It’s OK to hug a queen: You go Michelle! Protocol… Schmotocol… As usual the media has made much ado about nothing.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Global Economic Woes Hit Ireland Hard
I just finished reading Timothy Eagan’s latest on Outposts: The Orphans of Ireland: If Barack Obama, the president with roots in County Offaly, were to skip across the Irish Sea this week he would find a big part of what afflicted much of the western world during a mad era. Houses prices quadrupled in less than a decade. Every village that had seen nary a rock wall or a cottage window unchanged suddenly had a cul de sac of...
First Lady Charms the Queen
Oh my! The some members of media are in a tizzy… Michelle Obama touched the Queen! Howard Chua-Eoan reports in Time: The rules are set in stone, and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. Etiquette is quite stern about this (“Whatever you do, don’t touch the Queen!”). Gracious… Goodness… What was she...
Obama Has 61% Approval on Foreign Affairs
President Barack Obama is in the midst of his first trip abroad and and a new Gallup Poll shows that he is “enjoying a 61% job approval rating at home for handling foreign affairs, up seven points since February.” The poll results on foreign affairs show his approval rating is just a bit higher that the approval rating “for handling the economy — 56%” and “ the federal budget deficit.” Gallup also has a new poll out that shows that First...
Ed Schultz to Join MSNBC Line-Up
Last night Keith Olbermann announced on his show that veteran talk show host Ed Schultz would be joining the MSNBC line-up with a new show premiering on Monday, April 6: “The Ed Show” will air weekdays, 6-7 p.m. ET. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President, MSNBC. “I am thrilled to have Ed kicking-off our primetime lineup,” said Griffin. “Ed’s proven that he can connect with Americans and will be a perfect compliment to Chris, Keith, and...
What Happened to the Party of ‘Lincoln and Liberty?’
What would Abraham Lincoln, a Kentucky native and the first Republican president, make of his party as we celebrate his 200th birthday? The Great Emancipator might be spinning in his tomb, according to Frank Schaeffer, an ex-Republican and Huffington Post regular. “The Republican Party is only a step away from becoming the fringe of the fringe,” wrote Schaeffer, “a New York Times best selling author… a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood,” according to HuffPo. Schaeffer says...
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