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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2010 3 Comments

..."Let Them Eat Paella"Actually, I had.But a quick Google search revealed that someone else had posted it already.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2010 6 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2010 3 Comments

I have not watched any clips of Obama on The View.I will not watch any clips of Obama on The View.Although I still may comment about Obama on The View, anyway, because I have seen photos of Obama on The View (I tried not to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2010 7 Comments

Ezra Klein, proprietor of the Journolist, the day after Election Day, 2008: There was hardly a specter lurking in the American subconscious that [Barack Hussein Obama] did not call forth. And that was his great strength. He robbed fear of its ability to work through...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2010 8 Comments

The media has been there (Obamamania), done that (destroyed its credibility and any pretense of objectivity). Now it's time for "Presidential Scholars" to befool themselves, Professors rank President Obama 15th best president:A new poll of leading presidential scholars ranks Barack Obama as the 15th best...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2010 8 Comments

Last week I posted about the Bumper Sticker of Change, which I saw while walking in Rhode Island.I returned today to Ithaca:-------------------------------------------- Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2010 6 Comments

Sorry to disappoint the watchers. I will not comment on it, as much as you were hoping I would.--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2010 7 Comments

The button.An artifact from a bygone era.When trills and tingles ran up legs.When the rise of the oceans began to slow.And our planet to heal.Now, even MoDo refuses to wear the button.Because now, cool is just annoying.Update: Daniel Hannon now refuses to wear the button.--------------------------------------------Related...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2010 5 Comments

There is something deeply unsettling about Obama's conduct of his presidency, having nothing to do with birthplace, race or religion.Dorothy Rabinowitz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, says what has been on so many of our minds, The Alien in the White House:For it was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2010 3 Comments

From the day Barack Obama took office, the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress have been obsessed and possessed.Everything took a back seat to passing Obamacare.And other transformative legislation and regulations intended to turn us into the failing West European economic model.Because "he recognizes his...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

Dana Milbank argues that conservatives are hypocritical in seeking government involvement in the Gulf oil cleanup, Through oil-fouled water, big government looks better and better:There is something exquisite about the moment when a conservative decides he needs more government in his life...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 19 Comments

My my, how Paul Krugman worries that our President may come under criticism from the vast right-wing conspiracy for the Eight Days In April.The Eight Days In April during which our President twiddled his environmental clean-up and emergency response thumbs in the face of what...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2010 5 Comments

Gordon Brown is a man of the people. When the people are around.When alone with aides, he dismissed as bigoted a woman who expressed concerns about how immigration from Eastern Europe would affect the economy. But moments earlier, in public, he praised the woman.As reported...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 27, 2010 1 Comment

Politico has figured out that "Obama the uniter" never existed.Obama created momentum by identifying enemies against whom to campaign, and has continued that practice in office. The only change is that in an earlier incarnation, the enemies were groups, whereas now the enemies are individuals.As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2010 9 Comments

Nothing in the civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Goldman Sachs caused the housing bubble or burst it.The transaction at issue in that case was between highly sophisticated investment firms, and had no more to do with the housing market...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2010 15 Comments

Obama is speaking at Cooper Union, in the heart of the New York financial district, which AP describes as follows (emphasis mine): Ramping up pressure for a financial overhaul, President Barack Obama is heading to the place where the economic meltdown began to argue for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 18, 2010 13 Comments

You will never guess who. Or in which publication such tripe was written.For those of you who have just emerged from a three-year long coma or a round-trip to Mars, here is the context, from The New York Times (emphasis mine):They are two of the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 3 Comments

In the company of Obama supporters, it's called "inventing" oneself: Look at how much Barack Obama had to figure out. I mean, he’s born who he is, he can look in the mirror; but it must have been extraordinarily confusing to have this father who...

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