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Robert Weiner, NATIONAL PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND ISSUES STRATEGIST Bob Weiner, a national issues and public affairs strategist, has been spokesman for and directed the public affairs offices of White House Drug Czar and Four Star General Barry McCaffrey, the House Government Operations Committee and Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and the House Narcotics Committee, and was Chief of Staff for the House Aging Committee and Chairman Claude Pepper (D-FL). He also was Legislative Assistant to Ed Koch of New York and a political aide to Ted Kennedy (D-MA) for his Presidential and Senate races. Bob worked at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate as youth voter registration director in 1971-1972 when the constitution was amended to allow 18-year olds the vote. Since he left the White House in 2001, Bob heads up a public affairs and issue strategies company, Robert Weiner Associates. He is a regular political analyst on Radio America and has appeared on Bill Maher, CNN Crossfire, Today, Good Morning America, and the CBS, NBC, and ABC evening news. He is widely published in columns he writes on national issues in major papers throughout the country including recently the Washington Post, Denver Post, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Atlanta Constitution, New York Post, Washington Times, Sacramento Bee, Palm Beach Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Adweek. He is also regularly quoted in key media coast-to-coast, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, AP and Reuters, concerning the presidential campaign and national issues. OpEdNews Member for 941 week(s) and 3 day(s) 383 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 14 Comments, 3 Diaries, 0 Polls
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Friday, March 20, 2026Don't Bury This Headline: Trump Counterterror Head Says Iran "No Imminent Threat" as War Basis Donald Trump's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent, announced his resignation with a statement that Iran posed "no imminent threat" as a basis for war. The letter reminds us of chief UN weapons inspector David Kay's statements in 2004 as well as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in 2003 on mistakes made during the Iraq War.
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Sunday, March 8, 2026Long-Term Unemployment Adds to Jobs Crisis in Detroit The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in the BLS annual benchmark that only 181,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in 2025. Spread out over every state in the US over one year, that means that only approximately 300 jobs were added per state, per month. The virtually ignored issue is long-term unemployment, but it is the most painful to the workers and their families involved.
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Saturday, March 7, 2026Supporting Fulton County election process-WH & Gabbard claim of 2020 election fraud as though never investigated clearly "Every audit, every recap, every courtroom, has confirmed what we, the people of Fulton County, already knew -- our election was fair and accurate."
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Sunday, March 1, 2026Surgeon General Nominee Quacks on Measles, and Other Vaccines Casey Means' Senate testimony -- in which she insisted, "I believe vaccines save lives," despite a long record of anti"'vaccine statements -- underscores growing concern that the administration's new immunization policies are fueling a nationwide measles resurgence and undermining evidence"'based public health.
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Sunday, March 1, 2026Drug Policy Paradox: We pay the most to Columbia and Mexico. They do stop drugs but send drugs back, killing kids.
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Saturday, February 28, 2026Venezuela, Washington, and the Politics of Flattery If Washington allows its Venezuela strategy to pivot on praise rather than policy, it will not only risk miscalculation abroad. It will also reinforce a perception that American foreign policy is less a matter of national interest than of personal affinity.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026The White House's Recount of Jan. 6th: Orwell's 1984 "Doublespeak" in 2026? Americans can see and read Doublespeak, as outlined in "1984," is language designed to deceive, manipulate, and avoid accountability through ambiguity. In the novel, the Party uses slogans like "War is Peace," illustrating how doublespeak relies on authority to make lies sound official and credible. The Trump Administration uses this tactic in a way eerily similar to the authoritarian regime of Big Brother.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026The Dictator's Playbook Dictators do not fall because the world suddenly discovers its conscience. They fall when their pillars of power crack. When repression becomes unsustainable, when co"'opted elites turn away, or when their actions provoke forces stronger than themselves.
