Showing posts with label recent American presidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recent American presidents. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Some interesting Joe Biden quotes about race



These quotations show Joe Biden saying some very awkward things about race. You might respond that none of them are bad enough to convict Joe Biden of racism. With that, I would actually agree. However, in my opinion, they are much worse than any of the purportedly “racist” comments made by Donald Trump. Yet Trump is always portrayed as a racist, while Biden is not.

Again, I don't think there's enough here to convict anybody of racism. My point is not that Joe Biden is a racist. My point is that he is judged by very different standards than those that are applied to Trump.

Monday, July 6, 2020

A review of PBS’s “George W. Bush” (American Experience)



“A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone … Those were the good old days.”

– George W. Bush, in a series of jokes at a White House dinner (28 March 2007)

To begin with, this documentary is a hatchet job …

I normally love documentaries, and have watched more than a hundred of them. This included many about American presidents, and I wanted to add this one to the list. Not surprisingly, this turned out to be a hatchet job, with extreme left-wing bias. It is so biased, in fact, as to be factually inaccurate, in ways that I shall describe below.


George W. Bush

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

A review of PBS's “Bill Clinton” movie



"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

- Bill Clinton, in a statement for the press (26 January 1998)


PBS made a four-hour documentary about the life of Bill Clinton. It has the liberal bias that you'd expect from PBS, but with the exception of their coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it was a fascinating film. I don't think Bill Clinton was a good president, or even a particularly good man; but he was certainly an interesting man, with intelligence, great speaking ability, and a gift for politics to rival that of ReaganKennedy, or FDR.


Bill Clinton shakes hands with then-president John F. Kennedy


Tuesday, January 6, 2015

The price of being dumb (and voting for Obama)



To every thinking person,
It must seem a little strange
That so many could be fooled
By words like "hope" and "change."