Harry's Place

It’s a role that Obama, to his credit, fulfills ably.

But as he noted:
Since I’ve been president, this is the fourth time we have come together to comfort a grieving community torn apart by mass shootings, fourth time we’ve hugged survivors, the fourth time we’ve consoled the families of victims.
And in between, there have been an [...]

Amazing. Even though he has been reelected, and no longer needs to pretend that he cares about the Jews or Israel, President Obama last night hosted a celebration of the sixth night of Hanukkah at the White House.

President Obama has told both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Egyptian President Morsi that he supports Israel’s right to defend itself against the missile attacks launched by Hamas and other militias from Gaza.
Obama and Netanyahu agreed that Hamas needs to stop its attacks on Israel to allow tensions to ease, the White House said. The [...]

Not only is he a white guy, he’s also a moderate Republican.

Mother Jones has a graphic display of Obama-related conspiracy theories, followed by a handy list with links to the relevant websites.

*Obama Derangement Syndrome

A well known smear of the far-right in the Republican Party is that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim. It appears their efforts to poison the minds of the US electorate have been, somewhat, futile.
Mediaite reports:
According to a new Associated Press survey, more Americans believe President Barack Obama is Jewish than believe that the president is a [...]

Dan Hodges at the Telegraph has noticed how Boris Johnson could well be Barack Obama’s new secret weapon. A clip of the London Mayor appears in an new attack ad for the Obama campaign ahead of the third and final Presidential debate.
It features Johnson’s rebuttal to Mitt Romney over comments that the Republican challenger made about [...]

Remember a couple of years ago when Republican former House Speaker (and future failed presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich said that President Obama may be following a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview?
He attributed this “stunning insight”— the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama”– to the conservative author Dinesh D’Souza, who [...]

First Prime Minister David Cameron sneered at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for running an Olympics in “the middle of nowhere.”
Then London Mayor Boris Johnson fired up a pre-Olympics rally by mocking “a guy called Mitt Romney.”
Now Jon Swaine, Washington correspondent for the conservative Telegraph, reports that Romney appears to have violated ethics laws as [...]

A libertarian outfit called the Ralph Smeed Foundation sponsored this electronic billboard in Idaho after the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater massacre.

Of course the sentiments expressed here are precisely those you find every day on the website of the Stop the War Coalition and countless other websites of the “antiwar” Left.
And let’s not forget [...]