Comments on: The sputtering of the Obama machine.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:15:40 +0000

Maybe Obama will replace him for the good of the country if he goes too negative on The One.

By: Martin Knight

Martin Knight — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:37:30 +0000

By: Joe_Cor

Joe_Cor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:12:25 +0000

We engage in way too much wishful thinking on the right. Barak’s still highly popular, Republicans are still too scared to crticize him. There should be a long line of representatives and senators fighting for their chance to denounce his European speeches on the House/Senate floor. If that can’t even light a fire under them, what will? Where’s this stinging defeat going to materialize from?

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:15:26 +0000

The NYT had Abe Rosenthal. He was a liberal, but adamant about fairness and accuracy in the news columns.

Pinch Sulzberger, not so much.

By: Rich Tandler

Rich Tandler — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:47:01 +0000

By: Finrod

Finrod — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:27:47 +0000

Back during the 1980s, it was the WaPo that was publishing every slam against Reagan that they could find, while the NYT was not so much being fair, but more restrained. Now it seems it’s the other way around.

By: IJB

IJB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:18:17 +0000

By: IJB

IJB — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:17:25 +0000

By: texas214

texas214 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:38:32 +0000

The WaPo, at least from various news reports carrying the WaPo byline, seems to be doing a better job in balancing it’s news coverage as of late. Obama negative stories are starting to appear more frequently.

Maybe someone over there figured out that p*ss*ng on 50% of the potential readerships leg is not such a good business plan (see NYT).

By: Joe_Cor

Joe_Cor — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:11:46 +0000

The blueprint of the budget passed. Where’s the indication it won’t untimately be passed in final form, even if public support isn’t gung-ho, even without a single Republican vote, even if a few blue-dogs not supporting it? If the budget gets passed anyway, how will it matter if the “machine” didn’t work as well as intended?

By: bobojake

bobojake — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:48:32 +0000

Every day this week and on we should take the time to email our Senators and Congressman.with a new letter explaining obamas budget and destroying the United States has to Stop. Tthe Senators and Congressman are not doing their job of protecting the United States, if they don’t stop this man now.
Send a new one not the same letter, expressing your thoughts and the responsiblity of Reid, peloski, and Schummmmer, Dodd, Frank, Rangel,
Muffa and how all Senators and Congressman are letting down the taxpayers of this Great Nation.

By: TxCon

TxCon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:38:59 +0000

Shuler voted for the budget.

By: TxCon

TxCon — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:38:59 +0000

Shuler voted for the budget.

By: robmikpet

robmikpet — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:04:10 +0000

model. During the campaign Michele O. was explaining Barack O’s bona fides to a crowd and she said “Barack has seen it all, when he organized a group of pregnant women in Chicago to protest at city hall well…he has seen it all”

Notwithstanding the intial “What the heck does that even mean” reaction this was all Obama was taught agitate, agitate, agitate.

I will appluad ANY member of Congress who stands up to these bully tactics. This is not how America works. In fact if you look at any third world fledgling democracy or loose democracy what does the Chavez type leader try and do “call out the people to eliminate or intimidate the opposition”

That is what makes Obama’s “pitchfork” comment all the more insidious. Deep down he would love to turn “the people” loose and intimidate anyone who opposes his policies. By claiming he is the ONLY thing preventing this accomplishes the same thing, bowing (Saudi King style) to his will.