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This video is the most elegant iteration I’ve seen of the dialogue on the left about the President. What’s so amazing about “Barack Hussein Obama,” written and directed by Jamil Khoury, is that both sides are treated with respect. And what a shame that should be amazing! Khoury is Artistic Director of the Chicago theater [...]
Archive for the ‘Barack Obama’ Category
January 11th, 2012
by Kelly Kleiman
Posted: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at
8:48 am
Tags: Barack Obama, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Obama, Terrorism
3 Comments »
January 5th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama, Elections 2010 and 2012
Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both ran on a platform of reducing the size and scope of government, yet federal spending — including social welfare spending — grew substantially during their presidencies. Cognizant of those historical examples, some political observers scoff at the notion that a Republican Presidential victory in 2012 will change very [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 5th, 2012 at
3:24 am
13 Comments »
January 4th, 2012
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama, Elections 2010 and 2012
Steve Benen at Washington Monthly, writing about the GOP caucus winner at midnight last night Tonight’s big winner is obvious: his name is Barack Obama. Woo-hoo! Remember ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first.
Posted: Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at
4:54 am
2 Comments »
December 25th, 2011
by Harold Pollack
Category: Barack Obama, Politics and Leadership
Sometimes humor is the best way to make a serious point. It’s sad that this is one such case.
Posted: Sunday, December 25th, 2011 at
7:25 pm
11 Comments »
December 11th, 2011
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama, Blogging
My post about “African-American Liberals Know How to Love Their President” drew many comments here at RBC, and also at Washington Monthly, where it was cross-posted. Strikingly, while most RBC readers are almost certainly white, most people who posted comments on the Washington Monthly website self-identified as African-American. If you followed this post and this [...]
Posted: Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at
3:14 am
40 Comments »
December 7th, 2011
by Keith Humphreys
Jonathan Chait’s much-discussed essay in New York magazine indicted the left for being perennially, loudly and unrealistically disappointed in Democratic Presidents. In Chait’s view, much of the left ignores the constraints on Presidential power (e.g., Congress, of which Drew Westen et al seem to be in ignorance) and doesn’t have the stomach or attention span [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at
11:30 am
Tags: Jonathan Chait
39 Comments »
December 6th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Income distribution
Barack Obama lays down his marker on the most pressing issue of our times.
Posted: Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at
3:11 pm
53 Comments »
December 3rd, 2011
by Keith Humphreys
Category: Barack Obama, Elections 2010 and 2012
I have been hard on the White House communications team before, but I give them props now for giving exactly the right amount and type of emphasis to the latest employment report. Having CEA Chairman Alan Krueger make modestly positive comments on the White House blog supplemented by a few guardedly optimistic words by the [...]
Posted: Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at
8:29 am
5 Comments »
December 2nd, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
Charles Krauthammer on Newt Gingrich:
Gingrich has a self-regard so immense that it rivals Obama’s — but, unlike Obama’s, is untamed by self-discipline
Posted: Friday, December 2nd, 2011 at
2:43 pm
Tags: Gingrich, Obama, self-discipline
4 Comments »
November 22nd, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney
In exactly the same sense that Barack Obama said “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”
Posted: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at
8:32 pm
19 Comments »
