By Art Smith. Posted Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
This is Part 2 of the analysis of Friday night’s Presidential Debate. Part 1 was posted on Saturday.
Iran
Lehrer asked for a “reading” of Iran by the candidates. Are they a threat? Both candidates made it very clear that nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran was not acceptable.
McCain did a good job of highlighting both [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, 2008 Presidential Election Issues Analysis, Barack Obama, Economy, Featured, International Affairs, Iraq, John McCain, Leadership, National Defense, Pakistan, US Congress, US Treasury, War on Terror
Here’s Part 1 of my assessment of Friday night’s Presidential Debate. Part 2 will come on Sunday.
All I can say is, I was wrong. Jim Lehrer does want to be the next Tim Russert.
I will say, I did not sense any partisanship on Lehrer’s part, but he sure dug into follow up questions, including a [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Thursday, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:44 pm Filed Under: Books For Soldiers, Terrorism, War on Terror
Seven years ago today our world changed. Expressing how that day felt and how it has changed the way we live today I will leave to the rest of the world today. It was a day of great heroism and pain, and I cannot forget it. It hurts.
My concern today is how quickly we seem [...]
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:50 pm Filed Under: Barack Obama, Disasters, Floods of 2008, Poverty, Sacrifice, Suffering
What is Suffering?
The most traumatic place I’ve yet visited on this Earth is Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was there with some friends in 2005.
I know I’ve talked about it before. The awful things that were done to people during that war. The humiliation. The beatings. The dreadful murders of so many people. The intense fear and pain [...]
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