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Question: ‘Why Didn’t Voters Pay Attention?’

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

“Why didn’t voters pay attention?” is a question I asked myself after taking a fresh look at “Foster Friess on Barack Obama: Rhetoric vs. Record”, a video which first appeared in a post on this blog Oct. 28, 2008.

Narrator Foster Friess, a successful businessman and Army veteran living in Jackson Hole, Wyo., begins by [...]

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Writer Wrong About Obama’s Defense Positions

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

In the second paragraph of his Salon.com piece today, writer Glenn Greenwald claims President Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of increased defense spending. One needs only visit the Obama-Biden campaign web site or watch a campaign-trail video of Obama to see that the ever-so-hopeful writer is mistaken.
In Ten Reasons NOT to Elect Barack Obama, [...]

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Will Missile Defense Successes Be Short-Lived?

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Almost 16 weeks after The Boeing Company successfully completed a successful test of airborne laser technology, the company announced today that is had completed yet another, leading me to wonder whether President-elect Barack Obama will view these successes and deem them “proven” in light of his campaign-trail statements that he wants to “cut investments in [...]

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Missile Defense Needed to Thwart EMP Attack

November 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Two days before the election, I published ten reasons NOT to elect Barack Obama in 2008 with reason #3 being the fact that Obama wants to drastically cut defense spending, research and capabilities.  Among those defense cutbacks, a missile defense system that might protect the United States from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
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Obama Message to Allies: ‘You Can’t Trust Me’

November 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

If an Associated Press report published early today is accurate, President-elect Barack Obama has sent a clear and disturbing message to U.S. allies around the world:  “You can’t trust me.”
The report cites Obama foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough as saying Obama did not make a commitment to Polish President Lech Kaczynski regarding installation of a [...]

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