Obama, Bush, and the pronoun “I”
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Osama, Obama, and Bush: the left’s double standard on terrorists
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 →
Has Obama already won in 2012?
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 →
What’s wrong with this picture #2?
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 →
What’s wrong with this picture?
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 →
Birther and “racism” exhaustion
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 →
Coded racism: get off the basketball court!
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 →
The long wait for Obama’s long form is over
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 →
Trump: Obama’s gadfly and jester
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 →
Obama and history: it depends on what the meaning of “always” is
A lot of attention was paid recently to Obama’s display of pique at interviewer Brad Watson, who had the temerity to ask the president a couple of slightly challenging questions on Monday. But far more interesting to me was another … Continue reading →
Who was Obama’s mother?
The NY Times features an article by Janny Scott, who’s written a book about Obama’s mother Stanley Ann Dunham. The article focuses on her sojourn with her son in Indonesia, occurring when Obama was 6 to 10 years old, and … Continue reading →
The suprise is not that Obama’s popularity is so low…
…it’s that it’s still so high. But the latest poll shows further erosion among a group he must win in order to have a second term: independents. His support among them is only 35%. The only problem for Republicans is … Continue reading →