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“It’s the one thing I want to do. I want to serve this country.”

By on February 9, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

The Washington Post has a fascinating article today about an 18 year-old young woman trapped between wanting, desperately, to serve the United States in the military and her inability to do so because she was brought here as an undocumented citizen when she was 11.

When Noheli Carrasco takes charge of her teenage battalion at South Lakes High School – their rifles pointing toward the ceiling, green uniforms crisply ironed – she looks much like the military officer she wants to be.

But Carrasco, 18, is not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. And although she wants to join the Air Force after graduation and has been courted by recruiters, she is barred from enlisting.

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Get in the game

By on February 8, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

During his speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week, President Obama said this:

Now is the time to invest in America. Today, American companies have nearly $2 trillion sitting on their balance sheets. I know that many of you have told me that you are waiting for demand to rise before you get off the sidelines and expand, and that with millions of Americans out of work, demand has risen more slowly than any of us would like.

But many of your own economists and salespeople are now forecasting a healthy increase in demand. So I want to encourage you to get in the game.

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Bill O’Reilly proves he’s not worthy to kiss President Obama’s shoe

By on February 6, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Just sitting here watching the Fox interview with President Obama during the Superbowl pregame.

I’ve never seen such an unprofessional, disrespectful interview of any President ever.

He constantly cut-off the President.

He constantly interjected his own opinions.

Un-effing-believable.

President Obama was poised and answered O’Reilly’s questions intelligently and thoughtfully. I don’t know how he was able to do it given the juvenile, completely unprofessional nature of O’Reilly’s questions and demeanor but he represented himself very well.

I can only assume the reaction to O’Reilly’s behavior will be one of scorn and derision. It deserves nothing more.

Here’s the video:

Transcript HERE.…


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The foreign policy prescience of Barack Obama

By on February 2, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

First, a hat tip to my dear friend and fellow member of the Proud Pragmati, Blackwaterdog. If you haven’t checked out her blog, The only adult in the room, you should. She’s brilliant and is doing the job of keeping people informed about the successes of the Obama administration better than anyone else in the blogosphere.

To say that the past week has been an “interesting” foreign policy week for the Obama administration would be an an understatement. Egypt, one of the major players in the Middle East, is undergoing a transformational upheaval, one that will change the politics of the region for decades to come.…


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Oh, look. The president isn’t throwing poor people under the bus.

By on January 26, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

As I predicted last weekend, the President proved last night he isn’t going to cut benefits for the poor and others on Social Security.

From his second State of the Union Address:

To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations. We must do it without putting at risk current retirees, the most vulnerable, or people with disabilities; without slashing benefits for future generations; and without subjecting Americans’ guaranteed retirement income to the whims of the stock market.

I’m going to file this under “Supports the Poor” in my Obama files.…


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The very real attack on Obama’s mythical attack on Social Security

By on January 23, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

Updated to correct a mistake regarding Medicare vs. Social Security.

It all started when somebody over at Firedoglake (FDL) derisively labeled President Obama’s deficit reduction study committee “The Catfood Commission”. The complete asinine nature of such an offensive characterization is epic. I assume it’s called that because they believe it will lead to old people eating catfood instead of human food because it will be all they can afford after President Obama is done gutting their social security and other benefits.

In other words, they are suggesting that President Obama is a foe to poor people.

No, really. That’s the implication: that a man who spent most of his early career on the front lines fighting for the rights of those at the lower reaches of the socio-economic ladder is, now that he’s in a position of true and awesome power, going to use that power to further damage the position of poor people.…


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The inauguration of Barack Obama in pictures and music

By on January 20, 2011 in Barack Obama, Eclectalife, President Obama

My wife and I were fortunate enough to attend President Obama’s inauguration two years ago today. Her photomosaic poster of Barack Obama, “Out of Many, We Are One” that appeared in TIME magazine had sold well and was being given out as a gift at the Michigan Ball held at the Museum of American Heritage. We also miraculously got tickets to the inauguration itself. Not only that, we scored tickets to the MoveOn.org party.

The enhanced slideshow below, “Two in Two Million”, is composed of hundreds of photos my wife, Anne C. Savage, took during our trip. It includes amazing music (Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, Thievery Corporation and the Dixie Chicks), pictures from the Michigan Ball and the MoveOn party, the D.C.…


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A liberal converted

By on January 14, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

I generally won’t have anything at all to do with the Democratic Underground. I consider that site to be the liberal equivalent to the Free Republic in terms of its overall integrity. I’m not saying there isn’t anything good at DU — there is. Lots of good stuff. It’s just way overshadowed by too much really over the top rhetoric, in my opinion.

But this piece by David Zephyr is positively brilliant. It highlights all that is truly good about President Obama and comes from the perspective of someone who has been critical of him in the past. It is the story of someone who has been won over by the intelligence, demeanor and style of Barack Obama.…


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More bad news for President Obama

By on January 14, 2011 in Barack Obama, President Obama

He’s crushing all the leading Republican contenders for president in the McClatchy/Marist latest poll.

Today Obama would beat Republican Mitt Romney by 51 to 38 percent, the poll showed. In a December McClatchy-Marist poll, he trailed the former Massachusetts governor by 46-44 percent.

Obama would defeat Republican Mike Huckabee by a similar margin, 50-38 percent. In December, the president led the former Arkansas governor by only 47-43 percent.

And he’d crush Palin by 56-30 percent. A month before, he led the former Alaska governor by 52-40 percent.

I’m just sayin’…

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While the left urges civility, the right finds excuses

By on January 13, 2011 in Barack Obama, Conservatives, Democrats, President Obama, Republicans

I have found the national political response to the shootings in Arizona a fascinating study this past week. As I blogged earlier this week , when Democrats held out an olive branch to Republicans last year, asking for a mutual statement urging civility in political discourse, they were firmly rebuffed by RNC leadership. I had expected this recent tragedy to move them somewhat; to reconsider their position and, perhaps, to move toward pushing for a “toning down” of violent language and imagery.

Instead, what I have seen is the right searching for excuses why they don’t need to do that and reaching, sometimes almost comically, for examples of liberals “doing the same thing”.…


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