Category: Barack Obama

Is Syria Obama’s Biggest Bungle?

Posted on by William Teach

The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl thinks so Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, […]

 

National Journal Gets Romney Cap Gains Cut Wrong

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On October 10, the National Journal slammed Mitt Romney for “favoring the wealthy” with his capital gains tax cut plan. The plan, NJ claims, won’t help middle-income Americans because they “don’t have investment income.” But, apparently Nat’l Journal didn’t bother to look at Romney’s actual plan because their assessment is simply wrong. Reporting on a […]

 

Biden Unhinged in VP Debate, while Ryan exuded self-control

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Last night’s Vice Presidential debate did put more pressure on Vice President Biden, who was tasked with delivering the same old progressive talking points about taxes, foreign policy, abortion, and health care — albeit with a little more spiritedness. : However, the pervasive grinning, smiling, and interrupting came off as egregiously arrogant and condescending. : Biden conveyed […]

 

NYTimes: Libya Attack Discussion is the Republican’s Fault?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Surprising to no one, The New York Times agrees with the absurd spin from team Obama that the only reason anyone is talking about the Obama administration’s week worth of lies about the attacks on our embassy in Libya — attacks that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, one of them our own ambassador […]

 

Barack Obama was cordially invited to Martha Raddatz’s wedding

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As the Vice Presidential debate approaches, you would think there would be zero chances that this debate would have a moderator with a conflict on interest: a la Gwen Ifill: in 2008. : Well, that’s not that case — again. : With ABC News’ Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz selected to moderate the 2012 Vice Presidential debate, it […]

 

ABC News’ Tapper asks ‘didn’t President Obama shoot first and aim later?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Does anyone remember when President Obama and some in the media chastised Mitt Romney over his: remarks: after the Cairo protests and the Libyan terrorist attack on our embassy in Benghazi, which led to the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens? : Who remembers when the media, by and large, ignored the true story, which surrounded the state of […]

 

Obama’s Reset World

Posted on by Michael Fell

According to Yevgeny Fyodorov, the head of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the Russian State Duma, the U.S. is slowly but surely losing unchallenged global economic and political power. Fyodorov said that: “… but in reality it is the key event in today’s global scenario. With the onset of the global economic […]

 

Red Lobster, Olive Garden Testing Program Where Even Fewer Workers Are Full Time Due To ObamaCare

Posted on by William Teach

Who would have seen this coming? Legislation has consequences out in the Real World (Washington Times) The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Obama’s health care law. Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the […]

 

Obama Refuses To Waive Stafford Act Post Hurricane Issac

Posted on by William Teach

Obama has presided over what has been a very amount of natural disasters. There have been few monster tornado outbreaks, a few big floods, and just one hurricane (barely) to make landfall on the continental United States. And how does he treat it? Well, hypocritically, of course (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama has refused to […]

 

American Success or European Failure

Posted on by Michael Fell

The most recent Washington Times/Zogby poll shows voters now favor GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney over Barack Obama on two key issues: the economy and national security. Obama had been leading prior to the October 3rd debate.:  The results of that debate changed a lot of minds.:  On national security, Romney is now preferred 48 […]

 

Buzzfeed: Hey, Romney Drove Past a Confederate Flag, He Must be a Racist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Before we get any further into this story, I have to warn you that this is not satire. That having been said, Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller perpetrated one of the worst attempts at guilt by association ever made. Miller attempted to intimate that Mitt Romney is a racist because his motorcade drove past private property that […]

 

Six Trillion Dollar Man: A Lyrical Evisceration of Obama

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Justen Charters, co-founder of Resistance 44, is sick of Obamanomics. : After all, President Obama : is “the six trillion dollar man” who “doesn’t have a budget plan” : and “basic economics is something he doesn’t understand.” : Enjoy! #obamastyle P.S. Justen, you didn’t make this song — somebody else made that happen.

 

Bummer: Nickelodeon Upset That Romney Declined To Appear With People Who Can’t Vote

Posted on by William Teach

Perhaps Nick’ should be a bit more concerned with a President who decided to campaign the day after our Libyan consulate was attacked and the ambassador was killed, as well as a president who blows off world leaders, including the Israeli P.M., in order to go on The View and be eye candy (Mediaite) Nickelodeon’s […]

 

Energy Starts American Recovery

Posted on by Michael Fell

America needs to become energy independent. America’s dependence on foreign energy puts her at great risk in a world that grows increasingly unstable. Given the current political upheavals in the Middle East, this reality is more than slapping America in the face. Those who claim to be “progressive” feel a compulsive obsession to force Americans […]

 

Ambassador Susan Rice Decides To Blame Intelligence Community For Foolishly Blaming Mohammed Video

Posted on by William Teach

This seems to be much the consensus amongst the Obama administration, which has repeatedly blamed a “lack of intelligence” for coming out and blaming the video time and time again, including when Obama gave his speech at the United Nation, despite knowing within hours that the attack was most likely a pre-planned terrorist attack by […]

 

Serial Misogynist Bill Maher: “Hey, Obama Kinda Sucked During Debate”

Posted on by William Teach

And provides some more words that will surely soon be considered racist (The Blaze) During his HBO show on Friday, Liberal comedian Bill Maher, who donated $1 million to a pro-Obama Super PAC earlier this year, jokingly wondered what President Obama spent his money on after watching his poor debate performance this week, saying it […]