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Thursday, February 19, 2026SHOULD CLARENCE THOMAS STEP DOWN? The Court's Reputation and Future Would Be Helped Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's only, and arguably most important, legacy today isn't just his stoic originalist conservatism. Trailing behind him is his history of ethics violations and corruption.
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Sunday, December 14, 2025This not the right way to interdict the drugs that are killing Americans To bomb-to-kill the people on Venezuelan boats and threaten a land war appears to be an excuse to weaken and remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom the Trump administration dislikes. It has little to do with the drug issue, since Venezuela is a minuscule piece of the drugs issue.
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Friday, December 12, 2025It's Not Just Ukraine: Russian Drones are Stirring Fear across Europe As Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth year, Europe's wider security landscape is shifting at remarkable speed. Putin's regime responds only to strength. NATO must send a clear and unmistakable signal: Ukraine, and Europe as a whole, are not territories to be carved up by a tyrant in the Kremlin.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025Trump Could Use Senator Claude Pepper's Lend-Lease Model for Ukraine. Claude Pepper's leadership in rallying allies and securing supplies as one of Roosevelt's strongest supporters sets a powerful precedent for what President Trump should propose to finally end the Ukraine-Russia war.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025Thompson Doctrine for Corporate CEO's community responsibility: The New Senate Housing Bill Should be Applied While corporate profits and stock prices reach record highs, millions of Americans face the daily struggle of finding affordable housing and stability. Leading journalist and standard-bearer for economic justice issues Bankole Thompson, who is the founder and dean of the anti-poverty think tank, The PuLSE Institute, has urged the country's business leaders to confront this divide head-on.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025Trump's Dictator-Autocracy Diplomacy: Is Cost of His Middle East Deal a New World Order for U.S. with no Free World? In analyzing Donald Trump's dictator-autocracy diplomacy in achieving live hostage returns in Gaza, one must ask, is the cost of his Middle East deals a new world order for the U.S.? If it is, it could leave the free world weaker.
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Monday, November 3, 2025Two Separate Consecutive Votes: Off Ramp for Dems, Reps, and Trump to End Shutdown Both Democrats and Republicans in both houses of Congress are stuck -- blocked -- from doing anything to end the shutdown because of their positions. The answer -- used before when insoluble controversies have surfaced -- is TWO SEPARATE CONSECUTIVE votes.
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Monday, October 13, 2025What is the plan to prevent the national guard, ice, and others from 2026 voting intimidation? What is the plan by pro-democracy forces to prevent and protect against what many have said is the likelihood of Republican forces sending the National Guard and ICE to intimidate polling places and ballot boxes in 2026? That's the key question -- along with stopping them from gathering ballots after the votes.
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Friday, October 10, 2025What has Trump accomplished with his media dominance? Will it end? Events raise the question of whether Trump's media dominance is threatening free speech itself. It might be pushing the United States closer to where free speech becomes conditional and power dictates what voices are heard.
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Monday, October 6, 2025Unmoored: Trump's Neo-Isolationism and Beijing's Rising Tide The United States, then, faces an old choice in a newly perilous context: reassure allies with clear commitments and credible deterrence or watch Beijing continue to carve the region into spheres of influence one slice at a time.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025Claude Pepper's 125th Birthday -- Need His Courage Now On Social Security, Health Care, the Vulnerable As we celebrate Senator and Congressman Claude Pepper's 125th birthday this month (September 8), it is an impactful reminder of all the work Pepper did not only for for his Floridian community, but the nation's elderly population and people lacking equal rights. We need Pepper's courage now on Social Security, health care, and the vulnerable.
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Thursday, September 11, 2025Mamdani's Message: America's Largest City Can Be Affordable As November 4 approaches, Mamdani's lead in the polls makes him the clear frontrunner. If Mamdani wins, his agenda will test whether a major U.S. city can treat affordability as a public good. If he loses, his rise still proves that a clear and unapologetic anti-poverty message can mobilize people across age, class, and neighborhood lines.... Page 1 of 15 First Last Back Next 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 View All |
