Category Archives: barack obama

A question of style

The very day Barack Obama was in Cairo, addressing the Islamic world in an attempt to heal wounds and, against all odds, build new bridges, Silvio Berlusconi was addressing a considerably smaller audience in Milan, complaining that there were too … Continue reading

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International relations

Barack Obama finally called Berlusconi yesterday. He ordered four pizzas with peperoni and two bottles of Nastro Azzurro.

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Au revoir? I don’t think so

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New day

“I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.” Barack Obama

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Matthew Shepard

Ten years after Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and left to die on a barbed wire fence, Barack Obama has this to say. “Today, we pause to remember the heartbreaking and senseless murder of Matthew Shepard. A freshman at the … Continue reading

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