Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’
This week the President who killed Osama (oh wait, that was the Navy Seals,) announced the timeline for the US to be out of Afghanistan entirely. I thought the bit about making pals with the Taliban if they agree to make nice revealed an idiotic kumbaya, naiveté on the part of President O. Whatever else one thinks [ READ MORE ]
A friend sent me this fascinating link titled “Elke’s Warning.” Elke was born in 1942 under Hitler. The part of Germany she lived in was known as East Germany and was under Soviet control until 1989. The video is well worth watching. It paints in broad strokes the direction the US is heading under Obama. [ READ MORE ]
I always find it interesting when politicians of either stripe use the Bible for their own purposes. The application of the passage they are quoting or referencing is almost always wrong or a far-fetched application bearing little relationship to what is actually being said. President Obama is a liberal progressive to use their own terms. [ READ MORE ]
I was in the first grade in 1960 and attended a Catholic School. Even as a first grader who knew nothing of politics I was acutely aware of the raging controversy over the 1960 election. Would America elect a Roman Catholic to the office of President of the United States? John F. Kennedy of course became the [ READ MORE ]
Countries fight civil wars for many reasons but perhaps the best way to characterize a civil war (or any war) is in terms of a power struggle. Who gets to run things is the question that is answered at the end of a civil war. There are secondary motives and issues but at the end of the [ READ MORE ]
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