Obama Unpopular Because He’s So Awesome
I can't understand how Obama can be so unpopular. He's simply the greatest president EVER. Like you, I thought it was because most people are racist. Not so! Politico tells us because he's so awesome.
The passage of financial reform, just a couple months after the passage of comprehensive health care reform, should decisively end the narrative that President Barack Obama represents a Jimmy Carter-style case of naive hope crushed by the inability to master Washington.
Yet the mystery remains: Having moved swiftly toward achieving the policy objectives he promised voters as a candidate, Obama is still widely perceived as flirting with a failed presidency.
Eric Alterman, in a column in The Nation that drew wide notice, wrote that most liberals think the president is a “big disappointment.” House Democrats were at near-insurrection after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stated the obvious — that the party has a chance of losing the House under Obama’s watch. And independent voters have turned decisively against the man they helped elect 21 months ago — a trend unlikely to be reversed before November.
This is an odd reversal of expectations. When he came into office, the assumption, even among some Democrats, was that he was a dazzling politician and communicator who might prove too unseasoned at governance to win substantive achievements.
The reality is the opposite. You can argue over whether Obama’s achievements are good or bad on the merits. But especially after Thursday’s vote, you can’t argue that Obama is not getting things done. To the contrary, he has, as promised, covered the uninsured, tightened regulations, started to wind down the war in Iraq and shifted focus and resources to Afghanistan, injected more competition into the education system and edged closer to a big energy bill.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39772.htmlYet the mystery remains: Having moved swiftly toward achieving the policy objectives he promised voters as a candidate, Obama is still widely perceived as flirting with a failed presidency.
Eric Alterman, in a column in The Nation that drew wide notice, wrote that most liberals think the president is a “big disappointment.” House Democrats were at near-insurrection after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs stated the obvious — that the party has a chance of losing the House under Obama’s watch. And independent voters have turned decisively against the man they helped elect 21 months ago — a trend unlikely to be reversed before November.
This is an odd reversal of expectations. When he came into office, the assumption, even among some Democrats, was that he was a dazzling politician and communicator who might prove too unseasoned at governance to win substantive achievements.
The reality is the opposite. You can argue over whether Obama’s achievements are good or bad on the merits. But especially after Thursday’s vote, you can’t argue that Obama is not getting things done. To the contrary, he has, as promised, covered the uninsured, tightened regulations, started to wind down the war in Iraq and shifted focus and resources to Afghanistan, injected more competition into the education system and edged closer to a big energy bill.
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Permalink Reply by Van on -
Glad to see you're still carrying water for your corporate masters. I watch Rachel. She's got the smartest political show on tv. But I prefer Keith because when he mocks O'Reilly and Beck it cracks me up.
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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on -
I knew you loved that Ag school idiot, and you left out Colbert and your other "news" source Stewart. Oh wait that really is Faux News, seeing as it is comedy and all.
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Permalink Reply by GodHatesTrash on -
Olbermann went to the only agriculture college in the Ivy League. Bobby Jones, the famous golfer, went there, too.
They offer 23 undergraduate majors, several masters and Ph.D. programs, including D.V.M.s.
You might contact them to see if you could major in billygoat milking, but, even with your decades of experience, you have to have SATs around 1400, which is about 500 points higher than your average Tennesseean's. The Agriculture school is one of the most competitive at the university, because it is one of three colleges within Cornell that are state colleges, offering the least expensive Ivy League degrees by far.
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Permalink Reply by Charles Lane on
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Gee, if he is so smart why can't he produce a show that gets.... RATINGS!!!
Maybe Olby is really the billy goat milker. Did you ever think of that?
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Permalink Reply by GodHatesTrash on
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They're paying him $4M+ per year anyway.
(We know who the billygoat milker is, cupcake.)
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Permalink Reply by Hillbilly on -
You're in luck Van. I have it on good authority that when Miss Rachael punches down on you, she won't be carrying a gun.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Chestnut on -
I'm so proud of the work he's doing. He's getting more done to help the little guy than anyone before, during my lifetime. I was born September 19, 1914, so that means a lot.
I am once again, proud to be an American. We can, after eight dreadful and fearsome years, hold our heads up high.
Yay.
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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on -
Wow. I'm seriously speechless right now.
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Permalink Reply by glen max davis on -
I'm sure Mary has seen alot and could teach us about life. I would like to read more. Remember the saying you don't get old being a fool.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Chestnut on
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Why thank you Glen Max Davis. I feel as though my honor has been protected.
Much Obliged,
Mary Chestnut
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Permalink Reply by Action Jeans on
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Okay, I'm not speechless anymore.
Please be serious. I disagreed with you on a subject that you really deserve to be challenged on. That doesn't equal "besmirching your honor".
I never told you that you needed to get on medication. If anything, I've been more civil to you than you have to me.
I respect my elders. That doesn't mean I need to agree with them when they are clearly wrong. The first amendment doesn't work on an age-respective sliding scale.
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