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Obama Bungled the Religion Question
Tweet Share on Facebook September 29, 2010 Comment (31)Should Barack Obama turn out to be a one-term president, students of his presidency who attempt to explain his fate will cite high among their reasons for the president’s downfall his insistence on being too clever by a half. No better example of this process at work could be found than in Obama’s answer yesterday to the obviously planted question, “Why are you a Christian?”
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Summers' Departure and Another Bad Economic Week for Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2010 Comment (3)It is only Wednesday, but it appears that President Obama is having another bad week. In fact, it is hard to recall a good one he has had since he took office January 20, 2009.
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GOP's Tea Party Problems Come From Being Too Centrist
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2010 Comment (19)Months after Barack Obama was elected president, a plethora of books, purporting the death of the Republican Party, began appearing in bookstores across the land. For the third time in a half century, the chattering class proclaimed the Grand Old Party dead. (Goldwater’s landslide defeat in 1964 and Watergate, a decade later, prompted those earlier predictions.) As Obama frittered away his political capital during his first year, obsessing over healthcare, cap-and-trade, and financial reform when the public wanted action on the economy, the GOP appeared resurgent. And most of those books headed for the remainder table.
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Too Little, Too Late From Obama on Unemployment
Tweet Share on Facebook September 8, 2010 Comment (5)Winston Churchill once said of the American people that they always do the right thing--after they have exhausted all the alternatives. While President Barack Obama still has not done what it will take to jumpstart a stalled economy, students of his administration will record that this was the week that he finally started to “get it.”
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Beck Should Have Stuck to Policy, Not Religion
Tweet Share on Facebook September 1, 2010 Comment (6)Well, it was a busy Saturday in “River City.” No, not the fictional place in Iowa, where Meredith Wilson set his musical The Music Man but Washington, D.C. (hereafter known as “Potomac City”). Wilson’s story revolved around a traveling salesman, “Professor” Harold Hill, who persuades a town that he can turn an atonal and uninterested group of boys into an effective band. Its citizens willingly provided him with the funds to supply the lads with instruments, uniforms, and musical instruction. Hill’s initial plan was to skip town before the band was put to the test. But as they say in the theater, “a funny thing happened on the way to the forum.” The professor had to make good, lest he be exposed by another con man.
