weeklystandard.com - 1/24/2009
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Without making value judgments one way or another, one is struck by how backward-looking and partisan President Obama's inaugural speech was. All inaugurals are principally forward-looking (you can peruse the entire oeuvre here ) and Obama's was no exception. But what was exceptional was that ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/21/2009
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Does this really have to appear on the
White House website? President Obama will keep the broken...
promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He and Vice President Biden will take steps to ensure that the federal ...
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Re The Permanent Campaign
corner.nationalreview.com - 1/22/2009
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It's hard to say anything about it that
hasn't already been remarked upon in here or elsewhere....
Like others, I was struck by how pedestrian the prose was, but on re-reading it, I like the plainspokenness of it. The weakest moments were when it, ...
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Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... , who thinks Obama's assertion that we're all collectively at fault for the economic mess we're in is a cop-out. (I couldn't disagree more; I'm glad it was said in so public a venue.) This is not to say that Obama is generally making a better impression on conservatives -- at least, those of a neoconservative bent -- than liberals, but he certainly continues to confound expectations. Incidentally, Jonathan Last at the Standard blog thinks that Obama's reference to "worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics" was a potshot at conservatives, but Ron ...
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