Barack’s “It’s Not About Me” UN Speech
September 24, 2009 by Teri Christoph
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By Fran Eaton
When you hear someone say, “It’s not about me,” it usually is. And so was Barack Obama’s speech to the world yesterday at the United Nations. First hint:
I have been in office for just nine months – though some days it seems a lot longer. I am well aware of the [...]
Psychopolitics with Dr. Brian
July 7, 2009 by Dawn
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On the international front, I have to go on the record here and say that I’m concerned about the weakness that I see the political leaders (not the military) of the United States projecting to the world lately. I’m worried that it will embolden terrorists to strike us again, sooner rather than later. What do I mean? I mean making a federal case, literally, of pouring some water on a terrorist’s face to spare L.A. from a 9/11-style catastrophe. I mean locking up our own border guards for shooting a drug dealer who fled from them after entering this country illegally (and no, there’s nothing “racist” about that — I don’t want an 80-year-old Canadian woman sneaking in here either). I mean bringing the lone pirate who survived the rescue of Capain Phillips to the United States for a trial instead of hanging him from the bow of the U.S.S. Bainbridge on the spot.



