By Tom Crowe
<i>FACEPALM/UPDATE (10/29/12 5:35 p.m.): Goodness gracious, where did “Murphy” come from? The reporter’s name is Kyle Clark, not Kyle Murphy. Must not have had enough coffee before posting this on Saturday.</i>
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Barack Obama hasn’t had an honest-to-goodness press conference with the White House press corps since April. Helen Thomas is...
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By Tom Crowe
I’ve done three previous posts on things Obama has done or said that directly contradict things he had promised: Part I, Part II, and Part III.
Here are a bunch more. I do not pretend that this is an exhaustive list of the lies, flip-flops, failures, and dangerously incompetent things Barack Obama has done as president, but I do think it’s a good sampling.
Let’s get right to it...
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By Tom Crowe
When I saw this in my Twitter feed my first thought was that Charlie had written on one of those satirical pieces in The Onion that strikes extremely close to home.
*New Video* Obama: I’m still trying to get the hang of this debating thing washingtonexaminer.com/article/2511011
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 17, 2012
But no: Obama really did say he’s still trying to g...
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By Tom Crowe
[UPDATE 10-10-12 at 5:16 p.m.: Turns out part of my point is spot-on. A book about to be released by Mark Bowden that chronicles fairly in-depth details of the process within the Obama administration to hunt and get Osama corroborates my point that Obama hunted Osama as the sine qua non of foreign policy. Why did this article appear today and the book will be released soon? As @bdomenech put it...
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By Tom Crowe
A rundown of the events of the past week or so:
The Inspector General reported that, contra Eric Holder’s assertions, top Justice officials in Washington *did* have damning knowledge of Fast and Furious, the gun-walking scandal that has left at least one American law enforcement official, and hundreds of Mexicans, dead.
Our ambassador to Libya, who was barely guarded, was murdered in Bengha...
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