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If President Obama's speech last night was a movie I'd give it 2 ½ stars, Not a bomb, but not an Oscar winner either.  It was sort of significant, but not exactly an "historic moment," in my opinion. More like a baby step. An historic moment will be when the last American soldier leaves Iraq. And while it may be called "an end to our combat mission in Iraq" the facts are we still have...

President Obama needs to have a serious heart-to-heart with his generals. Reminding them in no uncertain terms that we have a civilian-led military, and that their job is to carry out the mission as defined by those civilian leaders, in particular the commander-in-chief--no questions asked, and no personal opinion tolerated unless it is requested. Period. Apparently they didn't get the message when McChrystal was fired resigned.  "The top U.S. Marine general made a sharp departure...

The furor over building the Islamic center in Manhattan has nothing to do with freedom of religion. There's nothing anti-Muslim about it. It's just the place that they've chosen to build. It's insensitive to those who lost their lives on September 11, and an insult to their families and friends. That's the argument we've heard over and over, right? Well, apparently that sensitivity distance extends far outside Manhattan, New York City, and even New York...

Franklin Graham on President Obama's "problem." Also notice how Mr. Graham dances around the question of whether or not he believes what the president says. Graham launches into a sermon followed by a couple of "ifs" which says to me he doubts that the president is telling the truth. <br />Unlike Mr. Graham, I believe what President Obama says about his Christian faith because, also unlike Mr. Graham, I haven't been appointed judge over who's...

This is past the point of ridiculous. President Obama needs to go to church more often to prove he's not a Muslim:<br />Jimmy Carter went to church more than any other modern president, Ronald Reagan rarely attended. Yet the right hates Carter and loves Reagan. President Obama could live in church and it wouldn't make any difference because it's not about church attendance. It's about a black man in the (up until now all) White...

Here's the one telling sentence in an article at the Washington Post on the results of a Pew poll showing that an increasing number of Americans, including more than a third of those who identify themselves as conservative Republicans, believe that President Obama is a Muslim:"Among those who say Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent say they learned about his religion from the media, suggesting that their opinions are fueled by misinformation.""Misinformation?" No, the word...

Big ups to President Obama on his remarks yesterday about the building of the Islamic community center in New York City. He knew there was nothing to gain politically by speaking out, that polls show almost 70% of the public in opposition, and that he would be blasted by the right-wing fearmongers--which is happening over and over and over and over and over--but he stood up for what's right. And the last time I looked...

The kooks at Right Wing News solicited the opinion of more than100 of their fellow kooks "conservative" bloggers on the 25 worst people in American history. Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and FDR were 1, 2, and 3, ahead of Benedict Arnold, Timothy McVeigh, and John Wilkes Booth. Here's the entire list and the number of votes each received from the 43 blogs that responded:23) Saul Alinsky (7)23) Bill Clinton (7)23) Hillary Clinton (7)19) Michael Moore...

Robert Shapiro at Sonecon via Ezra Klein at the Washington Post (emphasis added): "From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009....

Then and now. June of 2009 (emphasis added) :"General Motors hopes that bankruptcy will make the struggling automaker stronger and more competitive. Republicans are hoping it will do the same for them.The GOP sees President Barack Obama's decision to help the unpopular carmaker as an easy opportunity to paint him as a bailout-happy, deficit-drunk spendthrift eager to impose a heavy government hand on a swath of industries. ...Republicans see in GM a chance for their...