Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Barack Obama is the first American president to name Hindus, Muslims and non-believers in his inaugural address. (“For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers.") Now he has given his first full length public interview since taking office to Al-Arabiya, the…
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The Magnes Zionist, a blog by a pseudonymous orthodox Jewish professor is worth checking out, especially for his views on the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza. (link via Brian Leiter in Leiter Reports)
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Brian Leiter has mixed feelings.
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Just trying to come to terms with the fact that tonight is George Bush's farewell speech — and I've found that I'm just as angry as the day the Supreme Court Republicans appointed the man. What a horrible, horrible eight years. I'm just exhausted with his relentless ideological posturing and stupefying incompetence — please go…
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Yesterday I had the opportunity to catch George W. Bush's final press conference on C-Span. Bush was at his amiable best, displaying the full gamut of predictable emotions we have come to expect from him. Alternately loopy, jokey, nostalgic and defensive, he reflected on his about-to-expire presidency and upcoming retirement. He expressed confidence that history will show him up…
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Charles Fried has a somewhat bizarre NYT op-ed about the change in administrations and the Abu Ghraib atrocities. It's strange in that Fried starts off by conceding that high-level government officials authorized "torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" of detainees. That is, officials such as those named explicitly by Fried — Alberto Gonzalez, Dick…
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After days of aerial assault, Israel has begun its ground offensive in Gaza. Until now, I didn't bother to post on this depressing topic which has become as predictable as the sun rising in the east. The spate of news stories, analysis, point-counter point on the latest upheaval in the middle east are too just as predictable. The…
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Denied respect and attention at home, George W. Bush recently made an unannounced visit to Iraq, hoping I am sure, to perform a victory lap of sorts in the last few remaining days in office. What greeted him there was not the confetti of a ticker tape parade, but two flying shoes aimed at his head…
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George W. Bush will disappear from the national scene in just a few more weeks. Actually, we have seen so little of him in recent days that it sometimes feels like he has already bid us adieu. A simple Google search of the archives (key words: Bush, Bush-Cheney) will show, Accidental Blogger owes its birth and sustenance to the misdeeds…
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The American holiday of Thanksgiving is not observed in India. But what has been unfolding for the last twenty four hours in Mumbai, the heart of Indian commerce, finance, Bollywood and much more, has struck a nerve in the US on this Thanksgiving Day, as well as in the rest of the world. In a…
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Who’s the real turkey here?
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After the tight ship he ran during his lengthy campaign, Barack Obama finds himself in the midst of high drama and of course, it stars the Clintons. I am not sure that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for the secretary of State or any other cabinet position in the Obama administration for the same…
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