Tag: Bush
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Brush With Greatness: Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014
Professor Ajami never wavered in his belief that America made the right choice by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. I wholeheartedly share that viewpoint.
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On Reflection, I’m Surprisingly OK With Where Obama Is on Syria
Future presidents will also have to wrestle with how to make war against Middle Eastern terrorists and despots, and I’m thankful that Obama is helping to build a bipartisan history of asserting America’s strength.
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Obama’s “I Blame George Bush” Act Is Growing Old
More than 30 months into the era of Obamanomics, the administration is still desperately seeking to blame all of the nation’s woes on George W. Bush. They’re getting less and less traction with that argument — Obama’s approval rating just hit a new low of 40%, according to Gallup’s tracking poll.
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A Brief History of Presidential Betrayal, Through the Prism of Andrew Sulllivan
If Obama has lost Andrew Sullivan, has he lost the Left, the Right or the Center? For reasons that will become clear, I’ve been watching off and on to see what might happen when Obama does something that Sullivan perceives as a betrayal. The time may have come with Obama’s shocking decision to intervene in […]
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Mideast Uprisings Bode Well for Bush’s Freedom Agenda
The Washington Post has a helpful interactive map providing an overview of the ongoing unrest in a dozen countries throughout the Middle East, with tabs for Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Any of these uprisings could end badly of course, but the possibilities are exciting. Can there […]
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Hitler Comparisons are Odious, Whether About Obama or Bush
You may have seen and applauded the YouTube video of Barney Frank’s verbal smackdown of a twit who accused him at a town hall of backing Obama’s “Nazi” healthcare plan. I agree that Frank’s righteous put-down was well-executed, but I have to protest the notion that anti-Obama rhetoric represents a recent coarsening of the public […]
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R.I.P., President Obama’s Honeymoon
It’s been a while since I’ve updated the Honeymoon-Over Watch. According to David J. Rothkopf at Foreign Policy, this should be the last update needed: Mark it on your calendars. It was in June 2009 that Barack Obama’s honeymoon officially ended. And to be more specific, it was this past week. Through some mysterious alchemy, […]
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Iran Revolt Vindicates Neoconservative Ideals — and the Iraq War
(Welcome, GayPatriot readers) Since he turned against the Iraq War that he once championed, Andrew Sullivan has taken to using the term “neocon” as a curse word. “The neocon hope that Ahmadinejad keeps himself in power – barely disguised any more – seems to me premature,” Sullivan said a few days ago — while linking […]
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Here’s Hoping Iran is the Next Domino for Democracy
Pity the mullahs who cling to power in Iran. With budding (albeit flawed) democracies to the east and west, with tens of thousands of angry people protesting the tainted election of a figurehead, with web-savvy dissidents informing the world via Twitter, YouTube and Flickr — what’s a frightened theocrat to do? Here’s my favorite image […]
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American Ideals in Bush’s Third Term
President Obama sometimes sounds a lot like President Bush — and I mean that in the nicest possible way. Barack Hussein Obama, Cairo University, June 4, 2009: But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things:Â the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are […]