Allow me to illustrate what the right wing means when they talk of the “left wing media bias.” Imagine that Presidents Bush and Obama are standing next to each other while attending an Easter Egg Hunt on the White House lawn. President Obama is in his normal business attire, suit and tie, while President Bush…
Author: gary1164
I'm an advertising executive and former actor/producer
Danielson for Real Leadership!
Last Summer I attended a fundraiser for Iowa Senate incumbent and local firefighter, Jeff Danielson. He launched his campaign and as he spoke to the crowd of around 200 supporters he gave a brief history of Iowa congressional activity during his two previous terms. Danielson illustrated a consistent divide between the left side of the…
Is this cup half empty or half full of lazy Americans?
I try very hard to keep my political arguments civil. I have been known to fire back with a little hostility at times in threads that became insulting, but it is never my intention going in to get nasty, quite the opposite actually. I do research, I don’t accept rhetoric from either side at face…
Dear World, First let me apologize for Mitt Romney…
Mitt Romney has centered his message around a very succinct concept: He will never apologize for America. The sentiment is building momentum for his uneven campaign as we inch closer to November and now he’s getting raves from conservatives, who previously eluded him, for his book, “No Apology; The Case For America’s Greatness.” Millions of…
“I pledge allegiance to the flags of the Divided States of America…”
If I were magic, do you know what I would do? Well…there are several things like getting rid of Daylight Savings Time and I’d make Rick Santorum say, “Oops, I farted” every time he mentions how he’s lost his freedoms, but there’s no point going into all of them if I’m going to make the…
True Americans understand the value of debate
I had an interesting experience today. A friend was afraid that she might have missed my latest column in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier (for which I am a new Op-Ed columnist) and so she went to their website and did a “search.” When an article came up, she read it and assumed that it was…
Playground Defense
Three months and counting. I have more confidence today toward Obama’s re-election than I’ve had all year, but the truth is, this campaign season will get even uglier in the few remaining months. We can’t be too surprised, we saw Democrats go for the jugular 4 years ago in the primaries as Obama and Hillary…
Where everybody knows my name…
Let me preface by saying that I have not agreed with President Obama on every decision he has made in his crisis-from- the start presidency. I believe he mishandled the health care debate by not personally taking the case directly to the American people and I believe that he allowed too much leniency to Congress…
The Gorey Details
2000 was the year Al Gore didn’t become President. The historical record of his “not becoming President” is pretty clear and I will never be happy about a fraudulent re-count in Florida or Supreme Court interference driven by partisan manipulation, but I was able to reconcile the “defeat” because that was Al Gore’s election to…
My Apologies
I have an apology to make to my Republican/conservative friends, and, no, this is not a facetious apology. I often state that my politics are to the left of moderate and that I approach opposing views with an open mind, but, sometimes I’ll express a very negative attitude toward many of the things they believe.…