Archive for the ‘Barack Obama’ Category

RedState is saying that Obama is already backing away from Panetta after sharp criticism that ensued following a the leak that Obama was going to pick him to be the CIA chief .  In a media availability today, a reporter asked Obama what he though Panetta brought to the table as Director of the CIA [...]

Barack Obama has asked Sanjay Gupta, the medical correspondent for CNN and CBS to serve as Surgeon General. I’ve seen him on CNN and CBS before.  He seems respectable and appears to know what he’s talking about.  But  he’s got a kind of celebrity about him, which as Michelle Malkin notes, is in keeping with [...]

Obama has a lot of people scratching their heads today. Because we haven’t suffered a terrorist attack in the past 7 years doesn’t mean our enemies don’t plan and plot every single day in an attempt to perpetrate one. So why in God’s green earth would Obama pick someone with out a lick of intelligence [...]

Think again. Lyric Winick gives us the data dump on what the Inaugural Balls are really like, and they’re anything but glamorous, unless you’re a really well connected member of the elite class. Gee, what a surprise. It seems those well connected members of the elite class will be at private, elegant parties because they [...]

Well, this is interesting.  NBC has the details on Richardson’s withdrawal:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state.
“Let me say unequivocally that I and [...]

Unbelievable. So much for the sucking sound we heard a few days ago. What an amazing save. But the woman’s a dolt.  She’s as articulate as a box of rocks, so her recovery is certainly none of her doing.
Officials say the daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy will be the governor’s choice [...]

That’s what the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting may happen:
Gov. Blagojevich will decide early next week — perhaps as early as Monday — whether he should resign, a source close to the governor told the Chicago Sun-Times.
“He was blindsided by this,” the source said. “He needs some time to digest what’s going on. He’s going to [...]

Barack Obama is so thankful for his wife’s support during his campaign that he’s buying her a rare rhodium and diamond ring that costs $30,000. I love jewelry as much as the next girl, but this is a bit over the top. I know, it’s his money, so he can spend it as he [...]

As far as the folks at the New York Times are concerned, the success in Iraq is due to the efforts of Barack Obama and the liberals, at least that’s what they are arguing. Take a look at Thomas Friedman’s opinion piece from yesterday:
In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash [...]

Barack Obama came into power by promising “change you can believe in,” but after seeing his first appointments, Rahm Emanual, Eric Holder, probably Hillary Clinton, and who knows who else, it’s becoming clear that Obama is anything but change.