Posts tagged 'speech'

Democrats Gave Mexican President Felipe Calderon Standing Ovation

by SteveK @ Tuesday, June 1st, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government

Senate Democrats gave Felipe Calderon a standing ovation as he criticized the Arizona enforcement law, and asked Congress to reinstate the ban on so-called assault weapons.
On the issue of Arizona, no one asked Calderon how illegal aliens along Mexico’s southern border are treated.
From an article in USA Today, Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras [...]

Friday Funny – El Presidente Calderon and Obama

by SteveK @ Friday, May 28th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Humor

Obama’s First State of the Union and Still Out of Touch

by SteveK @ Sunday, January 31st, 2010. Tags: , , , , ,
Filed under Government

Mark Alexander over at The Patriot Post wrote up a critique called State of the Union: Obama v. Constitution, which I partially reposted along with my own comments.
In the wake of Barack Hussein Obama’s first State of the Union address, much of the critical analysis from Republicans posited that he should do “this” instead of [...]

Obama Called A Liar During Health Care Speech

by SteveK @ Thursday, September 10th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, Healthcare

South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” after Obama had talked about illegal aliens not receiving taxpayer-funded medical coverage (even though they already do in many ways). The media is hyping his outburst as something unusual that will unify Democrats around Obamacare, but Democrats routinely had similar outbursts during the Bush years. But [...]

Obama’s Cairo Speech Flawed, But Praised by Media

by SteveK @ Monday, June 8th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Government, History, Media, Middle East

While President Obama’s speech had some strength to it, such as reminding Muslims that the holocaust did happen and that Islamic extremism is wrong, it unfortunately had even more faults. Obama often engaged in the typical rhetoric of moral equivalence, and revisionist flattery, in attempting to appeal to the Muslim world.
With Obama-history, Islam is praised [...]

Obama at National Archives Gives Speech On Security, Creates Debate with Cheney

by SteveK @ Friday, May 22nd, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Government, National Security

Obama and former vice president Cheney have squared-off in a long distance debate over national security. Cheney defended the Bush administration’s policies which resulted in obtaining vital information from captured terrorists and kept America safe from another major terrorist attack, while Obama promoted his weak approach to national security. The president apparently believes that returning [...]

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