Tag Barack Obama

Obama hearts the banksters, reaches out to them

The investment banks backed Obama very early in the 2008 campaign and with big money. He has repaid their investment mightily, shoveling them hundreds of billions. But he did institute a few tepid reforms to mollify the peasants with pitchforks,…

Obama favors class-based affirmative action

Twice during the primary campaign, Obama has been asked by George Stephanopoulos, who handled a review of affirmative action policies for President Clinton, whether or not he believed his own fairly privileged daughters deserve affirmative action preferences in college. Both…

The candidates on global warming

The Hartford Courant provides a useful comparison of the global warming policies of the presidential candidates. Obama favors the most governmental spending for R&D, something I strongly favor too. His plan also seems the most comprehensive. Romney and Paul are…

Upset

In the end, voters want real people with actual arguments in order to change the country. That’s why Huckabee and Obama have prevailed. They’re real. The establishments of both parties lost. I expect the Clinton campaign to launch a vicious,…