Whack-Job Thurday

Ethel C. Fenig: Two headlines perfectly summarize the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama (D)

Jimmy Orr: Setting a world record today for beating a dead horse, the Democratic National Committee will announce they’ve selected an anti-Rush Limbaugh slogan to be placed on a billboard in the radio host’s hometown. “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure”

“Islam is a threat” is not allowed, Kill the Jews…no problem: The British government is facing criticism over plans for a Hezbollah spokesman to visit the country just days after London announced that it will pursue official contacts with the “political wing” of the Shi’ite terrorist group…Hezbollah’s continued existence as an armed force violates U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Roger Kimball: “Acts of Retribution: There will be Blood”: Obama’s New Bestseller

Michael Goldfarb: …if there’s any doubt that Freeman was a blowhard who was completely unsuited for the job, there’s this claim in David Broder’s column about how he planned to deploy the nation’s intelligence community: “And he would have turned them loose even on “domestic” questions such as: “If we are 38th in the world in health, what could we learn from the other 37?”” I’m guessing the answer would have been to get rid of all the Jewish doctors.

Ed Morrissey: If Barack Obama thought the nomination nightmare would end soon, an FBI raid today extended and deepened the REM cycle. 

David Harsanyi: And most polls show the president’s approval rating at about 60 percent, which is similar to other modern presidents’ ratings at this point in their presidencies. But now that Obama has used his political capital to further ideology rather than economic growth, one thing is clear: He owns this mess.

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