Recent Posts Tagged With 'obama'

• Random Rants: Summer of '09

  Posted on Tuesday August 25th, 2009 at 12:07 in obama, George Bush, alberta, progressive conservatives, ed stelmach, jim dinning, wildrose alliance, diane colley-urquhart, danielle smith, guy boutilier, calgary-glenmore

  Random thoughts while enjoying one of a dwindling number of hot days remaining in the Summer of ’09……the federal Conservatives are once again polling in majority territory. If only that could happen during an actual election…….tough times f...

• A Little Prompting in the Bedroom

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 00:55 in humor, obama, teleprompter

  Can't he do ANYTHING without it?...

• Who Can End Obamamania?

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 14:49 in republican, obama, Economy, poll, vote, reagan, palin

  As we find ourselves being pulled deeper into Obama’s New Deal, conservatives across the globe are hoping for a Messiah of their own. The more Republicans I chat with, the more I hear of their desire to find ‘the next Reagan’; someone who would...

• From Karzai to Cammalleri: Random Rants

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 12:00 in republican, conservative, obama, al qaeda, war on terror, afghanistan, alberta, Stephen Harper, calgary flames, karzai, olli jokinen, michael cammalleri

  Watching Obama take the United States down the path to socialism is like a vivid nightmare. For non-leftwing Canadians (yes, we do exist) who have lived our entire lives in a soft-socialist nation, it feels like barely surviving a plane crash only to...

• The Powder Keg is Lit

  Posted on Tuesday March 17th, 2009 at 15:10 in obama, Economy, unemployment, harper, bailout, lay-offs, employment insurance

  The release of Canada’s latest unemployment numbers is still the hot topic around the water cooler – providing your local Service Canada Employment centre possesses such equipment, of course.Since October, just a shade under 300,000 Canadians hav...

• Playing the Odds

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 15:24 in NAFTA, obama, Al Gore, war on terror, Stephen Harper, gitmo, stimulus package

  For the gambling fan, here’s the line:Odds that the Obama stimulus package will fix the economic problems: 50 to 1It’s not all bad, but spending the way out of a hole was already tried – and failed – in the 1930’s. If Obama had gone the oth...

• Is the Rose Losing its Bloom?

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 16:03 in bush, obama, stimulus package

  As with any mind-numbing fad that defies logic with its seemingly endless shelf life, there are signs that the inevitable is finally starting to happen with the apparent formation of cracks in the fuzzy and warm Obamamania craze.Building throughout t...

• Unlikely Friends

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 14:22 in Canada, obama, war on terror, afghanistan, Stephen Harper

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks to Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Canadian love-in with Barack Obama hit its crescendo on Tuesday with the Inauguration ceremony. The buzz was so great (reminder: he’s not OUR president) it ma...

• The First Cut is the Deepest

  Posted on Thursday January 15th, 2009 at 15:00 in bush, obama, iraq, war on terror, afghanistan, 9 11

  The very first test President-elect Obama faces could be his toughest, and depending on what path he takes, it could not only determine his chances for a second term but his whole presidential legacy overall.In preparation for his move into the White...