President-Obama
Thoughts on a 9-11 anniversary interview with Rudy Giuliani
September 10, 2011
This morning I read Steve Forbes’ interview of Rudy Giuliani, who recalled his experiences and reactions on September 11. It is lengthy, but very worth reading. You can read it here.
For those not familiar with his actions that...
Obama administration acted appropriately
May 7, 2011
This week, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, the United States assassinated the terrorist Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans, including 700 from New Jersey....
President Obama announces U.S. forces have killed bin Laden
May 2, 2011
Tonight President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind who directed the September 11th massacre of 3,000 U.S. civilians as well as numerous other acts of mass terrorism characterized by their extreme,...
Let This Be Obama’s JFK Moment
February 26, 2011
As pro-democracy demonstrators, autocratic rulers, and hard-line Islamist forces jockey for position across the Middle East, the region is up for grabs. No one knows how things will look when the dust settles. President Obama has a...
“Democracy … as Good as Christina Imagined It”
January 13, 2011
In his speech to the nation last night memorializing the victims of last Sunday’s massacre in Arizona, President Obama did something that may turn out to be epic.
He is a silver-tongued orator. But it was only yesterday evening that...
Obama Takes the Opportunity of Welcoming India to Stress Need for United Front on Sudan
December 15, 2010
Looks like President Obama may have taken to heart some of the criticism he has received for putting Sudan on the back burner. In the opinion piece I’ve linked to in the previous sentence, veteran human rights reporter and columnist...
Escaped Slave Warned U.S. Re: bin Laden in the 90’s; Now Warns of South Sudan “Ticking Time Bomb”
November 22, 2010
Thanksgiving Day update: Disappointing news from Washington D.C., as Simon Deng received an update that the Sudan Peace and Stability Act, sponsored by Senator John Kerry, is “on hold.” Kerry’s office did not share the...
Jewish Voters, Do Not Let President Obama and the Dems Take You for Granted
November 1, 2010
With 78 percent of Jewish voters going for President Obama in the 2008 election despite his tendency to trivialize Jewish-Americans’ concerns about Israel’s security, is it any mystery that during the past two years,...
Another Autumn, Another Pretend Peace
August 24, 2010
The first hint of fall is in the air, and with it, the predictable announcement: mideast peace talks will begin.
In a demonstration of familiar American hubris, President Barack Obama has declared his intention to make peace in the region...
Jonthan Tobin on Today’s NY Times: Obama Has Shifted U.S. Policy Against Israel
April 26, 2010
Jonathan Tobin aptly characterizes, in this piece, the increasingly alarming situation currently facing Israel. He does a good job of outlining the basic reality and President Obama’s fallacious assumptions about it, as well as the...