Charlie Rose with Ehud Barak; Adel al-Jubeir; Charles Krauthammer (April 4, 2002)
Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charles Krauthammer and Bill Schneider offer contrasting takes. Krauthammer as always makes some powerful points. His catalogue of Obama’s failures to date is correct, isn’t it? In particular, Russia’s lack of response to the administration’s multi-track overtures has received too little attention. And what’s come from Obama’s single most dramatic...
PrebleNY.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Charles Krauthammer - Charles Krauthammer on the realignment myth of 2008 - washingtonpost.com: Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s U.S. elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. In the aftermath of last year’s Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about...
HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Please read the new article by Charles Krauthammer, The Realignment Myth of ‘08 Demolished, which we feel is spot-on. There is still a long time between now and 2010, but it sure feels like Democrats are going to get eviscerated if two things happen: (1) They stay on their current course, and Nancy Pelosi remains at the [...]
Alex Massie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Charles Krauthammer isn't as reliably and consistently wrong as Bill Kristol, but he's also determined to see the sun shining for Republicans. Thus : The Obama coattails of 2008 are gone. The expansion of the electorate, the excitement of the young, came in uniquely propitious Democratic circumstances and amid unparalleled enthusiasm for electing the first African-American president....
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Columnist Charles Krauthammer offers his perspective on Tuesday's "historic" repudiation of Barack Obama's radical agenda by voters in New Jersey and Virginia. From Krauthammer's column: In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21st...
Notes From D. R. (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Jonah Goldberg, Ramesh Ponnuru, David Brooks, Crystal Wright, Alex Castellanos, Peggy Noonan and Charles Krauthammer on last Tuesday’s electoral results.
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Writing in the Investor's Business Daily , conservative political pundit Charles Krauthammer finds that "the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical" in that two state elections in New Jersey and Virginia "demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008." In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary,...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
S ure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. In the aftermath of last year’s Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about...
TOG (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Charles Krauthammer on “yes we can” People are starting to wake up from their drunken stupor of 2008. The Obamagasm is now over. Charles Krauthammer draws some parallels between the energy and atmosphere that swept Obama into office and that of Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution. The cheap slogans such as “yes we can” are indeed [...]
Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Here is video of Charles Krauthammer last night saying Barack Obama came into office with the aura of a "conjurer," and a "magician." In fact, Krauthammer told Bill O'Reilly that the confidence was so high that his campaign resembled the Chinese "Cultural Revolution," with children singing praises to him! But now Obama has had a year of reality, and...
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly discuss the gap between the expectations for Obama when he was a candidate and the reality of Obama as the president. Transcript BILL O'REILLY: Now I see, and I see in the polls, a diminishment of confidence. Now when he rode in, when Barack Obama rode in, the confidence level was high. Here's a guy who's gonna be able to do it. He can handle the...
Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Excerpts from an interview with Charles Krauthammer about Obama The interviewers are German and if you read the whole interview you get the impression that they think Krauthammer is from outer space. As you see, however, Krauthammer has some good answers SPIEGEL: Why do Europeans react so positively to him? Krauthammer: Because Europe, for very understandable reasons,...
my days at the office (Free subscription) | yesterday
... I'll end with a little note about the elections of last week, and something I didn't know. Charles Krauthammer notes in his column that the change in Virginia is quite meaningful. White House apologists will say the Virginia Democrat was weak. If the difference between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds was so great, how come when the same two men ran against each other statewide for...
