Whiskey Fire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
by va To dispense with the obvious question: the reason I am sitting here writing about Richard Cohen is that God is dead, and His last will and testament is comprised of three words: "So long, suckers." So today Richard...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Plus: At the WaPo , a pundit is born! I've often suspected that at least some of Richard Cohen's Washington Post columns are written by the Broder monkeys -- the 500 monkeys at computer keyboards who bang out the columns printed under David S. Broder's byline -- in their spare time. by Ken Say, have you been keeping track of this great America's Next Great Pundit Contest the Washington...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
"... governing has to be informed by ... the sense that we always know the president's interior life -- his bottom lines. Obama's political career has been too brief for us to know his bottom lines ... He had... but lots of rhetoric..." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/missing_barack_obama_99270.html
FREEDOM EDEN (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Like a growing number of liberals, Richard Cohen is disillusioned. He's lost. He's abandoned. Where is Obama? It wasn't supposed to be like this. From the Washington Post , Cohen writes: In my set, I am known as the guy who always had some reservations about Barack Obama. Sure, I supported him in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and I voted for him, with both glee and enthusiasm,...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
From Richard Cohen's November 24 Washington Post column : But to reread the speech is also to come face to face with an Obama of keen moral clarity. Here was a man who knew why he was running for president and knew, also precisely, what he personified. He could talk to America as a black man and a white man -- having lived in both worlds. He could -- and he did -- explain to America...
JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... when it’s so much funner to point out liberals who have been criticizing him as of late. First is Richard Cohen , who I’m a huge fan of because a) I like hearing from people who disagree with me, and b) Cohen is an actual liberal as opposed just another Obama apologist. Here’s what Mr. Cohen has to say recently aboot the assorted foreign-policy related…it’s Thanksgiving,...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
One more post, it seems: Yes, there are more! 1) We All Know that Obama was humiliated and stonewalled by the haughty Chinese leaders, in contrast to the titanic American presidents of yore who spoke sternly to Mao and his successors and therefore always got just what they wanted in Beijing. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post [...]
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
I haven't read one of Richard Cohen's columns in a long time, but yesterday a regular reader alerted me to his latest buffoonery. Apparently Obama's "moral clarity" has disappeared: As president [] he has tried so hard to be the un-George Bush that the former president's overweening moralism — his insistence on seeing things as either black or white — has become...
My view by Silvio Canto, Jr. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It's a very bad morning for "the yes we can" screamers! It's specially hard for those who invested all of their hopes and dreams in a man who told them what they wanted to hear.....rather than a statesman who told them what they needed to hear! First, liberal Richard Cohen hit BO very hard again: "The Obama who was leading a movement of professed political purity is the...
Glenn Greenwald (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Over at Daily Kos , Barbara Morrill complains that The Washington Post 's Richard Cohen "is Karl Rove dressed up in pseudo-sadness" because -- according to her -- Cohen today "whines that the Attorney General announced that the United States follows the rule of law" by giving trials to 5 Guantanamo detainees. I don't disagree with Morrill's general assessment...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The moral clarity that Barack Obama showed in his groundbreaking Philadelphia speech on race has been nowhere to be seen recently, writes Richard Cohen. The Obama who made that speech wouldn't have let the Chinese stage-manage his appearances, or allowed the civilian trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed go forward without...
Credit Writedowns (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... paves way for billion-dollar payouts – New Scientist One in Four Borrowers Is Underwater – WSJ.com Richard Cohen: Obama’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric – washingtonpost.com Jobs program crucial for Dems to win in 2010 – Tom Ferguson Matthew Dowd – Yes, she can: Palin has a shot at the presidency – washingtonpost.com Rolfe Winkler – If banks can delay, pray Price Discrimination...
