Jeffrey Goldberg, currently an Atlantic national correspondent, during a question and answer session last week at Sinai Temple after his speech on “
There is almost this childish belief that on January 20, 2009 we will elect another president and that it will be Obama, or at least a woman, and the world will say “Oh great! Now we can like you again!”
There is this level of childish certainty in that -- that I find unfathomable. Because the next American president will have to advance
I predict that if Barack Obama becomes president, by late 2009 the stories in newspapers in
Why? Because he’s had to take hard steps in
Because the next president -- whoever it is -- is going to face the same set of enormous problems, and like any president is going to have limited maneuverability to deal with those problems. And those problems are not going to go away. The Islamic Jihad is not going to say “Well! They elected Barack Obama! I guess we should just have a bake sale or something.”
Leon Wieseltier, writing Wednesday in The New Republic, on Barack Obama:
I cannot escape the foreboding that we are heading into an era of conflict, not an era of conciliation. . . . I cannot imagine that the threat to American security from Al Qaeda and its many associates can be met without a massive and sustained military operation in western
It is not "the politics of fear" to remind Obama's legions of the blissful that, while they are watching Scarlett Johansson sway to the beat, somewhere deep inside a quasi independent territory we might call Islamistan people are making plans to blow them to bits. (Yes, they can.)
. . . And into this unirenic environment strides Obama, pledging to extract us promptly from
Zechariah as depicted on Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Zechariah, writing maybe 2,500 years ago, in Zechariah 9:12:
“Return to the stronghold, Ye prisoners of hope.”
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