President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The View.” Bob Dries, chairman of national news and media at the Boy Scouts …
.@ewerickson on Sherrod: If the left gets a pass on race, the right has to fight back. | But fairly, not dishonestly. Or we’re no better. # I really want to know if Breitbart edited the Sherrod/NAACP video to make her look bad. If so, that’s despicable. # RT @ dmataconis @benpolitico: White House denies role in Sherrod firing.|…
“So what else is new?”, you ask? Well, apparently this time he was busy demonstrating that he was more pig-ignorant of American history than, say, Sharron Angle (Via AoSHQ ). “Just for the record do you how many elections Abraham Lincoln lost in his lifetime?” [Keith "Moo" Olbermann] asked, leering into the camera. With drama benefitting Gloria Swanson as the fading star in Sunset Boulevard , …
Oliver Stone shocked many when his movie “World Trade Center” was released in 2006. It was a masterpiece, a meditation on two firemen trapped in a darkened tomb of broken concrete, twisted metal and shattered glass. They had rushed headlong into the collapsing skyscrapers, only to be buried alive. So many of their colleagues died, but in the end these heroes were located by searchers and rescued. Stone maintained it wasn’t a political movie, and for the most part, it wasn’t. It was a personal story. But this movie was also a gift to our country, a reminder not to forget this dark day’s victims and its heroes. …
I think it’s important to point out why Bill Kristol is calling on Michael Steele to resign : It’s about policy, not politics. The RNC chairman, at an RNC event, said that Afghanistan is “a war of Obama’s choosing. This was not something that the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” Also: “[If Obama] is such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan?” Kristol responds: Needless to say, the war in Afghanistan was not “a war of Obama’s choosing.” It …
Links, who doesn’t like links? Hot Air has the results of a lefty poll of who the best and worst Presidents are. Surprise, Obama beat Reagan! Reaganite Republican has a…
Officially the most worthless list evah? George W. Bush was no FDR, but Barack Obama could be. That’s the verdict of 238 of the nation’s leading presidential scholars, who – for a fifth time – rated Franklin Delano Roosevelt the best president ever in the latest Siena College Research Institute poll . In office for barely two years, Obama entered the survey in the 15th position – two spots behind Bill Clinton and three spots…
[Guest post by DRJ] America’s Presidents are bipartisan in their quest for peace with Russia. That’s why Bush looked into Putin’s eyes and Obama proclaimed his trust for Medvedev. But Did Bush and Obama know what Putin and Medvedev knew — that Russian may well have sent spies to live among us? “An F.B.I. investigation that began at least seven years ago culminated with the arrest on Sunday of 10 people in Yonkers, Boston, and northern Virginia. The documents detailed what the authorities called the “Illegals Program,” an ambitious, long-term effort by the S….
Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of US News and World report writes a blistering piece that certainly seems to indicate that’s the case. Zuckerman says the world sees Obama as “incompetent and amateur” and that on the world stage he is “well-intentioned but can’t walk the walk”. That’s a nice way to say he’s a lightweight in an arena where only seasonsed heavyweights prosper. Zuckerman’s opinion is not one to be taken lightly. He was a huge Obama backer . He voted for him. His newspaper, the NY Daily News, endorsed him and was enthusiastic in his support of the Obama candidacy. Now, 16 months into his presidency, he’s obviously very disappointed …
Appearing on Charlie Rose’s PBS program, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin dismissed the GOP responses to President Obama’s Oval Office speech as “childish” and “churlish” adding that the GOP “mocked” the President on Tuesday night, instead of seeking common ground with him on new energy legislation. The Time reporter thinks the present Gulf disaster constitutes a “national crisis,” but also posited that another crisis exists — “not having a national energy policy,” as he framed it. “I think everything they do must go towards trying to solve the generation’s-long crisis…