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Michelle Obama’s conspicuous absence from Jimmy Carter’s state funeral raised eyebrows. Now Washington is all atwitter over the breaking news that she will not be attending Donald Trump’s inauguration. Speculation abounds: Some reports suggest her abiding contempt for Trump has her avoiding him at all costs because she’s fed up pretending for protocol. Others whisper… Read more.
I realized many party conventions ago that conventional wisdom about them never fails. That wisdom holds that they have little to no impact on which party wins the General Election. And this has been the case time and again. Which is why I find watching party conventions akin to drinking a vanilla milkshake to soothe… Read more.
Elton John, after calling for a boycott against Dolce & Gabbana, was photographed carrying a Dolce & Gabbana shopping bag into a Los Angeles recording studio March 16, according to CBS News. John was spotted with the shopping bag after he had sworn on his Instagram account that he’d never wear anything from the designers again, blasting… Read more.
Given the optics, you could be forgiven for thinking that my headline refers to leaders banging heads over the vexing issues on the table at this week’s G8 summit in Northern Ireland. But this is not so. There is, of course, the historic and ironic spectacle of the United States and United Kingdom being on… Read more.
No doubt you recall the media sensation First Lady Michelle Obama caused last month when she debuted her new hairstyle on the eve of President Obama’s inauguration. Everyone was singing its praises. I, on the other hand, sounded this discordant note: I’m not feelin’ it. It makes her look too much like a grown woman… Read more.
This will be my last (and, for that reason, relatively lengthy) commentary on the horse race between Romney and Obama until late October. At that time I’ll review their debates, which I suspect will be even more scripted and predictable than these conventions were, and I’ll restate my prediction for Election Day. I’m tuning out because… Read more.
‘No drama Obama’? Then how about C-H-A-O-S?! (The die is cast: Obama nominates Hillary…, The iPINIONS Journal, December 1, 2008) I wrote the above to counter the prevailing view that Barack Obama was so cool that his term in the White House would be free of the petty drama that characterized the terms of all… Read more.
Much is being made of the fact that President Jacob Zuma refused to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama during her week-long official visit to South Africa and Botswana, which ends on Sunday. Indeed, it’s arguable that he intended to convey a deliberate slight by arranging only for his female minister of prisons to greet… Read more.
It smacks of the political tone-deafness that got Bush in trouble over Katrina that Obama sees nothing wrong with commissioning Air Force One (and all of the resources his presidential travel entails) just to fly him and his wife up to New York City for dinner and a play. (Obamas’ Marie-Antoinette faux pas, The iPINIONS… Read more.
The G-20 is comprised of 19 of the world’s most developed countries plus the EU. Its purported mission is to “strengthen the international financial architecture and to foster sustainable economic growth and development.” But nothing demonstrates its failure in this respect quite like the fact that G-20 countries were the architects of the financial house of… Read more.
