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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,669 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 12:10 AM Jan 2015

"History Will Be Very Kind To Obama"

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"Ten and a half years ago, at the Democratic convention in Boston, Barack Hussein Obama was introduced to America as a youthful, magnetic man who had burst suddenly and somewhat mysteriously onto the scene. This characterization—superficially appealing yet weightless, more symbolic than substantive—followed him throughout his presidential campaign, when Hillary Clinton cast him as an inspirational speechmaker like Martin Luther King Jr., as opposed to a viable contender for president, and John McCain’s campaign scathingly labeled him a “celebrity,” attractive but vacuous.

The lived reality of Obama’s presidency has unfolded as almost the precise opposite of this trope. He has amassed a record of policy accomplishment far deeper than even many of his supporters give him credit for...."

from New York magazine

http://huff.to/1IgHqZy

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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. I tend to agree.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 04:39 AM
Jan 2015

I think he came in having been dealt a crappy hand, and I agree that history in retrospect will consider him a far better president than perhaps he is seen as, now.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
5. The "comforter in chief" lacks emotional connection?
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 11:23 AM
Jan 2015

Don't agree with that part. Even the cited Ebola case, he was seen hugging that nurse. He's not all Spock.

Paul Krugman devoted much of Obama’s first term to flaying the inadequacy of the administration’s fiscal response, and its failure to nationalize the large banks.


Really, that sounds insane to me. Is there any ground on which the banks could be "nationalized" even if Congress went along? They talk about that as if it could be done with a snap of the fingers.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
6. Mandatory digs at Obama, no matter how disingenuous, is how writers genuflect to their bosses...
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 04:58 AM
Jan 2015
All you said is true, but they have to flog the meme if they want to keep writing for money. They constantly self-censor. Or they are part of the machine willingly?

I wonder at times just how miserable a life that is, telling half-truths for a job although outright lying like Faux pays much better. These writers are most likely educated and at one time thought they were going to be part of a respectable, socially valuable intelligensia.

Propaganda denies intelligence, blocks solving problems, refuses to give useful information or help one to use sound judgment. We are in the Goebbels age of MSM.


Hekate

(94,643 posts)
9. Krugman must have been misquoted; he's generally supportive of Obama's actions.
Thu Jan 22, 2015, 10:33 PM
Jan 2015

Nationalizing banks doesn't sound like Krugman to me, either. But I don't read him every single day, so you never know.....

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
7. He's Cool Handed Luke, he doesn't brag on himself, just get the job done.
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 09:51 PM
Jan 2015

Now since we have seen him in action when he goes out for a round of golf I wonder what he is working on in which he has not revealed. I guess I expect a lot, he gives a lot.

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