Tag Archives: Obama
Libya Leadership
Even Eugene Robinson is bewildered by the Libya Mission.
So what the hell are we doing? I realize that President Obama and his advisers have answered this question many times, but I feel it’s necessary to keep asking until the answers begin to make sense.
Centerpiece
“I’ve been struck by the speed and decisiveness of his move to the center,” Will Marshall, of the Progressive Policy Institute, said of Obama – in June of 2008! Now that he’s taken over health care, autos, and the internet, could Bam be at it again? Carl Leubsdorf, in the Dallas Morning News, says Democratic presidents have to move to the center to survive.
Wormhole
Sixties style future House leader, Don Draper, a.k.a. “John Boehner”, called the Democrats tax bill “chicken crap” (Politico). Meanwhile, the president is focused on saving us from having to “duck and cover” by pressing on with his New START Treaty (George Will, Washington Post).
Post Election Press Conference
To Doyle McManus, of the LA Times, this isn’t 1994 when Bill Clinton said of the voters, “They sent us a clear message. I got it”. In 2010 it was all Obama could do to walk back his Nixon-like comment that those same voters are “the enemy“.
