Tag: obama
member name: Warren Adler
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August 06, 2008 11:22 PM EDT --
If Barack Obama loses his bid to become President of the United States, he can trace the beginning of his demise to his campaign's boneheaded idea to speak in Berlin. While on the surface it might . . .
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November 22, 2008 01:11 PM EST --
Whatever your political leanings, there can be no question that the election of Barack Obama is a miracle of self-realization, an inspiration to all that self-discipline, singleness of purpose and creative . . .
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September 27, 2008 02:44 PM EDT --
Of the four candidates running for President and Vice President of the two major parties, Sarah Palin has been glorified by her supporters and vilified by her detractors more than any candidate for high . . .
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November 28, 2008 02:00 PM EST --
As the Obama transition team announces their appointments of people to run the government in the next four years, I note with dismay and a shiver of jealousy, that the preponderance of his picks are mostly . . .
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September 20, 2009 03:17 PM EDT --
The Race Card, a Joker
You do not have to be an expert in history to know that hatred, blind, bigoted, ignorant, cruel hatred is a pervasive element in the human psyche. Perhaps, given the bloody . . .
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November 17, 2009 07:23 PM EST --
In my daily Manhattan world, where most of my friends and acquaintances are old style political groupies of a distinctly liberal bent, nothing gets them more riled, really riled, hyper-irritated, . . .
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December 13, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
With the elections over and interest in news faltering, the media has suddenly gotten lucky and like sharks converging on blood, they have found a new killing field that will keep them chomping on raw . . .
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February 06, 2009 11:50 AM EST --
I’ve always been impressed by people in public life who have mastered the art of the public apology. Some have couched their pleadings in terms of remorse as, for example Timothy Geithner , Tom Daschle . . .
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October 23, 2009 08:08 PM EDT --
Growing up in New York in the thirties and forties, there were at least eleven daily newspapers, all spouting varying opinions from both left and right perspectives. Offered by the news organizations . . .
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February 28, 2009 12:11 AM EST --
Speaking frankly, I’m totally confused why Eric Holder , the new Attorney General of the United States called me a coward. Perhaps I am taking it too personally, since he accused the whole nation of . . .
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June 15, 2009 08:44 AM EDT --
I have spent years as a political groupie and an observer of the personalities who played major and minor roles on the political scene. Living in Washington for decades, I knew many of the political figures . . .
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May 03, 2009 11:09 PM EDT --
Remember the title of that play “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off”? Sorry folks, its too late. The Internet has made our planet spin too fast. If you let go, you’re a dead duck and if you manage to hold . . .
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October 12, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
Perhaps it is merely force of habit, but I often find myself imagining what powerful public figures are really thinking as they act in ways that impact on our lives. Unlike psychologists and psychiatrists, . . .
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November 29, 2009 08:24 PM EST --
The recent “crashing” of a Presidential State Dinner by a couple of wannabe celebrity publicity hounds sends chills up my spine, especially motivated by the picture of them being greeted . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:03 AM EST --
One should be given combat pay for defending Sarah Palin in Manhattan. The other evening at a lecture, a so-called distinguished author of political tomes reflected on the declining state of conservatism . . .
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March 23, 2008 07:37 PM EDT --
It was Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House, who once said that all politics is local . With apologies to old Tip, . . .
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