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Joseph A. Palermo: Obama’s "Fireside Chat" (FDR or Jimmy Carter?)
Jun 16th
For well over a year now I’ve been wondering why President Barack Obama, (who is a talented communicator and a student of history), failed to recognize Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s example of the necessity of speaking directly to the American people. Tonight, at long last, Obama gave his first “fireside chat.” He should have done so long ago to clarify his efforts to reform the financial sector, as well as to explain his stimulus package and health care initiatives. (A weekly Youtube talk is no substitute for a primetime Oval Office address.) His passivity allowed his political opponents, including well-heeled Wall Street and health insurance interests, to define the narrative on their terms
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Loading ...Obama’s Oil Spill Speech: What Was The Point?
Jun 16th
President Barack Obama took to the Oval Office to address a nation worried to death over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a location used so much more often by Saturday Night Live than by actual presidents that my brain actually released a small dollop of dopamine in anticipation of comedic parody.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Oil Spill Speech: Vows To Get Tough On BP, Offers Few Concrete Remedies
Jun 16th
WASHINGTON — Vowing to “make BP pay,” President Barack Obama accused the oil giant of “recklessness” in his first address to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, eight weeks to the day after the catastrophic oil spill began destroying waterways, wildlife and a prized Gulf Coast way of life. “We will fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long it takes,” declared Obama, whose own presidency has been stumbling because of the gushing oil
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Richard Greener: What Obama Should Have Said: Two Truths And Three Actions
Jun 16th
Instead of making another TV “speech” to us, President Obama should have told the American people two simple truths about the debacle in the Gulf followed by the announcement of three Presidential actions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama’s Oil Speech Panned: Short On Details, Broader Climate Plan
Jun 16th
WASHINGTON — Vowing to “make BP pay,” President Barack Obama accused the oil giant of “recklessness” in his first address to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, eight weeks to the day after the catastrophic oil spill began destroying waterways, wildlife and a prized Gulf Coast way of life. See full video and transcript of the speech here
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Bromwich Named To Head Minerals Management Service
Jun 15th
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has selected a former federal prosecutor to take over the troubled government agency that oversees oil and gas development and has been accused of lax oversight. The White House announced Tuesday that Michael R. Bromwich, a former assistant U.S.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alexander Dresner: Executive Compensation: A Critique
Jun 15th
For me, the iconic image of the Great Recession — encompassing the corporate largesse and irresponsibility, as well as the resulting widespread discontent of this period — is one that I’ve conjured up in my head, from news reports, of former Lehman Brothers CEO, Dick Fuld, knocked out cold, laying motionless on the floor of the company gym, the victim of an attack by a disgruntled employee of the failed bank. Fuld had collected more than $500 million in salary, bonuses and stock options during his 14-year tenure as head of Lehman, during which time he’d stewarded the firm and it’s 26,000 employees into a mess so great that the fallout from its collapse teetered between destabilizing and debilitating the American financial system — ultimately falling somewhere in between. So much for performance-based compensation
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Gulf Oil Spill: What Obama Is Overlooking
Jun 15th
When it comes to mitigating the effects of the oil spill, President Obama, like his administration’s federal response, has focused on the country’s coastlines. Meanwhile, government agencies have repeatedly underestimated the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. (The newest estimate, released Tuesday afternoon , is 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day, some seven to 12 times the original estimate, and even so, “the upper number is less certain,” according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.) The administration only recently — grudgingly — acknowledged that much of the oil continues to lurk under the surface, potentially with catastrophic consequences in the months, years and decades to come
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Janet Ritz: Where Is Dick Cheney During the Gulf Oil Spill?
Jun 15th
Former Vice President (and former Halliburton CEO) Dick Cheney, so vocal during the first year of President Obama’s administration in his attempt to scare us to death on national security, has been remarkably silent since the Gulf oil spill began its slow motion march into the nation’s consciousness. There was not a decision on war or energy the current president made that was not questioned, even ridiculed, by the former Bush Administration number one two. However, since the Deepwater Horizon began its slow motion process of turning the Gulf into a dead zone, Mr
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cory Gardner Cancels Campaign Event With Steve King After Racial Remarks
Jun 15th
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado Republican Cory Gardner’s congressional campaign has canceled a fundraiser featuring U.S. Rep.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christine Pelosi: BP Disaster: Wake Up America and Smell The Crude Oil
Jun 15th
The BP disaster is a wakeup call to America: it’s time we all woke up and smelled the crude oil. We are, as President Bush said, addicted to oil and we must break that addiction before more lives are lost, ecosystems destroyed, and families devastated
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Raymond J. Learsy: Oil Cartels and Venezuela — A Moment of Truth for the Obama Justice Department
Jun 15th
This post is not about the merits of fossil fuels, fully cognizant of the growing existential danger they present to the environment and planet, but rather about the price of fossil fuels and our government’s decades long complicit policies in the transfer of literally trillions of dollars of the nation’s wealth to oil interests and despots around the world. Trillions that have helped to destabilize today’s world, lubricating the clash of civilizations, making it possible for the billions upon billions to be expended by Mideast oil producers to radicalize generations of the young and vulnerable throughout all corners of the globe, to the ethos of jihad and intolerance. The issue is highlighted in a remarkable and eye opening court battle currently being litigated: United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (No
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Paul Abrams: President’s Gulf Speech Is to his Presidency as Rev. Wright Speech Was to his Campaign
Jun 15th
This President has been dealt extraordinary challenges, and extraordinary opportunities to rally the nation behind fundamental reforms. He has the rhetorical and inspirational skills to rally not just ‘the base’, but larger numbers of young, and not-so-young, people who saw multi-layers of transformational power in his Presidency. As the first Earth Day showed, even craven politicians could be clubbed into submission by an active and aroused electorate–7 of the 12 first ‘dirty-dozen’ pro-polluter Congressmen were defeated in the first election following Earth Day, and pro-polluter President Richard Nixon was cowed into signing the key environmental laws (clean air, clean water, endangered species, marine mammal protection, and the creation of the EPA) of the post-World War II era
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Creamer: Now Is the Time to Change U.S. Cuba Policy
Jun 15th
For half a century, United States policy toward Cuba has been aimed at isolating and defeating the regime. That policy has demonstrably failed.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steve King Calls Obama’s Aunt To Testify Before Congress On Asylum Deal
Jun 15th
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Menachem Rosensaft: An Appeal to Republicans and Democrats: Stop Nazi Analogies, Now
Jun 15th
An Appeal to Republicans and Democrats: Stop Nazi Analogies, Now by Menachem Rosensaft I understand why Rush Limbaugh has made a long series of abhorrent comparisons between President Obama and Adolf Hitler. His sole purpose is to shock, to offend. According to Limbaugh, President Obama’s health care logo was “right out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook;” “Obama is asking citizens to rat each other out like Hitler did;” the president “is sending out his brownshirts to head up opposition to genuine American citizens who want no part of what Barack Obama stands for and is trying to stuff down our throats;” and “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/menachem-rosensaft/gop-must-repudiate-limbau_b_261754.html Along the same line, the president of Republican Women of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, wrote on the group’s web site only last year, , http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/23/gop-womens-group-in-md-ob_n_219841.html , that “Obama and Hitler have a great deal in common in my view
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