Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

Worst Vice President Ever Pipes Up

You remember how those conservatives flipped out when former Presidents and Vice Presidents like Clinton, Gore, and especially Carter would offer up their opinions. The crying and howling about how it violated protocol? Barack Obama hasn’t been president for a full month yet.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that [...]

Tuesday In Jamaica

I thought this story about the inauguration, as witnessed from Jamaica, was worth noting.
Half-Way Tree, the busy St Andrew capital, was transformed into a theatre yesterday as scores of pedestrians stopped to watch the inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama.
Under the scorching sun, the exuberant crowd watched with pride from a television screen erected at the [...]

Can America Be Motivated?

In the wake of President Obama’s inauguration I was recently discussing with some friends: Can America be motivated? We all agreed that one of the biggest failures of Bush was his inability and unwillingness to make a call to action for Americans, and that Obama set the right tone on day one on this.
But, can [...]