Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
All this talk about Obama being Lincoln is getting downright troubling – either our new president’s contracted a bad case of idol worship, or this is a ploy to wrap himself in the cloak of Lincoln because he’s gotten into the business of presidential myth-making even before he’s taken the oath of office. I don’t…
Read MoreThroughout the transition, I would catch a glimpse of Obama on TV with a graphic reminding me he is President-elect. Every time, I was surprised again. And I am still amazed he carried North Carolina. But I wonder how long the racial honeymoon will last. How long before bigotry reenters the political debate, at least…
Read MoreAt first glance it looks like Barack Obama’s sitting on top of the world, but this poor fellow’s actually sitting on a dozen time bombs. Running the American Empire these days is first cousin to being assigned hazardous duty in the bomb squad. The war we were winning, Afghanistan, is going downhill – so the…
Read MoreHer fourth day in office Madame Governor trooped up to Washington, held out her hand, and asked Congress to give her $18 billion – plus, another billion or so she needs to balance the state budget. She sat down with North Carolina’s Congressional Delegation, then with Obama’s transition team, handed them a list of things…
Read MoreGeorge Bush’s presidency was defined and dominated by the image of jets skimming low over Manhattan, slamming into the World Trade Center. Yesterday, his farewell address was overshadowed by the image of a jet resting in the Hudson River, all aboard alive. Might the miracle on the Hudson be a metaphor for new hope in…
Read MoreLast fall, after Obama got elected, Richard the Intellectual got so discouraged about politics he took to reading religious poetry – The Divine Comedy about cured him of that but, then, he switched to the Civil War and when he got to the Battle of Antietam the gloom thickened. The way Richard tells it the…
Read MoreMonday Madame Governor signed a spate of executive orders and it’s time for the Republicans in the House and Senate to strap on their shields and bucklers and have at it. They’re supposed to be the loyal opposition and this session they would be wise to take the job seriously. For instance, not long ago,…
Read MoreNot to compare Bev Perdue with Rod Blagoyevich, but both have shown how the sudden power of the executive branch can frustrate the legislative branch. Blagoyevich’s appointment of Roland Burris to Barack Obama’s Senate seat was a stroke of evil genius. The already-arrested, to-be-indicted and probably to-be-removed-from-office governor flummoxed the President-elect, the United States Senate,…
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Does a message about “workers,” “working families” and “working-class voters” really work for Democrats? Or does…
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I’ve resisted the temptation to rail every day about Trump’s cruelty, corruption and incompetence – and…
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Jeanette Hyde went from Miss Yadkin County to Madam Ambassador. Hyde, who died Monday at age…
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