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"I think 'Will & Grace' probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody's ever done."
While Team Obama eagerly engages in various campaigns of misdirection to get people talking about anything other than the president’s terrible economic performance, it looks like last week’s flap concerning the resignation of the Romney camp’s openly gay staffer presented Team Obama an opportunity to work on their own gay-marriage messaging. Sending out their top [...]
... ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank?
Will Team Obama run on the President’s record, or from it? In their new 60-second ad “Go,” aimed at swing states, the Obama campaign tries to sell voters on Barack Obama’s accomplishments in his term in office. However, a couple of omissions are rather telling: “We’re certainly running on our record,” senior Obama strategist David [...]
Do as I say, not as I do.
In another of the “Do as I say, not as I do” OOTD entries, we finally include Barack Obama’s personally-delivered attack on Mitt Romney over whether the Republican nominee has the testicular fortitude to fight the war on terror. The attack went against the stated personal ethics of a leader in the Democratic Party. You [...]
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
The first rule of Campaign Club is to pick a venue that produces an overflow crowd. The second rule of Campaign Club is that the first rule is critically important for the kickoff event. Barack Obama and his team managed to violate both rules, and Breitbart’s Alexander Marlow noticed: Barack Obama launched his campaign in [...]
Reelection.
President Barack Obama launched a new phase of his re-election campaign on Saturday by branding GOP challenger Mitt Romney as an eager rubber stamp for extremist Republicans in Congress and offering himself as a hard-charging champion of an embattled middle class. In the first formal rallies of his bid for a second term, Obama acknowledged [...]
Second verse, same as the first
The patience of the folks at TransCanada Corp. may not be infinite, but it’s lasting far longer than I would have expected them to continue putting up with the nonsense coming out of the White House. On Friday, they filed yet another permit to move forward on construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, complying with [...]
Plus, the RNC explains why.
Even before this week’s economic indicators, the Obama campaign had signaled that it would do anything to distract voters from the economic malaise of Obamanomics. After today’s jobs report, that job will become tougher — but don’t expect Team Obama to change their strategy. In fact, as Charles Krauthammer rightly observes, Barack Obama and his [...]
Plus, Ramirez explains the slogan.
Looks like Barack Obama’s new campaign slogan will be incredibly popular … with his opponents. American Crossroads launched a new ad yesterday titled “Backward,”explaining that economic progress has moved in that direction rather than forward for the last three years. More people end up on food stamps, more people drop out of the work force, [...]
Agreed to end attacks in Pakistan?
Barack Obama and his campaign have accused Mitt Romney of lacking the fortitude to take out Osama bin Laden in the kind of raid Obama ordered a year ago. Thanks to a new agreement Obama signed with Hamid Karzai, the Daily Caller reports, Romney wouldn’t even get the chance. The new agreement signed on the [...]
Research.
We’ve criticized Barack Obama and his White House staff on many occasions for their poor research skills, but there hasn’t been any incident quite as embarrassing as the gaffe made in Obama’s proclamation on Tuesday to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month. The proclamation listed several prominent Jewish Americans, including Gertrude Stein, a well-known American artist [...]
Research.
We’ve criticized Barack Obama and his White House staff on many occasions for their poor research skills, but there hasn’t been any incident quite as embarrassing as the gaffe made in Obama’s proclamation on Tuesday to commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month. The proclamation listed several prominent Jewish Americans, including Gertrude Stein, a well-known American artist [...]
Composites.
Today’s buzz surrounds the rollout of yet another composite character from the imagination of Barack Obama, this one named “Julia.” Julia represents the arc of a life under the beneficent care of Barack Obama’s policies. Interestingly, at every stage of Julia’s life, a government program exists to shield her from life’s woes. And just as [...]
Readiness, that's why.
President Obama certainly likes to talk a big game about “investing” in our national future, but, in his infinite magnanimousness, he seems more inclined toward a particular type of government “investment.” The green jobs, bailouts, and food stamps that he supports (on behalf of Americans’ welfare, of course!) are more high-risk political gambles on the [...]
Hmmm.
In 2008, Barack Obama won the Catholic vote by nine points, 54/45, over John McCain on his way to a seven-point victory in the national popular vote. Three months after announcing the HHS mandate that would force religious hospitals, schools, and charities to fund contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients, Obama has lost that edge among the [...]
Connecting, er, hiding the dots.
Let’s see if we can connect a few dots, with the help of our friend Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard. Barack Obama’s new campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney for his Swiss bank account at first hails Obama for his efforts to encourage “clean energy.” The key moment comes at the 11-second mark of the [...]
A true story of sex, lies, and self-obsession.
