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Tag: Obama

  • Bush Punts Auto Bailout to Obama’s Team

    Color me unsurprised. The Bush administration said it would lend $17.4 billion to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, buying them a few weeks of financial relief but leaving the biggest decisions about the industry’s future to President-elect Barack Obama. Another WSJ article suggests, contrary to the opinion flagged by my new BFF Mickey Kaus, […]

  • The Perils of Participatory Democracy

    Over at change.gov, the President-elect’s transition website, the incoming administration is continuing its efforts to tap the power of social media. Yesterday this took the form of an “Open for Questions” tool that encouraged readers to submit questions and issues they believe the new president should address. Participation in Open for Questions outpaced our expectations, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Bragging Rights vs. Governing Rights

    Neo-neocon sparked a raucous conversation in the comments of a brief post about the followup to a mischievous Zogby poll that surveyed Obama voters about their level of knowledge of various statements, and reported that the Obama voters surveyed got questions wrong more often than if they had simply guessed randomly. I say it’s a […]

  • Reasons for Republicans to be Thankful

    Jennifer Rubin offers some Thanksgiving cheer at Pajamas Media. I don’t agree with every word of her post, but I love these parts: First, President-elect Barack Obama won by assuring voters he would pursue tax cuts, victory in Afghanistan, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and go “line by line” through the federal budget to […]

  • The Perils of Blogging

    Like many (most?) bloggers, I crave a bigger audience, and I thought I had found a gambit that might tempt James Taranto to link to me from his “Best of the Web Today.” Yesterday’s BotWT included one of his “Wannabe Pundit” items, quoting a journalist taking a pot shot at the Bush Administration in the […]

  • Obama Cyber-Ironies: The YouTube President May Give Up Email

    Yesterday, Barack Obama used YouTube to deliver the Democrats’ response to President Bush’s weekly radio address. Obama, who took full advantage of the power of the internet in his successful campaign, plans as President to transplant the weekly radio message onto YouTube. Today comes the revelation in the NYT that Obama, who like many hard-charging […]

  • Next Up: Obama Derangement Syndrome

    As I was writing yesterday about Bush Derangement Syndrome, Pajamas Media was preparing to post an article by Neo-neocon entitled “Avoiding the Clutches of Obama Derangement Syndrome.” Sage advice, as usual: Yes, there are reasons to fear that Obama has a far left agenda, based on his history, some of his own statements, and his […]

  • Bush Derangement Syndrome and the Surge

    Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary, does the best job I have seen of chronicling the sordid history of liberal opposition to the surge. For paragraph after relentless paragraph he replays the mockery from the left, from before the surge even started until long after its success was clear. Anti-surge rhetoric died down only when even […]

  • Evidence That Obama May Not Be a Socialist

    Here’s hoping that whatever socialist tendencies President-elect Obama may have will be tempered by recognition of the success of his remarkably entrepreneurial, decentralized campaign. Bret Swanson floats this idea in today’s WSJ (free link), in a piece headlined “Obama Ran A Capitalist Campaign.” Some excerpts: The results of Mr. Obama’s decentralized Web effort were staggering: […]