Barack Obama Topic Hub: Most Recent Content

  • Kathleen Parker:If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president. Phew. That was fun. Now, if you'll just keep those hatchets holstered and hear me out. No, I'm not calling Obama a girlie president. But . . .

  • It's nice to see that the Judiciary (at least this one member of the Judiciary) is not completely beholden to The One and his progressive schemes, and actually understands the rule of law over thuggery.

  • Via The Week, which catches up to Charlie Crist on the campaign trail as he mercilessly pursues the 32% of Americans who think Barack Obama has done a bang-up job in the Gulf. [...] Read the rest »

  • It's another severe embarrassment for the Obama administration, as the general the President hand-picked to run the war in Afghanistan gave remarkable access to a reporter from Rolling Stone (!) who recorded any number of ill-considered comments General McChrystal's aides made about members of the administration, including Joe Biden ("Bite me!"), General Jim Jones, and Obama himself.

  • The loons at the Democrat Underground Message Board (DUMB) have decided that there's been an intolerable amount of deviance from the party line. Therefore, board administrators have laid down a ridiculously detailed list of rules to micromanage what is acceptable commentary in DUmmieland. Here are but a few of the new rules. { } Inappropriate attacks against Democrats - Insults against prominent Democrats, such as "F--- Obama."

  • Another triumph for Marxist Hope and Change, Venezuelan dictator and Hollywood idol Hugo Chavez is now looting warehouses to confiscate food as his scheme of nationalizing supermarkets and confiscating farms proves about as successful as Robby Mugabe's policies of doing the same. Venezuelan army soldiers swept through the working class, pro-Chavez neighborhood of Catia in Caracas last week, seizing 120 tons of rice along with coffee and powdered milk that officials said was to be sold above regulated prices.

  • It was Michael Barone who first used the phrase "gangster government" to refer to the Obama administration's lawlessness. Today he expands on that thought, describing the administration's actions in the Gulf as "ineffective thuggery."

    Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to BP's gulf oil spill.

  • A cruel deception only to those who believed in the first place. My gut instinct is to tell these guys to go get themselves a nice, hot bowl of crybaby soup and shut the f–k up. But these kinds of articles are chock full of so much shadenfreude, that they are too good to let pass unnoticed. From The U.K. Telegraph.

  • Here’s a list of things a community organizer never has to do. He doesn’t have to: Make tough decisions Make payroll Hire and fire Do the actual work Live with the consequences Here’s a list of things a president must do: Make tough decisions Hire and fire Do actual work Live with consequences *funding optional and dependent on Congress aka The Board

  • Responding to President Obama’s speech about the Gulf oil spill this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, “The immediate issue here is a broken pipe that’s been spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day into the ocean for mor