Tuesday, November 3, 2009
"Ich bin beschäftigt"
Germany is the latest country President Obama seems intent on alienating.
He's too busy to go to Berlin for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
HT: Real Clear Politics
He's too busy to go to Berlin for the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
HT: Real Clear Politics
NYT notices that Iowa is souring on Obama
The New York Times- the Democratic Campaign Pamphlet of Record- has noticed that here in Iowa, where The One got his first big boost with his caucus victory over Hillary Clinton, people are starting to have second thoughts about President Obama.
HT: Drudge
HT: Drudge
Hilarious
It's a positive review, but I can't help but chuckle at the Chicago Tribune's attempt to make 'V,' which premiers tonight on ABC, into an anti-Obama parable.
Hello! It's a remake!
HT: Drudge
Hello! It's a remake!
HT: Drudge
Saturday, October 24, 2009
A deficit in leadership?
Back in 1960, an inexperienced and frankly unqualified playboy senator was opposed by an extremely talkative former Minneapolis mayor, an old line wheeler and dealer of a Senate Majority Leader, and a twice-defeated political dilettante from Illinois for the Democratic presidential nomination. We might well have wondered where all the great American leaders had gone.
Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.
David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Except that from the viewpoint of 2009, a choice between John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Adlai E. Stevenson doesn't look all that bad.
David Gergen thinks we have a deficit in leadership these days- that Americans just aren't producing potential presidents like we have in the past. I think he's wrong. Granted, we have a deficit in leadership in the White House right now. But I suspect that every generation wonders why the leaders who will look like giants to future generations don't measure up to those of the past.
HT: Real Clear Politics
Obama alienates France
French President Nicholas Sarkozy came to office as a vocal pro-American. But the incredible ineptitude of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy has needlessly alienated him, and caused him to recalculate his posture in the world.
HT: Drudge
HT: Drudge
Friday, October 23, 2009
Feeling blue over the demise of the purple Obama?
Tom Bevan has an interesting article over at Real Clear Politics on the contrast between the president Barack Obama said he'd be, and the president he's actually turned out to be.
Even more interesting is the number of Obamaphiles who- against all the evidence- continue to crow that their man is somehow trying to "bring us together."
Even more interesting is the number of Obamaphiles who- against all the evidence- continue to crow that their man is somehow trying to "bring us together."
Thursday, October 22, 2009
'Immature and thin-skinned'
The San Diego Union Tribune has editorialized that the Obama administration's Alinskyite war on Fox News brands it as "immature and thin-skinned."
HT: Real Clear Politics
HT: Real Clear Politics
Olbermann busted!
Meanwhile, Ann Coulter has busted Keith Olbermann for using a phonied-up version of Bush 41's "Willie Horton ad" to support his scurrilous claim that it was racist.
The actual ad never mentioned Horton's race, and never showed his picture. Moreover, all the "criminals" in the ad were white. But Olbermann used an altered version of the ad containing a picture of Horton to make his argument about how terribly racist conservatives are.
HT: Drudge
The actual ad never mentioned Horton's race, and never showed his picture. Moreover, all the "criminals" in the ad were white. But Olbermann used an altered version of the ad containing a picture of Horton to make his argument about how terribly racist conservatives are.
HT: Drudge
On the other hand....
...no sooner has POTUS given the word chutzpah a new definition by claiming that Republicans "do what they're told" and Democrats "think for themselves" than his press secretary threatens to go him one better.
Mr. Gibbs calls President Obama's indecisiveness about Afghanistan "his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform," while claiming that Dick Cheney failed our men and women in uniform by not being "focused" on Afghanistan during the previous administration!
I think it was Goebbels who said that the more outrageous the lie, the more people will believe it. Certainly that principle seems to be animating the administration these last couple of days!
Mr. Gibbs calls President Obama's indecisiveness about Afghanistan "his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform," while claiming that Dick Cheney failed our men and women in uniform by not being "focused" on Afghanistan during the previous administration!
I think it was Goebbels who said that the more outrageous the lie, the more people will believe it. Certainly that principle seems to be animating the administration these last couple of days!
Democrats do what!?
Hey. Listen for yourself. If I hadn't heard it with my own ears...
There is a marvelous Yiddish word- chutzpah- which is classically defined as that quality exhibited by a man who murders both of his parents and then pleads for mercy on the ground that he's an orphan. For any Democrat to make the claim for the members of his or her party that the president makes in this clip gives the word a whole new definition!
HT: Drudge
There is a marvelous Yiddish word- chutzpah- which is classically defined as that quality exhibited by a man who murders both of his parents and then pleads for mercy on the ground that he's an orphan. For any Democrat to make the claim for the members of his or her party that the president makes in this clip gives the word a whole new definition!
HT: Drudge
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The lies of Michael Moore
The pattern of dishonesty in Michael Moore's "documentaries" isn't nearly as well known as should be. It's amazing, for example, how few people realize that the wonderful health care system he attempted to pass off as available to everyday Cubans in Sicko is in fact available only to foreigners and members of the Cuban Communist party.
Dan Gifford provides an opportunity for you to educate yourself regarding Moore's habit of fictionalizing the truth.
Dan Gifford provides an opportunity for you to educate yourself regarding Moore's habit of fictionalizing the truth.
Time is running out for Obama and his media posse
Steve Huntley of the Chicago Sun-Times has figured out that the Obama administration and its acolytes in the media can only blame George W. Bush for its own shortcomings for so long- and that the excuses are already wearing thin.
Rich Lowry of the National Review makes pretty much the same point.
HT: Drudge,
Real Clear Politics
Rich Lowry of the National Review makes pretty much the same point.
HT: Drudge,
Real Clear Politics
Jews banned from Comen Breast Cancer Conference
The Susan G. Comen Breast Cancer Conference is about to convene in Alexandria, Egypt.
No Jews are allowed.
Israeli doctors were told on short notice that their registrations had been canceled.
Cancer is a terrible disease. So is religious bigotry. The Comen Foundation- an American group- should insist that the restriction be removed, or else cancel the conference.
HT: Flo Johnson
No Jews are allowed.
Israeli doctors were told on short notice that their registrations had been canceled.
Cancer is a terrible disease. So is religious bigotry. The Comen Foundation- an American group- should insist that the restriction be removed, or else cancel the conference.
HT: Flo Johnson
Monday, October 19, 2009
Krauthammer strikes back
Charles Krauthammer answers the Administration's attacks on Fox News- and White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's statement that she was joking when she called Mao one of her favorite political philosophers.
Hmmmm, Mr. Axelrod?
Fox's John Gibson asks what, if- as the White House suggests- Fox News is not a real news organization, MSNBC is.
Good question:
Good question:
Maybe this lady should just shut up
White House Media Director Anita Dunn- who boasts that Mao Tse Tung, the greatest mass murderer in history, is one of her "two favorite political philosophers-" herein admits that rarely if ever during the 2008 campaign did the media get to cover any Obama story that the campaign didn't "control."
HT: Drudge
HT: Drudge
