Why avoid investigating the fact that our
military allowed one of its own, who would eventually murder 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, to continue communicating with radical
clerics who advocate terrorist acts? Why recommend women stop getting mammograms in their 40s
and cause such a backlash that Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelious has to come out and disavow the recommendations? And in a
nation riven by unemployment, how did our government mess up the stimulus
data so badly that not 10, not 20, not 50 but up to 700 congressional districts
were mistakenly credited stimulus grants out of 130,000 grants given, according
to
ABC News?
It was bad enough that he beat the most viable female presidential candidate in our nation’s history. Now it seems the president is going out of his way to irritate the fairer sex in our nation.
Most men like me already distrusted Barack Obama. It is no shock to anyone that white men voted overwhelmingly against candidate Obama in the last election, while women voted overwhelmingly for him.
What is shocking is seeing how the Obama Democrats are now seemingly going out of their way to irritate working women, and especially working mothers.
“I
would rather see him [President Barack Obama] a one-term president than have
him pass on another unwinnable war to the person who will follow him to
office.”
So
states Gary Wills in the recent issue of The New York Review of Books. Wills,
always a perceptive commentator, is an admirer of President Obama, as I am.
Neither of us wants the Obama presidency to be a one-termer. But his idea is that we “have a president with the moral and
rhetorical force to talk us out of a foolish commitment that cannot be
sustained without shame and defeat.” Wills asks, “If it costs him the
presidency, what other achievement can match it?” Read more...
The Obama administration is making some unbelievable
unforced errors when it comes to the key concerns of the American people.
Perhaps the top concern is jobs. The White House staff have
been slow to realize that job creation would be so critical to their own job
security. They haven’t focused much on it rhetorically, their stimulus has
failed to create many jobs, and their other legislative efforts — cap-and-trade
and the healthcare bill — are job-killers.
The discovery of water on the moon — exciting as it is — was actually not the most dramatic news of the weekend. The details and implications are fascinating, but it was actually when I saw that the Obama administration is pledging to push for immigration reform next year that I nearly fell out of my chair.
This is not a joke. If you missed it, please update yourself on the White House plan to drive conservative Democrats absolutely nutty and deepen the growing divide among Democrats in advance of next year's midterm elections, when the party is expected to get slammed.
I am tortured. I want to admire President Barack Obama. With his calm, measured voice and warm smile, I want to bask in his oven of love.
So help me understand. What, precisely, is there to admire about this president's policy decisions? The administration has poured $787 billion into economic stimulus. But where are the jobs? In February, the administration promised that the stimulus package would give an immediate boost to the economy. Since then, the economy has contracted and Americans have lost nearly 3 million jobs. What has the stimulus package done other than steal trillions of dollars from the taxpayers and sow unmanageable debt into the economy for decades to come?
After eight years of The Decider, President Barack Obama's longish study of his options regarding the war in Afghanistan may seem like dithering indecisiveness, or worse.
Instead, let's be glad that we've got a decider who's actually doing some homework.
That the topic merits study is clear enough, when Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. general on the ground, is insisting on tens of thousands more troops, and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, the top U.S. diplomat on the ground and himself a former top general on the ground, is saying the opposite.
Malcolm Gladwell, in his book Outliers, has a basic theory
about what makes people truly successful. He says that if you have the right
education, the right timing and the right experience, combined with a truly
extraordinary work ethic, you can be an outlier, somebody who succeeds beyond
everyone’s expectations.
One of the nuggets in this very interesting book is
Gladwell’s reciting of the 10,000-hour rule. Gladwell repeats the theory that
for someone to be truly proficient in a complex task, that person must work at
it for 10,000 hours or more. Ten thousand hours is a long time, about 10 years. Read more...
You are comparing Obama to
the Marxist playbook? That post is total, complete and unadulterated baloney and
should placed in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum as an example of why books are written
about "The Death of Conservatism.”
The post does not deserve
and will not receive from me a serious answer. Is this your best intellectual contribution
to American political discourse? I suspect Obama has learned little, so far, from
Virginia and New Jersey. I know you have learned nothing from New York congressional
district 23.
Keep that Beck-Limbaugh pap
coming and you will nationalize what happened to your candidate in the 23rd district
in New York.
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