One of Obama’s biggest boosters, Eleanor Clift of Newsweek, bemoans the fact that somehow, the great articulator/communicator/orator has failed to clarify his economic policy. Oh, if only he could explain to the slow-on-the-draw people the big picture—which is, which is…what, … Continue reading →
Today I started writing a long piece on Obama’s speech on immigration reform. It was half done—and then a profound weariness overtook me. So here, you read the text of his address, or take a look at a summary. Because … Continue reading →
I didn’t say it—Kathleen Parker did. And she thinks it may not be a bad thing: It isn’t that [Obama] isn’t “cowboy” enough, as others have suggested. Aren’t we done with that? It is that his approach is feminine in … Continue reading →
A deeply disappointed Obama supporter, Bob Herbert has been focusing on the jobs problem for quite some time now, and he continues the same message in his latest column. I was especially interested in this comment to his piece [I’ve … Continue reading →
Here’s Mark Steyn’s succinct take on McChrystal’s plight: Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be … Continue reading →
Another must-read column by Victor Davis Hanson. And, on a slightly different (although related) topic, here’s an interesting comment to the Hanson piece, from Jason S. on June 24 at 11: 32 AM. Its subject is political change, and it … Continue reading →
A few new and interesting tidbits on the decision process: (1) it was made quickly, in near-record time for the usually Hamlet-like Obama (2) Secretary of Defense Gates initially advised against it, because he believed that McChrystal was vital to … Continue reading →
Well, I’ve read the article that may be the undoing of General McChrystal’s military career, and perhaps even the Afghan war itself [I wrote that sentence before I saw the breaking news that McChrystal is gone and Petraeus has been … Continue reading →
Funny thing, isn’t it, how quickly McChrystal was summoned for a White House audience for his insubordination, whereas back when the president was mulling over the Afghanistan troop request, McChrystal could barely get a word with his commander-in-chief? The following … Continue reading →
General Stanley McChrystal, top guy in Afghanistan, was summoned to the White House with some splainin to do after an incendiary piece appeared in Rolling Stone in which the general and his aides criticized the US ambassador to Afghanistan, as … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez speculates on the news that Rahm Emanuel is planning to leave the White House by the end of the year. As with most administrations, the true story of the inner workings of Obama’s has yet to be told, … Continue reading →
Isn’t it interesting how those defending Obama seem to have come down for the most part to the repetition of a single assertion: “Bush did it, too!” Their statement isn’t even necessarily true, although sometimes it is. Nor is the … Continue reading →