For many years Obama has carefully cultivated his history to assure that he remains a blank screen on which people can project whatever they want to see. For example, he is unique in being a Harvard Law Review President and … Continue reading →
The Onion could. But it doesn’t need to. Obama obliges by saying it himself. The subject matter is his recent trip abroad: I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from … Continue reading →
The Obama camp says the McCain campaign is wrong to accuse him of playing the race card in the following remarks Obama made while addressing a crowd in Missouri yesterday: Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer … Continue reading →
In recent decades, as the Presidential races have become more like advertising campaigns and less like contests about the issues, there’s been a great deal of attention paid to “acting Presidential.” Some of it is reasonable, an attempt to size … Continue reading →
Here’s Barack Obama a while back on the subject of state visits: “When Sen. Clinton brags, ‘I’ve met leaders from eighty countries—I know what those trips are like! I’ve been on them. You go from the airport to the embassy. … Continue reading →
I wonder whether Obama’s triumphal world tour isn’t going to backfire on him at home. If you read between the lines, it’s possible to come to the conclusion that the McCain campaign isn’t really comatose—or that it’s comatose like a … Continue reading →
John F. Cullinan of National Review points out that Obama is wrong in his characterization of present-day Belfast. Then Cullinan asks a question I think worth pondering, concerning Obama’s propensity towards such errors: Such carelessness with easily verifiable facts is … Continue reading →
I think Ann Althouse is definitely onto something, which is that Obama’s appeal has something in common with that of Princess Diana. Lest you think I jest, take a look at the quote she found at Deutsche Welle from a … Continue reading →
This is pretty funny: In a speech today presidential candidate Barack Obama maintained his steadfast disapproval of the D-Day landings of June 6th, 1944, despite the historical evidence of it as a smashing Allied victory over Nazi Germany. “Even knowing … Continue reading →
Here’s another fine quote, this one about Obama’s address in Berlin to mulitudes: “It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United … Continue reading →
Obama was arrogant to begin with, but it seems that the adulation he has gotten from the press and the public in his race towards anointment as Democratic Presidential nominee has driven him and his crew to new heights of … Continue reading →
Obama has long been trumpeting Afghanistan as the important front in this war, and so he has to keep on doing it. Going to Iraq and talking to Petraeus was a smokescreen; Obama knows much better than Petraeus what’s important. … Continue reading →