If Ben Rhodes, the president’s speechwriter, did a fine job crafting a speech that announced the sending of an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan with a draw-out date to begin in 18 months, President Obama did an absolutely finer job delivering it to the American people.
Posts Tagged ‘Pelumi Olatinpo’
American Visa, African Blood Money
November 29th, 2009
HotWatts “At a time when the U.S. government is hammering President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on his inability or unwillingness to rein-in corruption in his country, it seems it ought to be diverting some of those vicious blows on its own head.” Columnist Pelumi Olatinpo chastises the US for its friendliness with an African dictatorship.
The Nobel Anointing of Obama
October 12th, 2009
HotWatts Unless you are a fortune-teller like me, you must have without doubt being blindsided by news of Mr. Obama winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Fortunately for you, we happened to have been in the same boat on the morning of October 9th, simply because of this unexplainable fact — my crystal ball has ceased to function whenever it has to predict with certainty the future of Mr. Obama.



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