By Jorge Barake, on August 30th, 2010%

Foreign Policy
I was having dinner with friends the other night and the subject turned to a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fouad Ajami called “The Obsolescence of Barack Obama.” The subject of the piece — which I had not seen, but now have read — was essentially the decline and fall of the . . . → Read More: Obama’s Political Death Greatly Exaggerated
By Jorge Barake, on August 29th, 2010%
Source: Washington Post
Just one day after he drew a sea of conservative activists to see him speak on the National Mall, Fox News host Glenn Beck appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the event. Beck said his rally — at which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin also spoke — drew “on the . . . → Read More: Beck: People Don’t Recognize ‘Obama’s Version of Christianity’ Beck Should Study Theology Before Making Comments. Beck’s Not Christian.
By Jorge Barake, on August 28th, 2010%
Source: The Observer
Despite an impressive record by the president, discontented American voters are turning against the Democrats.
They won’t give him a break – literally so. Barack Obama has reached that point of his presidency when he can’t even join his fellow citizens in the all-American tradition of the August vacation without taking a . . . → Read More: Great Piece: Barack Obama is Down, but It’s Far Too Early to Count Him Out
By Jorge Barake, on August 26th, 2010%
Source: Religion Dispatches
Last night on his Fox television program, Glenn Beck (now fashioning himself a religion expert) tried to launch a theological attack on President Barack Obama‘s Christianity, opportunistically pasting together a predictable string of Jeremiah-Wright-Michael-Pfleger-Jim-Wallis clips to suggest that the President’s espoused a rogue brand of Christianity that was not Christianity at . . . → Read More: Religious Dispatches: Beck Claims Obama is “Not Christian”
By Jorge Barake, on July 27th, 2010%

Daniel Stone/The Gaggle
D.C. flacks like to complain that sometimes a juicy Washington narrative can take on a life of its own based on nothing but rumors. It was certainly the case last week when, seemingly out of no where, Jeb Bush waswidely floated as a candidate in the race for the 2012 GOP . . . → Read More: Another Bush In The White House? No Thank You! Jeb Bush Says No To 2012