Obama Talks Big – But Offers More of the Same
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 10th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Obama Talks Big – But Offers More of the Same
John Podhoretz, NY Post
With his back against the wall, Barack Obama woke up from his depressed slumbers last night and gave us the first glimpse of Obama the Orator we've seen since his talk in Arizona after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting back in January.His jobs speech was an energetic, spicy humdinger that finally gave his depressed base a few desperately needed tingles after months of unmitigatedly bad news for them and for him.
2 Questions at Heart of Bin Laden’s Islam
Lawrence Wright, Bloomberg
When Osama bin Laden began his war on America in 1996, he was posing two questions. The first was: What is Islam?Al-Qaeda’s definition of the faith is one that is permanently in conflict with nonbelievers — a category that includes all Muslims who don’t subscribe to the narrow fundamentalism of bin Laden and his cohort. Measured by its body count, the real Clash of Civilizations was waged inside Islam itself.
Remembering 9/11
Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics
I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday.I remember walking into a staff office half a world away and watching the beginning end on a small TV screen. I remember watching grown men cry.I remember being ashamed that I'd been at Wendy's eating a hamburger when it had started. I remember asking myself who ate Wendy's in Tokyo.I remember trying to reach my girlfriend who worked at the White House to make sure she was okay. I remember cell phones at home not working.I remember getting through to my parents to let them know I was okay. I remember being told they needed the phone line…