By Lee Cary,American Thinker President Obama’s speech at West Point aimed to walk the line between nation building and national defense. But he muddled the two concepts. Americans look to their wartime leaders for clarity,not ambivalence. The President began his Afghanistan war speech by implicitly [...] Wall Street Journal Obama wants healthcare no matter what the cost and logic We have now reached the stage of the health-care debate when all that matters is getting a bill passed,so all news is good news,more subsidies mean lower deficits,and more expensive insurance is really cheaper insurance. [...] By RICHARD ESPOSITO,MATTHEW COLE and BRIAN ROSS,ABC News Obama would rather keep that little fact hidden As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year,President Barack Obama’s description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer"in that country left out one key [...] FOXNews Cheney and Rumsfield are not amused by Obama’s baldfaced lies Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday lashed out at President Obama for claiming the Bush administration rebuffed commanders’repeated requests for more troops in Afghanistan. In a rare break in his public silence since leaving the Pentagon,[...] By Gabor Steingart,Der Spiegel Obama’s Speech left a bad taste in many mouths Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric —and left both dreamers [...] by Jeffrey M. Jones,Gallup The greatest decline occurred when Obama started dithering Americans are far less approving of President Obama’s handling of the situation in Afghanistan than they have been in recent months,with 35% currently approving,down from 49% in September and 56% in July. [...] Floyd Brown,Expose Obama This horrible war is destined to end badly Last night before an audience of Cadets at West Point,the Commander in Chief,Barack Obama,displayed his gross ignorance of strategic affairs and inexperience with military affairs. In a speech in which Americans were eager to hear a plan [...] By Ewen MacAskill,UK Guardian It’s Obama’s war now as he initiates a surge of his own Barack Obama is to set an ambitious timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan,with the first troops pulling out by July 2011. The announcement is aimed at countering US public fears [...] By DAVID E. SANGER and PETER BAKER,New York Times Obama sets a specific timeline for withdrawl President Obama will announce on Tuesday night that he will begin to draw American forces out of Afghanistan in July 2011,barely two months after the deployment of some 30,000 more United States troops there [...] By Joseph Curl,Washington Times Obama has been hiding from press Conferences After months of what some critics called overexposure,President Obama has of late avoided questions from the White House press corps at large,closing the Oval Office to traditionally informal question-and -answer sessions with reporters and pulling back from [...] By James Lewis,American Thinker Gore say oh no,the data is off,bring in Obama The CRU crew of liars and scientific frauds in the U.K. have been driving the climate fraud campaign for years. They shaped the corrupt and ridiculous IPCC U.N. report,designed to empower the Green corruptocracy as [...] By MIKE ALLEN &JIM VANDEHEI,Politico Cheney wants Obama to be a man and lead On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy,former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with [...] AP Obama is hoping that these European leaders will help out President Barack Obama is asking European members of NATO to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afghanistan,officials with the military alliance said Tuesday. A diplomat from a European nation said the troop [...] By PETER WEHNER,Commentary Magazine Obama’s Ineptitude is being revealed The overseas reviews for President Obama’s foreign policy are starting to pour in — and they’re not favorable. Bob Ainsworth,the British defense secretary,has blamed Obama for the decline in British public support for the war in [...] By Nick Schulz,The American This Chart and Obama’s reliance on Career Bureaucrats is Astounding A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president [...] By JOHN F. HARRIS,Politico Certain storylines are taking shape about Obama:1 is that he’s playing with monopoly money Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline,voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their [...] By Rick Moran,American Thinker Obama now supports the elected Honduran leader What can you say? How often does the United States stake out a clear,unequivocal position on a major foreign policy event and then,over the course of a few months,slowly walkback from their original position to come around [...] FOXNews Obama’s approach has yielded no results The Obama administration on Monday said Iran’s plan to build 10 more nuclear enrichment facilities and expand to a half-million centrifuges was "unacceptable"—but once again,in the face of yet another deadline,it offered no specific response beyond wait-and-see. On [...] By Jeffrey Young,The Hill Senate Democrats and Republicans seized on the report,issued Monday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT),to bolster their arguments on the same day the floor debate formally commenced. To Democrats,the report affirms the [...] By Christopher Booker,UK telegraph The big lie is being exposed A week after my colleague James Delingpole ,on his Telegraph blog,coined the term "Climategate"to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit,Google was showing that the word [...] | |