Bob McCarty Writes

The “Yes, We Can” message made familiar to so many via President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is now popping up alongside the image of the 44th president on 15 LED billboards across the state of Wisconsin.  Who’s to blame?  The answer is Clear Channel Outdoor President Paul Sara, according to a report broadcast on Milwaukee [...]

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s recent proposal to include birth-control and abortion funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a.k.a., H.R. 1 and “The Stimulus Package”) prompted public outcry in many forms.  One example can be found in the form of “Retroactive Birth Control, an editorial cartoon (above) by Michael at [...]

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In keeping with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ practice of publishing only select tidbits of information about newsworthy events involving President Barack Obama, I decided to dissect six excerpts from the transcript of the president’s first sit-down media interview — with Al Arabiya TV’s Hisham Melhem, I might add.  Those snippets appear below, followed [...]

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President Barack Obama gave his first sit-down media interview to Al Arabiya TV’s Hisham Melhem — much to the chagrin of U.S. media outlets — Monday evening. Due to the fact that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs opted to publish a six-paragraph snippet on The White House Blog instead of providing a full transcript, I had [...]

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It seems I’m on the same “sheet of music” with Mary Katherine Ham when it comes to recognizing President Barack Obama’s inability to fulfill his pledge of transparency: In a Jan. 21 post, I pointed out the fact that, nearly 24 hours after the new president had delivered his inaugural speech, the text of his [...]

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Though intended as humor, the cover of issue #498 of MAD Magazine appears to reflect very accurately the reality of Barack Obama’s early days in the White House better than any other publication I’ve seen since he became president. Highlighting President Obama’s “First 100 Minutes in Office,” the cover art (above right) shows the president [...]

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Despite what President Barack Obama and members of the Democrat-controlled Congress might want you to believe, your focus — or, at least, the focus of most Americans — is overwhelmingly on domestic policy concerns such as the economy, according to a Pew Research Center report made public a few days ago and brought to my [...]

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