Here’s an excerpt from a comment by “Wolla Dalbo” on yesterday’s post that I thought made some points well worth highlighting: I believe that in order to understand what is going on, we have to apply a model radically different … Continue reading →
Here’s an ominous (Obaminous?) video I first saw over at Atlas Shrugs: This, of course, is standard community organizing methodology. Note also the name of the group: “Organizing for America.” In the past, however, community organizing was limited to just … Continue reading →
There’s been some relabeling going on in the Obama administration. The “Global War on Terror,” a term criticized by the Left as too simplistic and truculent, and on the Right as too general and nonspecific, has been rebranded. The “solution” … Continue reading →
If even the previously Obama-besotted Tina Brown has begun to tire of the president, that’s news. Was it a mere two months ago, right after the inauguration, that Brown wrote this love note to Obama? Brown is not a deep … Continue reading →
It’s hard to know exactly what to think of this: …[T]he private-sector worries about the plans being cooked up by Geithner and Summers extend into countless corporate suites, start-ups, and small businesses far beyond Wall Street””and that until recently, the … Continue reading →
The friend is Chris Dodd, and the story is that, in order to protect Geithner and Obama, the administration threw Chris Dodd under that enormous bus that has come to shelter so many. The basic facts are fairly well known … Continue reading →
Or something like that. I’m talking about this: Le Figaro reports…that Obama sent the former leader of France [Chirac] a “very nice” letter, which included this idiotic comment: “I am certain that we will be able to work together, in … Continue reading →
It’s no secret that I’ve been critical of Barack Obama for much of his candidacy, and even more so during his presidency. But I honestly believe that, even back in my liberal Democrat days, I would not have drunk the … Continue reading →
Tigerhawk nails it.
Continue reading →President Obama’s Teleprompter dependence has become so extreme that the little gadget has decided to enter the blogosphere with its own tell-all story. Yes, it’s good for a joke or two. But more serious discussion of the Teleprompter reliance of … Continue reading →
I’d hardly gotten through lamenting the fact that Obama is a champion blamer of others—no “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his desk—when what do you know, right on cue, he comes out with “I’ll take responsibility. I’m the President.” … Continue reading →
Jay Cost is worried about Obama’s lack of bipartisanship: I am worried because I thought partisan reconciliation was an animating force of Obama’s candidacy, a big reason why he thought he—rather than one of the 306 million other Americans—should be … Continue reading →