It's His Rubble Now

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704224004574489530713762884.html

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President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. Does he know it? He too stands on rubble, figuratively speaking—a collapsed economy, high and growing unemployment, two wars. Everyone knows what he's standing on. You can almost see the smoke rising around him. He's got a bullhorn in his hand every day.

It's his now. He gets the credit and the blame. How do we know this? The American people are telling him. You can see it in the polls. That's what his falling poll numbers are about. "It's been almost a year, you own this. Fix it."
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The president doesn't seem to like this moment. Who would? He and his men and women have returned to referring to what they "inherited." And what they inherited was, truly, terrible: again, a severe economic crisis and two wars. But their recent return to this theme is unbecoming. Worse, it is politically unpersuasive. It sounds defensive, like a dodge.

The president said last week, at a San Francisco fund-raiser, that he's busy with a "mop," "cleaning up somebody else's mess," and he doesn't enjoy "somebody sitting back and saying, 'You're not holding the mop the right way.'" Later, in New Orleans, he groused that reporters are always asking "Why haven't you solved world hunger yet?" His surrogates and aides, in appearances and talk shows, have taken to remembering, sometimes at great length, the dire straits we were in when the presidency began.

This is not a sign of confidence. Nor were the president's comments to a New York fund-raiser this week. Democrats, he said to the Democratic audience, are "an opinionated bunch." They always have a lot of thoughts and views. Republicans, on the other hand—"the other side"—aren't really big on independent thinking. "They just kinda sometimes do what they're told. Democrats, y'all thinkin' for yourselves." It is never a good sign when the president gets folksy, dropping his g's, because he is by nature not a folksy g-dropper but a coolly calibrating intellectual who is always trying to guess, as most politicians do, what normal people think. When Mr. Obama gets folksy he isn't narrowing his distance from his audience but underlining it. He shouldn't do this.
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An interesting article, and the last paragraph above says it all to me. Obama, despite his rhetoric, really seems to have no confidence in his abilities. That's why he's always blaming someone else, even to the point now of blaming Fox News.

kenmabmcc

xavierx wrote:

That's why he's always blaming someone else, even to the point now of blaming Fox News.

Fox News gets okay to misinform public

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The court did not dispute the heart of Akre's claim, that Fox pressured her to broadcast a false story to protect the broadcaster from having to defend the truth in court, as well as suffer the ire of irate advertisers. Fox argued from the first, and failed on three separate occasions, in front of three different judges, to have the case tossed out on the grounds there is no hard, fast, and written rule against deliberate distortion of the news.

The attorneys for Fox, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves.

In its six-page written decision, the Court of Appeals held that the Federal Communications Commission position against news distortion is only a "policy," not a promulgated law, rule, or regulation.

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

Wow, Ken. I'm impressed. You can spam the board with the latest liberal talking points. Wink

Now, would you care to address the issue at hand, Obama's total lack of confidence?

pasquanel · Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 507 Location: Maine

It's "Fair and Balanced" Ken, every other media outlet is biased for Obama!
I would think one "Fair and Balanced" news agency shouldn't be a problem. Wink

kenmabmcc

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

So, I take it Ken that you're defense of Obama's lack of confidence is ... nothing? Thanks!

Gezzer · Last edited by Gezzer on Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:53 am; edited 1 time in total

Murdoch
has a place in the UK its called 'fort wapping' from which he runs his media empire for the UK

it has 3 sets of 10' fences, twin electric gates with two sets of security zones

and that's before you can even enter the place

Murdoch
and his media empire is very well loved over here … not …

so Murdoch and Fox news don't like President Obama
hold the front page

i have confidence that President Obama is confident and that shines through if Murdoch and his elk/empire wish too take President Obama on or vice versa …

i didn't think some could even regard anything attached to Murdoch or his news agency empire as news worthy …

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 5427

Again, I'd love it if we'd have a thread that actually discussed the issue.

For the record, though, it's Obama who has declared war on Fox, not the other way around. And as the article posited, it's because he has no confidence in his own abilities apparently.

Gezzer

micker377 · Joined: May 27, 2005 Posts: 993

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