Presidency of Bill Clinton

not have the same status in the black community. She wasn’t seen as respectable enough to use as a representative because she was “emotional” and it was suspected that she became pregnant by a married white man. Fast forward o more recent times, Bill Clinton employed the politics of respectability by telling black America they had a “moral duty” to work from the inside out in changing the behavior of poor blacks. In 2008, President Obama became a central figure using the politics of…

aspects of American politics. in more recent years his teaching and research have been on the presidency, political communication and American political history. Samuel Kernell defends going public as the strategy of appealing to the public to get Congress to do what the President Wants. He uses a few examples such as Clinton and the Health Care Reform and George W. Bush with the Homeland Security Bill To support his clam, he does research to…

Democratic ideals highlight that today’s immigrants are tomorrow’s United States citizens with occupations such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, soldiers, and above all pillars of American communities. Regardless of these democratic ideals, a Trump presidency has told us something very different. As one of his first orders of business in January the US President imposed a 90-day ban on travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States including the countries of Iraq,…

2016, the front-runners had thinned to two, Clinton and Sanders. Early within in the election cycle, numerous grass root organizations sprung up in support of Sanders, a registered Independent; he was the new people’s choice. Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, found a great deal of resistance; the concept of a socialist president is a new paradigm for the American public, many questioned his ability to win the nomination for the next to inherit it, Clinton.…

capture and killed Osama. In the article “Osama Bin Laden Dead, Obama Announces”, by Sam Stein and Jennifer Bendery states how Obama was really determined to find the guy that caused the 911 in the quote “Both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had targeted bin Laden during their presidencies, and both failed to either capture him or kill him. The failure to snare Bin Laden weighed most heavily, perhaps, on the Bush Administration, which occupied the White House during the 911 attacks, and the al…

politics in the Information Age” Presidential vetoes are when congress sends a bill to the White House for the president, and the current president of the United States, at the time, can “return it” without any objections. To understand further how the veto from the president works, it starts with the latin translation of the word which is “I forbid” adding to the serious tone of the president potentially “taking down” a bill that could have been potentially passed by him, with the majority of…

Chapter 5: League of Women Voters of California, Yes ERA! (1974), and Phyllis Schafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the and introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923 in order to ensure the right that women have identical opportunities as men. This would ensure that women have the same rights as men, thus meaning that women would have to give up certain protections. Labor unions opposed this legislation because they believed it would…

The film Bulworth follows the campaign of a senator that is running for elections in the State of California. As soon as the film starts we are introduced to the high level of corruption that occurs in a political campaign or as politicians refer to it as simply campaign. By the end of the movie it is clear that the film portrays current American politics. The film makes interesting references to how race, gender and class matter when it comes to our political system. However it is also very…

President Barrack Obama was voted into office in 2008 and reelected in 2012. Coming into office President Obama made a lot of promises and gave hope to many Americans who were suffering during the time of President Bush. Through both of his terms he tried his hardest to keep all of the promises he made. He implemented laws and policies to help relieve people in the workforce of their long work hours through Obama care and he tried to raise the government budget by making a health care reform.…

The scope of communication relies upon finding meaning within the words or signs portrayed. Often people have challenges in effectively communicating meaning to each other. Dialogue is the format of communication that most people seek but, find difficult to carry out on a day to day basis. Other components of dialogue such as listening, avoiding assumptions, collective thought, and dialogue culture all play a key role in defining dialogue itself. However, these components standing by themselves…