By John Batchelor on Feb 10, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The Obama re-elect has energy, talent, great visuals from 2008 (this mash-up [SEE VIDEO BELOW] is a treat of before the crash of 2008), and the incumbency — and that is plenty to overwhelm a fractured and disconsolate GOP. The Romney campaign crack-up is undeniable even to those in the party who prosper in denial. [...]
By John Batchelor on Feb 7, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Evan Newmark worries about consumer spending with witty Spencer Jakab. POTUS re-elect needs the consumer to get involved in the recovery. This will increase the growth of wholesale jobs, transportation and manufacturing jobs, that we saw in the January jobs numbers. The housing crush remains the unknown. Watching consumer sentiment also, because it moved down [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 22, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
“We can go in two directions, one is for less opportunity and less fairness…I am going to lay out a blueprint…homegrown and alternative energy sources…getting people the skills they need…a return to American values…how we do it… “ (See video below.) POTUS Obama presents the fog of the campaign early in order to give time [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 20, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The dueling ad buys between the Koch Brothers (Karl Rove) Americans for Prosperity and the Obama re-elect (see the video below the fold) ignite the 2012 presidential campaign with a Napoleonic crescendo. The facts about Solyndra are trite, tawdry and most unflattering to the Obama White House.
By John Batchelor on Jan 19, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The DNC launches a well-constructed attack on Mitt Romney as a plutocrat who pays profoundly less than his fair share of taxes. The DNC does not mention, but I will, that the reason Romney pays as little at 15% is that this is the tax codes of the US as constructed by a thousand thousand [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 12, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
New video from North Korea, DPRK, starring Kim Jong Un playing his father in the walk-and-talk-with-the-bosses scenes that serve as a regime opera. The many faces of military cadres is the best evidence available of who is in charge of the Kim cult. What is striking is how closely KJU imitates his father’s casual haberdashery [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 11, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
“The Obama presidency is entirely about the Obama elections.” Bill Daley’s quick exit of the White House underlines what is the reported case for some time, that the Obama administration is a handful of insiders from the Chicago campaign days, and that there is no prospect of a change in weather in the event POTUS [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 9, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Gingrichian forces construct the Mitt Romney Story in such a way that what emerges is the Father of Potterville. Does Romney have the ground game to respond to the blunderbuss charges of greed, gluttony, villainy and a touch of evil? The assumption is that the Obama re-elect will lavish this scale of condemnation and more [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 8, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Apple’s success derives from the simple fact that the Facebook generation has grown up alongside the single-minded product line. The video above connects to the first 25 years of Apple, 1976-2000, when it was a cluttered, self-centered cult, imitating grown-up office environments without direction or success. After 1984, it did manage to put its sealed, [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 5, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
POTUS Obama begins the year with the historical presumption that he will be re-elected in November. The GOP begins the year with the expectation that it will hold the House comfortably and will take a certain majority in the Senate. The EU begins the year in a recession with the expectation of a flat to [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 4, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Speaking Bob Zimmerman re the year past in climate science, where we exchange our thoughts that we know surprisingly little about the climate change dynamic. Our main sequence G-type star is likely critical to the climate; however, we do not know how, or how much, the sunspots and the solar wind affect out climate cycles. [...]
By John Batchelor on Jan 2, 2012 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Surprisingly fresh-faced and prideful Jim Messina, the Obama re-elect manager in Chicago, leads the faithful through the Electoral College scenarios for the November 2012 election. In 2008, POTUS achieved 365 Electoral College votes. The thinking in Chicago is that they can give up a lot of territory and win the bare minimum 270 plus a [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 29, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
John Batchelor, writing below about Lawrence Lessig’s new book, “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It,” reflects: “POTUS Obama pulled textbook bait and switch with his ‘change’ campaign that delivered him to Washington as just another one of the gang.” If it is to be Mitt Romney who outlasts the GOP [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 27, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Speaking Ali Soufan, author, “The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda,” re the fail of the CIA and FBI from the WTC 1993 onward, and especially af the Cole attack, October 2000. The warrants support the general finding of the 9-11 Commission that the failure to share specific logical [...]
By John Batchelor on Dec 26, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Ron Paul’s iconoclasm and awkward determination get ambushed by CNN video archive. The newsletter Ron Paul makes reference to in August of 1988 is an execrable mish-mash of textbook phobias about Jews, homosexuals, non-whites, and there are specific slanders against Martin Luther King and Bill Clinton, a stew of bile and dimwitted obsession about race [...]
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