Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’

Good on Obama

Much has been made of late of the motivation of the growing and eclectic number of critics of US President Obama’s high-spending policies – Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouting “you lie”, the old lady holding the “lyin’ African” poster – to the extent where criticism of the Obama administration has blurred into [ READ MORE ]

Glasshouses and stones

Brief post for the moment: an article in the Times about the merits and demerits of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. I can’t entirely decide where exactly the tone is on the scale running between scathing and fawning – Melanie McDonagh appears to think Dr Merkel is simultaneously dull, competent, accomplished, uncharismatic, pragmatic and unemotional. Brilliant [ READ MORE ]

Obama and the fly

When I saw this story for the first time, I genuinely thought it was a hoax. The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have criticised Barack Obama for swatting dead a fly that was pestering him during an interview – frankly, I can’t think of a news story that carries less [ READ MORE ]

Barack Hussein Obama

I rather enjoyed President Obama’s eloquent speech in Cairo, complete with references to the Qur’an – he is undoubtedly a fantastic rhetor, even if his economic policies do smack a little of a desperation to be seen to Do Something. Not exactly sure whether the USA’s stance on Israel – which Obama described as an [ READ MORE ]

Counting pennies

Lately President Obama’s fiscal advisory team announced that they were going to find a way to cut $100m of federal spending over the next 90 days, out of a total budget of $3.5trn. What does this mean exactly? Very little to most people when put in the context of such enormous figures, according to eBaum’s [ READ MORE ]

After McCain

While I still reel from the nausea-inducing Budget yesterday afternoon, here’s an interesting article that one of my commenters highlighted: I won’t go into too much detail myself, but suffice it to say that the author believes (and I agree with him) that the only way for the Republicans to stand a chance of defeating [ READ MORE ]

Playing at being poor?

In the midst of reading about G20, tax havens and Silvio Berlusconi putting his foot in it again, I came across this article by the wonderful Libby Purves. In it she essentially argues that it’s come to a tipping point as far as people’s economic attitudes are concerned such that the average voter (and importantly, [ READ MORE ]

Day 64 (29.viii.08)

I’ve had a weird day since I last blogged. First of all, Obama’s speech yesterday evening actually gave me goosebumps – the beginning was the usual ideologising (and not as good as the Clintons’ efforts at the same), but once he moved onto the definite policy statements I gained interest, and at the end, when [ READ MORE ]

Day 63 (28.viii.08)

No personnel changes today as yet (i.e. still the dozy French guy, the quiet English guy, the two Spaniards, Will and me), so I can dive straight into today’s events. First and foremost, the eight-year wait is over at last – AC/DC finally brought out their new single Rock ‘n Roll Train today, with the [ READ MORE ]

Day 20 (16.vii.08)

I resigned myself several hours ago to this being a generally rubbish day. Rubbish in the sense that it’s really been one massive long waste of what could have been a rather enjoyable day – I could have wandered into downtown Toronto, taken another look in the Eaton Centre, found my way around Union Station [ READ MORE ]

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