Obama’s Newfound Populism: All Hat No Cattle

Marshall Auerback
President Obama is taking a sharp, populist tone with Wall Street and scolding the ways of Washington. Once again, he is looking to the Senate to follow the House and pass a top legislative priority: sweeping financial regulatory reform. It might feel satisfying to hear the President criticize “reckless”, “fat cat” bankers, but the [...]

Hillary Was Right

Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president, and he better figure out what he’s doing before it’s too late.
via The Daily Beast.

Bam: Man in the muddle – NYPOST.com

Michael Goodwin:
Perhaps it was inevitable. A man who voted “pres ent” 130 times in the Illi nois Legislature couldn't possibly morph into a savvy and decisive leader of the free world in such a short time.
Yet even the pessimists among us are alarmed by the cloud of uncertainty and confusion hanging over the White House. [...]

Setting up our military to fail – NYPOST.com

Ralph Peters:
Just plain nuts: That’s the only possible characterization for last night’s presidential declaration of surrender in advance of a renewed campaign in Afghanistan.
President Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan — but he’ll “begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.” Then why send them?

Read more:NYPOST.com.

Five More Amateur Mistakes By the Obama Administration – Townhall.com

John Hawkins :

“My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.” — Sarah Palin
Since he has been elected, Barack Obama has been like a four year old wearing water wings and desperately trying to reach the edge of the pool. In other words, he has been completely out [...]

7 stories Obama doesn’t want told – Yahoo! News

John F. Harris
Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.
No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were [...]

RealClearPolitics – Obama’s Chump Diplomacy

By Rich Lowry
Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama – loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He’s the world’s celebrity ingenue, the slender naïf perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders.
Full article: RealClearPolitics.

Obama’s Indecision

Ken Blackwell :
“Cost of indecision about Afghanistan is mounting.” That’s not a headline on Townhall.com. It’s the title of a column by the dean of liberal Washington pundits, David Broder.Even David Broder is concerned about President Obama’s failure to decide on a proper course of action in the war the President himself called “a war [...]

Obama course, obstacles all too familiar

BY STEVE HUNTLEY
In a bit of political irony, the administration of President Obama is turning out to be the mirror image of the White House of President George W. Bush.
Democrats accused Bush of taking his eye off the ball, the war of necessity in Afghanistan, for a war of choice in Iraq. Now Republicans charge [...]

This Is Obama’s Economic Crisis Now – NYTimes.com

By CHARLES M. BLOW
In October 2008, the candidate Barack Obama delivered a major economic speech in Toledo, Ohio. In it he said: “Right now, we face an immediate economic emergency, and that requires urgent action. We can’t wait to help workers and families and communities who are struggling right now — who don’t know if [...]