By Leonid Balaban
I made a comment yesterday in class and I wanted to reiterate this point in the blog: Lay off Obama – HE IS NOT THE PRESIDENT YET!!!
Only a month ago, Obama was elected to be the next President of the U.S. and there are still more than two months before he gets officially [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Obama’
December 5, 2008
Stop piling up on Obama
December 3, 2008
Obama’s Presidency and Cuba
By Sarah Popp
A travel restriction and trade embargo has been in place against Cuba since the early 1960s. The UN General Assembly has been urging the United States to lift the embargo for the last 17 years, but the United States has refused. U.S. diplomat Ronald Godard stated that the embargo is justified because [...]
November 21, 2008
When the clock strikes midnight
By: Brian Bohnert
As the clock winds down on the Bush presidency, it seems as though our 43rd president is not done putting his ideological stamp on the American political landscape – this time in the form of last minute executive orders and executive rule changes. This article discusses how he has gone about it and [...]
November 18, 2008
Obama’s Cabinet
By Lance Thibert
Week by week, new Obama cabinet appointments continue to make the news, with the biggest one being Rahm Emmanuel as White House Chief of staff. The dilemma Obama faces is to stock his cabinet with Democratic loyalists and reward those who made his victory possible, or take on a bipartisan cabinet in keeping with [...]
November 16, 2008
The technological push
Jean Gadberry
This election was much different than past elections for many reasons. The biggest change is the way that Barack Obama ran his election. He developed a very large Internet based campaign that included text messaging, easy donation giving, job application opportunities, a myspace page with an enormous base, 3 million supporters on facebook and [...]
November 5, 2008
Post-Election Comments
by Alicia Long
I thought it might be interesting to read some of the comments and reactions of people to the Obama victory. These are not pundits… just regular people leaving comments on news stories. Here’s what some of them had to say. Please enjoy my little anecdotal experiment:
CNN
“As a representative of many of the demographics [...]
October 25, 2008
Wassup 2008
By Leonid Balaban
Remember those Budweiser Wassup ads from 8 years ago? Well, it turns out that the main actors in that commercial decided to have a reunion of sorts and produce a political ad with some humor added to it.
Courtesy of DailyKos
October 16, 2008
Why HOPE Rings True
By Alicia Long
It seems HOPE is the keyword this election. In a year where the economy is in a downward spiral, America is looked down upon within the international community, people are losing not only their pensions and 401Ks but their homes, HOPE is the only thing that some have left.
Obama’s campaign slogan, “Change we [...]
October 16, 2008
Joe the plumber
By Leonid Balaban
I think that we’re going to hear a new line in schools after this debate. “Joe, who do you want to be when you grow up? A Joe plumber!!!”
This is from DailyKos:
Michael Grunwald: I’ll tell you one thing: joe the plumber is laying some pipe tonight. Tonight is definitely going to be sacred [...]
