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American Buffoon

Barack Obama was supposed to be America's answer to the suave, European head of state. A debonair gentleman of the world, he would charm even the most sophisticated foreign leaders and prove, finally, that the United States is developed culturally, ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Gordon Brown,  White House,  Dalai Lama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Twenty Years Ago, America Stood for Freedom

Among the many thousands who attempted to escape the prison known as East Berlin was a man named Wolfgang Engels, who in 1963 stole a tank and drove it into the wall. Engels' assault on the imposing barrier splitting his city came just two years ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bloomberg News,  Barack Obama,  James Baker,  George W. Bush,  BBC

Patriotic Gore

What would better motivate a solvent bank to lend money to a credit-worthy small business: (a) profit, or (b) a speech from the President of the United States? If your answer was (b), you might qualify for work in the White House. To see what is ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Olympia Snowe

Buying Barack

The bestowal of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize upon Barack Obama, a mere nine months a president, is both a reward for a historic achievement and a down payment for similar actions in the future.  First, the down payment. The Norwegian Nobel Committee ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  United Nations,  George W. Bush,  Dalai Lama

Criticism Is Racism

Race is the political topic of the day. Let's follow the logic of the left, which has raised the issue again: • Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during the president's speech. Wilson is a white male (gasp!) from South ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  17 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe Wilson (politician),  Maureen Dowd,  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,  Harvard University

There He Goes Again

Many American children did not see President Obama's live address to school kids yesterday, not for political reasons, but for practical ones. There's a lesson in that outcome, but for the president as much as for the kids. Alas, he's unlikely to ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  John McCain

Ted Kennedy's Real Legacy

In the millions of words about Ted Kennedy that will be published by week's end, most will hail him as the conscience of American liberalism, and a few will criticize him for that and for private behavior that he himself called "indefensible." Lost ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  27 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  Caroline Kennedy,  Harvard University,  Robert Bork,  Mary Jo Kopechne

We've Long Had a Public Option

President Obama and the far-left in Congress say that a "public option" health insurance plan is necessary because the profit motive results in too much coverage denial, therefore America needs a non-profit option to "keep the insurance companies ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  19 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office

Obama Plays Defense

President Obama gave an extraordinary performance at his "town hall" meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday. There was no soaring oratory or fainting crowd (although it was a very friendly audience). Actually, overall, the affair was rather dull ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  12 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  FedEx

John Hughes: American Rebel

Look at director John Hughes, who died last Thursday at age 59, and one might think: accountant. The owl-rimmed glasses, boyish hair, and collared shirts would say to anyone likely to judge by such stylistic clues that this was a middle-class father ...

From ANDREW CLINE, American Spectator,  10 Aug 2009

Related Topics: John Hughes (politician),  McDonald's,  Rob Reiner,  Eric Stoltz,  Joseph Heller

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