George F.—“F for Fabulous!”—Will has his definitive take on the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran. Like 97% of George’s columns, the real point here is not to say anything substantial about anything, but rather to allow George to look down his presumably Georgian nose at his inferiors, said inferiors, of course, being just about everyone…
Tag: President Obama
It’s “President Obama,” Mr. Hiatt
Yes, in Washington, DC, the preferred honorific for the president of the United States is “President” rather than “Mister,” something that Mr. Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor for the Washington Post, is evidently yet to comprehend, judging from a recent Hiattian rant, entitled “Despite Mr. Obama’s ‘engagement,’ Cuba continues its repression,” complaining that the president…
Whiter than the foam that drips from Kevin D. Williamson’s lips
Kevie D has an absolutely epic rant over at the National Review, a rant that starts with Rudy Giuliani’s howler that Obama doesn’t love America but goes beyond it to argue, with hilarious vehemence, that our two-term president doesn’t even like America before somersaulting to the astonishing conclusion that no one should love America because,…
Jonah Goldberg, down with the Inquisition, still going to Hell
President Obama, remarking at a recent prayer breakfast that Western Civilization, and Christianity in particular, has had some flaws, has once more unleashed the floodgates of right-wing outrage upon himself. Among the most ardent defenders of most things Christian is Jonah Goldberg, who explains, and explains away, “the Inquisition” by noting that an inquisition is really just an…
Michiko Kakutani does the (almost) impossible; she makes me feel sorry for President Obama
After Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, almost everyone who ever knew him lined up to say what a shit he was. Moaned Richard Cohen, “I hate Richard Nixon’s friends. They make me feel sorry for Richard Nixon.”1 Well, Barack Obama is no Richard Nixon, and I don’t hate him, but still. I don’t like…
Why is Obama so unpopular?
It’s official: President Obama is the people’s choice for the worst president since WWII. And his popularity is dropping faster than runoff in the Dead Sea.1 The first part is easy to explain. Any Democratic president is going to be picked as the “worst” president because Republicans hate Democratic presidents so much. Some fringe Republicans…
“Many of Obama’s best advisers on Iraq”. And many of his bitchiest as well!
Eli Lake is a guy who has cashed checks from both Marty Peretz and the Reverend Moon. He now holds forth at the Daily Beast and if you read his column “Why the White House Ignored All Those Warnings About ISIS,” you’ll find out why President Obama is so afraid of going up against the…
What Robert Gates said that no one said he said
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, former Secretary of State Robert Gates’ memoirs of his years as SecDef, have been excerpted and/or discussed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. If you follow this sort of thing, you know that Bob loved Hillary, definitely a feather in her…
The World’s Grown Honest
Or so, President Obama has decided, it would be convenient for him that we should believe. At any rate, the president’s “left” speech, an actual gesture, a genuine rhetorical bone for us peaceniks to gnaw on, is more than we’ve gotten for the last four years. It’s better than murder, isn’t it? The basic idea is…
President Obama, Man of Mystery
“Man of mystery” as in “where does he get this stuff”? In an interview on Israeli TV last Thursday, our Prez informs us that “Right now, we think it would take over a year or so for Iran to actually develop a nuclear weapon, but obviously we don’t want to cut it too close.” Well,…