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Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Steve Huntley (http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/1834209,CST-EDT-HUNT20.article - broken link)
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You'd think it's October 2008, the final month in the Obama presidential candidacy, rather than October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency. Yet the Obama White House is in full campaign mode -- maybe because it needs to mask the shortcomings of the Obama presidency.
The White House trying to dictate who's a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?
Oh, you bet. There were many, many people who saw through his "post-partisan" BS and his phony facade.
It was only a matter of time before the mask fell off, revealing the true dirty-dealing politician and his radicals in the WH.
Notice the pattern; If you criticize or don't agree with his views, he will target you in an attempt to isolate and marginalize, as he did with the CEO's, the GM investors. He needs an "enemy", an opponent to make his points. That should tell you right there how specious and false his points and rhetoric is.
I'm curious to hear what Obama failed on, would you care to elaborate?
Closing Guantanamo. It's been 10 months now.
Healthcare is complicated, even the Iraq war etc. take time....but Guantanamo he has full control over.
Then again, perhaps he didn't fail and just used Guantanamo as a political talking point and really had no intention of changing the Bush admins policies there. If that is the case, it helped him get elected so perhaps he succeeded and we failed instead.
As an avid anti-obama'er (based on how I feel about his policies, and democratic fiscal issues in general) whether you agree or disagree with obama, you have to understand NOTHING happens overnight. Sometimes policy takes years to implement.
Whether you like Obama or not, this is not the issue to arguing, it is silly. Again, I don't like Obama and I don't support him, but as a reasonable American, I am saying this is NOT the bandwagon to jump on. I don't support Obama bashing for the sake of Obama bashing, and that is exactly what this is. This is why, as a republican and an avid Fox news watcher, I turn the channel when Hannity comes on.
with all respect to the poster who does some stuff i do indeed like, its just another characterization of a poliitical figure. i would like a little bit of objectivity about the presidency. principles not personalities please. his foreign policy has been a vast improvement. the oval office continues to spend way too much money, it does not seem to matter who sits in it. which makes me think the one who pulls the strings is not sitting at the desk.
the giant string pullers are DOD AMA and AIG. strangly very silent recipients of huge sums of money.
As some have noted, what's actually wearing thin are the excuses for one content-free Obama-bashing spree after another. It's senseless. Particularly when no actual analysis or anything close to resembling a reasonable policy alternative is suggested.
I agree in a way. The whole "OMG Obama is the devil" shtick is wearing thin, including people having to defend every crazy notion that pops into someones tinfoil covered head.
Yeah, so when is Obama closing Gitmo? Is he promising in 2010, after the elections of course? Trying for one last grab at the desperately hopeful pro-peace civil right advocates? I can't wait to see the motto of 2010: "If you stay at home, you're actually voting Republican!"
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