Newsweek Headline: 'Is Barack Obama Too Weak to Win in November?'
It's becoming clearer with each passing day the Obama-loving media are now in a full-scale panic that the man they helped get elected in 2008 is in serious trouble to repeat that feat in 2012.
Take for example Newsweek/Daily Beast which published a piece moments ago with the somewhat shocking headline, "Is Barack Obama Too Weak to Win in November?":
Remember when the big idea in Obamaland was to run against the do-nothing Congress? This was the thought late last year and early this one, when, working in concert with Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats, the White House was going to nail the Republicans to the wall one piece of jobs legislation at a time. Then something happened that distracted the White House’s attention, I don’t know what: The end of roll call votes? The Super Bowl? The start of a new season of American Idol? Whatever the reason, the do-nothing Congress disappeared. Well, now that we’ve had one lousy jobs report, suddenly it is reappearing. But the question of why it ever went away is a good one and reminds us again that the Obama administration and campaign too often flit from one narrative to the next in a way that’s far too reactive to events—and that he refuses to land the punch that would really draw blood.
So began Newsweek/Daily Beast special correspondent Michael Tomasky's Tuesday offering.
From there, it devolved into the usual nonsense about all the problems in the world being the Republicans' fault:
When Obama does go after the Congress, he doesn’t do it in the right way: he urges Republicans to pass his jobs bill. But that’s a waste of everybody’s time. He should be telling audiences that the GOP won’t do anything about jobs, and he should be telling people the truth about why: because all the Republicans are doing now is waiting Obama out. A few more months of crapper numbers, Obama should be telling his audiences, and the Republicans figure they’ll be rid of him. So they’re not going to do anything for the economy, and their motivation is completely political. They’ll deny it, but let them. He should be putting that issue on the table. And it is the issue. Legislation on jobs isn’t stalling because a handful of Republicans are waiting for a better earmark for some project in their district before voting yes. It’s stalled solely over politics.
Why is it that virtually every Obama-loving media member appears to have been out of the country when the current White House resident controlled the House and enjoyed a filibuster-proof Senate giving him power the likes of which hadn't been seen in this country since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937?
Two straight years of virtually limitless, unconstrained ability to do whatever he wanted, and now all the world's problems are because Republicans have run the House for the past seventeen months.
I've said for years that it takes a lot of rationalizations to be a liberal media member these days, but in recent weeks I've begun to wonder if it also requires either a lobotomy or the complete removal of any shred of honesty.
Or maybe both.
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Isn't this a rhetorical
Submitted by bobtheman on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 9:52am.
Isn't this a rhetorical question?
It's all about integrity
Submitted by Rasmus on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 9:57am.
In answer to your closing comment, they haven't had lobotomies so obviously it's the total lack of honesty or journalistic integrity. A free and independent press SHOULD BE one of the bedrocks of a free society. Now that we no longer have that, it's all downhill from here. Perhaps when Obama is defeated in November, the press will take a look at its collective self and say, "You know, maybe it's time to stop trying to steer the country and just go back to reporting on what happens; you know, report the news vs. trying to make the news. Yeah, maybe that's the ticket..."
Hahahahhahhahahahah!! Sorry, I got caught up in a moment of fantasy there.
mythical unbiased media
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:08am.
Everyone talks about going back to when the media was not biased but that time has never existed.
There was a time there was a more equal representation - when anyone could have a printing press in their workshop.
There was a time when there wasn't enough dissenting voices to know the level of bias - The Big Three.
There was a time with the internet the networks could have become more balanced but opted to double down and brought in a lot of competition with its own bias.
There has always been bias but the bias has been predominately to the left of mainstream America ever since most people started getting their news from TV.
At the very least the leftist
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:41am.
At the very least the leftist media outlets could stop pretending not to be leftists.
As I read that last paragraph from the Newsweak screed,
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:01am.
I thought of that other NB piece about Politico asking of the media is in the tank for Obama or is the GOP just whining. "He should tell people..." "He should be telling them..." "He should be putting issues on the table..."
Forgive me, but I just can't even imagine Newsweak publishing an article wherein they tell a Republican president how to deal with an opposition congress. This piece sounded more like a baseball team fan who is ranting to his buddy on how the manager should be running the team.
Naw, they're not in the tank for Obama, not at all.
WIJG,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:12am.
