Charles Krauthammer

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'Fatuous' Obama Does US No Favors: Krauthammer
'Fatuous'
Obama Does
US No Favors: Krauthammer
OPINION

'Fatuous' Obama Does US No Favors: Krauthammer

Big talk yields little help from European allies

(Newser) - President Obama is out in the world, "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray" and badmouthing past American actions, and to what end? Charles Krauthammer, writing in the New York Times, doesn't see any satisfactory answers. "I'm not against gift-giving in international relations," he writes. "...

Age of Obama? More Like the Age of Pork
Age of Obama? More Like the Age of Pork
OPINION

Age of Obama? More Like the Age of Pork

He promised change, but stimulus is same old ugly politics

(Newser) - Charles Krauthammer thought it would take months for Barack Obama to lose his magic. Instead? “It took two and a half weeks,” he writes in the Washington Post. Obama’s promise to “banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple,” looked pretty hollow when...

Why Should US Apologize to Muslims?
 Why Should US Apologize
to Muslims?
OPINION

Why Should US Apologize to Muslims?

We've done such great stuff for them

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s pledge to “seek a new way forward” in the Muslim world “based on mutual interest and mutual respect” struck Charles Krauthammer as “needlessly defensive and apologetic,” he writes in the Washington Post. What do we have to apologize for? Over the past 20...

Krauthammer: Obama Doesn't Need Your Adulation

Speech a 'stunning exercise in lowering expectations'

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s inaugural address was a demonstration of his most striking quality: His utter lack of neediness. The speech so abandoned his trademark soaring rhetoric, so failed to excite or inspire, that it had to be a deliberate strategy, writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. “He’s...

Obama Dines With Conservative Kings

Dinner with vocal conservative critics

(Newser) - Barack Obama broke bread with America's most influential conservative opinion shapers last night. The Washington Post reports he was guest of honor at a dinner party given by columnist George Will, along with Bill Kristol, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer. Rumors were buzzing that Rush Limbaugh would attend, but a...

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