The email correspondence of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) continues to provide valuable insight into its efforts to "mainstream" the pro-mullah line. Jennifer Rubin has posted correspondence between the NAIC and Karim Sadjadpour (of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Afshin Molavi (of the New America Foundation). As she points out, Sadjadpour and Molavi are...
Newsweek's Howard Fineman thinks Barack Obama is a lot like Ronald Reagan. This humorously comes coincident with MSNBC's Chris Matthews declaring the current White House resident "Carteresque." Obviously they can't both be right, right? Of course not, for in the case of " Channeling the Gipper: For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan ," Fineman couldn't be more wrong (h/t Jennifer...
Nice summary from Jennifer Rubin on Obama's first-year decline. Referring to remarks made by Mitt Romney, she writes:Well, that’s the preview of the 2012 race, which the not-yet-but-certain-to-declare Romney and other GOP challengers will make: Obama was a swell campaigner but lacked the gravitas and judgment to govern. After nearly a year of his rally-stuffed agenda, much huffing and puffing...
In an opinion section that practically bashes President Obama every day, how can Jennifer Rubin whine about Sarah Palin being bashed ("Pummeling Sarah Palin," PostScript, Nov. 16)? Most of the country thinks she's a joke, and, if she is going to p...
Had President Obama not claimed the Democrats’ “stimulus” would keep unemployment at or below 8%, he would not “own” the jobless rate so early in his term. But, now it’s his problem in more ways than one. ABC’s Rick Klein contends: “The administration asked for this — dare we say, literally asked for this — [...]
While These Boys Are Working . . . . Your President's Betraying Them. Drink your coffee. Then read this from Biggovernment.com : Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama No, your hemorrhoid medication hasn't reacted with your Extenze . This is real. Big Government goes on: Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in...
Jennifer Rubin asks the question that most folks want answered. "Obama was the subject of many a pundit’s admiration. So smart! So worldly! Harvard Law Review . And so eloquent. That his speeches upon further reflection were practically unintelligible or self-parodies (are we the ones we have been waiting for? are the oceans really going to recede?) didn’t much matter. He was so smart...
Finally, someone is addressing the pertinent question about Obama : if he's so smart, why isn't he doing a better job? The assumption has always been that his Ivy League degrees and his inspirational speeches were all the proof anybody needed, but his thought processes have never impressed me. So much of what many find impressive strikes me as liberal cant. What I found intriguing from early in his...
Via Glenn Reynolds is a Jennifer Rubin piece that asks the question, "[I]f [Barack Obama's] so smart and well-educated, should't he have come up with something better than the stimulus boondoggle?" She gets frustratingly close to the right answer, but ends up whiffing: [F]inally, as Ronald Reagan said, "The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they are ignorant; it is that they...
JENNIFER RUBIN: If Barack Obama is so smart, why isn’t he a better President? Generally, our smartest presidents — Jimmy Carter, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, for example — have been disappointments in office, haven’t they? As Jurgen learned, cleverness is not on top, and never has been.
NIAC and J Street might seem at first an odd alliance. J Street is "pro-peace, pro-Israel" and NIAC is pro-engagement, pro-Iran. But J Street isn't all that pro-Israel, and NIAC will take any allies it can find in the fight against sanctions, so few and far between are such organizations in Washington. J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami co-authored an op-ed with NIAC chief Trita Parsi making...
Jules Crittenden on Obambi's embarrassing ( to the U.S. - Obambi's too oblivious to care ) " full dork-drop " to Mr. and Mrs. Akihito: "Obama clearly sets a new international standard in self-abasement before their imperial majesties." It was sufficiently inappropriate that even the usually Obama-phylic L.A. Times called it a "wow bow" and asked just how low will the...
Jennifer Rubin explains that the DEM theme of GOP Left-leaners being popular is W-R-O-N-G! The coming 1 to 3 years is NOT going to be a good time to be RINO, or left-leaning as a member of the GOP. It is Conservative time, and it appears more and more the conservative element WILL step forward and cast out such RINOs with no hesitation what-so-ever. Being GOP is no longer the catcher-of-votes....being...
Jennifer Rubin couldn’t be any more spot-on with this post on how South Carolina is loving lukewarm senior Senator less and less each day. This contradicts the favorite narrative of Democrats and their media handmaidens, namely that in order to stay relevant, Republicans must compromise with Obama, move leftward, and adopt policies at odds with conservative [...]
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