Results for: Barack obama
Accountable government is impossible, according to liberals
https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2014/05/21/accountable-government-impossible-according-liberals-n49155
https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2014/05/21/accountable-government-impossible-according-liberals-n49155
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He goes on to note how eagerly Klein tries to separate Obama from his promises, writing as if some non-human entity called The Obama … No, Barack Obama has done far more to undermine faith in government, because his tenure has been a combination of desperate power grabs … Obama. …
New USA Today / Pew poll: Veterans hate the Bergdahl/terrorist swap.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/09/bergdahl-barack-obama-pew-usa-today-poll-n49322
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/09/bergdahl-barack-obama-pew-usa-today-poll-n49322
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But that’s nothing as compared to how veterans feel both about Bose Bergdahl, and the deal that Barack Obama made to bring him back … By 68%-16%, veterans say Obama made the wrong decision.” … Maybe all that stuff that the National Journal is saying about how the Democratic party has privately given up on Barack Obama isn’…
#Obamacare causing MORE Medicaid recipients to use emergency rooms.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/08/obamacare-medicaid-emergency-rooms-n49308
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/08/obamacare-medicaid-emergency-rooms-n49308
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Then we can talk about making Barack Obama face a hard choice for the first time in his extraordinarily privileged and elitist life…
Obama shows usual sense of class at D-Day ceremonies
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/obama-shows-usual-sense-class-d-day-ceremonies-n49301
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/obama-shows-usual-sense-class-d-day-ceremonies-n49301
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Barack Obama couldn’t attend the D-Day ceremonies with something like a sense of dignity. Nope.…
Obama declined to trade cash for Bergdahl
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/obama-declined-trade-cash-bergdahl-n49296
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/obama-declined-trade-cash-bergdahl-n49296
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We’ve known for a while that Barack Obama had agitated for the release of these five particular prisoners since 2011, I don’t know … there were active negotiations for Bergdahl’s release in December 2013 for an undisclosed amount of cash and no prisoners:
The Obama … This confirms the emerging narrative that the release of these five prisoners was desired by Obama for some time.…
Barack Obama leaves three Americans behind in Afghanistan
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/barack-obama-leaves-three-americans-behind-afghanistan-n49289
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/06/barack-obama-leaves-three-americans-behind-afghanistan-n49289
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In trading five senior Taliban field leaders for a US deserter, Barack Obama passed on an opportunity to retrieve four other Taliban … Barack Obama did not give a rat’s patootie about Bowe Bergdahl. … If Obama had really cared about “leave no one behind” he would have driven a harder bargain and brought three other Americans home…
Obama's speech in Warsaw - Russia as Europe's antagonizing "other"
https://redstate.com/boris_ryvkin/2014/06/05/obamas-speech-warsaw-russia-europes-antagonizing-n49283
https://redstate.com/boris_ryvkin/2014/06/05/obamas-speech-warsaw-russia-europes-antagonizing-n49283
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President Barack Obama gave a speech in Warsaw, Poland yesterday and painted a portrait of contemporary Europe which holds profound … Obama described Ukraine as a buffer between “Europe and Russia and the United States and the rest of the world”. … Obama is facing a different Russia and a different Russian public. …
Obama Administration Official, Brandon Friedman, Calls Soldiers 'Psychopaths'
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/05/obama-administration-official-brandon-friedman-calls-soldiers-psychopaths-n49272
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/05/obama-administration-official-brandon-friedman-calls-soldiers-psychopaths-n49272
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After working hard and relatively unsuccessfully to get soldiers to vote for Barack Obama, he got a job inside the administration. … His remarks come on the heels of Obama Administration spokesmen accusing Bergdahl’s fellow soldiers, who did not desert, of swift boating … prior to joining the administration, used his position as a veteran to attack military and military supporters who did not support Obama…
John McCain gets unfair criticism on Bergdahl swap
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/04/john-mccain-gets-unfair-criticism-bergdahl-swap-n49262
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/04/john-mccain-gets-unfair-criticism-bergdahl-swap-n49262
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While we’ve been having fun chronicling the travails of the Obama administration as it tries to extricate itself from the observation … Pat Leahey and Claire McCaskill are running like scalded dogs from their emphatic cheerleading for Obama on the deserter-for-terrorist … Obama under an oncoming bus.…
The importance of partisanship
https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2014/06/04/big-government-without-partisan-squabbling-tyranny-n49251
https://redstate.com/jhayward13/2014/06/04/big-government-without-partisan-squabbling-tyranny-n49251
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That’s not far from the argument explicitly made to Americans during the Obama years: the President should get his way, he won the … Barack Obama was a spectacularly lousy CEO of General Motors, for example, but that barely came up during his re-election challenge … For a while there, before the Obama presidency came crashing down in a firestorm of scandals, they were getting pretty close to telling…
White House accuses Bergdahl's former comrades of "swift boating"
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/04/white-house-accuses-bergdahls-former-comrades-swift-boating-n49260
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/04/white-house-accuses-bergdahls-former-comrades-swift-boating-n49260
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All of this in the service of saving Barack Obama from yet another self inflicted humiliation.…
Impeachment and Coups
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/04/impeachment-and-coups-n49255
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/04/impeachment-and-coups-n49255
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Barack Obama is not a stupid man. One does not win the Presidency twice by being stupid. … Barack Obama has decided the best way to make the world a safer place is to make America a less safe place. … To Barack Obama that’s a good thing.…
Obama: Congress was consulted on deserter-for-terrorist swap
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/03/obama-congress-consulted-deserter-terrorist-swap-n49250
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/03/obama-congress-consulted-deserter-terrorist-swap-n49250
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While on a trip to Poland in an effort to further demoralize our already jittery allies, Barack Obama defended his swapping of five … President Barack Obama defended his decision to release five detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. … Obama is the classic case of a narcissistic dim bulb who imagines himself to be the smartest guy in the room.…
Barack Obama hides behind signing statements to justify #Bergdahl / Taliban swap.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/01/barack-obama-bowe-bergdahl-taliban-swap-signing-statements-n49230
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/01/barack-obama-bowe-bergdahl-taliban-swap-signing-statements-n49230
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So, it turns out that the Obama administration was legally required to at least notify Congress before it actually traded Sgt. … Whether or not you agree with Barack Obama or not on signing statements, there’s something peculiarly amusing in the way that he keeps … Which Barack Obama still hasn’t done.
