Tag: Derangement
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Thank You, Mr. President, For Your Message to Kids
The kids just saw a highly accomplished black man, who lives with his wife and plays an active role in raising their delightful young children, tell students of all races that it’s important to stay in school and do their best. Any excuse for staging such an event is a good enough excuse for me.
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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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“Porkulus” Was a Travesty, but “Cash for Clunkers” is Kosher
I wasn’t aware of the “Cash for Clunkers” program until today, when they started talking about ending it prematurely because it was running out of money. I’m not in a position to take advantage of the program personally, but I’m glad that it looks like Congress will add more money to it. I think the […]
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“Obama Derangement Syndrome” May be Mutating; Taranto Gets a Sniffle
I’ve blogged before about Obama Derangement Syndrome, and its more prevalent predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. But the ODS virus now shows signs of mutating into a subtler strain. Let’s call it Obama-Euphoria Debunking Syndrome (OEDS). James Taranto, whose Best of the Web Today is the one blog I make certain to read every day, has […]
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VDH Describes Our Topsy-Turvy Times
Victor Davis Hanson is one of my favorite political writers. He brilliantly weaves together seemingly unrelated news events to describe patterns that others cannot yet see. I wish I had been aware of him on September 11, 2001, because he went into overdrive, producing 38 outstanding essays before the end of the year about the […]
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Conservatives Should Support Obama When He Gets Something Right
Parts of the right-o-sphere are all aflutter, debating whether President Obama deserves any credit for the rescue of a maritime hero held by pirates. It’s a reminder that Obama Derangement Syndrome is no more appropriate than its more wide-spread predecessor, Bush Derangement Syndrome. In The Corner, Jonah Goldberg piped up promptly and congratulated the President […]
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"Vets for Freedom" Offers a Template for the Loyal Opposition
Captain Pete Hegseth of the Minnesota National Guard was deployed in Iraq in 2005-06. After returning he helped found Vets for Freedom, whose mission is “to educate the American public about the importance of achieving success in these conflicts” in Iraq and Afghanistan. The group is officially non-partisan, but based on their mission, it’s not […]
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A Centrist Obama May Help Moderate the Democratic Party
Today’s edition of Obama Silver Lining Watch (hereafter OSLW) starts with a trip down memory lane. In my very first substantive post on this blog, way back in July 2008, I discussed how Obama was, inevitably, moderating his stance on multiple issues after finally knocking Hillary Clinton out of the race: But it turns out […]
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Gaza, and Obama Derangement Syndrome
Photo: Associated Press via Yahoo! News Caption: Muslim protesters wearing masks of, from left, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, take part in a rally against Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009. I didn’t vote for Obama, but I wish him […]
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Obama Silver Lining Watch (Gitmo Edition)
“The single best thing about the election of Obama may be that we now have a chance to view the terror threat without the distorting lens of Bush hatred.” So says Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush Administration, as quoted in a William McGurn column in today’s WSJ. The topic of […]