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Counterpoint: Obama is keeping his promises on gay lesbian issues

by @dmooney9 on June 19, 2009 · 2 comments

in Gay Rights

Many in the LGBT community are impatient that President Obama has not moved faster to fulfill the expectations they had for him as candidate Obama. Apart from African Americans no single group voted more for Obama than gays. This column takes the POSITIVE side in the argument best summed up by David Mixner who said [...]

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Counterpoint: Americans like Obama BUT NOT his policies

by @kylesellers on May 21, 2009 · 6 comments

in Economy, The President

In response to Point: Americans Like Obama AND His Policies
There has been a topic being bounced around on BipartReport.com lately–mainly between @rblinne and myself. We both recognize that President is quite popular, but where @rblinne believes that Americans love what Obama is doing, I think President Obama is popular based on his persona, not [...]

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Pelosi and Torture: 2 for the price of 1

by @Karoli on May 15, 2009 · 3 comments

in GOP, Government Affairs, Torture

There is nothing as delicious to the GOP as selling dog dung wrapped in gold-leaf, especially if they can steal the gold-leaf from the Democrats. Politics 101: Make your enemy responsible for your own moral failures. Nowhere is this more evident than the effort to take down Nancy Pelosi while deflecting attention from the fundamental [...]

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Stop and think about those torture photos

by @Karoli on May 13, 2009 · 3 comments

in Human Rights, Military, Terrorism, The President

Today the Obama administration reversed itself on the decision to release the torture photos, igniting criticism from the right and the left. The right, in one of the more outrageous twists I’ve seen, points to the reversal as evidence that President Obama lies. The left is simply outraged that the evidence of the Bush administration’s [...]

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100 days counterpoint: Healthcare

by @kylesellers on April 29, 2009 · 1 comment

in Feature, Healthcare, The President

Healthcare is a difficult subject. I am by NO means an expert of this issue as is @karoli, and I am adamantly opposed to any sort of state run universal healthcare. I think the affordability of healthcare can be addressed without nationalizing the industry. That said, so far I have not seen [...]

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100 days counterpoint: Domestic Policy

by @kylesellers on April 29, 2009 · 3 comments

in Congress, Economy, Feature, Government Affairs

Unfortunately, President Obama has been an absolute disaster on economic policy–largely because he is playing politics. The “torture memos” that have been discussed so extensively are just one example. President Obama has the capacity to take care of this entire issue expediently, but has not. He could force the issue, and establish [...]

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100 days counterpoint: Economy

by @kylesellers on April 29, 2009 · 1 comment

in Economy, Feature, Financial, The President

I get frustrated that some are claiming that we are stabilizing the economy with “stimulus.” This resurgence in Keynesian thinking completely ignores what happened in the 1970s. Keynesian economic models have no cure for inflation, and inflation is where we are headed. Money is being printed so fast that my head is [...]

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100 Days Counterpoint: Foreign Policy

by @kylesellers on April 28, 2009 · 3 comments

in Feature, Military, Terrorism, The President

I have to be honest and say that I am pleasantly surprised with Obama in regards to foreign policy.  Though he infuriates me with how his attempts to blame (or just accept the blame in some cases) all the world’s problems on the United States, he has not abandoned Iraq or Afghanistan.  Of course, in [...]

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Counterpoint: The First 100 Days – Overview

by @kylesellers on April 28, 2009 · 3 comments

in Congress, Economy, Feature, The President

President Obama’s first 100 days have been some of the most eventful in modern history. He has turned the clock back forty years on fiscal thinking. He has managed to take ownership stakes in multiple companies, and is poised to increase this stake. He has wasted money faster than any president in [...]

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