Obama’s state of the union was the first time the President has really laid claim to the Bin Laden raid. But it’s linking it back to the domestic fight that is particularly audacious.
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Sideshow Alley: Bottoms to that
This week’s Sideshow Alley winner earns the prize for using the word “bottoms’ in a story about the President of the United States.
Obama to China: you can’t exploit our fiscal crisis
Barack Obama used his address to Parliament to send an unambiguous message to China.
Crikey Says: Obama’s war on tiny planes
What kind of ally deprives our nation’s hacks of caffeine and our skies of tiny planes?
Crikey Says: A pretty grim set of numbers
President Obama take the nation through the numbers of his jobs package plan Thursday night (US time) in his address to Congress. In the meantime, the numbers are in on his latest approval rating, and it’s the worst of his presidency.
Crikey Says: Congress gridlock makes our politics look positively rosy
The Washington gridlock means whichever way the vast majority of the American public look at it, they’re getting screwed.
Crikey Says: Check the quality of the paper…
Here it is: the birth certificate the world (or at least Donald Trump and the wingnut birther movement) has been waiting for…
Climate policies slashed to pay for a natural disaster
Gillard’s obsession with producing a surplus in 2012/13 is one thing, but the symbolism of slashing $675 million from climate change policies to pay for a natural disaster in the hope that it is a “one-off” is quite another, writes Climate Spectator’s Giles Parkinson.
Crikey Says: Searing political commentary
US-China experts are calling it the most important US visit by a Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping’s groundbreaking 1979 tour. Who said the standard of political discourse in the US was slipping?
Crikey Says: The lie that travelled halfway around the world…
How far ahead of his time Mark Twain was when he said a century before the internet: “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
Obama’s iPod choices a bit off-key
In an interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama mentioned that hip-hop artists Jay-Z and Lil Wayne were on his iPod. Obama needs to realise that his listening choices are sending a dangerous message, writes Stanley Crouch.
Kohler: Geithner’s middle way
The US Treasury Secretary’s clear-up of toxic loans looks like the worst possible plan, except for all the others, writes Alan Kohler.
