Obama Pundit

by Obama Pundit
Only in Newsweek–which has devolved into nothing more than an echo chamber for the Obama administration–can you see a headline that asks:  Is Obama More Catholic Than The Pope?
When Obama meets the pope tomorrow, they’ll politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won’t care, because they know Obama’s on their [...]

by Obama Pundit
There has been a clear drop in Obama’s approval ratings, but the mainstream media still continues to insist they are ‘really high’, as exemplified by this bit in Time:
Obama has so far been able to maintain high approval ratings.  Even though he’s showing some weakening in his approval rating, they overall remain very [...]

by Obama Pundit
Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson breaks it down:
The Obama infatuation is a great unreported story of our time. Has any recent president basked in so much favorable media coverage? Well, maybe John Kennedy for a moment; but no president since. On the whole, this is not healthy for America.
…The press should not be hostile; but [...]

by Obama Pundit
David, isn’t the problem here that Obama maintains a rhetorical opposition to the Bush/Cheney policy while, in fact, producing results that differ very little in actual substance?  I think, based on your post, that you’d agree.
But maybe it just points to the problem with this debate:  It’s basically over.  The reason Obama won’t [...]

by David V. Johnson
Freedom of choice can be a dangerous thing.  That’s why our splendid republic tends to restrict our options to equally anodyne alternatives: Coke or Pepsi? Kris or Adam?  Democrats or Republicans?
Last Thursday, we were treated to another empty selection: Obama or Cheney?  The media portrayed their near-simultaneous speeches on national security as [...]

by Obama Pundit
My memory isn’t what it used to be, but didn’t the media and most political commentators used to love Moderates? 
It seems like under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, the media was always preaching that it was the Moderates that had to be accommodated to slow down the Conservative agenda.  Moderates had the wisdom [...]