David Maraniss has a very long, occasionally fascinating piece in Vanity Fair, an excerpt from an upcoming book where he recounts the story of two early romances of Barack Obama’s during the years he lived in New York. If this sounds ponderous it mostly is, but buried deep within Maraniss’ piece is some real reporting. [...]
What's "forward" about the Obama campaign?
You know what this election cycle needs? Not more cowbell …. more Carter. Mitt Romney stayed on offense today in Chantilly, Virginia, and perhaps signaled a theme for the fall campaign. For the second time in three days, Romney referred to Jimmy Carter, this time directly comparing Barack Obama to the former one-term President … [...]
"The game is over."
While Bill Ayers roots for the demise of America some guy from his old neighborhood is presiding over it in Washington. Coincidence? You be the judge. This is from an event last week at the University of Oregon where Ayers was speaking on “teaching and organizing for social justice”. Most of his presentation was about [...]
Bombs answer the "mission accomplished" moment.
The thrill is back, at least in Chris Matthews’ leg. The host of MSNBC’s Hardball provided live analysis of Barack Obama’s speech in Afghanistan last night — no, wait, that’s not really accurate. Matthews, along with Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) and Politico’s Jim VandeHei provided a cheering section that only lacked a Bidenesque most-brilliant-thing-in-the-last-500-years claim. [...]
Bridge On The River -- Why?
If it weren’t for those dastardly Republicans, Barack Obama often argues, I’d have fixed all our woes by now! Unfortunately for Obama, he often gets his facts wrong in these arguments, but perhaps none quite so wrong as in a speech Monday to the Building and Construction Trades Department conference. He claimed that Speaker of [...]
Venezuelan Spring?
With our ongoing military engagement in Afghanistan, Syria on the verge of civil war, and the real possibility of an Israeli strike against Iran some time this year, could President Obama seriously be considering aiding the overthrow of the Venezuelan government if Hugo Chavez kicks the bucket? Fidel Castro seems to think so: I, for [...]
Plus, "Walmart Moms" unimpressed?
Former New York Governor George Pataki minced no words when during his interview today on Fox News when it came to Barack Obama’s ad campaign attacking Mitt Romney as a squish on Osama bin Laden. Pataki, who dealt with the aftermath of 9/11 directly along with then-mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani, said Arianna [...]
"Simply put: North Carolina looks like a mess for Democrats."
When the Democratic National Committee chose North Carolina for its 2012 national convention, the decision made some sense. Barack Obama had scored a surprising, if narrow, victory in North Carolina in 2008, which gave Democrats their first win in the South since Clinton. Using North Carolina as a swing-state beachhead, Obama could force Republicans onto [...]
Mukasey: Can you imagine Lincoln or Eisenhower bragging like this?
Last night, NBC’s Rock Center got an exclusive and unprecedented look at the Situation Room as part of the anniversary celebration over the death of Osama bin Laden — and as part of Barack Obama’s attempt to spike the football again over the success of the mission. In the middle of all this congratulatory back-slapping, [...]
Do as I say, not as I ... mean?
Some days, the President just makes it too easy. Doubling down on his attack on Mitt Romney and the supposed question of whether the Republican would have whacked Osama bin Laden if given a chance, Barack Obama insisted that he just assumed that Romney meant that when he said that the war on terror wasn’t [...]
Still dogging it.
Jim Geraghty catches another couple of interesting moments from Jodi Kantor’s book The Obamas, one of which follows up on one we’ve already highlighted in the OOTD canon. In late 2010, Barack Obama was telling people that he was a centrist Blue Dog Democrat at heart: The body of Mr. Obama’s writing and experiences before [...]
Wiggle room, or SOP?
The Obama administration and his re-election campaign will spend today and the rest of the week reminding everyone that Barack Obama is the President who killed Osama bin Laden. And that’s certainly true; it was a year ago this week that US special forces stormed bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad and shot the al-Qaeda leader [...]
"Important to the national security interests of the United States."
Isn’t it funny what you can find out on Friday evening about what our executive branch does? For instance, Agence France-Presse reported last night that Barack Obama bypassed Congress to send $192 million to the Palestinian Authority, claiming that national security required the US to put money into Mahmoud Abbas’ pocket: President Barack Obama has signed [...]
Changing positions, or changing tone?
Almost five years ago, Barack Obama promised to end the impasse with Iran through personal diplomacy, committing to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “without preconditions” during a 2007 Democratic presidential debate. Obama hasn’t met with Iranian leadership personally, nor has the standoff over Iran’s nuclear ambitions improved at all during his presidency. That’s the proper context [...]
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Forget-me-nots.
In fairness, what husband hasn’t done this? Oops! President Barack Obama forgot about the First Lady when leaving Air Force One today at the Ohio airport before his first “official” campaign event today kicking off his re-election bid. Now this is a “War on Women.” Jim Hoft and one of his commenters say that Saturday [...]
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