Obama Parrots Chavez, Shows Why He Can’t Lead
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 10th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Obama Parrots Chavez, Shows Why He Can’t Lead
Peter Ferrara, Forbes
On Tuesday, President Obama went to Osawatomie High School in Kansas to deliver an address framing the economic issues for the 2012 election. He was following in the footsteps of turn of the century “progressive” Teddy Roosevelt, who spoke at that same site 100 years ago to rail against big corporations and the privileged, while calling for “fair play” for ordinary Americans.But the speech only showed why Obama can’t lead America on the economy. Instead of leading us forward into the modern economics of the 21st century, he…
Eric Holder Stonewalls On
Michael Walsh, New York Post
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that everything Attorney General Eric Holder told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday was true. That the answer to several questions about who ordered Fast and Furious — the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “deeply flawed, reckless, misguided and inexcusable” (Holder’s words) gun-trafficking operation — is: “We don’t know yet.”
All the GOP’s Gordon Gekkos
Paul Krugman, New York Times
Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the release of the movie “Wall Street,” and the film seems more relevant than ever. The self-righteous screeds of financial tycoons denouncing President Obama all read like variations on Gordon Gekko’s famous “greed is good” speech, while the complaints of Occupy Wall Street sound just like what Gekko says in private: “I create nothing. I own,” he declares at one point; at another, he asks his protégé, “Now you’re not naïve…
No Need to Rush Primary Process
Jonah Goldberg, Boston Herald
In 2008, the Democrats were blessed with two candidates the party's rank-and-file admired almost as much as the press corps did.Ultimately Barack Obama, the hope-and-change guy, was more popular than Hillary Clinton if for no other reason than that the former first lady came with so much baggage "” mostly in the form of her husband, but also some scandals of her own "” while Obama was a fresh start.But everyone let that contest play out. There was little urgency over the need to pick a candidate as soon as possible.This time, the Republican field is…