Posts tagged as: Obama

Candidate Obama ripped Pakistan for "making peace treaties with the Taliban"

Candidate Obama ripped Pakistan for "making peace treaties with the Taliban"

So what has happened in the nine months that Obama has been President to lead him to reverse this stand completely ? And since we went into Afghanistan in the first place in order to fight the Taliban, and Obama now accepts a role for the Taliban in Afghanistan’s government, why are we increasing our military presence in Afghanistan

Obama’s Muslim adviser says Sharia "misunderstood"

Obama’s Muslim adviser says Sharia "misunderstood"

Yes, all that hand-chopping and stoning really isn’t all that bad, if you look at it from the right perspective. Dalia Mogahed, you may recall, along with John Esposito cooked the data from a global survey of Muslim attitudes in order to increase the number of Muslim “moderates” — classifying people as “moderate” who hate America, want to impose Sharia, and support suicide bombing

Obama surrenders in Afghanistan — signals readiness to accept Taliban involvement in country’s "political future"

Obama surrenders in Afghanistan — signals readiness to accept Taliban involvement in country’s "political future"

It’s 9/10 out there again, all right. Hope it doesn’t run out on us

Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House – Times Online – VIDEO

Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House – Times Online – VIDEO

October 8, 2009
Michelle Obama brings change in artistic taste to the White House
Giles Whittell in Washington
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“Maybe yes … Wait a minute … On second thought … Maybe no.” It’s art, not policy, but the indecision written across the blood-red canvas by Ed Ruscha that now hangs in the White House could not reflect more [...]

BREAKING NEWS: CBO says health care bill costs $829B over decade – AP

BREAKING NEWS: CBO says health care bill costs $829B over decade – AP

Oct 7, 6:04 PM EDT
CBO says health care bill costs $829B over decade
By DAVID ESPO
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate likely to power the [...]

Reagan and Obama by Jean Kaufman – Weekly Standard

Reagan and Obama by Jean Kaufman – Weekly Standard

Reagan and Obama
Is America a city on a hill or a country in decline?
by Jean Kaufman
10/07/2009 12:00:00 AM
Ronald Reagan believed in America.
One way he expressed this faith was through the image of “a shining city on a hill,” a phrase Reagan uttered in one form or another in many of his speeches, including his [...]

Ayers admits writing “Dreams From My Father” – American Thinker

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October 07, 2009 Ayers admits writing “Dreams From My Father” By James Simpson Last Friday we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers’ authorship of President Barack Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father,’ based on claims made by Obama biographer Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from Bill Ayers himself

Feingold hits Obama’s use of ‘czars’ – Washington Times

Feingold hits Obama’s use of ‘czars’ – Washington Times

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Feingold hits Obama’s use of ‘czars’
By Kara Rowland
A top Senate Democrat said just because other presidents have created “czars” to carry out administration policy does not mean President Obama is right to follow their lead – and warned that Congress may have to step in and keep White House appointees in check.
Senators [...]

No, you can’t see the health care bill | Washington Examiner

No, you can’t see the health care bill | Washington Examiner

No, you can’t see the health care bill
Examiner Editorial
October 7, 2009
When then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised not to sign major legislation until it had been posted on the Internet for public reading at least five days, trusting voters took him at his word. Now they know better. Not only is the actual language of [...]

Obama mum on adding more troops in Afghanistan – AP

Obama mum on adding more troops in Afghanistan – AP

Oct 7, 12:05 AM EDT
Obama mum on adding more troops in Afghanistan
By BEN FELLER – AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday ruled out shrinking the Afghanistan war to a counterterrorism campaign. Yet he did not signal whether he is prepared to send any more troops to the war zone – either the 40,000 [...]

Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages – WSJ.com

Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages – WSJ.com

OCTOBER 7, 2009
Behind Afghan War Debate, a Battle of Two Books Rages
By PETER SPIEGEL and JONATHAN WEISMAN
WASHINGTON — The struggle to set the future course of the Afghan war is becoming a battle of two books — both suddenly popular among White House and Pentagon brain trusts.
The two draw decidedly different lessons from the Vietnam [...]

Another Failed Presidency: American Thinker

Another Failed Presidency: American Thinker

August 31, 2009
Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.
In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took [...]

Greta: Sen. Judiciary Cmte on Czars – FOXNews – VIDEO

Greta: Sen. Judiciary Cmte on Czars – FOXNews – VIDEO

Bi-Partisan panel questioning Constitutionality of White House Czars

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Lose Afghanistan, Lose Pakistan, Lose Iran, Lose It All – American Thinker

Lose Afghanistan, Lose Pakistan, Lose Iran, Lose It All – American Thinker

October 06, 2009
Lose Afghanistan, Lose Pakistan, Lose Iran, Lose It All
By James Lewis
The gangster regimes of the world are on the march, and they’ve got our number. They know how to squeeze more civilized nations. Our weakness is cowardice, and that goes double or triple in the face of nuclear weapons. That’s why all the [...]

