In an article titled "Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage," Der Spiegel sums up President Obama's Asian trip as a complete failure:
Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. [...]
Barack Obama's narcissism has frequently been commented upon, but Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting and potentially important observation:
I think Obama's "charisma" was based on voter narcissism -- people excited not just about electing a black President, but about themselves, voting for a black President. Now that's over, and they're' [...]
Yesterday, John was kind enough to link to, and quote from, my Examiner column called "Why Does He Hate Us?" Here, with your indulgence, is the whole thing.
On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not [...]
As Barack Obama's presidency stumbles through its first year, some of his supporters are wondering what ever happened to the "No Drama Obama" of those heady days of the campaign. For example, Steve Clemons, unhappy about the demise of ultra-liberal White House Counsel Greg Craig, writes that Craig's' [...]
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania last year during the campaign, Barack Obama addressed the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision granting Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement through habeas corpus proceedings in federal court. Obama asserted that the "principle of habeas corpus, that a state can't just" [...]
Barack Obama: you can dress him up, but you can't take him out. Every time he goes abroad, he embarrasses himself and sells out his country.
In Japan today, Obama gave a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama. He was asked this question, for which he was unaccountably unprepared:
And to' [...]
We criticized Barack Obama when he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia. Americans do not bow to royalty. When the royal is the ruling tyrant of a despotic regime, the wrong is compounded. Obama's bowing to the King was deeply offensive.
When the story emerged from the shadows' [...]
Professor Paul Rahe writes to comment on President Obama's remarks on the occasion of the festivities in Berlin yesterday:
In yesterday's post, I failed to anticipate Barack Obama's cleverness. He did appear in Berlin -- metaphysically, if not physically. He did not honor our allies with his presence. He [...]
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue:
Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro's island hellhole from inside Cuba, using [...]
Stephen Hayes invokes Jeane Kirkpatrick's classic 1979 essay on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy in his his Weekly Standard article of the same title on Barack Obama's foreign policy. Hayes updates the the continuing saga of the Obama administration's appeasement of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By contrast with [...]
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting | NBC ChicagoPresident Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people work there.
The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to [...]
Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama's close friend, spiritual mentor and pastor for twenty years. Obama finally jettisoned Wright during the campaign, but Wright has refused to go away. Now we have a video of Wright giving a speech recently to a group hosted by Monthly Review, a socialist magazine, that [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday invoked the state secrets privilege in connection with a case titled Shubert, et al. v. Barack Obama, et al.. The Shubert case is pending in federal district court in San Francisco. Assuming the court agrees with the Obama administration's position, the case will be dismissed [...]
No wonder the SEIU's thugs are so enthusiastic. They're protecting their bosses' investment.
[...]Ooops; I forgot. We're not even going to be allowed decent lighting much longer....
Thomas Sowell reflects upon the state of the state.
Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated [...]
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