My Right Word (Free subscription) | yesterday
..the problem, of course, stems from Obama’s obsessive infatuation with that “God of Multilateralism,” an aversion to projecting American power, and a refusal to embrace (or even fake belief in) American exceptionalism. Then there is Obama’s adoption of unhelpful excuse-mongering on behalf of those anxious to be unhelpful (e.g., the Palestinians are like enslaved African Americans,...
The Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via Jennifer Rubin , Rasmussen reports : Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve as do 33% of unaffiliated voters. Eighty-three percent (83%) of Republicans disapprove. Among all voters, 54% now disapprove. Byron York takes...
Power Line (Free subscription) | yesterday
The email correspondence of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) continues to provide valuable insight into its efforts to "mainstream" the pro-mullah line. Jennifer Rubin has posted correspondence between the NAIC and Karim Sadjadpour (of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Afshin Molavi (of the New America Foundation). As she points out, Sadjadpour and Molavi are...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Newsweek's Howard Fineman thinks Barack Obama is a lot like Ronald Reagan. This humorously comes coincident with MSNBC's Chris Matthews declaring the current White House resident "Carteresque." Obviously they can't both be right, right? Of course not, for in the case of " Channeling the Gipper: For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan ," Fineman couldn't be more wrong (h/t Jennifer...
Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nice summary from Jennifer Rubin on Obama's first-year decline. Referring to remarks made by Mitt Romney, she writes:Well, that’s the preview of the 2012 race, which the not-yet-but-certain-to-declare Romney and other GOP challengers will make: Obama was a swell campaigner but lacked the gravitas and judgment to govern. After nearly a year of his rally-stuffed agenda, much huffing and puffing...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In an opinion section that practically bashes President Obama every day, how can Jennifer Rubin whine about Sarah Palin being bashed ("Pummeling Sarah Palin," PostScript, Nov. 16)? Most of the country thinks she's a joke, and, if she is going to p...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Had President Obama not claimed the Democrats’ “stimulus” would keep unemployment at or below 8%, he would not “own” the jobless rate so early in his term. But, now it’s his problem in more ways than one. ABC’s Rick Klein contends: “The administration asked for this — dare we say, literally asked for this — [...]
Theo Spark (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
While These Boys Are Working . . . . Your President's Betraying Them. Drink your coffee. Then read this from Biggovernment.com : Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama No, your hemorrhoid medication hasn't reacted with your Extenze . This is real. Big Government goes on: Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in...
Noteworthy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin asks the question that most folks want answered. "Obama was the subject of many a pundit’s admiration. So smart! So worldly! Harvard Law Review . And so eloquent. That his speeches upon further reflection were practically unintelligible or self-parodies (are we the ones we have been waiting for? are the oceans really going to recede?) didn’t much matter. He was so smart...
To God and my country (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Finally, someone is addressing the pertinent question about Obama : if he's so smart, why isn't he doing a better job? The assumption has always been that his Ivy League degrees and his inspirational speeches were all the proof anybody needed, but his thought processes have never impressed me. So much of what many find impressive strikes me as liberal cant. What I found intriguing from early in his...
Gus Van Horn (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Via Glenn Reynolds is a Jennifer Rubin piece that asks the question, "[I]f [Barack Obama's] so smart and well-educated, should't he have come up with something better than the stimulus boondoggle?" She gets frustratingly close to the right answer, but ends up whiffing: [F]inally, as Ronald Reagan said, "The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they are ignorant; it is that they...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
JENNIFER RUBIN: If Barack Obama is so smart, why isn’t he a better President? Generally, our smartest presidents — Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, for example — have been disappointments in office, haven’t they? As Jurgen learned, cleverness is not on top, and never has been.
The Sundries Shack (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin couldn’t be any more spot-on with this post on how South Carolina is loving lukewarm senior Senator less and less each day. This contradicts the favorite narrative of Democrats and their media handmaidens, namely that in order to stay relevant, Republicans must compromise with Obama, move leftward, and adopt policies at odds with conservative [...]
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
On Friday, the Washington Times' Eli Lake broke a story detailing the alleged lobbying activities of the National Iranian American Council. If proven true, the group's lobbying would be a violation of federal law. Ben Smith at Politico has dug deepeer to find that the liberal lobbying group J Street collaborated with NIAC on its pro-Iran agenda. "Participants in the discussions include NIAC as...
forward movement (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Jennifer Rubin at Commentary, channeling Bill Kristol, on the efficacy of “No.” If conservatives were at sea a few months back in the wake of defeat, trying to figure out who they were and what their agenda was supposed to be, that may be in part because the importance of saying “No” and what should be said “No” [...]
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