There is that irony of a war president winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
It is beyond irony — beyond comprehension, really — that the prize was awarded to a man who has decided to overlook the crimes committed by those in government service who sanctioned torture.
President Barack Obama, in giving these [...]

What a disappointment President Barack Obama’s financial policies are. Wall Street reform hasn’t happened and while tens of millions of people are unemployed, Obama…has a meeting.
About 130 people were invited to yesterday’s gathering, which may mean that the meeting — a “jobs summit: — put a couple of caterers to [...]
A U.S. Army cadet reads a book entitled “Kill Bin Laden” as he waits with other cadets for U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver an address on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy [...]
As the American media / Obama lovefest continues, the rest of the worlds media isn’t falling for it. Der Spiegel has a blistering appraisal of your Presidents latest teleprompter reading.
Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic
Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false [...]
Just received my daily Smirking Chimp e-mail and the reviews are not good for President Obama's announced escalation. And I wonder if the Afghans were consulted. A sample:
Big night last night. The president's announcement of an escalation of the Afghanistan war managed to make few people happy. On the right, this can be explained -- to a large extent, anyway -- by kneejerk partisanship. For them, Barack Obama can [...] Well…… Maybe not.
Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric — and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught.
One can hardly blame the West [...]
I think this is a terrible decision:
In a room full of young Army cadets on the campus of the country’s oldest military academy Tuesday night, President Barack Obama took ownership of the Afghanistan war.
Obama announced to Americans in a primetime nationally televised address that he has ordered the deployment [...]