Posts Tagged ‘obama’

“Obama is a man of the center-left“

Posted: April 6, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…says David Remnick in his book The Bridge The life and rise of Barack Obama the morning after I crashed on the couch after re-organizing my playlists etc as I’ve finally moved my stuff from the ipod to the new PC. I had to double check to make sure that I was actually awake since nobody on Morning Joe disagreed with him on this statement.

Can there be a worse time to put out an Obama book?

First he releases it as his numbers are below the tea parties.

Then appears on TV the week after the “book/blowjob” access stories come out.

And in one week the Tea Party Express will be pulling into Washington DC to highlight disapproval of the Government, the president and the congress.

As you might guess Mr. Remnick wasn’t challenged much although Joe referred to the title as the “rise and fall of Barack Obama”. It was a slip but boy did it get reaction on the set.

Anyone want to make odds on how long it take to make it to the dollar bin?

I seem to recall that a little over a decade ago…

Posted: April 3, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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…the press didn’t have a lot of objections to “blow Jobs“:

The White House is working hard to secure deals that yield fluffy, feel good commentary about the Obama White House. One American White House reporter used colorful terms to describe the arrangement. The reporter said, “They want ‘blow jobs’ first [in the press sense]. Then you have to be on good behavior for a bit or be willing to deal, and then you get access.”

When you sell yourself for a living It just becomes a matter of haggling.

You just knew Robert Stacy was going to have fun with this didn’t you and Ann Althouse and the Mudville Gazette comment, but it is Ed Driscoll who asks the important question:

Considering the near-monolithically favorable coverage that Obama received on the campaign trail from the inside the Beltway crowd, to equally gushing coverage after The One won the gig, how gushing does the hagiography have to get before it qualifies for B.J.-level “journalism” in the White House’s jaundiced eyes?

MSM you have no business complaining, you did this to yourselves.

Hey suddebly the Obama administration discovers repression in Cuba!

Posted: March 26, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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The Washington Post praises president Obama for tough words on Cuba concerning their treatment of strikers:

PRESIDENT OBAMA issued a statement Wednesday that forthrightly described what has become of his effort to reach out to the Castro regime in Cuba. “Instead of embracing an opportunity to enter a new era,” he said, “Cuban authorities continue to respond to the aspirations of the Cuban people with a clenched fist.”

Yes it’s great to see a US president standing forthrightly against a government taking actions so obviously against the will of its people. I wonder what might have prompted the sudden attention to this issue by the administration?

Around the blogroll 3/19/10

Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in fun, gaming, opinion/news
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Let’s take a peek around the blogroll and see what we can see:

Dan Collins notes a double standard on gaffes:

But despite all of the available evidence that so easily destroys the meta-narrative of Obama’s brilliance, we still have yet to see him get the same treatment that Gerald Ford, Reagan, Quayle, or G.W. Bush did; where are all of the jokes about his educated idiocy? About Hirohito signing the surrender aboard the Missouri? About him listing the 57 states? No one seems to see the humor in any of this.

This reminds me a bit of why I think Obamacare is such a priority for this administration.

On the left side of the aisle Dissenting Justice takes issue with John Sheehan and his opinion of Gay Soldiers in the Dutch army:

Sheehan’s comments are absolutely bankrupt. 23 of the 26 NATO members allow out gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Only the US, Turkey and Portugal do not. Under Sheehan’s “logic,” NATO itself is ineffective due to the presence of gay soldiers.

There is no question however that the Dutch certainly didn’t cover themselves with glory in Bosnia. I’ve given my opinion on gays in the military here.

And Finally Peg at What if notes that both the administrations dealings with Israel and her showing in the North American Bridge association championships leave much to be desired:

his kind of excessive and weirdly paternalistic attitude to the state of Israel, directed so clearly from the top, seems to come out of a kind of unexamined personal animus. The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.

As the old saying goes; only time will tell. Let’s hope that the rest of the time this week is kinder to my bridge performance, too!

Hey Peg, at least you never played with a partner who liked to bluff when bidding. It really changes the game.

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