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Tag Archives: Congress
Being a little too certain about Maybe!
When something ‘may’ and ‘appears to be’ and ‘could’, how on earth does that constitute news? Speculation, conjecture, hypothesizing, all have their place, but surely in the Opinion pages, not in a Hard News Section called “THE WORLD.” Continue reading →
Posted in Contemporary Stories
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Tagged al-Qaeda, Congress, getting to maybe, Napolitano, News, Nuclear, plutonium, Representative King, specuation, stories, Terrorism India, Washington Post
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Election Results as Obama’s Hermeneutical challenge
If Obama revives his hermeneutic of hope, he will know he”s got two more years to rescue the economy, and reconnect his hope to the nation’s hurting heartland. But he knew that long before Tuesday. It’s called leadership, a quality that wins in the end, but in the middle passage, doesn’t complain or explain, because when did any of us not have to risk being wrong in order to end up right? Continue reading →
Posted in Contemporary Stories, Election, Obama
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Tagged Congress, David Broder, Denver, eleciton, Extra-Terrestials, George Will, Kathleen Parker, Obama, Press Conference, Tea Party, Washington Post, White House
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On the Disillusioning of America
Do you share an increasing sense that something might be slipping from our grasp, that something is not only not right, but there is a sea change happening. We are watching a tide slowly recede, a tide of optimism and resilience that used to buoy up America in its severest times of testing and trouble? Continue reading →
Posted in Contemporary Stories, Election, Obama
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Tagged Afghanistan, American Dream, Congress, Corpoatism, elections, Iraq, Irish, Military, Novermber 2nd, Obama, populism, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, Tillman, Wall Street
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The Obama Plot Unravels -As Predicted!
Someone with narrative intelligence rather than a political brain needs to take the President to one side, as they should have done on January 21st 2008, and told it straight-, its downhill from here, that the expectations he had helped create were unreal even if he was crowned Emperor, and therefore dangerous. Continue reading →
Posted in Contemporary Stories, Election, Obama
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Tagged character, Congress, Election, expectations, Fairy Tale, Fall from Grace, fight, gridlock, hero, Michael Gerson, Mid Terms, narrative, narrative intelligence, Obama, Peter Baker, Rilke, Rise to Power, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, the dog, The Presidential Plot
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Faux Civil Wars about Incivility
They used to say, ‘One swallow doesn’t make a summer,’ but perhaps we need to revise that to say that ‘three swallows definitely does’, because three totally disconnected outbursts by people in the public eye losing their cool has been … Continue reading →
Posted in Contemporary Stories
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Tagged Congress, Congressman Wilson, Decline of Civility, Kayne West, Liar, Obama, Serena Williams
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