George W. Bush

Obama: Securing a Portion of the American Dream

Labor View from Bayside - May 8, 2008 - 6:30pm

Barack Obama has come through stronger than ever. His victory speech was impressive:

...it's about your hopes, it's about your dreams, it's about your struggles, it's about your aspirations, it's about securing your portion of the American dream. ...we can choose this moment to come together, choose not to be afraid...

It was a combination of JFK's inauguration and George W. Bush's appeal in 2000 to bi-partisanship. Read more »

Truth: The First Casualty of the Iraq War

Labor View from Bayside - April 28, 2008 - 1:12pm

The aftermath of the 2020 Summit seemed to distract the Australian mass media and the blogosphere from yet another case of U.S. government manipulation of political coverage. It was the Iraq war again, of course. Read more »