Barack Obama

Vijay Narayanan on January 27th, 2010

“A solid B-plus”, said President Obama when Oprah Winfrey asked him a few weeks ago to rate his administration a year into his first term. I can say with certainty that I would not be as charitable of the Number 44′s achievements. Yet to think that for someone who has always identified himself as right [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 17th, 2009

One of the debates over the past few months has been about the use and the ban of torture – or enhanced interrogation techniques – against terror suspects. America’s newfound morality amazes me as a dabbler in history. A sound clip in the Wikipedia entry on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is of then [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 24th, 2009

For many months leading up to November 4 Presidential elections, John McCain’s only criticism of Barack Obama was that the Democrat was friends with Bill Ayers, a terrorist of four decades ago, an allegation that both men rejected. If this were indeed true, it would have caused a serious setback to Obama’s campaign. The Chief [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 20th, 2009

… is now the President of the United States of America. A bumper-sticker I saw on the road this morning summed it up succinctly: “2008: End of an Error.“

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Vijay Narayanan on November 5th, 2008

It is the morning of November 5. I step out of the house. The buildings are in their same proper places. The ground is still intact. The sky hasn’t fallen down. So, it isn’t apocalypse. Barack Obama might not be that bad for America! Oh, and by the way, where are those chronic Nostradamus-quoters, who explain every [...]

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