Category archive: Barack Obama
A View of the US from Abroad
By Chuck Roger • September 28th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér A recent email from a reader carried a poignant message. The woman, a citizen of South Africa and successful business owner, wrote: I have to tell you that most people (rational people, not jihadis and Soviets) are astonished at Obama and much of the confusion that is the [...]
Business-Killing Obama Is No Candyman
By Chuck Roger • September 21st, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker Guest Post By Don Ross In New Deal or Raw Deal, Burton Folsom, Jr. explains that an atmosphere of regime uncertainty kept businesses wary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Today, under President Obama, the economy is suffering similarly due to the understandable hesitation of companies to expand. The [...]
Obama’s Newest Worst Idea Ever—Fannie II
By Chuck Roger • September 8th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér February 2009 brought us Barack Obama’s “stimulus” plan—$800 billion worth of progressive agenda-packed deficit spending that produced zero economic improvement and increased the national debt. One year later, President Obama offered the American people a $3.8 trillion 2011 budget that increased the national debt by another $1.3 trillion. [...]
Obama’s Deceit on the Debt Default Deadline
By Chuck Roger • July 25th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér Knowingly stating a falsehood constitutes lying. Unintentionally misrepresenting reality displays a careless lack of knowledge. Our President appears to be engaged in a curious combination of both activities. Economist and Reason columnist Veronique de Rugy analyzes three debt “default” distortions being advanced by Barack Obama and his administration [...]
Way-Early Obama Endorsement Puts NEA’s Left-Wing Zealotry on Grand Display
By Chuck Roger • July 20th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér NEA President Dennis Van Roekel (left) with AFL-CIO Head Thug Richard Trumka (center) and Syracuse University “social work” professor Eric Kingson America is a year away from learning the identity of the Republican who will face Barack Obama in November 2012. Yet the National Education Association has officially endorsed President Hopey-Changey. NEA [...]
Robert Reich: Still Smokin’ — but Probably Right about the Debt Battle Outcome
By Chuck Roger • July 19th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally appeared as “Obama, Clinton and Robert Reich” at American Thinker. By Chuck Rogér Robert Reich has gotten into the funny stuff again. In the Wall Street Journal, the former denizen of the Clinton administration weaves a tall tale to support yet another fanciful argument: After a bruising midterm election, the president moves to the [...]
Obama Ideology All the Way Down
By Chuck Roger • July 18th, 2011 12:00 am
Originally at American Thinker By Chuck Rogér When your relatives publicly expose your horrifically indefensible thinking, it may be time to rethink your thinking. Milton Wolf, a cousin of Barack Obama, writes: The devastation caused by Obamanomics is now undeniable. According to Investors Business Daily, 2 million net private-sector jobs have been lost; unemployment has [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part VI: thick-headedness on parade
By Chuck Roger • July 14th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VII By Chuck Rogér America is now “paralysed [sic], diminished,” and it’s definitely not Barack Obama’s fault. Financial Times columnist [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part I
By Chuck Roger • July 7th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, please enjoy this re-post of the “Dissecting progressive arrogance” series. More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” II, III, IV, V, VI, VII By Chuck Rogér There are few more reality-disconnected writers in Financial Times than Clive Crook. In a [...]
Manipulation as policy: how Obama’s transformational coalition plays ‘We the People’ for suckers
By Chuck Roger • July 5th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted November 11, 2009. By Chuck Rogér Shortly before the 2008 presidential election, Senator Barack Obama said that “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” He also said taxation “comes [...]
Barack’s box of leeches
By Chuck Roger • June 28th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted October 22, 2008. By Chuck Rogér Starry-eyed healers who drain blood to cure an ailing body don’t notice little side-effects—like the death of the patient. On securing the Democrat nomination, Barack Obama [...]
Barack Obama: son of promise, child of hope
By Chuck Roger • June 27th, 2011 12:00 am
The Clear Thinking blog is on hiatus and will return with new posts on July 18, 2011. Meanwhile, here’s an oldie originally posted August 13, 2008. By Chuck Rogér That’s the title of a children’s book about a boy who “knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else” and decided that he was meant to “bring [...]
The Obamas Host a Rapper Who Validated a Cop Killer
By Chuck Roger • May 13th, 2011 12:00 am
By Chuck Rogér Barack and Michelle Obama ignored Americans’ outrage over the appearance of a rapper/”poet” known as “Common” at a White House gathering. The Daily Caller reports that the usual lefty media suspects such as Politico and the New York Times essentially ignored the controversy. Besides the heady garbage already discussed in my previous post, [...]
Obama launches programs to guide the thoughts of America’s children
By Chuck Roger • March 17th, 2011 12:00 am
Just how far will America’s Ideologue-in-Chief go to bring about the impossible Eden that he and the progressive herd long to create? We have our latest indication as to answer to this question . At a recent White House-hosted conference attended by about 150 representatives of various special interest groups, legislators, and other federal and state/local officials, President [...]
Obama’s New Pose: Fake Right, Sucker-Punch Left
By Chuck Roger • January 31st, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, January 29, 2010. After Barack Obama delivered his January 12 speech scolding the American left for politicizing the Loughner shootings, one of my readers warned that Obama was leveraging the occasion to draw attention from the presidential destruction of “an entire culture’s hard earned lifestyle.” The reader added, “Barry learned in [...]
The Right is righter than the Left
By Chuck Roger • January 17th, 2011 12:30 am
I received emails taking me to task for last Friday’s post, in which I gave Obama credit for having done well in his Giffords shooting memorial speech. I thank everyone who emailed me. I love hearing from readers. When someone reacts to points that I make, I know that my work is provoking thought. Not [...]
From tragedy, optimism?
