Nobel Committe is at least honest about its motives: to manipulate Obama
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Obama, Iran, and reading the tea leaves
I’ve got this article up today at Pajamas Media, on Obama and Iran. Of course, it was written before the Nobel Peace Prize news trumped just about everything else. But in the end, Iran will matter a great deal more, … Continue reading →
April Fools Day comes early: Obama gets the noblest Nobel of them all
My first reaction was to check my calendar when I heard the news that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. But since it stubbornly remained October 9 rather than April 1, and the TV I turned on insisted … Continue reading →
Reagan and Obama: shining America, sinning America
What makes Obama tick?. Read the whole thing. [NOTE: Moved up from yesterday.]
Continue reading →Obama and the Generals: decison-making on military matters
Presidents are civilians, but they are also Commanders-in-Chief. Generals advise them in times of war, but there is an inherent conflict present in the relationship. The buck stops on the president’s desk. But especially when he has no military experience … Continue reading →
Obama’s French lesson
One of Krauthammer’s best.
Continue reading →Blame it on Rio
It’s official: Rio in 2016 for the Olympic Games. When I first heard the news that President Obama was flying to Copenhagen to plead that Chicago be tapped as the venue for the 2016 Summer Games, I was flabbergasted. Despite … Continue reading →
Reagan on oration
Here’s one of the many differences between Obama and Reagan, both considered effective orators. In Reagans’ farewell speech he said: And in all of that time I won a nickname, “The Great Communicator.” But I never thought it was my … Continue reading →
Ignoring the financial experts: where have you gone, Larry Summers?
With all the news swirling around lately it seems that Obama’s approach to the financial crisis, a topic that was the main focus of the early months of his presidency, has gone on the back burner. But as his more … Continue reading →
Obama and Hillary: the spider and the fly
I’m not a Hillary Clinton fan. But I must say she has surprised me with the depth of her subservience to the Obama foreign policy vision, and her ability to compromise whatever integrity she might have had left as she … Continue reading →
Halloween comes early: the Obama mask
Watch this; it’s spooky-scary. Obama’s fixed smile is described thusly (the nearly-fixed head position, which in my opinon is even more revealing, is not specifically mentioned): Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a … Continue reading →
Victory: Obama’s football metaphor
Obama has an interesting take on the idea of victory. Watch (and by the way, kudos to the journalist asking the question): To hear this question and then go immediately to a sports metaphor is surpassingly strange, and deeply revealing … Continue reading →