Cornel West has long been known to be a loose cannon, but this is pretty vile, even for him: Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but … Continue reading →
Obama’s Middle East speech (full text here) pays lip service to Assad of Syria needing to reform or quit, support for more rights for the Iranian people, and giving Egypt a financial break. I can’t quite imagine either Assad or … Continue reading →
Obama may not be spiking the football—but ever since the Bin Laden killing, have you noticed how much the left has been doing so? I’ve also observed a general increase in visitors from the left to blogs or periodicals on … Continue reading →
Compare and contrast.
Continue reading →Does anyone doubt for a moment how it would have gone down with the left had it been Bush instead of Obama as Commander-in-Chief of the mission to get Osama? Murderer of an unarmed man. Wimp who hesitated 16 hours … Continue reading →
It seems an absurd title for a post—of course he hasn’t won. The election’s a year and a half away. And yet I’ve been astounded at the number of people who say the election’s already over. From The View to … Continue reading →
Again, an excerpt from Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker piece on Barack Obama’s foreign policy: During the peak of the protests in Iran, Jared Cohen, a young staffer at the State Department who worked for Slaughter, contacted officials at Twitter and … Continue reading →
From this New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza: The two most influential foreign-policy advisers in the White House are Thomas Donilon, the national-security adviser, and Denis McDonough, a deputy national-security adviser. Donilon, who is fifty-five, is a longtime Washington lawyer, … Continue reading →
It began early in the Obama campaign. The way it went was this: Obama would make predictions about his opponents and insinuate their criticism of him would inevitably have racist roots (they’ll say “he doesn’t look like all those other … Continue reading →
Racism is so hard to find these days that it must be embedded, hidden, covert, indirect—that is, “coded.” So of course Donald Trump—who is many things, including a self-serving, narcissistic, publicity-hound—is of course a coded racist for questioning Barack Obama’s … Continue reading →
Well, Trump smoked it out: Obama’s long birth certificate finally sees the light of day. Why did it take so long? Simple. Prior to this, Obama felt that secrecy was to his advantage. The controversy merely made his foes look … Continue reading →
Commenter “Daniel in Brookline” calls Trump a gadfly. It’s a word I’ve thought of often in connection with him and the Obama presidency, one that was originally used by Socrates to describe himself. Here’s an explanation of what Socrates meant … Continue reading →