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Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?



 
 
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Old July 20th, 2010, 07:57 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,aus.politics,rec.travel.europe,soc.retirement
PJ Himselff
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Default Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/4zEvleths201g10

Excerpts:

12:15 July 20, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

"Richard Cohen delivers one of the better analyses of why Obama finds
himself falling in the polls and flailing as he approaches the
midpoint of his term in office. The truth is that no one really knows
Obama, and his initial failures have eroded confidence in his
abilities to lead the nation, a point Obama’s apologists obfuscate in
a blizzard of Reagan references and polling comparisons. However, as
Bruce McQuain points out, Cohen comes to his conclusions by a process
that should have taken place in 2007, when Democrats began rallying
behind a candidate with no track record, no executive experience, and
nothing but a narrative to recommend him for the highest executive
office in the land...

...That’s precisely the problem — the media is waiting. While they
parachuted dozens of reporters to Wasilla in order to investigate a
Vice-Presidential candidate in the general election, the media didn’t
bother at all to trek to the much more accessible Chicago to get any
sense of Barack Obama’s politics or connections to the corrupt Daley
Machine. It’s not as if the issue of corruption in Chicago was an
arcane political topic, either, but the only mainstream media
interested that topic were the newspapers in Chicago.

Nor did the media exactly fall all over themselves to look at Obama’s
track record of leadership, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
Obama rarely if ever led on any legislative activity that had notable
controversy. Instead, he preferred to vote “present” on those issues,
an option afforded by the Illinois legislature, and did so over 130
times during his seven years in the state Senate. In one famous
encounter, an Obama campaign surrogate couldn’t name a single
legislative accomplishment of note for Obama during his time in either
the state legislature or the US Senate that would provide a basis for
voters to trust him with an executive position at the top of the
American political system. Yet the media acted as if Obama had
credibility and refused to report anything that contradicted the
notion....."
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Old July 20th, 2010, 09:04 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,aus.politics,rec.travel.europe,soc.retirement
Jigsaw1695
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Default Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

On Jul 20, 1:57*pm, PJ Himselff wrote:
Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/4zEvleths201g10

Excerpts:

12:15 July 20, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

"Richard Cohen delivers one of the better analyses of why Obama finds
himself falling in the polls and flailing as he approaches the
midpoint of his term in office. The truth is that no one really knows
Obama, and his initial failures have eroded confidence in his
abilities to lead the nation, a point Obama’s apologists obfuscate in
a blizzard of Reagan references and polling comparisons. However, as
Bruce McQuain points out, Cohen comes to his conclusions by a process
that should have taken place in 2007, when Democrats began rallying
behind a candidate with no track record, no executive experience, and
nothing but a narrative to recommend him for the highest executive
office in the land...

..That’s precisely the problem — the media is waiting. While they
parachuted dozens of reporters to Wasilla in order to investigate a
Vice-Presidential candidate in the general election, the media didn’t
bother at all to trek to the much more accessible Chicago to get any
sense of Barack Obama’s politics or connections to the corrupt Daley
Machine. It’s not as if the issue of corruption in Chicago was an
arcane political topic, either, but the only mainstream media
interested that topic were the newspapers in Chicago.

Nor did the media exactly fall all over themselves to look at Obama’s
track record of leadership, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
Obama rarely if ever led on any legislative activity that had notable
controversy. Instead, he preferred to vote “present” on those issues,
an option afforded by the Illinois legislature, and did so over 130
times during his seven years in the state Senate. In one famous
encounter, an Obama campaign surrogate couldn’t name a single
legislative accomplishment of note for Obama during his time in either
the state legislature or the US Senate that would provide a basis for
voters to trust him with an executive position at the top of the
American political system. Yet the media acted as if Obama had
credibility and refused to report anything that contradicted the
notion....."


Good article. I am sure the Ilk will poo-poo it.

Jigsaw1695
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Old July 21st, 2010, 05:44 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,uk.politics.misc,aus.politics,rec.travel.europe,soc.retirement
AndyS
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Default Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

On Jul 20, 1:57 pm, PJ Himselff wrote:
Say, who is this fellow in the White House, anyway?

http://preview.tinyurl.com/4zEvleths201g10

Excerpts:

12:15 July 20, 2010 by Ed Morrissey

"Richard Cohen delivers one of the better analyses of why Obama finds
himself falling in the polls and flailing as he approaches the
midpoint of his term in office. The truth is that no one really knows
Obama, and his initial failures have eroded confidence in his
abilities to lead the nation, a point Obama’s apologists obfuscate in
a blizzard of Reagan references and polling comparisons. However, as
Bruce McQuain points out, Cohen comes to his conclusions by a process
that should have taken place in 2007, when Democrats began rallying
behind a candidate with no track record, no executive experience, and
nothing but a narrative to recommend him for the highest executive
office in the land...

..That’s precisely the problem — the media is waiting. While they
parachuted dozens of reporters to Wasilla in order to investigate a
Vice-Presidential candidate in the general election, the media didn’t
bother at all to trek to the much more accessible Chicago to get any
sense of Barack Obama’s politics or connections to the corrupt Daley
Machine. It’s not as if the issue of corruption in Chicago was an
arcane political topic, either, but the only mainstream media
interested that topic were the newspapers in Chicago.

Nor did the media exactly fall all over themselves to look at Obama’s
track record of leadership, or more accurately, the lack thereof.
Obama rarely if ever led on any legislative activity that had notable
controversy. Instead, he preferred to vote “present” on those issues,
an option afforded by the Illinois legislature, and did so over 130
times during his seven years in the state Senate. In one famous
encounter, an Obama campaign surrogate couldn’t name a single
legislative accomplishment of note for Obama during his time in either
the state legislature or the US Senate that would provide a basis for
voters to trust him with an executive position at the top of the
American political system. Yet the media acted as if Obama had
credibility and refused to report anything that contradicted the
notion....."


Andy comments:
Let us hope we all give more thought to our next vote....

Fool me twice, shame on you....
Fool me three times ...... Phuk you !!

Andy in Eureka, Texas
 




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