Rhetoritician, Heal Thyself
Another example of neoconservative Michael Medved fawning over an Obamic oration that simply isn’t worth the… well, we’ll get into that.
On his radio show today, Medved referred to a speech, which Obama gave today at the National Prayer Breakfast, as “great;” Medved enthusiastically compared it to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Medved was [...]
Will Iran be stopped?
At NRO’s Media blog, Tom Gross points out that the New York Times for the first time runs a column explicitly advocating the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear program (and the “sooner the better” it says). The column is by Alan Kuperman, the director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of [...]
Put Men Back to Work
Why am I feeling so good these days? Somehow it doesn’t bother me
that the Democrats are inching toward passing some kind of
healthcare reform or that that global warmers are celebrating in
Copenhagen.
Maybe it’s the reception Sarah Palin has been getting on
her book tour. Maybe [...]
Obama’s big shtick
No one would accuse Barack Obama of speaking softly, but he carries a heckuva big shtick. The shtick was audibly on display in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech last week. The speech has won the plaudits of many conservatives; at times Obama actually sounded like he was representing the United States.
But the [...]
Will democracy "medal" in the Obama administration after all?
Robert Kagan argues that President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech signals that “the world had better get ready for a tougher, less forgiving, more quintessentially American approach from a man who certainly gave the soft touch a try.” Kagan sees the speech as a turning point not just with respect to Afghanistan [...]
President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech was an eloquent … - Cleveland Plain Dealer
President Barack Obama’s speech in Oslo Thursday may not have been what the Norwegian parliamentarians had in mind when they selected him for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. But as a meditation on the conflict between idealism and reality as seen by …
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