Tag Archive 'Richard Nixon'

Thomas Frank’s weird defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News *UPDATED*

As far as I can tell, Frank’s primary defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News is that Obama isn’t as bad as Nixon’s attacks on the press were.  Given the low esteem in which liberals hold Nixon, I think we can safely call that damning with faint praise.  (Or, perhaps, praising with faint damns would [...]

What do Obama and Nixon have in common?

You’d think that Obama and Richard Nixon have nothing in common — but you’d be wrong.  They both were whining self-pitiers who couldn’t stand the attacks that are entirely normative in a democratic political process.  You can read here about Obama’s inability to take any criticism whatsoever, and the following should remind you of Nixon’s [...]

Getting the facts right about Presidential chit-chats

In an earlier post, I tackled Obama’s incredible naiveté  (or stupidity) in proposing that, if he were President, he’d just go off and have a little chat with dictators who gleefully kill their own citizens and who promise to kill the citizens of other nations.  I said that the President of the United States never [...]