Obama's Slave Ship (Updated)

Robin of Berkeley  "One must wonder: by Obama's choosing Trinity, a church where his own mother wouldn't have been welcome, was he trying to exorcise the evil white spirit in him? And by joining that church, did he finally leave his repugnant white side behind at Trinity's door?"
A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley. 

Obama's international strikeout  "The president again casually confirmed his belief in the decline of America's "outsized" influence in world affairs, noting, "We are now seeing a situation where a whole host of other countries are doing well and coming into their own and naturally they're going to be more assertive." The president thinks this greater assertiveness is "a healthy thing" but did not elaborate for whom it was healthy - certainly not the United States. For some inexplicable reason, Mr. Obama welcomes the decline of America's role on the international stage. It is his most notable accomplishment."

The Trip About Nothing  "Unfortunately for the U.S., our friends and foes have gotten yet another close look at President Obama and cannot possibly have been impressed. They know the only thing that is unprecedented about him is his weakness.
"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “An empty plane arrived in Asia and when the door was opened, Mr. Obama got out.”"

Why President Obama is right about India

"Which is why Obama's dramatic call for India to be elevated to permanent membership on the U.N. Security Council was so important. However useless and obsolete the United Nations, a Security Council seat carries totemic significance. It elevates India, while helping bind it to us as our most strategic and organic Third World ally. "

"China is no enemy, but it remains troublingly adversarial. Which is why India must be the center of our Asian diplomacy. And why Obama's trip - coconuts and all - was worth every penny. "

Scarborough: Top Dems in Senate Have All Told Me That “Obama Has No Idea What He’s Doing” (Video) "“I wish I could give their names because democrats in Washington have been horrified with this president’s handling of things for a year and a half now. Just look at the chart. The top democrats in the United States Senate have all told me he has no idea what he’s doing… That is what the top Democratic senators are saying”"

The Incredible Shrinking President  "Foreign leaders have taken the measure of Barack Obama, and found him a lightweight, a head of state whose proposals can be dismissed as substance-free fantasies, unworthy of serious consideration. American voters should take note of this, for nobody understands a national leader better than his or her peers. Foreign leaders are also immune to the blather of the American propaganda media.
"We have a serious problem when the leader of the free world carries no weight. America has two more dangerous years with this poseur, this dabbler of an ideologue at the helm."

George W. Bush Opens Up on Iran and Obama

Stephen F. Hayes "As president, he contemplated Iran policy by thinking about two clocks – one measured the time it would take for Iran to get nuclear weapons and the other kept track of the time it would take for internal change to take root in Iran. Bush writes that his plan was to accelerate the latter and retard the former."

George W Bush: I’m comfortable about my place in history  "He thinks that it is wrong to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the self-described mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks) on American soil, “where he’ll have all the rights of a common bank robber”, including access to the evidence — in this case extremely sensitive intelligence material — that led to his arrest.

"“He’d have had a perfectly fair trial in front of a military tribunal,” he says, “without national security being compromised.” "  UK Telegraph via Lucianne

Stay Worried

Victor Davis Hanson "Apparently, the president is unaware that after some 2,500 years of both experience with and abstract thought about Western national economies, we know that a free, private sector increases the general wealth of a nation, while a statist redistributive state results in a general impoverishment of the population."

SEIU’s Shady Political Cash

Big Government  "If the SEIU is getting the millions of dollars it is spending on Democrats from foreign sources, this should put a major dent in the alarmist claims that Obama has been making about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce supposedly getting its money from outside the country — a charge that was resoundingly refuted. After all, if one of Obama’s biggest left-wing campaign supporters is suffused with foreign cash, why should it be such a big deal if anyone else is?
"Sadly, the Old Media will never play up this aspect of Obama’s hypocrisy, but that is another subject."

Deficit report favors 'do-nothing Congress'

Washington Times  "The report's scariest deficit scenario relies on a Congressional Budget Office projection that under what it calls "current policy," the U.S. government's debt will soar from the current 60 percent of GDP to 100 percent of GDP by 2023 and to twice the country's annual economic output by the year 2035."This would lock in Obamacare if it is carried out.

Gary Varvel, World Magazine

The Contract from America

The Contract from America  "We, the undersigned, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items, work to bring each agenda item to a vote during the first year, and pledge to advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom."