I was wondering that as well.
I think Charles has the hots for Sarah Palin, and that’s why he crap-talks her all the time.
No he is a liberal and always has been. The guy was a speech writer for Carter and Mondale what else needs to be said?
His aim is getting sloppy.
He hasn’t nailed anything in a while.
He sounds like just another establishment GOP sellout hack.
Liberals are frightened to the bone, and now they have nothing left but to gather around Obamao. What a disappointment that is going to be for them. If watching liberals fail wasn’t so enjoyable, I would feel sorry for them. Poor Charles.
I think his top priority is personal and related to increasing stem cell research.
“...In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale....”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
Krauthammer is ruling class through and through. Always has been, always will be.
Or it may be that Charles looked at the numbers, and decided all Obama had to do to be a comeback kid was keep unemployment below 30%.
Right track / wrong track poll has something like 23% right track. With those numbers one would expect a job approval no higher than 35%. Obama is around 48% job approval.
Many Americans WANT to like Obama. If Obama just keeps his trap shut, his re-election chances are good.
Disclaimer: I despise Obama, and can’t see a single good thing about the man. I’m just trying to be as objective as I can be based on polls and people I talk to.
Much like some FReepers who take issue with hot, middle-aged, Conservative women that are more popular than their own obscure political heroes. ;^)
“O” has done WAY too many things wrong that MATTER to recover anytime soon!
not like that image from the other headline about Obama being in bed with Julian Assange wasn’t disturbing enough...
This “Compromise” had been talked about for weeks before being implemented. Obama was just along for the ride. Giving credit to Obama is the way the Inside The Beltway crowd is framing the discussion.
It always surprises me when Dr. K is referred to as a “conservative.” Obviously, he isn’t.
That said, he often has interesting insights. As long as nobody seriously believes he is a conservative, I’m interested at least listening to his point of view.
It’s been there all along, not newly ‘developed’. That’s exactly why he denigrates Sarah Palin...he knows she truly could wipe Obama out.
You’re probably right, but that’s not saying Krauthammer’s wrong here.
The bill had a subsidy for ethanol attached if I recall. I hate to say it, but if even Al Gore thinks ethanol is a bad idea, how did R’s let it pass?
Krauthammer’s warning the right that we need to find our balls, or Obama will hand them to us. I remember another recent president people underestimated, and we just passed the tax cuts he proposed yesterday.
He’s normally pretty good. I’ll chalk this up to a temporary loss of his senses.
No, Krauthammer is correct. In making that deal, Obama has once again become "relevant." So it's a comeback for him.
For the moment he really has put himself back into the center of the political game, on an issue of real substance.
For a while, anyway: his intrinsic failings (e.g., the "hostage takers" comment and that shocking laziness about his presidential duties) are already coming back to bite him.
Krauthammer’s subconscious:
“I have much more favorable feelings about an individual who- by his own admittance- received mediocre grades in high school but was able to get into Occidental College and then transfer to even finer schools because of the color of his skin, than I do about an individual who did not have that valuable advantage. I will accept as an article of faith that the individual whom I prefer truly was an academic stalwart, and I will not ask for further evidence clarifying that presumption, as it would shatter everything I have come to believe...
...My immediate, emotional knee-jerk reactions outweigh my, at times, uncomfortable pervasive awareness that the individual whom I favor would likely be determined to have the narcissistic personality disorder, or even worse, ASPD, if I were examining him as a psychiatrist. Further, my feelings outweigh my knowledge that the individual whom I prefer labeled “Iran a tiny country” not to be feared, whereas the other individual whom I innately fear has done everything but cartwheels to demonstrate her beliefs on the issue. When it comes down to it, I have a psychological need for the unresolved struggle, and that need is greater than my reasoned intelligent thoughts on the matter...
...I will value “book-smarts” (even though the individual who is supposedly book-smart never seems to quote anything interesting from books) over street-smarts at all costs. I will never understand that Reagan was a brilliant man- that he had a type of intelligence that is not measured in standardized tests (designed to confirm and preserve status quo definitions of intelligence)...
;-)
That’s low.