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“Ronald Reagan”

Mar
20
2009
American Foreign Policy, Russia By Tom Skypek | No comments yet

Where’s Vladimir?

Aug
25
2008
American Foreign Policy, Russia By Tom Skypek | No comments yet

Legendary Campaign Ads: “The Bear”

Jul
25
2008
American Foreign Policy, The American Presidency By Tom Skypek | No comments yet

“Playing Innocent Abroad”

David Brooks’s column “Playing Innocent Abroad” in today’s New York Times provides a thoughtful analysis of Sen. Obama’s speech yesterday in Berlin. It decomposes Sen. Obama’s lofty rhetoric, placing his remarks in the proper context: reality.
When John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan went to Berlin, their rhetoric soared, but their optimism was [...]

Jul
19
2008
American Foreign Policy, The American Presidency By Tom Skypek | No comments yet

Krauthammer’s “The Audacity of Vanity”

Charles Krauthammer has written another brilliant piece–this time on Sen. Obama’s pervasive elitist and narcissistic tendencies. Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by trade, paints in interesting portrait of the first-term senator.  Sen. Obama’s desire to speak at the Brandenburg Gate is not entirely misguided. Speaking there will undoubtedly evoke images of great statesmen like Ronald Reagan, which could help [...]