Obama is sounding like Bush:

Charles Freeman has withdrawn his nomination to chair the US National Intelligence Council because of a slander campaign easily traceable to the powerful Israeli lobby AIPAC.

Are you wondering how Obama’s job performance is going these days? It’s difficult to gauge how he is faring for a couple reasons. First, because he is so new on the job, there is not much to judge him on. Second, because we are going through such unprecedented times, it’s difficult to compare the present to other periods of history.

Barack Obama looks back to Lincoln, and in doing so identifies with a President regarded as our greatest. Lincoln presided over one of the most brutal conflicts in history. Barack also looks back to that preacher from Atlanta who sang We Shall Overcome and espoused nonviolence.

Within America’s two-party system:

Fact: Democrats represent the economic interests of the middle and lower classes.
Fact: Republicans represent the economic interests of the upper classes.
Fact: The number of people comprising the middle and lower classes far out number those in the upper class.

Opinion: People should vote for the party that best represents their economic interests.

Fact: We [...]

NUCLEAR threats and counter-threats are a subtext of our times, steadily, it seems, becoming more insistent. The July meeting in Geneva between Iran and six major world powers on Iran’s nuclear programme ended with no progress.

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as “an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see.”

When conservative hit-shows first began raising questions about Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, the Democratic candidate essentially played down the relationship, suggesting that Wright was like the ‘crazy uncle’ common to many families.

I feel uncomfortable telling people to vote for Barack Obama without tacking an asterisk onto the end of my plea. I feel disingenuous assuring my friends and family that Barack Obama is different than the other candidates and that once in office

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing about Obama and all his wonderful qualities. I’m sick of hearing about the differentiation between Democrats and Republicans, and how liberal left thinking people actually believe there still is a difference. They are the same damn thing. We are given [...]