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The media stopped giving the deaths of American soldiers anything more than passing coverage years ago. More to the point, cable news stations seem obsessed these days with providing 24/7 coverage of Donald Trump’s snarky tweets and lunatic antics – complete with all of the international scandals and congressional investigations they spawn. Unfortunately, their obsession… Read more.
I’ve been calling for the United States to prosecute Snowden from the day news broke about his NSA theft. Commentaries like “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic … and Misguided,” June 8, 2013, “I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy,” July 2, 2013, and “From Spycraft to Stagecraft, Snowden Debuts as Putin’s Useful Idiot,” April… Read more.
Obama delivers his final address to the UN General Assembly today. Unfortunately, his recitation of achievements during his tenure as leader of the Free World will be undermined by the persistence of too many crises that have defied, even made a mockery of his leadership. Those crises include the menace of North Korean nukes, the intensification… Read more.
Evidently, even President Obama has become afflicted with Trumpitis. For only this explains the conceited and crass clarion call he issued to blacks on Saturday night. The occasion was a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala in Washington, DC. With Democratic leaders increasingly worried about a lack of passion for Hillary Clinton among young black voters, President Obama is rolling… Read more.
I have been venting exasperation with President Obama’s Bush-Lite war on terrorism almost from day one of his presidency – as such commentaries as “Obama Saluting War Dead Will Be Defining Image of His Presidency,” October 30, 2009, and “Demystifying ISIS: Case against Obama’s Bush-Lite War on Terrorism,” September 10, 2014, attest. I have been particularly… Read more.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced Monday the United States will send 217 additional troops to Iraq to serve as advisers and trainers… The new forces, which will raise the U.S. troop presence in Iraq to more than 4,000, will be allowed to advise at the battalion and brigade level, rather than be restricted… Read more.
The Obama administration eased trade and travel restrictions on Cuba Tuesday, granting more economic benefits for the communist-ruled island nation in advance of President Obama’s historic trip… Mr. Obama will start a three-day visit to Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first sitting president to travel there in nearly 90 years… ‘These steps not only expand… Read more.
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For a little perspective, here is how acclaimed communication strategist Richard Greene rated President Obama as a communicator a few years ago: Barack Obama, at his best, in some ways is an even better orator than FDR or JFK and more accomplished than ‘The Great Communicator’ Ronald Reagan, a trained actor and Bill Clinton, by… Read more.
Alfred W. McCoy, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is getting a lot of attention for offering what many are hailing as a unique perspective on the Obama presidency. This excerpt from “Grandmaster of the Great Game,” Huffington Post, September 15, 2015, might explain why. _________________ In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President… Read more.
