Barack Obama
Obama’s disappearing legacy
This article is in The Spectator’s August 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. The presidency of Barack Obama was heralded…
What will Biden do?
The oddities of Joe Biden’s third presidential campaign are impossible to ignore. He is the oldest man ever nominated by…
Biden offers no change and no hope
For too long, Republicans and the media refused to take Joe Biden seriously as a presidential candidate. It’s hard to…
J’Accuse Barack Obama!
When President Obama was in his 75-day transition to the Presidency, he initiated correspondence with Supreme Leader Khamenei of Iran…
Rod Rosenstein’s devastating admissions
Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was quiet, calm, almost bemused. But the tale he told was devastating…
Obama should apologize to Trump
Anyone who has children understands the importance of teaching them to say ‘sorry’ when they’ve done wrong. Apologizing for causing…
Obama’s political police
In the beginning there was a clandestine ‘surveillance’ and ‘unmasking’ program by operatives in the Obama executive branch, targeting figures…
Joe Biden’s broken record
‘Get your words straight, Jack!’ As Joe Biden campaigns for the Oval Office, the 77-year-old frequently recounts his five decades…
What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, claimed in an interview last month that the former vice president…
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
Anyone who doubts that Barack Obama has a sense of humor should take a look of his endorsement of Joe Biden…
Joe Biden, restoration man
The results of Super Tuesday show that while Joe Biden can’t be described as coherent, the Biden campaign has found…
Sordid confessions of a Centrist Dad
I have a shameful secret. I’ve been watching these… videos online. Amazing what you can get in a couple of…
Barack Obama helped create cancel culture. Now he condemns it
Like many others, I was very struck by recent footage of Barack Obama criticizing cancel culture. Less than three years…
Joe Biden is a Trump Republican
If Joe Biden snatches the White House from Donald Trump in 2020, he will govern as a modern liberal. This…
Why Joe won’t blow it
A common fallacy circulating among the pundit class is that every presidential election cycle will be as ‘disruptive’ as 2016…
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political…
Democrats, not Republicans, will dismantle Obama’s legacy
Last week Barack Obama, grayer, wearier and older in every way, was in Berlin at one of his foundation’s conferences for ‘emerging…
The question isn’t if Joe Biden will screw up: it’s when
Joe Biden seems on the verge of announcing he will run for president. He begins in a strong position, leading…
Michelle Obama: ‘I was happy that Barack’s career came first’
‘To me, he was sort of like a unicorn,’ writes Mrs Obama, looking back on her courtship days with Barack.…
A Weekend in New York, by Benjamin Markovits, reviewed
I wrote foul-mouthed marginalia throughout Benjamin Markovits’s A Weekend in New York. Not because Markovits is a bad writer —…
Lend me your ears
Complaints about the decline and fall of political oratory are nothing new. Back in 1865 a British reporter branded the…
Italy’s heading for its own Brexit moment
Though he is a big fan of the European Union, Barack Obama brings bad karma to it. So perhaps he…
Portrait of the week
Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…
Portrait of the Week: doctors on strike, President Obama’s Brexit threat
Home Junior doctors went on strike for two days, refusing to provide even emergency treatment. The 96 Liverpool fans who…
Michael Dobbs’s diary: Talking House of Cards with President Xi
I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
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