Tag Archives: Barack Obama

doctor your eyes

Movies are intended to be, and are taken to be, larger than life. One does not imagine that what one is seeing is real, or the opposite, that it is all too real. In both cases, a legitimate and understood … Continue reading

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seeing is believing

None of us has ever seen Moses descending from Mount Sinai.If there had been television in his day and we could look at the video, would we know him any better as we think we now know a Barack Obama … Continue reading

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barry’s shoes

Deadbeat nation. Manifest destiny and divine providence and in the the promised land a tough decision over which pair of shoes to wear. Put your best foot forward, and maybe wear loafars so you don’t trip over the laces. Steering … Continue reading

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“what’s new?”

“What’s New?” we ask each other ritually, and there is generally a ready answer at hand. Journalism, with its vested interest in change, has become enormously more pervasive and influential, first from television, and then the internet, ans perhaps this … Continue reading

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1939: plus ca change…

.In the United States of 1939 a good many conditions prevailed that seem rather odd today. But some unseen hand, invisible spirit, has always been at the heart of the American experience… ..And change of all sorts is the heart … Continue reading

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hagel on a bagel

The election is over. Obama won. get over it and move on. Its the kind of demagoguery that discredits the rabid fringe of the American based right-wing Zionist movement.This is a jab at the Chuck Hagel nomination, as if Hagel … Continue reading

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MIA: infrastructure under the radar

….If anyone sees a missing building, please report it to the administration immediately.” Sound like a camp-wide megaphone public address from Robert Altman’s MASH movie of 1970. Irony and absurdity combined in that strange and often contradictory relationship between military … Continue reading

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beginnings without endings

The world lives in fear of the “incident”- In Iran perhaps, or Saudi Arabia, or Egypt? —that will ignite the next great conflict; but if you look back on the Thirty Years War and take it as a template for … Continue reading

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no no songs

Bond author Ian Fleming’s antihero Goldfinger once said “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” At least according to Fleming, the author of James Bond. How would Goldfinger deal with Obama? The man who looks ready … Continue reading

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that brown eyed handsome man

It keeps coming back to “is there a lesson of Munich?” With the Obama administration’s apparent appeasement of terror supporting states which has been perceived to prove the contempt of this administration’s antagonism towards Israel and a certain ideology around … Continue reading

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