Tag: Obama

  • What Can Obama Do?

    With the US mid-term elections behind him President Obama has to carefully consider what to do next, while he hopes for a 1996 style comeback George Friedman suggests that Obama would be better served by looking at how Reagan bounced back after his mid-term defeat in 1982. Of course the threat of a double dip…

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  • Is Obama Muslim? Increasing numbers of Americans think so

    Since 2008 there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Americans who say that Obama is Muslim. I note that this is what people are ‘saying’, especially from the Republican side. Part of me suspects that they probably know what religion Obama is but it is more ‘PC’ to call him Muslim then…

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  • Obama and The License to Kill US Citizens

    I commented on this earlier this year, that the Obama administration had continued the Bush policy of allowing the killing of US citizens abroad who are allegedly associated with terrorist groups. Now this already distasteful scenario has gotten murkier as the Treasury Department has made it illegal to have lawyers represent these US citizens in…

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  • Visualizing Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal

    Great visualizing from the New York Times showing President Obama’s 2011 budget, the chart is fully interactive and very informative. Will we look back and talk about the the ‘big-budget freeze’ of 2011? His gamble with deepening the deficit to stimulate job growth will have to be macro-managed better then the previous stimulus or these…

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  • Al-Qaeda has a new strategy. Obama needs one, too

    “Throughout 2008 and 2009, U.S. officials repeatedly trumpeted al-Qaeda’s demise. In a May 2008 interview with The Washington Post, then-CIA Director Michael Hayden heralded the group’s “near strategic defeat.” And the intensified aerial drone attacks that President Obama authorized against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan last year were widely celebrated for having killed over half of…

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