…and accuses Republicans of having created a “fictional Barack Obama.” And here I thought the post-modern narrative was everything, and that Obama had already created his own fictional Barack Obama, whose blanks we had been invited to fill in as … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Barack Obama has often been called an empty suit, but last night Clint Eastwood visualized him as an empty chair. A lot of people (including me) thought Eastwood would be giving a more conventional speech. But instead he came up … Continue reading →
Apparently not Obama. For all the furor about how Obama has the female vote, it turns out that women are hardly monolithic on that score, and that there’s a big divide between the married and the un. First, let’s look … Continue reading →
After I asked that question the other day about why so many people still consider Obama likeable, I remembered this article I wrote for PJ back in November of 2009. I thought it might be time to recycle it. Sort … Continue reading →
It comes as absolutely no surprise to learn that former president George W. Bush does not miss politics. In a recent interview he said: I crawled out of the swamp, and I’m not crawling back in. In general there are … Continue reading →
…every now and then it hits me again: how is it that so many people still see Obama as likable? Or even saw him that way in the first place? To me, it became clear early on in the 2008 … Continue reading →
Something’s been going on with the MSM lately. First it was the Boston Globe, criticizing Biden’s “chains” remark. Then it was Tina Brown’s Newsweek, publishing a Niall Ferguson cover story on why Obama needs to go. Then we got Politico‘s … Continue reading →
My oh my: Obama really doesn’t like, admire or even grudgingly respect Romney. It’s a level of contempt, say aides, he doesn’t even feel for the conservative, combative House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Hill Republican he disliked the most. … Continue reading →
…that we will have Joe Biden to kick around some more. I don’t think that was ever in doubt. In this particular case, I think Obama is telling the truth when he says he has no intention of getting rid … Continue reading →
Ever since Romney picked Paul Ryan as his VP, there’s been an awful lot of even-stranger-than-usual stuff coming from the mouths/pens/computers of Democrats. One of the oddest is a column by Maureen Dowd, which basically says that Ryan shouldn’t look … Continue reading →
…we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles?” asks Joe Biden. Nowhere, Joe, nowhere—because history tells us that we did do just that. Only problem is, it’s the 21st century now. I actually have some sympathy … Continue reading →