Every President ends up being measured against history. Whether the measurement winds up looking positive or negative is based on a combination of what the President does, what fate hands him, and the political outlook of the person doing the measuring. Liberals said that if Bill Clinton had gotten national health care reform passed, he […]
Barack Obama and History Read More »
Barack Obama personally addressed the United Nations Security Council recently, becoming the first President of the United States to preside over a Security Council meeting. That gesture in and of itself is a pretty big one, and it underscores a difference between liberals and conservatives. Many liberals still see the United Nations as an important
The President and Nuclear Weapons Read More »
One thing I sometimes tell my history students is that generally when a country/kingdom has a conflict with another power, the citizens rally around their leader (at least over the short term). That’s why sometimes in history leaders have started trouble. If they are feeling the heat from their people, a little war here or
A Foreign Policy Revelation Read More »
It was widely reported several days ago that Senator John McCain made a joke about how increased cigarettes exports from the United States to Iran might kill off some Iranians. The obvious inference is that we would then not have to worry as much about the nuclear threat that Iran presents. You know,
That’s not Funny; That’s a Politician Read More »