By Chuck Roger • January 14th, 2011 12:30 am
In his Gabrielle Giffords shooting memorial remarks in Tucson, by my count, President Obama allocated more than 1300 of 2500 words to talking about the people involved–the injured, deceased, and heroes. The remaining 1200 words went toward making the Tucson address something rare for Obama: a positive, non-ideological speech. Obama addressed the eruption of vitriol from the [...]
Arrogant and Authoritarian: Barack Obama and the New Progressives
By Chuck Roger • January 13th, 2011 12:30 am
Originally in American Thinker, January 12, 2010. Blindness to physical reality, denial of human nature, and a consuming desire to use government force to impose fantasies on fellow human beings. Welcome to the mind of today’s American “progressive.” Progressives veil sophomoric schemes in eloquent verbiage. Barack Obama’s mastery of the technique got him elected president. [...]
Did President Obama just sign his own pink slip?
By Chuck Roger • December 20th, 2010 5:38 am
Or is the President’s reversal on tax policy merely a blip on the road to his 2012 reelection? Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to “spread the wealth around.” The spreading, he preached, would be “good for everybody.” Obama supported and was supported by the Working Families Party, which believes in “making the wealthy pay [...]
Unemployment, Obama’s taxing business shackles, and Americans’ priorities
By Chuck Roger • December 10th, 2010 6:04 am
U.S. unemployment has risen from its previous many-month level of 9.6%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+39,000)… Temporary help services and health care continued to add jobs over the month, while employment fell in retail trade. [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part VI: thick-headedness on parade
By Chuck Roger • December 3rd, 2010 6:43 am
More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” I, II, III, IV, V, VII America is now “paralysed [sic], diminished,” and it’s definitely not Barack Obama’s fault. Financial Times columnist Clive Crook is a never-ending fount of smugness, a textbook embodiment of the operational style of so many elitist American progressives. Recently, Crook decreed that “Mr. Obama’s [foreign] diplomacy has seemed [...]
Barack Obama: pretender to brilliance
By Chuck Roger • November 19th, 2010 1:44 am
Our President views himself as smarter, wiser, and more well-intentioned than the vast majority of Americans. It was a sight to behold as Barack Obama–before and after the Midterm Election–repeatedly pontificated to audiences of all sizes, audiences which shared one main characteristic: They too are smarter, wiser, more well-intentioned than the vast majority of Americans. [...]
Ideologue-in-Chief Obama Will Continue to Be Bad for Business
By Chuck Roger • November 15th, 2010 2:51 am
Originally in American Thinker, November 13, 2010. President Obama called the Democrats’ November 2 loss of sixty-one House seats a “shellacking.” Yet in a day-after press conference, Obama sported a self-absorbed manner, contrived reflection, and a basic misread of the American people. In a “60 Minutes” interview aired four days later, he denied that voters [...]
Big government, academia, and corporations will team up to create America’s energy future? Guess again
By Chuck Roger • November 5th, 2010 2:10 am
Some people never learn. Even conservatives fall for bunk on occasion. The American Enterprise Institute’s Steven Hayward wants to “bring corporate, university, and government scientists together to tackle big energy problems…” Hayward essentially follows the fallacy put forth by Obama during his presidential campaign. In the Obama-Biden plan, “Investing in America’s Future,” Obama proposed to [...]
Today’s elections could save us from becoming France
By Chuck Roger • November 2nd, 2010 2:12 am
Last week, American Spectator‘s Paris correspondent, Joseph Harriss, described the situation in France as a result of President Sarkozy’s suggestion that the government will have to tighten its belt in the face of out-of-control spending and massive, unsustainable debt. This past week has seen France’s fourth crippling national strike and seventh day of violent street [...]
The Church of the Green Dragon
By Chuck Roger • November 1st, 2010 7:16 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 30, 2010. One of the heads of the Green Dragon has hissed again. Urged by the King Corn lobby, the EPA recently raised the limit on ethanol in gasoline from 10 to 15 percent, a change that will harm Americans and the environment. The environmental justice-obsessed agency is actually driving [...]
Dissecting progressive arrogance, Part I
By Chuck Roger • October 18th, 2010 2:23 am
More “Dissecting Progressive Arrogance” II, III, IV, V, VI, VII There are few more reality-disconnected writers in Financial Times than Clive Crook. In a recent post, the man simply assumes that not going along with Democrats’ economic and cultural transformation constitutes mindless “paralysis.” Crook demonstrates the typical progressive posturing: Enlightened sages must undertake cultural and [...]
Politically incorrect: What do the racial and age biases in Obama’s approval ratings really mean?
By Chuck Roger • October 15th, 2010 2:24 am
The headline in a story reporting the results of a recent National Journal poll declares: “Young People And Minorities Are All The President Has Left.” Indeed, here’s how the numbers shape up. While two-thirds of voters aged 50 to 64 see Obama’s destruction of America as, well, the destruction of America, nearly half of voters [...]
Erasing America: Barack Obama’s Motivation and Method
By Chuck Roger • October 8th, 2010 4:26 am
Originally in American Thinker, October 7, 2010. “It took time to free the slaves,” proclaimed Barack Obama during a recent speech aimed at salvaging support for his fundamental transformation of America. Our president, a man who views the world through an oppressed-versus-oppressor lens, puts an agenda of economic destruction on moral par with the emancipation [...]
Barack Obama’s Desperate Search
By Chuck Roger • October 4th, 2010 12:30 am
In the beginning, Barack Obama assigned himself the mission of saving people that he saw as beaten down by capitalism and the modern world. Method was obvious to Obama. Americans must be pitted against one another, preferably along lines of race and class. The wealthy must be portrayed as villains who gather riches for the [...]
