Category: Obama Administration
The Dog Days of Bush
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| Categories: Obama Administration, foreign policy, Israel, Palestine, gaza, Hillary Clinton As the Bush regime winds down, I am prone to serious mood swings. One minute I’m euphoric just thinking about Barack Obama putting his hand on Lincoln’s Bible, and the next I’m petrified of the minefields that have been laid in his path. One minute I’m listening with utter incredulity to George W. Bush list his “disappointments” about his time in office (no weapons of mass destruction after all) and the next I’m wondering if the karma created in the last eight years is going to sock it to us and our new leader.
Why Rent When We Could Buy?
| Categories: environment, Economics, Obama Administration, Big Three Automakers, Detroit, General Motors, Ford automobiles, Chevrolet, Chrysler Motors Now that Congress has balked at bailing out the Big Three automakers, their CEOs have all gone back to Detroit, not in a Ford Expedition or a Chevy Suburban or in a Lincoln Navigator, one of which would hold them all, but on their individual jets. Even President-elect Obama expressed surprise that they came only with their hands out and without a plan. He said he hoped they’d work something up before they come back.
Some Modest Proposals
| Categories: News, environment, issues, network television, Obama Administration, Education Funding, Scientific research, science education, media policy, healthcare policy, George Lakoff, government regulation The California cognitive scientist George Lakoff http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/08/25_lakoff.shtml has urged Democrats to resist Republican attempts to influence policy by “framing” it in language that obscures its true nature—death tax rather than inheritance tax, entitlement programs rather than veterans’ benefits and social security, and, of course, “pro-life” to cover a whole lot of issues that are less than life-enhancing to many sentient beings.
Democrats attempted this with some success, but most of the time, the Democratic problem has been a lack of imagination and courage. As Team Obama gears up for a new beginning, here are some of my ideas for them:
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