Rightblogger reactions to Obama's Nobel Prize Speech are coming in: Since the President forthrightly defended his Afghanistan surge before the Peaceniks, they all loved it. Ha! Just kidding. They...
Continue reading "Rightbloggers Agree With, Denounce Obama Nobel Speech" > [...]As delivered this morning in Oslo, the president began by acknowledging “the considerable controversy” of his selection and discussed the idea of the justified use of force to protect the innocent and forestall greater violence. Full text after the jump.
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel [...]
Photograph of President Obama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Chairman of the Nobel committee Thorbjorn Jagland in Oslo, Noway by Bjorn Sigurdson/AP Pool
Today, President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize from the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. The committee's decision [...]
The homophobic Washington Times has been engaging in a Beckian witch hunt against Obama’s openly gay safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings. Most recently, it published an opinion piece that started out with a disclaimer, because it’s not that often that a major metro daily discusses fisting [...]
New York Times-watcher blog NYTpick.com raised an interesting point about the section of the Times' 2009 Holiday Gift Guide called "Of Color|Stylish Gifts," which draws "inspiration from the lives of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor" and includes gifts such as Baby' [...]
Today, at OpenLeft, Sirota says that we have been betrayed. A president who ran on allowing Americans, who pay the highest prices in the world for their Pharmaceuticals, to import cheaper drugs from Canada, now has made a statement that questions the wisdom of that position, citing the potential [...]
Some retirees kill time between Canasta games by moping around the house feeling sorry for themselves, but not former Vice President Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney. He swung by the Fox News clubhouse yesterday with some words of wisdom for our current President, calling his [...]
Obama wants us to lose. That’s why he refused to use the word “win” during his Afghanistan Speech. Apparently when he talked about wanting to “end this war successfully, that was liberal left-wing code for “losing.”
At the same time he was trying to lose the war in [...]
President Obama today threw his weight behind significant new transportation spending as part of a broad jobs bill taking shape in Congress, with $50 billion slated for transit, roads, bridges, and ports and the administration endorsing "merit-based infrastructure investment that leverages federal dollars."
In yesterday’s New York Times, there was an article about White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. In it, reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote: “When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers earlier this year, one participant said, she surprised them by suggesting the Obamas were planning a [...]
If ever you thought global warming was all about politics, yesterday’s actions by President Obama proved it. With no cap and tax agreement in hand, Obama had his EPA administrator declare Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous pollutant. This on the opening day of the Copenhagen Climate Summit. To recap, [...]
Saturday evening I attended an Eric Massa house party on the shores of the enchanting Keuka Lake. It was very well attended, with about 60 people there to listen to and support (for the most part) our congressman, who speaks truth to power in spite of the consequences. As per [...]
These days, there are three John McCains.
One is the pride-driven defeated presidential candidate who hopes Americans will compare him to President Obama and realize the error of their ways. Another is a true-believer neoconservative, dedicated to using his Senate perch to push for aggressive military efforts in Afghanistan, [...]
Hundreds of demonstrators protested over the weekend against the plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected 9/11 plotters in a Manhattan civilian court.
On Saturday, protesters rallied in Foley Square in front of the federal [...]
In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year. He also said that "after 18 months, our troops will begin t...
Continue reading "Obama's Afghan Surge Proves He's Trying to Lose, Say Rightbloggers" > " [...]Maybe this is why both Rep Massa and Rep Slaughter have come out strongly against the escalation in Afghanistan.
More brilliance from Frank Rich.
…The crucial passage came when Obama systematically tried to dismantle the Vietnam analogies that have stalked every American foreign adventure for four decades. “Most importantly,” [...]
