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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Super Commercial
In the midst of the usual glut of Super Bowl commercials with messages about beer, cars and women with impossible bosoms, on Sunday there will be one 30-second message that has some people upset, even angry. It is a message by 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, who, after a difficult pregnancy, decided to give Tim a chance to live, though she was advised to have an abortion.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Presidential Promises and Pretenses
The day before President Obama delivered his State of the Union Address last week, The New York Times reported that "aides said he would accept responsibility, though not necessarily blame" for failing to deliver on promises he made during his campaign. If you accept responsibility for something bad, aren't you accepting blame by definition? Not if you're Barack Obama, who has a talent for accepting responsibility while minimizing and deflecting it. "With all the lobbying and horse trading, the process (for producing health care legislation) left most Americans wondering, 'What's in it for me?'" Obama said in his SOTU speech. "I take my share of the blame."
