Paul Rahe: Obama’s gestures, part 6
Professor Paul Rahe writes:
A gentleman, they say, is a man who is never unintentionally rude. That Barack Obama is, in this sense, a gentlemen I do not doubt.
As I argued here, our current President “is a man of rigid self-discipline,” as is indicated by the fact “that we know next to nothing about his [...]
Iran plots, Obama fiddles
As Peter Robinson frames the situation, Iran is defying the entire civilized world, Israel is deciding whether to launch a military strike, and the President of the United States . . . is busy polishing his medal from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
As for just how bad a fix we’re in, he points to [...]
Revenge of the Norwegian Nerds
Seinfeld was a program about nothing, and Obama’s
recent Nobel award was a prize for doing nothing. Yet another
case of Dementia-Obama, and further proof that Obama should have
run for president of Europe last year.
Our rookie president has done exactly nothing to promote peace,
world or [...]
The Nobel Cheese Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee insists that the Nobel Peace Prize is not “politicized,” even in the wake of today’s award to President Barack H. Obama, essentially for having the “potential” to be the most internationalist, anti-American, defeat-and-retreat president in history. The chairman of the committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, actually admitted the pick this year was [...]
So, How Did They Explain It?
At risk of beating a dead horse, I want to return to the main news story of the day, Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, and examine it through the eyes of the group of five Norwegian politicians, at least three of whom are unequivocal left-wingers, who decided on the award. World reaction has generally [...]
Imagine There’s No Peace Prize, It’s Easy If You Try
So at the very moment that President Barack H. Obama convenes his “war council” to decide whether to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to expand operations in Afghanistan — changing to a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and adding 40,000 additional troops to the war effort — the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that the president, who has [...]
