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Barack Obama was feeling pretty cocky in the weeks before this November's mid-term elections. He made sure to appear before his home base, making the most of every chance to take a whack at Republicans like a prom king at a pep rally. Personally, I found it intolerable, because it all seemed so phony. Over the past two years, he's never missed a chance to tell the rest of the country that they'd better like his agenda because it was going to be enacted no matter what. “The Republicans are going to have to ride in the back of the...

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation! Gary Hubbell - Aspen Times Weekly Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever. Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP...

There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain. Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians. There is one group no one has...

Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation. Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism. The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored. There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness. Think of...