Ed Klein on Clinton, Kenya, Wright--and Obama. Breitbart News: You’ve encapsulated the Obama presidency in a memorable sentence in your introduction to the book: “We come to know a strange kind of politician, one who derives no joy from the cut and thrust of politics, but who clings to the narcissistic life of the presidency.” Was that your view of Barack Obama when you started your research? Ed Klein: No, it was something I developed over the course of my research. I interviewed nearly two hundred people--many either present or former members of the Obama administration, from various departments, from both sides of the aisle.
And it became very clear to me, from talking to all of these people, that here is a man who is temperamentally unsuited to the presidency. He loved the campaigning and the adulation on the hustings, but when it came to actually having to deal with the give-and-take of daily politics, he didn’t seem to have the skill set or even the will to do it. Ed Klein: I’m a registered Independent. Yeah, that's it ... It's biased! | Nealz Nuze. The distraction of the week seems to be Mitt Romney’s evil record with Bain Capital. Unfortunately for the Obama propaganda machine, that one doesn’t seem to be sticking. People are busy preparing for graduation or summer school. And quite frankly, they are probably tired of being treated like fools. Perhaps they are catching on to the fact that the Obama administration, and the Democrats, seem determined to focus on everything except for the one thing people care about: the economy.
Yesterday’s CBS/NYTimes poll told us just that. People care about the economy. Naturally, the White House response was to immediately label the polling as biased. Wait a minute? MILLER: Obama's second-term promises. President Obama is opening up about what he might do with a second term in the White House. It’s a bleak prospect. Until now, the president has had to take a divisive approach in making his pitch for re-election.
A positive case is hard to make when the public in general is not better off now than it was four years ago. So the Obama campaign’s main tactic has been to instigate fake political fights to drum up support with key demographic groups in his base. At a campaign event in Iowa on Thursday, Mr. “We have come too far to abandon the change that we fought for over these past few years,” Mr. Mr. In 2008, he said these exact spending priorities were necessary “so that we’re not here talking about high gas prices next summer, and the summer after that, and five summers after that.” He also promised these energy investments would result in “millions” of jobs in green energy. Medicare is facing similar financial troubles.
Mr. Social conservatives claim Obama's gay marriage endorsement could unite right. Prominent social conservatives are claiming that President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage could be the fuel Mitt Romney needs to unite the right in November. Rick Santorum, the former Republican presidential candidate, is on record urging Romney to use this "potent weapon" against the president in the general election. And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Sunday called the president's announcement a "missing piece of intensity" for the presumptive GOP nominee. Though gay marriage was not an issue that factored prominently into the 2012 election season until this past Wednesday, when Obama made his historic announcement, the clear distinction now between Obama and Romney has elevated the matter. Obama has said he didn't make a political calculation when he decided to take the plunge and announce his support for the unions. On the other side of the aisle, Democratic Sen.
"If he's going to do it from a political point of view, it doesn't make any sense," she said. Evita, I need you: Obama our Juan Perón. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama The Party of Justice understands that the function of politics is to raise the grievances of the people and convert them into concrete acts of government. From the Partido Justicialista -- founded by Juan Perón Barack Obama bears a passable resemblance to the Latin demagogue and wrecker of Argentina, Juan Perón, in both style and substance.
In his recently published book, Redentores: Ideas y Poder en America Latina, the Mexican historian Enrique Krause writes of Perónism: “Perónism was certainly the first populist regime in Latin America. The Perón-Obama resemblance lacks only a contemporary Eva, but Obama’s monumental egotism and his unfailing self-adulation might fill this void. The 2008 campaign was America’s first experience with the launching of a “cult of a personality” for one of its own. Glenn Beck: You Don't Know Obama [Video]