Rush Limbaugh – 45% of Doctors Would Consider quitting if Obamacare is Passed – VIDEO

Rush Limbaugh – 45% of Doctors Would Consider quitting if Obamacare is Passed – VIDEO

Limbaugh says this is a classic text book move.

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Obama Snubs the Dalai Lama – WSJ.com

Obama Snubs the Dalai Lama – WSJ.com

REVIEW & OUTLOOK OCTOBER 6, 2009
No Time for the Dalai Lama
Obama is willing to anger China on tire tariffs but not on Tibet.
In nearly nine months in office, President Obama has found time to meet with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and Vladimir Putin. But this week he won’t see the Dalai Lama, a peaceful religious [...]

White House angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan – Telegraph

White House angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan  – Telegraph

White House angry at General Stanley McChrystal speech on Afghanistan
The relationship between President Barack Obama and the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has been put under severe strain by Gen Stanley McChrystal’s comments on strategy for the war.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 7:00AM BST 05 Oct 2009
According to sources close to the administration, Gen [...]

How Israel Was Disarmed by Bret Stephens – WSJ.com

How Israel Was Disarmed by Bret Stephens – WSJ.com

OPINION: GLOBAL VIEW OCTOBER 5, 2009, 11:33 P.M. ET
How Israel Was Disarmed
News analysis from the near-future.
By BRET STEPHENS
Jan. 20, 2010
NEW YORK—When American diplomats sat down for the first in a series of face-to-face talks with their Iranian counterparts last October in Geneva, few would have predicted that what began as a negotiation over Tehran’s nuclear [...]

Exposing Obama – by Emily Esfahani Smith – Weekly Standard

Exposing Obama – by Emily Esfahani Smith – Weekly Standard

Exposing Obama
Naked Emperor News reveals the truth about the president one YouTube video at a time.
by Emily Esfahani Smith
10/06/2009 12:00:00 AM
Pamela Key does not work for the Republican National Committee. She has no formal training in journalism. An illustrator of children’s books, she never finished college. And yet, her oppositional research, her investigative journalism, [...]

Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’ – Rasmussen Reports™

Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’ – Rasmussen Reports™

Fear of Losing Private Health Insurance Trumps ‘Public Option’
Sunday, October 04, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThis
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide say guaranteeing that no one is forced to change their health insurance coverage is a higher priority than giving consumers the choice of a “public option” health insurance company.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national [...]

Making a buck off Obama not as easy anymore | Detroit Free Press

Making a buck off Obama not as easy anymore | Detroit Free Press

Making a buck off Obama not as easy anymore
POSTED: OCT. 4, 2009
COMPILED FROM REPORTS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
They cashed out retirement funds to build their business during the 2008 presidential campaign. Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama puppets inside — all sitting in a California warehouse, waiting to be sprung open for [...]

YON: The Greatest Afghan War by Michael Yon – Washington Times

YON: The Greatest Afghan War by Michael Yon – Washington Times

The Greatest Afghan War

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By Michael Yon
 October 1, 2009 
The Greatest Afghanistan War has deteriorated so noticeably that one can now feel the enemy’s growing pulse. Each month it beats steadier, stronger, and in 2010 it will finally be born.
On Sept. 11 in Kandahar, a South African civilian working without security was visibly upset – not at [...]

War in Afghanistan – FOXNews.com – VIDEO

War in Afghanistan – FOXNews.com – VIDEO

Should more US troops deploy to Afghanistan

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Détente and the Bunker – Weekly Standard

Détente and the Bunker – Weekly Standard

Détente and the Bunker
How to oppose a president’s disastrous foreign policy.
by Elliott Abrams
10/12/2009, Volume 015, Issue 04
The appearance in Washington last week of Iran’s foreign minister, while the blood is not yet dry from his government’s continuing suppression of student protests, is a reminder of the disastrous foreign policy path the Obama administration has [...]

U.N.’s Afghan vote fraud row shows split in West – Reuters

U.N.’s Afghan vote fraud row shows split in West – Reuters

U.N.’s Afghan vote fraud row shows split in West
Thu Oct 1, 2009 4:42pm EDT  
By Peter Graff – Analysis
KABUL (Reuters) – A U.S. diplomat’s scathing charge that the United Nations effectively let Afghanistan’s election be stolen has exposed the international community’s disunity and may help explain Washington’s new doubts about the war.
The outcome of the [...]

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