Who else, Mr. President?

Obama’s changed. Gone is that young knight drawing the sword from the stone, selling Hopium to the adoring media, preaching an end to the broken politics of the past. These days, he wears a new presidential persona: the multimillionaire with the Chicago clout, playing the class warrior, fighting for that second term.

 

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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi gets hero’s welcome in Thailand

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi greets migrant workers from Myanmar, as she visits them in Samut Sakhon province May 30, 2012. Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi ventures outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years on Tuesday in an unmistakable display of confidence in the liberalisation taking shape in […]

Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is ‘too political’ for the administration

President Obama Shuns Lech Walesa Rory Cooper National Review Online 6/1/2012

Lech Walesa was once a trade-union activist. He was often arrested for speaking his mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and for defying the Soviet Union. He was an electrician who, with no higher education, led one of the […]

Suu Kyi’s Party Declares Victory as Burma Shifts to Democracy

Daniel Ten Kate Bloomberg 4/1/2012

Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is surrounded by supporters and journalists as she visits a polling station in Kawhmu, Myanmar on April 1, 2012.

Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi will become a lawmaker for the first time after a victory in by- elections […]

Headline of the Day

Glenn Reynolds Instapundit 3/19/2011

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Enters Third War.

Nobel Ire Increases in China

Jeremy Page The Wall Street Journal 12/9/2010

BEIJING—China blocked access to several foreign media outlets, intensified a crackdown on political activists, and fired a fresh salvo of criticism at the U.S. on the eve of a ceremony Friday marking the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a jailed Chinese dissident.

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