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Cain's Outsider Appeal Is Not Enough
By Carole on Nov 16, 2011
During a presidential primary fight one contender highlighted the inexperience of another by saying, "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Of course that was Vice President Joe Biden speaking about his current boss President Barack Obama. Over the past 3 years the nation has learned just how right Mr. Biden was, yet now the Republican Party is flirting with making the same sort of mistake.
New Libya Makes Its First Move
By Carole on Aug 28, 2011
Throughout the Arab Spring and into the Arab Summer, the rest of the world has waited and watched with hope that the citizen uprisings throughout the Middle East replace dictatorships with systems of government that embrace freedom and justice. The United States and its NATO allies have been so supportive of these rebellions, that they joined forces with the rebels in Libya and played an important role in driving Muammar Gaddafi from power. But in their first move on the international stage, the de facto post-Gaddafi government has announced Libya will not extradite the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing.
The Obama Vaccination
By Carole on Jun 24, 2011
President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress on the war in Libya against the advice of his own legal team. He has announced a swifter troop withdrawal from Afghanistan than his own generals recommended. He continues to push for more government spending while all economic indicators show his spend-our-way-out-of-debt policies have failed miserably. There is little doubt that he is now making major decisions based on what he thinks is best for his own political future rather than for the good of the country, but his one-man-band approach shows more than the usual ambitious candidate, it shows a power-mad ruler desperately trying to hold onto (and increase) his power.
The Obama Doctrine: Inconsistency
By Carole on Jun 21, 2011
While each international crisis is unique and requires individualized approaches by world leaders, the Obama administration's responses to the ongoing bloodshed in Libya and in Syria are so different there seems to be no consistent foreign and/or military policy coming from the White House.
WWSOD (What Would Senator Obama Do?)
By Carole on Jun 16, 2011
While President Obama is facing bipartisan accusations of exceeding his authority by engaging the US military in Libya, one wonders which side of this fight Senator Obama would have joined. At issue is the War Powers Resolution which prohibits the military from being involved in actions for more than 90 days without Congressional authorization. The campaign in Libya has gone on for nearly 3 months.
