Category: Barack Obama

One of the selling points for Barack Obama was that he and his wife would be the new Kennedy dynasty:  young, attractive, articulate and Democratic.  They were Jack and Jackie all over again.  As with so many things about the Obamas, that was completely false hype.  Indeed, a closer look

Something doesn’t add up here: Back in June 2008, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned short form of his Hawaii birth certificate.  When people questioned the scanning, a few carefully chosen media types were invited to attest to the underlying long-form document’s authenticity, including FactCheck.org: FactCheck.org staffers have now

Once again, Obama looks as if he’s bowing to a foreign leader: Could it be that, as a tall man, Obama has a naturally obsequious handshake?  That is, is he politely bringing his head down the level of the person with whom he’s shaking hands, and does he do this

All of us griped about the pep rally quality the “memorial” service had.  Many chided Obama for not being the grown-up, and requesting, in a short sentence, that people remain silence.  It turns out that Obama wasn’t just passive, he was complicit in the applause.  You won’t believe this.  You

I’ve been quiet so far about the President’s speech and the memorial service, but I’m sufficiently irked by the praise being heaped upon it (praise measured by the Left using the standard of insults to Palin) that I’m not going to be quiet any more. First, contrary to the hype

J.E. Dyer writes about the way in which Obama, having joined with those who sought to destroy American norms and institutions, may finally realize that he’s crawled to the top of a possibly worthless heap — and one that he helped reduce to that level. Michelle Obama Malkin points out

Brilliant. That’s just it. Brilliant. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaRCq9eXKw[/youtube] Hat tip:  Ed Driscoll

Years ago, I predicted that Obama, when challenged, would either go ballistic or would fall apart at the seams.  I was almost right.  Rather than doing one or the other, Obama seems to have managed to do both (emphasis mine): Max’s shout [in Where the Wild Things Are], and the

Is it just me, or does Obama sound more upset about losing the chance to host the World Cup than he does about the disastrous (for his administration and, perhaps, world stability) revelations from Wikileak? This is Obama regarding the World Cup:  “‘I think it was the wrong decision,’ Obama

Abe Greenwald compellingly argues that, whether in full power or disabled, Obama is a very dangerous man in the White House.