Doing a dance: Obama continues flops toward the center
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, July 4, 2008WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama’s seasonally adjusted principles are beginning to pile up: NAFTA, campaign finance reform, warrantless wiretaps, flag pins, gun control. What’s left? Iraq. The reversal is coming, and soon.
Obama's flip-flops show his long march to the center has begun
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 27, 2008WASHINGTON -- Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Barack Obama.
Drilling debate: Partial reform makes McCain better than Obama
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 20, 2008
WASHINGTON --
John McCain is responding to the oil crisis with a partial fix: Lift the federal ban on Outer Continental Shelf drilling, where a fifth of the off-limits stuff lies.
Democrats show disconnect to reality in Iraq
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, June 13, 2008
WASHINGTON --
Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their “narrative of defeat and retreat” (as Joe Lieberman so memorably called it) as if nothing has changed.
Be cool on warming
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 30, 2008WASHINGTON -- I’m not a global warming believer. I’m not a global warming denier. I’m a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can’t be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
On foreign policy, Obama only adding to gaffe
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 23, 2008WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama cited Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman as presidents who met with enemies. Does he know no history?
Peace won't come until Arabs accept a Jewish state
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 16, 2008
WASHINGTON --
Palestinian dispossession is a direct result of the Arab rejection, then and now, of a Jewish state of any size on any part of the vast lands the Arabs claim as their exclusive patrimony. That was the cause of the war 60 years ago that, in turn, caused the refugee problem. And it remains the cause of war today.
It's time for Hillary to negotiate terms of surrender
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 9, 2008WASHINGTON -- Going left proved disastrous for Hillary Clinton. It abolished all significant policy differences between her and Barack Obama, the National Journal’s 2007 most liberal senator.
It turns out the senator could disown the pastor
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 2, 2008WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama decided to cut off the Rev. Wright not because Wright’s words or character or views had suddenly changed. The only thing that changed was the venue in which Wright chose to display them—live on national TV at the National Press Club. That unfortunate choice destroyed Obama’s Philadelphia pretense that this “endless loop” of sermon excerpts being shown on “television sets and YouTube” had been taken out of context.
'Distractions' go to core of who Obama really is
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 25, 2008WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama understands that the real threat to his candidacy is less Hillary Clinton and John McCain than his own character and cultural attitudes.
We must protect our allies from Iran's nuclear threat
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 11, 2008
WASHINGTON --
Because there will apparently be no disarming of Iran by pre-emption or by sanctions, we shall have to rely on deterrence to prevent the mullahs, some of whom are apocalyptic and messianic, from using nuclear weapons.
Hillary's misstep again pulls spotlight off Obama
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 4, 2008
WASHINGTON --
The mainstream media are back in the tank. The “Saturday Night Live” skits parodying media obsequiousness toward Barack Obama, followed closely by the revelation of the Wright tapes, temporarily forced the media to subject Obama to normal scrutiny. But after the “speech” and Hillary Clinton's memory slip about Tuzla, they have reverted to form as protectors of the myth of Obama.
Liberals lying: McCain does not want 100 more years of war
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 28, 2008WASHINGTON -- A serious argument is not what Democrats are seeking. They want the killer sound bite, the silver bullet to take down McCain. According to Politico, they have found it: “Dems to hammer McCain for ‘100 years.’” The device? Charge that McCain is calling for a hundred years of war.
Why didn't Obama leave that church?
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 21, 2008WASHINGTON -- The question is why didn’t Barack Obama leave that church? Why didn’t he leave—why doesn’t he leave even today—a pastor who thundered not once but three times from the pulpit “God damn America”?
With similar policies, Obama-Clinton battle boils down to race, age, gender
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON --
If there are no policy issues between them and the personality differences have been whittled down, what’s left? Identity. Race, age and gender. Is this campaign about anything else?
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