Sarkozy Gets the Boot
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 6th, 2012 11:08 pm by HL
Sarkozy Gets the Boot
Christopher Dickey, The Daily Beast
France"”and, along with it, Europe and possibly the global economy"”are about to enter a new and uncertain era. The first exit polls in French media have put socialist François Hollande ahead of the center-right incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, with more than 52 percent of the vote.The new guard may not be not quite as scary as Hollande's left-wing rhetoric during the campaign has led some people to believe. Even before the numbers came in, he was moving to reassure financial markets by reaching out to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The vote, though…
Obama’s Liberal Experiment Has Failed
Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
By Victor Davis HansonBioThe temple of postmodern liberalism was rocked these last few weeks, as a number of supporting columns and buttresses simply crashed, leaving the entire edifice wobbling. Fake, but Accurate Identities?The trivial Elizabeth "high cheek-bones" fraud nonetheless offered a draw-back-the-curtain look into the gears and levers of our national race industry. The real story is not that the multimillionaire blond liberal, one-percenter Warren fabricated a Cherokee identity for over a decade (to the delight of her quota-thirsty universities), but rather the…
A Revealing Look at Obama-Era Liberalism
Ross Douthat, New York Times
A WEEK ago the Obama re-election campaign unveiled a slogan for the fall campaign — its answer to Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America,” Bill Clinton’s “bridge to the 21st century,” and other successful re-election pitches. There were reports that the slogan-writing process had been a struggle for the White House, and the final product bore those rumors out. “Forward,” the Obama campaign will be declaiming to Americans, which feels like a none-too-subtle admission that a look backward at the Obama…
