Tag Archives: George W. Bush

Should the President Have Friends?

How important is it for the President of the United States to have good personal relationships with foreign heads of state? Does it help to have friends?

“America’s First Pacific President”

Barack Obama has dubbed himself thusly.

For Robert Gibbs

Yes We Can imagine.

The “Cerebral” President

If George W. Bush goofed like this, we would hear about it for years from a variety of media sources.

Golfer in Chief

The Golfer in Chief has been hitting those links a lot lately, but has the media complained about him shirking his duties?

The Third Term Of George W. Bush

My latest New Ledger column discusses the similarities between the Obama Administration, and the Bush administration. They are many:

Matt Latimer’s Tell-All, and is National Review Really Part of the MSM?

Conservatives and ex-Bush staffers have been buzzing for weeks about the contents of Matt Latimer’s “Speech-Less” tell-all, ever since excerpts appeared in GQ magazine.

A Modest Proposal

Maybe the people insisting that no one cheer the fact that an American President got rebuffed in bringing the Olympics to the United States ought not to have cheered when an American President got a shoe thrown at him in Iraq.

Post-Olympics: In Which People Lose Their Minds

I certainly don’t think that Barack Obama’s failure to get the Olympics for Chicago–embarrassing as it is and will be in the short term–will do much to affect his long term political standing. If I were advising the Administration, I would tell it to take its lumps over this issue, and move on.

Listening To The Generals

Recall that the Bush Administration was accused of not doing too much listening to the uniformed military. Now, read this:

McChrystal to Obama: More Troops Or I Quit!

On Afghanistan, as we so often have reason to say of Obama’s campaign rhetoric, that was then and this is now. And we are learning that listening to requests from his commanders for more troops is not Obama’s strong suit as Commander-in-Chief.

Reevaluating Obama’s North Korean Policy

There’s no denying that thus far, the Obama policy toward North Korea has defied all expectations and proven much tougher than Bush’s. Kim Jong Il forced Obama’s hand, of course, with his springtime provocations. The policy we have now may indeed be too good to last, but recent announcements don’t necessarily signal a change.

- March 18, 2010 -

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