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The First 365 Days

By Barth on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 4:48pm |

It was not a good week to celebrate the first anniversary of President Obama's inauguration. There was, of course, the absurd return to the political thought that the candidate who most seems to be "regular" should get elected and a...

This is not really a post

By Barth on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 11:25am |

I have no time. But I did find this item I wrote shortly before the 2008 election about what would happen in President Obama won.I was right, but more importantly, it puts what happened in my beloved home state, my...

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Vote for the Kennedy of Your Choice, but Vote

By Barth on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 6:41pm |

Your weekly correspondent is unable to do any of general complaining what with this and that---personal, business and the like---getting in the way, so we are reduced to quotations from the old First Family Record. (It begins at 7:33of the...

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Republicans or Americans?

By Barth on Sat, 01/09/2010 - 4:21pm |

We resist, and rightly so, accusing people of being disloyal to their country simply because they criticize the President or oppose his policies. There comes a time, though, when one has to wonder about the motives of those who cannot...

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Leadership

By Barth on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 12:51am |

President Bush debates Sen Kerry, 10/8/04BUSH: Hi, Linda.GRABEL: President Bush, during the last four years, you have made thousands of decisions that have affected millions of lives. Please give three instances in which you came to realize you had made...

The TVs try to rape us

By Barth on Sat, 01/02/2010 - 1:50pm |

This was the week where the nearly unthinkable took place: David Brooks not only wrote a column about something very important, he said exactly the right thing. That is not to single out Brooks as generally a purveyor of the...

The New Year and the new decade

By Barth on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 3:09pm |

Let's get this new decade thing out of the way first. I am one of those cranks who insist, as everyone recognized in 1900 and 1901, that a century, and hence, millennium commences in a year ending with 1, since...

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Do We Feel Better Now?

By Barth on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 7:34pm |

Our daddy has spoken to us. He cannot tell us everything will be all right---since nobody can and unlike his predecessor he has decided that pretending to have the ability to cloud men's minds (or whatever other fictional character...

Run for Your Lives

By Barth on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 8:52pm |

This truly pathetic item appeared today at Daily Kos. The poster calls him or herself a "progressive" but surely that was meant to throw us off the track while getting hysterical over the fact that the President is not spending...

Free Fall

By Barth on Sat, 12/26/2009 - 4:43pm |

This is slightly edited from the cross-post at Daily Kos, partly because a few commenters there reminded of two points that should have been made but for the fog in this bloggers head:This is not a news bulletin nor does...

A Jew's Christmas in the US

By Barth on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 7:19pm |

To the many people who celebrate a holiday today, I wish you a Merry Christmas. I am allowed to wish you the best for your holiday, and definitely not interested in any supposed war on Christmas. Many of you have...

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Fixing What Has Gone Wrong

By Barth on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 6:36pm |

It was supposed to be so easy. Sure we have watched our politics debased over forty years, and elected a succession of crooks, incompetents, fools, rich out of touch fellows, self indulgent Democrats acting as Republicans (one actually) followed by...

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Our President

By Barth on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 11:05pm |

He is not Franklin D Roosevelt and does not have either the control of Congress that the FDR of 1933 had, nor the unified mandate for radical change which the 1932 election provided that President. The Republican Party decimated by...

This is how it works

By Barth on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 5:41pm |

I really did not notice the Vietnam War until 1967. I feel guilty about not being aware of it before then, but in fairness, I was 15 years old in 1967 and had other things on my mind. I did...

November 22

By Barth on Sun, 11/22/2009 - 1:39pm |

It means only one thing to those of us of a certain age. It was the day of days, the event of our national lives. That it no longer is the focus of every succeeding November 22 tells us that...

President Truman on tonight's debate

By Barth on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 8:35pm |

This is a busy week for many people, and even busier for this once a week blogger. The annual memorial to the President who first inspired the guy who writes under this name to become a public servant will, work...

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Whining about bowing and Other Attempts to Demean the President

By Barth on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 5:44pm |

These goons never miss a moment to demean our President. Never. Politics stops at the water's edge? Not when the President is a Democrat. It is enough to make one think there is a vast right wing conspiracy against our...

The United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, et al

By Barth on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 3:39pm |

There were so many other things that seemed to be good subjects for a post this week. Then this jumped out of today's New York Times :Margit Arias-Kastell lost her husband, Adam Arias, in Tower 2. She, too, could not countenance the...

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Missing President Bush but trying to learn lessons anyway

By Barth on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 3:20pm |

Do we miss him yet? Republicans surely don't, but maybe the rest of us, motivated by the daily mess created and exacerbated by the least competent person to serve as president since either Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan, do. It...

One year later

By Barth on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:44pm |

President Kennedy's inauguration on January 20, 1961 is the first Great National Event which I can actually recall. The flights of Alan B. Shepherd and John Glenn, leading to the actual exploration of another celestial body in 1969 also come...

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