by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Some openings for Obama
1) Iraq. Far fewer American soldiers died in combat in Iraq over the last forty days than were murdered in Obama’s Chicago during the commensurate period. Continue reading “Is It All That Bad?”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Campaign Rhetoric, Election Reality
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The King Is Dead; Long Live the King!
One dilemma for Obama is that his campaign was especially apocalyptic about America: Bush ruined everything. Continue reading “Campaign Rhetoric, Election Reality”
The Same Old Change
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
We will likely see a lot of political “readjustments” come January, once President-elect Barack Obama and many new Democratic congressmen assume office, and the Republican administration leaves. Continue reading “The Same Old Change”
Which Way Will Obama Go?
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The Great Guessing Game
Will Obama, the old ideologue from Chicago, go hard left, OR, as the repackaged moderate of the campaign, “rule” (his campaign’s word, not mine) with Augustan moderation, OR, as a cut-the-difference “healer,” simply vote present — even as each faction now cries for its own version of “Let Obama be Obama”? Continue reading “Which Way Will Obama Go?”
Upside Down World
by Victor Davis Hanson
PajamasMedia.com
It doesn’t compute
Everyone knows that by and large the black and Hispanic communities are not in block voting sympathetic to gay marriage much less overt homosexuality. Living at ground zero of the illegal immigration influx, I see such attitudes voiced openly and unashamedly. Continue reading “Upside Down World”
Win One For the Messiah!
Excuse me if I remain unmoved by the misguided religious fervor.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Just one punch of the ballot is all it took. Now suddenly almost every one, here and abroad, is supposed to appreciate the newfound morality of the American people, change their own prior wicked ways, and do what they must for newly elected Barack Obama. Continue reading “Win One For the Messiah!”
Make Haste Slowly, President Obama?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Festina lente. Make haste slowly. That was the motto of the revolutionary minded young Augustus who soon grasped that he needed to build upon Rome’s past, rather than dismantle it. Continue reading “Make Haste Slowly, President Obama?”
The Day After
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Reconciliation
I wish President-elect Obama well, and hope that even his critics can concede that he waged a successful and often brilliant (if not shrewdly stealthy) campaign. Continue reading “The Day After”
Be Careful What You Wish For
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
A New Face
For weeks we’ve been told that the Iraqis were playing tough and demanding time-lines for American withdrawal, the subtext being that mean George Bush was once again conniving for permanent imperial bases. Continue reading “Be Careful What You Wish For”
America Compared to What?
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
After the September financial meltdown, many abroad, and some at home, immediately — and with undisguised glee — blamed America’s problems on cowboy excess and forecast the end of American global influence. Continue reading “America Compared to What?”