Breaking the Nuclear Taboo
Unlike John Hinderaker, I would be very pleased if Obama expressed regret for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I don’t foresee this happening, but I am always amazed by people who just assume that leveling two...
Tagged: Obama
Pundits Don’t Understand Politics: Obama 1st Anniversary Edition
The HuffingtonPost today is chalk chock-full of Obama: What Happened? Bill Maher, Drew Westen, and Arianna herself get in on the act. To be fair und balanced for a second, there a number of...
Turn It Down
It’s not Obama’s fault that the Nobel Committee decided to award him the 2009 Peace Prize. Really, it’s not. In fact, I almost feel bad for Obama – he probably doesn’t deserve the resentment...
How do those Northern Europeans do it?
Responding to Ross Douthat’s latest column, Jamelle raises an interesting question: And finally, I wonder how Douthat explains away Northern Europe’s high economic growth rates and robust welfare states? I’m no economist, but I...
Another Conspiracy Theory Debunked
One odd off-shoot of the Obama conspiracy theory genre is the idea that former terrorist and academic celebrity William Ayers secretly wrote Dreams From My Father. I won’t blame you if you have no...
Threat Level Midnight
Daniel Drezner sounds the alarm over Obama’s dangerous protectionist tendencies.
The Speech
Well I listened to President Obama’s speech on NPR last night whilst playing with my daughter and Curious George. Suffice to say, I didn’t catch the entire thing, though what I did catch sounded...
obligatory reaction post on Obama’s healthcare address
To start things off, I should say that I’m not particularly sympathetic to the Dems’ lackluster efforts at healthcare reform. I’m willing to be persuaded that a robust public option would promote healthier outcomes...
the deception of dignity
“But it’s not right to end on a note of cultural pessimism because there is the fact of President Obama. Whatever policy differences people may have with him, we can all agree that he...
Some Home Truths About the Latest Iranian Revolution
I applaud Obama’s measured tone on Iran, but the public justification for this approach seems a bit thin. The most common explanation – he doesn’t want to inflame anti-American sentiment – is certainly plausible,...
a quote for the afternoon
“If Nixon could go to China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, which was a hundred times more brutal and appalling than anything we have seen in Iran over the last few days,...
over at Obsidian Wings
von uses the graph (below) to illustrate how horrible Obama’s projected deficits are compared to Bush’s then tries to act (in the comments) as though the cost of the two wars (or military appropriations)...
Diplomacy
I have my own issues with Obama’s recent appearance in Cairo, but one criticism I find rather baffling is that his speech implied moral equivalence between the United States’ actions and the policies of...
the devil we know
Blaise has a good, cynical take on the Cairo speech and the problems Obama faces sugar-coating State Islam:
a quote for a sunny morning
“An African-American President with Muslim roots stands before the Muslim world and defends the right of Jews to a nation of their own in their ancestral homeland, and then denounces in vociferous terms the...
a judicious quote
“I’ve only seen the headlines, but I expect all the clowns put on their clown suits this morning and are presently climbing out of their clown car at the studio. I’m thinking liberal, activist,...
a tale of two speeches
“Obama’s is the speech of a young senator who was once a part-time law professor–platitudinous and preachy, vague and pseudo-thoughtful in an abstract kind of way. […] He’s president. He’s not just a guy...
Get this man a blog
TAP’s Adam Serwer (emphasis mine): I don’t buy this framing. The fact is that there is no middle ground when it comes to due process. With his soaring and sincere rhetoric, the president has...
