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PRUDEN: Obama bows, the nation cringes

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass the rest of us.

PRUDEN: On vacation with Mr. Dithers

Friday, Nov. 13, 2009

Every modern president takes refuge abroad when the going gets rough at home. (Before the jet airplane life was simpler and presidents could get respite with a train trip to Cleveland or Buffalo.) So President Obama is off to Asia, where never will necessarily be heard an encouraging word, but he won't have to listen to criticism in the Queen's English.

PRUDEN: Fatal reluctance to see evil

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009

The general is eager to get the situation in hand, but he's got his tactics backward. And not just the general. So have a lot of other people in the government. Judgment flees in the face of a challenge by goody-goody intentions.

PRUDEN: Corpse sits up, gets nice salute

Friday, Nov. 6, 2009

Neither Barack Obama nor Nancy Pelosi can be as clueless as they want us to think they are. The White House said the president was so uninterested in the results on election night that he watched a documentary on the '08 presidential campaign, no doubt eager to see who won. Mzz Pelosi, as oblivious of the scoreboard as a ditzy cheerleader unaware of which team has the ball, insists her side won the night.

PRUDEN: Day of reckoning for the GOP

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009

Elephants are supposed to have long memories, but not all do. The royal household in Thailand even assembles its elephants once a year so a holy man can preach an annual sermon to the gentle beasts, urging them to mind their manners in the presence of the king. As eloquent as the homily may be, it has to be repeated the following year.

PRUDEN: Great Pumpkin soon upon us

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

The Senate is losing its grip on unreality, so it may be up to whoever can teach manners to cows and pigs to save us from the consequences of global warming. (We're supposed to call it "climate change" now, but some of us, being strict constructionists, remain faithful to the original text as set down by the founding father, Al Gore.)

PRUDEN: Something really scary for Obama's Democrats

Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn't going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes - chapters, anyway - about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama's Democrats.

PRUDEN: Obama's Third World press rant

Friday, Oct. 23, 2009

Throwing rotten eggs at "them lyin' newspapers" has always been great sport in America, and sometimes even effective politics. But it has to be done with wit and humor, which may be above Barack Obama's pay grade.

PRUDEN: Obama wingnuts get a toke of respect

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009

There was good news Monday for potheads, and even a little good news for states' rights, which once upon a time were thought to be important.