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Dick Cheney's Memoir the Saddest Story of Our Time
Tweet Share on Facebook August 29, 2011 Comment (34)Dick Cheney should have a hurricane named after him, since he's done much more lasting damage to the country than the fury of Irene. And yet he has the nerve to come out with a book while we're still picking up the pieces from his thunder, lightning, and rain.
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What Obama Can Learn at the Martin Luther King Memorial
Tweet Share on Facebook August 23, 2011 Comment (4)While the president is hanging out—or hiding out—on Martha's Vineyard sands and greens, he's missing a chance for spiritual solace right here in Washington, where he could commune with the spirits and memorial spaces of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and—yes!—the new sculptural arrival on the National Mall: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Obama Needs a Serious Jobs Agenda
Tweet Share on Facebook August 16, 2011 Comment (8)There's a phrase the Wordmeister-in-Chief should use more often. The first word is J-O-B-S, plural, followed by an action word: agenda, program, plan or even creation. President Obama still seems reluctant to confront the plague of his presidency: joblessness. Extending unemployment benefits or the payroll tax cut don't cut it as a serious jobs agenda.
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Barack Obama's Unhappy Birthday
Tweet Share on Facebook August 8, 2011 Comment (5)Back in the brio and fun of the early '60s, President John F. Kennedy was serenaded on his 45th birthday by Marilyn Monroe in Madison Square Garden. The spirit of the song, "Happy Birthday, Mr. President," like everything else, changes with the times, as Barack Obama knew only too well last week, marking his 50th birthday Thursday. This may be the unhappiest birthday for an American president since Bill Clinton spent his August birthday in purgatory on the island of Martha's Vineyard after admitting to a little fling with Monica Lewinsky.
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Obama Gave Up the Store in the Debt Ceiling Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook August 2, 2011 Comment (33)High noon on the Ohio Clock, a gorgeous grandfather clock outside the Senate floor. That's when the end of an era will begin. Wasn't it called "Change we can believe in?” Something like that, a short era of pretty words.
Jamie Stiehm
Jamie Stiehm is a weekly Creators Syndicate columnist. Her op-eds on politics, culture, and history have appeared in newspapers across the nation, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She previously worked as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun and The Hill. Jamie's first journalism job was as an assignment editor at the CBS News bureau in London.
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