Obama’s French lesson
One of Krauthammer’s best.
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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 →
Obama and Afghanistan: making plans, faking plans, breaking plans
A man, no plan, a war, Afghanistan. That may not be a proper palindrome, but it describes the relation between President Obama and the Afghan War: According to McClatchy, some members of McChrystal’s staff said they don’t understand why Obama … Continue reading →
Obama and Guantanamo: promises, schmomises (and a case of utter incompetence)
Back during the campaign, Obama was fond of saying things like this during speeches, to thunderous applause, “Last point, Guantanamo. That’s easy. Close down Guantanamo.” Like so many things Obama thought in his pre-election arrogance, it hasn’t turned out quite … Continue reading →
Wishin’ and hopin’: when you’re reduced…
…to thinking your politician’s got a secret strategy that’s smart, instead of all the dumb things he’s actually said and done, then you’re in trouble. Note, also, the many disappointed and frustrated Obamaphile commenters who take heart from the same … Continue reading →
Sarkozy: mark him unimpressed with Obama
And here we thought Obama was going to make the Europeans love us again—for the first time since VE day, which was a temporary anomaly anyway. But no; French President Sarkozy is clearly alarmed at what he hears from the … Continue reading →
Iran and the West: the ruthless laugh at the weak, all the way to the enrichment facility
Does anyone else get the same feeling I do, that the Iranian leaders are toying with the West and its dialoguing hero Barack Obama, seeing their threats as just so much sputtering impotence? And should anyone with a functioning brain … Continue reading →