Articles Tagged “Barack Obama”

  • SF Election Night Photos

    by Luke Thomas on Nov 07, 2012 | 3 Comments

    A selection of photos from various election parties last eve, beginning at Obama SF campaign headquarters in the Castro and ending at London Breed’s presumed election victory party in the lower Haight neighborhood of District 5. All photos by Luke Thomas.

    Posted in News, Politics

  • “It’s Morning Again in America”

    by Tim Arnold on Nov 07, 2012 | 4 Comments

    Obama consistently posed the same question Ronald Reagan asked in a landmark television commercial from his winning re-election campaign in 1984, “Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?”

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

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    Fifty Shades of Loving Your Candidate

    by Jill Chapin on Oct 23, 2012 | 34 Comments

    After carefully listening to many formerly rabid 2008 Obama supporters, the most common thread of disenchantment seems to be that they no longer feel the passion and ardor of those glory days of instant palpitations over their new beau.

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

  • Video: Third Party Candidates Break the Sound Barrier As Obama-Romney Spar

    by FCJ Editor on Oct 04, 2012 | 5 Comments

    As President Obama and Mitt Romney squared off for the first time on Wednesday night, Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier by pausing Obama and Romney’s answers to get real-time responses from candidates Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party.

    Posted in Business, Economy, Education, Energy, Healthcare, News, War

  • It’s Not the Candidate, Stupid

    by Jill Chapin on Oct 02, 2012 | 3 Comments

    Watching Governor Romney speak to the extremist wing of his own party, it is remarkable how much he resembles a kidnapped man who must say what his captives want, at risk of being politically annihilated.

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

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    Public Would Be Her Ally, Green Candidate Stein Says

    by Richard Knee on Sep 23, 2012 | 12 Comments

    Green Party candidate Jill Stein believes that as president she could overcome partisan differences with Congressional Democrats and Republicans by using the media to rally public pressure to her side.

    Posted in News, Politics

  • Thoughts on Killing of U.S. Ambassador Stevens

    by Ralph E. Stone on Sep 15, 2012 | 8 Comments

    While anti-American feeling is strong in parts of the Middle East, the attacks in Egypt and Libya were really a case of political opportunism by the Salafist Islamic extremists who are unhappy with the success of the more moderate Islamist and secularist parties in Egypt and Libya.

    Posted in Opinion, Religion, War