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Open letter to Barack Obama
I know I am not the first person to congratulate you on your victory. For the past two years, you engaged in a long hard-fought battle against numerous members of your own party as well as against Senator John McCain. This past Tuesday, 52% of the nation voted to give you this opportunity to lead [...]
A speedbump that keeps popping up
Barack Obama finally did yesterday what he should have done a month ago, though the damage has already been done. For those of you who haven’t guess what I am talking about, I’m referring to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. After being out of the media spotlight for a few weeks since Obama’s first speech on race, [...]
Is Obama bitter, an elitist, or none of the above?
I know I am a few days late commenting on this issue, but I’ve needed time to think about the comment and what Barack Obama was trying to get at. Once finding the full text of the comment (not just the sound bite being used by all the media outlets), Obama is becoming more and [...]
“Rev. Wright’s self-fulfilling prophecy”
By The Fireside Post
Here we go again. An angry man, whether justified or not, pokes a stick in the eye of the object of his anger. Then he wonders why the object of his anger does not like him. Barack Obama says, let us have a healthy dialogue. Well, get the stick out of my [...]
Reviewing Obama’s speech
Now that we’ve had a chance to digest the speech made yesterday by Barack Obama, I just wanted to go through the speech and provide my thoughts on what was said. It might be a bit lengthy and not overly interesting for the casual reader, so if you wish to skip through the article, I wouldn’t [...]
