Obama

Analysis

Friday, August 11th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Victoria Taft PJ Media, Aug. 10, 2023 “Throughout the years, Obama is alleged to have been a real-life Manchurian candidate, a member of the Down Low Club at Reverend Wright’s church, a cocaine lover, a purveyor of male prostitutes, a man placed in an arranged marriage by his church, and born in Kenya, among other […]

Analysis

Friday, August 11th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Cody Delistraty Longreads, May 9, 2017 “I believe Barack’s time in Springfield, essentially eight years as a state legislator, is phenomenally important and absolutely essential to understanding the sort of politician he became.”   There are few subjects in contemporary history who deserve a 1,400-page biography, but Barack Obama’s ascendance to the presidency merits every […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

SHABBAT READING The Origins of Tefillin: Dr. Yehudah Cohn, The Torah.com, Aug. 24, 2016 — Why did the practice of tefillin come into being? The first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, found in the Torah readings of Va’ethanan and Eikev respectively, may appear to resolve the issue, ostensibly ordaining the practice of head and arm tefillin. I will try to show that […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.”   In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy.” Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Mark Dubowitz Tablet, Jan. 9, 2023 “Obama’s big Iran play was neither ‘values-driven’ nor purely pragmatic.” The eventual fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran will reveal the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to have been one of the worst unforced strategic errors in the history of U.S. foreign policy. At home, the Islamic Republic is […]

Analysis

Tuesday, July 25th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy …”   He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform America. […]