Voting for Nothing For the Last Time
We get from the Democrats a not-so-polite “no,” with a hint of self-righteous anger and condescension, when we dare demand better from them.
Tagged: Obama
Biden Sings Same Song, Second Verse
Democratic primary frontrunner Joe Biden was unveiling his healthcare proposal, and the tagline he laid on folks sounds strangely familiar.
Washington Post: Watch Obama defend a Trump supporter’s rights at a Clinton rally
“Hold up, hold up, hold up,”
Jeffrey Goldberg: The Obama Doctrine – The Atlantic
If you are a supporter of the president, his strategy makes eminent sense: Double down in those parts of the world where success is plausible, and limit America’s exposure to the rest. His critics believe, however, that problems like those presented by the Middle East don’t solve themselves—that, without American intervention, they metastasize.
Predicting Judicial Greatness in A Theoretical Justice Barack Obama
Were a hypothetical President Hillary Clinton to nominate him to the Supreme Court, would Barack Obama’s service as President be reason to foresee that he’d become one of the great Justices on the Supreme Court? What about his lack of prior judicial experience or his lack of scholarly publications?
Charlie Savage on Obama’s evolving thinking on terrorism
A must-read interview with author and NYT reporter Charlie Savage on President Obama and terrorism, by OT alum Elias Isquith.
Mount Rushmore – Mount Rushmore Edition
No, we’re not getting meta. Worse. We’re talking Presidents…
Democrats need to get out of the Republicans’ way
It might not look like it, but Democrats are losing the government shutdown debate. The closer Congress gets to a deal, the less space there’ll be to negotiate when the next budget crisis comes knocking.
The President Goes Prime Time on Syria: Initial Reactions
An open thread on the President’s remarks on Syria and where the crisis currently stands.
A President Adrift, a Politics Without Focus
David Atkins confronts the aimlessness of Obama’s presidency and finds no one to blame but the President himself
The President Head Fakes on Lethal Drone Strikes and the War on Terror
Nothing in the President’s speech hasn’t been said before, and with much more force and a greater sense of commitment. His sprawling meditation on the threat of terrorism was less a grand vision for...
The Obama Doctrine Reborn
No Driving Blind today. Instead, everyone should take some time to read and consider the President’s speech on foreign policy from earlier. Full remarks below,
Everything Amitai Etzioni Gets Wrong about Liberals, Libertarians, and Drones
There I was, enjoying some left-over pasta and a diet Canadian Dry on my lunch break. “Time to read something,” I thought. So I browsed my favorites tab in search of something meaty to...
America’s Back, Baby!
In the context of my other post on Sullivan I wanted to highlight something else he penned recently:
Fun Constitutional Facts: Gun Rights Edition
The words “regulate” and “regulated” appear three times in the Constitution’s current text. Here they are: Article I, Section 8: “The Congress shall have Power…To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,...
Obama’s Rhetoric Continues to Lose Altitude
Doug Henwood summarizes an important decline in the reading level of State of the Union addresses,
The Second Inaugural: A Big Speech
[A little late to post this, I know, but I just realized I had not shared it with the League when I first wrote it. — EI] I don’t know what I expected to...
Professors Propose New Propaganda Strategy to Complement Obama’s War of Drones
At the Atlantic, an article by three professors was published which sought to examine the claim that “Pakistanis all hate the drone war.” For someone like me this is a useless bit of analysis. Indeed,...
How ACORN Stole the 2012 Election
NYRB‘s Mark Danner has a nice retrospective on the election (remember that?) that takes a view of the country both high and low. There’s a hefty dose of the What It All Means pontifications...
