Tag Archives: Telegraph.co.uk

Mayan apocalypse: panic spreads as December 21 nears

Posted on December 8th, 2012

Fears that the end of the world is nigh have spread across the world with only days until the end of the Mayan calendar, with doomsday-mongers predicting a cataclysmic end to the history of Earth.   By Nick Allen, Los Angeles, Malcolm Moore in Beijing and Tom Parfitt in Moscow Ahead of December 21, which [...]

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A disastrous summer for the White House. Is Barack Obama now the most unpopular US president since Jimmy Carter?

Posted on August 15th, 2011

EXCERPT ONLY: Could President Obama’s approval rating fall as low as Jimmy Carter’s, hovering just above 30 percent? Undoubtedly it could, with the economic situation deteriorating and consumer confidence plunging. This is a distinctly Carter-esque presidency, with a weak president unable to lead, hugely challenging economic conditions, and declining American power on the world stage. Gallup’s [...]

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The Repeating of Ed Miliband

Posted on July 2nd, 2011

“I wonder, though, how many of my fellow countrymen are pausing to wonder whether any US presidential candidate could survive after a performance like Miliband’s”. Daily Telegraph’s US Editor Toby Harnden commenting on the English Leader of the Opposition Labour Party Mr. Ed Miliband and his recent interview with ITV Reporter Damon Green, during which Miliband gave identical [...]

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A grim Easter for the Obama presidency: Washington Post/ABC News poll delivers another blow to the White House

Posted on April 20th, 2011

The omens certainly weren’t good for Barack Obama last week with a devastating Gallup survey showing the president with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency – just 41 percent. And according to RealClear Politics, the president now has an average disapproval rating across several major polls of nearly 50 percent. The White House received [...]

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Iran is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Suez Canal

Posted on February 18th, 2011

Con Coughlin, the Telegraph’s executive foreign editor, is a world-renowned expert on the Middle East and Islamic terrorism. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books. His new book, Khomeini’s Ghost, is published by Macmillan. By: Con Coughlin It is 32 years since an Iranian warship last passed through the Suez Canal, so it [...]

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Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

Posted on December 31st, 2010

By Nile Gardiner gnore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback – this is a presidency with an approval rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country [...]

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A presidency on the verge of a nervous breakdown: 5 key reasons why Barack Obama’s future looks increasingly bleak

Posted on October 10th, 2010

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. By: Nile Gardiner telegraph.co.uk Forget the myth of an Obama recovery. The past week has been disastrous for the White House and America’s increasingly [...]

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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

Posted on August 13th, 2010

By Nile Gardiner The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant [...]

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The End of the Road for Barack Obama?

Posted on March 9th, 2010

The British newspaper The Telegraph opines today that Obama may be coming to the end of his road as POTUS. More and more often words like “desperation,” “in-fighting,” “demoralized” and “fractious” are being used to describe an administration that once held out hope to it’s partisans that it would be able to deliver the long [...]

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Wanted: short, fat white man to succeed Barack Obama

Posted on March 7th, 2010

I wanted to repost this article from the British paper The Telegraph.Co.Uk because I thought it was an interesting take on our political situation from a European point of view. I am most assuredly not endorsing the opinion that our next American President be white, short, bald or any other physical characteristic. Competent? Oh, yes. [...]

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