…throws Obama under the bus: Obama’s former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, has blamed the president for the chaos unfolding in Iraq. Time previewed Panetta’s upcoming memoir, Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War … Continue reading →
One of Obama’s biggest failings as president has been the rise of ISIS under his watch. He can blame it on George Bush, as is his wont, and some will swallow it. But it’s a little more difficult to do … Continue reading →
Andrew McCarthy says the Khorosan Group is not a separate entity at all. It’s just a useful construction, invented by the Obama administration for its own purposes: …[T]here is a purpose behind this dizzying proliferation of names assigned [by the … Continue reading →
Lately, Democrats have become much less happy with Obama. But don’t get too excited. They appear to be turning on him because he’s not liberal enough and/or competent enough in carrying out the liberal agenda. As the article so delicately … Continue reading →
Finally: Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce Thursday that he is resigning from the Obama administration, a Justice Department official confirmed to Fox News. That’s certainly a consummation devoutly to be wished. However, not so fast: The official said … Continue reading →
…criticizing what I consider to be Obama’s petty offenses. There are so many big ones to concentrate on instead. But there’s something especially galling about the latte salute, especially now, when he’s engaged in military action. Unintentional body language can … Continue reading →
Peggy Noonan thinks Obama’s problem is bad judgment: Mr. Obama can see the trees, name their genus and species, judge their age and describe their color. He absorbs data. But he consistently misses the shape, size and density of the … Continue reading →
The WaPo has been reporting on the fact that Obama and his generals are at odds over the conduct of the operation against ISIS. The conflict seems to be heating up (the war against the generals, that is, not the … Continue reading →
Roger Cohen describes the current state of affairs quite accurately, although I’m surprised to see his piece in the NY Times. However, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, because Cohen has been somewhat of a hawk post-9/11, and a columnist … Continue reading →
…are still grinding. Slowly. Very slowly. And Sharyl Attkisson, who’s been dogged in pursuit from the start, is still on the case: As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department … Continue reading →
After all this time has passed and I’ve written all these words on the subject, the spell Obama has been able to weave still puzzles me. I first noticed the phenomenon in early 2008, when an apolitical and very intelligent … Continue reading →
Foreign Policy eviscerates Obama’s (foreign policy, that is). Excerpt: …[U]nlike Bush, whose flaw-riddled first-term foreign policy was followed by important and not fully appreciated second-term course corrections, Obama seems steadfast in his resistance both to learning from his past errors … Continue reading →