Center Field: Obama beware: Sometimes personal magic can be tragic

By Gil Troy, The Jerusalem Post, 7-30-09 Barack Hussein Obama has now been president for six months – when campaigning he avoided using his full name, now he embraces it. As he passes this half-year milestone, his honeymoon with the public may be ending – although America’s media remain gaga over him. US PRESIDENT Barack [...]

Gil Troy: Center Field: Obama at 100 days

By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 5-11-09 Barack Obama has just completed his first hundred days as president, an artificial benchmark rooted in Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. John Kennedy proved more successful than his first hundred days suggested, marred as they were by the aborted Bay of Pigs attack against Cuba. George W. Bush’s presidency ended [...]

Gil Troy: Student unions should stick to student issues

By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 2-26-09 Earlier this month, McGill University students voted 436 to 263 to postpone indefinitely a Students’ Society resolution condemning the “bombings” of “educational institutions in Gaza.” The initiative paralleled similar resolutions that passed at other Canadian universities, including the University of Toronto and York. But a clear majority of [...]

Nearing toward foreign policy consensus

JPost, July 20, 2008 A JPost.com exclusive blog Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over foreign policy last week – or did they? While some headlines emphasized the two candidates’ differences, proclaiming “McCain Slams Obama on Iraq Surge,” the two also agreed on many important fundamentals – as well as key policies. Their points of [...]

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