President Obama
November 5, 2009
- The bookstore would have been easy enough to pass without registering, even for a bibliophile like me, had it not been for the eye-catching window display. All manner of Obama memorabilia – buttons, bumper stickers, die cut images, campaign posters, handbills, photographs – punctuated the dozen or more books proudly showcasing our nation’s 44th president. It was less than three months ...
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November 5, 2009
- President Obama's new video talks about how we can bring about change - we have so much power, we just need to use it. Click here to check out the President's new video. What is the essence of meaningful change? How can we bring about positive changes in our own lives? I've got a new article which is part of a series by Ron G. Holland, bestselling author of Talk and Grow Rich and The Eureka ...
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November 4, 2009
- The United States is, once again, at the precipice of all-out war, and, if the Pentagon, the Republicans, and the military-industrial monolith have their way, Afghanistan may become another Iraq or Vietnam. One can only hope that President Obama knows his history and will refuse to repeat its mistakes. For he alone, like Jack Kennedy in the early 1960s, stands in the way of the forces of ...
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October 20, 2009
- Dear President Obama: There are so many ways in which I am deeply grateful that you are our president. I could write you a long ode with many stanzas of praise. Such an ode would be heartfelt, but also heartfelt is this note that raises my deep concerns about much of the Arne Duncan education policy, a policy you seem to whole-heartedly support. I write as someone who has been a community artist ...
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October 11, 2009
- STORYHEART SUNDAY UK BLOG - Stonehenge, President Obama and Marge Simpson It's been rather a strange week, with news from both sides of the pond causing some discussion.First archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge. Dubbed 'Bluehenge' after the color of the 27 Welsh stones of which it was once made up, it was ...
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October 10, 2009
- Why am I writing about a Chairman, President & CEO of the largest financial institution in the world? Well, let me count the ways. Let me tell you how many lives he has destroyed because of his governing of this mega-corporation. Let me tell you how many mortages his company has foreclosed on. Let me tell you exactly who are his friends are both in the business world and the U.S. ...
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October 9, 2009
- "You're in a chatty mood these days," I called out to my upstairs neighbor, Hugh Lafferty, just minutes ago.Hugh opened the ceiling door to the attic and looked down: "They want to ban bacon," he rumbled gloomily with an even more worried frown than usual. Hugh's explanation is here.
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October 9, 2009
- No commentary today: hey, I'm just reporting here-- but when even the Associated Press seems a tad abashed, you have to wonder if all of this is maybe a bit too much, a little too early. From the AP story: "...The Nobel committee praised Obama's creation of 'a new climate in international politics' and said he had returned multilateral diplomacy and institutions like the U.N. to the ...
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September 26, 2009
- Dear President Obama: I appreciated your Rosh HaShanah message to Jewish Americans last week, especially the line that read, "Let us resist prejudice, intolerance, and indifference in whatever forms they may take." You declared that on this occasion, "We rededicate ourselves to the work of repairing this world." The time has come to translate these words into action. I want ...
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September 17, 2009
- By the time Jimmy Carter weighs in, with all due respect to the former President, home builder and Nobel Laureate, you can bet that's pretty much the end of the news cycle for that story. When I watched Mr. Carter offer an opinion about South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson the other day, his face as dour and reproachful as always, it just struck me that this had to be the last nail in the ...
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