Only President Barack Obama could keep digging in a barn filled to the roof line with manure and find a brand new pony. Yet that is what the country and indeed the world needed in his non-State of the Union budget speech last night to a joint session of the US Congress.
Talk is cheap, cynicism [...]
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Obama Finds Pony
Posted on 25 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 of budget cuts, 34th day of his Presidency, alternative energy, astonishingly tone deaf, Conservatives (The Tories) toss cement filled flotation, cynicism easy, Denis Campbell, devolved (read secession hopeful) first ministers, drive by Welsh Assembly buildings, education, election cycle where PM Brown and the Labour Party are, energising the American public, Everyone in the Obama White House is putting in 18-hour, fight over £500, first days off over the recent US President’s Day bank, Franklin D. Roosevelt motivational fireside chat moment, here in the UK it is foggy and damp, his dour personality and desperate need of a charisma e, huge percentage of Americans support him, In the UK “courageous” is pejorative, joint session of the US Congress, keep digging in a barn filled to the roof line with man, Labour would get credit and might win, line of the night, Northern Ireland, Obama finds pony, Obama was setting specific goals on healthcare, out of step with the rest of the country, PM Brown on the other hand is invisible, President Barack Obama, President’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, reporters are even easily jaded, Republican response was business as usual, Scotland, snicker as they flail around like frat boys on a drinki, sun is rising on Obama’s Reagan-like “morning in Americ, taking the infamous bully-pulpit and wielding it like a, Talk is cheap, thanks to sitcom “Yes Minister” and Yes Prime Minister”, trying to save the UK economy, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, upbraided Republicans in a fiscal responsibility summit, US Congress, used to describe actions that will send one down in fla, Wales, Westminster, Westminster offices where one could fire a gun across m, world’s economy may be circling down the drain, would rather see the economy crater than lift a finger, “courageous” was used to describe Obama’s speech, “giving up was not just quitting on yourself but quitti, “had not seen them in a month!”
Can You Feel The Ship Turning?
Posted on 06 December 2008 by Dick Price | Comments (0) | Tags: Can You Feel The Ship Turning?, changing the kind of funding decisions made by our gove, Dick Price, fully explained defense of marriage equality this morni, given the political capital it may have cost him, immigration reform, overturns the recent State Supreme Court decision in ou, Proposition 8, Rahm Emanuel, Rep. Xavier Becerra, Sharon Kyle, stout, The Things Democrats Care About, We need to stop the magnet of jobs that draws people to, with ending the war, with jobs, you can get the momentum going in your direction and re
by Dick Price & Sharon Kyle
In the run-up to Election Day, when Barack Obama’s history-making victory wasn’t exactly a sure thing, our local congressman urged persistence and optimism.
“We’ve got a big ship there in Washington, with a lot of right-wing momentum pushing it forward,” said Rep. Xavier Becerra on a sultry August evening, speaking to [...]
New Camelot Coming; Patience Progressives
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By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]
Please Don’t Hurt Me – The Democratic Rallying Cry (Reprise)
Posted on 24 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2008 expelled from the room badly beaten up by crisis a, a nation waiting with bated breath, believe they have absolutely nothing to lose by being c, Blow it and there is not enough money in the world to s, Break’s Over, cannot see Pelosi or Reid facing down Mitch McConnell a, choice is yours and you’d better get it right, cowered in the corner, current Democratic Congressional leadership group, dance of the dinosaurs gig going on trying to figure ou, Democratic leadership should be the 500 lb gorillas in, Denis Campbell, disciplining Joe Lieberman, doing it on the wrong side of the aisle, Emanuel, enter a quagmire of their own making, especially not one with a mandate for change like Barac, Get this right and special interest money won’t be need, get to work and get it right, Happy New Year, Harry Reid, historic victory, Hope and change may be coming, huge majorities in both houses of Congress, in a West Wing Speech, incoming President, invisible, Jib-Jab year end film, Karl Rove is hiding behind them implying anything you s, let the turncoat back but expressed no outrage, mandate to fix things, moderate, Nancy Pelosi, obama, Pelosi, Please Don’t Hurt Me, quiet leader, Rahm Emanuel, Reid, Republicans, Ron Silver, The Democratic Rallying Cry, the White House won with 53% and nine million more vote, trying to flex her muscles, what will she say to John Boehner and his freestyling s, Where are the Tip O’Neill’s and Mike Mansfield’s of my, without real Democratic Congressional leadership, worried about Team Obama, worry about a group of nattering gnats who threaten to, You will be credited with saving the global economy and, You won!, “please don’t hurt me”
By Denis Campbell
I wouldn’t wish the current Democratic Congressional leadership group on any incoming President, especially not one with a mandate for change like Barack Obama. In the Jib-Jab year end film, 2008 is expelled from the room badly beaten up by crisis after crisis. Hope and change may be coming but without real Democratic [...]
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