Jeremiah Wright, The Marine Corps and Patriotism … and Barack Today

I wrote the following yesterday after watching the spectacle that Jeremiah Wright put on at the National Press Club. I had a shoulder replacement (Arthroplasty) last Friday so I decided I would sit on my comments overnight and see what today brought.
Senator Obama has now finally responded to Reverend Wright’s road show … frankly much [...]

Jeremiah Wright: “Barack said what he had to say.”

Previews of Jeremiah Wright’s interview with Bill Moyer are now hitting the media.
A quote attributed to Reverend Wright is, “Barack Obama said what he had to say as a politician.”
Exactly.
How many people can remember that TV show, “What’s My Line”? Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?
When are we going to stop getting [...]

Is the Iraq War the Cause of Recession?

Sure, it’s an election year and the spin is getting faster as the manure we’re all standing in is getting deeper, but the latest stretch is really phenomenal.
Recently, we’ve all heard Democratic party leaders attribute the recession … or “economic slowdown”, depending on your orientation … to the war in Iraq.
Okay. So they say.
Now, why [...]