Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest

Aug 12, 2009 - Analysis: Press Largely Ignored Incendiary Rhetoric at Bush Protest News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama's town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric -- and even violence -- of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. Bush in 2002. By Bill Sammon FOXNews.com News outlets that are focusing on the incendiary rhetoric of conservatives outside President Obama's town hall meeting Tuesday ignored the incendiary rhetoric -- and even violence -- of liberals outside an appearance by former President George W. - 3 Comments

Scratch Obama's Afghanistan Rhetoric (Change we can believe in?)

Feb 03, 2009 - Wait a minute. Bush's whole problem was that he didn't keep enough troops in Afghanistan to literally scour the countryside for that evil bin laden because of Iraq, right? Or not. - 5 Comments

Obama: Running away from strong stands he took abroad as candidate. Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality

Oct 26, 2009 - O's embarrassment Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality By MICHAEL BARONE PRESIDENT Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenha gen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, apparently can't find the time for a 24-hour trip to Berlin on Nov. - 10 Comments

Frm. Atty Gen. & the Light Side of Ft. Hood

Nov 18, 2009 - Last week, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) came out in strong support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute the five 9/11 defendants in U.S. federal court and sharply criticized Republicans who were attacking the decision. - 3 Comments

FACT CHECK: White House health care rhetoric ignores concession on government-run plan

Aug 18, 2009 - WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to drop a government-run health care plan from any overhaul. The White House says that's not a shift. Actually, it is. - 1 Comment

Treachery as Lifestyle Choice

Nov 12, 2009 - Treachery as Lifestyle Choice By George Neumayr on 11.12.09 @ 6:08AM President Obama, speaking at Tuesday's memorial, described the Fort Hood attack as "incomprehensible." But what's incomprehensible about it? Nidal Malik Hasan telegraphed his treachery. - 5 Comments

Campaign rhetoric and presidential reality: A brief history

Dec 18, 2008 - Campaign rhetoric and presidential reality: A brief history By Victor Davis Hanson American presidential election rhetoric always paints the incumbent as incompetent in foreign policy, the challenger insightful and skillful. A look at recent history, however, shows that once the opposition gains office, the world suddenly becomes not so black and white. The outsider Dwight Eisenhower charged President Harry Truman's administration with defeatist incompetence in Korea. - 10 Comments

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah

Nov 09, 2009 - WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Sarah Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents Friday night with a a stark warning that the same philosophy that allows abortion rights could soon be invoked to allow the government to cut off health care for the elderly or children with special needs. Speaking to a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee asserted that if policy-makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable, then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to other persons.” “What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have a whole lot of productive years left,” Palin asked an audience of about 5,000 who paid $30 each to hear her speak in an airplane hangar-like exhibition hall at the Wisconsin state fairgrounds just outside of Milwaukee. - 9 Comments

Record versus rhetoric

Oct 20, 2008 - Record versus rhetoric By Thomas Sowell Apparently there is something about Sarah Palin that causes some people to think of her as either the best of candidates or the worst of candidates. She draws enthusiastic crowds and provokes visceral hostility in the media. The issue that is raised most often is her relative lack of experience and the fact that she would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if Senator John McCain were elected. - 12 Comments

Obama's Curious Inaugural Rhetoric

Jan 24, 2009 - * Public Post * I found this brief item illuminating and insightful. For your information and discussion. Obama's Curious Inaugural Rhetoric By Paul Kengor Something quite notable was said before an audience of tens of millions of Americans on January 20, 2009. - 2 Comments