Image source Greetings, fellow people who read this blog. This time, I have decided to return to a political commentary, and talk about the Tea Party Movement in the US. Recently, this movement has begun to gather attention with its recent primary wins in preparation for the 2010 Congressional mid-term elections. As well, one of [...Read more...]
(Image credit: Reddit) CNN Article: Why Obama doesn’t dare become the ‘angry black man’ CNN Followup: Even discussing ‘angry black man’ stereotype provokes anger These articles were posted in early June 2010 as an evaluation of Obama’s apparent lack of anger during crises, like the BP oil spill. Essentially, CNN was trying to argue that [...Read more...]
Although the U.S. Congress recently managed to push through President Obama’s health care agenda to improve the state of health care in America, the Democrats were unable to renew emergency health care assistance for unemployed workers on 31 May due to internal divisions amongst the Democrats and firm opposition from the Republicans. Previously the government [...Read more...]
On numerous discussion forums, topics with anti-American sentiments are often expressed and commented upon by large numbers of posters. You have the anti-US foreign policy posters, American patriots, “America is the devil” posters, etc. Granted, the US is not immune from mistakes or missteps in world affairs, but would the world really be better off [...Read more...]
McCain: “You know who voted for it? Might never know… ‘that one’.” Just gotta bring up a political gaffe every once in a while. EDIT: I LOLed.
On March 30th, I got an email from SEIU about a reserved health care poster for those that had joined their mailing list during the struggle for American Health Care reform. Dear Supporter, “We have now just enshrined…the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care. And [...Read more...]
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