies he’d be pursuing if he were president today. Never mind that almost all of the… Read more.
The War Powers Act The War Powers Act of 1973 requires US presidents to get congressional consent before committing the military to armed conflict. But almost every president since WWII has ignored this Act. Under the Act, the President can only send combat troops into battle or into areas where ‘imminent’ hostilities are likely, for… Read more.
President Obama has little regard for the purported special relationship between the UK and the US. But his apparent disaffection manifests more in style than in substance. The UK-US special relationship Obama famously basked in Europe’s embrace during his presidential campaign. That the UK felt snubbed looking on is understandable. But even I saw the limitations of all that… Read more.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more ardent and hopeful supporter of President Barack Obama than me. But I think this award is … well … a bit much. For no matter the rationalization, there’s no denying that the Nobel Committee awarded him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today (just 9 months into his presidency) not… Read more.
I remember thinking what an extraordinary snub it was when the White House refused Downing Street’s request to hold a formal press conference between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their first formal meeting in March. The White House claimed that Obama was simply too busy dealing with matters related to the… Read more.
Watching world leaders deliver speeches at the annual United Nations General Assembly is rather like watching actors perform in an Italian opera. And, frankly, their speeches usually have about as much practical import as the arias in an opera. Nevertheless, some of the notes sounded yesterday by two first timers, namely US President Barack… Read more.
Former President Jimmy Carter is creating quite a media furor today with an interview during which he said that much of the vile, ignorant and hysterical opposition to President Obama’s initiatives (on display at town hall meetings all across America in August) is based on old-fashioned racism. Here, in part, is what he said: I think overwhelming… Read more.
