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Watching the President’s Speech

I had not intended to watch it, but switched on FoxNews at about 5:40 and was surprised that he was still in the middle of it.  And he’s still going.  He seems quite angry, shouting the speech rather than giving it.  (And it seems others agree with me ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Barack Obama

Obama’s Health Care Speech:An Unnecessary Exercise Intended to Save an Unpopular Program

When most Presidents speak to a joint session of Congress, it is in response to a personal tragedy (as was Reagan’s speech in 1981 after he recovered from being shot), a national crisis (as was George W. Bush’s September 20, 2001 speech to the attacks ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Ronald Reagan,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

Once Again, President Misrepresents Opposition

Not just that, in conversations with blog readers in Denver, even exchanges with my Democratic Aunt in Colorado Springs, all of whom are at odds with Obama’s statist approach, I have heard a number of friends, relatives and acquaintances offer some ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

University of Wyoming Names Center for former Vice President:AP Focuses on Miniscule Protest

Do you think a petition generating only 150 signatures in a year’s time to protest the naming of a center in honor of a former Democratic Vice President in his home state would have generated an AP article and led Yahoo! news? The university’s decision ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  Yahoo!,  George W. Bush

Has Obama ever persuaded people to support his policies?

There’s a rather glaring problem with public expressions that “this is the moment for Obama to change people’s minds.” Other than persuading people to vote for him, has Obama ever done this? Ever? Can anyone point to a circumstance where he encountered ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

Why President Should Ditch Obamacare, Focus on Economy

The farther away I get from the 2008 presidential election, the more amazed I am at how well John McCain did in the November balloting. Our anxieties about the economy were stoked by a media eager to portray the then-President as a failure and McCain ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama

Thoughts of the President’s Address to Schoolchildren

On few issues have those who have taken issue with the points we have made stood on as solid ground as have these critics on the issue of the President’s speech to schoolchildren yesterday.  Indeed, despite the outcry on the right, many of our ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Lamar Alexander

GayPatriotWest’s Last Post

This will be my last post as GayPatriotWest. Me being me, I didn’t want to just switch from one moniker to another, but, well, also wanted to explain why I was making the change.  I kept putting off the change so I could craft the perfect explanation. ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  17 Aug 2009

Do “Kiss-Ins” Hinder Social Acceptance of Gay People?

In the 1990s, when I was President of the Log Cabin Republican Club of Northern Virginia, I used to appear regularly at Republican events across the region (and in the District of Columbia).  While I would identify our group as an organization of gay ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Once again, they can’t even acknowledge sincerity of our concerns

Sometimes, our readers do a better job of defending us than we do ourselves. . . . he believes that the only way people would oppose Obama is if they were paid to do so. He simply cannot even entertain the possibility that people could disagree with ...

From GAYPATRIOTWEST, GayPatriot,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

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