Obamamania

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. Last week, on the same day that Mr. Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize solely for being the "anti-Bush," former President George W. Bush got a lovely prize of his own: the growing appreciation of the American people. Public Policy Polling released a new survey that showed that while 50 percent preferred Mr. Obama to Mr. Bush, a stunning 44 percent preferred Mr...  

Clinton said that President Barack Obama's plan of action for human rights going forward consisted of four strategies: accountability, principled pragmatism, partnering with organizations working to achieve the same goals, and focusing ...  

First Lady Michelle Obama boarded Air Force One with her husband Wednesday night and flew to Oslo, Norway for her fifth overseas trip this year. She was in the audience when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, an improbable award at this early stage of his presidency, but in line with the unlikely journey the couple has undertaken. It was three years ago this December that then-Sen. Barack Obama firmed up his self-described...  

Sarah Palin is on the cover of Newsweek, but she's not happy about it. In an image taken from a Runner's World photo shoot, the former governor wears running shorts and sneakers. Palin blasted the selection in a Facebook note, writing "The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context...  

During Barack Obama’s campaign stop last week in Allentown, Pennsylvania, he scratched his head with his middle finger as he named the mayor of Bethlehem, John Callahan, a Hillary Clinton supporter. Right before the 2008 election, presidential candidate Barack Obama made a remark about his opponent, John McCain. As he made the remark, Obama scratched his face with his middle finger. Rush Limbaugh and others were quick to ask if Obama was...  

The decision to award Mr. Obama the peace prize was made during the period of irrational exuberance - the Obamamania - that attended his ascent to power. Nominations closed Feb. 1, when he had been in office less than two weeks. The lingering sense developed that the noteworthy achievement the committee wanted to recognize was either that Mr. Obama was not George W. Bush, or that he was black. Unless you are Barack Hussein Obama, you generally...  

Boston (DbTechNo) - Barbara Walters has named Michelle Obama as the most interesting person of 2009. This announcement is kind of ironic as last year, it was her husband who was named as the most interesting person of 2008. Obama beat out some pretty big names on the list, including Brett Favre, Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga. Obama [...]  

by Mark Silva Our friend and colleague Clarence Page notes that President Barack Obama has lost at least one old friend on one issue: Chicago's Bill Ayers, on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Obama was criticized for "palin' around with terrorists'' during the presidential campaign by Republican Sarah Palin, who attempted to tie the Democrat's politics to those of Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago education professor...  

Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers is upset that President Obama has "escalated" a war against ... terrorists.  He's all about non-violence, you see. Liberal Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page cites this video as definitive proof that the Right's characterization of Obama and Ayers's relationship -- that the two were friends who worked closely for years -- can't be true.  Because as we all know, friends and co-workers never disagree on...  

In Illinois, Tony Rezko's banker is running for Senate. Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias confronted questions about his family’s Chicago bank as he sought to boost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by his friend President Barack Obama.Broadway Bank, with $1.2 billion in assets, has clouded the political career of Giannoulias since his first bid for office in 2006, when at age 30 he became the youngest U.S. state treasurer...  

I won’t reiterate the hoopla that was made during the campaign over the NRC getting Sarah Palin some extra clothes to wear. But it’s worth contrasting it with the reporting on Michelle Obama’s threads. At last night’s bash for the Hollywood limousine liberals and the Indian Prime Minister, Michelle went all out on her dress it seems. Quotes below are from one AP article, though I’ve changed the order a bit.  

It felt like 2008 all over again last night (11/18/09) as Sean Hannity went out of his way to bring up Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers during his hour-long interview with Sarah Palin about her new book. Why would Hannity waste time on this non-issue, if not for a sheer desire to hate monger against President Obama? In response, Palin had the nerve to pretend that talking more about Wright and Ayers was not negative campaigning, just being “fair to...  

JERUSALEM – Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democrat nomination deliberately appealed to white supremacy, fear and anxiety, charged longtime Barack Obama colleague and Weatherman terrorist William Ayers and wife, Bernardine Dohrn. In a co-authored article in the socialist Monthly Review magazine, the two radicals argued last year's national elections had "racist" undertones and that President Obama's ascent to power can be used to...  

KRANJ, Slovenia | First lady Laura Bush said Monday she admired the "grit and strength" Hillary Rodham Clinton demonstrated in the Democratic Party's long, hard-fought primaries, but said she would want to see a Republican woman as president. She ...  

* bumped up * (Editor’s Notes: John Batchelor revealed on his radio show last night that Michaele and Tareq Salah are longtime friends of Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO terrorist and current professor at Columbia University. Khalidi is a longtime, close friend of Barack and Michelle Obama. Batchelor reported a photo of the Salahs [...]