Of all the time-honored failings for which we criticize sitting presidents — by “we” I mean pundits, academics and other members of the chattering phylum — two charges stand out: imperialism and shrinkage. Usually it’s one or the other. When the president is unpopular or when he’s lost control of his agenda or when he just seems inadequate to the demands of the job, the headline “The Incredible Shrinking Presidency” proliferates like kudzu. When the Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006, the Economist proclaimed “The Incredible Shrinking...more »
On Feb. 16, I wrote a column on “Obama’s imperial presidency,” and the term caught fire – as it should. Since then: The headline writers at Commentary Magazine used the apt...
WorldNetDaily 2014-02-26The Yomiuri Shimbun The Japanese and U.S. governments have been making arrangements for Japan to welcome U.S. President Barack Obama as a state guest for his visit on April 22 and 23. “[To show] our...
The Japan News 2014-02-14President Obama is such a weak strongman. What's more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant. That, at any rate, is Republicans' critique of him. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Obama's...
STL Today 2014-03-04President Barack Obama pauses as he answers a question regarding the ongoing situation in the Ukraine during a visit to Powell Elementary School in Washington on March 4. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais,...
Denver Post 2014-03-05
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President Obama is such a weak strongman. What’s more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant. That, at any rate, is Republicans’ critique of him. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Obama’s critics pivoted seamlessly from complaining about his overreach to fretting that he is being too cautious. Call it Operation Oxymoron. Photos Join the Discussion Last Wednesday, I sat in...
The Salt Lake Tribune 2014-03-04Barack Obama has been diagnosed with presidential shrinkage many times. By Jonah Goldberg Of all the time-honored failings for which we criticize sitting presidents -- by "we" I mean pundits, academics and other members of the chattering phylum -- two charges stand out: imperialism and shrinkage. Usually it's one or the other.Jonah Goldberg When the president is unpopular or...
Penn Live 2014-02-21WASHINGTON – President Obama is such a weak strongman. What’s more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant. That, at any rate, is Republicans’ critique of him. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Obama’s critics pivoted seamlessly from complaining about his overreach to fretting that he is being too cautious. Call it Operation Oxymoron....
Sacramento Bee 2014-03-05President Obama is such a weak strongman. What’s more, he is a feeble dictator and a timid tyrant. That, at any rate, is the Republican critique of this president. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Obama’s critics pivoted seamlessly from complaining about his overreach to fretting that he is being too cautious. Call it Operation Oxymoron. Dana Milbank Dana...
The Washington Post 2014-03-03Re "Imperial, shrinking president," Opinion, Feb. 18 As Jonah Goldberg insinuates, what we all learned in fifth-grade civics class about the "three branches of government producing checks and balances" now appears doubtful. Something of an honor system must operate to keep President Obama and Congress on the constitutional level. Obama contends that Congress has granted him...
The Los Angeles Times 2014-02-21Famed journalist George Seldes (1890 - 1995) called them "prostitutes of the press." Paul Craig Roberts calls them "presstitutes." They're that and much more. They're propagandists, not journalists. They're charlatans. They're scam artists. They're blackguards. They're scoundrels in the worst sense of the term. They make street whores look respectable by comparison. They're...
The People's Voice 2014-03-06
The Presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when he became the 44th President of the United States. Obama was a United States Senator from Illinois at the time of his victory over Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Barack Obama is the first African-American president of the United States, as well as the first born in Hawaii.
His policy decisions have addressed a global financial crisis and have included changes in tax policies, legislation to reform the United States health care industry, foreign policy initiatives and the phasing out of detention of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He attended the G-20 London summit and later visited U.S. troops in Iraq. On the tour of various European countries following the G-20 summit, he announced in Prague that he intended to negotiate substantial reduction in the world's nuclear arsenals, en route to their eventual extinction. In October 2009, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