They tell Republican Presidents how to deal with an opposition congress all the time. They tell him to 'compromise', 'listen to the will of the people' and to 'not take America backwards'.
He ran an "I'm not Bush" campaign and won
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:10am.
He passed the "I'm a socialist" stimulus and Obamacare laws. He set the "I don't want to win in Iraq" pull out date and the "I don't want to win in Afghanistan" pull out date. He Okayed the "I don't like guns" Fast & Furious plan to flood the US with "weapons from Mexico that originally came from the US". He gave $billions of taxpayer funds to unsustainable companies that happened to have connections to his big donors. He tried to set the "I decide which laws will be enforced and which wont" prescedent by suing Arizona for daring to try and help out the overburdened ICE.
And now... he is going to lose to the "I'm not Obama" campaign.
Ironic, or poetic justice?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
"I'm not Bush." LOL!
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:35am.
This time he'll have to run an "I'm not Obama" campaign!
So, basically, Obama is too weak to win in 2012.
Submitted by acaiguana on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:24am.
Good, I predict a Landslide.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
From your lips to God's ears
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:27am.
However, I think Obama and his minions will pull out the heavy artillery soon. I hope Romney vets his VP choice extremely carefully.
Rad~
Submitted by GG_NB on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:37am.
I do think Romney will be quite careful on his VP selection, but the MSM will hone in on something to overblow with his pick -- nobody will be perfect enough where they won't try to make something out of nothing. But just so they can't make something out of a real something!
And agreed, they will bust out more to try to stick it to Romney. I'm just trying to figure out what the next "theme" will be. They seem to be running out of stupid ideas.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
GG
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:52am.
I think it's going to be Mormonism. There will be no lack of stupid ideas...
Now they're also going through Romney's record as governor of Mass. It must have been great to be BO in 2008 and have no record for anyone to look at.
it doesn't matter how well vetted the VP pick is
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:45am.
The Make Believe Media will tear them to shreds. Palin had 8 1/2 years Executive experience as of Aug 2008, raised Alaskas credit rating two notches, made tough spending cuts and they still tore her to shreds. As Lowell Ponte said "Gov Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."
They (liberals) need to make this election about Romney or his VP, not ObamAA+ and his record. No ammount of vetting will overcome a Dishonest Liberal reporter.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Free~
Submitted by GG_NB on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:05am.
Let's hope that most fair-minded Americans can easily spot the hypocrisy. I could be wrong, but I think it may be tough to find dirt on this family. I think the bulk of what the media will do is play the "too rich" card, but there is a difference between enjoying money well-earned and having an elitist attitude like others have...ahem. So let's hope that most good Americans can discern that as well. Plus, in some sense, the more the media reminds Americans of how wealthy Romney is, the more they point out this is a guy who knows how to help America prosper!
In a way, the media might be in a much tougher spot than we think. So far, they have stunk up the place trying to campaign for O. And if they go too far or too mean or too unfair (uh, maybe we should root for these primal instincts they seem to have), the more desperate and in the tank for O they look. If O had accomplished things for Americans and was in a good place now, negative attacks on Romney and family from the media may have more impact. But I think a lot of people have HAD it with his administration and the propaganda media. If not, then it is hard to imagine people will do the right thing on election day -- and then we're sunk.
So I'd like to think more Americans than ever "get it." The media/rad libs were hideous and immoral regarding Palin, but America hadn't experienced O in office.
And this go-around, in their desperation and lack of fairness and wisdom, I hope the media become O's worst enemy.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
The MSM has discovered the truth...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:37am.
...of the old line, "I left at Two with a Ten and woke up at Ten with a Two"...
"..the campaign flits from
Submitted by ant on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:46am.
"..the campaign flits from one narrative to the next.." That's a good word to describe Obama...flits...perfectly encompasses my vision of the limp-wristed, metro-sexual skipping off to the next party or round of golf. While Nero fiddled, Obama 'flitters'.
The problem with this line of attack
Submitted by Cappmann1962 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:49am.
"Remember when the big idea in Obamaland was to run against the do-nothing Congress?"
