Friday Talking Points [173] -- Obama 2.0?
[ Posted Friday, July 15th, 2011 – 16:50 UTC ]
Are we seeing the new model of Barack Obama's presidency? Is this (in the parlance of Silicon Valley) "Obama 2.0"?
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Friday Talking Points [170] -- Newt Loses Two, Huntsman Gains An "H"
[ Posted Friday, June 24th, 2011 – 16:13 UTC ]
Well, it's certainly been an eventful couple of weeks, hasn't it?
We're back on our regular weekly schedule here after returning home from our second trip this month (this one to Netroots Nation), after which I can firmly conclude that flying, these days, sucks. Big time. Sigh.
Friday Talking Points [160] -- "Name That War" Contest
[ Posted Friday, March 25th, 2011 – 17:27 UTC ]
Anyone who sits in the Oval Office -- no matter what their name or political party -- is going to have detractors. As they should, since disagreeing with political leaders is almost the national sport in America, and always has been (sorry, baseball, but political bickering has been around a lot longer). Sometimes criticism of the president is for very principled and deeply-held beliefs. Sometimes, it is just knee-jerk-ism of the first order.
A Spacey Three-Dot Thursday
[ Posted Thursday, January 27th, 2011 – 18:49 UTC ]
OK, it's going to a be a quick and disjointed column today, because I have to get tomorrow's Friday column done early tonight. So we return to the "three-dot column" format pioneered by the intrepid Herb Caen of San Francisco newspaper fame (who also famously coined the term "beatnik," by the way...). Today, we've got two Sputnik footnotes, a Sarah Palin chuckle, and a quick note on Obama's "ask the president a question on YouTube" session. Without further ado...
Friday Talking Points [147] -- Democrats Fighting The Good Fight
[ Posted Friday, November 19th, 2010 – 17:24 UTC ]
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I thought that was a pretty good week for Democrats.
Terrifying Hallowe'en Nightmares, Left And Right
[ Posted Friday, October 29th, 2010 – 16:17 UTC ]
It's that time of year again... the time when we pre-empt our usual Friday Talking Points column here and instead gather 'round the virtual campfire and shove a metaphorical flashlight under our chin, and proceed to tell two tales of horror guaranteed to make your blood run like ice water in the veins, no matter which side of the political divide you hail from.
Friday Talking Points [144] -- Midterm Home Stretch
[ Posted Friday, October 22nd, 2010 – 16:57 UTC ]
I'm going to (mostly) resist the urge to take advantage of this column's volume number in order to write a really gross column. Numerically, and inventory-wise, a "gross" is (of course) one dozen dozen. Twelve squared.
California Marijuana Proposition Update
[ Posted Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 – 16:56 UTC ]
I have to admit that I still have no answer to the question last week's article asked in its title. At this point, nothing more than sheer speculation can answer how President Obama and the White House would react to Proposition 19 passing.
If California Legalizes Marijuana, How Will Obama React?
[ Posted Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 – 16:37 UTC ]
California will vote in a few weeks on Proposition 19, which would (if it passes) effectively legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. Chances of it passing seem to be growing, if you'll excuse the metaphor, like a weed. Right now, the poll numbers for Proposition 19 are better than the numbers for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown or Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer against their respective Republican opponents, for instance. Meaning California could become a "test case" state in challenging federal laws on the matter. But what would this mean, practically? Well, a lot of it hinges on how President Barack Obama reacts. Which is impossible to say right now, but at least we can examine the possibilities, now that California legalizing marijuana seems to have moved from the "pipe dream" category (sorry about that, I couldn't resist) to a very real political possibility, if the polling trend continues.
Friday Talking Points [137] -- Listen To Westen And Lakoff, Democrats!
[ Posted Friday, September 3rd, 2010 – 16:24 UTC ]
Jollification aside, though, we're still one week away from Congress returning to briefly do their job (or at least give the appearance of doing so), before they award themselves another month or so off, in order to campaign. Labor Day is right around the corner (or perhaps blowing past the corner at 75 miles per hour, if you live in the hurricane zone -- which contains, my television assures me, everything east of about Denver).