Traditionally, citizens have higher trust in Democrats to handle the economy and in Republicans to handle foreign policy and social issues, according to polls. So with every day of isolated bounces in the Dow or one-day bursts of home purchases being turned into week-long stories on a supposed recovery, we may need to come to [...]
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The Limitations of Popularity
Throughout the 2008 presidential election, the American public was lead to believe that our country’s inability to forge effective international cooperation was simply an issue of presidential personality. For many onlookers, this line of reasoning became increasingly persuasive as huge crowds of Europeans gathered in July of 2008 to see then-candidate Obama deliver his charismatic [...]
G20 set to embrace Obama’s economic policy.
Ronald Reagan, in describing the economic views dominant in the Democratic Party, once said: If it moves tax it, if it keeps moving regulate it, if it stops moving subsidize it. The Group of 20 convened earlier this week in London to much ruckus and fanfare. Making his presence known was the Celebrity-in-Chief, President Obama. [...]
Geithner provides more reason to worry
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s bout with foot-in-mouth disease continues. Now, apparently, he endorsed efforts to undermine the security of the United States by (inadvertedly, or otherwise) supporting the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the worldwide reserve currency with something new. Like so many of Geithner’s grand ideas, this one too manages to leave investors weary.
President Obama Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine.
While not as popular with the Democratic Party as it once may have been, the Monroe Doctrine has been a pillar of American foreign policy since the Era of Good Feeling following James Madison’s departure from the presidency. Devised by then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams during the presidency of James Monroe, this doctrine of U.S. [...]
Obama’s desire to delegate should be viewed with caution.
Amidst continuing economic uncertainty at home, and growing frustration among the more rightward Obama supporters, the President finds himself confounded with a deteriorating foreign policy situation. It is perhaps for this reason that Secretary of State Clinton seems to have such a free hand in conducting foreign policy on behalf of the administration so far. The [...]
President Obama visits Canada amidst trade fears
President Obama took his first trip abroad as #44 this week; he visited Canada. Apparently, the President’s past rhetoric has him in trouble once more, as reported in time for Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. Fortunately, President Obama, who met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during this visit, clarified his previously inconsistent position [...]
Joe Biden: Ugly American
The Vice President of the United States was in Munich, Germany over the weekend where he outlined the foreign policy objectives of the Obama administration. To attentive ears across the continent, and politicians assembled in that Bavarian city, Joe Biden offered only one thing: more of the same. Biden told U.S. partners in Europe that [...]