Message accurately summarizes Charles Krauthammer's talk at the Center of the American Experiment.
Dr. Charles Krauthammer is a political commentator and syndicated newspaper columnist whose work earned a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1987. The article quoted above supposedly provides a second-hand accounting of the substance of remarks Dr. Krauthammer made regarding President Obama during a 1 June 2009 talk at the Annual Dinner of the Center of the American Experiment.No transcript or recording of Dr. Krauthammer's remarks on that occasion is available to compare against the above-quoted summary, as Dr. Krauthammer 'does not disseminate comments made at private events,' so it's difficult to objectively determine how much of the e-mailed account conforms to what Krauthammer actually said and how much of the account reflects the subjective viewpoint of its anonymous author. Dr. Krauthammer himself said, in a statement posted to the Center of the American Experiment's web site, that:This account is neither accurate nor authoritative. My views on Obama are well known. I've explained them in a series of five columns. This email is somebody putting his own ideological stamp and spin on my views. One giveaway of the superimposition of someone else's views on mine is the rather amusing use of phrases that I never use. To take just a few examples randomly: 'God forbid,' 'far left secular progressive,' 'this is the first president ever who has chastised our allies and appeased our enemies!' 'no country had ever spent themselves into prosperity,' and, the real doozy, 'states rights.' My views are clearly spelled out in that series of columns and subsequent writings. Anyone who wants to know my views should consult those and not this email.Articles by Charles Krauthammer that directly explicate his views on President Obama are listed below:Obama: The Grand Strategy - April 24, 2009 The Sting, In Four Parts - April 17, 2009 Obama's Ultimate Agenda - April 3, 2009 The Great Non Sequitur - March 6, 2009 The Obamaist Manifesto - February 27, 2009
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