Here are some poll results that ought to set Obama’s teeth on edge: Americans are now pretty evenly divided about whether they would rather have Barack Obama or George W. Bush in the White House. 48% prefer Obama while 46% … Continue reading →
It should come as no surprise that: (1) Nothing was accomplished; except that… (2) Obama took the opportunity to snub a few allies; as well as… (3) “[P]utting on a clinic for some of the world’s greatest dictators in how … Continue reading →
The curious and troubling tendency of President Obama to use his communications and political aides as advisers on everything under the sun, including foreign policy, has been documented before. That wouldn’t be so bad if any of them had expertise … Continue reading →
I happened to catch David Remnick on television the other day pluggng his new biography of President Obama, The Bridge. It was the first time I’d ever seen New Yorker editor Remnick, and I was transfixed by the hushed and … Continue reading →
It may have slipped under your radar screen, as it almost did mine. But I was talking to a friend who owns a small home remodeling business and he reminded me that on April 22 (Earth Day!) new EPA regulations … Continue reading →
One of the memes the left is currently employing in response to criticism of Obama’s nuclear policies is some variation on the theme: “But Reagan wanted a nuclear-free world too.” Sure he did. Doesn’t everybody? But just because the two … Continue reading →
…expounds on the Obama Doctrine, and a few other things as well: Such a relief that we dodged that Palin-VP bullet in 2008. [NOTE: In the clip, Palin describes the Obama Doctrine this way (at 0:50-0:59: “coddling enemies and alienating … Continue reading →
In a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, President Obama had this to say in response to Sarah Palin’s criticism of his nuclear posture: The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues…What I would … Continue reading →
Charles Krauthammer lambasts Obama’s recent declaration of a new nuclear posture, repeating some of the main points from this already-discussed video. But in print Krauthammer adds the following illustration of how the policy of no-nukes for signers of the Non-Proliferation … Continue reading →
The answer is “yes,” if this report by Joshua Green at the Atlantic can be credited. I wondered about something similar last fall, in which I quoted this article by Charles Gasparino, who reported: I’m told that Treasury Secretary Tim … Continue reading →
Obama’s grandiosity continues. All of the stubborn world problems that previous presidents—Democrat and Republican alike, none of them possessed of his transformative and inspirational qualities—grappled with and yet were unable to solve, Obama will settle. Like, for instance, Palestine and … Continue reading →
This WSJ editorial (hat tip: expat) points out once again that Obama seems to have a knack for making enemies of former friends, the latest being Hamid Karzai. No one says Karzai’s an angel. But if Obama can figure out … Continue reading →