The Hutchinson Political Report

President Obama’s State of the Union Speech Already under Fire

Published on 2011-01-23 09:23:00

Earl Ofari Hutchinson President Obama’s second State of the Union Speech scheduled for Tuesday, January 25 is under fire before he has even uttered one word of it. This was predictable. The State of the Union speech is generally one of the most watched and listened to political speeches. It’s a President’s report card on the accomplishments, the present and future planned initiatives of his administration and his vision for the country. GOP and Democratic presidents are keenly aware that

More Say they Like Bush than Obama Grates to No End

Published on 2010-12-07 11:14:00

Earl Ofari HutchinsonThe CNN poll in October that found that almost as many people said they liked George W. Bush as President Obama seemed like it was either a case of some drunk counting the numbers, or a headline grabbing ploy by CNN on a slow news day. The poll seemed to add even more insult to absurdity when it found that a statistically insignificant 2 percent said that Bush was a worse president than Obama. A year earlier Obama had more than a 20 percent edge over Bush in the number that

Stop the Rush to Judgment on Call for Clinton to Resign over WikiLeaks

Published on 2010-12-01 19:33:00

Earl Ofari HutchinsonSecretary of State Hillary Clinton must explain what she meant when she allegedly signed the much railed at orders in April and July 2009 that allege that she ordered US diplomats to spy on UN officials and others. But that hasn’t stopped the rush to judgment in the calls for her resignation. It’s not just a premature call, it’s a silly call. Yes, on the surface, it does look bad. The Secretary seeming to secretly order State Department officials to collect the fingerp

President Obama should turn a Deaf Ear to chatter About Not Running Again

Published on 2010-11-23 17:56:00

Earl Ofari Hutchinson President Obama should turn a deaf ear to the silly chatter about him not running again. He’s heard plenty of that in the weeks since the midterm election drubbing. Much of the chatter hasn’t come from the usual, hostile GOP and Tea Party suspects. They’ve flatly said their goal is to make Obama a failed, flawed, president and presidency. The stand down talk has come in a string of op-ed pieces, web and blog talk, speculation and guesswork, from some respected Democra

The Hutchinson Political Report: Why Carville Won’t Apologize to Obama for his Ball...

Published on 2010-11-21 23:26:00

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Why Carville Won’t Apologize to Obama for his Balls Crack

Published on 2010-11-21 23:24:00

Earl Ofari HutchinsonNot surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable especially when it come to knocking President Obama Democratic strategist James Carville was petulant and defiant when asked whether he’d apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack. The dig was Carville’s supposedly play on an old joke when he cracked that Hillary Clinton should give Obama one of her balls. Carville, of course, got several things out of this supposed joke. He got attention from the White House.

Surely, No One Should Be Surprised that Palin Plays the Race Card

Published on 2010-11-19 18:30:00

Earl Ofari HutchinsonThe advance PR flacks for HarperCollins knew exactly what they were doing when they calculatedly leaked a provocative passage from Sara Palin’s newest ego stroke book, America by Heart. The passage incited race. This time the target is not President Obama, at least not directly. It is First Lady Michelle Obama. Palin dredged up the worn, tired, and patently false charge claiming that Michelle sullied America when she allegedly said at a stop during the 2008 campaign she wa

The Hutchinson Political Report: Exclusive Interview with Progressive House Congr...

Published on 2010-11-13 11:21:00

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Published on 2010-11-13 11:11:00

Exclusive Interview with Progressive House Congressional Caucus Co-Chair Lynn Woolseyon The Hutchinson Report Newsmaker Houron KTYM Radio Los Angeles November 12, 2010The Hutchinson Report:Many are not familiar with the Progressive House Caucus. How big is it?LW: We had 83 members before the election. It is bicameral with House and Senate members. It’s by far the largest caucus in Congress. We lost four members this election. But we also gained a couple of new members. We will not have less t

Bush’s Love fest for President Obama

Published on 2010-11-08 10:58:00

Earl Ofari Hutchinson Former President George W. Bush seems to be about the only top Republican in the land who hasn’t taken a shot at President Obama. There’s not one, I repeat, not one single word of criticism of Obama’s performance to date in the White House in Bush’s near 500 page memoir, Decision Points. In fact, forget the word criticism, the times that Bush mentions Obama in the book he practically gushes over him on everything from the handling of the Afghanistan war to the econo