Blogs Posts on "Vdh"

Theories of Obama by Pundit & Pundette on Sep 24, 2009John Bolton on Tuesday's UN speech, via Robert Costa: "Post-American," pro-UN, anti-Israel, Obama-centric, and fundamentally naïve:"It was a speech high on the personality of Barack Obama and high on multilateralism, but very short in...

The sinking Obama brand, et cetera by Pundit & Pundette on Aug 23, 2009Robin Givhan on the empress's recent clothing shortage:Ultimately, the first lady can't be -- nor should she be -- just like everyone else. Hers is a life of responsibilities and privileges. She gets the fancy jet. She has to dress for the ride.[. .

Obama's post-racial claim just another campaign promise by Pundit & Pundette on Aug 1, 2009The Gates arrest had nothing whatever to do with racial profiling by police. It was a racial strawman injected into the controversy by the president who, like Gates, sees the world through the lens of race.From Heather MacDonald:[Obama's] post–beer...

Miscellaneous punditry by Pundit & Pundette on Jul 25, 2009Victor Davis Hanson on how deftly Obama puts his foot in his mouth.Somehow the president in the last few hours, in his now characteristic stereotyping, has managed to insult the nation's police with his "stupidly" comment, the nation's surg...

Steyn on the tyranny of environmentalism by Pundit & Pundette on Jul 11, 2009And the hypocrisy of the tyrants.The Ecopalypse, 96 Months Away?“Capitalism and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse, the Prince of Wales has warned… And in a searing indictment on capitalist soci...

VDH on Palin and why they hate her by Pundit & Pundette on Jul 9, 2009I just linked to this in the previous post but feel compelled to share some juicy excerpts from Victor Davis Hanson, who speaks with authority on "why the hatred?":Too Many Rug RatsAnd which is worse, to have a kid at 17 or one after 40? An...

Deconstructing snobbery by Pundit & Pundette on Jul 6, 2009VDH takes Maureen Dowd apart with scholarly efficiency:In one shot, here is the caricatured snooty put-down of rural life (“wild fowl honking”), middle-class bourgeoisie culture and aspiration (“Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in th...

Iranian revolt highlights Obama's inadequacies by Pundit & Pundette on Jun 22, 2009If you can slog through the entirety of EJ Dionne's piece you win the Gunga Din prize today. I'm not suggesting it -- life is short and time is precious. And the wall feels so hard when you bang your head against it. But a quick scan tells me that Ob...

Corruption, weakness, brutality, dissimulation, arrogance by Pundit & Pundette on Jun 19, 2009And so on. A few must-reads. Excerpts are intended as enticements, not substitutes for reading the rest.Dominoes, anyone?RS McCain on the IG scandal:Describing the probe into the dismissal of the AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, one Capito...

VDH on Obama's foreign policy by Pundit & Pundette on Jun 15, 2009VDH on Obama's crazy mixed-up foreign policy:The truth is that the United States now gives more attention and concern to former enemies than it does to present allies. We now believe that provocative acts arise from misunderstanding, not planned aggr...