Recent Posts Tagged With 'obama'

• Mr. Obama: Decline the Peace Prize

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 10:05 in obama, nobel peace prize, the annals of protest

  I heard this morning about the President’s Nobel Peace Price. It was followed by laughter, and the running joke of the morning: “I thought I was reading The Onion” people said. The incredulousness is deep on both the left and the right. Mr. Ob...

• The Right March on Washington

  Posted on Saturday September 12th, 2009 at 15:59 in obama, civil disobedience, protests, tea party, the annals of protest, senator jim demint, federal monarchy, feedomworks

  When I was young, civil disobedience was the tool of choice of the left. Now it has become the tool of the right. In August conservatives filled town halls. Today they filled the Washington Mall. While the right is not really comfortable, yet, with ...

• Health Care Reform: It is a Lie

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 16:16 in obama, Regulation, health care reform, the annals of protest, institutional conformity

  Yep it’s a lie. After the summer of discontent, and the President’s speech last night (with it’s heckling) I’ve written up my thoughts on the current health care debate. Health Care Reform: It is a Lie I wish we were talking about the issu...

• No Armageddon, Not Yet

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 16:06 in china, obama, economics, infrastructure, the annals of protest, wall street bail out

  One of the things I’m surprised about is the resiliency of the economy. Things are flattening out, opportunists are making their moves on low prices in many industries. Business is starting up again, mostly because credit is beginning to flow out o...

• Big Heros Don’t Solve Small Problems

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 11:26 in obama, leadership, tarp, politico, jamie dimon, the annals of protest, wall street bail out, eamon javers

  Back when I was in commerce we’d watch a young executive making a play for relevance and import and say, “Big heros don’t solve small problems.” It’s a version of the old “make a mountain out of a mole hill” idea, but much more dangerou...

• Barack Orwell Obama

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 09:34 in obama, war on terror, pelosi, habeas corpus, Jon Stewart, integrity, surge, wall street bailout, the annals of protest, government expansion, george orwel, guantinimo

  “Just don’t call it a surge”. From a policy perspective I guess I should be happy. The Obama administration is pursuing policies that look identical to those from the last administration, even if they are named differently. It’s become so bl...

• Finally a Tech Savvy White House

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 08:12 in Web 2.0, Microsoft, media, obama, productivity, ted, photosynth, balckberry, whitehouse.gov

  CNN Technology gets swamped on inauguration day, and isn't sure what to do in "The Moment" with Photosynth . Perhaps they can take few lessons from the new tech savvy White House who is showing some chops in cyber space. PWND! --- Does anyone over at...

• The Speech

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 18:43 in obama, visionaries, the annals of protest

  Leaders lead from the podium. Those who say otherwise do not understand how leadership works. Regardless of you political stripes, few dispute that somewhere along the path of the last eight years George W. Bush stopped leading the country, primarily...

• The End Of Cynicism?

  Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 09:52 in Cynicism, obama, the annals of protest

  Is this the end of cynicism? Obama's soaring victory speech in Chicago last night was an oratorical flourish of positivism, such as has been missing in public discourses in America for years. But what does this victory mean to the future tone of di...