Year: 2012

In the third and final debate, Barack Obama scored huge points with the media, college kids and die-hard liberals — in other words, his base — when he mocked Mitt Romney’s concern about our historically small Navy. “But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works,” the president […]

OK, President Obama, if you and your defenders insist on denying that you’ve repeatedly apologized for America, then let’s quit mincing words and acknowledge you’ve done worse than apologize. That works for me. Maybe it is technically inaccurate to attribute the word apology to you, because you would have to identify with America more before […]

The president of the United States in the last debate chose to go on the attack against his challenger, Mitt Romney — and once again largely failed to convince the American people that he was the more presidential alternative. But how did the once-messianic incumbent find himself in this fix of playing the catch-up role […]

Colin Powell made a name for himself as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Operation Desert Storm while George H.W. Bush was President. George W. Bush made him the first black Secretary of State. At one time, Colin Powell was as beloved by Republicans as Condi Rice is today and probably would have […]

Ann Coulter said,: “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.” That might not be the nicest comment in the world, but since when did “retard” become a curse word? Ann Coulter has had worse things said to her 100 times a day. I’m also not offended in the least […]

The League of Women Voters boasts that it presents “unbiased nonpartisan information about elections, the voting process, and issues.” Phyllis Loya always assumed that meant the organization believed in presenting both sides of issues to its members, but recently she discovered she was wrong. In 2005, Alexander Hamilton, 18, and Andrew Moffett, 17, robbed a […]

Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it’s all in a glossy brochure, called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security” — an antidote, we’re told, to the vagueness of Mitt Romney’s agenda. This is what the president, according to a campaign official, believes will ensure that […]

After watching the third presidential debate, are you clear on America’s foreign policy? I thought not. That’s because there appears to be no singular foreign policy, rather a series of foreign policies, which must be tailored to fit each nation. I expected Mitt Romney to go after President Obama on his most recent foreign policy […]

Back in May, I wrote a column laying out possible scenarios for the 2012 campaign different from the conventional wisdom that it would be a long, hard slog through a fixed list of target states like the race in 2004. I thought alternatives were possible because partisan preferences in the half dozen years before 2004 […]

There were at least four separate debates going on Monday night when the candidates met for the last of their presidential matchups. The foreign policy debate: This was the contest that was advertised. It largely featured agreement between the candidates. If anyone had hoped that a Mitt Romney presidency would represent a sharp break with […]

German media, writing in one of the “greenest” European countries, are now veering away from green energy as fast as lagging public opinion will allow. A few years ago, Germany was “fully committed” to the EU’s goal of ending fossil fuel use. It was building lots of wind turbines, and even some solar farms despite […]

Founding a: Public Relations Agency, I know a little bit about “spin” and building of brands.:  Since: Las Vegas: based gaming billionaire: Sheldon Adelson: decided to donate up to $100 Million to the Republicans to beat Obama, the media has unfairly portrayed him as an evil person.:  Sheldon Adelson is heroic for all he does for this country — and […]