To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
The Obama Paradox
BY SUSAN ESTRICH You don’t need to be a political pollster, much less a worried Democrat, to know that the president’s approval ratings have plummeted. “Down to the immediate family,” we used to say mockingly, when President Bush was at about the same point. Of course, it’s a little bit better than that – down […]
Wild Kingdom In The City Backyard
BY FROMA HARROP It’s a savage wilderness, here in my city yard. From a distance, it looks like a Victorian postcard – a pastoral scene of sweet flowers, sun-kissed vegetables and trilling birds. The reality is considerably rougher. Hang around, and one sees a Darwinian jungle of predators and prey. The Animal Planet’s “Untamed & […]
The Fall Of Obama
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The man who seized the White House by fomenting a mood of irrational expectation is now facing the bitter price exacted by reality. The reality is that there can be no “good” American president. It’s an impossible hand to play. Obama is close to being finished. The nation’s first black president promised […]
Family Secrets
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I must have been 12 years old when my mother took me aside to tell me she had been married to another man before my father. I was stunned, shocked and, yes, ashamed. In these days of multiple marriages and blended families, I can’t even say why exactly I was ashamed. There […]
A Change Election — In The Wrong Direction
BY JOE CONASON The headline for the latest poll says that public confidence in President Obama has sunk to a new low, with a majority of Americans saying they don’t trust him to make the best policy choices, especially on the ailing economy. These same voters, surveyed by The Washington Post and ABC News, are […]
