Tag: SOTU 2011

Robert Scheer’s ‘Hogwash, Mr. President’ (SOTU 2011)

Glad I found Robert Scheer’s article Hogwash, Mr. President because it sums up (in a way I would if I could) the primary debate on President Obama’s State of the Union address of last evening, sans distractions and trivialities.Some writers I’ve read today talk about ‘the things he didn’t say’ and other such topics and naturally they identify several weaknesses or admissions in the presidential

Paul Ryan’s Sun-Moon blend and his response to SOTU 2011

Transcript and audio of SOTU 2011 @ NPR.Are you trying to remember who Paul Ryan (R-WI) is and where he came from? So was I until my friend Alex D’Atria sent me this excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s article in The Washington Post explaining Ryan’s past connections and where he got that little ole insulated viewpoint of his.Excerpt:Ryan is an Ayn Rand-quoting zealot, one of the Republican