Year: 2012

I can only scratch the surface here, but the following are a few of the questions I would like to see President Obama answer in a debate. Mr. President, your confidante Valerie Jarrett once said: “There’s nobody more self-critical than President Obama. Part of the burden of being so bright is that he sees his […]

When 2012 began, the presidential race looked too close to call, but most analysts thought the Republicans had a good chance to win control of the Senate. The numbers were just too daunting for the Democrats. They had too many seats to defend and too many vulnerable incumbents. Now, 10 months later, the race for […]

“Congress has failed put in place a farm bill for the first time in more than 60 years,” says a reporter for station WBNG in New York State. U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack debates this however: “President Obama has a strong record of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and rural America. Today, agriculture is […]

Karl Rove almost sounds like he thinks: Romney has this election in the bag. “The Obama campaign has pulled down all of its negative advertising. And is now running virtually all positive ads in the battleground states heralding all the success of the last four years. This is very unusual because they have been constantly beating […]

Mitt Romney’s quote about 47% of Americans voting for Obama because they’re dependent was inelegantly phrased, but it expressed a truth that’s being ignored by far too many Americans; When you steal from Peter to pay Paul, Paul isn’t likely to get too upset about the whole arrangement…and, buddy,: we have A LOT of “Pauls” in […]

Liberals are whining because President Lying Liar said Mitt Romney wasn’t telling the truth and his son Tagg: took exception to it. Bill Lumaye:: I’m gonna ask something I know a lot of people want to know, or at least I do. What it is like for you to hear the President of the United States call […]

The best question at the second presidential debate came from Michael Jones, an African-American who said: “Mr. President, I voted for you in 2008. What have you done or accomplished to earn my vote in 2012? I’m not that optimistic, as I was in 2008. Most things I need for everyday living are very expensive.” […]

Almost everything we have been told about Libya over the last two years is untrue. A free Libya was supposed to be proof of President Obama’s enlightened reset Middle East policy. When insurgency broke out there, the United States joined France and Great Britain in bombing Muammar Gadhafi out of power — and supposedly empowering […]

My theory as to why President Barack Obama fell flat during the first debate: He looked at the crowd and the cameras and thought: “I’ve been saying this stuff for five years, and I don’t believe myself anymore. I don’t have a strong plan to jump-start the moribund economy. Come on, everyone knows that presidents […]

In form, President Obama came back strongly in Tuesday’s debate with Mitt Romney, but substantively he continues to lag behind the Republican candidate. That’s because the president has a record to defend and it isn’t a good one. Television being what it is, the president looked and sounded good, but the air seems to have […]

An interesting story from last winter: An email friend who lives in an affluent suburb far from Washington, a staunch Republican, was watching one of the Republican debates with his wife, a staunch Democrat. He was surprised by her response to Mitt Romney. “He’s a grown-up. He’s someone who is reliable,” he told me she […]

Perhaps the most intriguing moment of the second presidential debate came late in the contest when a rock-ribbed undecided voter asked both candidates, “What do you believe is the biggest misperception that the American people have about you as a man and a candidate?” And really, this is the sort of compelling inquiry that makes […]

Municipal bonds have long been viewed as a staple asset class for conservative, income-seeking investors. “Munis,” as they are known, are a large, liquid market of credit-rated securities that provide tax-exempt (from Federal taxes) income to millions of American investors. Towns, school districts, and other public sector authorities across the country have issued an estimated […]

During the second presidential debate, moderator-turned-Obama-advocate Candy Crowley helped President Obama make the case for why he’d been a true leader on the murder of our ambassador and three other brave Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Obama was asked a simple question: “We were sitting around, talking about Libya, and we were reading and became aware […]