Tag Archives: United States history

Who Would Want to be President, Really?

If I’ve learned anything about the transition of one head-of-state to another, as seen in yesterday’s posts, it is a stress-filled time. You go from a normal politician, glad-handing with supporters and other well-wishers, to the isolation of being at … Continue reading

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When Barry Met the Donald

First Meeting: November 10, 2016 @ 12:34 pm Again, I’m taking the timing of this event from a CTV News report on the day. It doesn’t take an experienced eye to see that there was a lot of tension being … Continue reading

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The Day that Obama Found Out the Truth

Meeting the Ex-Presidents on January 7, 2009 @ 11:51 am I’m taking my cue for the timing of this event from a Reuters report written that very morning. The private meeting between Bush and Obama would have been for about … Continue reading

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Dream: Flashback to Obama’s Second Term

The Second Coming of Barack Obama? I seem to be a little slow on the uptake. This cover from Newsweek is from seven-and-a-half years ago. I got the image in my dream last night. Was this an answer to my … Continue reading

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Do You Believe Everything You Read?

Conspiracy Theories are Everywhere It seems to me that we humans are using very little of our brain’s capacity to think. We are programmed into believing that the government and our leaders are telling the truth and that everyone else … Continue reading

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Have the Democrats Got Enough Guts to do the ‘Right’ Thing?

He’s Biden His Time, and She’s Trying Not to Harris Him The back and forth among Democrats in the lead-up to Joe Biden naming his Vice-Presidential running mate has been excruciating to watch, even from here in Canada. The implication … Continue reading

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Celebrity is so Ephemeral

We Prefer our Stars to be Dead It’s coming around to that time of the year when my inner 12-year-old boy mourns for the beautiful movie star who was murdered all those years ago in Hollywood. Last year, I set … Continue reading

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Let’s Inject Some Inverted Logic into the Speech

What’s With All This Testing? The speech happened last night in Tulsa. The crowd was smaller than Trump had hoped for and there were anti-racist protests outside. Not a great start to his 2020 presidential campaign. But then in the … Continue reading

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“What Took Them So Long?”

Barack Obama (August 4, 1961 @ 7:24 pm Honolulu, Hawaii) I was talking last night with my 11-year-old granddaughter, trying to explain race relations in the United States, and Canada. When I mentioned that Obama was the first black president, … Continue reading

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All About the Former First Lady

Becoming Michelle Obama Just to be clear, I have not read this book yet. But I did see the Netflix show about her book tour, which covered a lot of the same territory. A couple of years ago, I juxtaposed … Continue reading

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