Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
The politics of contempt
American politics has always been a rugged sport.
A particularly ugly strain of the sport has taken root at great cost to public discourse. I call it the politics of contempt.
It is foundational with three particular politicians on both sides of the aisle: Barack Obama; Hillary Clinton; and Donald Trump.
Read MoreAmerica needs fresh leadership
Democrats hold fewer elected offices than anytime in the past century. They have purged the party of moderates, reducing their appeal to less ideological independent voters.
While Republicans engage in serious intellectual battles (with the exception of faux Republican, Donald Trump) over serious issues, Democrats disagree on few issues. Deviation from leftist dogma is vigorously enforced by their Thought Police…
Read MoreCommon ground on the Syrian refugee situation
“The refugee dilemma.”
This is the headline I used in a post a few days ago along with this political cartoon.
It generated some pushback. Here’s one nuanced response:
Read MoreIn God we trust, in government we don’t
On the Republican side, Donald Trump is taking advantage of public distrust in government at the same time that he soils his own integrity.
Read MoreDissecting Obama’s remarks
By Tom Quiner Another terrorist attack. More Islamic terrorists kill more innocent people. And the president responds according to the progressive playbook with two sentences that display a lack of insight. SENTENCE ONE: “This is an attack not just on Paris, not just on the people on France, but an attack on all humanity and the…
Read MoreLiberal weapons are losing their edge
Just look at Obama’s mentors. He was tutored by a rogue’s gallery of anti-American mentors in his formative years:
Frank Marshall Davis was a communist and a pornographer. His sentiments were with the Soviet Union and Red China.
Roberto Unger is a philosopher, Brazilian politician, Obama’s former Harvard law professor, and a socialist.
Edward Said is Palestinian, an anti-colonialist, and anti-Israeli whom some say is a terrorist sympathizer.
Bill Ayers founded a communist underground group, The Weather Underground, that bombed public buildings and killed people.
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright was an anti-American, anti-Israeli preacher at the church Barack and Michelle Obama attended for two decades.
Read MoreDr. Carson has nothing to hide
The truth about Ronald Reagan
In this presidential cycle with Obama deficits on full display, Reagan’s record is invoked to make the case that Obama’s profligacy isn’t so bad after all.
One of the most tired diatribes has been the one that says “Reagan drove up the deficits and it took Clinton to fix it.”
Read MoreDeficits during the Obama years
A Quiner’s Diner reader jumped to Barack Obama’s defense.
She cited information dispensed by the always ‘unbiased MSNBC’ (irony intended) to prove that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are the profligate spenders of taxpayer money.
Read MoreWould Obama invite transgendered activists to a reception for a high level Muslim Imam? Of course, not.
The Pope is coming to the White House.
The Obama administration has gone out of their way to invite people who oppose Church teachings, as I wrote about in an earlier blogpost…
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