The Washington Post has an editorial writer named Eugene "Chuckles" Robinson, who writes by day and appears by night on MSNBC as a commentator. We used to see him all the time on Keith Olberrmann's ex-show, laughing (or chuckling) at Keith's jokes and sharing his opinions on everything from Bill O'Reilly to Republicans. It must be noted that Robinson has a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary to his credit for his adoring articles about Obama during the 2008 election. Here is the latest example of Robinson's "litetary skills" from the Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-self-destruction-derby/2011/05/27/AGKtTzEH_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
"What the GOP should worry about is the intoxication that adoring crowds often induce in politicians."
Hey Gino ! Ever hear of a guy named Barack Obama? It works both ways.
"Odds are it won’t happen. But the fact that Palin’s ego trip so easily stole the spotlight from the actual Republican candidates shows what a challenge the party faces in trying to deny President Obama a second term."
Hey Gino!~ Ever hear of a guy named Barack Obama?
"Bachmann’s entry would ensure a plethora of lazy, unambitious news stories comparing her to Palin..."
Hey Gino! You mean like the lazy and unambitious news stories written in the last campaign about Obama by you and the MSM?
"Romney hasn’t been in the headlines recently, and this would normally be considered a bad sign for a candidate. But the way his opponents are self-destructing, I’d advise him to remain in a secure, undisclosed location until next year’s GOP convention — and if Palin’s bus should happen to drive past his hideout, just wave."
That, folks, is the writing that gets you a Pulitzer Prize these days. (Or is it a Nobel Peace Prize? I seem to get them confused.) Oh yeah. Gino got the Pulitzer. Obama got the Nobel.
Good night, Gino.
"Good night, Keith."
So Gary dreads the prospect of Barack Obama winning a second term, and he doesn't like hearing from people who outline that it might happen.
ReplyDeleteSure, its all speculative opinion, but the better Republican candidates are pulling out for a reason -- they are experienced political pros who sense that 2012 is not going to be their year. It costs a lot of money to lose an election, which they'd rather raise and spend in a year they might win.
One great term deserves another, eh Siarlys? BTW, the post was about Eugene Robinson.
ReplyDeleteYes, and it was Gary Fouse who considered Robinson worth commenting on, and wrote the post. Don't try to run and hide behind your subject.
ReplyDeleteOne great term does deserve another. This is the best president we've had in a very long time... when I said since Kennedy, my mother, the fiscally conservative Republican in the family, said better than Kennedy.
She's been embarrassed for forty years watching Republican presidents run up huge deficits, driving the country deeper and deeper into debt. She also lived through the last Depression, and credits President Obama with barely averting another. Yeah, it took some deficit spending. That's better than 30% unemployment. And if it hadn't been for Reagan, Bush and Bush, we could have afforded it. On top of $10 trillion and running before Obama took office, its a little harder to deal with.
Anyone who still reveres Ronald Reagan, who cries "debt reduction" is a hypocrite.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteThe best president we've had in a long time, eh.
I'm laughing so hard I think I'm gonna have a heart attack.
Don't have a heart attack Gary. We may disagree, but I wouldn't want that on my conscience. We each have one vote to cast in November 2012.
ReplyDelete"One great term deserves another"
ReplyDeleteReminds me of this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xod9wV6NKeg&feature=related
and this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyJSXCZRpc&feature=related
Or how he was originally elected:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57t4u4c4H98&feature=related
I can name a few accomplishments;
More food stamp recipients than ever before.
Huge debt, most incurred by his administration
Persistent high unemployment figures
Muddled foreign policy... attempting to make friends with countries hostile to the US and undercutting allies of ours.
I'm running out of time but it is a long list.
You have to compare actual statistics rather than speculation about what might have had happened after his action. You may be sure IN YOUR MIND what WOULD HAVE happened but that is NOT WHAT HAPPENED. His policies made things worse. It was like trying to put out a kerosine fire with gasoline.
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Ooops, this was the better link that I intended to post
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8&feature=related
The whole campaign was a shell game last time. Siarlys hopes for more of the same.
"Huge debt, most incurred by his administration"
ReplyDeleteI'll just answer that one Miggie. I'm not in retirement, so I don't have all day to go chasing after utube postings.
When Bill Clinton left office, the national debt was about $5 trillion. We had budget surpluses and were beginning to pay down the national debt, something that had never happened in my lifetime. If we stayed on course (nothing EVER stays on course for any long term projection), the national debt could have been zero by 2014.
George W. Bush comes in, puts through tax cuts that put surpluses back into deficits, gets us into two wars (one of which was justified -- but should have been a six-month hard punch and get out, both should have been paid for by tax increases sufficient to pay for the body armor), and leaves office with the national debt at $10 trillion, mostly incurred during a period of prosperity.
With Bush's "we are all Keynesians now" ringing in his ears, Barack Obama narrowly averts the Second Great Depression, running up $4 trillion of additional debt.
If Bush had had a brain, instead of acting like a kid in a candy store or a college student with their first credit card, then you might have been right, Obama WOULD have incurred most of our national debt, up from about $3 trillion to $7 trillion, but manageable. Instead, he has increased it by 40%, for good reason, when there wasn't much alternative, except 30% unemployment.