Obama’s Tough Slog Toward Election Day
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 4th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama’s Tough Slog Toward Election Day
Dick Polman, Philly Inquirer
By Dick Polman Inquirer National Political ColumnistWhen President Obama remarked at his news conference Wednesday that the economy “is a tough slog,” yet insisted that “we still are moving forward,” I had an attack of deja vu. Obama sounded a lot like George W. Bush talking about Iraq. And we all know what that slog did to Bush's domestic political fortunes.But the current slog is a lot worse. When Iraq was truly a mess, the average American didn't feel or experience it. The recession, on the other hand, feels deeply personal.The jobs uptick has been too…
Philosophy, Faith & the Fourth of July
Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
THE DECLARATION of Independence announced to the world the birth of a new nation. Every birth “excites our interest,’’ President Calvin Coolidge said on the Declaration’s 150th anniversary, but that is not why July 4, 1776, “has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in history.’’Since ancient times there had been many revolutions, after all; new nations had broken away from old empires before. What makes America’s founding extraordinary, observed the 30th president, is that it was the first to be based…
