OK, he’s been at this job for 10 months, and this website is still active… at least for now. So, how’s President Obama doing so far? Juan Cole grades Obama’s foreign policy, which for various reasons, doesn’t include Afghanistan. St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the [...]
The majority of Americans have spoken. We’re ready for big changes in this country, and we are putting our support behind the new President. Our economy is in the toilet, and we need to get things on track- AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! History has shown that Democratic Presidents have provided the best environment for job [...]
Fellow blogger BarackOblogger has an interesting idea for a petition: Background (Preamble): We the people of the United States who support Barack Obama and the economic stimulus package hereby challenge each and every Republican congressman and congresswoman who voted against the stimulus package to return any and all federal monies given to their constituents because [...]
The big news is that President Barack Obama was able to get a big stimulus package passed by the U.S. Congress. The public is still loving Barack Obama, with sky-high approval ratings. Cartoonist Lloyd Dangle imagines what the stimulus package could have been… Elsewhere in the news, the Obamas announced that their first cultural event [...]
When George W. Bush entered the White House in January 2001, he inherited peace and prosperity. The military, the Constitution and New Orleans were intact and the country had a budget surplus of $128 billion. Now he’s about to dash out the door, leaving a large, unpaid bill for his successors to pay. To get [...]
I’ve had a few comments on the last posting on the subject of the auto bailout, and I thought I’d share them. As I’m sure you’ve read, the recent auto bailout plan failed in the US Congress. I have mixed feelings about the bailout, but seeing how the original plan was rejected, it all goes [...]
I support Barack Obama on a lot of issues. If he follows up on most of the ideas that he’s proposed, using intelligent leadership, he has the potential to be the best president to serve during my lifetime. (Note to myself: We’ve had some shitty presidents, haven’t we?) That being said, I’m not sure about [...]
Fivethirtyeight.com has an excellent post that is absolutely worth sharing: There is, to say the least, a lot of jumping to conclusions about just which type of President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he’ll govern from the left or the center. This speculation has been principally based on his [...]
Barack Obama is not even President yet, but he’s already making significant improvements over the current administration. Today, the President-elect had a press conference where he unveiled his economic team. On the subject of the economy, the Huffington Post provided an overview of some of the more interesting reactions: The Economist has praised Obama’s pick [...]
As you might have heard, Barack Obama had a meeting this week with outgoing-President George W. Bush. One of the big issues that President-elect Obama wanted the current president to act on was pushing some economic support for those in the automotive industry. There’s some real concern that one, maybe two of the Big Three [...]
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