The President of the United States Said That? – The Corner on National Review Online

President Obama, in his pitch to Democrats on the Hill today (from the New York Times):
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody [...]

RealClearPolitics – Obama is Overreaching

By Jay Ambrose
So there is President Barack Obama, giving a speech to a bunch of Democrats, and he is saying “y’all” do this and “y’all” should consider that, and pretty soon I am asking myself, how did he become habituated to saying “y’all?” In his youth in Indonesia and Hawaii? From his Kansas grandparents? At [...]

Michelle Obama: It’s a ’sacrifice’ to travel to Europe to pitch for the Olympics. But I’m doing it for the kids. | Washington Examiner

Byron York:
In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her “dear friend” and “chit-chat buddy” Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow’s visit by President Obama, is a “sacrifice” on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. “As much of a [...]

American Thinker: Obama’s Work Ethic

By Ed Lasky
Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own — when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents.
Continued:  American Thinker

Barack Obama, College Administrator – National Review Online

Our commander-in-chief seems to think he’s president of the University of America.
By Victor Davis Hanson
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in [...]

Dana Milbank: Michelle Obama Gets Her Farmers Market – WashingtonPost.com

By Dana Milbank
Let’s say you’re preparing dinner and you realize with dismay that you don’t have any certified organic Tuscan kale. What to do?
Here’s how Michelle Obama handled this very predicament Thursday afternoon:
The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I [...]

Hypocrisy Alert #257: Shared sacrifice for thee….

…but not for He. (h/t: Michelle Malkin)
ABC (All Barack Channel) reports:
President Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard Getaway Is Expected to Cost Tens of Thousands; Where Else Could He Go for That Kind of Money?
What can tens of thousands of dollars buy for a family vacation? In the case of the nation’s first family, think of a secluded, [...]

New Rules for Radicals

By David Harsanyi
If you’re a virtuous and patriotic American, you may find this column either offensive or misleading. If so, please forward it to White House authorities at the Department of Fishy Activity. (E-mail the good people at flag(at)whitehouse.gov.)
via RealClearPolitics

$20m holiday home at Blue Heron Farm suits Barack Obama to a tee

Tim Reid:
It might have been the golf tee that swung it for President Obama as he looked for a summer holiday retreat — but the 28 acres on Martha’s Vineyard, the swimming pool, private beach and basketball court may just have clinched it too.
Mr Obama and the First Family are planning to spend their summer [...]

Don’t let them get away with it!!

I’ve heard it more than once just today: that the reason Barack Obama’s poll numbers are going down is because Americans are finding out that he is not the man they thought he was.
Speak for yourselves, recovering Obamabots!
Readers of this blog know that nothing new was learned about Obama recently that hasn’t been known [...]