Robert Shrum
Robert Shrum
Obama the Transformer
This president is breaking the mold—revolutionizing policies and perspectives in Washington and around the world.
The race-based GOP
Republican attacks on Sonia Sotomayor are poisoning "the soul of what used to be the Party of Lincoln"
Cheney's charge up the molehill
The last recourse of the rear-guard, the only answer they have left, is that at least the nation has not been attacked at home since 2001. This is a blatant shift in their argument that reflects their fall from power. In office, they constantly warned that another attack was inevitable; now, if it comes, the convenient implication is that Obama's policies will have caused it.
Sharia politics at Notre Dame
In the neo-Caths’ view, if Obama disagrees with Catholic doctrine, he must be condemned and silenced—even if he’s not a member of the church. This assertion of an almost limitless role for the church in public life comes perilously close to reviving a 19th-century Pope’s position that “Americanism,” which values individualism and separation of church and state, is heresy.
