Obama Pundit

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Some of you might wonder why there hasn’t been much content lately on Obama Pundit. 
Besides the obvious answers (laziness, life), there is another. 
Ennui.
To put it plainly, Obama is boring.  He has been a failure, to be sure, but he has been a boring failure.  How many times can we come on here and [...]

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With Obama plummeting in the polls, his agenda in danger and the center abandoning him, the Left has come up with an explanation:  It’s all because of racism!
Jimmy Carter cites protesters calling Obama a Nazi as an example of racial politics.  Of course, Obama isn’t the first President to be called such, nor [...]

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I just don’t get this new strategy by the Democrats to attack the health care protestors head on.  If they are correct that the people showing up angry at these town hall meetings are just a fringe group organized by the Right, then this is hardly the kind of exciting information that’s going to inspire the rest of the electorate to [...]

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…are out.
Clearly, the new strategy on the Left is to equate opposition to Obama to racism.  Do you think it is a coincidence that there is suddenly a flurry of opinion pieces on Birthers and racists and how it relates to Obama’s policies?
First, we had the Yglesias piece, which I discussed below.  Then [...]

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I think it’s worthwhile to highlight liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias’ rather extraordinary column today called ‘Here Come the Racists‘ as a great example of how the Left operates these days.  Call it a ‘teachable moment’.  
I hope that wasn’t too condescending.  If so, I’m only repeating one of the President’s favorite phrases.
Let’s start with how Yglesias distorts what happened last [...]

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One of Barack Obama’s favorite methods for defending embarrassing or politically awkward statements he or others have made is to claim that they are merely ’snippets’ that were ‘taken out of context’. 
Then, after pointing this out, he goes on to attack those who would dare hold him or others accountable for such statements.  The result is that [...]

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Note how the markets dove in the early Obama presidency and have risen sharply since early March:

This trend closely aligns with Rasmussen’s approval ratings of Obama.  In the early going, Obama garnered strong approval ratings and appeared to have control of the agenda in Washington.  When his stimulus bill passed on Feb. 17, [...]

The U.S. has revoked diplomatic visas for four Honduran officials working for the interim government, which the Obama administration STILL has not recognized.
I guess it’s okay to meddle in a country’s affairs when it doesn’t hold some sort of strategic value and also makes your left-wing friends happy.

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Right now it appears that Obama’s Presidency is mired in a descending spiral that could get much, much worse.  Not only are his approval ratings steadily falling, but his oratory appears to be faltering, with gaffes and improperly calibrated statements the order of the day.
So, things look bleak.  Unless, of course, something happens.
Past Presidential first [...]

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The way things are going, Obama is on his way to a major defeat on health care.  However, it is not yet a fait accompli.
How can he turn things around?
I think the smartest thing he can do right now is to pivot into a populist position.  He has been spending much of the [...]

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Why Does Obama Keep Siding With His Party’s Left?  asks Clive Crook of the Atlantic.
Um, this should only be perplexing to those who do not yet realize that Obama is a man of the left, full bore.  During the campaign, there were plenty of signs:  his 97 percent liberal National Journal rating;  his [...]

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Turns out the surtax on the rich proposed by the Democrats as a way to fund health care will have the perverse effect of affecting doctors the most.
The top eight highest-paid professions in the U.S. are–you guessed it–in the medical or dental fields.
Medical and dental specialists top the list of the highest paid [...]

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You know the Left is worried when a liberal like Robert Reich calls on all Democrats to unite to pass health care. 
This bill is dead…

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I opined a few weeks ago that Obama and the Democrats are headed for a health care disaster on par with 1994 and, amazingly, all the pieces are falling into place.
As in 1994, the GOP has come out with a chart to depict the madness of the pending health care bureaucracy that will be created [...]

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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 [...]

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Apparently, it’s okay if you are Barack Obama.
George W. Bush was lambasted for his entire presidency for the way he would doggedly stick to a decision, even when things didn’t appear to be going his way.
Now, Obama has said that there is ‘nothing’ he ‘would have done differently’ about his stimulus plan.
Really?  Nothing?  [...]

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I don’t think I agree with the U.S./Argentina comparison as a whole.  There are some cautionary tales to be learned from the Argentinian experience, but few real parallels, in my opinion.
As for Singapore, I have actually been there myself and found it to be an extraordinarily clean city, if a bit boring.  But [...]

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Thomas Friedman of the New York Times today perfectly–though unintentionally–encapsulated the modus operandi of the current administration, Congress and their political allies
Regarding the just-passed Cap and Trade Bill in the House, the supposedly serious thinker Friedman writes:
It is pathetic that we couldn’t do better. It is appalling that so much had to be [...]

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There was a point in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Democrats changed their nomenclature and started using the term ‘investment’ as a substitute for almost any kind of proposed spending.
Democrats had been successfully tarred and feathered with the ‘big spender’ label for quite a while and needed a way avoid being pigeonholed.  A decade [...]

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Granted, we are only halfway through Barack Obama’s first year as President, but what, exactly, does he have to point to as a big success?
Mind you, a President usually can’t sprinkle pixie dust in the air and make things happen–although this was the impression Obama gave during the campaign–but given his relatively solid electoral majority [...]