The media’s love affair with a disastrous president
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Obama has faults like anyone else and that is a surprise? He is somewhat arrogant
and that is a fact. He could have taken some different actions that is true. But to
suggest he is a disastrous President is not exactly true either. Obama has been
saddled with the problems of the Bush Administration. The nation of mass free traders
and free access and the export of jobs. The idea that you can create a consumer
society without producing goods and new technology is nonsense. Sooner or later you
have to produce and export and ensure the home front has jobs and advantages for
your own workforce.
As an economic nationalist myself I think we have gone to far in trying to accommodate
the world.
and that is a fact. He could have taken some different actions that is true. But to
suggest he is a disastrous President is not exactly true either. Obama has been
saddled with the problems of the Bush Administration. The nation of mass free traders
and free access and the export of jobs. The idea that you can create a consumer
society without producing goods and new technology is nonsense. Sooner or later you
have to produce and export and ensure the home front has jobs and advantages for
your own workforce.
As an economic nationalist myself I think we have gone to far in trying to accommodate
the world.
Another anti-Obama thread!
While it is true that he has had his failings, the real problem is that he failed to push forward the DNC platform of August, 2008. Instead, he timidly asked Republicans in Congress to approve of his plan unlike Bush who pushed forward his pro war corporatist agenda and resorted to every lie imaginable to get his way done. Had Obama not been so weak willed and used the same tactics he could have had the needed reform done. The economy would have been far better off.
As for the media, there wasn't a word of criticism from the NY Times or Washington Post when Bush got his war and Patriot Act. They readily approved of the needless wars and refused to pose challenging questions in the news conferences. Significantly, only BBC and other foreign media did so when allowed to pose questions (unlike Jeff Gannon and others like him). And, of course, we know of Bush's ties to the right wing National Religious Broadcasters along with religious bigots Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
I wonder what Rex Murphy thinks about all this. It's a good bet he never wrote any criticism but if he did, post a link so that we can see whether he was ever fair and balanced in his reporting and criticism.
While it is true that he has had his failings, the real problem is that he failed to push forward the DNC platform of August, 2008. Instead, he timidly asked Republicans in Congress to approve of his plan unlike Bush who pushed forward his pro war corporatist agenda and resorted to every lie imaginable to get his way done. Had Obama not been so weak willed and used the same tactics he could have had the needed reform done. The economy would have been far better off.
As for the media, there wasn't a word of criticism from the NY Times or Washington Post when Bush got his war and Patriot Act. They readily approved of the needless wars and refused to pose challenging questions in the news conferences. Significantly, only BBC and other foreign media did so when allowed to pose questions (unlike Jeff Gannon and others like him). And, of course, we know of Bush's ties to the right wing National Religious Broadcasters along with religious bigots Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
I wonder what Rex Murphy thinks about all this. It's a good bet he never wrote any criticism but if he did, post a link so that we can see whether he was ever fair and balanced in his reporting and criticism.
Soviet levelling during the Bolshevik revolution...The same thing is happening right now before your eyes and it's not the doing of just one man in D.C.
Not really on the head at all. Obama has way too many achievements to be a disastrous President. In fact, Obama's immediate predecessors are more deserving of such a dishonor than Obama.
Thinking about this has lead to me think maybe the news media is objectively covering Obama with all the good things Obama has done and such. And it's really Rex Murphy that's in need of some self-reflection. Wanting to hear anti-Obama news to the extent that it covers up the truth also is a problem.
Obama has way too many achievements? Does anyone know about any of them? Yes, he passed a health bill, which is completely uncomprehensible, and totally not understood by anyone, including those in government. Did he do anything else?
By the way, Rex has been a pretty big criticizer of Bush in the past, he's usually pretty well right on the money for people who can actually think.
I trust Rex Murphy's opinion on politics as much as I trust his opinion on climate change.
People who still believe Obama gets eternal love have not been checking the polls lately.
AN YOU CAN TAKE THAT ONE TA THA BANK!
People who still believe Obama gets eternal love have not been checking the polls lately.
AN YOU CAN TAKE THAT ONE TA THA BANK!
I think the jest of Rex's piece is that the honeymoon is now over.
It would appear that Obama is floundering, but the media has given him a lot of passes up until this point.
From the outset he has been a protectionist. He is wishy washy on foreign affairs. He has flip flopped on Gitmo.
I like Obama, but he is beginning to look like the transitional girlfriend.
Nice Baretta impression by the way.
Pointing it out as anti Obama thread is the same as the anti muslim rhetoric you use to try and quiet people. It's gopher bullsh!t.
He is wholly unqualified to be President. You can blame Bush all you want. Bush is gone and Obama cannot blame all his shortcomings on his predecessor. But you can.
One thing about Rex Murphy though, is he has the easy job: it is far easier to judge someone else's performance than to actually try and tackle the issues themselves. Obama has had a tough road and at times looked like he was meeting the challenge but more often not. Not all of what happened is Obama's fault but he is supposed to be a leader of the most powerful country in the world: we expected (and the world needs) to see more steel out of him, particularly when dealing with his own party. He has a limit with what he can accomplish with the Republicans controlling the House of Representatives, but until the last election, he had both Houses and wasn't able to do as much as he needed.
All politicians need to be scrutinized. Left and Right.
I think the media was so weary from two terms of Bush they allowed themselves to put their journalistic integrity on the back burner.
Their job is to be objective.
The criticism of that is warranted.
Most of the media plays to whatever president is in term at the time.
Just look at Satan incarnate himself in the last round.
Just look at Satan incarnate himself in the last round.
That's just because you fancy elite writers like to stick together in your fancy elite writers' clubs and drink exclusive fancy elite writers' bottled water and such. :lol:
p.s. Obama is a self-important arrogant man-child with a huge chip on his shoulder. Titanically unqualified as prez.
Any prez gets 'anti' threads, columns and rebukes. Well, unless the liberal press fawns over you and pretends like nothing is wrong. . Oh deer. Poor prez.
Y'all get over it now and report them to Barry's little Attack Watch website m'kay.
Bush was criticized from the outset. Only after 911 did his popularity grow and for obvious reasons. The only reason they won against the Democrats is because their Presidential candidate Herman Munster was pictured with that sweetheart Jane Fonda.
Nothing like running a guy who embraces a traitor against a war President.
Brilliant move on the part of the Democrats!
Bush was justly criticized by those of us with at least half a brain. The media on the other hand..
The Polls yes... the media.... hmmm, not so much. But I have noticed they are a little more critical these days.
I am still dumbfounded as to the first 2 years of his presidency. He and the Democrat controlled Congress could have raised taxes on everyone INCLUDING Warren Buffett and his millionaire friends. There was nobody to stop them.
Filibilibilibongbuster
They were barely able to get "don't ask, don't tell" out the door.
But they got it out the door. Obamacare too.
So they tried to raise taxes? The fillibuster is a Senate thing only.