Actually it’s just the one, former president George H. W. Bush, who is a far less egregious choice than his son would have been, but in general, were one’s advice to have been asked, it would have been that the less said about former presidents of the past three decades or so, the better. . . . → Read More: The Robot Pundits address Obama’s Medal of Freedom recipients
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Is Barack Obama a Christian? a Muslim? an Etruscan vase given life and human form by some forgotten Egyptian deity? Well, whatever. I’m not religious about my atheism, and I have no particular quarrel with religious people other than the ones who show up uninvited on my stoop, and even then I feel no . . . → Read More: “Let he who is without sin,” yadayadayada UPDATE:Since I wrote this post arguing that if a Republican president had done some of the things Obama is doing, then liberals would be hot off the mark in calling for his impeachment, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have gone to court to sue for their right to represent the only known . . . → Read More: If Obama were Republican, liberals would be demanding impeachment As you probably have by now heard, someone leaked a massive collection of documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan between 2004-2009 to WikiLeaks, which has become the mother of all whistleblower sites. (The site is loading somewhat slowly at the moment, presumably because everybody and their intelligence service is stopping by for a . . . → Read More: The Afghanistan War Logs Amid the excitement over Dana Priest’s remarkable and continuing exploration of US intelligence operations and the massive confusion surrounding and informing them, I am reminded of a story from Government Executive magazine back in 2002 when George W. Bush and a Congress still flailing about in the aftermath of 911 created the Department of . . . → Read More: Nobody could have predicted the disaster that is Homeland Security Specifically, our freedom to do whatever it is we want to do to them and their part of the world without consequence. Disclaimer: I don’t support terrorism as an expression of political or ideological frustration, or in any event, but I understand the impulse and one has to admit that as a negotiating . . . → Read More: They really do hate us for our freedom! I didn’t actually watch or read Obama’s Afghanistan speech but I gather it was similar to but less coherent than his campaign speeches about Afghanistan, which I did read, so I feel comfortable commenting on his announced alleged policy. But you know, screw it. Who cares? This is not my beautiful house. I . . . → Read More: Obama channels Bush channeling Chamberlain on Afghanistan The news is all around that George W. Bush will be writing a memoir focused on 12 difficult personal and policy decisions in his life. It cannot be an accident that the format so closely apes that of John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Profiles in Courage,” which featured the stories of eight U.S. senators . . . → Read More: Bush memoir: “Profiles in Courage,” and they’re all him Not. George W. Bush bristles at any attempt to assess his presidency while he’s still alive, never mind in office. By the time history has judged him, he says, we’ll all be dead. But everyone who judged his presidency a disaster before it began — for me the clincher was his disappearance and ashen-faced return in the first few days when Florida was in doubt — was right. I don’t see any reason to give Barack Obama any more of a pass than I gave to Bush, or any more of a pass now that he’s won the election than I gave him when he was only running. I should add, though, that Obama may well prove to be the most personally interesting president since Nixon, with whom he has much else in common. He won’t be as imaginative as Nixon was, and all the lawbreaking has been taken care of by the Bush administration, and he has run to Nixon’s right on several important domestic issues, but I suspect they would recognize one another even in the darkest bar. I wish Hunter Thompson were alive today with his talent intact; he could say for sure. Continue reading In which, chastised, we rescind our dismissal of Barack Obama Despite running the worst GOP campaign since Bob Dole’s in 1996 —most people don’t remember that Dole even ran —John McCain managed to confound my expectations and crack 45%, by quite a bit, in the popular vote. This should be instructive for anyone who genuinely believes a new day is dawning in America, although . . . → Read More: Barack Obama wins! Finally, compassionate conservatism for real |
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