Bonhoeffer and Obama
Eric Metaxas has just published the first biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in forty years: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. This review at Fox News has an illuminating quote from Metaxas that should sound alarm bells in the age of Obama: But the legacy that Bonhoeffer leaves future generations is of the untold dangers of idolizing politicians as messianic [...]
Capture or Kill, War or Crime
In a “Washington Post” story today it was reported that under President Obama there are more targeted killings than captures in counter-terrorism efforts. Senator Bond (R, Mo) says: “Over a year after taking office, the administration has still failed to answer the hard questions about what to do if we have the opportunity to capture [...]
Stephanopoulos Blinked
Rarely do the press actually ask President Obama any hard questions, but yesterday on ABC’s “This Week” George Stephanopoulos actually did. He challenged President Obama’s support of the individual mandate within health reform legislation as a tax. Obama was having none of it. Here’s a relevant part of the transcript. STEPHANOPOULOS: That may be, but [...]
Greatest Salesman in the World?
There’s a story in “The Washington Post” this morning about President Obama’s meeting with House Republicans yesterday. As the president met with House Republicans yesterday in the Capitol basement, Rep. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) got out his BlackBerry and started to Twitter. “President Obama is speaking to House Republicans right now on Democratic stimulus bill,” he [...]
Obects of History
Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked On-Line, wrote what is probably the most perceptive essay on the Obama phenomena that I have seen: So there was a dual historic element to the inauguration: there was the real history of it, but more powerfully still there was the projection of a yearning for history on to it, [...]