People aren't quite as stupid as Obambi and his cronies in both politics and the media think. It's hard to hide the fact that Obambi had a majority in the House and a super-majority in the Senate for 2 years. That and the fact that there are still way too many dems in congress to like being lumped in with the republicans as a "do-nothing" congress. And there are still a few Americans who actually watch what congress is doing, and see the repubs bringing up legislation in the House only to have it shot down by the dem-majority Senate. Obambi is still relying on his so-called speaking abilities in an attempt to hoodwink the country. Many still buy his rhetoric, but many more won't believe Obambi over their own eyes. Just because Duh Wun says it doesn't make it so, and we know it. Now, many of his former supporters know it too.
To top it off, the Walker recall is bringing out many aspects of republican leadership Obambi doesn't want publicized - namely:
Walker has essentially eliminated a multi-billion dollar deficit, reduced unemployment, and shown that more than half of union workers bail when given the chance (i.e. when they aren't forced to pay dues). So the Obambi campaign, the media, and particularly the unions are in a panic. And this is why, media rhetoric notwithstanding, this recall election will be HUGE on a national level.
What, no mention of Harry's Senate?
Submitted by Rovin on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:31am.
Funny that the Newsweek/Daily Beast article forgot to mention there have been two major jobs bills passed out of the House and sitting on Harry’s desk for over a year. That, and other legislation that might just put the debt in check and spur on this stagnant economy. The “Do-Nothing Congress” is really the DO NOTHING SENATE, and the American public know it.
Noel, why don't you get this right?
Submitted by oddojoe on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:37am.
Al Franken was sworn in July 2009, and Scott Brown was sworn in February 2010. Two years of a filibuster-proof majority?
Well, Yeah
Submitted by JustAl on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:49am.
As I've predicted for almost four years. Once "O" is seen as too week to carry the red flag further up the hill, the leftists will sacrifice him in a heartbeat. And nobody crosses the Clintons and gets away with it for long. I've posted several places, several times, it's the Hildabeast the GOP needs to be focused on and "O" had better not turn his back on her.
The good news is that they
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:53am.
The good news is that they may be right. The bad news is that nobody reads their rag.
I have two better questions, one you've heard before.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 11:55am.
1) Are we better off now than we were four years ago?
2) Is he competent to perform the job?
We all know the answers to these questions and they matter not some troll lamenting that her delusion just isn't panning out.
Liar
Submitted by jpalm32 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 12:18pm.
4 years of…..
Blames Bush
Blames Arab Spring
Blames Japanese Tsunami
Blames Europe
Blames Wall Street
Blames Iraq War
Blames Guantanamo
Blames Global Warming
Blames Congress (Last 2 years of Bush Democrats majority; Firrst 2 years of Obama-democrat majority & Senate SUPER majority)
Blames Tea Party
Blames Catholics & Christians that cling to their guns & bible
Blames Sun Spots
And...
Submitted by GG_NB on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 12:35pm.
Blames Americans
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Well....this oughta bring Obama out of his FUNK!
Submitted by gailannr on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 7:13pm.
Don't know where this originated, it came to me in an email but had to share it!
2012 DNC NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE
4:00 PM Opening Flag Burning Ceremony
4:05 PM Singing of "God Damn America " led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
4:10 PM Pledge of Allegiance to Obama
4:15 PM Ceremonial 'I Hate America ' led by Michelle Obama
4:30 PM Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire , Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM Al Sharpton Leads Castrati Choir in Singing, "Great Balls of Fire"
5:00 PM UFO Abduction Survival , Joe Biden
5:30 PM Eliot Spitzer Speaks on "Family Values" via Satellite
5:45 PM Tribute to All 57 States
6:00 PM Joe Biden Delivers 100,000-Word Speech Featuring 23-Minute Question and 2-Hour Answer
8:30 PM Airing of Grievances by the Clintons
9:00 PM Bill Clinton Delivers Rousing Endorsement of Obama Girl
9:15 PM Tribute Film to Freedom Fighters at Gitmo , Michael Moore
9:45 PM Personal Finance Seminar - Charlie Rangel
10:00 PM Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners, Rosie O'Donnell
10:30 PM Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for Iraq & Afghanistan
11:00 PM Obama Energy Plan Symposium/Tire Gauge Demonstration
11:15 PM Free Gov. Blagojevichrally
11:30 PM Obama Accepts Tony and Latin Grammy Awards
11:45 PM Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish, Obama Presiding
12:00 AM Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher
12:01 AM Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM Celestial Choirs Sing
3:00 AM Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech