Vincent Fiore column
Vincent Fiore is a freelance political writer based in New York. His commentary has been posted over numerous Web sites and publications around the world. Your comments are always welcomed. Vfiore3@optonline.net
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May 2, 2010
On March 18, 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama gave a game-changing speech in Philadelphia, PA titled, "A More Perfect Union." The speech was to address . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 20, 2010
It's safe to say that most on the conservative side of the aisle expected Barack Obama to govern exactly as he has. Though "govern" is perhaps too charitable a . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 3, 2009
In the early stages of his presidency, many decisions by President Obama have been viewed as being rash, uninformed, and more than slightly arrogant. But for . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 20, 2009
As the Obama administration enters the fourth quarter of its God help us first year in office, a few things have become clear.
The president's foreign . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 6, 2009
Barack Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to appoint a special prosecutor a Mr. John Durham to look into possible crimes committed by CIA . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 17, 2009
Come what may in regards to President Obama's Health Care reform bill, what will most likely stand out in the process is the national rebellion against the bill . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 8, 2009
Though Congress has recessed for the month of August, the rhetoric and demagoguery has not. Witness the main topic of discussion among the political class and . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 28, 2009
Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile recently said regarding President Obama: "Obama is the president for all Americans, not just black Americans." . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 15, 2009
At times, there is a real need to step outside of one's box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person's natural inclination. This applies to . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 6, 2009
A question heard from many a non-Obama voter these days is this: "So, how's that hope and change working out for you?" The question, at once, is both funny, . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 6, 2007
To some, 1983 may as well have been the dark ages in the United States.
At that time, America had a conservative president in the White House, who, in . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 22, 2007
As happens with most anything even remotely political these days, the mainstream media gets it and decides to present a picture that does not represent the . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 7, 2007
You would almost have to be of Helen Keller stock not to have noticed the oohs and aahs regarding the freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
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Vincent Fiore
October 15, 2006
While the political power brokers "ooh and aah" over the damage "Foleygate" has done to the GOP's chances of retaining control of Congress this election, hardly . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 2, 2006
Why vote Republican? While most of us who call ourselves conservatives struggle for an answer to that question, a look back as to why the question is posed at . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 6, 2006
Among the left, there seems to be a great deal of consternation when discussing the current situation of the world and the issues that populate it. Much of the . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 14, 2006
Shouting atop the rooftops of news-drunk America, the liberal press has done a sensational job of bamboozling Mr. and Mrs. headline-scanner with the most . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 22, 2006
As the war progresses in the Middle East and wave upon wave of rockets fired by Hezbollah kill Israeli civilians and military personal, the world hears from one . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 10, 2006
By now, most people around politics know that former New York Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be seeking the nomination for president of the United States. . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 27, 2006
It seems like only yesterday when Americans were hearing how the obvious coexistence of terrorism and Islam is only the chosen coexistence of a very few. After . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 21, 2006
What a difference a few weeks make! If someone had said to me last month that we would have bagged Zarqawi in Iraq, I would have replied that there was a . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 13, 2006
Today, many GOP supporters talk of the 1994 sweep by Republicans as a moment in time. The newly elected Republican majority has sealed its "Contract with . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 18, 2006
Let's cut to the chase here, folks. The speech given by President Bush on Monday night on immigration was the equivalent of getting poked in the eye. At least . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 14, 2006
From out the mouths of babes, it is said, come the most wondrous things. But from the mouth of Blue Star Mother Debbie Katsounakis, the word "wondrous" need . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 29, 2006
On May 1, immigrants, both legal and illegal, will purportedly take to the streets to:
Call for which is just the politically correct way of saying "demand" . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 17, 2006
The setting is a common room in Maspeth, Queens, an old and history-laden area within the sprawling metropolis that is New York. In the common room, about 15 . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 10, 2006
Unquestionably, the Republican Party as a whole has grown over the last twenty-five years. Along with the self-proclaimed "independent" or "moderate" voter, . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 2, 2006
One has only to reference the showing by some 500,000-plus legal and illegal Mexican aliens in Los Angeles last weekend to realize that the discussion regarding . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 25, 2006
You have to laugh when you see once-upon-a-time UPI reporter Helen Thomas. A creviced stump of a woman, she nevertheless goes toe to toe with anyone in the . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 16, 2006
Regarding the recent misadventures of the Bush administration in relation to the running of several U.S. ports by a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, here is . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 6, 2006
It is almost impossible these days to open a newspaper or watch any of the alphabet-media empires without hearing President Bush or his administration cast in . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 22, 2006
The following is a transcript of Vincent Fiore on WBAL, 1090 AM, with host Bruce Elliot, well-known conservative talk show host and radio personality. Vincent . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 19, 2006
Lately, a typical day in the life of the mainstream media sounds something like your average trial-by-mob assemblage.
For our purposes here, the setting will . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 12, 2006
It isn't too often that one who pens opinion articles will fully allow himself to "let it all out," and quite possibly say more than ever intended.
Here then, . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 6, 2006
Civil Rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was know to have said: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
Certainly . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 22, 2006
One of the great hopes of the Democratic Party in this year's election cycle is to win back the Senate. The last time Democrats held the upper hand in the . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 15, 2006
As of this writing, Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court, has little to fear concerning his confirmation.
In fact, the judge for the . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 19, 2005
Lately, those sounds emitting from your television set these days is the constant "siss, boom, bah!" of the Democratic Party as they demonstrate why it is that . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 6, 2005
Once again, one of my editors asked if I would write a piece that essentially scores and scorns through a series of observations, various political figures and . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 28, 2005
Okay, so I'm not referring to "little Cindy Lou-Who," the beloved character from Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
Rather, I mean that other Cindy, . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 21, 2005
Theatrics were the norm last week before Congress headed home for its Thanksgiving break. In the Senate, Democrats offered a resolution that demanded a . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 25, 2005
The question these days around Washington is: How can the Bush Administration recover from such a multitudinous barrage of so much bad news, compounded by even . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 16, 2005
Many throughout the country have clearly forgotten the events that happened on September 11, 2001.
Now that the site of the world trade center resembles . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 4, 2005
A year into his second term, President Bush may be feeling the effects of political shell shock. Even putting aside the first four years of his presidency, . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 28, 2005
Now that the John Roberts nomination is a virtual lock, Senate Democrats can get down to the real business at hand. That "real" business I speak of would be . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 19, 2005
A friend of mine is forever reminding me to give credit where credit is due. Specifically, he is referring to the infrequent impulses among those that populate . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 10, 2005
While the flood waters are pumped out of the condemned city of New Orleans, lost to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina is the upcoming anniversary of an . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 2, 2005
Hurricane Katrina will probably go down in our nation's history as the greatest economic disaster to date and the country's worst natural catastrophe in decades . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 24, 2005
Joan Baez, last seen at Yasgur's farm in 1969 in Sullivan County, New York, serenaded the assembled protesters down at "Camp Casey, Texas," in what has become . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 13, 2005
Momentous days are upon the nation, and the world. In Iraq, a constitution is being hammered out, as U.S. troops and Iraqis are being killed in the name of . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 6, 2005
A few weeks ago, there was a bit of a stir over what President Bush listened to over his iPOD while at his ranch in Texas. Artist like Joni Mitchell, Van . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 30, 2005
It is all but certain that President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts, will be confirmed as the 109th jurist of the highest of court in the . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 17, 2005
The bombing in London by terrorist and the continuation of the war in Iraq were of secondary importance to official Washington and the mainstream media this . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 10, 2005
As the sun was setting upon Britain after a day that saw some 50 dead and 700-plus wounded from a terrorist attack, those all-too familiar voices of liberal . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 4, 2005
Usually, any serious push toward making one a saint, or canonization, happens when that person is deceased. After a five-year waiting period and the proof of . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 28, 2005
Over the weekend, a good friend of mine left a message on my answering machine, which at first I didn't recognize, because his voice was so shaken with rage and . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 20, 2005
The memory of New York's Twin Towers crashing to the ground on September 11, 2001, seems far removed from the minds of a sizable portion of the American public. . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 9, 2005
Having lost badly in this new century's elections, Democrats are now sounding the alarm for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. If the word . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 30, 2005
Several weeks ago, I wrote a commentary that stressed to the Republican-controlled Congress and President Bush the perils of not following through on the . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 24, 2005
I don't know who originally coined the phrase, "can't we all just get along," (though many believe it was Los Angeles police victim Rodney King) but I think . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 17, 2005
In the Senate this week, what promises to be a contentious culmination to what Republican Senator Trent Lott originally coined as the "nuclear option" will . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 10, 2005
From a personal standpoint, the most frustrating and misunderstood aspect of racism is the usage of the word. There is no doubt that throughout these United . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 4, 2005
When President Bush hit the podium on Thursday night for this, his fourth-ever prime-time news conference, the long-knives of the establishment press and the . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 25, 2005
These days, it's hard to tell just who the majority party in Washington really is. But according to the last several national elections, Republicans have won . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 19, 2005
On April 10, Republican Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut stated to the Associated press that embattled House majority leader Tom Delay should step down . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 12, 2005
Does anyone out there remember Piels beer? Bob McAllister's Wonderama or Quisp cereal? How about Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" nature show and K-Tel . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 3, 2005
Not since the death of Princess Diana in 1997 can I remember such a passionate interest and empathy displayed by so many over the death of a single human being. . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 28, 2005
Terri Schiavo's life and death struggle is nearly over. For 15 years, Terri has lived in a world that only she was privy to, while her consciousness, reality, . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 20, 2005
Sometime in January, 2006, you may turn on your TV and see this:
(Fade in) A white-haired, grandmotherly woman walks laboriously up to her mailbox, where upon . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 13, 2005
"How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set?" Vice President George H.W. Bush, 1988
Some may say it's . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 1, 2005
There's no denying the ideological direction of the New York Times editorial pages. To a large extent, one sees it above the page-one fold as well, where . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 21, 2005
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress passed the Social Security Act, part of a system envisioned by FDR to provide a secure retirement for . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 8, 2005
What used to be commonly referred to as the "third rail" of politics is now the main domestic priority of the Bush administration. Social Security figured . . .
Vincent Fiore
February 1, 2005
Proudly holding aloft his index finger brandishing the color purple, a goldsmith from the town of Najaf, Muhammad Abdul-Ridha said "We feel now that we are . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 24, 2005
One of the more obvious idiosyncrasies concerning President Bush, one can always tell when his heart fully believes what his mouth is saying. Contrast the . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 17, 2005
"The purpose of the Blue Bracelet Project is to reverse the current climate of fear and negativity in America, and to challenge the divisive ideology of George . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 10, 2005
In 1994, an event took place that was considered at the time a near impossibility when one looks at the political boundaries that had been established post . . .
Vincent Fiore
January 2, 2005
Have you heard the news? America, under the leadership of George W. Bush, has managed to raise the very oceans against humanity unintended of course as a . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 28, 2004
In a few weeks, George W. Bush will be sworn into office, thereby acknowledging the will of 61 million voters who opted to see Bush finish what Al-Qaeda started . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 19, 2004
For all those folks demanding the head of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the hood of an unarmored Humvee, you may want to take a step back and look at . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 12, 2004
One of my editors asked if I would write a piece that essentially scores and scorns through a series of questions, various political figures and the arena in . . .
Vincent Fiore
December 5, 2004
The changing political landscape has brought with it a changing of the Old guard media as well. For nearly four decades, Americans have in one capacity or . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 21, 2004
Back in 1991, Republican freshman Jim Nussle made national news by appearing on the floor of the House of Representatives donning a paper bag over his head. . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 13, 2004
The election of 2004 will be remembered for many things, some of which may play out for years to come. The GOP has broadened its base among minorities and . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 7, 2004
The election of 2004 has finally, and mercifully, come to a close. So what do millions of voters, the most ever for a presidential election, (though not in . . .
Vincent Fiore
November 1, 2004
Put aside all of the labels that you have heard in the past year regarding the presidential candidates. Be it John Kerry the "perennial liberal of our time," . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 26, 2004
It seems like only yesterday that Saddam Hussein was roused out of his spider hole in Iraq, and George W. Bush seemed near impervious to any challenge mounted . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 18, 2004
Wednesday's third and final presidential debate was in most aspects reminiscent of the first two. Aside from President Bush managing to keep his Texas poker . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 12, 2004
The country is gearing up for the very real possibility of the 2000 election fiasco replaying itself, but even worse. In that election between than-Governor . . .
