By BEN SMITH, Politico
The dinner guest that night at George Will’s house in Chevy Chase was intellectually nimble, personally formidable and completely baffling, recalled columnist Charles Krauthammer — who was getting his first up-close look at President-elect Barack Obama.
“We sat around and said, ‘Does anybody really know who he is and what he wants to do, now that we’ve had this?’” Krauthammer recalled of Obama’s January sit-down with conservative columnists. “And the answer was no. We don’t know.”
“I didn’t understand what he was up to until he just unveiled it openly, boldly, unapologetically and very clearly within two weeks of his Inauguration,” Krauthammer told POLITICO in an interview in his corner office off Dupont Circle. “That’s what was so stunning.”
Since then, Krauthammer has emerged in the Age of Obama as a central conservative voice, the kind of leader of the opposition that that economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman represented for the left during the Bush years: a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president.
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I FIRMLY BELIEVE OBAMA WAS "NOT" BORN IN HAWAII. iF HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE, HE WILL "PROUDLY" PRESENT HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE TO THE WHOLE WORLD , BUT NO, HE DID EVERYTHING TO HIDE THE FACT. JUST PRESENT YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE, MR. OBAMA, SO WE CAN CLOSE THIS ISSUE. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING ?
The American people want to know who the true Obama is. We have been deceived from the beginning. The Constitution, Foundation of Our Beloved Country is being irrelevant and ignored by the brainless and ignorant hungry for money and power. They only have an agenda, "To destroy the U.S." they feel triumphant. BHO enjoys to spend the people's money in himself. Well, he is happy he is getting what he was looking for from the beginning. Now he goes to Asia to visit with his friends and relatives, possibly cousin Odinga? , with whose money?… Our money, and publicly excuses himself by saying he will seek for opportunity to bring business to America.. this is child's game. Vacations, games, social life, parties, is his life, work is not his theme. With simple observation I could say he will continue with his games and try on an on. We the People must be determined, strong and
cohesive and adhere to our Laws and Constitution. Conservative-Republican have been elected. We the people do NOT compromise of our principles. We must remind to the elected ones, they work for us they are send with a Mission to Restore Our Country. Repeal OCare, no more borrowing, no more taxes. My wish is that everything should be tossed away and start anew. Rather digress, with the previous health care and work with it. Stop the unnecessary expenses, Stop hiring more employees in government, stop salary increases, stop bonuses, Fire the incompetent. Stop printing money, stop it!. No more borrowing from China it will drive us to lose our country. No one would like to hear "We the U.S. of the Red Republic of China". Investigative process should follow for each and every member of the old congress. These crooks may hide their wrong doing under the carpet I just don't trust. Many of old group still there. I am very angry and distressed. I love my Country. I do have Trust in God and I'm confident in our New Leaders The Conservative-Republicans.