The conventional wisdom is that when you poll “all adults” as opposed to a tighter screening for “registered voters,” Democrats generally do better. If that is the case, the latest poll from The Economist/YouGov is the worse news yet for
On Wednesday, CNN released a poll of 367 Americans who watched President Obama’s Syria speech. The polling sample skewed heavily Democratic, with 20% Republicans, 37% Democrats, and 43% Independents. The poll found that while Americans largely approved of what they
Bill Maher hardly qualifies as one of President Barack Obama’s toughest critics. So the Real Time with Bill Maher host was open to being persuaded that military action against Syria is a justifiable path, as Obama suggests. Maher watched Obama’s
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (UPI) — Russia’s ploy to defuse the Syrian crisis–persuading Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turn over his chemical weapons to avert a U.S. attack–will likely end in an embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama and
President Obama’s bungling of everything surrounding Syria is so apparent that even some of his biggest fans in the mainstream media are finding it impossible to do anything other than declare the obvious. While CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and the New
When the dust settles, the concrete result of the Syria debacle is that dictator Bashar al-Assad was able to use chemical weapons, both literally and diplomatically, to retain power. Assad succeeded because President Barack Obama was never really serious about
On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that President Obama’s massive backtrack on action against Syria pending attempted negotiation with allies of the Assad regime Russia and China had made the Syrian rebels feel “abandoned.” “I was very disappointed that
On Tuesday, the House unveiled legislation that would extend the government’s spending authority until December 15. Current law authorizing government spending expires on September 30, meaning that the government would shutdown after that date is spending authority weren’t extended. The
It has been a year since the attack which killed four Americans in Benghazi. During that time various minute-by-minute accounts of the attack have been published. In addition, the administration’s decisions to refuse additional security requests and to revise its
As President Obama makes the case for supporting the al Qaeda backed rebels in Syria, maintains quasi-support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, pushes Israel to release more Palestinian terrorists, and negotiates with the Taliban in Afghanistan, a new poll
Sky News: Joel Pollak of Breitbart.com tells Ezra Levant that Obama is deploying the Pee-wee Herman defense when it comes to Syria…
Following all positioning and re-positioning of U.S. posture toward Syria over the last seven days, Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on September 12. The two will meet in Geneva. The Hill reports
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wants Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pushed out out of power, telling Breitbart News at his weekly press conference, “Well I know there’s a lot of talk about–you want to be careful–you don’t want to
As Americans pause today to remember the trauma–and heroism–of September 11, 2001, we have a new reason to commemorate the day: the embassy attacks of September 11, 2012. A year later, there have been no arrests and no responses. Those
A national poll released on Tuesday found that 50% of the country now disapproves of President Barack Obama’s overall job performance. In a sign that Obama is losing his core supporters as well, only 78% of Democrats approve of Obama’s
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), delivering a prepared rebuttal to President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on the Syria crisis Tuesday night, said that only opposition to war had made a diplomatic solution possible. It was the mirror image of
On Sunday, the New York Times lamented that a possible U.S. attack on Syria and the looming debt-ceiling showdown have temporarily delayed a House vote over amnesty for illegal immigrants. “The sudden debate over military action in Syria and a
On Monday, Univision’s anchor Jorge Ramos tweeted his unhappiness because Barack Obama did not go on his network to discuss administration’s policy vis-à-vis Syria. Ramos tweeted, “Pres. Obama gives 6 interviews today. None of those to Univision. Why? Hispanics also
Senator Rand Paul delivered a five minute response to President Obama’s speech on Tuesday night critiquing the President’s policies and vagueness of purpose. Paul argued that an attack on Syria has an “equal” likelihood of having negative effects on the
On Tuesday, in a primetime address to the nation on Syria, President Barack Obama implied that President George W. Bush sidelined Congress during his presidency from “critical decisions about when we use force.” However, Obama won his party’s nomination for
The heckling came at the end of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia which she gave in acceptance for the 2013 Liberty Medal, Tuesday night. In her speech, Hillary kept it bland,
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants his Senate colleagues to go on record to declare whether they believe President Barack Obama can attack Syria without congressional authorization. Roll Call reports Paul “has drafted an amendment to the Senate’s authorization for use of
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad said America would be supporting the terrorist group that attacked the United States on 9/11 if President Barack Obama uses military force against Syria. In an interview with CBS News’s Charlie Rose on Sunday that PBS
On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered a hastily-cobbled-together speech, first making the aggressive case for action against Syria based on Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons, then careening to the case against action in favor of more diplomacy, before concluding
The President echoed statements by the State Department last week when he addressed the military action in Syria on Tuesday night. President Obama claimed that critics have asked why the U.S. would do a “pin prick” to the Assad regime.
