Category: Obama-watch
WASHINGTON TRIES TO CAP THE WIKILEAKS LEAKWikiLeaks released on July 25th 76,000 mostly one-page battlefield documents leaked from US Army sources out of a total of 92,000 in their possession. They detail a vast array of material about the Afghan War… more »
WAR GOING BADLY? LET'S JUST FIRE THE GENERAL! The abrupt dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal by President Obama confirms that the war in Afghanistan is going very badly indeed. The general would not have been fired for a few unguarded remarks t… more »
FEEDING SHARKS IN OILY WATERSDavid Remnick says President Obama has a penchant for compromise and avoids head-on confrontation on principle. (“The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama” by David Remnick, Knopf, 2010). “His way is to absorb and s… more »
OBAMA & THE UNSPEAKABLE
President Barack Obama is finding that his ability as Commander in Chief to direct our military and diplomatic affairs is seriously restricted by groups within his own Administration. The CIA and the Pentagon, supported by… more »
HARD CASH FOR HEALTH BUT NOT HEALTH-CARENever has the public been more effectively misled, ill-informed, and blatantly deceived than during the supposed health care debate over the past few months. We all have a naive belief that somehow debate betwe… more »
KNIFING THE MIDDLE CLASS TO SAVE THE BANKSTERS
We are currently spending $1.4 trillion dollars more each year than we are collecting in taxes. President Barack Obama announced February 18th the appointment of a special blue-ribbon panel to recommend… more »
JACK BOOT DIPLOMACY ADDRESSES HUMAN NEEDIn past weeks, we have watched America's response to Haitian's call for help. We have also seen the hysteria and fear stirred up by the “Underpants Bomber”. In both cases, Washington has lead with the punch the… more »
This is our First Anniversary Edition of Obama-Watch. We started in November 2009 while Obama Bliss still swept our shores. From a few dozens hits on the web we now have three thousand readers for each Edition! I don't know most of them but I enjoy thei… more »
24TH EDITION - NOVEMBER 26, 2009
The Senate in SB 111, and the House in HR 3962, have finally passed similar health care legislation. We will now be forced to watch 536 legislators, most of them obscenely subsidized by the health insurance industry… more »
OBAMA SCRAMBLES HERE AND THERE
President Obama seems particularly 'at sixes and sevens' these past few weeks, as the Brits like to say. He suffers from an inability to focus on one issue sufficiently to bring it to a decision. It feels like drifting.… more »
OBAMA TRIPS UP ON AL QAEDA
OUR GOAL IS TO DEFEAT AL-QAEDA
On Thursday, September 24, 2009 President Barack Obama vowed in a speech to the UN General Assembly “not to permit safe heaven for Al-Qaeda to launch attacks from Afghanistan. In confronting t… more »
IS THE SWINE FLU PANDEMIC A HOAX?
The H1N1 pandemic seems to have taken on a life of its own – while the actual evidence of a serious and life-threatening epidemic has not supported the hysteria we hear in the main stream media. The news media and the… more »
THE DEMISE OF UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE
Obama in 2003 before the AFL/CIO: “I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of… more »
THE GREAT GAME
The Editor of Obama-Watch.US, Jim Houle, spent three weeks in June and July traveling across Central Asia along the legendary Silk Road visiting Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China's Xinjiang Province where the Uighur (wee-gur) people pre… more »
OBAMA PLAYS CAIRO
In this Eighteenth Edition, we review the Obama speech in Cairo, the Palestinian impasse, and how he balances his message of friendship with Moslems world wide alongside his armed attacks in Afghanistan and support for the Pakistan’s… more »
WILL ISRAEL BECOME AN APARTHEID STATE?
The semi-annual Israeli trek to the Oval Office took place this week and was a wonderful success – nothing changed, no one moved, and all is as deranged as ever. Bibi Netanyahu, with a most diverse Cabinet and an… more »
ARBUSTO NEGRO AND THE AFPAK WAR
Many Americans voted for Obama because he promised to end the war in Iraq. He promised to remove our troops in 18 months but he never said “all the troops”. Obama seems to be slipping out of any commitment for withdrawa… more »
SUCH TORTUROUS TWISTING AND TURNING
In the past 6 days, Obama has shown us much about his political style and courage as our President. Intent upon opening up the records concerning torture, and after a Freedom of Information suit that forced his hand… more »
CONFUSE AND CONQUER: BANKERS TO THE BARRICADES!
The trouble with the original Hank Paulson TARP plan last fall that handed $700 billion to the biggest banks in compensation for their bad judgment was that it was too transparent. By the time we got to… more »
OBAMA'S TROJAN HORSE AT THE GATES OF DETROIT
An auto worker said this week : “My opinion of him at first was that he was going to stick up for us, but there has been an abrupt change in attitude towards workers since taking office. I tried and tried t… more »
THE HYPE IS SPILLING OVER FROM SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Since Sunday March 15th we have been hit with one of those Talk Show Tsunamis that always leave us trying to sniff out the Washington hype from the real goods. What are they saying?
- Mexico is los… more »
EVERY IDEA CONSIDERED EXCEPT FOR SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE:
At last Thursday's Health Care Forum, President Obama promised that “every voice will be heard, every idea considered and every option must be on the table”. But before the forum could even beg… more »
THE IRAQI PULLOUT HOAX
The New York Times suggests that Obama has made a statesmanlike compromise between his campaign pledge to “get out of Iraq in 16 months” and the Pentagon Brass pushing for 23 months: he split the difference at 19 months (Septembe… more »
A CAPTIVE OBAMA
The military holds Obama captive to its strategy for maintaining US security and continuing the supposed war on terrorism. After Bush Administration sold Congress and much of the American public for 8 years on the necessity of preventing… more »
IS THIS A CHANGE-of-TEAM WE CAN BELIEVE IN?
Dave Lindorff, reporter for Salon, the Nation and Businessweek, writes: :”Just two weeks after his historic inauguration ceremony, Obama's presidency is lurching towards failure, and not because three of his a… more »
KEEPING PALESTINE OFF MY PLATE
Obama knows for sure that Israel controls U.S. policy in the Middle East and he's not going to mess with the problem in the early days of his Presidency. Any attempt to deal fairly with the survivors of Israel's holocaust… more »
LEADING FROM THE CENTER: SATISFYING NO ONE VERY MUCH
For those who paid too much attention to Obama's talk of change during the campaign, most of his cabinet level appointments have been disappointments. Now, as the focus shifts from personality to pol… more »
IS UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL GOOD FOR AMERICA?
As I watch the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, I must ask who really controls American Middle East policy. Our strategic interests in the region are clear:
1st: We have much to gain through peaceful r… more »
UNCLEAN, UNCLEAN
"I have never spoken to the governor on this subject. I am confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat." Obama on 12/10/08 On 12/12/08 Obama clarified this: "I've asked my team to g… more »
A SEAMLESS TEAM FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
“We want to make sure that there is as seamless a transition on national security as possible”. Obama on 60 Minutes 11/30. The reappointment of Robert Gates at Defense, perhaps only for the first year, along with H… more »
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