Vincent Fiore
October 4, 2004
It will take a few days before we know if the first presidential debate in Florida will have any lasting effect on the race itself, but from my point of view, . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 28, 2004
For John Kerry, the University of Miami in the battleground state of Florida might as well be the Coliseum of Rome killing floor. On September 30, Kerry will . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 22, 2004
Eight years ago, an obscure little cable outlet debuted by the name of Fox News. Shows like the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes were not to be confused . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 12, 2004
Since 1962, Dan Rather and CBS News have been an American institution. CBS, one of the big three alphabet media empires, has had one of the most successful . . .
Vincent Fiore
September 6, 2004
Walking the streets outside of Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, one saw the forces of democracy in play. Outside the great arena, thousands chanted . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 30, 2004
You do not need to be especially engrossed in politics to know that this year's presidential election offers little in the way of fair-minded journalism. Just . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 22, 2004
President George W. Bush and his Republican Party have been given a golden opportunity to possibly clinch the sale of a second Bush term.
The Democratic . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 9, 2004
Vietnam veteran John O'Neil, spokesman of the organization calling itself "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," released a devastating ad condemning Democratic . . .
Vincent Fiore
August 2, 2004
A funny thing happened at the Democratic convention this year: Democrats were exposed as closet Republicans.
Abandoning traditional liberal meat and potato . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 20, 2004
Memo to the masses: When you see the words "misspoken," "erred," and "confused," in relation to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, know this: These words are . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 11, 2004
Senator John Kerry has finally ended much hyperventilated speculation on who his choice for vice president will be to complete his quest for the White House . . .
Vincent Fiore
July 6, 2004
Imagine being driven by the very opposite of emotions you once supposed most prevalent in an enlightened society; that answering the call to a civic . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 25, 2004
The 9/11 commission is wrapping up its investigations into the events leading up to that fateful September day in 2001. In late July, around the time of the . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 17, 2004
Even with the death of Ronald Reagan, the country's mainstream media and by extension the liberal establishment, cannot help themselves. Ronald Reagan has been . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 8, 2004
In 1993, one-time Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote a letter to the former president. Having become frustrated with the revisionist history that swirled . . .
Vincent Fiore
June 4, 2004
My adventure in radio started about two weeks ago, when upon reading a commentary written by yours truly over the air on WJNT 1180 AM, Central Mississippi's . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 31, 2004
President Bush is very vulnerable to the challenge of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, John Kerry. At this time, the polls show the damaging . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 18, 2004
The nation is not only in the grips of war, it is also in the grip of an election. It is only the middle of May, yet so many of the chattering class treat each . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 11, 2004
Rarely, if ever, has this space devoted any time to gratuitous name-calling and cavalier demonstrations against anyone or anything. But today will be different. . . .
Vincent Fiore
May 6, 2004
If you live in New York, as I do, you cannot help but be conspicuously aware of the nation's most "respected" journal, The New York Times.
Not just for . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 28, 2004
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." Bertrand Russell
The above words of deceased English mathematician and noted . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 20, 2004
For most of us, a typical day in America starts with just thumbing through the local paper.
If you're a typical reader, the headlines are the first thing that . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 13, 2004
Part two of the war in Iraq has begun, with American forces experiencing as some think, heavy casualties, meaning death. Former Baathist "deadenders," Islamic . . .
Vincent Fiore
April 6, 2004
Thursday, April 8, is the scheduled day for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to sit before the 9/11 Commission for what some feel will be an . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 29, 2004
Surely a sign of our times, the national media and by extension the 9/11 Commission have come to recognize the apology of bomb thrower Richard Clarke as the . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 23, 2004
"Maybe the socialist will get our troops out of Iraq and Al-Qaida will forget about Spain so we will be less frightened." This from a citizen of Spain who . . .
Vincent Fiore
March 16, 2004
Senator Kerry has lately taken to using a line that President Bush had used in early July of 2003 while taking questions from the White House press pool in the . . .
