For Your Consideration: Obama An Empty Vessel

(Formerly “Caught My Eye”)

AN OCCASIONAL SERIES OF NOTEWORTHY OPINION

Barack Obama—Empty Vessel (S. E. Cupp, FOX News) Despite the insistence by the left that Obama somehow transcends politics, he is simply a politician. Nothing more, nothing less.  A year after electing Barack Obama president, and five years after his star turn at the Democratic National Convention, we are still trying to figure him out. More>>

Our 'Constitutional Moment' (James Taranto, The Wall Street Journal) The New York newspaperman says our founding document is especially vital today, in an age of expanding state power. Seth Lipsky has a knack for seeing the bright side of things. A nearly 20-year veteran of this newspaper, including its editorial page, he cheerfully acknowledges the obvious: This is far from a golden age of free-market conservatism. Of President Obama, he tells me over lunch, "I sense that he has a very leftist, socialist-oriented worldview." More>>