Robert Lacombe gave President Barack Obama an “F” in his Nov. 16 letter. As a former teacher, I prefer grading on a curve, to wit: • President George W. Bush left office with an economy hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month. Since then, the unemployment rate has fallen from 9.3 percent to 5.8 percent. • Dubya […]
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R. Lacombe: Obama earns an ‘F’
In looking ahead to the presidential election in 2016, I wonder if the voters will remember how President Obama dragged America to the edge of a stinkhole, unable to make significant or knowledgeable decisions. When he is pressured into making decisions, he becomes confused and decides to postpone the agony instead. The Affordable Care Act […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Obamacare was sold on a pack of lies
WASHINGTON — It’s not exactly the Ems Dispatch (the diplomatic cable Bismarck doctored to provoke the 1870 Franco-Prussian War). But what the just-resurfaced Gruber Confession lacks in world-historical consequence, it makes up for in world-class cynicism. This October 2013 video shows MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, a principal architect of Obamacare, admitting that, in order to […]
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Rich Lowry: Republicans should make the most of their opportunity
2008 feels long ago. A Democratic Party that rode the Obama wave to historic congressional majorities is now saddled with a president who was the hot new thing six years ago. Its agenda tends to be picayune or pointless, and its new generation of leadership is the same as the old generation of leadership. As […]
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J. Neville: Logic doesn’t work there
In a television interview, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said that President Obama tried to use logic to convince Congress of his policies. Panetta said logic doesn’t work in Washington; you have to go after them. What he basically is saying is that members of Congress are too stupid to understand logic, but I […]
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Cal Thomas: Obama spreads the blame around for ISIS rise
“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.” — Alexander Pope President Obama is known for wanting to “spread the wealth around,” but he has now gone a step further. He is spreading blame around for his […]
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Austin Bay: Conditions stalk Obama’s uncertain coalition
President Barack Obama has declared, repeatedly, that U.S. ground troops will not have a combat mission in his war against the Islamic State. Last week, Obama ardently pledged that he would not be “dragged” into another Iraq ground war. The president certainly sounded decisive. This week (Monday Sept. 15), White House press secretary Josh Earnest […]
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Rich Lowry: Obama’s speech: All talk, no strategy
Only President Barack Obama would feel compelled to mention the success of the American auto industry in a speech rallying the nation for a long war of annihilation against a vile terror group. Through the years, even when he’s been his most stalwart-sounding in national-security speeches, you can’t shake the sense that he’d much rather […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s indifference leaves Ukraine unprotected
WASHINGTON — At his first press briefing after the beheading of American James Foley, President Obama stunned the assembled when he admitted that he had no strategy in Syria for confronting the Islamic State. Yet it was not nearly the most egregious, or consequential, thing he said. Idiotic, yes. You’re the leader of the free […]
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R. Grover: When will there be a strategy?
With ISIS growing in strength, numbers and territory and Russia’s Vladimir Putin deploying men and tanks into Ukraine, President Obama dithers, seemingly unable or unwilling to make a decision — any decision. The beheading of an American news correspondent a week or so ago prompted other top U.S. officials to state that ISIS constitutes a […]