Even MORE Cartoons of the Week! (7/31/09)

The Two Faces of Condi and Michelle

by Tom Bevan

This is bit of a touchy subject, but since the President has declared we’re currently in the middle of another “teachable moment” on race and the Attorney General has urged me not to be a coward when it comes to discussing the issue, I figure I might as well dive right [...]

Obama’s birth debate: It’s about loyalty

By James Lewis
The birth debate about Obama is real enough, but it is legally complicated, as analyzed by legal beagle Andrew McCarthy at National Review. No judge is going to question the Constitutional qualifications of an elected president. I’m sorry, but that’s the practical reality. The judge is going to follow stare decisis — the [...]

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Teachable Moments

Meredith Jessup :

President Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley walk from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House, July 30, 2009. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
via Townhall.com Blog

Another “Jimmy Carter” moment for Barack Obama

Remember the early days of the Jimmy Carter administration?  In 1976, our new president-elect announced a promise to give Americans a $50 tax rebate to stimulate the economy.  Ask your parents or grandparents if you’re not old enough to remember first-hand.
You won’t find too many people who experienced the Jimmy Carter administration who would call [...]

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W.H. makes CEOs pay for lunch

Eamon Javers
Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office.
But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit [...]

Obama Involvement in Gates Flap Hurt Image, Poll Finds

By Jon Cohen
Did President Obama accelerate his public image problems by venturing into the racial politics swirling around the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.?
The intriguing possibility comes from a Pew Research Center analysis released Thursday: The poll finds that Obama’s overall approval rating among whites tumbled seven percentage points from just after [...]

A Shooting Star Dims

By Suzanne Fields
Barack Obama was a rock star on the campaign trail and his aura went undimmed in his first few months of office. But then he began taking too many curtain calls. The applause subsided, but he kept coming back to center stage to try harder to wow us. He forgot what every star [...]

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