Obama's Insecure Slip
Tina Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast. She is the author of the 2007 New York Times best seller The Diana Chronicles. Brown is the former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Talk magazines and host of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown.
What led the president to wade into L'Affaire Gates? He thought he'd blown it with America on health care.
Obama's New Enemies
Richard Wolffe is Daily Beast columnist and an award-winning journalist, and senior strategist at Public Strategies. He covered the entire length of Barack Obama's presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine. His book, Renegade: The Making of a President, was published by Crown in June.
The Daily Beast's Richard Wolffe reports that the president used his prime-time press conference to outline a new, aggressive strategy. First, attack the Republicans who would kill his presidency. Next, attack the insurance companies.
Obama's Misguided Media Blitz
Sam Donaldson worked at ABC News for over 40 years as a correspondent and anchor.
As the president prepares for tonight's health-care press conference, he's focusing on the wrong audience, says veteran White House correspondent Sam Donaldson. Why he should step away from the microphones and work the halls of Congress.
Obama's Inner Neocon
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
The president's denunciation of the Iranian regime Tuesday showed his potential to get tough, writes Reihan Salam. But to deal with the mullahs, Obama must embrace the Reagan within.
Obama's Knockout Press Conference
Reihan Salam is a fellow at the New America Foundation and the co-author of Grand New Party.
Last night, at his third press conference, Obama continued to nudge the country leftward, rebuking the tea party protests, defending abortion, and making life miserable for those remaining Republicans that haven't pulled an Arlen Specter.
Obama's Seinfeld Doctrine
Nicolle Wallace served as a senior adviser to the McCain-Palin campaign from May to November 2008. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House, as well as communications director for President Bush's 2004 campaign.
Remember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza succeeds by doing the opposite of everything he would normally do? The Daily Beast's Nicole Wallace thinks Obama and his staff might have watched a rerun recently-and borrowed George's juvenile tactics in their relentless assault on President Bush. Obama's strategy? Doing exactly the opposite of what Bush would do-and wait for global adulation. Below, Wallace imagines some deleted scenes from the president's press conference where he frankly acknowledges the anti-Bush philosophy behind his agenda.
Obama's Secret Plan to Raise Taxes
Matt Miller is a management consultant, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the host of public radio’s popular political week-in-review, Left, Right & Center. His new book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
When Obama returns home, former Clinton adviser Matt Miller says he'll face a mounting budget crisis-and will have to come clean about needing to raise our taxes.
The President Vs. the Press
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Last night's press conference showed Obama's long-term thinking at odds with the media's short-term baiting. So who's in control here?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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