Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Obama’s knock on free enterprise is that it is driven by “profit,” and that this experience makes Mr. Romney too heartless to be president. The alternative is an Obama capitalism […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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May 18, 2012 Vampire Capitalism? Please GST Steel would have failed much earlier without Bain. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL This week the Obama campaign debuted its attack on Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mitt Romney founded. Its two-minute ad purports to tell the story of GS Technologies, a Kansas City-based Bain investment that went bankrupt
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Rise of Rubio Will a longstanding friendship block his vice presidential prospects? Stephen F. Hayes May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Shortly after Mitt Romney won the Wisconsin primary and, in effect, the Republican nomination, I asked a prominent Republican strategist whom he thought Romney would choose
May 10, 2012 Obama’s Public-Equity Record The auto bailout makes Bain Capital look like an amateur on job losses and outsourcing. By KARL ROVE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There are differences between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney rescued companies with private money collected from investors including union pension funds, college endowments and private
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May 10, 2012, Strassel: Trolling for Dirt on the President’s List First a Romney supporter was named on an Obama campaign website. That was followed by the slimy trolling into a citizen’s private life. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Here’s what happens when the president of the United States publicly targets a private citizen for the
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April 30, 2012, 7:24 p.m. ET Stephens: Anyone But Condi A tempting but unwise choice for Romney’s vice president. By BRET STEPHENS Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you’d probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case,
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April 20, 2012, . Michelle Van Cleave: Russian Spies Haven’t Gone Away Even when presented with extensive evidence of espionage, this White House looks the other way. By MICHELLE VAN CLEAVEMs. Van Cleave was head of U.S. Counterintelligence under President George W. Bush. ‘He acts like he thinks the Cold War’s still on,” Vice President
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April 26, 2012, 7:50 p.m. ET Strassel: The President Has a List Barack Obama attempts to intimidate contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a
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