Every debate has a moment that everyone remembers long after the debate and campaign has ended. In 2012 it was Rick Perry’s forgetfulness, last night in New Hampshire it Marco Rubio’s ‘Obama knows what he’s doing’ exchange with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: The irony? Macro Rubio was right on the substance. Barack Obama set […]
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Poll: 67% say America is more divided than 4 years ago
From Rasmussen Reports: Voters strongly believe the United States is a more divided nation these days, and they think both sides are to blame. Most are also ready to do something about it at the ballot box in November. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Likely U.S. Voters say America is a more divided nation than it […]
Obama Campaign Officially Jumps the Shark
Wow, just wow. I think it’s safe to say President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has officially jumped the shark. I don’t know what else to say about their newly released ad featuring actress Lena Dunham comparing voting to losing her virginity: President Obama’s campaign is out with an eyebrow-raising new ad targeting young voters in […]
New Yorker Cover to Feature Empty Chair
Just how bad was President Barack Obama’s performance in the first presidential debate? This bad: Ouch, score one for Clint Eastwood. There’s no denying now that his presentation at the Republican National Convention, which was widely panned as the incoherent ramblings of a senile old man, has resonated in the public consciousness exactly as he […]
Debate Recap — A Drubbing in Denver
As I watched the first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney last night I kept hearing Howard Cosell’s voice in the back of my mind… “Down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier, down goes Frazier!” I expected Mitt Romney to fair pretty well in a head to head debate with Barack Obama, I was […]
Pat Caddell: The Media is Threatening Future of This Country
Gallup recently released a poll showing just 8% of Americans have a great deal of trust in the media, you don’t have to look any farther than the recent terrorist attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya to understand why. A few reporters like Eli Lake at Newsweek have doggedly pursued the story and […]
Video: ‘I Don’t Want a Politician Leading This Nation, I Want a President’
Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Retired) the former commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) joined Neil Cavuto on Your World earlier today and offered some sharp criticism of President Barack Obama’s and his handling of the Iranian nuclear threat: Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com “One time a year, the president has an opportunity to gather […]
Bumps in the Road
“But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places the one organizing principle has been Islam.” — President Obama in an interview with “60 Minutes.” When I originally posted this editorial cartoon by the […]
Mila Kunis: Idiot
Yeah, I said it, and I meant it… Mila Kunis is an idiot. What else do you call someone who thinks it’s cool to vandalize public property in support of — wait for it — Barack Obama: On expressing her politics through art… Glamour: Do you fund-raise for Obama? Mila Kunis: More like street-art-based stuff in Los […]
20 Million Could Lose Employer Insurance Under Obamacare
Remember when President Obama said if you liked your current health care plan you could keep it, and that it wouldn’t cost you any more? Well, he was either lying his ass off or doesn’t understand basic economics… A new report released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget office on Thursday offers four possible scenarios on […]
Video: The Apology Obama Should Have Given Hamid Karzai
Wouldn’t it be nice to have president with the courage to say what actually needs to be said: Bravo Zulu Ms. Davis!
Video: 1,000 Days Without a Budget
We’ve reached something of grim milestone… It has now been 1,000 days since federal government has had an actual budget: I can’t say it any better than Tina Korbe: No matter what measure you use, government spending has increased since 1965. Total government spending has more than doubled. Federal spending per household has increased from $11,431 […]
The Obama-Romney Tariff
Lord help us… Senators Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham are at it again, this time pushing a monumentally bad idea, called the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act through the Senate: The world has done surprisingly well since the Great Recession began at not making things worse with trade protectionism. But that may soon change […]
Thoughts on the Debt Limit Debate — Updated
What we’ve seeing playing out in Washington during the debt limit debate is in many ways akin to an addict facing an intervention. Washington’s policy makers, both Democrats and Republicans, are hopelessly addicted to spending and they don’t want to admit it or to change their behavior. As a result they’re lashing out ordinary Americans […]
About Mark Halperin’s Comments…
Ok, so the the interwebs and talk radio are buzzing about MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin’s surprisingly blunt assessment of President Barack Obama’s performance at yesterday’s press conference… From the video it’s pretty clear Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski thought Mr. Halperin was joking when he asked if the seven-second delay […]