Previous Democratic Presidents like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton had their policy detractors but neither man sparked such widespread public suspicion of their political motives as Barack Obama has in the first eight months of his leadership.  With government spending ballooning out of control and a takeover of health care in the offing, many Americans worry [...]...

With his two leading generals asking for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan, President Obama is facing a seminal moment in his Presidency.  Will he back his top military personnel or will he stick with his political base and resist a military escalation?  Barack Obama has repeatedly characterized Iraq as a war of choice while calling [...]...

President Obama’s decision to reappoint Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was met with almost universal ambivalence.  Anyone would think that the selection of the nation’s top economic manager in the midst of a recession isn’t such a big deal.  Why the overwhelming silence? One explanation might be that Bernanke was first appointed by Republican President [...]...