All Entries Tagged With: "Obama"
What is the National Security Strategy (NSS)?
Sometime after the BP oil leak started but before Israel commandos stormed a ship full of Palestinian activists, the Obama administration issued the new National Security Strategy (NSS). Federal law requires POTUS to submit “timely” NSS reports to Congress to ensure that the bureaucracy is on the same page (no small task when you consider [...]
Is President Obama’s Health Care Agenda Dead on Arrival?
I don’t like being lectured to. So it should come as no surprise how much Wednesday night’s speech by President Barack Obama rubbed me the wrong way. Yes, I believe in universal health care for all American citizens and think we could easily pay for it (if we would just get our priorities in order…more [...]
Hillary Clinton and Barney Frank
Throw Momma Under The Train
I never liked the idea of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. When President Obama announced that he was choosing her and played up the idea of a “Team of Rivals” (an expression I quickly grew tired of) I shivered at the thought of Hillary in such a high profile position. [...]
Bill Clinton to the Rescue
Seeing Bill Clinton regain the global spotlight this week by flying to North Korea (Yes, via some Hollywood hotshot’s private jet. So what?), meeting personally with Kim Jung IL, and returning with two wrongly imprisoned American journalists was, in my opinion, a beautiful thing. Forget about the far right wing critics and talking heads who [...]
Beer Summits and Teachable Moments
If you read the Friday Morning Fix last week, you already know how I feel about the whole Gates/Crowley/Obama three way. It’s silly. Again, I wasn’t there, but I’d be willing to venture that both Crowley and Gates acted like jackasses on the night of the arrest and that this was entirely avoidable. Enter POTUS.
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Fairness and the Founding Fathers
Invoking the Founding Fathers
It seems that over the past year or so, politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken to invoking the Founding Fathers during their speeches and while answering questions for the evening news. In doing so, they try to give the impression that if somehow the Founders could magically awaken from [...]
“Running” with Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney
There was so much to choose from this week while preparing “the Fix” that I’m still scratching my head as I click the “publish” button. Do I address the perfectly executed – yet universally denounced – coup in Honduras. Or do I spend time pontificating on the out of control spending of the U.S. Congress [...]
Ahmadinejad, Rev. Wright, and Palin v. Letterman
It’s election day in Iran and tensions are almost as high as they were in the U.S. in 2008. According to polls, current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leads slightly over his main opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi. Amazingly, the candidates are not only acknowledging the importance of women voters, they are actually competing for their support. [...]
Chavez, Kim Jung-il, and Obama in Cairo
First, a quick thanks for all of your support. Copies of my book, The Xpatriot by Randall H. Miller, have been selling well and I truly appreciate it.
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On to business…
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President Obama’s First 100 Days
The past few weeks have been full of talk about President Obama’s first 100 days in office. Not surprisingly, Democrats are giving him rave reviews while Republicans are predicting the End of Days. My take? Nothing really. It took over two hundred years to get where we are and it surely can’t be fixed in [...]