Bob McCarty Writes

Almost three years have passed since the day a first-term junior U.S. senator from Illinois used lofty language to announce to a crowd in Springfield, Ill., that he would seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2008.  Though much has changed, much of what I observed about that presidential candidate still holds true about [...]

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Thanks to health care reform becoming an issue of heated national debate, doctors now appear to be wearing their trademark white coats everywhere they go.  At least, that’s what President Barack Obama would have Americans believe.  So much so, in fact, he’s “white-coating” the truth about health care reform.

Today at WhiteHouse.gov, the photo above appears [...]

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During the next two days, President Barack Obama plans to appear on five Sunday talk shows and The Late Show with David Letterman Monday and continue his push for so-called “health care reform” (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”).  In waging this near-all-out media blitz*, the president risks becoming a “shovel-ready project.”
A shovel-ready project?  Perhaps, some clarification is in [...]

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Should Timothy Geithner resign? Nearly half of respondents to an online poll conducted by the Guardian said they would trust Bernie Madoff with their money before they would trust President Barack Obama’s embattled treasury secretary.
The poll — which, as of this posting, was still running — offers two answers from which readers can choose when [...]

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Fifty-eight percent of Americans surveyed Wednesday and Thursday night say Barack Obama denounced Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. for political convenience, according to a Rasmussen Reports™ report released this morning.

The results come only days after the junior senator-turned Democrat presidential candidate from Illinois made statements in another apparent attempt to distance himself from Reverend Wright, his [...]

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