Category: Biden
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Israel and Hamas-a Very Difficult American Issue-But Also Very Important
By now nearly everyone who is the slightest bit interested knows all the basic facts. Hamas is a terrorist organization which has brutally run Gaza for more than a decade and has never shown mercy or understanding, or any “give” except the opportunistic kind, in their dealings with others. They are as brutal with the…
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A Debate and an Election–Then(Maybe) Three Bix Messes–A Brief Lecture on British and American Politics
Predicting these next three things is dicey–the last two depend heavily on who wins the election and that depends, to some degree, on the debate. The other one, which I’ll go after first is also quite uncertain in some ways. The Republican National Convention is set to meet in Milwaukee, Jul 15-18. This is the…
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Where do we go from here?
This is the question left to the country after the NH primary. It settled some things but left others still in doubt. Like Fareed Zakaria on CNN news I have a “take” on some things and here is mine on NH and more broadly, the Presidential contest after NH How is Trump doing with his party?–Pretty well,…
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Long evening but short answers
It was a long evening if you chose to watch last night. I chose not to after the first reports established that Trump was going to win easily, something about 90% of the serious viewers were expecting. I might have watched a little more if the combination of a long, cold, hard day and a couple of…
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Leader AWOL, competitors nervous
The last debate begore the primary/caucus season begins is tonight in Iowa. Far from the stage full of Republican hopefuls we saw a few months ago, we are now down to two, one time SC Governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, and FL Gov Ron DeSantis. Not that there aren’t others who are still trying. The most notable…
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Ramaswamy–a “new” Republican Leader(??)
Vivek Ramaswamy is surely the most interesting of the Republican challengers to Donald Trump for the Presidential nomination. Like nearly all the others he was way behind Trump a few weeks ago. I guess he still is, but not quite so “way.” Sometime in July he was at or near a 1% favorability rating among…
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Freidman, Biden, and Netanyahu–pay attention
I think have mentioned before my high regard for NYT columnist T L Freidman and earlier this week he gave us more reason to be grateful for his work. On Tuesday he was invited to the White House for an interview of some candor with the President which he passed along to us via his…
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Biden, Ukraine and the “Allies”
President Biden is facing an especially difficult time in foreign policy at this moment. There are both military and dipomatic difficulties and the usual political dissent from some at home. Also, there are doubts about some of our allies in, particularly Turkey and Hungary, and what they are going to do or refuse to do.…
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The State of the Union Address–Some Things to Watch for Tonight
In just about 9 hours President Joe Biden will come into the House chamber accompanied by thunderous applause and will make his way, amid cheering and handshakes, to the podium where he will be greeted by Speaker McCarthy and Vice President Harris, both smiling but the latter a bit more sincerely. People involved in covering…
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