What the White House Really Thinks
Much has been written and said about the astoundingly tone deaf performance of White House spokesman Jay Carney during this past month of scandals. The former journalist has lost the confidence of the...
View ArticleObama Goes from Lincolnian to Carteresque
The November 7, 2008 broadcast of PBS’s Charlie Rose featured a conversation with David Remnick of the New Yorker and historians Alan Brinkley and Michael Beschloss. “The extraordinary outpouring of...
View ArticleIs Benghazi Taking Its Toll on Hillary Clinton’s Poll Numbers?
In discussing Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential prospects, media commentators have made a common and constant error, which I tried to point out repeatedly. They noted Clinton’s high approval ratings...
View ArticleNYT to GOP: Remember Monica Lewinsky
On Wednesday I mentioned the possibility that President Obama will be treated as though his name is on the ballot in 2016 even though he won’t be running–much the way Obama himself ran against George...
View ArticleNATO Libya Follow-up Long Overdue
The Wall Street Journal has a rather startling report today about Libya: NATO is considering sending a training mission there to improve the quality of Libya’s security forces. The need for such a...
View ArticleSusan Rice’s Consolation Prize
The news that Susan Rice will be named to replace Tom Donilon as President Obama’s national security adviser is not surprising in the least–indeed, it was close to a sure thing as soon as Rice’s name...
View ArticleThe Growing Stench of Corruption
Two new polls–one from Bloomberg National Poll, the other from the Wall Street Journal/NBC News–show a clear erosion in the public’s trust in Barack Obama’s honest and integrity. Nearly half of those...
View ArticleObama Can’t Be Trusted with Power
I agree with Jonathan’s post both in terms of substance and the media response to the NSA/surveillance stories. On the former: the PRISM program, in the right hands and used with discretion, can be...
View ArticleA Syria Policy Clear as Mud
The administration is now in the tenth month of its Benghazi investigation, with no signs of it ever ending. Nine and a half months ago, President Obama told the UN the Benghazi attack was an “assault...
View ArticleBenghazi’s Legacy in Iraq
The September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was a preventable tragedy. The blame for Stevens’s death lies with the terrorists that...
View ArticleIf Benghazi’s No Scandal, Why a Cover-Up?
President Obama has been a broken record lately claiming over and over again that Republicans are promoting “phony scandals,” the chief of which is the effort to keep asking questions about the...
View ArticleDelaying Justice in Benghazi
President Obama has been getting unwarranted criticism for over-reacting to a terrorist threat by closing U.S. embassies across the Middle East last week (all but the embassy in Yemen have since...
View ArticleBenghazi Scapegoats Reinstated
In May, Senator Rand Paul criticized the Obama administration’s lack of discipline over the attack on the American mission in Benghazi. In particular, Paul claimed that “no one was fired.” Was that...
View ArticleThe Me, Myself, and I President
With Barack Obama, it’s always all about him. Asked at his early August press conference why there has been so little progress in getting the perpetrators of the Benghazi massacre after eleven months,...
View ArticleMore Than Memorials Needed on 9/11
The 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was commemorated with solemn ceremonies throughout the nation with special focus on those in New York and Washington. Names of the victims were read aloud....
View ArticleWill Biden Strike Back at Hillary on Terror?
Most of the early focus on the 2016 presidential election has been on the Republicans as a gaggle of potential first-tier contenders maneuver for position. But those who thought the cheap shots would...
View ArticleNew Benghazi Information, Same Story of Clinton’s Incompetence
Conservatives are basically of two minds regarding the report on the attack on the American mission in Benghazi aired by CBS’s 60 Minutes last night. On the one hand, it always was a legitimate story...
View ArticleIs Obama an Obstacle to Clinton’s ’16 Plans?
Politico provides a late entry into the understatement-of-the-year competition for straight news, reporting that Hillary Clinton “is not actively trying to suppress” the speculation that she will run...
View ArticleThe Real Benghazi Scandal
On the list of scandals that plagued the Obama administration this past year, Benghazi has been the one the White House, Democrats, and their cheerleaders in the mainstream media dismissed with the...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda and the Benghazi Question
The major New York Times story on the Benghazi attack that killed the American ambassador and three others has come under sustained criticism. The article was hyped when published but failed to live up...
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