obama  (Page 5)

The Worst Thing For Obama About Trump On The View

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 8:26am 3/24/2011 at 8:26am

is that it reflects the reality that Obama’s “Birther” strategy has failed politically, something I have long argued.

Listen to the crowd reaction beginning at the 2:08 mark, as Donald Trump vigorously and repeatedly states “I want him to show the birth certificate.”  The crowd claps loudly to Trump’s words. (It seems an...

Read More...
 
 
 

The Half-Life Of A “Birther” Controversy Is Shrinking Rapidly

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 4:22pm 3/2/2011 at 4:22pm

As I have documented here many times, one does not need to question Barack Obama’s birthplace or citizenship to be called a “birther.”

“Birther” simply is the new “racist,” an epithet thrown around at anyone who questions — or in the case of Mike Huckabee failed to accurately state — Obama’s narrative of his own life and...

Read More...
 
 
 

By Deciding To Do Nothing, Obama Actually Has Done Something

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:31pm 2/25/2011 at 1:31pm

What is Obama doing?

No, I mean, “what” is he “doing”?  As in, is he doing anything?

The Middle East is in flames, our domestic energy production is hurting as oil prices rise, job creation is almost non-existent, the deficit and national debt are out of control, people are almost coming to blows at statehouses...

Read More...
 
 
 

The Missing Defendants In Sherrod v. Breitbart Lawsuit

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 1:32pm 2/16/2011 at 1:32pm

Namely, anyone from the Obama administration, the people who actually “forced” Sherrod to resign.

Mark Levin makes the point (and gives a nice shout out to my post Dissecting Shirley Sherrod’s Complaint Against Andrew Breitbart) :

——————————————–
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!

 
 
 

They Just Can’t Let Go Of The Birthplace And Religion Issues

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Monday, February 14, 2011 at 8:48am 2/14/2011 at 8:48am

They just can’t let go of the issues of where Obama was born or his religion.

Not Obama’s opponents, but his political and media supporters, who insist on a political purity test from Republicans, and who use the “refused to repudiate” line of attack on all who do not comply.

David Gregory asked John...

Read More...
 
 
 

Known Unknowns

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 7:30am 2/9/2011 at 7:30am

Watching Sean Hannity’s interview with Donald Rumsfeld last night reminded me of Rumsfeld’s “known- knowns, known-unknowns, and unknown-unknowns” statement during a press conference in 2002.  I use this construct in class to describe how to build a legal case (you build it around the...

Read More...
 
 
 

Well, It’s True He “Didn’t Raise Taxes Once”

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1:32pm 2/8/2011 at 1:32pm

I have warned you about the Wordsmith-in-Chief.  You have to listen very carefully.

In his interview with Bill O’Reilly just before the Superbowl, Obama said (via TaxProf)(emphasis mine):

O’REILLY: Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth.

OBAMA: Absolutely.

O’REILLY: You deny that?

OBAMA: Absolutely. I didn’t raise taxes once. I...

Read More...
 
 
 

How We Doin’?

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 11:14am 2/2/2011 at 11:14am

Strike that:

Jobs
Debt Service Ability
Your Doctor
Your Private Health Insurance
Your House
Offshore Oil Drilling
Coal Mining
Freedom to be left alone
Incentive to work harder
Your Junk’s Privacy
Lebanon
Turkey
Egypt
South America
Hope
Change

Did I miss anything?

——————————————–
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!

 
 
 

If Gov. Neil Abercrombie Really Wanted The Records …

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 12:14pm 1/26/2011 at 12:14pm

The Obama birth certificate controversy continues, with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie starting and then abandoning efforts to release more documentation.  Claims in The Daily Caller and on Drudge that Abercrombie has admitted to a friend that the birth certificate is not on file (contrary to representations by Hawaiian officials) adds just more...

Read More...
 
 
 

Another Eliminationist Narrative

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 9:30am 1/15/2011 at 9:30am

Stop the violent imagery:

Via Powerline.

——————————————–
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!

 
 
 

Obama: Those Partisan Republican Hacks Should Stop Being Partisan

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 10:25am 1/4/2011 at 10:25am

Mr. Get-In-Their-Faces is complaining about divisive and partisan Republicans:

President Obama, returning to Washington from his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, urged House and Senate GOP leaders to put partisan politics aside in the name of working to boost the economy.

The president said onboard Air Force One he hoped incoming House Speaker John...

Read More...
 
 
 

The Bizarre “Birther” Intellectual Dance

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Monday, December 27, 2010 at 12:13pm 12/27/2010 at 12:13pm

There is a bizarre intellectual dance taking place around the topic of Barack Obama’s birthplace. 

The world has been artificially divided into “Birthers” and “anti-Birthers” when in fact I suspect a large percentage or even majority of the population is neither and simply wants all the evidence released so that we can move...

Read More...
 
 
 

So The Anti-Birther Hawaii Governor Is Actually A Birther

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 3:53pm 12/25/2010 at 3:53pm

If you demand to see Obama’s actual birth certificate, you will be called a “Birther.” 

It doesn’t matter if your position is that anyone ascending to a constitutional office should provide the best evidence of constitutional qualification, you’re a Birther.  It doesn’t matter that you think all candidates should comply, you’re...

Read More...
 
 
 

Because Waiting For Vacation Would Be Unfair

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 5:14pm 12/23/2010 at 5:14pm

From The Hill comes a report that Michelle Obama’s failure to wait for her husband before leaving for vacation has cost the taxpayers $63,000, FLOTUS Chows At The Taxpayers’ Trough:

First lady Michelle Obama didn’t feel like waiting around cold, boring old Washington, D.C., for her husband and Congress to wrap up...
Read More...
 
 
 

In Praise of Mitch McConnell

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 10:07am 12/22/2010 at 10:07am

This is not the post you probably were expecting from me given my harsh — and as always prescient — criticism of Republicans in the lame duck session.  I was screaming “capitulation!” before screaming “capitulation!” was fashionable.

Notwithstanding the lame duck session, give Mitch McConnell some credit for the war which has been...

Read More...
 
 
 

Obama’s Best (Worst) Strawman Argument Yet

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at 7:00am 12/14/2010 at 7:00am

I’ve written before about Barack Obama’s penchant for creating strawman arguments, in which Obama presents an exaggerated and misleading characterization of Republican proposals in order to make Obama’s own policy seem like the only reasonable choice.

Most typically, Obama will frame the sentence beginning with words similar to “some people say we should...

Read More...
 
 
 

Leaving Work Early

Comments
Permalink
Posted by  ▪  Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 9:41am 12/12/2010 at 9:41am

How many of you would have left an important work meeting with the excuse that you didn’t want to keep your wife (husband) waiting?

Only the boss would do that, right?

Isn’t that attitude part of the problem here?

——————————————–
Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Visit the Legal Insurrection Shop on CafePress!

 
 
 
Page 5 of 15« First...34567...10...Last »