I turned on the TV for the first time since May and heard some idiot pundit say that Obama will be remembered for his first term because he is just biding his time in the second term and has become a lame duck president.
Is television always so stupid or is today special? It is only now that Obama has begun having an actual presence in politics. We can disagree on whether that presence is negative or positive but these days everybody knows he is there. He spent his first term apologizing for existing, while today he is finally letting us know what he is about.
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The media seemed that he was “weak” for doing what virtually everyone in the country seemed to want and not bombing Syria, so I would argue that there opinions are kind of warped.
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You know it’s amazing that even though the usual warmongers were primed to bomb Syria it did not happen. Now it looks as if the Republicans are going to have to give in on the debt ceiling and re-opening the government without getting a single concession from Obama. That seems strong to me.
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TV really does often seem to be just that stupid.
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TV is stupid. There are a few canned talking points that get baptized at the start of the day and then the pundits throw them around at each other for the remainder of the day with escalating hyperbole, like chimps throwing poop at each other at the zoo. The everyone calls it a day and the same bullshit begins when the curtain opens after a night’s rest.
I don’t agree that Obama is only now asserting himself. He enacted his healthcare law with Democratic super-majorities during a time of rising heat from the right. His act destroyed his party’s hold in congress and that was a massive political undertaking of a spineless politician who spent his first term apologizing.
He is more of a partisan veteran now and as a sardonic Russian liberal I can connect much more to that then the hopeful idealism that defined his rise to power.
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correction: was a massive political undertaking, not something done by a spineless politician who spent his first term apologizing.
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He spent his first term apologizing for existing, while today he is finally letting us know what he is about.
He accomplished the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in his first term, among other things.
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Sorry. I forgot to put quotes on the passage I quoted above.
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