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which is why this spate of Obama bashing from the left is so utterly refreshing: like a cold beer on a hot day .
Barack Obama Is a Terrible Bore
From the utra-lefty vanity Fair of all places.
isn't that just delicious?
Well let's not leave out the Loyal NY Times.
Friendly fire: NYT hits Obama - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
So the next time one of you Obama acolytes has a problem with anyone who bashes the big O, just remember that if even the above lefty liberals can see the light so there is also hope for you.
Barack Obama Is a Terrible Bore
From the utra-lefty vanity Fair of all places.
Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter.
That homespun bowling crap on Jay Leno, followed by the turgid, teachy fiscal policy lecture, together with the hurt defensiveness (and bad script for it) that everybody in Washington "is Simon Cowell… Everybody's got an opinion," is pure I’m-in-over-my-head stuff. Even the idea of having to go on Jay Leno to rescue yourself from the AIG mess is lame. Be a man, man.
The guy just doesn’t know what to say. He can’t connect. Emotions are here, he’s over there. He can’t get the words to match the situation....
He’s cold; he’s prickly; he’s uncomfortable; he’s not funny; and he’s getting awfully tedious. ...
What happens when you move into the White House?
Well, shit, of course. The true secret of the power of language is in quickness. Barack Obama can’t keep up. He evidently needs too much preparation. And then there’s the organization. He’s undoubtedly got too many people debating what he should say...
This guy is leaden and this show is in trouble.
isn't that just delicious?
Well let's not leave out the Loyal NY Times.
Friendly fire: NYT hits Obama - Jonathan Martin - POLITICO.com
The leading liberal voices of the New York Times editorial pages all criticized—and, in some cases, clobbered—President Obama on Sunday for his handling of the economy and national security...
The sentiment, coming just two months after the president was sworn in, reflects elite opinion in the Washington-New York corridor that Obama is increasingly overwhelmed, and not fully appreciative of the building tsunami of populist outrage.
Unlike with President Bush, the Obama administration is less apt to dismiss such commentary, at least publicly, as so much carping from an out-of-touch peanut gallery. These are voices that have been sympathetic, and at times gushing toward Obama, during the campaign and in his administration’s early days...
—Frank Rich, who made a cottage industry of Bush-bashing, writing that until Obama “addresses the full depth of Americans’ anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.”
—Thomas Friedman, the paper’s highly-read foreign affairs columnist, turning his focus home to find the nation lacking “inspirational leadership.”
—The paper’s liberal editorial page and a frequent voice of opposition to Bush’s national security policies complaining about “confused and mixed signals from the [Obama] White House” on some of the same issues.
—Maureen Dowd, in her inimitable fashion, citing the take-charge First Lady digging a White House garden to wonder “if the wrong Obama is in the Oval.”
“It’s a time in America’s history where we need less smooth jazz and more martial brass,” wrote Dowd.
—Krugman, who is perhaps the most frequent Obama critic at the paper but also a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose analysis carries considerable sway in liberal circles, not even waiting for the administration’s bank plan announcement this week before panning it.
“It’s exactly the plan that was widely analyzed — and found wanting — a couple of weeks ago,” Krugman wrote on his blog. “The zombie ideas have won.
So the next time one of you Obama acolytes has a problem with anyone who bashes the big O, just remember that if even the above lefty liberals can see the light so there is also hope for you.