Barack 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 characterizationsuperficially appealing yet weightless, more symbolic than substantivefollowed 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 McCains campaign scathingly labeled him a celebrity, attractive but vacuous.
The lived reality of Obamas 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
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)TygrBright
(20,987 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)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)Don't agree with that part. Even the cited Ebola case, he was seen hugging that nurse. He's not all Spock.
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)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)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)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.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,669 posts)Stategy plus the ability to bluff goes a long way.