 

After Slamming Palin, NY Times Excited for Up Coming Obama Death Panels

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

For The New York Times, Steven Ratner had to admit last month that he was pretty darned excited for those Obamacare death panels to get started. “WE need death panels,” he said on September 16. This from the same paper that in 2009 attacked Gov. Sarah Palin for her rhetoric and an Old Media establishment […]

 

Unemployment 7.8% October Surprise

Posted on by Michael Fell

After having his hat handed to him and being shown the door by his opponent in a debate performance so poor for Barack Obama that his only recourse was to bully Mitt Romney on the campaign stump the next day, what is a candidate hoping for re-election supposed to do to change the momentum? Have […]

 

Romney Destroys Obama in First Debate, Left-wingers Go Nuts

Posted on by Matt Vespa

We all got a shot of life Wednesday night from Mitt Romney. : I received a lot of flak, and some insults, for: my previous post: castigating Romney for lacking joie de vivre, but he came out swinging and left the president looking for his teleprompter. : While some posted polls in the comment section to show Romney’s campaign […]

 

Liberal on Liberal Violence, MSNBC’s Fineman Calls Lehrer ‘Useless’ and criminally negligent

Posted on by Matt Vespa

MSNBC contributor Howard Fineman lamented how the president was on the defensive concerning his first bout with Republican nominee Mitt Romney last night.:  Jim Lehrer, who moderated the October 3 debate, has a history of bias that is usually cloaked with his soporific disposition. However, Fineman seemed agitated to the point of calling Lehrer “useless” […]

 

Obamanomics Decimated the American Middle Class, Working Poor

Posted on by Matt Vespa

As our Hot Air Green Room colleague Howard Portnoy: noted on October 3, Joe Biden said that the middle class has been “buried” for the past four years. : A tacit realization that President Obama’s impotent economic policies has killed American economic vigor. Keep ‘em coming Joe! : Biden seems to be talking the Democratic ticket right out […]

 

Romney: “You Know Obama’s A Complete SCOAMF On Libya, Right?”

Posted on by William Teach

OK, he didn’t call Obama a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but, dog whistle, you know? (Fox News) Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a “tragic […]

 

Is It Racist To Mention That The Unemployment Rate Has Been 8%+ For “44” Straight Months?

Posted on by William Teach

You know, since Obama is the 44th president, and since everything else, including the words Chicago and golf, are considered racist to mention (WRAL) With a month to go until the presidential election, the government on Friday issues its September jobs report, expected to show an uptick in the U.S. unemployment rate after employers added […]

 

Romney in Big Trouble

Posted on by Michael Fell

Following the first presidential debate on October 3rd between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, one in which Romney repeatedly scored and Obama appeared lost, annoyed and disinterested; pundits, pollsters and political junkies alike unanimously declared Mitt Romney as the winner. Obama, a long time card carrying member of the self-proclaimed institutionalized “progressive” left intellectual elite, […]

 

Obama at the First Presidential Debate: Sullenness Punctuated By Peevishness

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, the first debate for the 2012 presidential election is now in the can. Here are the highlights… or maybe a better way to say it is the lowlights…. of Obama’s answers to Jim Lehrer’s control free questions. Obama on the economy Obama on healthcare Obama on jobs Obama on his failure to live up […]

 

BTW, Obama Decided Not To Send In The Military To Rescue Our Benghazi Personnel

Posted on by William Teach

As Ace points out, on one hand Team Obama decided not to increase security at the Benghazi consulate. On the other hand According to the Wall Street Journal, as the attack on the U.S. consulate was raging, Obama took a “wait and see” approach. Ninety minutes after news of the attack reached Washington, Obama, Sec. […]

 

Chris Matthews Loses It Post Debate

Posted on by William Teach

I’m not going to bother with a long debate wrap-up, since this is a crosspost. John Hawkins (and many others) have done a fine, fine job in digesting the debate. I will say one thing: I listened to most of the debate on the radio, and it was somewhat like the Nixon-Kennedy debate, where those […]

 

Mitt Romney Vs. Barack Obama Debate Analysis: If There Was A Slaughter Rule, They Would Have Called It For Romney 45 Minutes In.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Although I am rather famously not a fan of Mitt Romney, I’ve given him credit all along for being a good debater. In fact, Mitt Romney was the best debater in the Republican presidential field other than Newt Gingrich, who was head and shoulders better than everyone else. Although Mitt had his bad nights, he […]

 

Solutions: Michelle Obama Proposes Vegetable Offsets for School Lunch Detractors

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

First lady Michelle Obama has been under fire since interfering in school lunches, but through the power of her husband’s control over the Department of Education, she has come up with a solution. Kids who don’t want to eat the veggies in their school lunches can buy new “Vegetable Offsets” from the DOE. Teens are […]

 

Doctors are sick of Obamacare

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Well, Obama can surely not count on doctors to back him in his re-election bid. Huffington Post’s Harry Bradford: posted on October 2: that: More than half of physicians say they’ll vote for Mitt Romney come November 6th compared to just 36 percent for Obama, according to a: recent survey by medical staffing firm Jackson and Cokey. In […]