It is Your War, Mr. President

The natural trait of a politician is to hedge his bets, to obscure his positions, to hide his true beliefs.   Obama has mastered the political.    As opposed to mere a politician, a leader needs take a stand, be clear about

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• YET MORE FT HOOD: Let’s have a look at the comments of Steve Hayes from last Night’s Brett

I know legend has that the American writer Edgar Allan Poe died a drunk on the streets of Baltimore in 1849.

Yet in the spirit of first Ronald Reagan, and now Jake Tapper, trust but verify, can we be so

Steve Benen:

WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?…. Yesterday’s White House press briefing was pretty lively, with, as one might imagine, plenty of questions about the Nobel Peace Prize. CBS News’ Chip Reid’s interests stood out, but not in

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• UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.8%: That’s far worse than was estimated… about double, in fact. And if you count those who have simply giving

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters,  to needs lay off the Jim Jones Kool-Aid:

A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this

That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.

I’ve

I notice, by way of Fox news and a few other places, that both John McCain and President Obama have delivered speeches on this Fourth of July, that sound on similar themes.

I suppose these kind of platitudes are to

The polite leftist explanation for Obama’s lack of serious response to the events in Iran has been that such a response would allow Iran’s tyrannical leaders to blame the United States for the revolution currently occurring there.  There’s only one

In the Syracuse Post -Standard today:

The crowd greeted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with cheers and applause as she hoped out of her SUV and climbed in the back of a 1959 Cadlilac to start the Founder’s Day parade today

One of the most important, yet most frequently violated, laws of punditry is that your own priorities and preferences aren’t always relevant. I would love it if the GOP dedicated itself to cutting government by two-thirds, leaving only a minimal

If Orrin Hatch is right, the Obamatards are keen on slipping through a  Supreme Court justice before she can get vetted by the public, Manu Raju and Johnathan Martin, P0litico:

After talking to President Barack Obama on the phone

The LA Times is reporting:

Jack Kemp, the all-star college and pro quarterback who went on to serve nine House terms, as secretary of Housing and Urban Development and as Robert Dole’s VP running mate on the 1996 Republican

Obama the unlearned one  traveled to Europe to tell the unwashed masses that his fellow American were ‘arrogant’. Philip Sherwell, Telegraph (UK):

His references to American “arrogance” and its “dismissive” attitude were viewed by some commentators as an unwarranted attack

The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes.   Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so

Ronald Reagan

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

So it appears that one, of the multitudes, of analogies Barack Obama makes to past presidents one is at last true, Rick Moran, American