While President Obama devoted the first days of his presidency to the economic crisis he inherited from his predecessor, the rest of the world was waiting impatiently for his attention. At the conference of the Association of American Law Schools earlier this month, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean of Sacramento’s McGeorge School of Law and […]
Archives for January 2009
Confluence of “Miracles” Culminates in Obama’s Inauguration
The story of last week’s “miracle on the Hudson” is almost unbelievable. The sudden loss of all power in both jet engines within minutes of takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport left pilot Chelsey Sullenberger III (Sully) with few options, none of them particularly promising. His Airbus A320 was loaded with 150 passengers, three […]
Obama’s Report Card for His Work During the Transition
As presidential transitions go, this one has lasted about as long (11 weeks) as most. It just seems like it has lasted forever, kind of the way the last two months of school used to drag on before summer vacation finally arrived. (And why did that vacation period then always fly by like some […]
A Triumphant Ride Off Into the Sunset? No Way
Both Vice-President Cheney and his puppet, er, boss, have given media interviews over the last few weeks in which they have attempted (Cheney more blatantly, Bush more quixotically) to revise the record of their administration’s accomplishments. Mr. Cheney defiantly, if somnolently, asserts the invasion of Iraq was fully justified; Mr. Bush continues […]