I know, I know: the Activist Left collectively has no shame, or self-regard. …
More H1B visas: bad policy and bad business
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/19/h1b-visas-bad-policy-bad-business-n49461
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/19/h1b-visas-bad-policy-bad-business-n49461
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A month ago I posted on the subject in Chamber of Commerce and Obama agree cheap foreign labor is a great idea:
Steven Camarota of … companies from hiring people holding H-1B visas if they take help under $ 787-billion economic bail-out package, which President Barack … Obama has signed into law.…
Obama decides Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki has to go
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/19/obama-decides-iraqi-prime-minister-maliki-go-n49458
https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/19/obama-decides-iraqi-prime-minister-maliki-go-n49458
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As Iraq looks to be on the cusp of dissolution, the administration has decided that the man most responsible after Barack Obama … Signals Iraq’s Maliki Should Go:
The Obama administration is signaling that it wants a new government in Iraq without Prime Minister … And despite the gratifying election results, officials said, the Obama Administration concluded that backing Allawi would be too difficult…
Jody Hice for Congress
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/19/jody-hice-for-congress-n49459
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/19/jody-hice-for-congress-n49459
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Republicans excel at telling Barack Obama no, but never want their own to hold themselves accountable.…
Sure, Hillary Clinton should promise to fulfill Barack Obama's legacy!
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/17/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-legacy-n49435
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/17/hillary-clinton-barack-obama-legacy-n49435
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I don’t really want* to fisk this article on how Hillary Clinton should run on a platform of being Barack Obama’s third term – she … as I do my male staffers” Obama and advocating that other people give equal pay for equal work. … But seriously: Hillary Clinton should totally run on a promise for four more years of Barack Obama. …
Department of Veterans Affairs is Concerned About the Ocean
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/department-of-veterans-affairs-is-concerned-about-the-ocean-n49422
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/department-of-veterans-affairs-is-concerned-about-the-ocean-n49422
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The V.A. wants you to help the oceans heal — something Barack Obama said would happen with his election.…
So Eisenhower - sorry, Obama - is going to send advisors to South Vietnam - sorry, Iraq.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/16/iraq-barack-obama-vietnam-n49417
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/16/iraq-barack-obama-vietnam-n49417
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While President Barack Obama has explicitly ruled out putting U.S. troops into direct combat in Iraq, the plan under consideration…
The real question is, are Democratic politicians done with Barack Obama?
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/16/barack-obama-detachment-washington-dc-n49415
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/16/barack-obama-detachment-washington-dc-n49415
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I don’t often do this, but I feel that this Hill article about how much Barack Obama hates Washington, wants to leave it, and doesn … Today’s RCP average shows that President Obama has a favorable/unfavorable rating of 42/54. … Bush’s comparable daily numbers in 2006 were 38/57: while President Obama enjoys a slightly higher amount of regard, many question…
Colin Kahl Pens a CYA Op-Ed on Iraq
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/colin-kahl-pens-a-cya-op-ed-on-iraq-n49408
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/colin-kahl-pens-a-cya-op-ed-on-iraq-n49408
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In other words, during the time Joe Biden was hailing Iraq as some sort of success story for Barack Obama, Colin Kahl was one of the…
Coin Operated Conservatism
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/coin-operated-conservatism-is-your-favorite-conservative-group-corrupt-n49399
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/coin-operated-conservatism-is-your-favorite-conservative-group-corrupt-n49399
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movement, more and more corporate dollars are being spread around directly and indirectly to claim this legislation — legislation Barack … Obama and the biggest tax and spenders in America support — is somehow conservative.…
How Barack Obama Let the Iranians Bully Him Out of Iraq
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/15/how-barack-obama-let-the-iranians-bully-him-out-of-iraq-n49405
https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/15/how-barack-obama-let-the-iranians-bully-him-out-of-iraq-n49405
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absolutely shocked that NPR has interviewed Dexter Filkins and likewise shocked that the New Yorker would run Filkins’ expose on how Barack … Obama lost Iraq and let it be turned into an Iranian colony.…
ISIS reportedly engaged in mass murder, other war crimes in Iraq.
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/15/isis-war-crimes-iraq-n49402
https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/15/isis-war-crimes-iraq-n49402
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Barack Obama and the rest of the Left aside, this means that if local authorities decide to have a quick (as in, that afternoon) trial…