Obama, Carter, Truman
Interesting and provocative article from Hoover fellow – Victor Davis Hanson – re Obama foreign policy as lacking in toughness from real politik.
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David Brooks – great article on Obama and the Two Bushes
This column by David Brooks is quite provocative and interesting. He writes: Hezbollah is one of the world’s most radical terrorist organizations. Over the last week or so, it has staged an armed assault on the democratic government of Lebanon Barack Obama issued a statement in response. He called on “all those who have influence [...]
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Two Achilles Heels for Obama
Overall Obama is an extraordinarily inspiring figure, and his message is the right message for our times. McCain’s principled leadership is also inspiring, and it is clear he puts the nation ahead of himself. But Obama seems to be more in tune with what this nation and world need. That said, Obama will need to [...]
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Go Obama! Gutsy Honesty and Openness
Anyone who didn’t listen to Obama’s speech on "race" and "religion" in Philadelphia today (March 18 2007) MUST do so. You can see it here. It proves the depth of this candidate, and the hope he can bring to America and the world. This guy is such an exceptional human being, such an elegant "mentsch", [...]
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Campaigning For America
– As we gear towards the general election, a word of caution for US Presidential candidates about an important constituency that will not vote for them – According to conventional wisdom, Presidential candidates can take campaign stances that will curry favor with particular constituencies of voters, only to be forgiven for adjusting campaign positions once [...]
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Obama’s Remaining Achilles Heel
Related to an issue I had blogged about 6 weeks ago, Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ that Obama’s real vulnerability is not his past connection to the Reverend Wright but his simplistic formulas on Iran: Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, collector of centrifuges, makes Jeremiah Wright look like Little Bo Peep. Yet this Tuesday Barack Obama [...]
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