Barack Obama

Obamacare-Speak

The Obama administration is altering its language like there’s no tomorrow. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  The Obama administration once gave us “man-caused disasters” for acts of terrorism and “workplace violence” for the Fort Hood shootings. Now it has trumped those past linguistic contortions by changing words to mask the Obamacare disaster. The […]

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Obama’s Noble Lies

Stop worrying whether the president’s statements conform to ossified standards if truth. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  What is the common denominator of the Obama administration’s serial scandals — the Justice Department’s spying on AP, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the NSA surveillance, the lies about Benghazi and the ACA — and much of the White

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The Moral Decline of Oprah

by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner  Multi-billionaire Oprah Winfrey, after her surreal $38,000 handbag “racism” encounter in Switzerland, has just weighed in again on race and the presidency, as yet the nth way of hyping her new film: “There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and

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The Rule of Law?

by Victor Davis Hanson // NRO’s The Corner  When his pet businesses did not like elements of the Affordable Care Act, Obama simply exempted them. When employers objected that their mandate would unduly hamper job creation, the president simply ignored the settled law and exempted them. Now, when millions have lost their coverage, the president is

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America’s Wilderness Years

by Victor Davis Hanson // PJ Media  Most two-term presidents leave some sort of legacy. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. George W. Bush prevented another 9/11, and constructed an anti-terrorism protocol that even his critical successor embraced and often expanded. Even our one-term presidents have achieved something. JFK got Soviet missiles out of Cuba. LBJ

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Obama’s Fallout for the Left

He will not be harmed by his “misspeaking,” but his fellow liberals will. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  Conservatives keep blaring, “Obama lied!” over the president’s serial untruths about the Affordable Care Act. Even liberal pundits now talk of the president’s “misspeaking,” or even of his “misleading” statements and only so-so corrections. But

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Needed: A Different Sort of President

Charismatic career politicians don’t make the best commanders-in-chief. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online  The second terms of the latest three presidents have not been successful. Bill Clinton was impeached after his infamous lie to Americans, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” George W. Bush was blamed for the postwar violence

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