The Obama White House’s relentless gloating over the killing of Osama bin Laden may or may not be exploitative (or “despicable,” as Arianna Huffington puts it). As a moral proposition it does seem that a little more credit …
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Revisiting the bin Laden Raid: Was Capture Ever an Option?
After last year’s bin Laden raid I wrote a few of posts about the operation’s original intent–namely, whether the objective had always been to kill the al-Qaeda leader, or whether capture had ever been a viable option. The White House gave unclear and shifting answers on this point, but nothing I’ve seen since last May suggests that …
Obama’s Search for a Slogan
The FT‘s Ed Luce notes that Obama hasn’t yet settled on one:
Nor has Mr Obama found a good catchline to frame his side of the story. Last year he picked the slogan: “Winning the future”. It quickly vanished. In his State of the Union address this year, he switched to “An America built to last” – and that was pretty much the
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Obama About as Popular Abroad as He Is at Home
Less than half the world – 46% — would want to see President Barack Obama reelected, according to a new poll out Thursday of 150 nations done by the U.S. Global Leadership Project, a collaboration between the Meridian International Center and Gallup. That’s exactly the percentage of Americans who approve of the job Obama’s doing …
Is Mitt Romney Really More Charitable Than Barack Obama?
When Joe Biden went to New Hampshire on Thursday to attack Mitt Romney’s tax proposals, the Romney campaign greeted Biden by attacking President Barack Obama’s charitable giving rate. On a campaign conference call with …
Photos: Oval Office Secrets from Truman to Obama
The inside story of what happens when members of this most exclusive fraternity talk.
Goldman Sachs: Best Way to Survive the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ is Sending Obama, Republicans Back to Washington
Market-observers are worrying about a new obstacle in the path of economic recovery: America’s impending “fiscal cliff.” Economists from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to Alan Blinder have been warning of the $600 billion that …
Is Obama Really Winning the Economic Blame Game?
In the Monday, April 9, New York Times piece on American Crossroads’ plans to provide heavy air support for Mitt Romney while he resupplies for the general election, the super PAC’s president, Steven J. Law, makes an unusual statement:
Mr. Law said Crossroads research suggests that Mr. Obama’s campaign has started to gain traction
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Brazil’s Rousseff Goes to Washington
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is expected for her first official visit to Washington on Monday. Though the visit won’t include a basketball game, 19-gun salute or formal state dinner that British Prime Minister David Cameron enjoyed last month, it won’t be the tense, hyperchoreographed reception Israeli President Benjamin …
Obama’s ‘Unprecedented’ Remarks: Is the President Running Against the Supreme Court?
“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” President Obama said …
The Obama Campaign Tries Out a New Cellular Weapon
The Obama campaign fundraising machine has debuted a new text message tool with encouraging results for the President’s bean counters. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign sent out an SMS message to cell phones and smart phones of tens of thousands of previous donors asking them to give more money. “Support Pres Obama in less than a minute,” …
Gaffe of the Week: Obama’s ‘Space’ Case
The President begins the week with a gaffe that may not rival last week’s Romney Etch-A-Sketch disaster as a defining moment, but is sure to be used against him repeatedly by Republicans until we’ve voted in November. In a ‘hot mic’ conversation with the Russian president Dmitri Medvedev, Obama asked for ‘space’–that is, that Russian …
Obama, the Korean DMZ and Fuzzy Red Lines
On a chilly spring Sunday, with the sun peeking through the clouds, President Barack Obama visited Camp Bonifas — named for a U.S. soldier who was decapitated with an ax by North Korean troops — along the Korean demilitarized …