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Tag: Obama

  • Conservative Paper Debunks Claim That Obama Delayed Piracy Mission

    Bill Gertz’s conservative credentials are pretty convincing.  He is a star reporter for the conservative Washington Times, an analyst with Fox News, and the author of the 2008 book The Failure Factory: How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats, and Big Government Republicans Are Undermining America’s Security and Leading Us to War. Not a lefty.  Here’s the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Obama’s Not-So-Invisible Hand

    Now that the Automaker-in-Chief has fired the CEO of General Motors and instructed Chrysler to sell itself to Fiat by the end of April,  he’s turning his attention to a variety of other essential American industries, from blue jeans (“Levis yes; Wrangler no”) to toothpaste to ballpoint pens.  President Obama also graciously acknowledged the important […]

  • Slouching Towards Europe: Obama’s Domestic Agenda Undercuts American Exceptionalism

    I’ve been pleasantly surprised by President Obama’s steadfastness regarding national security issues.  After winning his party’s nomination by promising to surrender in Iraq more quickly than the other Democrats would, Obama has: retained his predecessor’s defense secretary; adopted his predecessor’s timetable for responsible disengagement in Iraq; supported his own rhetoric about the importance of Afghanistan […]

  • Current Recession Not (Yet) As Bad As 1982

    After repeatedly invoking the specter of the Great Depression to frighten the public into supporting the “stimulus” bill, the Obama administration has moderated its rhetoric. Professor Mark J. Perry of the University of Michigan offers statistics to show just how inappropriate it is to even talk about comparisons with the Depression: The chart above shows […]

  • Freeman Screed Shows America Dodged A Bullet

    Chas Freeman — who would have been in charge of producing policy-neutral reports synthesizing the findings of America’s 16 intelligence agencies — described the opposition to his appointment thusly: The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the […]

  • Freeman Withdraws, And He Finally Makes Page 8

    On page A8 of the New York edition, today’s New York Times finally publishes its very first article about Charles Freeman, after nearly two weeks of blogospheric controversy that was severe enough to scuttle the nomination, but not severe enough to attract the attention of the mainstream media. The Times reports: WASHINGTON — Charles W. […]

  • Obama Honeymoon-Over Watch: Jon Stewart and Chas Freeman

    I’ve been neglecting the “Honeymoon-Over Watch” category of my blog because the notion of “watching” for something implies infrequent sightings, not a target-rich environment. The media certainly has not been hounding Obama as mercilessly as it did his predecessor, and I’m quite confident that will never happen. But the stimulus fight and economic news have […]

  • Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You So

    President Bush salutes in front of General David Petraeus and Admiral William Fallon, September 2007, in Iraq President Obama today announced an Iraq withdrawal plan that George Bush would be proud to call his own. Actually, it IS Bush’s own. Don’t be fooled by the lawyerly language in his pledge to complete “the responsible removal […]

  • Murdoch Apologizes for Cartoon But Says it Was Not Meant to be Racist

    I’m not a big Rupert fan, but I think he got it exactly right. I’ve been involved in a lively debate over this at Conservative Black Woman’s site, btw, if anyone is interested… check the comments.