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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Trump’s Waning Fortunes
Alan Zendell, June 1, 2022 After predicting that there was no way an ignorant, immoral narcissist like Donald Trump could win the presidency in America, I don’t make predictions anymore. I clearly misread what is obvious in retrospect. Barack Obama’s … Continue reading →
Servant of the People
Alan Zendell, May 9, 2022 By now, most of us know the remarkable story of Ukrainian President Володимир Зеленський (Volodymyr Zelensky) and how he found himself at the fulcrum of history. But knowing isn’t the same as seeing and feeling. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, george w bush, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kyiv, Michelle Obama, Netflix, russia, Ukraine, vladimir Putin, volodymyr zelensky, Xi Jin Ping
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Hypocrisy and the Filibuster
Alan Zendell, March 27, 2021 I’m not an expert in either government or politics, but if there’s anything in our history that has a worse record of hypocrisy than the Senate filibuster, I’m not aware of it. As we learned … Continue reading →
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Tagged Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, civil rights laws, Jim Crow, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, obstruction, racism, U. S. Senate, white supremacy
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A Party At War with Itself
Alan Zendell, February 15, 2021 In his new book, A History of What Comes Next, Silvain Neuvel describes the unfortunate circumstances in which the German population, specifically, it’s surviving men, found itself in 1946: The Germans are in shock, stunned, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adam Kinzinger, Barack Obama, bernie sanders, center right, class warfare, conservative principles, demagogues, elitism, Fascism, germany, health care, Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, national debt, New Deal, shame, Tea Party, The Big Lie, third party, Trump, vaccines
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The Biden Era Begins
Alan Zendell, January 19, 2021 When Barack Obama was inaugurated as President in 2009, Mitch McConnell, who was Senate Minority Leader at the time, said, “My job is to assure that Obama is a one-term president.” He did not achieve … Continue reading →
Trump’s Loose Ends
Alan Zendell, January 18, 2021 On the penultimate day of the Trump administration, this is the state of the Union: The Pandemic – By far, the most stunning and disturbing loose end of the Trump administration is the number of … Continue reading →
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Tagged anarchists, Andrew Johnson, Barack Obama, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Calvin Coolidge, CDC, Citizens United, climate change, COVID, DACA, deaths, diplomacy, elections, environmental regulations, epidemiology, extremist, federal deficit, fraud, george w bush, gerrymandering, immigration, infections, insurrection, NIH, PACs, pandemic, refugee children, tax cuts, trade wars, unemployment, Warren Harding
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Repudiation and Validation
Alan Zendell, January 7, 2021 Almost lost in the furor following the invasion of the U. S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters angry over Biden’s defeat of Trump was the significance of the runoff Senate elections in Georgia. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Brian Kemp, Cabinet nominations, campaign financing, David Purdue, dreamers, Gabriel Sterling, Georgia, insurrection, Jeff Flake, Jon Ossoff, Kelly Loeffler, Mitch McConnell, Obamacare, Raphael Warnock, Senate runoff, Stacy Abrams, stress test, U. S. Capitol
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Charismatic Leaders: Saviors or Devils?
Alan Zendell, November 18, 2020 Most people associate “charismatic” with “good” or “positive,” but the dictionary definition includes no such qualification. Charisma is simply an almost spiritual quality that enables its owner to influence and persuade, even mesmerize others. Charismatic … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, bill clinton, Donald Trump, evil, Fidel Castro, good, hypnotism, Joe Biden, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, mesmerize, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nelson Mandela, winston churchill
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The Painful Demise of a Would-Be Autocrat
Alan Zendell, November 14, 2020 He began as merely an annoying gadfly. With an ego large enough to fill a stadium, he believed the world was hanging on his opinions. He flouted social norms, bragged about his alleged prowess with … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, birth controversy, Central America, Climate accords, disabled Americans, ego, Fascism, fox news, Gold Star families, health care, Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong Un, mexicans, murder, narcissism, pandemic, Pol Pot, racism, Roger Ailes, Science, South America, treason, white supremacists, women's rights
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Post-Election Reality Check
Alan Zendell, November 8, 2020 Americans who hate Donald Trump’s presidency had a day of euphoria on Saturday. People who never fully recovered from the shock of his victory four years ago danced in the sun and waved signs. Most … Continue reading →
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Tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Climate accords, concession, COVID, euphoria, europe, jared kushner, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, lindsey graham, Mitch McConnell, record infections, richard nixon, rising deaths, Rudy Giuliani
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