Obama acknowledges the frustration Americans are feeling. —But he thinks it is free-floating anger at government in general, and that his administration just happens to be the target of the moment. He understands that people feel “remote and detached” from … Continue reading →
Quoth Obama: “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” the president said in an exclusive interview with ABC … Continue reading →
Mort Zuckerman, head of US News and World Report and the New York Daily News, endorsed, supported, and voted for President Obama. That was then. This is now. I’ve read a number of pieces by former Obama supporters, but I’ve … Continue reading →
Here’s what the unions stand to get—their money’s worth, if seems—if Obama and the Congressional Democrats have their way with the health care “reform” bill. Never was a piece of legislation given such an Orwellian descriptor. Obama promised to change … Continue reading →
Charles Krauthammer reflects on Obama’s first year. A few highlights of the article [emphasis mine]: The health care drive is the most important reason Obama has sunk to 46 percent. But this reflects something larger. In the end, what matters … Continue reading →
…about Obama’s foreign policy in the midst of such pressing domestic issues. But John Bolton is here to remind us, and it’s not a pretty picture. [ADDENDUM: This should also be a big, big story, although health care reform seems … Continue reading →
Most people now recognize that Obama has been lying about a lot of things. But it’s often said that’s just business as usual for politicians, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is being naive. Blogger Richard Fernandez of Belmont Club, … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →So, is the breaking of Obama’s well-known and oft-repeated C-Span promise, and his concomitant refusal to address that fact, a function of his contempt for the American public? Is it his idea that the majority of Americans won’t notice or … Continue reading →
None. Good old Andrew Sullivan is on the case of those who saw this official White House photo of Obama as condescending and arrogant: Obama’s supporters see the pose as James Bondish—although I can’t see how that would eliminate arrogance; … Continue reading →
Krauthammer gets it, Obama doesn’t: Obama reassured the nation that this [Knickerbomber] “suspect” had been charged. Reassurance? The president should be saying: We have captured an enemy combatant — an illegal combatant under the laws of war: no uniform, direct … Continue reading →
Shelby Steele writes another impressive article about President Obama. In it, he offers the following analysis: Mr. Obama won the presidency by achieving a symbiotic bond with the American people: He would labor not to show himself, and Americans would … Continue reading →