This hardly sounds like news: White House officials are retooling the administration’s communications strategy to produce faster responses to political adversaries, a more disciplined focus on President Obama’s call for “change” in Washington and an increasingly selective use of the … Continue reading →
Looking back, I am impressed by this column written by Tony Blankley right after Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, one very long/short year ago. It seems to have been keenly prescient. Note particularly the final sentence of the final … Continue reading →
…scary new levels of dissociation: I wonder whether he actually fails to realize he is describing himself. [hat tip: commenter Wolla Dalbo.]
Continue reading →If you want to follow the twistings and turnings of each, there’s this and this. The latter article seems to put all responsibility for the decision about KSM’s trial on Holder. I’ve always doubted such reports and continue to doubt … Continue reading →
This piece about the influence of Obama’s inner circle of Chicago-based advisers is good. But like many articles on the subject, it somewhat misses the point. Axelrod, Gibbs, Jarrett, and Emanuel are not just random aides who have led Obama … Continue reading →
Once more Obama poses as victim: it’s those mean old Republicans, out to get me! Obama is determined to paint the Republicans as the obstructionist bad guys, and he says it’s personal rather than about any sort of principle. If … Continue reading →
We spend an awful lot of time wondering what’s really going on inside Obama’s mind. What motivates him? Is he a committed ideologue or a front for something else? This comment by SteveG regarding Obama and Holder’s decisions in the … Continue reading →
We’ve been so focused on Obama’s domestic decisions and their terrible effects that it’s easy to forget how bad his foreign policy has been. But Charles Krauthammer is determined to make us remember what he refers to as “the depths … Continue reading →
In this post’s comment thread there was a discussion of whether President Obama is making some room under that crowded bus for his Attorney General Eric Holder. Jennifer Rubin has written a piece speculating that this might indeed be the … Continue reading →
Two links for your perusal: this and this. Perhaps you will agree with me that they are very, very disturbing. It has always been clear that Obama has an unusual amount of egotism, even for a politician. But these incidents … Continue reading →
Obama’s support is dropping among the independents of New Hampshire. This has become a general trend for Obama; the Scott Brown election polls and results showed the same precipitous decline among independents in Massachusetts, whose swing from Democratic to Republican … Continue reading →
It’s a small point; really very small in the larger scheme of things: President Obama mispronounced the title “Corpsman” several times at a prayer breakfast, saying “Corpse-man” instead of the proper “Core-man.” The usual suspects have criticized him for this … Continue reading →