Category Archives: The American Thinker

Obama Destined to Be a Footnote in Presidential History

By: Rusty Weis THE AMERICAN THINKER Barack Obama has set a course that will leave his legacy as no more than a footnote in American presidential history. For all of the bluster and glory, for all of the pomp and circumstance, and yes, for all of the anticipated hope and the promised change, the whirlwind [...]

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Respectable Conservatives Still Don’t Get Obama

By Jack Cashill If United States Senator Al Franken — it hurts to say that — ever had a redeeming moment, it was in the role of Stuart Smalley, a character he created for “Saturday Night Live.” In the most memorable of Smalley’s “Daily Affirmations,” the lisping, wildly insecure psycho-babbler hosts Michael Jordan. After explaining [...]

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Even Democrats see Obama as a failure and a fake

THE AMERICAN THINKER By: Monty Pelerin An interview with a Democratic Washington insider described as “a longtime Washington D.C. insider, and former advisor to the Obama election campaign and transition team …” describes the “administration in crisis, and a president increasingly withdrawn from the job of President.” Whomever the Democrat insider might be, his comments [...]

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Obama’s Foreign Policy Flies in the Face of Reason

By:  Lauri B. Regan THE AMERICAN THINKER A person does not need to be a military expert or have a Ph.D. in foreign affairs in order to understand the disastrous implications of Obama’s foreign policy for America’s national security. And while it was certainly clear that Americans were not electing a neo-con as their Commander-in-Chief, [...]

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Just How Smart is Obama?

The meteoric rise to the presidency of Barack Obama was fueled in no small part by the widely-accepted contention that he was one of the smartest men ever to seek the Oval Office. He is not the first leader to be oversold. “As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither [...]

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A Shrink Asks: What’s Wrong with Obama?

By: Robin of Berkeley So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I’ve written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery. Even some liberals are starting to wonder. James Carville railed about Obama’s blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill. The New York Times’ Maureen [...]

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Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund

By: Ed Lasky The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama’s rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry’s best year ever in Washington). David Cho writes in the [...]

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Worse than Awful

We have something awful right now:  four years of Obama’s incompetence and socialism.  If conservatives of all parties don’t start pulling the rope in the same direction, we will have something worse:  four more years of Obama’s incompetence and socialism.  Please take the time to read Mr. Wright’s brilliant analysis of our current political milieu.  [...]

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